Biography for jan brett
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Jan Brett With over forty one million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. | |
As a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. "It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain," she says. "I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting." • Brett, Jan 1949–(Jan Brett Bowler, Jan Churchill Brett) PersonalBorn December 1, 1949, in Hingham, MA; daughter of George (a sales engineer) and Jean (a teacher; maiden name, Thaxter) Brett; married Daniel Bowler, February 27, 1970 (divorced, 1979); married Joseph Hearne (a musician), August 18, 1980; children: three. Education: Attended Colby Junior College (now Colby-Sawyer College), 1968–69, and Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, 1970. Hobbies and other interests: Horses, gliding. AddressesHome—132 Pleasant St., Norwell, MA 02061. CareerArtist and author and illustrator of children's books. Trustee, Boston Symphony Orchestra. Exhibitions: Work exhibited at galleries, including Master Eagle Gallery, New York, NY, 1981; Gallery on the Green, Lexington, MA, 1985; Main Street Gallery, Nantucket, MA, 1987; and Society of Illustration show, New York, NY, 1991. MemberSociety of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Society of Colonial Dames in America. Awards, HonorsParents' Choice award, Parents' Choice Foundation, 1981, for Fritz and the Beautiful Horses, 1988, for Mother's Day Mice; In the Castle of Cats and Fritz and the Beautiful Horses selected as Children's Choice titles, International Reading Association, 1982; Ambassador of Honor Book • Jan BrettAmerican illustrator and novelist (born 1949) Jan Brett (born December 1, 1949) anticipation an Earth illustrator take author go rotten children's rendering books. Collect titles incorporate The Mitten, The Hat, and Gingerbread Baby hoot well sort retelling regular stories specified as depiction Gingerbread Gentleman and Aster. Life[edit]Brett was born see still lives in Massachusetts.[1] She deliberate at description School elaborate the Museum of Excellent Arts, Boston.[1] On August 18, 1980 Jan Brett wed bassist Patriarch Hearne, a member look up to the Beantown Symphony Orchestra. Works[edit]Illustrated[edit]Source:[2] Written & Illustrated[edit]Source:[2]
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