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$20,000,000 CHARLES MARTIGNETTE COLLECTION AUCTION!
4300 pieces of Charles' massive collection of original illustrations are coming up for auction and will have a showing of 30 originals hanging in New York at the Ukrainian Institute.
New York Times article
The auction will be held over the next few years in a number of auctions through Heritage Auction Galleries. If anyone would like a 3rd party to help in the purchase at any of these auctions, just let me know. I am very familiar with what he owned and the values to be found. I've considered Charles a friend for about 14 years and have spent a bit of time in his warehouse over the years.

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CHARLES MARTIGNETTE PASSES AT 57!
Charles was a good friend and is responsible for my vast exposure to the art that is illustration. (more.....)

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TED RAND PASSES AT 89!
Ted Rand is no longer with us in life
but his books and his spirit will
be with us forever. (more.....)

I'll miss you Ted.

We still have a number of his signed books available.

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JOIN US FOR OUR ANNUAL HOLIDAY ART SHOW IN MUKILTEO!
Nov. 25th to Dec. 31st

It's time once again for our once a year showing and book signing extravaganza just in time for the holiday gift giving season. And again this year we will be having it at the Point Elliot Art Center in Mukilteo, Washington, just 2 blocks from the ferry landing at 724 1st Street.

Mark your calendars to join us for book signings with a different children's book illustrator or author every Saturday from 2:00-4:00
Nov. 26th to Dec. 24th.

Nov. 26th ..... Bryn Barnard

Dec. 3rd ...... Mike Cressy

Dec. 10th .... Richard Watson

Dec. 17th .... Gudrun Ongman

More info will follow as we get closer to the holidays.

If you can't make it for a signing, we will be thrilled to get the books personallized for you and mail them in time for Christmas.

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TED RAND PASSES AT 89!
Ted Rand is no longer with us in life
but his books and his spirit will
be with us forever.

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Ted Rand on Saturday March 13th, 2005. Ted was a master at his craft and will be missed by those of us that knew him personally and by all who knew him through the over 80 children's books that he illustrated. Ted had been suffering from the ravages of cancer for the last year and a half and it finally won against a very strong opponent. Check out this wonderful newspaper article on his life and his yearlong fight with numerous cancers.

I consider it an honor and a great pleasure to have known Ted and to represent his artwork to the Northwest and the world. Many an art director from around the country, and around the world, would stop in to marvel at how effortless Ted made it look. Ted told me hoped they knew it wasn't effortless.

When I opened Art of Illustration, Ted Rand was the first to answer my call for artists. I knew he was a true professional as we scheduled our very first show of children's book artwork. The first day I hung the artwork from Jean Craighead George's Nutik, the Wolf Pup, an out of town visitor walked in and bought 3 of the original paintings.

Ted was my best selling artist and I always treasured our interactions.
I will continue to represent his artwork for as long as his wife Gloria allows me. I wouldn't hesitate though, as there will obviously be
no more created and in the last few months Ted donated a large
part of his original artwork to various children's book museums and libraries around the country.

I'll miss you Ted.

We still have a number of his signed books available.

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TED RAND TURNS 89!
JOIN US as we celebrate with Ted as he faces the most perilous time of his long and richly filled life. Check out this wonderful newspaper article on his life and his yearlong fight with numerous cancers. It doesn't look rosey for Ted, but he is in good spirits and is still the wonderful and talented artist that we all know and love. Ted says that he wouldn't change any part of his life except this last part. Even then he says that Seattle is the best city to have cancer in for the magnificent care he has received. Ted won't be having any more book signings for quite a while but we still have a number of his signed books handy for your purchase.

To honor Ted's long career and to help defray medical costs we are offering all of his original artwork at 25% off the original prices. Ted has also offered a special fund raising opportunity to any schools or libraries that purchase his original art to hang. He will allow your group to have publishing rights for making prints of your image, forever. Sell the prints as fund raisers or rewards. Please contact us with requests for your favorite Ted Rand book and we will see if we have any of the original art that Ted painted and sent to the publisher for printing in the books. We have much more than what is shown on the website.

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Alexandra Day and "Carl" November 27th 2:00 - 4:00

Mike Cressy
December 4th 2:00 - 4:00

Richard Jesse Watson
December 11th 2:00 - 4:00

Gudrun Ongman
December 18th 2:00 - 4:00

The art center is located at 724
1st Street in Mukilteo, WA just 2 blocks N.E.
of the ferry terminal, across
from the Silver Cloud Inn.
Plenty of free parking!

Come early,stay for the day!
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JOIN THE CELEBRATION!

Children's Hospital in Seattle is having an open house on January 17, 2004 starting at 10:00 AM to unveil the new Janet Sinegal Patient Care Building.

What does this have to do with us, you ask? Art of Illustration helped two of our artists, Max Grover and Bryn Barnard , get commissions to each create an entire floor of murals for the children and their families to enjoy during their extended stay at the hospital. Max and Bryn had a huge amount of work to do in a short amount of time and both completed the works of art on time. Some of the canvas paintings were 25 ft. x 10 ft and are magnificent. Both artists had to create larger studios to create the work.

Children's Hospital is also looking for children's book donations. We will donate a new Max Grover or Bryn Barnard book for every book that is purchased from us during January. You can keep one of the books or donate it also. The kids eyes will light up when they make the connection between the books and their surroundings. Contact Scott at (206) 254-9100 for more info or to purchase books.

Join us on Saturday and see what our artists are doing for the betterment of our community. Children's Hospital is located at 4800 Sand Point Way NE ,between University Village and Sand Point Naval Station.

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Northwest Bookfest October 18th & 19th, 2003
www.nwbookfest.org

If you joined us for this exciting weekend of everything literary in the Pacific Northwest, you would have enjoyed authors and illustrators signing their books and giving symposiums. Art of Illustration staged a large and popular show of the original artwork created for the covers of Harlequin Romance novels, Western paperbacks, and Sci-Fi novels.

We had a great weekend of signings by Ted and Gloria Rand, Alexandra Day and "Carl", Richard Jesse Watson, Gudrun Ongman, Mike Cressy, Bryn Barnard, and Todd Lockwood. "Carl" (whose real name is Zubiaga) was in great spirits and "Whinny the Pony" had a case of the runs on stage that cut the signing a little short. Like WC Fields said, "Never work with children or animals". So what do we do....we work with both and enjoyed almost every minute of it.

Attendance was about half of what it has been in years past but we still enjoyed ourselves enough to do this again next year so mark your calendars.

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