State of the Art: Illustration 100 Years After Howard Pyle runs Feb. 9 through June 1 at the Delaware Art Museum, 2301 Kentmere Parkway in Wilmington.
The event is sponsored, in part, by grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
The artists are:
- Bernie Fuchs (1932-2009) started out painting auto advertisements. In the 1960s, he drew John F. Kennedy and was celebrated for equine art in his later years.
- Milton Glaser (1929- ) is a graphic and architectural designer, who creations include a Bob Dylan poster and the DC comic bullet logo.
- Mort Drucker (1929- ) is a caricaturist whose pen and ink renderings personified MAD magazine. His covers for Time magazine are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
- Phil Hale (1963- ) focuses on the surreal and painted dark, moody covers for novels by Joseph Conrad and Steven King. He lives in England and also works in fine art and film.
- Sterling Hundley (1976- ) combines traditional artistic techniques and media with digital tools. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vibe, and The New York Times.
- John Cuneo (1957- ) is a humorist and artist, whose drawings have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and The Atlantic.
- Peter De Sève (1958- ) drew covers for The New Yorker and with his illustrations for TIME and Newsweek. He created character designs for animated films, including A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc., and Ice Age.
- Ralph Eggleston (1965- ) was art director at Pixar for Toy Story, the first full-length computer-animated film. His credits also include The Incredibles, Finding Nemo and WALL·E.
This piece is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.