Author and illustrator of more than 100 books for children, Barbara Cooney died on March 10, 2000, at the age of eighty-three.Barbara Cooney and her twin brother were born on Augin Brooklyn, New York.
Their opening ceremony honored Barbara Cooney. Miss Rumphius prompted the Maine Library Association to create its Lupine Award, recognizing outstanding children’s books by state residents. She was awarded the Caldecott Medal twice, first for Chanticleer and the Fox (TY Crowell, 1959) and then for Ox-cart Man, by Donald Hall (Viking, 1979). Several of her books are somewhat autobiographical: Hattie and the Wild Waves, Miss Rumphius, and Island Boy. Of her work she said, “a picture book is like a string of beads with the illustrations being the jewels but the text is the string that holds them all together.”īarbara lived in Maine for much of her life, married to a country doctor and raising four children. Eventually, as color printing evolved, she was allowed to work in full color, opening her use of media to scratchboard, pen and ink, pen and ink with wash, casein, collage, watercolor, and acrylic. Cooney both wrote and illustrated, King of Wreck Island. In 1941, Farrar and Rinehart published the first book Ms. She found particularly useful the notebooks of Hokusai and the books of Aubrey Beardsley. Cooney enrolled at the Art Students’ League to study etching and lithography. In 1940, at the time she was assigned to illustrate Bertil Malmberg’s Ake and His World, color illustration was prohibitively expensive. Although her portfolio was filled with vivid color images she had done at Smith, the editor told her she would be working in black-and-white. She made the portfolio pilgrimage through the publishing houses of New York City and eventually found a job at Farrar and Rinehart. A self-described “greedy reader,” Barbara knew she wanted to illustrate books. She attended Smith College, where she obtained a degree in art history. The twins grew up there, the children of a stockbroker father and an artist mother, who encouraged Barbara’s artistic interest.
Born August 6, 1917, Barbara Cooney and her twin brother were delivered in a hotel room in New York City.
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