Lynd Kendall Ward

Background

Ward, Lynd Kendall was born on June 26, 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Harry Frederick and Daisy (Kendall) Ward.

Education

Postgraduate Staatliche Akademic Fuer Graphische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany, 1926-1927. Illustrator, 1927-1985. Director graphic arts division Federal Art Project, New York City, 1937-1939.

Prints represented permanent collections, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institute, Neward Museum, Metropolitan Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, others

Author-illustrator: (novels in wood cuts) Gods’ Manitoba, 1929, Madman’s Drum, others, 1930, Wild Pilgrimage, 1932, Prelude to a Million Years, 1933, Song Without Words, 1936, Vertigo, 1937, Story-teller Without Words—The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward.

Career

Bachelor of Science, Columbia Teachers College, 1926. Postgraduate Staatliche Akademic Fuer Graphische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany, 1926-1927. Illustrator, 1927-1985.

Director graphic arts division Federal Art Project, New York City, 1937-1939.

Prints represented permanent collections, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institute, Neward Museum, Metropolitan Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, others Author-illustrator: (novels in wood cuts) Gods’ Manitoba, 1929, Madman’s Drum, others, 1930, Wild Pilgrimage, 1932, Prelude to a Million Years, 1933, Song Without Words, 1936, Vertigo, 1937, Story-teller Without Words—The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward.

Children’s books The Biggest Bear, 1952. Children’s book Nic of the Woods, 1965, The Silver Pont, 1973.

Achievements

• Lynd Kendall Ward has been listed as a notable graphic artist, illustrator. by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
  • The Biggest Bear
  • Vertigo: A Novel in Woodcuts (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

• painting

  • God's Man

  • Prelude to a Million Years

  • Prelude to a Million Years

  • Prelude to a Million Years

  • Wild Pilgrimage

  • Railroaded

  • Man Climbing

  • Vertigo

  • Prelude to a Million Years

  • Company Town

  • Song Without Words

  • Mary Shelly. Frankenstein

  • Prelude to a Million Years

  • Undercliff

  • Vertigo

  • Three Angels

  • Boy Without Flower

  • Spring Song

  • Giant

  • Genesis: 32 (Jacob wrestles with the angel)

  • Prelude to a Million Years

  • Wild Pilgrimage

  • Prelude to a Million Years

  • Wild Pilgrimage

  • Mary Shelly. Frankenstein

  • Ritual

  • Prelude to a Million Years

  • Song Without Words

  • Song Without Words

  • Song Without Words

  • Mary Shelly. Frankenstein

  • Corral: Tres Cumbres

  • Mary Shelley. Frankenstein

  • Flower Girl

  • Song Without Words, Plate 12

  • Bouquet #2

  • Seedling

  • Cup of Sky

  • Prelude to a Million Years

  • Taro Men

  • Song Without Words

  • Net

  • Song Without Words

  • Clouded Over

  • Evening Walk

  • Alec Waugh's "Most Women..."

  • Beowulf wrestles with Grendel

  • Prelude to a Million Years

  • Song Without Words

  • Mary Shelly. Frankenstein

  • Day of the Hawk

  • Algoma Sunday

  • Song Without Words

  • Prelude to a Million Years

  • Alec Waugh's "Hot Countries"

  • God's Man

  • Prelude to a Million Years

  • Illustration for Alan Ginsberg's Moloch at Letterpress Habit

Membership

Member National Academy of Design, Society American Graphic Artist (president 1953-1959).

Connections

Married May Yonge McNeer, June 11, 1926. Children: Nanda Weedon Ward Haynes, Robin Kendall Ward Savage.

Father:

Harry Frederick Ward

Mother:

Daisy (Kendall) Ward

Spouse:

May Yonge McNeer

child:

Nanda Weedon Ward Haynes Ward

child:

Robin Kendall Ward Savage Ward