He further explored visual media by taking courses in lithography and painting in oils. During their time in Boston, the Pinkney family quickly grew to include four children.Īt Rustrcraft, Pinkney met a network of talented artists, designers, and craftspeople and learned about printing, which was done onsite. Pinkney landed the job with his portfolio and moved to Boston where Gloria and their infant daughter soon joined him. Fortuitously, one of Pinkney’s PCA professors contacted him with news about an open position for a card designer at Rustcraft Greeting Card Company in Dedham, Mass. Shortly after their first child was born, Pinkney left art school and worked as a freelancer and a floral arrangement designer at a local flower shop. In the early part of his third year at PCA in 1960, Pinkney married his longtime girlfriend Gloria. Upon graduation in 1957, Pinkney earned a four-year scholarship to the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, becoming the first in his family to go to college.
When John Liney, creator of the “Little Henry” comic strip noticed Pinkney drawing one day, he invited him to his nearby studio where he showed Pinkney around and offered him some art supplies.Ī few years later, Pinkney met the entrance requirements for the commercial art program at Dobbins Vocational High School where he thrived in the structured curriculum under the supportive guidance of teachers that included a Black artist. He even practiced his art while at his newsstand job, where he would sketch passersby or storefronts. When his junior high didn’t offer art classes, Pinkney took private lessons on Saturdays or after school. He first believed that drawing and art might one day play a big role in his life when he received encouragement from his teachers and classmates whenever he created drawings for his elementary school projects. Pinkney took an interest in drawing very early on, imitating his two older brothers who would draw images from comic books and photographic magazines like Life. In an autobiographical essay for Something About the Author, he recalled growing up “on an all-black block” in the Germantown section of the city on a street bustling with activity and many other children. and Williemae Pinkney, the fourth of six children.
Jerry Pinkney was born Decemin Philadelphia to James H. Renowned children’s book illustrator Jerry Pinkney, winner of the Caldecott Medal and five Caldecott Honor citations, widely acclaimed for his picture books honoring his Black heritage as well as for his richly detailed works reimagining well-loved fairy and folktales, died on October 20 following a brief non-Covid-related illness.
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