Happy (late) 100th, Joe Krush! (Co-illustrator with Beth Krush: "The Borrowers" by Mary Norton)

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His birthday was on the 18th.

He lives in Wayne, Pennsylvania. His wife Beth died in 2009.

He was assigned "as a graphic designer to the Nürnberg war crimes
trials to perform necessary art and presentation work which would
facilitate the operation of the trial court both in London and
Nürnberg, Germany."

Other books he and Beth illustrated include those by:

Betty Cavanna, Spring Comes Riding, 1950.
Louis Untermeyer, Magic Circle, 1952.
Beverly Cleary, Fifteen, 1956.
Virginia Sorensen, Miracles on Maple Hill, 1956.
Elizabeth Enright, Gone away Lake, 1957.
Eleanor Cameron, The Terrible Churnadyne, 1959.
Beverly Cleary, Jean and Johnny, 1959.

John Langstaff, The Swapping Boy, 1960.
Beverly Cleary, Emily's Runaway Imagination, 1961
Beverly Cleary, Sister of the Bride, 1963.
Eleanor Cameron, A Spell Is Cast, 1964.
Jean Fritz, Magic to Burn, 1964.

Elizabeth (Gillette) Baker, This Stranger, My Son, 1971.
("Teen-age Marc's steadily deteriorating relationship with his father reaches its nadir when Marc's participation in a peace demonstration results in his suspension from school.")

Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown, 1972.

https://www.hbook.com/2018/05/blogs/out-of-the-box/happy-100th-birthday-joe-krush/#_
(birthday tribute)

BY EMILY SCHNEIDER

In a Venn diagram of people who have reached the notable age of one hundred, and of outstanding artists and illustrators, the intersecting circle would be quite small, and would include Joe Krush. Joe celebrates his centenary on May 18, 2018. Along with his wife Beth (1918-2009), he has left an indelible imprint on literature for children, having created the pictures for the American edition of Mary Norton’s The Borrowers, as well as those for Virginia Sorensen’s Newbery Medal winner Miracles on Maple Hill and Sydney Taylor’s All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown. The Krushes also collaborated with Beverly Cleary, who recently turned one-hundred-and-two, on her young adult novels Jean and Johnny, Fifteen, and Sister of the Bride. Their illustrations complement Cleary’s words in presenting portraits of girls on the verge of adulthood, learning that independence and confidence matter more than the approval of boys.

Perhaps because the Krushes did not illustrate picture books, but rather books with pictures, they may seem to play a secondary role. Yet in a recent interview in The New York Times Book Review, Brian Selznick, Caldecott Medalist (for The Invention of Hugo Cabret), cited The Borrowers as the “most influential book” he read as a child. Selznick’s affectionate tribute, including the confession that he had experienced the book as nonfiction and built furniture for the Borrowers, was a welcome reminder of the Krushes’ relevance today...

(snip)

"Camden-born illustrator, turning 100, left his mark on Nazi trials"

http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/stu_bykofsky/joe-krush-camden-wayne-illustrator-100-nazi-war-crimes-trials-nuremberg-un-united-nations-stu-bykofsky-20180517.html

https://imaginaryelevators.blog/2018/05/18/joe-krush-co-creator-of-the-borrowers-turns-100/

Excerpt:

"...Prizes are ultimately not the final or most significant evaluation of an artist’s work. Although the Krushes never won a Caldecott, they did illustrate one Newbery and one Newbery Honor book. The Newbery Honor went to Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright, and the Newbery to Virginia Sorensen’s Miracles on Maple Hill. This is a wonderful novel which is only superficially dated and still deserves to be read and taught. The “miracles” of the title are events in the natural world, as well as the support of community in a small maple sugar producing town in rural Pennsylvania. The Krushes’ pictures, as they always do, work inextricably with the text to create characters and settings to which children will relate. Marly is a ten-year-old girl whose father, a veteran and former POW, suffers from what we would today identify as PTSD. Had the book been written today, references to clinical depression, even violence, might enter the story. In 1956, allusions to the father’s anger and exhaustion were enough to explain why the family needs a miracle..."

https://lis514goneawaylake.weebly.com/joe-and-beth-krush.html
(brief bio and photos of Joe and Beth)

http://6abc.com/community-events/wayne-artist-joe-krush-is-celebrating-his-100th-birthday/3492461/
(26-second video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWyfI62CM8E
(50-minute documentary from Jan. 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiHQrsU9dLM
(28:50 video interview from April 2017)

https://www.google.com/search?q=joe+krush&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj34emdmJfbAhUIHHwKHcz5BnsQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1052&bih=927
(more videos, including his comments on Nuremberg)

https://www.pinterest.com/schwartzbergj/beth-and-joe-krush/
(artwork)

https://www.google.com/search?q=joe+krush&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJiruemJfbAhXCyFQKHU44C4EQ_AUICygC&biw=1052&bih=927&dpr=1
(more artwork)

http://collectingchildrensbooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/now-she-tells-us.html
(blog on "The Borrowers" series, with an anecdote from "Penderwicks" author Jeanne Birdsall)

http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2013/09/beth-and-joe-krush.html
(this has an old photo of Joe and Beth)

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/477130
(about his work for Eudora Welty)


WORKS

*
Illustrator

* Wilbur Schramm, Windwagon Smith and Other Tales, Harcourt (New
York, NY), 1946.
* Geoffrey Trease, Trumpets in the West, Harcourt (New York, NY),
1947.


* Geoffrey Trease, Secret Fiord, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1950.
* Mary Norton, Huon of the Horn, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1951.
* Maria Cristina Chambers, Boy Heroes of Chapultepec, Winston
(Philadelphia, PA), 1953.
* Sally Scott, Chica, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1954.
* Jessamyn West, Cress Delahanty, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1954.
* Carl Sandburg, Prairie Town Boy, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1955.
* Philip Rush, Minstrel Knight, Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN),
1956.


* John Langstaff, Ol' Dan Tucker, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1963.
* Norma Krassirer, Magic Elizabeth, Viking (New York, NY), 1966.
* Also illustrator of The Story of Sound. Illustrator of book
jackets.

*
WITH WIFE, BETH KRUSH

* Betty Cavanna, Spring Comes Riding, Westminster (Philadelphia,
PA), 1950.
* Stuart B. Courtis and Garnette Watters, Illustrated Dictionary
for Young Readers, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1951, revised
edition published as Illustrated Golden Dictionary for Young Readers,
Western (New York, NY), 1965.
* Louis Untermeyer, Magic Circle, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1952.
* Mary Norton, The Borrowers, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1953.
* Lilian Moore, Golden Picture Dictionary, Simon & Schuster (New
York, NY), 1954.
* Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield, Harcourt (New York, NY),
1955.
* Nora Kramer, editor, Storybook, Gilbert Press (New York, NY),
1955.
* Nora Kramer, editor, Second Storybook, Gilbert Press (New York,
NY), 1955.
* Marion Garthwaite, Coarse Gold Gulch, Doubleday (New York, NY),
1956.
* Florence Hightower, Mrs. Wappinger's Secret, Houghton (Boston,
MA), 1956.
* Beverly Cleary, Fifteen, Morrow (New York, NY), 1956.
* Virginia Sorensen, Miracles on Maple Hill, Harcourt (New York,
NY), 1956.
* Elizabeth Enright, Gone away Lake, Harcourt (New York, NY),
1957.
* Charlton Ogburn, Jr., Big Caesar, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1958.
* Eleanor Cameron, The Terrible Churnadyne, Little, Brown (Boston,
MA), 1959.
* Beverly Cleary, Jean and Johnny, Morrow (New York, NY), 1959.
* Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afloat, Harcourt (New York, NY),
1959.


* John Langstaff, The Swapping Boy, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1960.
* Beverly Cleary, Emily's Runaway Imagination, Morrow (New York,
NY), 1961
* Mary Norton, The Borrowers Aloft, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1961.
* Elizabeth Enright, Return to Gone Away, Harcourt (New York, NY),
1961.
* Irving A. Leitner, Lady Poole and Mr. Potts, Harcourt (New York,
NY), 1962.
* Beverly Cleary, Sister of the Bride, Morrow (New York, NY),
1963.
* Harold Courlander, The Piece of Fire, Harcourt (New York, NY),
1964.
* Eleanor Cameron, A Spell Is Cast, Little, Brown (Boston, MA),
1964.
* Jean Fritz, Magic to Burn, Coward McCann (New York, NY), 1964.
* Mary Mian, The Nip and Tuck War, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1964.
* Alberta W. Constant, Those Miller Girls!, Crowell (New York,
NY), 1965.
* Mary Norton, Poor Stainless: A New Story about the Borrowers,
Harcourt (New York, NY), 1966.
* Mary Norton, Complete Adventures of the Borrowers, Harcourt (New
York, NY), 1967.
* Mary P. Warren, A Snake Named Sam, Westminster (Philadelphia,
PA), 1969.
* Alberta W. Constant, The Motoring Millers, Crowell (New York,
NY), 1969.
* Elizabeth K. Cooper, The Fish from Japan, Harcourt (New York,
NY), 1969.


* Ruth C. Carlsen, Ride a Wild Horse, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1970.
* Elizabeth Hall, Stand up, Lucy, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1971.
* Baker, This Stranger, My Son, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1971.
* Florence Hightower, The Secret of the Crazy Quilt, Houghton
(Boston, MA), 1972.
* Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown, Follett (Chicago,
IL), 1972.
* Mary P. Warren, Ghost Town for Sale, Westminster (Philadelphia,
PA), 1973.
* Carol M. Adorjan, The Cat Sitter Mystery, J. Philip O'Hara
(Chicago, IL), 1973.
* Betty Cavanna, Petey, Westminster (Philadelphia, PA), 1973.
* Helen Chetin, Perihan's Promise, Turkish Relatives, and the
Dirty Old Imam, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1973.
* Genevieve S. Gray, Sore Loser, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1974.
* Mary P. Warren, River School Detectives, Westminster
(Philadelphia, PA), 1974.
* Jean H. Berg, Joseph and His Brothers, Christian Science
Publishing (Boston, MA), 1976.

* Jean H. Berg, The Story of Jesus, Christian Science Publishing
(Boston, MA), 1977.
* Heide and Heide, Brillstone Break-In, Whitman (Racine, WI),
1977.
* Robert Pierik, Rookfleas in the Cellar, Westminster Press
(Philadelphia, PA), 1979.


* Susan Fleming, The Pig at 37 Pinecrest Drive, Westminster
(Philadelphia, PA), 1981.
* Mary Norton, The Borrowers Avenged, Harcourt (New York, NY),
1982.
* Susan Fleming, Countdown at 37 Pinecrest Drive, Westminster
(Philadelphia, PA), 1982.
* Isabelle Holland, God, Mrs. Muskrat and Aunt Dot, Westminster
(Philadelphia, PA), 1983.
* Virginia Sorensen, Plain Girl, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1988.
* Marilyn Anderson, Come Home Barkley, Willowisp Press (St.
Petersburg, FL), 1996.
* Also illustrators of Why We Celebrate Christmas.

Lenona.