Happy 90th, Reynold Ruffins! (Illustrator & 1997 Coretta Scott King Honoree)

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He won a Coretta Scott King Honor for Denize Lauture's book, Running the Road to ABC.

http://images.google.com/images?q=%22reynold+ruffins%22&hl=en
(photos and artwork)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/884140.Reynold_Ruffins
(reader reviews)

From "Contemporary Authors":

Born in 1930 in New York City, Ruffins grew up in the borough of Queens, and from an early age he knew that drawing would be his first love. His father, a salesman who broke the color barrier at New York utility company Con Edison by being the first African American employed there, encouraged Ruffins' efforts by keeping his son supplied with paper and pencils. Art supplies also appeared on birthdays and at Christmas. "I was often challenged in school by kids who wanted to see if I could draw Superman or Captain Marvel," Ruffins once said. "I didn't particularly like to do it; I hated the idea of copying, preferring instead to draw from my imagination. But there was the class bully who constantly challenged me, so I did it."

Writings

(And illustrator) My Brother Never Feeds the Cat, Scribner (New York,
NY), 1979.


ILLUSTRATOR

(With Simms Taback) Harry Hartwick, The Amazing Maze, Dutton (New
York, NY), 1970.

John F. Waters, Camels: Ships of the Desert, Crowell (New York, NY),
1974.

Franklyn M. Branley, Light and Darkness, Crowell (New York, NY), 1975.

Denise Burden-Patmon and Kathryn D. Jones, Carnival, Modern Curriculum
Press (Cleveland, OH), 1992.

Brian Gleeson, Koi and the Kola Nuts, Picture Book Studio (Saxonville,
MA), 1992.

Verna Aardema, reteller, Misoso: Once upon a Time Tales from Africa,
Knopf (New York, NY), 1994.

Marcia K. Vaughn, Riddle by the River, Silver Burdett (Morristown,
NJ), 1995.

Denize Lauture, Running the Road to ABC, Simon & Schuster (New York,
NY), 1996.

James Berry, Everywhere Faces Everywhere: Poems, Simon & Schuster (New
York, NY), 1997, published as Plays a Dazzler, Hamish Hamilton
(London, England), 1997.

Judy Sierra, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout, Holt (New
York, NY), 1998.

Sheron Williams, Imani's Music, Atheneum (New York, NY), 2000.

Judy Sierra, Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Tale from Indonesia,
Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2000.

Wesley Cartier, Marco's Run, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2001.


ILLUSTRATOR; WRITTEN BY JANE SARNOFF

A Great Bicycle Book, Scribner (New York, NY), 1973, revised edition,
1976.

The Chess Book, Scribner (New York, NY), 1973.

What? A Riddle Book, Scribner (New York, NY), 1974.

A Riddle Calendar: 1975, Scribner (New York, NY), 1974.

The Code and Cipher Book, Scribner (New York, NY), 1975.

The Monster Riddle Book, Scribner (New York, NY), 1975, revised
edition, 1978.

I Know! A Riddle Book, Scribner (New York, NY), 1976.

The 1977 Beastly Riddle Calendar, Scribner (New York, NY), 1976.

A Great Aquarium Book: The Putting-It-Together Guide for Beginners,
Scribner (New York, NY), 1977.

Giants! A Riddle Book (and) Mr. Bigperson's Side: A Story Book,
Scribner (New York, NY), 1977.

Take Warning: A Book of Superstitions, Scribner (New York, NY), 1978.

Space: A Fact and Riddle Book, Scribner (New York, NY), 1978.

The 1979 Out-of-This-World Riddle Calendar, Scribner (New York, NY),
1979.

Riddle Calendar, 1980, Scribner (New York, NY), 1979.

Light the Candles! Beat the Drums! A Book of Holidays, Occasions,
Celebrations, Remembrances, Occurrences, Special Days, Weeks, and
Months, Scribner (New York, NY), 1979.

If You Were Really Superstitious, Scribner (New York, NY), 1980.

That's Not Fair, Scribner (New York, NY), 1980.

Words?! A Book about the Origins of Everyday Words and Phrases,
Scribner (New York, NY), 1981.


Lenona.

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http://jsantil8.blogspot.com/2014/04/reynold-ruffins-ruffling-some-feathers.html

Excerpt:

...Ruffins was part of the foundation of a New York graphic-design group in 1954 (Clayton). Along with Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser and Edward Sorel they founded the Push Pin Studio. The 1960's were crucial years for the formation of this group because during this time the founding artists came to realize that they desired to challenge the orthodoxy of the dominant International Typographic Style...


https://www.revisionneeded.com/reynold-ruffins/2019/10/7/reynold-ruffins
(more about his work, with pictures)

https://archives.sva.edu/blog/post/reynold-ruffins-in-the-push-pin-graphic
(includes old photo, with Seymour Chwast, and old B&W artwork)

Excerpt:

"Over the years, Ruffins’ clients have included GQ, Fortune, Time-Life, The New York Times, Random House, IBM, McCann-Erickson, Coca-Cola, Young & Rubicam, and the U.S. Postal Service. Ruffins also designed and illustrated more than fifteen children’s books. He has taught at SVA, Parsons, and Queens College, and Syracuse University. In 1993 he received the Augustus St. Gaudens Award for outstanding professional achievement in art from the Cooper Union."

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He lives in Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York.

http://www.reynoldruffins.com/about.html
(his site)

http://www.reynoldruffins.com/gallery.html
(more artwork)

https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/tag/reynold-ruffins/
(book illustrations)

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/author/reynold-ruffins/
(four Kirkus reviews)

https://sagharborexpress.com/reynold-ruffins-turning-to-the-easel__trashed/
(2013 interview)

https://sagharborexpress.com/art-family-affair-eastville-historical-society/?wallit_nosession=1
(LONG 2018 article about Ruffins)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynold_Ruffins

Excerpt:

"A professor emeritus at CUNY's Queens College, Ruffins has also taught at the School of Visual Arts, Parsons The New School for Design, and was a visiting adjunct professor at Syracuse University."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qVYRc7dq5VA
(read-aloud of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout)


Lenona.