![]() ![]() Nevertheless, Van Allsburg drew because Rhode Island winters are long and cold. I didn’t want to be enslaved by text, or worse, by an art director.” ![]() “In the world of fine art, illustration is too commercial. His wife encouraged him to submit his drawings to a children’s publisher, but Van Allsubrg was unenthused. Although his pictures had a narrative quality, he was not concerned about the story they told. “I had a drafting table at home and I amused myself by drawing pictures,” he says. Situated in a large factory building, Van Allsburg’s studio “stuck out from the main building like a finger on a glove” and was impossible to keep warm in the evening. Icy cold Northeast winters forced Van Allsburg out of his studio. Within two years of opening his own studio, he had the opportunity to exhibit his work in what he calls “a bona fide New York City gallery”-an opportunity made sweeter by the sale of a few pieces. Chris Van Allsburg, the author/illustrator of The Polar Express, graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975 as a sculptor. ![]()
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