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William Andrew ("Willy") Pogany (born Vilmos Andreas Pogány) (August 1882 – 30 July 1955) was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. His contemporaries include C. Coles Phillips, Joseph Clement Coll, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Walter Everett, Harry Rountree, Sarah Stilwell Weber, and N.C. Wyeth.[1] He is best known for his pen and ink drawings of myths and fables.[2] A large portion of Pogany's work is described as Art Nouveau.[2] Pogany's artistic style is heavily fairy-tale orientated and often feature motifs of mythical animals such as nymphs and pixies.[2] He paid great attention to botanical details.[2] He used dreamy and warm pastel scenes with watercolors, oil paintings, and especially pen and ink.[2] Painstakingly detailed and confident, Pogany's pen and ink pieces portray the true extant of his talent.[2]
Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Career
3 Lawsuit
4 Personal life
5 Works
6 References
7 External links
Background[edit]

Pogany was born in Szeged, Austria-Hungary. He studied at Budapest Technical University and in Munich and Paris.[3] He spent his early childhood with his brothers and sisters in a large farmhouse full of chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, pigs, and horses.[4]
When he was six, his parents took him to the Budapest where he would later be sent to school there.[4] He had early ambitions on becoming an engineer in the hopes of looking after his mother after his father died.[4] He especially liked to play soccer, football, and row. In his spare time, he drew pictures and painted.[4] He enjoyed painting and drawing so much he decided to be an artist.[4] He attended Budapest Technical School for less than a year, during this time he took art classes for six weeks.[5]He sold his first painting to a wealthy patron for $24.[5] He spent his early twenties attending art school and would later travel to Munich, Paris, and London before coming to the United States in 1914.[2]
When Pogany went to Paris to study and paint, nobody took too much attention to him nor bought any of his pictures.[4] He was very poor and often starved.[4]
When he finally saved up some money from his works, he left Paris to go to London. Pogany spent two years in Paris and ten years in London.[6] In 1906, Rackham's Rip Van Winkle gained massive popularity that brought forward a demand for artists in London.[1] With The Welsh Fairy Book by T. Fisher Unwin, Pogany illustrated over 100 plates, illustrations, vignettes, chapter heads and tails, and initials.[1] Milly and Olly had 48.[1] The Adventures of a Dodo had 70.[1] Faust had 30 color plates.[1]
Besides illustrating books, pictures, mural paintings, portraits, etchings, and sculptures when he came to America, Pogany became interested in theatre and designed stage settings and costumes for different shows and the Metropolitan Opera House.[4] Although reluctant at first, he moved to Hollywood to serve as an art director for several film studios during the 1930s to the 1940s.[7]
Career[edit]



Frontispiece art by Willy Pogány to the book The Wishing-Ring Man by Margaret Widdemer published by Henry Holt and Company, 1917
In London, he crafted his quartet of masterpieces: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1910), Tannhauser (1911), Parsifal (1912) and Lohengrin (1913).[6] Each of these were designed completely by Pogany, from the covers and endpapers to the test written in pen and ink, pencil, wash, color and tipped-on plates.[6]
His masterpiece is largely recognized as The Ancient Mariner, a large 9.5" by 11.75".[6] Each page has at least two colors, sometimes wilt gilt plate accompanied by intricate borders.[6] The initials are greatly elaborated starting at each page with ornate capitals at the beginning of every line.[6] The illuminated title page, 18 tipped-in color plates, the second color through white and black plates, the flow like calligraphic text, and the pen and ink drawings throughout the pages make this stand out amongst Pogany's works.[6]
The Rime is accentuated by its soft ivory paper and subtle lavender borders. The three gray stocks on Wagner's book add depth towards his presentation.[6] In Lohengrin, Pogany set his soft color pencil drawings against the grays.[6] In Tannhauser, Pogany used paper color for further additional dimension.[6] From soft pastel pencil drawings to watercolor paintings and pen and ink, Pogany utilized a variety of media in his illustrations.[6]
He also worked as an art director on several Hollywood films, including Fashions of 1934 and Dames. Pogany began his involvement in motion picture set decorations in 1924 until the end of the 1930s.[5] He would be commissioned by John Ringlin, Ettenger, Reiner and WIlliam Randolph Hears's Wyntoon Estate.[5] He painted for the Barrymore Family, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Carole Lombard, Enrico Causo, Miriam Hopkins, and many others.[5]
He has been awarded gold medals in Budapest, Leipzig Expo, the London Masonic Medal, and would become a Fellow in the London Royal Society of Art.[5]The New York Society of Architects gave him a silver medal for a mural depicting Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and Jack in the Bean Stalk inside the August Heckscher's Children's Theartre.[5] He won a gold medal in 1915 at the Panama Pacific Expo for his work The ValCares.[5] He won the Hungarian Silver Blue Medal.[5]
In 1914, Pogany's illustrations appeared on the cover of Metropolitan Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Harper's Weekly, Hearst's Town and Country, Theatre Magazine and American Weekly.[5] In 1917 to 1921, he worked for the Metropolitan Opera designing sketches, scenery and costumes.[5]In 1918 he illustrated a children's retelling of Homer, The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy written by Padraic Colum.
In 1918 he illustrated a children's retelling of Homer, The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy written by Padraic Colum.
Lawsuit[edit]

In his 1952 autobiography Witness, Whittaker Chambers described "Willi Pogany" ("long a scene designer at the Metropolitan Opera House") as the brother of Joseph Pogany.[8]
Willy Pogany sued Chambers for $1 million but lost in court[9] and appeals.[10] According to Time magazine, "A lower court had found that Chambers, in his mistaken identification, had not maliciously implied that Willy was closely associated with 'a Communist leader and spy'," who had been "once (until Stalin liquidated him) Communist Hungary's puppet Commissar of War."[10]
Personal life[edit]

On 1908 in London, Pogany married Lillian Rose Doris. He had two sons with her: Peter and John Pogany.[7] They would move to New York City in 1914.[11] He would naturalized in 1921.[7] In 1933, he had a divorce with Lillian Rose Doris.[7] The following year, he married writer Elaine Cox. He died in New York City on July 30, 1955.[7]
Asked how to say his name, he told the Literary Digest that in America it was po-GAH-ny. "However, in my native Hungary this name is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable with a slightly shorter o and the gany is as the French -gagne (the y is silent)": PO-gahn.[12]
Works[edit]



"The Young Witch", Pogany illustration for a 1908 edition of Faust
Pogany's public art appears on walls of the Ringling Mansion in Sarasota, Florida, and in New York City at the El Museo del Barrio theater (1230 Fifth Avenue) and the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (45th Street).
Pogany published or illustrated the following:
Kunos, I. Turkish Fairy Tales Burt 1901
Farrow, G. E. The Adventures of a Dodo Unwin 1907
Thomas, W. J. The Welsh Fairy Book Unwin 1907
Ward, M. A. Milly and Olly Unwin 1907
Edgar, M. G. A Treasury of Verse for Little Children Harrap 1908
Goethe, J. W. von Faust Hutchinson 1908
Dasent, G. W. Norse Wonder Tales Collins 1909
Hawthorne, N. Tanglewood Tales Unwin 1909
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Harrap 1909
Coleridge, S. T. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Harrap 1910
Gask, L. Folk Tales from Many Lands Harrap 1910
Young, G. The Witch s Kitchen Harrap 1910
Wagner, R. Tannhauser Harrap 1911
Gask, L. The Fairies and the Christmas Child Harrap 1912
Wagner, H. Parsifal Harrap 1912
Heine, H. Alta Troll Sidgwick 1913
Kunos, I. Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales Harrap 1913
Pogany, W. The Hungarian Fairy Book Unwin 1913
Wagner, R. The Tale of Lohengrin Harrap 1913
Pogany, W. Children Harrap 1914
A Series of Books for Children Harrap 1915
More Tales from the Arabian Nights Holt 1915
Swift, J. Gulliver s Travels Macmillan 1917
Bryant, S. C. Stories to Tell the Little Ones Harrap 1918
Colum, P. Adventures of Odysseus Macmillan 1918
Olcutt, F. J. Tales of the Persian Genii Harrap 1919
Skinner, E. L. Children s Plays Appleton 1919
Colum, P. The King of Ireland s Son Harrap 1920
The Red Riddinghood - A Panorama Book Holt 1920
The Children of Odin Harrap 1922
The Adventures of Haroun El Raschid Holt 1923
Newman, I. Fairy Flowers Milford 1926
Flanders, H. H. Looking Out of Jimmie Dent 1928
Carroll, L. Alice s Adventures in Wonderland Dutton 1929
Pogany, W. Mother Goose Nelson 1929
Anthony, J. Casanova Jones Century 1930
Pogany, W. Magyar Fairy Tales Dutton 1930
Burton, R. F. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi McKay 1931
Huffard, G. T. My Poetry Book Winston 1934
Pushkin, A. The Golden Cockerel Nelson 1938
Paula Pogany Bennett, The Art Of Hungarian Cooking 1954


"'How now?' cried a reassuring voice", Pogany illustration for "The Little White Feather", a fairy tale by Lilian Gask
He illustrated more than 150 volumes, including:
The Adventures of Odysseus
The Tale of Troy
The Children of Odin
The Golden Fleece
The King of Ireland's Son
Gulliver's Travels
Bible Stories to Read and Tell
Little Tailor of the Winding Way
Tisza Tales
The Treasure of Verse for Little Children
Magyar Fairy Tales
Drawing Lessons
The Art of Drawing
Story of Hiawatha (c.1914)
(Source: Animation Archives)
Pogany authored three art instruction books: Willy Pogany's Drawing Lessons, Willy Pogany's Oil Painting Lessons, and Willy Pogany's Water Color Lessons, Including Gouache. He would complete these at the end of his final years in New York.[5]
References[edit]

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Jump up ^ Guide to the Willy Pogany papers at the University of Oregon[dead link]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h The Junior Book of Authors, Edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft ( New York: H. W. Wilson, 1934) /
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^ Jump up to: a b c d e http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/degrum/public_html/html/research/findaids/DG0785f.html/
Jump up ^ Chambers, Whittaker (1952). Witness. Random House. p. 214. ISBN 0-89526-571-0.
Jump up ^ "Newsmakers". TIME. October 27, 1952.
^ Jump up to: a b "Newsmakers". TIME. February 14, 1955.
Jump up ^ http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/degrum/public_html/html/research/findaids/DG0785f.html/
Jump up ^ Funk, Charles Earle (1936) What's the Name, Please?. New York: Funk & Wagnalls
External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Willy Pogany.
JVJ Publishing – Biography
Willy Pogany Children: Robinson Crusoe – full text and images online
The Fairies and the Christmas Child – full text and images online
Illustrations from The Children of Odin by Padraic Colum, 1920
Folk Tales From Many Lands - full text and images online]
The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy at Project Gutenberg
American Art Archives - Will Pogany

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