Back Cover to Come One Come All
The blurb reads:
“Don Freeman was born in California and came to New York to study at the Art Students League. He became known for his theatrical drawings for the Herald Tribune and the New York Times and for other newspapers and magazines. In addition he is an accomplished lithographer and had a one-man show in 1940 at the Associated American Artists Gallery. His prints are also in the collections of the Metropolitan and Whitney Museums, and he has ilustrated many of Saroyan’s books. His satire of army life, It Shouldn’t Happen, was published in 1945. At present he is busy drawing and painting in California, where he lives with his wife and baby son.”
(This was written before Don had turned from sketches and lithographs of New York life to writing and illustrating children’s books. His first children’s book, written with his wife Lydia, was Chuggy and the Blue Caboose, published in 1951. Of course, Don continued to sketch and make illustrations of everybody and everything he saw.)
