![]() ![]() Raskin illustrated for The Saturday Evening Post, pharmaceutical house journals, and book publishers. She developed a sample book containing ephemera she designed and printed using woodcuts and, after two years, she began a freelance career as a commercial artist. While on her own, she experimented with typography using a bench printing press and ten fonts of type she had purchased. She later divorced, and took a job in a commercial art studio where she learned to prepare other people's artwork for the printer.ĭuring this time, she learned to do paste-ups and color separations at work. Raskin married Dennis Flanagan in 1960, had a daughter, Susan, and moved to New York City. She changed her major to fine art and received a disciplined education in the fundamentals of anatomy, perspective, light and shade, color, and techniques of painting and sculpture. During the following summer, she visited the Chicago Art Institute and saw the first major exhibition of non-objective art. Raskin entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the age of 17 with the intention of majoring in journalism. ![]() A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package - and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond."Įllen Raskin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1926 and grew up during the Great Depression. ![]() "I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. ![]()
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