Mary Engelbreit: The Art And The Artist Paperback - Softcover

Engelbreit, Mary; Regan, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0740720813 ISBN 13: 9780740720819

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

Mary Engelbreit: The Art and the Artist follows this amazing artist's career from the moment she first set up shop (a "studio" in her mother's linen closet), and on to her current status as the world's premier illustrator of greeting cards, books, calendars, fabric, and hundreds of other products. This book features the most extensive collection of Mary Engelbreit's work ever published, and represents nearly 40 years of Mary's art. Features a revised preface.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Engelbreit's aphorisms and artwork appear on millions of greeting cards and gift products. Her popularity continues to grow through the success of her books, calendars, home decor, stationery, and crafting lines. Her company is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

From Publishers Weekly:

Self-taught artist Engelbreit, who lives in a St. Louis suburb, runs her own enormously successful greeting-card company; her illustrated books, journals and diaries (published by Andrews & McMeel) have a loyal following; and she also makes calendars, mugs and other products that sell in her own retail stores and elsewhere. This engaging scrapbook combines a biographical sketch with a perceptive discussion of her art. Her vibrantly colorful, richly detailed pictures contain familiar elements: spunky girls, straw hats, cottage roses, old-fashioned toys, well-dressed snakes, cats with angel-wings and decorative borders. Her fantasy graphics meld gypsies, dragons, spaceships, unicorns and UFOs. She also offers witty takes on childhood and hopeful images of multiethnic, multiracial cooperation. Whimsical, nostalgic and often veering to the cute or sentimental, her art nevertheless maintains a heartfelt connection to the real world in its celebration of love, faith, hope, decency and the vicissitudes of everyday life. 75,000 first printing; author tour.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0740720813
• ISBN 13: 9780740720819
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192