Nancy Ekholm Burkert (born February 16, 1933) is an American artist and illustrator . Her most celebrated work is the picture book Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1972), which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Caldecott Honor Book (one runner-up for the Caldecott Medal ).
5-556: Burkert is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Nancy Ekholm Burkert (born 1933), American artist and illustrator Martin Burkert (born 1964), German politician Rudolf Burkert (1904–1985), German Czechoslovak Nordic skier Karel Burkert (1909–1991), Czech football goalkeeper Walter Burkert (1931–2015), German scholar Herbert Burkert , German law professor [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
10-716: A museum catalog for the Milwaukee Art Museum , on the Wisconsin artist John Wilde . She won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Special Award for Valentine and Orson in 1990. In 2003, she was subject of an exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst . She married Robert Burkert (1930-2019), a professor of Fine Art at UW-Milwaukee . Several of Robert Burkert's lithographs are in
15-556: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Nancy Ekholm Burkert Burkert was born in Sterling, Colorado , and moved with her family to Wisconsin in 1945. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison . Burkert's first illustration work was for James and the Giant Peach in 1961. In 1982, she was co-author of
20-918: The Tate Britain collection of prints and drawings. Together they went on to have a son and daughter, with whom they spent time in Europe and at their family cottage in northern Wisconsin . The couple retired to the coastal area in historic East Orleans , Massachusetts. Her early work demonstrated a command of shading and texture through pencil and charcoal, in addition to her usual media of pen and ink combined with colored pencil and watercolor. Beginning with The Nightingale and concluding with Snow White , her mastery of light, shadow and depth combined Renaissance chiaroscuro with an Oriental awareness of space in settings that were realistic in detail, yet also fanciful and timeless in content. Her later work continued this emphasis on intense, intimate detail, revealing
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