Evaline Ness

Evaline Ness
BornEvaline Michelow
(1911-04-24)April 24, 1911
Union City, Ohio, U.S.
DiedAugust 12, 1986(1986-08-12) (aged 75)
Kingston, New York, U.S.
Occupation
  • Illustrator
  • writer
Period
  • 1954–1983
  • 1930s–1950s (fashion)
Genre
Notable works
Notable awardsCaldecott Medal
1967

Evaline Ness (April 24, 1911 – August 12, 1986)[1] was an American commercial artist, illustrator, and author of children's books. She illustrated more than thirty books for young readers and wrote several of her own.[2] She used a great variety of artistic media and methods.[1][3][4]

As an illustrator of picture books she was one of three Caldecott Medal runners-up each year from 1964 to 1966 and she won the 1967 Medal for Sam, Bangs and Moonshine, which she also wrote.[5] In 1972 she was the U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's illustrators.[6]

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