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| Born | 5 June 1952 |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Phil Delano |
| Website | www |
Mary Engelbreit (born June 5, 1952) [1] is an artist whose illustrations have been printed in books, cards and calendars. [2]
Mary Engelbreit | |
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| Born | 5 June 1952 |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Phil Delano |
| Website | www |
Mary Engelbreit (born June 5, 1952) [1] is an artist whose illustrations have been printed in books, cards and calendars. [2]
She was born and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. [3]
Engelbreit attributes her beginnings in art to getting eyeglasses in second grade and being able to see details of the world around her clearly for the first time. [4] : 6 After meeting her first artist, at age 9, she became convinced she needed her own studio space, which her mother helped set up in the family linen closet. [4] : 8–9
Engelbreit began working for a local advertising company, Hot Buttered Graphics. [4] : 7 Hoping to work as an illustrator of children's books, she shopped her portfolio around New York without success. She began working on greeting cards and her first nationally distributed greeting card featured a malapropism that played off an old saying, "Life is just a bowl of cherries", showing a girl looking at a chair piled high with bowls, with the legend: "Life is just a chair of bowlies." [4] : 7–8
Her company, Mary Engelbreit Co., was founded in 1982. [3] It was located in Webster Groves, Missouri and then was moved to a former Greek Orthodox church in University City, Missouri in 1994. [5] As of 1996, her company reported $86 million in sales per year. Mary Engelbreit stores were located in St. Louis; Schaumburg, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; and Alpharetta, Georgia. [3]
As her card line grew in size and popularity, it drew attention from other companies who licensed her artwork on products including calendars, T-shirts, mugs, gift books, rubber stamps, ceramic figurines, and fabric. [3] She launched a line of "Engeldark" greeting cards in 2016 that feature snarky humor. [6]
Engelbreit was editor-in-chief of a bi-monthly creative lifestyle magazine, Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion, starting in 1996. [7] [3]
Mary Engelbreit's A Merry Little Christmas received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews . [8] Two of her books, Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose and A Night of Great Joy, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly . [9] She has had two New York Times children's bestsellers, including an edition of The Night Before Christmas that reached #5 on the New York Times bestseller list [10] [11] and Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose, which debuted at #6 and was on the bestseller list for four weeks. [12] [13]
She has designed sets for the St. Louis Muny's production of Matilda in 2019. [14]
Engelbreit married Phil Delano, a social worker, in 1977; in 1986, they formed Mary Engelbreit Studios. The couple had two children: Evan, born in 1980; and Will, born in 1983. Evan died in June 2000; his daughter, Mikayla, was adopted by Engelbreit and her husband. [4] : 7, 9 Engelbreit has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. [15]
Engelbreit supports Black Lives Matter. She created art inspired by the mother of Michael Brown. [16] [17] [18] [19]
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