The Art of Alice & Martin Provensen
by Alice and Martin Provensen with contributions by Leonard S. Marcus, Robert Gottlieb, and Karen Provensen Mitchell
Chronicle Chroma    240 pp.    g
1/22    978-1-7972-0958-6    $35.00

Marcus provides an enlightening introduction to a lavish collection of illustrations from the long and distinguished career of Alice and Martin Provensen. Pictures from twenty-four of their books (including those Alice Provensen created independently after her husband’s death) are arranged chronologically, with several illustrations representing each title. Notably amid the copious front matter, an extended interview with the Provensens’ daughter, Karen Provensen Mitchell, offers an intimate look into the artists’ home-life working methods. Also not to be missed are the five pages reproducing twenty gorgeous spreads from their sketchbooks. A glorious flight indeed.

From the January/February 2022 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.