Long, Loren - Ilustração
Harlem Slow Dance
client: Dellas Graphics Calendar
Eight Ball, Corner Pocket
personal work
The Dream
client: Reader’s Digest
Frogland
client: Dellas Graphics Calendar
Batman (What Mothers Need to Know About Sons)
client: Reader’s Digest
The Heart of the Greyhound — Cincinnati Heart Mini-Marathon
Posterclient: Cincinnati Chapter, American Heart Association
Gold Medal Winner, Society of Illustrators
Coney Island (My Mother’s Smile)
client: Reader’s Digest
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Loren Long grew up in Lexington, Kentucy. He pursued graduate-level studies at the American Academy of Art in Chicago after graduating with a BA in Graphic Design/Art Studio from the University of Kentucky. Long was an illustrator for the Gibson Greeting Card Company in Cincinnati from 1988 to 1992, before beginning a freelance illustration career.Since then, Long has received numerous accolades for his fluid WPA painting style. He has been awarded two gold medals from the Society of Illustrators in New York, and has been frequently selected for their annual exhibition and book. Other juried exhibitions his work has appeared in include the annuals American Illustration, Communication Arts, Step By Step Graphics and Print. Long’s lithograph print The Tornado, sanctioned by the American Red Cross, was accepted into the permanent collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum in 1999. His work is also included in the permenant collections of the U.S. Golf Association’s Museum and Archives, and Sports Illustrated magazine. In November of 2001 he exhibited work at the prestigious Centro Cultura Recoleta in Buenos Aires. The Invitational Group Show, sponsored by the Ohio Arts Council and juried in Argentina, was given in recognition of noteworthy Ohio illustrators. In 2002 the United Nations chose to hang in their lobby Long’s painting of a firefighter in action, along with 21 other selections from the Prevailing Human Spirit Show at the Society of Illustrators. Long’s clients include Time Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly, Boy’s Life, Land’s End, Sports Illustrated and HBO. He has also illustrated book covers for Penguin Putnam, Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, Houghton Mifflin, Candlewick Press, Henry Holt & Company and the National Geographic Society. In 1999 he was commissioned to paint a thirty-five foot mural for a restaurant in Nebraska. Recently, Long has concentrated on illustrating books for young readers. His first illustrated book was My Dog, My Hero, by Betsy Cromer Byars, Betsy Duffey and Laurie Myers, followed by The Wonders of Donal O'Donnell, by Gary D. Schmidt and The Day the Animals Came, by Frances Ward Weller. For I Dream of Trains, by Angela Johnson, Loren received the the 2003 Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration, presented by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. The book was also selected as one of the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, 2003 . Loren was chosen by Madonna to illustrate her second book, Mr. Peabody’s Apples, which became a New York Times #1 best-seller. Loren’s newest book, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, by Walt Whitman, was released in November 2004 and has won the 2004 Parents' Choice Gold Award
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Fonte - Loren Long Website
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3:26 PMExcelente! Obrigada por me dar a conhecer estas obras e este artista. Adorei!
1:11 AM
Trabalho muito geométrico e muito denso na cor e na evocação. Magnífico.
2:36 PM
Eu concordo com o que foi exposto pelo verbo e acrescento:que belas imagens que mais parecem os anos 40 ou 50 norte-americanos! A desenvoltura é o mesmo...talvez até mesmo nas amostragens das pessoas.
10:37 AM
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