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An example of work by Stanley R. Hunter
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Stan Hunter was a fine-art artist and illustrator for over forty years. In his long career, he
won New York Illustrator Show awards and was featured in the
retrospective book on the best illustrators of the twentieth century, The Illustrator in America, A Century of Illustration by Walt and Roger Reed published by Madison Square Press for the Society of Illustrators.
Stan Hunter was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1939. He studied at
the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts where he was greatly influenced
by the teacher, Nicholas Buhalis. Stan Hunter worked first in
Detroit art studios but always with an agent in New York City. In
1973, he moved with his wife, the illustrator Chris Duke, to Millbrook,
New York, to be closer to their New York City market.
Though he loved the work of fellow illustrators, Stan Hunter believed
that a painter should only study the masters; the Metropolitan
Museum was his favorite haunt. He worked in oil on canvas or
prepared paper.
In his years as an illustrator, represented by Frank and Jeff Lavaty,
Stan Hunter illustrated the works of many eminent writers for the
Franklin Library, including Anton Chekov, George Bernard Shaw, Ernest
Hemingway and Walt Whitman. He illustrated many books for the Reader's Digest condensed books series. In the 1970s, he was a featured repertoire artist for Newsweek magazine, covering the Watergate trial. He did much work for TV Guide including the cover painting of Little House on the Prairie.
Stan Hunter always had a special love of jobs for the pharmaceutical
companies and did a memorable series on the drug Haldol. He
occasionally illustrated annual reports. In the 1980s, Stan
Hunter entered the field of architectural painting, depicting interior
spaces for buildings such as Lincoln Center and the Riverside Trump
Building.
During the 1990s, Stan Hunter became interested in drawing and painting
the Millbrook Hunt. After in-depth study of the structure and character
of horses and hounds, he did many drawings and paintings of this
subject. In this work, Stan Hunter was represented by Chatellier
Fine Arts in Millbrook.
Stan Hunter lived in Millbrook, NY from 1973 to the year 2000 when he died.
Written and submitted October 2005 by Chris Gerbi, widow of the artist
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