Edward Sorel

Edward Sorel is an illustrator, cartoonist and graphic designer. He is most famous for co-founding Push Pin Studios with Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast.

Sorel has produced many of "The Nation"'s most memorable covers. He is also a regular contributor to "The Atlantic Monthly" and "The New Yorker", for which he has done forty-one covers. His art has also appeared on the covers of "Harper's Magazine", "Fortune", "Forbes", "Esquire", "American Heritage", and "The New York Times Magazine". He has illustrated many children's books, several of which he also wrote. In 1998 the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, devoted several rooms to an exhibition of his caricatures. Other one-man shows include the Graham Gallery and the Davis and Langdale Gallery in New York City, the Susan Conway Gallery in Washington, DC, the Art Institute of Boston, and Galerie Bartsch & Chariau in Munich, Germany. He is a recipient of the Auguste St. Gaudens Medal for Professional Achievement from The Cooper Union (his alma mater, the Hamilton King Award from The Society of Illustrators, the Page One Award from the Newspaper Guild, the Best in Illustration Award from the National Cartoonists Society, the George Polk Award for Satiric Drawing, and the "Karikaturpreis der deutschen Anwaltschaft" from the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover, Germany. He received the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award for 1993. In 2001 the Art Directors Club of New York elected him to their Hall of Fame, the first cartoonist since John Held Jr. to be so honored.

External links

* [http://www.reuben.org/ncs/archive/divisions/advertising.asp NCS Awards]
* [http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/edward_sorel Articles by Edward Sorel] at The Nation
* [http://www.edwardsorel.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/sorel/index.htm Unauthorized Portraits: The Drawings of Edward Sorel] , an exhibition July 2, 1999 to January 2, 2000 at the National Portrait Gallery.
* [http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/2001-2002/?id=309 Art Directors Club biography, portrait and images of work]

Edward Sorel has four children Madeline Sorel Kahn-50, Leo Sorel, Jenny Sorel, Katherine Sorel-40 and grand children Sabella Kahn-13 Walter Sorel-10, Adam Sorel-4 and Saskia Kahn Dulio Sorel-3