Florian douglas biography

  • Douglas Florian an award-winning poet and fine artist who has had much success with poetry collections that he has both written and illustrated.
  • Artist and poet Douglas Florian was born and raised in New York City, and educated at Queens College and the School of Visual Art. Florian was a cartoonist.
  • Born March 18, 1950, in New York, NY; son of Harold (an artist) and Edith Florian; married November 3, 1985; wife's name Marie; children: five.

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    Douglas Florian

    500 Westerly 52nd Street
    Studio #6E2
    New Dynasty, NY 10019
    douglasflorian613@gmail.com 

    Solo Exhibitions:

    2024 Picture Arts Meeting of Town, "As Test, So Below," Princeton, NJ                           

    2019 Artists Homestead Museum, Harvester Aviv, Kingdom, "Sefer Shel Or: Rendering Book diagram Light."

    2018 Bravin Lee Programs, New York, Throw away, "Spells nearby Apparitions" 
    2014 Bravin Lee Programs, New Royalty, NY, "The Beestes squeeze Brides Alle"
    2013 Quaker State Academia, Harrisburg, PA "Douglas Florian"
    2012 Bravin Take pleasure in Programs, In mint condition York, Unintended, "Dawn Thieves."

    2012 Poets Nurse, New Royalty, NY, "A Florianthology: Rendering Art concentrate on Poetry mock Douglas Florian."

    2010 Bravin Appreciate Programs, Fresh York, Distress, "Letting inconsequential the Light."
    2008 Bravin Satisfaction Programs, Unique York, NY,  "The Liars and say publicly Moonstruck."
    2005 Academy of picture Arts, Metropolis, PA
    1992 Yeshiva Institution of higher education Museum, Unique York, Custom
    1988 Condeso Lawler Heading, New Dynasty, NY
    1985 22 Wooster Gallery, Fresh York, NY

    Selected Group Exhibitions:

    2024 Bienvenu, Cartoonist & C  "Abstract Expressions," New Dynasty, NY.

    2024 BravinLee Programs, Another York, The Imitation is A Scandal: Especially Annual Graphic designer Book Month 

    2023 Bravin Leeward Programs, Newborn York,

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    About the Author

    Douglas Florian, writer and illustrator of children's books, was born March 18, 1950 in New York City. He was educated at Queens College of the City University of New York, receiving a B.A. in 1973. He also attended the School of Visual Arts in 1976. His early work was as a political illustrator show more and cartoonist; he did many drawings for The New York Times and for the New Yorker magazine. More recently, his self-illustrated books include A Fisher, Beast Feast, and Bing Bang Boing. His illustrations have appeared in Freeing the Natural Voice (with Kristin Linklater), Dorothy O. Van Woerkom's Tit for Tat, and Thomas M. Cook and Robert A. Russell's Introduction to Management Science. Additionally, he has contributed more than 300 drawings to magazines and newspapers, including Travel and Leisure, Across the Board, and The Nation. Florian has received numerous awards including the Reading Magic Award from Parenting magazine in 1994 for Bing, Bang, Boing. He was the Books of Distinction finalist in the Hungry Mind Review for Bing Bang Boing. Beast Feast received the Gold Medal from the National Parenting Publications awards in 1994, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Poetry in 1995, and Dinothesaurus was a Junior Library Guild Selection in 2010. (Bowker A

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    Born March 18, 1950, in New York, NY; son of Harold (an artist) and Edith Florian; married November 3, 1985; wife's name Marie; children: five. Education: Queens College of the City University of New York, B.A., 1973; attended School of Visual Arts, 1976.

    Addresses

    Home—New York, NY. Office—500 W. 52nd St., New York, NY 10019. E-mail—[email protected].

    Career

    Author and illustrator, 1971—. Lecturer at elementary schools. Exhibitions: Work exhibited at Society of Illustrators show, 1993.

    Awards, Honors

    Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children designation, National Science Teachers Association/Children's Book Council, 1987, for A Winter Day, and 1992, for Vegetable Garden; Parents' Choice Award for story book, 1991, for An Auto Mechanic; Gold Medal for poetry, National Parenting Publications Awards, 1994, Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for poetry, 1995, and American Library Association Notable Book citation, all for Beast Feast; Reading Magic Award, Parenting, 1994, for Bing Bang Boing; International Board on Books for Young People honor list inclusion, for Discovering Seashells; Gryphon Award, Center for Children's Books, 2004, for Bow Wow Meow Meow; Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry, 2001, for Mammalabilia; n