Illustrator, youngsters’s creator, and theatrical set designer Ian Falconer died Tuesday in Connecticut. The creator is greatest recognized for his youngsters’s e book collection Olivia, which is a few intelligent younger pig. The award-winning collection, with its fashionable shade scheme, debuted in 2000 and went on to incorporate seven extra books that altogether bought greater than 10 million copies.
Falconer was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, studied artwork historical past at New York University and portray at Parsons School of Design and the Otis Art Institute. He later designed theater units and costumes for David Hockney, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the New York City Ballet, and The Royal Opera. In 1996, he gifted his niece the primary Olivia e book earlier than publishing it in 2000 and naming it after her.
Close buddy and playwright Jeff Whitty stated of Falconer, “Ian pointed out beauty in the overlooked. He balanced bright, boyish curiosity and the wisdom of a grizzled sage.”
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