Thomas Woodruff

FREAK PARADE Hummingbird, 2006

Gouache and pastel pencil

9 ¾ x 13 ¼” (image)

19 ¾ x 15 ¾” (frame)

And book: "Thomas Woodruff's FREAK PARADE" (signed, hardcover, limited edition book)

Thomas Woodruff was born in 1957 in New Rochelle, New York, into an Irish-American Roman Catholic family of six children. He earned his B.F.A. from Cooper Union in 1979. He currently serves as the chair of the Illustration and Cartooning Department in the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He received the Willard Cummings Memorial Prize, from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His works have been featured in numerous publications including Esquire, Rolling Stone, American Illustration, European Illustration, New Drawing in America, Tattootime, The Village Voice, Interview, Psychology Today, The New Yorker, Juxtapoz, and Harper’s Magazine. Woodruff also has created book jackets for various authors, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Anne Tyler. He has exhibited his artwork extensively in the United States as well as internationally, including Australia and the Netherlands.