Alice Provensen (1918–2018)
Autor(a) de The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot
About the Author
Alice Provensen was born Alice Rose Twitchell in Chicago, Illinois on August 14, 1918. She took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the University of California at Los Angeles before finding a job at the animation studio of Walter Lantz. She met her future husband, Martin Provensen, mostrar mais while he was working on a Navy training film during World War II. They married in 1944 and relocated to Washington D.C., where she worked as a graphic artist for the Office of Strategic Services. They later moved to New York and became known as an author-illustrator picture book team. They created many award-winning picture books including A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Inexperienced Travelers by Nancy Willard, which won a 1982 Caldecott Honor, and The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, which won the 1984 Caldecott Medal. Their other books included A Year at Maple Hill Farm, Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm, Karen's Curiosity, Karen's Opposites, The Fuzzy Duckling, Katie the Kitten, The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown, and A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. They also created Tony the Tiger, which was the advertising symbol of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. She continued working after her husband's death in 1987. Her books included The Buck Stops Here: The Presidents of the United States, A Day in the Life of Murphy, Punch in New York, and Klondike Gold. She died on April 23, 2018 at the age of 99. mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Alice Provensen
Karen's Curiosity 4 exemplares
The Provensen Animal Book, Giant Golden Book 3 exemplares
French Red Wines 1 exemplar
American Wines 1 exemplar
Seasonings 1 exemplar
Four persons are wanted to make a salad 1 exemplar
Associated Works
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers (1981) — Ilustrador — 1,517 exemplares
The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill: Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson (1987) — Ilustrador — 146 exemplares
The Iliad and the Odyssey: The Heroic Story of the Trojan War and the Fabulous Adventures of Odysseus (1956) — Ilustrador — 121 exemplares
The Golden Treasury of Children's Literature Volume 09: Legendary Animals (1954) — Ilustrador, algumas edições — 19 exemplares
The Holy Bible The Old Testament and New Adapted for Young Catholic Readers (1960) — Ilustrador — 18 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Provensen, Alice Rose
- Outros nomes
- Twitchell, Alice Rose (birth name)
- Data de nascimento
- 1918-08-14
- Data de falecimento
- 2018-04-23
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Local de falecimento
- San Clemente, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Educação
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
University of California - Ocupações
- children's book author
illustrator - Relações
- Provensen, Martin (husband)
- Organizações
- Walter Lantz Studio
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award (Historic, 2010)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 42
- Also by
- 21
- Membros
- 8,033
- Popularidade
- #3,018
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 98
- ISBN
- 170
- Línguas
- 7
- Marcado como favorito
- 1