Leanne Shapton

 

I've recently gotten interested in Leanne Shapton's work as an illustrator.  I think I owned, and was bewildered by, a book of hers years ago.  I especially like her watercolors.

Here's her work in the NYT called "A Month of".... Sunday Walks, Friday Swims, etc.  You can see the series also on her webpage here.  Here's "Sunday Walks."

She's art editor for NY Review of Books.  And a journalist.  Here she interviews Jon Klassen who did the cover of an issue. 

Here's a "newsletter" from 'Telluride.

Here's a paragraph from an article about her from 2009

She phoned the legendary illustrator James McMullan, famous for his Broadway and Lincoln Center Theater watercolours, and landed an internship in his studio. She called the celebrated designer Milton Glaser for career advice. She interned at Saturday Night Live – "just a dogsbody and set design" – and reasoned her way into an art internship at Harper's Magazine – "you have editorial interns, why not an art intern?" All unpaid.