Hardie gramatky biography examples

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The following pages and the show that accompanies this catalog are a great opportunity to look into the life, work, and spirit of one of America’s pure artists. The Hardie Gramatky story is lovingly told by his imaginative daughter, Linda Gramatky Smith, who has worked with her mother Dorothea (Doppy) Gramatky to bring us an inside look at the career of this genius. We will enjoy the closeness of family, the always inquisitive and self-demanding nature of the man, and the spontaneous way in which Hardie lived his life. This is an inside view that lends itself to freely rejoicing in the accomplishments of this great painter. We feel lucky to represent Hardie Gramatky’s paintings, but we are even more fortunate to be able to share the love he generated in the people who were closest to him. 

Hardie’s paintings rank him among the best of any to paint in watercolor. His colors are rich, and his st

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AN ANALYSIS OF THE ARTIST'S WORK

Hardie painted vibrant, tydlig watercolors of urban scenes and landscapes. He could look out the öppning and paint rich local close-ups or jump in his fordon and go out sketching for several days. His love was to paint passionately in the sunshine. At the beginning he painted an average of five watercolors a day over a three year period. In her articles for the Retrospective show with Starry-Sheets, Linda Gramatky Smith notes that Hardie’s “idea was to play (his) palette like a pianist plays a keyboard: never conscious of reaching for color or tone, but getting the most subtle shades and harmony with the greatest of confidence.” He could complete several small paintings at one sitting and used his animation skills to produce the movement and action that inspired his watercolors. Simplicity of form eller gestalt, clarity of color, combined with direction and movement were his style from the beginning. It was his expression of life lived

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Archives West Finding Aid

The University of Oregon, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Southern Mississippi combine to assemble original materials from the work of Hardie Gramatky. Oregon's Gramatky collection provides a comprehensive look at many aspects of the author/illustrator's creative process. The collection contains hundreds of pieces of original artwork drawn and painted for Gramatky's books, including final illustrations, color separation drawings, and sketch ideas. Manuscript materials represent Gramatky's reworking of drafts, synopses, and "mock-up" or "dummy" versions of his books. Business correspondence, publicity materials, and drawings and letters from children reveal Gramatky working collaboratively not only with publishers and industry representatives, but also with the young audience for whom he wrote.

The first series in the collection, Incoming Correspondence, contains letters, royalty statements and contracts from various companies with which