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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:11:05 -0500
Tom Feelings, an Illustrator Who Portrayed Black History, Dies at 70
August 30, 2003 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (New York Times)
COLUMBIA, S.C., Aug. 29 (AP) - Tom Feelings, an artist and illustrator whose best-known book, "The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo," movingly depicted life on the ships that brought slaves from Africa to America, died on Monday in Mexico, where he was receiving medical treatment. He was 70.
The cause was cancer, the University of South Carolina announced. "The Middle Passage" was published while he was an art professor there from 1989 to 1996. The book required 20 years to complete and is a collection of 64 black-and-white illustrations.
In an interview about his work with The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, Mr. Feelings said: "I clearly did this book for black people so it would be something that inspires them. This book is also for whites who claim they can't recognize what racism feels like."
Mr. Feelings illustrated 20 books in all. Two of them, "Moja Means One" and "Jambo Means Hello," were named Caldecott Honor Books, a national award for illustrated children's books. In 1987 he illustrated "Now Sheba Sings the Song," a collaboration with the writer Maya Angelou.
Mr. Feelings grew up in Brooklyn and studied at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and later at the School of Visual Arts.
In 1958 he created a weekly comic strip, "Tommy Traveler in the World of Negro History," which ran in The New York Age, a Harlem?sed newspaper.
Mr. Feelings is survived by his mother, Anna Morris; three sons, Kevin, Zamani and Kamili; and a daughter, Niani.
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 03 Sep 2003 03:11:05 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:11:05 -0500
Tom Feelings, an Illustrator Who Portrayed Black History, Dies at 70
August 30, 2003 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (New York Times)
COLUMBIA, S.C., Aug. 29 (AP) - Tom Feelings, an artist and illustrator whose best-known book, "The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo," movingly depicted life on the ships that brought slaves from Africa to America, died on Monday in Mexico, where he was receiving medical treatment. He was 70.
The cause was cancer, the University of South Carolina announced. "The Middle Passage" was published while he was an art professor there from 1989 to 1996. The book required 20 years to complete and is a collection of 64 black-and-white illustrations.
In an interview about his work with The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, Mr. Feelings said: "I clearly did this book for black people so it would be something that inspires them. This book is also for whites who claim they can't recognize what racism feels like."
Mr. Feelings illustrated 20 books in all. Two of them, "Moja Means One" and "Jambo Means Hello," were named Caldecott Honor Books, a national award for illustrated children's books. In 1987 he illustrated "Now Sheba Sings the Song," a collaboration with the writer Maya Angelou.
Mr. Feelings grew up in Brooklyn and studied at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and later at the School of Visual Arts.
In 1958 he created a weekly comic strip, "Tommy Traveler in the World of Negro History," which ran in The New York Age, a Harlem?sed newspaper.
Mr. Feelings is survived by his mother, Anna Morris; three sons, Kevin, Zamani and Kamili; and a daughter, Niani.
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 03 Sep 2003 03:11:05 PM CDT
