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Marc Simont's sketchbooks: the art Academy years: 1935-1938.

Publication: The Horn Book Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAR-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
In 1935, as a twenty-year-old enrolled in New York's National Academy of Design, the Caldecott-winning illustrator Marc Simont began the practice of carrying a sketchbook around with him for the purpose of making rapid-fire, impromptu drawings of people. Simont had recently moved to New York from Paris, the city of his birth, for the second time in eight years and was beginning his second stint at the Academy, New York's oldest, and one of its more traditional, art schools. (Students under the spell of modern abstraction were more apt to sign on with the Art Students League.) Simont, who had already earned a little money as...

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