About Steve

One winter day, Steve and his father were walking in the snow. Steve commented on the pink, blue, and orange colors in the snow. His father said, "I see only white.” "Can't you see the colors?" Steve asked. Even a walk in the snow can open magical doors to an artist. He sees a rainbow where we ordinary folks see only white.


Steve was born in 1958 in Highland Park, Illinois. Even in grammar school, he couldn't be without a sketch pad and pen. At age 12, Steve painted a portrait of Henry VIII on his bedroom wall (pictured above). Eventually the walls and ceiling of his room were so covered with paintings that we had to refinish his ceiling before it fell down.


When Steve was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), his illustration professor wrote to him, "Sometimes I wonder why I teach. You are the reason that I teach.”


Following are highlights of Steve’s career:


Illustrator (freelance and full-time positions, 1981 to 1993)

  1. ✦American Medical Association

  2. ✦Arthur Young Company

  3. ✦Borg Warner

  4. ✦Boston Globe

  5. ✦Capital Times

  6. ✦Chicago Tribune

  7. ✦Cincinnati Bee

  8. ✦Cleveland Plain Dealer

  9. ✦Common Cause magazine

  10. ✦Dagbladet (Oslo)

  11. ✦The Deutsche Press Agantur (Hamburg - syndicated throughout India, Japan, Latin America and Southern Europe)

  12. ✦Dossier magazine

  13. ✦Expression (Stockholm)

  14. ✦Helsingen Sonomat (Helsinki)

  15. ✦International Herald Tribune

  16. ✦Library of Congress

  17. ✦Los Angeles Times

  18. ✦Manchester Guardian

  19. ✦The Nation

  20. ✦The Oregonian (Portland)

  21. ✦Politiken (Copenhagen)

  22. ✦Sunday Telegraph “Man of the Week” (London)

  23. ✦University of Illinois Press

  24. ✦The Washington Post

  25. ✦World Press Review

  26. ✦World Watch magazine

Book Illustrator (1984 to 1989)

  1. ✦While Reagan Slept (1983), Art Buchwald

  2. ✦You can Fool all the People all the Time (1985), Art Buchwald

  3. ✦I think I Don’t Remember (1987), Art Buchwald

  4. ✦Whose Rose Garden is this Anyway? (1989), Art Buchwald

Book Author and Illustrator (1991 to 1993)

  1. ✦Stupid Emilien (1991), Stewart, Tabori and Chang, New York

  2. ✦The Emperor’s New Clothes (1992), Stewart, Tabori and Chang, New York

  3. ✦The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1993), Dial Books, New York

Honors

  1. ✦Numerous awards from the Society of Illustrators in Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC

  2. ✦Listed in “Who’s Who” of European Caricaturists

  3. ✦Steve’s drawing of Charles Darwin hangs at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC

(Biographical information excerpted from program for “Song of Amergin” exhibit, Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, College of Lake County, August 17 through September 30, 2001)