DICK STONE
Illustrations From the Fifties
It was a delight to discover, some years back, that I had been included in the book The Illustrator in America (a visual reference work detailing the history of modern American illustration from 1860-2000). It was also a delight to discover, some years back, that I had been included in the blog, "Today's Inspiration"—the blog of Leif Peng (cartoonist, illustrator, and authority on illustrators and cartoonists of the mid-twentieth century ("An Original Dick Stone", "Calling Dick Stone", "Dick Stone, Collier's...and Sickles", "Dick Stone: "Illustration..."")).
In early 2017, my wife, Barbara, was organizing the basement when she came upon a few old portfolios containing some of the illustrations I had done during my career. Remembering the blogs of Leif Peng, we decided it would be fun to show my illustrations. I hope you enjoy seeing samples of what I did so many years ago.
The Plaza Hotel
Paris Café
L'Opéra
Man on Fire Escape
Townhouse at Sunset
Townhouse Hazy Morning
At the Beach
Painting Positano
Amusement Park
Boy at the Seashore
St. Eustache in Paris
Subway
Man Hanging On
Paris Park
The Man in the Raincoat
She's Back!
Sailboat Race
The Portrait
Heart Still Beating
Pomp
The Dispossession
Terrace Party
The Meeting
Santa Claus
"Creativity thrives
from constraints
and dies
from freedom."
—LdV
One of the first jobs I had after graduating from Yale in 1950 was illustrating the book, The Brave Little Steam Shovel. I still have all of the original illustrations. I recently had it brought to my attention that sample pages could be found here on Etsy.com. Thought you might get a kick out of 'em.
I didn't illustrate another book until sixty-seven years later, when, recently, my son asked me if I wouldn't mind creating some illustrations for the manuscript of the novel he was working on. I was a bit rusty (I had rarely done a representative drawing since taking off my illustrator's hat over fifty years earlier) but I'm happy I did it and hope to be able to illustrate the entire book someday. Those around me thought you might enjoy seeing some of these illustrations.
Lucas Stone
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