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In this wide-ranging illustrated talk, children’s book historian and exhibition co-curator Leonard Marcus will pinpoint the key art and life experiences that shaped Leo Lionni’s many-faceted career and highlight his ongoing legacy in the creative work of illustrator-designers Eric Carle, Lois Ehlert, and others.
Exhibition: BETWEEN WORLDS: The Art and Design of Leo Lionni
Virtual Event on Zoom | Recorded March 21, 2024
Leonard S. Marcus is one of the world’s foremost authorities on children’s books and the people who create them. He is the author or editor of more than 25 award-winning books, including Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon; Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work; Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom; Golden Legacy: The Story of Golden Books; Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing; Helen Oxenbury: A Life in Illustration; The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth; and most recently Pictured Worlds, an international history of the illustrated children’s book. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review, four-time judge of the Times’ Best Illustrated Books Awards, and a frequent commentator on radio and television. A founding trustee of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, he has curated numerous exhibitions, including the New York Public Library’s landmark exhibit, The ABC Of It: Why Children’s Books Matter (2013-2014), which broke all attendance records and was seen by more than half a million visitors from around the world. Leonard teaches at the School of Visual Arts and lectures about his work across the world, most recently at the national libraries of China, Taiwan, Singapore, New Zealand, and France, and at the Bologna and Shanghai Book Fairs. He holds an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the Bank Street College of Education and is the only American to have won the Chen Bochui Award for special contributions to the development of Chinese children’s literature. His literary archive is in the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.