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Don Freeman
Don Freeman
Don Freeman

Don Freeman

1908-1978
BiographyDon Freeman (1908 - 1978) was active/lived in New York, California. Don Freeman is known for Children's book illustration, city view painting, lithography.

Illustrator, painter and lithographer, Don Freeman was born in San Diego, CA on Aug. 11, 1908. He studied at the San Diego School of Fine Arts and continued in 1928 at the Art Students League in New York City under John Sloan and Harry Wickey.

Remaining in New York, he did drawings of the theater, which were published in the Herald Tribune, New York Times, and Theater Magazine. Most of his career was spent in New York city where he captured the spirit and essence of everyday life during the 1930s and 1940s.

He illustrated the works, Human Comedy (Saroyan), White Deer (Thurber() and Once Around the Sun (Atkinson). He was the author of Come One, Come All, and in 1951 he began illustrating a total of 33 children's books, which he co-authored with his wife, Lydia.

During his last 20 years he maintained a home in Santa Barbara, CA.
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