![]() ![]() Johnson finished out his career as a fine artist, painting over 100 large, vivid canvases of geometric forms. From 1965 until his death Johnson created over a hundred. He is best known for the comic strip Barnaby (19421952) and the Harold series of books, beginning with Harold and the Purple Crayon. Crockett Johnson was born David Johnson Leisk on October 20, 1906. Crockett Johnson (Octo July 11, 1975) was the pen name of the American cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk. He married author Ruth Krauss in the early ’40s and lived on the shore of Long Island Sound, where Maurice Sendak would “apprentice” in his early twenties. Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon. The Magic Beach was published by Front Street in 2005. Harold, the protagonist of his best known series, began his many journeys in Harold and the Purple Crayon in 1955.Ī previously unpublished manuscript was recently found. Johnson’s first book, Who’s Upside Down?, was published in 1952. “I draw people without hair because it’s so much easier! Besides, to me, people with hair look funny.”īefore he became a well-known writer and illustrator of children’s books, he created some of the most beloved comic strip characters of the 20th century. ![]() Like Barnaby and Harold, his most famous characters, Johnson was bald. He studied art at Cooper Union and New York University. Crockett was a childhood nickname and so he chose it for a pen name. Crockett Johnson was born David Johnson Leisk on October 20, 1906, in New York City. ![]()
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