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Fred Lynch (illustrator)

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American illustrator and educator

Fred Lynch is an American illustrator and educator from Cumberland, Rhode Island. Lynch is best known for his editorial and book illustrations for The Atlantic, Penguin and Random House as well as in situ paintings of the Boston-area and Italy. He is also known for journalistic illustration, urban sketching, teaching, and lecturing internationally about on-site art making. Lynch was a featured artist on a Boston episode of the Travel Channel's television series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, as an expert about the route of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride.

Teaching

Lynch is an illustration professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he has won the John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching. Lynch graduated in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. He is also a professor and chair of the Illustration Department at Montserrat College of Art and a recipient of the Carlos Dorrien Award for Teaching Excellence.

Artist Shepard Fairey's first project to garner international attention, the "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, which later evolved into the "Obey Giant" campaign, began in 1989 as an assignment in Lynch's class at the RISD.

References

  1. Miller, Adam (March 2016). "Fred Lynch". Tryptic Press.
  2. Lines and Colors: Fred Lynch
  3. Salem State University Exhibition: A Sense of Place - Fred Lynch and Michael McLaughlin
  4. Drawing on Experience in Italy
  5. "Why You Should Keep a Daily Sketchbook—and How to Get Started". Artsy. 2018-11-16. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  6. ^ "Had to Be There: Drawing on Experience (Lecture C)". Barcelona Urban Sketching Symposium. 2013. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  7. Drawing on American History
  8. Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Current Exhibitions—Paul Revere’s Ride Revisited: Drawings by Fred Lynch,”
  9. RISD Illustration Faculty
  10. ^ "RISD Recognizes Excellence in Teaching". Rhode Island School of Design. 2013-06-12. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  11. "Ensuring a Strong Start" (PDF). RISDxyz. 2015-06-01. p. 62. Retrieved 2018-05-30. Fred Lynch 86 IL - taught the editorial illustration course that inspired Fairey's notorious Cianci billboard liberation project.

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