Artists like Alfred Jensen paid tribute to mathematicians in paintings like Honor Pythagoras – Per I – Per IV (1964).Ĭrockett Johnson was unusual in that he linked geometric constructions and specific mathematicians. Contemporary painters such as Piet Mondrian, Ad Reinhardt, Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, and Richard Anuszkiewicz used geometric forms in their paintings. Crockett Johnson also illustrated and wrote children’s books, most notably Harold and the Purple Crayon.Ĭrockett Johnson was not alone in finding mathematics an inspiration for art. O’Malley, his cigar-smoking “fairy godfather.” Their adventures appeared in a few dozen newspapers and were collected in paperback books. It featured five-year-old Barnaby Baxter, his family, and Mr. CJ, as he signed himself, first became known to the general public through the cartoon strip Barnaby which ran in the 1940s and again in the early 1960s.
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