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artist and writer. We've created this website to share the artwork and achievements of
our father Leonard Weisgard. Enjoy! |
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”Leonard Marcus’ Golden Legacy is a lively,
never-before-told history of a company, its line of books,
the groundbreaking writers and artists who created them, the
clever mavericks who marketed and sold them, and the
cultural landscape that surrounded them.” (Diane Muldrow,
Random House) Leonard Weisgard is beautifully represented in
this new book and his daughter, Abigail, contributes with an
essay “ Reflections on a Golden Egg.”.
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Margaret
Wise Brown & Leonard Weisgard |
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Winner of The Caldecott Medal |
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" I've tried to tell you how elusive, really
as elusive as that little island, it is for me to talk of illustrating and book making.
Who dares to explain the poetry of living and dying or the minds of little children?"
Acceptance Speech for Caldecott Award |
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Complete speech... |
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"There
was no one like Leonard"
by Ken Chowder |
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There was no one
like Leonard, even Leonard himself. Leonard was gracious and generous and beautifully
well-spoken and -dressed; he was also reclusive and agoraphobic and capable of saying
virtually anything, or nothing at all. He reveled in attention, and hated it. He loved
conversation and adored people, then lived far out in the country (in two countries, in
fact) where he saw very few of them. He was politically active for years, and hated
politics. He worked like a dog for some 30 years, illustrating many hundreds of books and
writing many more; then he simply stopped far before what one could call retirement, and
spent about 25 or 30 more years not working much more than a stitch. |
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Alice in
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"In Search of Margaret Wise Brown"
By Leonard S. Marcus |
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In October 1982, I flew from New York to
Copenhagen to interview Leonard Weisgard for my biography of his close friend and frequent
collaborator, Margaret Wise Brown. At the time of our meeting, I had only recently begun
researching Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon. I had been
“passed on” to Leonard, who was retired and rarely granted interviews, by
another of his (and Margaret’s) old friends, the illustrator Clement Hurd, who in
turn had seen me on the recommendation of a third Brown friend who had noticed my
Author’s Query in the New York Times Book Review. A biographer’s work
is an incredibly chancy as well as absorbing, mystery-laden business: Had any one of the
three friends broken the chain, I doubt I would have found the material needed to write my
book, especially as Brown herself had died thirty years earlier, at the age of 42, of an
embolism following routine surgery. Brown’s papers and effects had, in the mean time,
scattered to the four winds.
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See some of Leonard Weisgard's
commercial artwork... |
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Web work :
A.W CW & SHSdesign |
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