Happy 90th, Louis Glanzman! (Illustrator: "Pippi Longstocking")

[Lenona]

Raised in Virginia, he began his career - in comic magazines - at 16.

He lives in Medford, New Jersey.

I was surprised to see he illustrated an adapted edition of "Ben Hur"
- in color!

"Louis' paintings are in the collections of the National Portrait
Gallery, Smithsonian and Ford Theater (Washington, D.C.), the
Tennessee State Art Museum (Nashville, Tennessee), the National
Monument (Columbus, Ohio),the United States Air Force Historical
Foundation (Colorado),the New York City Museum, the Civil War Museum
(Fredricksburg, Virginia), the Sitka (Alaska), Independence Park
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), and Taos, New Mexico."

http://www.louisglanzman.com/bio.html
(long bio)

http://lambiek.net/artists/g/glanzman_louis.htm

http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2009/11/louis-glanzman-real-painting-artist.html

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/glanzman/
("Signing of the Constitution")

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22louis+s+glanzman%22&ndsp=20&svnum=10&hl=en&start=100&sa=N&biw=800&bih=382&sei=jqEyT8KcG4Xn0QHZn9GqBQ&tbm=isch
(book covers)

He is not the only illustrator for the American translations of the
"Pippi" books - there's another, less humorous illustrator - Nancy
Seligsohn, who did the first, at least. There are at least two English
translations of each "Pippi" book - one set is British.

This list goes up to 1984 - I think.

Big Music; or Twenty Merry Tales to Tell (Mary Bleecker - compiler -
1946)
Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus (James Otis)

Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren - 1950)
Bill Bergson, Master Detective (Lindgren)
Pippi Goes on Board (Lindgren)
Ben-Hur (Lew Wallace - adapted)
Pippi in the South Seas (Lindgren)

The Wish-Tree (John Ciardi - 1962)
The Chagres, Power of the Panama Canal (Jean Lee Latham)
The Noonday Friends (Mary Stolz)
A Wonderful, Terrible Time (Stolz)
The Sword of King Arthur (Jay Williams)
Veronica Ganz (Marilyn Sachs)
Peter & Veronica (Sachs)

It's America for Me: A Freedom Book (Bill Martin, Jr. - 1970)
Juan (Stolz)
Man in Space to the Moon (Franklyn M. Branley)
Marv (Sachs)
Papeek (Dick Van Loon)
The Bear's House (Sachs)
My Brother, Angel (Hilary Beckett)
The Mayo Brothers (Jane Goodsell)
The Road to Fort Sumter (LeRoy Hayman)
The Wright Brothers (Ruth Franchere)
The Truth About Mary Rose (Sachs)
Three Little Indians (Gene S. Stuart)

Other than this, I'm afraid you'll just have to check out Bookfinder
or Amazon.

He's the ONLY "realistic" illustrator I know of for the grim,
elementary-level story "The Bear's House," which is about a neglected
girl and her four neglected siblings. That is, at least three other
cover illustrators, especially, tend to portray the girl as neat and
clean when she isn't, having little incentive to make herself so. (Her
abandoned mother lies in a filthy bed most of the day, having had a
nervous breakdown.)

Lenona.