Hurd, Clement, 1908-1988
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Name (Hebrew)
הרד, קלמנט, 1908-1988
Name (Latin)
Hurd, Clement, 1908-1988
Other forms of name
Hurd, Clement Gazzam, 1908-1988
Date of birth
1908-01-12
Date of death
1988-02-05
Occupation
Illstators
Authors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Brown, Margaret Wise. Goodnight moon, 2007, c1947:t.p. (pictures by Clement Hurd; HarperFestival, a division of HarperCollins Publishers)
- Wikipedia website, Oct. 28, 2024(Clement Hurd; Clement Gazzam Hurd; American artist; known for illustrations of children's picture books, especially collaborations with writer Margaret Wise Brown, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny)
- His Bumble bugs and elephants ... c1938.
- Clement Hurd (1908-1988) is best known for illustrating Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, the classic picture books by Margaret Wise Brown. He studied painting in Paris with Fernand Leger and others in the early 1930s. After his return to the United States in 1935, he began to work in children's books. He illustrated more than one hundred books, many of them with his wife, Edith Thacher Hurd, including the Johnny Lion books, The Day the Sun Danced, and The Merry Chase. A native of New York City, he lived most of his life in Vermont and California ( (Scholastic (the largest children's book publisher in the world), viewed 31 Oct 2016:) )
- HarperCollins Children's web site, Apr. 4, 2007(Clement Hurd, 1908-1988)