Shadow Knights: The Art of Jeffrey Smith
In January 2009, illustrator Jeffrey Smith was contacted by David Talbot, founder and former editor-in-chief of one of the first web magazines, Salon.com to work on a new project; a book titled Shadow Knights.
The book tells the story of Winston Churchill’s SOE, an acronym for Special Operations Executive, and the courageous men and women who fought a secret war against the Nazis and Adolf Hitler.
The scope of this project was important enough to travel, so Jeffrey decided to take a trip to Paris. He traveled to some of the real places where the SOE fought and died for freedom.
In 2011, several of these paintings were exhibited in the Sequential category of the Society of Illustrators 45th Juried Annual Exhibition. Jeffrey later decided to donate the entire body of work, including photo comps and sketches, to the Permanent Collection of the Society’s Museum of American Illustration.
SPECS FOR SHADOW KNIGHTS: THE ART OF JEFFREY SMITH
22 framed paintings comprised of:
20 paintings 25.5 x 19.75 inches
1 painting 30 x 23 inches
1 painting 33 x 23.5 inches
17 framed pencil sketches on vellum comprised of:
9 drawings 18.25 x 14.25 inches
1 drawing 16.25 x 20.25 inches
2 drawings 14.25 x 11.25 inches
5 drawings 12.25 x 9.25 inches
2 framed photomontages 16.25 x 20.25 inches
All works glazed with plexiglass
AVAILABILITY
September 2012 (no end date)
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Society of Illustrators Annual Exhibit: Illustrators 53
This traveling exhibit is an annual tour of forty amazing works selected from the Society’s Annual Exhibition. The Annual Exhibition has been offered to colleges for the past twenty-eight years.
These forty works are a representative sample of the best in the six categories of the Annual: Sequential, Editorial, Book, Advertising, Institutional and Uncommissioned. All forty works were featured in the juried Illustrators 52 Annual Exhibition at the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators in 2010. Of the artists in each show, some are familiar and some are the rising stars of tomorrow.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Scott Bakal, Anna and Elana Balbusso, Jonathan Bartlett, Sam Bosma, Steve Brodner, Calef Brown, Marc Burckhardt, Chris Buzelli, Josh Cochran, Raul Colón, John Cuneo, André da Loba, Johnny Dombrowski, Bil Donovan, Gérard DuBois, Leo Espinosa, Peter Good, Alessandro Gottardo, Steven Guarnaccia, Tomer Hanuka, John Hendrix, Jody Hewgill, Sterling Hundley, Tara Jacoby, Travis Lampe, Nimit Malavia, Chris Silas Neal, Kadir Nelson, Victo Ngai, Tim O’Brien, Philippe Petit-Roulet, Red Nose Studio, Edel Rodriguez, Matt Rota, Koren Shadmi, Yuko Shimizu, Brian Stauffer, Gary Taxali, Sachin Teng, Jack Unruh, Sam Weber
AVAILABILITY
September 2011 - July 2012
CURRENT BOOKINGS
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Gallery 1
2801 S. University Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72204
October 17, 2011 - December 16, 2011
East Tennesee State University
Mary B. Martin School of the Arts
Slocumb Galleries
Box 70708, Ball Hall
Johnson City, TN 37614
January 30, 2012 - February 17, 2012
John Brown University
Visual Arts Gallery
2000 W. University Street
Siloam Springs, AR 72761
March 29, 2012 - May 1, 2012
Spokane Falls Community College
Dean Davis Gallery
216 West Pacific Avenue
Spokane, WA 99201
June 1, 2012 - June 20, 2012
Steve Brodner Jonathan Bartlett
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Earth: Fragile Planet
This traveling exhibit addresses the current environmental issues that we face today.
Forty works were chosen from the EARTH: FragilePlanet exhibition that was on displayed at the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators on June 3 through July 31, 2010. EARTH showcases many of the world’s most accomplished illustrators and talented newcomers. The exhibition is divided into five categories: earth, energy, air, water, and wildlife. It gives the artists a forum to set forth their personal views about the state of the world and the environment. EARTH is intended to be educational and create awareness of the current and future environmental concerns. To accompany the exhibition you will have the opportunity to sell an array of creative merchandise to your visitors including an extremely popular eco-friendly digital catalog of the entire show.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Scott Bakal, James Bennett, Joe Ciardiello, Greg Clarke, Kinuko Craft, John Cuneo, Peter deSéve, Richard Downs, Gérard Dubois, Kate Feirtag, Stephen Gardner, Alessandro Gottardo, Greg Harlin, John Hendrix, David Hollenbach, Tara Jacoby, Victor Juhasz, Gary Kelley, Anita Kunz, Betsy and Ted Lewin, Liz Lomax, Kam Mak, James McMullan, Wendell Minor, Alex Nabaum, Tim O’Brien, Edel Rodriguez, Zina Saunders, Koren Shadmi, Britt Spencer, Brian Stauffer, Dugald Stermer, Greg Swearingen, Shaun Tan, Murray Tinkelman, Jack Unruh, Chad Wallace, Shelly Wan, Jess Yeomans
AVAILABILITY
September 2010 - July 2012
CURRENT BOOKINGS
University of Central Arkansas
JANUARY 13- FEBRUARY 24
Montgomery College
Rockville, MD
APRIL 2011
Stephen Gardner Joe Ciardiello
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Original Art
This traveling exhibit celebrates its thirty-first year as a showcase for children’s book illustrators whose work is seldom seen outside the studio or publisher’s office.
This extraordinary show consists of forty colorful works of art. All forty works were featured in the juried Original Art 2011 exhibition held at the Museum of American Illustration at Society of Illustrators in New York City.
FEATURED ARTISTS 2011
Artists include 2011 Gold Medal winner Rosalyn Schanzer for Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, Silver Medal and Caldecott Honor winner Lane Smith for Grandpa Green and Founder's Award Winner Zachariah Ohora for Stop Snoring, Bernard! Other featured artists include Jim Arnsoky's Thunder Birds: Nature's Flying Predators, Eric Carle's The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse, Loren Long's Of Thee I Sing, New York Times Magazine Best Illustrated Children’s Book Along a Long Road illustrated by Frank Viva, and many more!
AVAILABILITY
January 2012 - January 2013
CURRENT BOOKINGS
Littleton Museum
6028 S. Gallup Street
Littleton, CO 80120
June 21, 2012- August 13, 2012
Plum Creek Children's Literacy Festival
800 N. Columbia
Seward, NE 68434
August 27, 2012 - September 28, 2012
Wayland Baptist University
Abraham Art Gallery
1900 W. 7th Street
Plainview, TX 79072
November, 2012
Hyewon Yum Rosalyn Schanzer
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For booking information contact:
Leslie Swiedler
leslie@societyillustrators.org
212-838-2560
