Louis Mendez
Rock Garden Bench
1965
Hand built Stoneware
The Lithograph Information for This and The Following Pieces are as Follows:
John Tenniel, Illustrator
Watercolor Artist Unknown
Alice in Wonderland Illustrations
1961
Enlarged Lithograph on Paper, Colored Separately
Images from The Colorful Alice in Wonderland
Louis Mendez: August 7, 1929 - July 27, 2012
Artist and Educator
Louis Mendez was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan of Puerto Rican, Spanish and Irish heritage. He spent his early years in Spanish Harlem, where his family owned a restaurant at 108th and Madison.
Louis is best known for largely figurative ceramic sculpture inspired by a consistent aesthetic allied to both the ancient origins of cultures and a modernist treatment of forms and surfaces. His work appeals to an engaging sense of myth and an enigmatic playfulness within the context of historic ceramic styles. In his quest to capture the remnant vitality of ancient images and to interpret these forms in a highly personal idiom, he created a body of work at once decorative, evocative, and original.
Biographical extract from Louis Mendez website, Oct 10,2024
Image and biography used with permission.
John Tenniel: February 28, 1820 (London, England)- February 25, 1914 (London, England)
Known for: Illustration, Children's literature, political cartoons
Sir John Tenniel was an English illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. An alumnus of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, he was knighted for artistic achievements in 1893, the first such honour ever bestowed on an illustrator or cartoonist.
Tenniel is remembered mainly as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over 50 years and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). Tenniel's detailed black-and-white drawings remain the definitive depiction of the Alice characters, with comic book illustrator and writer Bryan Talbot stating, "Carroll never describes the Mad Hatter: our image of him is pure Tenniel."
Biographical extract from Wikipedia, Oct 10,2024