Milo Winter

{{Short description|American book illustrator}} [[Image:Brushtail the Fox - Milo Winter - Project Gutenberg eText 18667.jpg|thumb|upright|Brushtail grabs a big Plymouth Rock hen by the neck, illustration for ''Doctor Rabbit and Brushtail the Fox'' by Thomas Clark Hinkle.]] '''Milo Winter''' (August 7, 1888 – August 15, 1956)<ref name=AR.org/> was an American book illustrator. He created editions of ''[[Aesop's Fables]]'', ''[[Arabian Nights]]'', ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'', ''[[Tanglewood Tales]]'' (1913), and others.

==Background== Winter was born in [[Princeton, Illinois]] and trained at Chicago's School of the Art Institute.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.animationarchive.org/2008/03/illustration-milo-winters-aesop-for.html|title= Illustration: Milo Winter's Aesop For Children|access-date= February 27, 2010|author= Worth, Stephen|date= 19 March 2008|publisher= ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090822072027/http://www.animationarchive.org/2008/03/illustration-milo-winters-aesop-for.html|archive-date= 22 August 2009}}</ref> He lived in Chicago until the early 1950s, when he moved to New York City.<ref name=AR.org>{{cite web|url=http://animationresources.org/?p=4922 |title=Biography: Milo Winter « AnimationResources.org – Serving the Online Animation Community |publisher=Animationresources.org |date=November 23, 2010 |access-date=2014-08-05}} Principle citation: Miller, Arthur H. "Children's Book Illustrator Milo Winter". ''Caxtonian''. Jan. 2004: 4,5.</ref> From 1947 to 1949, he was the art editor of Childcraft books and from 1949, was the art editor in the [[film strip]] division of Silver Burdett Company.

==Gallery== <gallery> Image:The Lion and the Mouse - Project Gutenberg etext 19994.jpg|''[[The Lion and the Mouse]]'', illustrated by Milo Winter in ''The Æsop for Children'', 1919 [[Aesop]] anthology File:The Ant and the Grasshopper - Project Gutenberg etext 19994.jpg|''[[The Ant and the Grasshopper]]'', illustrated by Milo Winter in ''The Æsop for Children'' File:The Fox and the Grapes - Project Gutenberg etext 19994.jpg|''[[The Fox and the Grapes]]'', illustrated by Milo Winter in ''The Æsop for Children'' </gallery>

==See also== {{Portal |Children's literature}} *[[A Christmas Carol (1971 film)|''A Christmas Carol'' (1971 film)]]

==References== {{Reflist}} *Peter Falk, ''Who Was Who in American Art'', 1985 ({{ISBN|0932087000}})

==External links== {{Commons category|Milo Winter}} * {{Gutenberg author | id=8180| name=Milo Winter}} * [https://za.pinterest.com/jennywatjen/illustrations-milo-winter/?lp=true Milo Winter on Pinterest] * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Milo Winter |birth=1888 |death=1956}} * {{LCAuth|n85065571|Milo Winter|40|}}

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