Ted was awarded a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago during his grade school years, but instead of working toward academic success, he abandoned his formal education, added a few years to his age and trained as an aviation cadet with the Army Air Corp near the end of WWII.
By the time the Army discovered he was underage, they had recognized Ted’s artistic skills and suggested he return to the service as a civilian artist. He did so after realizing his fascination with flight wasn’t powerful enough to suppress his need to draw and paint. After transferring to San Francisco, he accepted his first freelance commission, and before long he moved to New York where he soon established himself as one of this country’s preeminent illustrators of books, magazines and movie posters.
Ted’s paintings have appeared in every major magazine from Cosmopolitan and Playboy to Ladies’s Home Journal and Good Housekeeping. He was commissioned to create paintings for movie posters such as “Dorian Gray” and “Fiddler on the Roof” among others. His art has graced the covers of countless books, including those of Vladimir Nabokov and Jerzy Kosinksi, each of whom acquired a painting for his personal collection. James Michener chose Ted to illustrate his novels for Reader’s Digest Condensed Book and Betsy Byars selected Ted’s art for her Newberry Award winning children’s book Summer of the Swans.
Almost 30 years ago Ted decided to concentrate on his own work while living in Paris and the Greek Islands. The figurative paintings born of this effort have been widely exhibited at galleries, museums and other institutions of fine art. His own paintings as well as his portrait and illustrative commissions have received numerous awards from major art organizations and associations of art directors and designers.
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"Jardin du Luxembourg"
40" x 30"
Oil on Canvas
"Petit Dejeuner"
40" x 26"
Oil on Canvas
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