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2019-2020 Selections Virginia Lee Burton

Virginia Lee Burton (1909-1968), known as “Jinnee” to her family and friends is one of the most significant illustrators of the 20th century. Her classic book, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel was ranked as one of the Teachers’ top 100 Books for Children by the National Education Association and has been a perennial favor- ite since its publication in 1938. She won the 1943 for The Little House and a 1948 Caldecott Honor for The Song of Robin Hood. Born in 1909 in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, she spent much of her life in Folly Cove, an artist’s community in Gloucester Massachusetts with her husband George Demetrios, an ac- complished sculptor. Her passion and talent for brilliant design led to the creation of the Folly Cove Designers, a group of local folk that garnered international attention for their designs and have been the subject of numerous museum exhibits. Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel Original late-stage ink and lithographic crayon drawings with notes

Mike Mulligan Had a Steam Shovel, 7.5 x 10.5 in., ink and litho- We Can Did a Cellar in Just One Day!, 8.25 x 10 in., ink and litho- graphic crayon with blue pencil graphic crayon Hand colored photostats with notes

Study for Title Page, 8.5 x 11.25 in. gouache and pencil on photostat Study for Endpages, 8.5 x 20 in. gouache and pencil on photostat R. MICHELSON GALLERIES 132 Main St. Norhampton MA 01060 (413) 586-3964 [email protected] www.RMichelson.com Virginia Lee Burton

Life Story

Life story was Burton’s final book, published in 1962. It portrays the span of evolution from the big bang to pres- ent day in the form of theater performing on stage.

Study for Trillions of Galaxies, 10 x 9 in. gouache on Study for Red Hot Ball of Matter, 9.75 x 9 in. gouache illustration board on illustration board

Paleontology (study for Endpages), 10 x 18.25 in., gouache on illustration board R. MICHELSON GALLERIES 132 Main St. Norhampton MA 01060 (413) 586-3964 [email protected] www.RMichelson.com David Macaulay

David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. Macaulay has garnered numerous awards including a Caldecott Medal (for Black and White in 1990) and two Caldecott Honor Awards, (for Cathedral: The Story of its Construction in 1973 and for in 1978) two Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards (for Pyramid in 1975 and for in 1989), the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, and –Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. In 2006, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, given “to encourage people of outstanding tal- ent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations.” Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of his books.

Interior Scaffolding, 12.5 x 18 in. Colored pencil. From Built to Arriving at the Cliffs,12.25 x 18.5 in. ink. From Castle Last: Cathedral

Car Engine, 11.25 x 16.5 in. Watercolor and ink. From The Way Garabit Viaduct, 10.5 x 17.5 in. Watercolor and ink. From Buiding Things Work Big

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David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. Macaulay has garnered numerous awards including a Caldecott Medal (for Black and White in 1990) and two Caldecott Honor Awards, (for Cathedral: The Story of its Construction in 1973 and for Castle in 1978) two Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards (for Pyramid in 1975 and for The Way Things Work in 1989), the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, and the Washington Post–Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. In 2006, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, given “to encourage people of outstanding tal- ent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations.” Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of his books.

America the Beautiful, 14.75 x 21 in. Collage and Gouache. From Hey Black Child, 15.25 x 22.75 in. Collage and Gouache. From Hey America the Beautiful Black Child

Your Nation 15 x 22.625 in. Collage and Gouache. From Hey Black Its Hard Not to Follow the Sounds of the Drum 16.75 x 22.75 in. Child Collage and Gouache. From City Shapes

R. MICHELSON GALLERIES 132 Main St. Norhampton MA 01060 (413) 586-3964 [email protected] www.RMichelson.com Ekua Holmes

Ekua Holmes is from Roxbury, MA, and a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She works in mixed media, primarily focusing on the collage of found objects like vintage wallpapers, newspapers, painted patterns, and cut-outs. The recipient of the 2013 NAACP Image Award, Ekua is currently the Vice-Chair of the Boston Arts Com- mission. Her first picture book, “Voice of Freedom, Fannie Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement garnered a Caldecott Honor, a Robert F. Sibert Honor, and the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe award for New Talent. Holmes’ was awarded the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award in 2018 for Out of Wonder: Poems Cel- ebrating Poets and in 2019 for The Stuff of Stars. Her latest book, What Do You Do With a Voice Like That has already received starred reviews from Kirkus, School Library Journal and Booklist. In 2020/2021 Holmes will be honored with a one-person exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Jacket, He Made Barbara a Star, 12 x 20 in. Collage and Gouache. She Raised a Rukus, 12.5 x 21 in. Collage and Gouache. From From What Do You Do With a Voice Like That? What Do You Do With a Voice Like That?

Big Bold Blooming 12.5 x 16 in. Collage and Gouache. From What She Went Home 13 x 21 in. Collage and Gouache. From What Do Do You Do With a Voice Like That? You Do With a Voice Like That?

R. MICHELSON GALLERIES 132 Main St. Norhampton MA 01060 (413) 586-3964 [email protected] www.RMichelson.com Peter Sís

Peter Sís is an eight-time winner of Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year, a four- time Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner, and has won the Society ofIllustrators Gold Medal twice. He also won the 2015 Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement. He had garnered three Caldecott Honors, for his 1996 Starry Messenger, 1998’s Tibet Through the Red Box, and for his 2007 The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. In 2012 he was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his lasting contribution to Chil- dren’s Literature. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1949, he was shaped by the confines of the communist regime. He traveled to the United States in 1982 to create an animated film based on Czechoslovakia’s participation in the upcoming Olympics in Los Angeles where he defected and applied for asylum. He became a U.S. citizen in 1988.

A Wrinkle in Time, 10.5 x 6.25 Many Waters, 11.25 x 6.25 Swiftly Tilting Planet,10.5 x Wind in the Door, 10.75 x 6.25 in, Ink and watercolor. From in. Ink and watercolor. From 6.25 in. Ink and watercolor. in. Ink and watercolor. From Madeleine L’Engels’s Time Madeleine L’Engels’s Time From Madeleine L’Engels’s Madeleine L’Engels’s Time Quartet Box Set Quartet Box Set Time Quartet Box Set Quartet Box Set

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