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Crockett Johnson (David Johnson Leisk) was born on 20 October, 1906 in New York City, United States, is an American cartoonist and children's book illustrator (1906-1975). Discover Crockett Johnson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

Popular As David Johnson Leisk
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Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 20 October 1906
Birthday 20 October
Birthplace New York City, United States
Date of death 11 July, 1975
Died Place N/A
Nationality United States

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1906

Crockett Johnson (October 20, 1906 – July 11, 1975) was the pen name of the American cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk.

1920

By the late 1920s, Johnson was art editor at several McGraw-Hill trade publications.

With the Great Depression, Johnson became politicized and turned leftward, joining the radical Book and Magazine Writers Union.

1924

He studied art at Cooper Union in 1924, and at New York University in 1925.

He explained his choice of pseudonym as follows: "Crockett is my childhood nickname. My real name is David Johnson Leisk. Leisk was too hard to pronounce -- so -- I am now Crockett Johnson!"

1934

In 1934, he began his cartooning career by contributing to the Communist Party publication New Masses and subsequently joined the publication's staff, becoming its art editor and redesigning the magazine's layout.

1940

He remained with the magazine until 1940 and embarked on a career drawing comic strips in a series in Collier's magazine named "The Little Man with the Eyes".

1942

He is best known for the comic strip Barnaby (1942–1952) and the Harold series of books, beginning with Harold and the Purple Crayon.

In 1942, he developed the Barnaby strip which would make him famous for the left-wing daily newspaper PM.

1943

In 1943 Johnson married writer Ruth Krauss.

They had no children together, nor did they have children with their first spouses.

They lived in Westport, Connecticut.

Together they collaborated on several children's books.

1946

A 1946 play, "Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley", was based on the comic strip.

Despite initial funding of $85,000 (approximately $1.28M in 2023), it ran for four performances before it "closed for repairs", never to return.

All by Philip Nel

1955

The children's book Harold and the Purple Crayon was published in 1955.

1965

From 1965 until his death Johnson created over a hundred paintings relating to mathematics and mathematical physics.

Eighty of these are found in the collections of the National Museum of American History.

Born in New York City, Johnson grew up in Corona, Queens, New York, attended PS 16 and Newtown High School.

His father was from the Shetland Islands in Scotland and his mother was an immigrant from Germany.

From 1965 until his death in 1975 Crockett Johnson painted over 100 works relating to mathematics and mathematical physics.

1971

In his 1971 article titled "Geometric Geometric Painting", published in Leonardo, Johnson describes this type of geometric painting as using shapes and lines to experiment with color and optic illusion for decoration, the evocation of emotion, representation of ancient symbols or other purposes unrelated to geometry.

1975

He died on July 11, 1975 at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut of lung cancer.

Johnson collaborated on four children's books with his wife, Ruth Krauss.

The books were: The Carrot Seed, How to Make an Earthquake, Is This You?, and The Happy Egg.

The books Harold and the Purple Crayon, Harold's Fairy Tale, and A Picture for Harold's Room have been adapted for animation by Gene Deitch.

Johnson created his series of more than 100 mathematical paintings inspired by geometric principles and mathematicians.

He painted layered geometric shapes in the paintings, based on classic mathematical theorems and diagrams in James R. Newman's The World of Mathematics as well as other mathematics books.

The paintings were inspired by famous mathematicians such as Galileo, Euclid, Descartes, and many more, and the titles of said paintings are references to each mathematician--"Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem" for Euclid, "Pendulum Momentum" for Galileo, and "Square Root of Two" after Descartes.

Later, he began to construct using his own inventions.

Most of Johnson's abstract images are painted with house paint on the rough side of a two-by-three foot piece of masonite, save those he enlarged to four-by-four, he explained in a letter.

Johnson made an effort to differentiate his paintings from contemporary art in that his are based on the mathematics of geometry, not solely the shapes.

1985

The Barnaby #1 to #6 books, published in paperback by Ballantine Books under the Del Rey imprint in 1985, were compilations of the first few years of the comic strip.

Additional books were supposed to appear, but publication was suspended upon the death of Judy Lynn Del Rey.

2013

In 2013, Fantagraphics began republishing Barnaby.

2019

The five-volume collection, featuring all ten years of Barnaby, is expected to be complete in 2019.