Reynold Ruffins

Reynold Ruffins
Born	1930 (age 86–87) New York City
Nationality	American
Education	Cooper Union
Known for	Painting, Children's book illustration, Graphic design
Awards	Augustus St. Gaudens Award (Cooper Union) Cooper Union Presidential Citation Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award, 1997 New York Art Directors Club Silver Medal, the Society of Illustrators

Reynold Ruffins (born 1930) is an African American painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Seymour Chwast, Ruffins founded Push Pin Studios in 1954. An illustrator of more than twenty children's books, Ruffins is known for his "stylistic versatility, vibrant colors, and penchant for fanciful creatures." He has had many solo exhibitions and been part of group show exhibitions at Paris' Musée du Louvre, and in Milan, Bologna, and Tokyo.

Ruffins attended the High School of Music & Art in New York City and Cooper Union. In 1954, he co-founded Push Pin Studios with fellow Cooper graduates Glaser, Sorel, and Chwast. In 1963, after leaving Push Pin, Ruffins founded another design studio with Simms Taback, a partnership which lasted for more than thirty years. Commercial clients included IBM, AT&T, Coca-Cola, CBS, Pfizer, the New York Times, Time Life, Fortune, Gourmet Magazine, and the U.S. Post Office.

Ruffins entered the field of children's book illustration in 1969, and throughout the 1970s and early 1980s he frequently collaborated with writer Jane Sarnoff.

In 1991, Ruffins teamed with Whoopi Goldberg and Herbie Hancock to produce "Koi and the Kola Nuts," a highly praised video for children which was part of Rabbit Ears Productions' We All Have Tales series.

Ruffins lives in Sag Harbor, New York, his wife Joan passed in 2013.

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