Atha Tehon Thiras (January 20, 1926 – February 15, 2012),
[Emily Kulkus. (2012]
''The Post-Standard''. professionally credited as Atha Tehon, was the daughter and second child of Dr. Leo Roy Tehon and Mrs. Leo Tehon, of
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockf ...
.
Tehon was a student at the
Jerry Farnsworth School in
North Truro in the summers of 1947 and 1948, and graduated with an MFA from the
University of Pennsylvania School of Design
The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design is the design school of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. It offers degrees in architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, historic preservation ...
in 1949.
Work
Tehon served as the
art director at
Dial Books for Young Readers
The Dial Press was a publishing house founded in 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh.
The Dial Press shared a building with ''The Dial'' and Scofield Thayer worked with both. The first imprint was issued in 1924.
Authors included Elizabeth Bowen, W. R. Bu ...
for 32 years,
[Britton, Jason. (2002)]
A New Day For Design: Five art directors discuss the evolving field of children's book design
''Publishers' Weekly, 249''(43) Retrieved from Academic OneFile Web. 2 Feb. 2012. retiring in 2001. A number of the books she worked on received
Caldecott medals and honors including: ''
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears'', ''
Ashanti to Zulu'', ''Moja Means One'', and ''
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book''. She also worked as a freelance designer for
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer ...
.
[Obituary: Atha Tehon]
" ''Publishers Weekly'' website (2012). Retrieved from web 13 June 2012.
References
External links
AIGA Design Archives: Atha Tehon credits'Caldecott Winners' on WorldCat.org
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1926 births
2012 deaths
AIGA medalists
American graphic designers
American women artists
American typographers and type designers
University of Pennsylvania School of Design alumni
21st-century American women
American women graphic designers