Author, illustrator, and filmmaker. Gerald McDermott died at age 71. He was a devoted, lifelong artist and was avidly interested in world mythologies. Gerald's parents recognized his artistic talent early on and enrolled him in weekend classes at the Detroit Institute of Arts when he was only four years old. He graduated from Cass Tech, a public high school for the gifted and was awarded a National Scholastic scholarship to New York's Pratt Institute. Early in his career, he created animated short films based on folklore and was a friend and colleague of mythologist and writer Joseph Campbell, becoming the first fellow of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. He wrote and illustrated many picture books, among them Anansi the Spider: A Tale from Ashanti (1972) and Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest (1993), both of which were awarded Caldecott Honors. He won the 1975 Caldecott Medal for Arrow to the Sun: A Tale from the Pueblo. His illustrations are dominated by bright, stylized forms, which often draw from indigenous art. Search Amazon
Author, illustrator, and filmmaker. Gerald McDermott died at age 71. He was a devoted, lifelong artist and was avidly interested in world mythologies. Gerald's parents recognized his artistic talent early on and enrolled him in weekend classes at the Detroit Institute of Arts when he was only four years old. He graduated from Cass Tech, a public high school for the gifted and was awarded a National Scholastic scholarship to New York's Pratt Institute. Early in his career, he created animated short films based on folklore and was a friend and colleague of mythologist and writer Joseph Campbell, becoming the first fellow of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. He wrote and illustrated many picture books, among them Anansi the Spider: A Tale from Ashanti (1972) and Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest (1993), both of which were awarded Caldecott Honors. He won the 1975 Caldecott Medal for Arrow to the Sun: A Tale from the Pueblo. His illustrations are dominated by bright, stylized forms, which often draw from indigenous art. Search Amazon
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