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Mid Manhattan Library The Art Collection 455 Fifth Avenue, 3rd floor New York, NY 10016 212-340-0871 Contact: Arezoo Moseni An exhibition of drawings by Ansel Pitcairn 05 January - 14 April 2007 The Art Collection, 3rd floor Hours: Mon-Wed 9-9, Thu-Sat 10-6 http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/mml/art/artwall.html The Art collection at Mid-Manhattan Library is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings by the emerging New York graphic designer Ansel Pitcairn. "Children's Book Illustrations" curated by Arezoo Moseni, is the seventh exhibition in the "Art Wall on Third" series. An "Artist Dialogue" between Ansel Pitcairn and the acclaimed author Tonya Bolden will take place on Monday February 26th at 6:30 p.m. on the 6th floor. Pitcairn will exhibit drawings from the books Portraits of African American Heroes and Aisha's Crowning Glory. Seeing the original drawings brings us closer to the feel and intensity of the stories in the books and as we contemplate the images the words begin to germinate in our imaginations. His routine usually begins with reading the text, meeting the author to talk about the story, and exchanging ideas to recognize what parts of the book inspire strong visual associations. "Sometimes I’m given a direct quote and asked to create an image based on it, whereas other times the image may be based on large bodies of text." In the early stages of the rough draft pencil drawings Pitcairn utilizes the Picture Collection at Mid-Manhattan Library searching for photographic references as the foundation for the illustrations, and in some cases he takes his own photographs "allowing him a greater flexibility of setting up poses and environments." Once the detailed drawings are created, the author and the artist meet again for a final edit. At this point the drawings are enlarged to the actual size, and with the aid of a light table transferred to a medium-weight watercolor paper using acrylics and watercolors. In each story the flow of images to text is determined early on, and Pitcairn's main concern is "for viewers seeing the images to comprehend the story without having to think too much about how it relates to the text. If someone is struggling with an illustration wondering what it has to do with the surrounding text then that illustration is not working.""Children's Book Illustrations"