R.O. Blechman Born in New York in 1930,
he graduated from Oberlin college after working for the school newspaper as editorial cartoonist. Immediately after graduation he published his first book, “The Juggler of Our Lady”. He went on creating editorial and cover art for prominent newspaper and magazines like The New Yorker and The New York Times, extraordinarily influential ads and commercials and wonderful animated films including the Christmas TV special, “Simple Gifts”, “No Room at the Inn” and the wonderful “Story of the Soldier” after Strawinsky that won him an Emmy. He has been awarded many honors and medals and in 2005 a retrospective of his filmic work was shown at The Museum of Modern Art.
According to The New York Times, R.O.Blechman is a class by himself, a storyteller, a master of irony and of a sublimely economical line, and to quote Maurice Sendak: “His qualities of taste, intelligence, and most vital – his instinct never to stray into forms that will betray him have allowed Blechman to express himself in a variety of ways that have enhanced the quality of American life.”
he graduated from Oberlin college after working for the school newspaper as editorial cartoonist. Immediately after graduation he published his first book, “The Juggler of Our Lady”. He went on creating editorial and cover art for prominent newspaper and magazines like The New Yorker and The New York Times, extraordinarily influential ads and commercials and wonderful animated films including the Christmas TV special, “Simple Gifts”, “No Room at the Inn” and the wonderful “Story of the Soldier” after Strawinsky that won him an Emmy. He has been awarded many honors and medals and in 2005 a retrospective of his filmic work was shown at The Museum of Modern Art.
According to The New York Times, R.O.Blechman is a class by himself, a storyteller, a master of irony and of a sublimely economical line, and to quote Maurice Sendak: “His qualities of taste, intelligence, and most vital – his instinct never to stray into forms that will betray him have allowed Blechman to express himself in a variety of ways that have enhanced the quality of American life.”
