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James McMullan

Biography

James McMullan

James McMullan is an internationally acclaimed artist who has done more than fifty posters for Lincoln Center Theater; Anything Goes, Carousel, Ah! Wilderness, A Delicate Balance, South Pacific among them. He has also created illustrations for every major American magazine including New York Magazine for which he did the paintings of the Brooklyn disco which became the visual inspiration for the movie Saturday Night Fever.
 
With his wife, Kate, he has created many award-winning children's books including I STINK about a garbage truck and I'M DIRTY about a backhoe loader. In 2010, he illustrated the best-selling Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies.
 
Among his many critical and instructional writings are the recent columns on drawing, Line By Line, for the New York Times online.
 
His work for the theater will be honored in a spring-summer, 2011, exhibit, Turning Realism into Design: The Posters of James McMullan at the Vincent Astor gallery in the New York Library for the Performing Arts. James McMullan, the internationally acclaimed illustrator and poster designer lives and works in New York. 

James McMullan