Mary Engelbreit: The Art And The Artist Hardback - Hardcover

Regan, Patrick; Engelbreit, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0836222326 ISBN 13: 9780836222326

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1996

Synopsis

A survey of the artist's career from her early years to her current status as a major illustrator of greeting cards, books, calendars, and other products features an extensive collection of her art, including never-before-published drawings.

About this title

About the Author:

Patrick Regan lives in the middle of flyover country with his wife and children and their mostly good dog, Pearl (rescued, naturally). As often as possible, he accompanies his pilot friend, Sam Taylor, on animal rescue flights.

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: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0836222326
• ISBN 13: 9780836222326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192