Robert Rayevsky
Robert Rayevsky, a Russian-born American artist and illustrator of commercial and picture-book projects.
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Born | November 7, 1955 Moscow, Russia |
🏳️ Nationality | American |
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👩 Spouse(s) | Kimberley Rayevsky (m. 1956) |
🌐 Website | www |
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Life and Work[edit]
Robert Rayevsky grew up in Moscow where he studied and graduated with a BFA in graphic design from Moscow Polygraphic Institute in 1978. In 1979 he emigrated to New York and became a US citizen, graduated with a BFA in illustration from Parsons School of Design in 1982, and started a career as a children's book illustrator.
Career[edit]
Artist and illustrator. Teacher of Art at University of Connecticut, Storrs, 2003-04, and Art Institute of Boston, 2003-05; teacher and presenter at workshops and to schools. Exhibitions: Works exhibited at galleries, including Every Picture Tells a Story, Los Angeles, CA; Stoyopolis Gallery, Los Angeles; [1]Alfred Berkowitz Gallery, Dearborn, MI;[2] and R. Michelson Galleries, Amherst, MA.[3] Works included in group shows at Museum of American Illustration, New York, NY; Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, CT; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and at Bologna Children's Book Fair and Society of Illustrators annual shows.
Awards, Honors[edit]
Illustration West 42 Competition, Gold Award Winner Childrens Market[4] Best Books designation, Cooperative Children's Book Center, and Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies citation, National Council for Social Studies/Children's Book Council (CBC), both 1987, both for Our King Has Horns!; Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies citation, 1990, for Belling the Cat, and Other Aesop's Fables; Irma S. and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature, 1994, for Three Sacks of Truth[5]; Gold Award in Children's Category, Society of Illustrators Los Angeles, 2004, for Two Fools and a Horse.[6]
Technique[edit]
Robert Rayevsky is a Russian-born artist and illustrator whose work on both commercial and picture-book projects. His work, influenced by his Eastern European background, incorporates heavy black line, bold colors, and collage and painted textural elements. In a review of Rayevsky's work for Paul B. Janeczko's verse anthology Hey, You!: Poems to Skyscrapers, Mosquitoes, and Other Fun Things, Gillian Engberg[7] cited the artist's "mixed-media collage-and-inked" art for contributing "an interesting, textures counterpart" to the collected poems, while a Kirkus Reviews writer noted his use of "broadly brushed, often semi-abstract backgrounds."[8] In the art he creates for Margaret Wise Brown's verse story The Sleepy Men, a Publishers Weekly critic observed that Rayevsky is "as skilled at depicting flights of fancy as he is conveying … tenderly familiar" relationships.[9] Rayevsky's "suggestive, atmospheric" medieval-style illustrations for Margaret Hodges' Joan of Arc: The Lily Maid "makes this book worthwhile," according to a Publishers Weekly critic.[10]
ONLINE[edit]
Robert Rayevsky Home Page, http://www.rayevsky.com (July 21, 2008).
Bibliography[edit]
Hitchety Hatchety Up I Go! author Patricia Brennan © 1985, MacMillan
Mister Cat-and-a-Half author Richard Pevear © 1986, MacMillan
Our King Has Horns! adapter Richard Pevear © 1987, MacMillan
The Riddle author Adele Vernon in collaboration with Vladimir Radunsky © 1987, Dodd, Mead & Co.
The Dragon Nanny author Cathy I. Martin © 1988, MacMillan
Aesop's Fables author Tom Paxton © 1988, Morrow
Belling the Cat author Tom Paxton © 1990, Morrow
The Talking Tree author Inna Rayevsky © 1990, Putnam
The Tzar's Bird author Ann Tompert © 1990, MacMillan
The Golden Heart of Winter author Marilyn Singer © 1991, Morrow
Androcles and the Lion and Other Aesop's Fables author Tom Paxton © 1991, Morrow
Birds of a Feather and Other Aesop's Fables author Tom Paxton © 1993, Morrow
Three Sacks of Truth author Eric A Kimmel © 1993, Holiday House
Angels, Angels All Around author Bob Hartman © 1993, Lion Publishing
A Word to the Wise, and Other Proverbs author Johanna Hurwitz © 1994, Morrow
Bernal and Florinda: A Spanish Tale author Eric A Kimmel © 1994, Holiday House
The Sleepy Men author Margaret Wise Brown © 1996, Hyperion Books
Squash It!: A True and Ridiculous Tale author Eric A Kimmel © 1997, Holiday House
Joan of Arc: The Lily Maid author Margaret Hodges © 1999, Holiday House
Under New York author Linda Oatman High © 2001, Holiday House
Two Fools and a Horse: An Original Tale author Sally Derby © 2002, Marshall Cavendish
Pirate Pup author Caroline Stutson © 2005, Chronicle Books
Antonyms, Synonyms, & Homonyms author Kim Rayevsky © 2006, Holiday House
Hey, You!: Poems to Skyscrapers, Mosquitos, and Other Fun Things selector Paul B. Janeczko © 2007, Harper Collins
References[edit]
- ↑ "Storyopolis Art".
- ↑ "The Alfred Berkowitz Gallery".
- ↑ "Illustration | R. MICHELSON GALLERIES".
- ↑ "The Illustration West 42 Competition".
- ↑ "Past Winners".
- ↑ "Rayevsky, Robert 1955– | Encyclopedia.com".
- ↑ "Gillian Engberg".
- ↑ HEY, YOU! By Paul B. Janeczko , Robert Rayevsky. Search this book on
- ↑ "Children's Book Review: The Sleepy Men by Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Robert Rayevsky, Author, Robert Rayevsky, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0154-1".
- ↑ "Children's Book Review: Joan of Arc: The Lily Maid by Margaret Hodges, Author, Robert Rayevsky, Illustrator Holiday House $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1424-6".
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