Thomas Ingmire is an American calligrapher, born in 1942 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 1977 he became the first American elected to England's Society of Scribes and Illuminators with a craft membership status.[1] He is one of the illuminators of the St. John's Bible.
Ingmire received his B.A. in landscape architecture from Ohio State University and his MLA from UCB. He was a 1980 recipient of a Newberry Fellowship. In 1998, he was awarded a commission for public art installation at Mountain View Public Library [2]
Literature
- Wilson, Janet, 1984, "Where Word and Image Meet -Thomas Ingmire," CALLIGRAPHY IDEA EXCHANGE, Vol. 2, No. 3.
- Malone, Helen, 1995, “The Art of Politics: A Discussion of Thomas Ingmire’s The American Way in the context of Jasper John’s Flag,” Letter Arts Review, Vol. 12
- Gullick, Michael, 1989, WORDS OF RISK, THE ART OF THOMAS INGMIRE
References
- ↑ http://www.fresnoartmuseum.org/exhibitions/current/words_for_peace.htm (retrieved 5 March 2008)
- ↑ http://www.thomasingmire.com/biography/biography.html (retrieved 5 March 2008)
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