Who is barbara cuny?

Barbara Kony, 19 17 and her twin brother were born in Brooklyn, new york. My father is a stockbroker and my mother is an amateur artist. It was her mother who led her to become a painter. After she grew up and became famous, people kept asking her, "How did you become an artist?" She replied, "I think it comes from my family. My great-grandfather was an artist. He immigrated to Manhattan from Germany ... My mother is an oil painter and watercolor painter. She doesn't care that I messed up her brushes and canvases. The only thing she taught me was to clean my brush. She often lets me paint alone. "

1938 graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts, majoring in art history. Later, while studying lithograph and etching technology in new york Art Student Union, she began to recommend her works to the publishing house, and published her first illustrated work, Karl malm Berg's Ake and His World, at 1940. 194 1, she published her own picture book "The King of the Shipwrecked Island". In the next 60 years, she has successively created more than 100 picture books, and is one of the greatest picture painters in America. His major works include Chanting clear and The Fox (1958), which won Cadillac Award 1959, and collaborated with Donald Hall. Except Oxcart Man (1979) won the Cadillac Award of 1980, other well-known works at home and abroad include Emma (1980) and Basket Moon (1999). She is a person who is used to challenges and always likes to try all kinds of new technologies and media. For example, she painted "Golden Throat and Fox" with sketchpad technology and "Cattle-driver" with acrylic paint. She is a painter who matches the theme with the style. Her painting style also wins with realism and simplicity. She once said: "I paint and try to extract themes from real life. I don't need my uncertain and fuzzy lines to create or make them come true."