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A comprehensive collection of artwork from one of the most renowned illustrators of the 20th century.
IPPY Award-winning book features near-300 pages of art and biography on the star illustrator of The Chronicles of Narnia, Clapton's Goodbye Cream album, Carlos Castaneda's Separate Reality, and more. Roger Hane revived American illustration toward the fantastic and surreal. Two weeks after being named Artist of the Year, Hane was senselessly murdered. At the time his art graced the covers of New York and Fortune magazines.To graduates at Philadelphia College of Art, foremost American designer, Milton Glaser, who provides the foreword for this tome, said "At the time of his death, Roger Hane was the best illustrator in America." Walt Reed, of Illustration House Gallery said, "Roger Hane had become an indelible symbol of the 1970s and the best of illustration of that era..."
In this impressive compendium, award-winning visual arts and media producer and friend of Roger Hane, Robert C. Hunsicker, expands upon the great illustrator's career and tragic demise. This LTD deluxe edition features a unique slipcased and 16-page bonus folio of art not found in the trade edition.
"In the end, Roger Hane died for nothing, which is the most difficult and absurd thing of all." — Pete Hamell, award-winning novelist and columnist for The Saturday Evening Post, New York Herald Tribune, New York Post, New York Daily News, Village Voice, New York Newsday, The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, and Rolling Stone
"At the time of his murder, Hane was the best illustrator in America." — Milton Glaser, America's foremost graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios and New York magazine
“Hane’s work was emblematic of an era when magic, realism and… symbolic narrative art was at its peak.” — Steven Heller, Print magazine, April, 2010
“Roger Hane's illustrations were an inspiration to all of us at a time when the field was in great flux.” — Barron Storey, award-winning illustrator & educator
“Roger Hane has become an indelible symbol of the 1970s and the best of that era.” — Walt Reed, Illustration House Gallery, 2009