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 Walt Reed spoke of the many illustrators throughout the years, from Winslow Homer working on wood cuts to Howard Pyle, a teacher, but, first an artist, an artist who changed the way the world looked at illustration and the way illustration looked to the world.
Among other illustrators Reed discussed were: Arthur
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Walt Reed was trained as an illustrator at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New
York, and the Phoenix Art Institute in New York City. He was a book
illustrator prior to joining the instruction staff of the Famous Artists
School in Westport, Connecticut. Reed has written a number of award-winning
books on the subject of illustration.
 With the founding of Illustration House in 1974, Walt Reed pioneered the market in the resale of original illustrations by creating a gallery dedicated to the preservation of this vital form of American Art. Initially based in Westport, Connecticut, Walt personally knew many of the great illustrators, including Norman Rockwell, Tom Lovell, Al Parker, Jon Whitcomb, Stevan Dohanos, and has authored monographs on Harold von Schmidt, John Clymer, and Joseph Clement Coll. His son, Roger, joined him in 1981 and in 1987 they moved the gallery to the heart of SoHo in New York City (in 2004 relocated to Chelsea). Together they have written The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000, a definitive historical reference, which provides a description of the evolution of illustration art with pictorial examples and biographical sketches on hundreds of illustrators. |
| Walter Reed with Joel Spector (left) and Abe Echevarria (right) |
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