{{short description|American illustrator and conservationist}} {{Infobox person | name = Louis Darling | birth_date = {{birth date|1916|04|26}}<ref name="jr-authors">{{cite book |title=More Junior Authors |location=New York |year=1963 |publisher=The H. W. Wilson Company |editor-last=Fuller |editor-first=Muriel |oclc=422123346 |chapter=Louis Darling |last=Darling |first=Louis |pages=60–61}}</ref> | birth_place = Stamford, Connecticut<ref name="jr-authors"/> | death_date = {{death date and age|1970|01|21|1916|04|26}}<ref name="obit">{{cite news |title= Louis Darling, 53, Illustrator and Conservationist, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/24/archives/louis-darling-53-illustrator-and-conservationist-is-dead.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 24, 1970 |pages=31}}</ref> | death_place = Norwich, Connecticut<ref name="obit"/> | occupation = Illustrator | spouse = Lois MacIntyre Darling (1917–1989)<ref name="abit">{{cite web |url=http://abitofhistory.net/html/rhw/d_body.htm |title=Women of History – D |work=A Bit of History |access-date=May 18, 2010}}</ref> | image = Louis Darling.jpg | alt = Photograph of Louis Darling | caption= Darling (published 1963) }}
'''Louis Darling, Jr.''' (April 26, 1916 – January 21, 1970) was an American illustrator, writer, and environmentalist, best known for illustrating the Henry Huggins series and other children's books written by Beverly Cleary. He and his wife Lois provided illustrations for the first edition of ''Silent Spring''.
==Biography== Darling was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and would live in Connecticut for most of his life. He attended the Grand Central School of Art in New York City.<ref name="obit"/> After graduation and two years of private study, he worked at an agency for a time before enlisting in the Army Air Force in 1942. He served in the Air Force as a photographer for four years.<ref name="jr-authors"/>
He married zoologist and artist Lois MacIntyre in 1946.<ref name="jr-authors"/><ref name="obit"/> They would remain married until his death, and frequently collaborated on both writing and illustration. They had no children. His mother-in-law, Grace, was a painter as well.<ref name="N.Y.)Barratt2010">{{cite book|author1=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)|author-link2=Carrie Rebora Barratt|author2=Carrie Rebora Barratt|author3=Lori Zabar|title=American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YHKoX40qL7EC|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-1-58839-357-9}}</ref>
Also in 1946, Darling was hired by William Morrow and Company to illustrate Roderick Haig-Brown's book ''A River Never Sleeps''. Subsequently, he began illustrating, and then writing, children's books, mostly for Morrow. He was assigned to Beverly Cleary's first book, ''Henry Huggins'', in 1950, which began his best-known association; he would illustrate most of Cleary's books until his death. The character of Huggins was called a "modern Tom Sawyer" in the 1950s.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HtHmAAAAMAAJ&q=%22henry+huggins%22+%22modern+tom+sawyer%22 Henry Huggins], The Camping magazine, Volume 25 By American Camping Association, Camp Directors Association (U.S.), accessed May 2010</ref>
He wrote his first book, ''Greenhead'', in 1954. He would later write: "I started to write my own books because it seemed to me that there was seldom enough cooperation between author and illustrator. The best way to get this cooperation was to become the author myself."<ref name="jr-authors"/>
In 1962, the Darlings' friend Roger Tory Peterson suggested to Rachel Carson that they be hired to illustrate her forthcoming book, ''Silent Spring''. Their illustrations would be used on the chapter headings and the title page of the first edition.<ref>{{cite book | last = Lear | first = Linda | title = Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature | url = https://archive.org/details/rachelcarsonwitn00lear | url-access = registration | publisher = Henry Holt | location = New York | year = 1997 | isbn = 0-8050-3428-5 |oclc=53648146 }}</ref>
Darling wrote and illustrated ''The Gull's Way'', a book about American herring gulls on an island in Maine, which was published in 1965. To research it, he had camped alone on the uninhabited island for six weeks, observing and photographing the gulls.<ref name="obit"/> The book won the John Burroughs Medal in 1966.<ref name="burroughs"/>
His final collaboration with Lois was ''A Place in the Sun: Ecology and the Living World'', published in 1968. Darling died of cancer in 1970 with Cleary dedicating her book ''Runaway Ralph'' to him.<ref name="obit"/>
==Environmental activism== Darling had been interested in nature and the outdoors his entire life, and was an early environmentalist and conservationist. He was the president of Connecticut Conservationists, a consortium of environmentalist groups formed to oppose the dredging of Long Island Sound for the Connecticut Turnpike. The organization unsuccessfully sued the state of New York in 1956 to prevent the action, although they were successful in reducing the size of a planned parking lot that was to be built in a Connecticut salt marsh.<ref name="obit"/>
==Awards== * 1966: John Burroughs Medal, for ''The Gull's Way''<ref name="burroughs">{{cite web|url=http://research.amnh.org/burroughs/medal_award_list.html |title=JBA Medal Award List |date=March 1, 2010 |publisher=John Burroughs Association |location=New York |access-date=May 25, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023556/http://research.amnh.org/burroughs/medal_award_list.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016 }}</ref>
==Published books== [[File:Henry Huggins Halloween.png|thumb|right|One of Darling's illustrations for Beverly Cleary's 1962 book ''Henry and the Clubhouse''.]] ;As writer and illustrator *{{cite book |last=Darling |first=Louis |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |title=Greenhead |year=1954 |oclc=1594142}} *{{cite book |last=Darling |first=Louis |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |title=Chickens and How to Raise Them |year=1955 |oclc=299182795}} *{{cite book |last=Darling |first=Louis |title=Seals and Walruses |url=https://archive.org/details/sealswalruses00darl |url-access=registration |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1955 |oclc=1408226}} *{{cite book |last=Darling |first=Louis |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |title=Penguins |url=https://archive.org/details/penguins00darl |url-access=registration |year=1956 |oclc=1295097}} *{{cite book |last=Darling |first=Louis |title=Kangaroos and Other Animals with Pockets |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1958 |oclc=1409914}} *{{cite book |last1=Darling |last2=Darling |first1=Lois |first2=Louis |title=Before and After Dinosaurs |url=https://archive.org/details/beforeafterdinos00darl |url-access=registration |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1959 |oclc=896781}} *{{cite book |last1=Darling |last2=Darling |first1=Lois |first2=Louis |title=Sixty Million Years of Horses |url=https://archive.org/details/sixtymillionyear00darl |url-access=registration |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1960 |oclc=1260106}} *{{cite book |last1=Darling |last2=Darling |first1=Lois |first2=Louis |title=The Science of Life |url=https://archive.org/details/scienceoflife00darl |url-access=registration |location=Cleveland |publisher=World Pub. Co. |year=1961 |oclc=1593449}} *{{cite book |last1=Darling |last2=Darling |first1=Lois |first2=Louis |title=Bird |location=Boston |publisher=Cambridge Riverside Press |year=1962 |oclc=486821752}} *{{cite book |last=Darling |first=Louis |title=Turtles |url=https://archive.org/details/turtles00darl |url-access=registration |oclc=676809 |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1962}} *{{cite book |last1=Darling |last2=Darling |first1=Lois |first2=Louis |title=Coral Reefs |url=https://archive.org/details/coralreefs00darl |url-access=registration |location=Cleveland |publisher=World Pub. Co. |year=1963 |oclc=1409527}} *{{cite book |last=Darling |first=Louis |title=The Gull's Way |url=https://archive.org/details/gullsway00darl |url-access=registration |oclc=556202 |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1965}} *{{cite book |last1=Darling |last2=Darling |first1=Lois |first2=Louis |title=The Sea Serpents Around Us |year=1965 |location=Boston |publisher=Little, Brown |oclc=1417527}} *{{cite book |last1=Darling |last2=Darling |first1=Lois |first2=Louis |title=A Place in the Sun: Ecology and the Living World |year=1968 |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |isbn=0-688-21485-1 |oclc=182940270}} *{{cite book |last1=Darling |last2=Darling |first1=Lois |first2=Louis |title=Worms |url=https://archive.org/details/worms00darl |url-access=registration |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1972 |oclc=706332}}
;As illustrator only *{{cite book| last=Haig-Brown |first=Roderick |author-link=Roderick Haig-Brown |title=A River Never Sleeps |year=1946 |publisher=Collins |location=Toronto |oclc=624324789}} *{{cite book |last=Dudley |first=Ruth |title=Hank and the Kitten |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1949 |oclc=558156459}} *{{cite book |last=Beim |first=Jerrold |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1950 |title=Swimming Hole |url=https://archive.org/details/swimminghole00beim |url-access=registration |oclc=299379}} *{{cite book |last=Cleary |first=Beverly |title=Henry Huggins |title-link=Henry Huggins (novel) |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1950 |oclc=4999826 |author-link=Beverly Cleary}} *{{cite book |last=Cleary |first=Beverly |title=Ellen Tebbits |title-link=Ellen Tebbits |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1951 |oclc=503222613}} *{{cite book |last=Cook |first=Marion Belden |title=Waggles and the Dog Catcher |url=https://archive.org/details/wagglesdogcatche00cook |url-access=registration |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1951 |oclc=1577443}} *{{cite book |last=Beim |first=Jerrold |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1952 |title=Country Garage |oclc=469497}} *{{cite book |last=Cleary |first=Beverly |title=Henry and Beezus |url=https://archive.org/details/henrybeezus00beve_0 |url-access=registration |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1952 |oclc=1417088}} *{{cite book |last=Beim |first=Jerrold |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1953 |title=Eric on the Desert |oclc=1621631}} *{{cite book |last=Cleary |first=Beverly |title=Otis Spofford |title-link=Otis Spofford |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1953 |oclc=299530}} *{{cite book |last=Beim |first=Jerrold |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1954 |title=Shoeshine Boy |url=https://archive.org/details/shoeshineboy00beim |url-access=registration |oclc=12553763}} *{{cite book |last=Cleary |first=Beverly |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |title=Henry and Ribsy |title-link=Henry and Ribsy |year=1954 |oclc=426226131}} *{{cite book |last=Beim |first=Jerrold |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1955 |title=Country School |oclc=12420079}} *{{cite book |last=Cleary |first=Beverly |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |title=Beezus and Ramona |title-link=Beezus and Ramona |year=1955 |oclc=1417040}} *{{cite book |last=Beim |first=Jerrold |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1956 |title=Thin Ice |url=https://archive.org/details/thinice00beim |url-access=registration |oclc=469561}} *{{cite book |last=Butterworth |first=Oliver |author-link=Oliver Butterworth (writer) |title=The Enormous Egg |year=1956 |publisher=Little, Brown and Co. |location=Boston |oclc=299175 |isbn=0-316-11920-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/enormousegg00butt_0 }} *{{cite book |last=Beim |first=Jerrold |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1957 |title=Time for Gym |oclc=1621668}} *{{cite book |last=Cleary |first=Beverly |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |title=Henry and the Paper Route |title-link=Henry and the Paper Route |year=1957 |oclc=6019646}} *{{cite book |last=Goetz |first=Delia |title=Tropical Rain Forests |publisher=Wheaton |location=New York |year=1957 |oclc=223063797}} *{{cite book |last=Cameron |first=Eleanor |author-link=Eleanor Cameron |title=Mr. Bass's Planetoid |title-link=Mr. Bass's Planetoid |year=1958 |publisher=Little, Brown and Co. |location=Boston |oclc=907282}} *{{cite book |last=Goetz |first=Delia |title=The Arctic Tundra |url=https://archive.org/details/arctictundra00goet |url-access=registration |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1958 |oclc=1267500}} *{{cite book |last=Constant |first=Alberta Wilson |title=Miss Charity Comes to Stay |location=New York |year=1959 |publisher=Crowell |oclc=1219116}} *{{cite book |last=Goetz |first=Delia |title=Grasslands |url=https://archive.org/details/grasslands00goet |url-access=registration |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1959 |oclc=305464}} *{{cite book |last=Leonard |first=Jonathan N. |title=Exploring Science |year=1959 |location=Cleveland |publisher=World Pub. Co. |oclc=1304200}} *{{cite book |title=Shag |url=https://archive.org/details/shag00mccl |url-access=registration |last=McClung |first=Robert M. |year=1960 |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |oclc=469394}} *{{cite book |last=Goetz |first=Delia |title=Swamps |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1961 |oclc=305491}} *{{cite book |last=Adler |first=Bill |title=Kids' Letters to President Kennedy |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1961 |oclc=1078280}} *{{cite book |last=Carson |first=Rachel |author-link=Rachel Carson |title=Silent Spring |title-link=Silent Spring |oclc=561302 |publisher=Riverside Press |location=Cambridge, Mass. |year=1962}} *{{cite book |last=Cleary |first=Beverly |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |title=Henry and the Clubhouse |url=https://archive.org/details/henryclubhouse00clea |url-access=registration |year=1962 |oclc=254363281}} *{{cite book |last=Goetz |first=Delia |title=Mountains |url=https://archive.org/details/mountains00goet |url-access=registration |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1962 |oclc=305489}} *{{cite book |last=Cleary |first=Beverly |title=Ribsy |title-link=Ribsy |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1964 |oclc=179215}} *{{cite book |last=Cleary |first=Beverly |title=The Mouse and the Motorcycle |title-link=The Mouse and the Motorcycle |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1965 |oclc=299528}} *{{cite book |last=Cleary |first=Beverly |title=Ramona the Pest |title-link=Ramona the Pest |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1968 |oclc=426226140}} *{{cite book |last=Cleary |first=Beverly |title=Runaway Ralph |title-link=Runaway Ralph |publisher=Dell |location=New York |year=1970 |oclc=429583247}} *{{cite book |last=Goetz |first=Delia |title=Islands of the Ocean |publisher=Wm. Morrow |location=New York |year=1970 |oclc=48167999}}
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==External links== * [https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/4/resources/3614 Louis Darling papers at the University of Minnesota] * {{LCAuth|n79134136|Louis Darling|42|}} * [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-darling,%20louis "Darling, Louis"] at WorldCat – distinct from the page linked below (merge needed as of January 2015)
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