Take a Chance on Art
Don Tate's
portrait of Duke Ellington
is our 2009 conference raffle masterpiece.
The
artwork is approximately 19.5 x 22 inches and is rendered in acrylic
with pastel highlights on Canson paper.
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The piece
is a study for Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite by Anna Harwell
Celenza. It will be published by Charlesbridge in 2010. It's the story
of how Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn collaborated to rewrite
Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker.
Don Tate is a self-taught painter who has illustrated more than 25
books, including several that he wrote. Say Hey: A Song of Willie
Mays by Peter Mandel was Tate's first trade book. Tate lives in
Austin and his work is sometimes seen on the pages of the Austin
American-Statesman.
This
year's drawing
drawing will be held in Houston on Thursday, April 2nd at General
Session II of
annual
conference. Tickets are only $5. You may purchase them at the
conference or print raffle tickets and mail them with a check to the TLA office
prior to March 2oth to be included in the drawing.
The Gallery gets
its name from the first auction items, the complete set
of illustrations for Rosemary Wells' Itsy Bitsy Spider (Scholastic
Press/Bunny Reads Back series). Ms. Wells also donated the illustrations from
The
Bear Went Over the Mountain,
an off-drawing which
was raffled at
the 1999 conference, and a cover for a new release of Morris's Disappearing
Bag which was raffled online. Visit
Rosemary
Wells at her website.
Raffle
items and artists from previous years:
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Diane Stanley
created the 2008 raffle item for Charles Dickens - The Man Who Had Great
Expectations, a picture-book biography authored by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema.
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2007: by Lynn Rowe Reed for
Nouns and Verbs
Have a Field Day (Robin Pulver) |
2006: from
The Racecar Alphabet
by
Brian Floca
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2005: by Susan Jeffers for My Pony (Hyperion 2004)
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2004: by
Will
Hillenbrand for Tom Birdseye's
Look Out, Jack! The Giant Is Back!
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2003: "crunchy black seeds and
all"
by Denise Fleming for Lunch |
2002: West Texas by Roxie
Munro for her
Inside- Outside Book of Texas
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2001:
Texas
by Adrienne Yorinks |
2000: from
Wedding Bells for Rotten Ralph
by Nicole Rubel
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