Milo Winter

Milo Winter
Brushtail grabs a big Plymouth Rock hen by the neck, in a Milo Winter illustration for Doctor Rabbit and Brushtail the Fox, by Thomas Clark Hinkle

Milo Winter (August 7, 1888- 1956) was a well known book illustrator, who produced works for editions of Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels, Tanglewood Tales (1913) and others.

Background

He was born in Princeton, Illinois and trained at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute.[1] He lived in Chicago until the early 1950s, when he moved to New York City. From 1947 to 1949, he was the art editor of Childcraft books and from 1949, was the art editor in the film strip division of Silver Burdett Company.

References

  1. ^ Worth, Stephen (19). "Illustration: Milo Winter's Aesop For Children". ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. http://www.animationarchive.org/2008/03/illustration-milo-winters-aesop-for.html. Retrieved February 27, 2010. 
The Lion and the Mouse, illustrated by Milo Winter in a 1919 Aesop anthology