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signing Warper Collins new edition of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” illustrated by DeLoss McGraw. This book won the Illustrator’s Society Book of the Year Award in 2002. Gallery Director Robert Ballard gave DeLoss McGraw his first one-person exhibition in San Francisco in 1984 that brought McGraw considerable attention. McGraw has since had over eighty one-person exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, London, and other cities in the world. His recent touring retrospective “As a Poem, So Is a Picture,” organized by the Scottsdale Center for Contemporary Art, received great acclaim.
Most recently, two McGraw paintings were purchased by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Many institutions that collect artist-made books own artwork by DeLoss McGraw, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, The University of Oxford, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, Stanford University, Harvard University, and the Special Collections Library of Columbia University. Institutions that own McGraw paintings include the Cincinnati Art Museum, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Cranbrook Museum of Art, the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
As for his early upbringing, DeLoss McGrow’s childhood was filled with literature. His mother was an English professor and instilled in him a love for all forms of the written word, especially poetry. His unique approach to painting has thus been equally influ
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