biography of Paul GIOVANOPOULOS (1939)

Birth place: Kastoria, Macedonia, Greece

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Illustrator

Studied: NY Univ.(2 year art scholarship); School Visual Arts, with Robert Weaver; John Armstrong Chaloner Fnd. Fellowship for work & study abroad, 1964-65

Exhibited: NAD; CGA; BMA; Lacarda Gal., NYC; Joslyn AM; Butler AI; Norfolk MA. Awards: SI, gold medal; best illus. children's books, New York Times, 1968, 1969 (The Real Tin Flower, and Free as a Frog, respectively.)

Comments: He came to the U.S. as a teenager, speaking no English. In 1961 he began his illustrating career for Seventeen magazine, and worked for Redbook, Fortune, Playboy and other magazines from the late 1960s on, as well as for advertisers and book publishers. Teaching: School of Visual Arts; Parsons School of Des.

Sources: W & R Reed, The Illustrator in America, 326.