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Boris Artzybasheff

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Boris Artzybasheff , 1899-1965, American draftsman, illustrator, writer, and cartoonist, b. Kharkiv, Russia (now in Ukraine); son of Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev . In 1919 he went to New York City, where he worked in an engraving shop. Later he became noted for his brilliant and imaginative work as an advertising artist and illustrator of books and periodicals, including many covers for Time magazine. Grotesque and weirdly humorous drawings appear in his As I See (1955). Author not available, ARTZYBASHEFF, BORIS. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
children's book illustration
...popular, cleverly drawn books for young children began with And to Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937). Boris Artzybasheff illustrated Aesop and The Seven Simeons (both 1937) with bold woodcuts. In the next decade Robert McCloskey produced... Read more

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The pen as sword
; ...cover of Time magazine were rivaled only by those of Boris Artzybasheff. His morale-boosting posters were as popular with American...sponsored by the HaZamir Society of Lodz. Professor Boris Schatz invited him to teach a class at Bezalel, but... Read more
GET OUTTA HERE! TIPS FOR ROAMING THE ROCKIES
; ...documenting the history of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. In the Third Floor Foyer Gallery, ongoing through May 6, enjoy Boris Artzybasheff's works, which combine a spirit of fantasy with wry humor and his ability to give human qualities to machines... Read more
Somewhere in // New exhibit features the many faces of magazine
; ...works by the magazine's renowned trio of illustrators: Boris Artzybasheff, Ernest Hamlin Baker and Boris Chaliapin. "Baker was a plodding stickler for facial detail...historian for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Artzybasheff was noted for injecting whimsical flourishes to covers... Read more
Sangre de Cristo shows unite art, machines
; ...art-deco stuff. In the adjacent foyer is a series of illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff. One of the most successful commercial artists of his generation, Artzybasheff created hundreds of covers for "Time" and "Life" magazines from the 1940s... Read more
World War II's March of Time
; ...Admiral Osami Nagano, painted by Boris Artzybasheff for the May 10, 1943, cover...Artzybasheff, Ernest Hamlin Baker and Boris Chaliapin, a trio of talented...solution to the Jewish question," Artzybasheff came back with a garland of 22... Read more
SICKLE CELL, FULLER AMONG NEW ISSUES.(Stars)(Column)
; ...Buckminster Fuller is honored on a stamp issued this summer. The unique stamp artwork is a painting of Fuller by Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965). The painting, which originally appeared on the cover of Time magazine on Jan. 10, 1964, depicts Fuller... Read more
Times' `Man' Doesn't Live By Men Alone
; ...of Sputnik, Khrushchev went on the cover; artist Boris Artzybasheff portrayed him as a delighted boy, wearing a party...the Portrait Gallery through July 1988. CAPTION:Boris Artzybasheff's 1957 cover portrait of a Sputnik-lit Krushchev... Read more
Images across Time Magazine's intriguing cover artwork the focus of new Smithsonin exhibit
; ...artists. In the years that followed, three key illustrators Boris Artzybasheff, Ernest Hamlin Baker and Boris Chaliapin would flourish as cover artists, with their own brands of hyper-realistic imagery. One 1943 cover by Artzybasheff portrays World War II German naval commander Karl Doenitz... Read more
Faces From a Bygone Time
; ...while they compulsively detail eye bags, acne scars, stray hairs and thickets of wrinkles. A pockmarked Stalin by Boris Artzybasheff floats windswept and gigantic above tiny Russian soldiers huddled in the snow, like God with dry skin. A grimly... Read more
DO LOOK BACK; Today's Cartoonists Make You Long for the Past
; ...Spiegelman and Mouly published in 1987. That self-congratulatory compendium was dedicated by Raw's artists to: Boris Artzybasheff, Tex Avery, Samuel Beckett, Walt Disney, Chester Gould, Albert Einstein, The Hairy Who, George Herriman, Harvey... Read more

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