![]() ![]() ![]() Fifty years after the war, he took out his sketches and based paintings on them. Then war broke out.īryan sketched throughout his time in the military. There he studied sculpture, calligraphy, design, book illustration and painting. In 1940 he won acceptance to the Cooper Union School of Art and Engineering. His parents couldn’t afford art lessons, but sent him to free classes by Works Progress Administration artists. ![]() After that, he never stopped making books, he said. As a kindergartner he made a book illustrating the letters of the alphabet. His father worked as a printer of greeting cards, so he brought home paper for Ashley to draw on. He grew up in a crowded apartment in the Bronx with his parents, siblings, three orphaned cousins and injured birds that his father rehabilitated.Īs a child he drew on the walls, on the furniture, everywhere. He was born July 13, 1923, the second of the six children of immigrants from Antigua. “The artist is not a special person,” he once said. His neighbors viewed him as a kind of holy man. It’s always, ‘Look at this beautiful thing. “He never has an unkind or negative word. “I just love that man,” she told Columbia Magazine. His editor at Athenaeum Books, Caitlyn Dlouhy, explained his appeal. He wrote and illustrated books well into his nineties. ![]()
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