Barron Storey

Infobox Artist
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name = Barron Storey


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nationality = American
field = Painting, Illustration
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works = "Lord of the Flies" (cover, 1980 edition)
patrons = NASA
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influenced = Neil Gaiman, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave McKean, Kent Williams, George Pratt, Bill Koeb, Dan Clowes
awards = Society of Illustrators' Gold Medal, 1976

Barron Storey is an art teacher and artist. He is famous for his accomplishments as an illustrator and fine artist, and for his influence on several professional illustrators and writers, including Neil Gaiman, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave McKean, Kent Williams, George Pratt, Bill Koeb and Dan Clowes. One of the most famous of his works is the cover for "Lord of the Flies", a novel by William Golding.

Accomplishments and Accolades

Accomplishments

Barron was the winner of the New York Society of Illustrators' Gold Medal in 1976 for his portrait of Lotte Lenya, and was later named the Society of Illustrator's Instructor of the Year in 2001. He currently teaches at the California College of Art in San Francisco, San Jose State University, and Pixar Studios.

Barron has created illustrations for magazines such as "Boys' Life", "Reader's Digest", "National Geographic", leather-bound classics for the Franklin Library, books like "War and Peace," "The Good Earth", and the collected works of Theodore Dreiser. Among his most seen works is the cover for the 1980 reissue of "Lord of the Flies," which for years was the best-selling paperback book in the country, in part because of its provocative cover painting of a young boy who looks half frightened, half fearless.

His giant painting of the South American rain forest hangs in New York's American Museum of Natural History. Another of his celebrated pieces — a 1979 rendering of the space shuttle commissioned by NASA, the first official painting ever done of the flying machine — hangs in the Air and Space Museum on the National Mall. His covers for "Time", portraits of Howard Hughes and Yitzhak Rabin, and many others, hang in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.

Quotes

; Neil Gaiman, in "Sandman":

; David Choe, "Slow Jams":

; Bryce Lee:

ee also

*Elbows Akimbo
*Art Center College of Design
*Endless Nights
*Eisner Award

References

*http://www.geocities.com/negsleep/main/links/barron/barron.html
*http://music.sfweekly.com/Issues/1996-01-17/news/feature_5.html
*http://www.cca.edu/gallery/artist/456
*http://www.galleryad.com/art/archives/art/backroom/barron_storey_victims
*http://www.galleryad.com/Exhibits/10.05.01/10.05.01.html
*http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2003/10/mark-twain-pseudo-dennis-thatcher.asp

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