Sad

Back when I was a graphic design and illustration student, the illustrators in my class were almost unanimously united in worship of the paintings of Bernie Fuchs. A class trip to New York found a group of us sitting on the floor of the Illustration House Gallery with our noses mere inches from his original paintings that had been kindly brought out from the storage room and propped around the floor for us.

Upon purchasing a collections of posters at another illustration institution there, I found they had been rolled up and packaged for me in a mailing tube that had previously housed one of Mr. Fuchs paintings. His name and studio address were still affixed to the tube.

Bernie Fuchs died last night.

1 Response to “Sad”


  1. 1 knowthankyou September 19, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    Sorry Kirsti. His works like Ravello Arch used light and perspective particularly beautifully to my taste. I’m glad that people with your talent are carrying the torch.


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Inkonwove is a blog by me, illustrator/designer Kirsti Wakelin.

This blog contains a sample of much of the things that go into my working life. With everything from notifications on work added to my illustration and design portfolio, to work-in-progress and process sketches, pages from my sketchbook, odds and ends that interest me, the occasional non-art related ramble or up-close and personal photographs of invertebrates, Inkonwove is a kind of artistic junk drawer.

I also maintain another blog over at My Secret Elephant where the work I do for children's books, and everything about that subject, ends up.

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