Alan Magee

Art Brokerage: Alan Magee American Artist: b. 1947. Alan Magee, born in 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania, attended art school in Philadelphia and, in 1968, began working as an editorial and book illustrator in New York. Among his regular clients were Time, The Atlantic, Playboy, New York Magazine, The New York Times, and Bantam, Ballantine and Simon and Schuster Books. His illustrations received numerous awards from The Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts magazine, Playboy: The Annual Editorial Award, and the Art Directors Clubs of Los Angeles, Chicago And New York. Magee received a National Book Award in 1982.rnrnMagee has received awards for his painting from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design. Several Television documentaries have been made about his work including the Maine PBS production, Alan Magee, Visions of Darkness and Light, and Maine Masters: Alan Magee, (now in production). Magee has been interviewed on Radio for Voice of America, Monitor (Christian Science Monitor) Radio in NY, WHYY in Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio in San Francisco. A profile of the Artist appears in the March/April 2001 issue (#332) of Graphis. Listings wanted.