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Antonio Frasconi (1919-)
Antonio Frasconi was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Italian parents who had immigrated to South America during World War I. His family soon moved to Montevideo, Uruguay, where Frasconi was apprenticed to a printer at age twelve. He began to publish cartoons and drawings in satirical newspapers while still a teenager and experimented with woodcuts in the early 1940s. He moved to the United States in 1945 to study at the Art Students League and the New School for Social Research in New York City. He illustrated and designed over 100 books, including Langston Hughes’s Let America Be America Again, Pablo Neruda’s Bestiary/Bestiario, A Whitman Portrait and his magnum opus on the trials and tribulations of Uruguay under dictatorship, Los Desaparecidos (The Disappeared). Two of his renowned works are the illustrations for I.B. Singer’s Elijah the Slave (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1970) and Yentl the Yeshiva Boy (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1983).
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