Higgins Bond | Oil Painting
     

Biography
 

A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Higgins Bond earned a BFA degree from the Memphis College of Art. She has a prestigious group of honors, including a medal of honor from Governor Bill Clinton and exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the DuSable Museum of African-American Art in Chicago, Illinois. She is the illustrator of three stamps

for the United States Postal Service and four stamps for the United Nations Postal Administration. Many of her original images have been published by some of this country's largest collector plate companies. She also has illustrated more than 20 books for both children and adults.

Higgins Bond is a member of the Society of Illustrators.  Her clients include such notable names as: The Bradford Exchange, McGraw-Hill Publishers, The Frankin Mint, NBC Television, Hennessy Cognac, Anheuser-Busch, Frito-Lay, Columbia House, Essence and Black Enterprise magazines.
 

Honors

 
  • Awarded Certificate of Merit, 21st Annual National Exhibition of the Society of Illustrators
  • Awarded 1979 CEBA Award of Merit for work in Black Enterprise Magazine.
  • Featured in the Anheuser-Busch television commercial for "Roots: The Second Generation," advertising the "Great Kings Of Africa" series of paintings, which includes three Higgins Bond paintings.  

  • Presented the "Key to the City" by Mayor William H. Hudnut III of Indianapolis, IN (1981)
  • Received Medal of Honor from the Arkansas Sesquicentennial Committee honoring  distinguished Arkansans in 1986, presented by Governor Bill Clinton.
  • Illustrator of the Jan Matzeliger (1991), W.E.B. DuBois (1992), and Percy L. Julian (1993)  
  • 29-cent commemorative stamps for the United States Postal Service.
  • Book Award of Excellence (1993) for When I Was Little, by Toyomi Ingus, awarded by the Multicultural Exchange.  

  • Parents' Choice Approval Seal (1998) for Sonq of La Selva: A Story of A Costa Rican
  • Rain Forest, by Joan Banks.  

  • Inducted in the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame (1997)
  • Member of the National Society of Illustrators - New York, NY.  

  • Illustrator of four stamps for the United Nations Postal Administration on Endangered Species, issued February 2001.  

  • Guest lecturer at numerous colleges, universities and schools.

 

Books Illustrated

 
  • 1999 Facts About Blacks by Raymond M. Corbin, Beckham House Publishers (1986)
  • When I Was Little, by Toyomi Ingus, Just Us Books (1992)
  • Ancient Rome by Daniel Cohen, Doubleday (1992)
  • Time for Sleep by Claire Chapelle, Macmillan/McGraw Hill (1993)
  • Younq Martin's Promise by Walter Dean Myers, Raintree Steck-Vaughn (1993)
  • Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice by Garnet Nelson Jackson, Modern           Curriculum Press (1994)
  • Susie Kinq Taylor Destined To Be Free by Denise M. Jordon, Just Us Books (1994)
  • Toni Morrison, Author by Garnet Nelson Jackson, Modem Curriculum Press (1995)
  • Handshake in Space by Sheri Tan, Smithsonian Institution and The Trudy Corporation (1998)
  • Song of La Selva: A Story of A Costa Rican Rain Forest by Joan Banks, The Nature   Conservancy and The Trudy Corporation (1998)
  • Do Whales Have Belly Buttons? by Melvin and Gilda Berger, Scholastic Inc. (1998)
  • Why Do Volcanoes Blow Their Tops? by Melvin and Gilda Berqer, Scholastic Inc. (1999)
  • Do Tornadoes Really Twist? by Melvin and Gilda Berger, Scholastic Inc. (2000)
  • Do Penquins Get Frostbite? by Melvin and Gilda Berger, Scholastic Inc. (2000)
  • Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather, Easton Press (2001)
  • Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather, Easton Press (2001)
  • Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather, Easton Press (2001)
  • Hey, Daddy! Animal Fathers and their Babies by Mary Batten, Peachtree Publishers   (2002)
  • Trails Above the Tree Line by Audrey Fraggalosh, Soundprints Division of the Trudy   Corp. (2002)
  • Where Did The Butterfly Get Its Name? by Melvin and Gilda Berger, Scholastic Inc.    (2002)
  • Elgin. American Bible Society (2002)
  • Jesus Prays To His Father, (Book 19 Level 1) Base on Mathew 26. 36-45, Text adapted By Suzette Haden Elgin. American Bible Society (2002)
  • The Seven Seas, Exploring the World Ocean by Linda Viera, Walker & Company,     (2003)
  • Groundhog at Evergreen Road by Susan Korman, The Trudy Corporation and the   Smithsonian Institution (2003)
  • Then I Think of God by Martha Whitmore Hickman, Albert Whitman & Company, ((2003)
  • Who Has A Belly Button? by Mary Batten, Peachtree Publishers, (2004)
  • Pen Pals by Michael Rose Ramirez, Mondo Publishing, (2004)
  • The Christmas Pea Coat by Richard H Schneider, Ideals Children's Books, (2004)
  • I Am Sacaiawea, I Am York, by Claire Rudolf Murphy, Walker & Company, (2004)
  • The Mighty Mississippi, by Linda Vieira, Walker & Company, (2005)
  • A Place For Butterflies by Melissa Stewart, Peachtree Publishers, (2006)
     

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