John Schoenherr
| John Schoenherr | |
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| Born | John Carl Schoenherr July 5, 1935 New York City, New York |
| Died | April 8, 2010 (aged 74) Easton, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Occupation | Illustrator |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1958–2007 |
| Genre | Science fiction, children's picture books |
| Subject | Wildlife |
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| Spouse | Judith Grey |
| Children | Ian, Jenny |
John Carl Schoenherr (July 5, 1935 – April 8, 2010) was an American illustrator. He won the 1988 Caldecott Medal for U.S. children's book illustration, recognizing Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, a father-and-daughter story where only Schoenherr's drawings reveal the child's gender. He was posthumously inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2015.
Schoenherr was born in New York City (Manhattan) and raised in Queens, "in a German-speaking household in a polyglot community", where he used drawings to communicate with speakers of other languages. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School, and studied art at the Art Students League of New York with Will Barnet and at Pratt Institute.
Schoenherr was a resident of Delaware Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He died on April 8, 2010, of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Schoenherr may be known best as the original illustrator of the dust jacket art of Dune, a 1965 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert that inaugurated a book series and media franchise. He had previously illustrated the serializations of the novel in Analog, an endeavor which secured him a 1965 Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist. He later did the art for the Analog serialization of Herbert's Children of Dune. In 1978 Berkley Books published The Illustrated Dune, an edition of Dune with 33 black-and-white sketch drawings and 8 full color paintings by Schoenherr. Herbert wrote in 1980 that though he had not spoken to Schoenherr prior to the artist creating the paintings, the author was surprised to find that the artwork appeared exactly as he had imagined its fictional subjects, including sandworms, Baron Harkonnen and the Sardaukar.
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