R.I.P. Saul Lambert, 81, in June 2009 (Painter/illustrator: Robert Arthur's "Mystery & More Mystery")
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(obit, with photo)
Here's most of it:
Saul Lambert, an illustrator and artist whose work appeared in Life
magazine, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, Playboy, Esquire, the
Washington Post and The New York Times, died June 30 at his home on E.
13th St. at the age of 81.
He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year but continued
working at home as a hospice patient of Visiting Nurse Service of New
York until shortly before his death, said Joanna Underwood, his wife
of 26 years.
He designed the covers of Elie Wiesel’s first two books, “Night” and
“The Accident,” and his illustrations appeared on hundreds of other
book covers published by New American Library, Simon & Schuster, Dell
Doubleday and Harper & Row, and on Columbia Records covers.
Saul Lambert was born in the Bronx of Polish Jewish immigrants and
attended Brooklyn College, where he studied art with Ad Reinhardt,
Burgoyne Diller and Robert Wolfe. After graduation he moved to Israel
where he worked on a kibbutz for two years. On his return to the U.S.
he served in the Army and his artwork was displayed at Ft. Jackson,
S.C., along with art by his fellow soldier and friend Jasper Johns.
Lambert returned to New York after the Army, painted and wrote a pair
of children’s books, “Mrs. Poggi’s Holiday” and “The Man that Drew
Cats.” From 1962 to 1985 he lived in Princeton, N.J., where his career
as an illustrator flourished. On his return to New York he
concentrated on painting..............
http://www.towntopics.com/jul0809/obits.php
(another obit)
http://www.saullambert.com/gallery/about/
http://www.threeinvestigatorsbooks.com/robertarthurbooks.html
(includes the covers of three Lambert-illustrated books)
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=saul+lambert&pics=on&x=0&y=0
(a few more covers)
I remember reading "Lady in Black" (a "real" ghost story) in school at
age 11 and thinking "why in the world are we being asked to sympathize
with a Confederate spy?"
Not that it isn't a great story.
About "The Man Who Drew Cats":
"The story of Alexander Phip who became a 'cat drawer'- drawing cats
on lamps, shoes, spoons- practically anything! Find out how he puts
this remarkable talent to good use in helping a clown, an old woman &
little Catherine Cranberry!"
SELF-ILLUSTRATED
Mrs. Poggi's Holiday (juvenile), Random House, 1969.
ILLUSTRATOR:
Charles Perrault, Fairy Tales, Macmillan, 1963.
James P. Wood, The Lantern Bearer: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson,
Pantheon, 1965.
Robert Arthur, Mystery and More Mystery, Random House, 1966.
Arthur, editor, Spies and More Spies, Random House, 1967.
Emily Lambert, The Man Who Drew Cats, Harper, 1967.
Arthur, Thrillers and More Thrillers, Random House, 1968.
The Usurping Ghost, Pantheon, 1969.
Leon Garfield, The Restless Ghost: Three Stories, Pantheon, 1969.
Paula Fox, Portrait of Ivan, Bradbury, 1969.
Haiku, Houghton, 1971.
Diary of a Madman, Houghton, 1971.
Joyce Harrington, Five Profiles, Houghton, 1971.
Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank, Houghton, 1972.
Miss Mandlebaum Came Back, Houghton, 1972.
Suzanne Ryer, Transcripts H4, Houghton, 1973.
Linda Mancini, Songs IV, Houghton, 1973.
Florence Fisher, Search for Anna Fisher, Reader's Digest, 1973.
Lady in Black of Boston Harbor, Houghton, 1974.
Thomas Rockwell, Tin Cans, Bradbury, 1975.
Paula Fox, Village By the Sea, Orchard (New York, NY), 1988.
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