Ruben Toledo

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Ruben Toledo
Born1961 (age 6162)
NationalityCuban-American
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(m. 1984;died 2019)

Ruben Toledo (born 1961, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist based in New York City. [1]

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Personal life

Toledo and his wife Isabel met in high school in West New York, New Jersey. [2]

Books

In 1997, Toledo authored Style Dictionary, a collection of drawings and watercolors. He completed his first film, Fashionation, an animated history of French fashion, based on a book of the same name. [1] Toledo illustrated special edition book jackets for Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions of Jane Eyre , Dracula , The Scarlet Letter , Wuthering Heights , The Picture of Dorian Gray and Pride and Prejudice . [1]

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Exhibitions

Ruben Toledo's collaboration with his fashion designer wife, Isabel Toledo, was the subject of both a book and a museum exhibition titled Toledo/Toledo: A Marriage of Art and Fashion at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. [3]

Awards

Ruben and Isabel Toledo were the recipient of the 2005 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for their work in fashion. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Steidl: Ruben Toledo" . Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  2. Grinberg, Emanuella; Weinberger, Hannah (July 6, 2012). "Partners by design: Isabel and Ruben Toledo" . Retrieved October 19, 2012.
  3. "Exhibition: Toledo/Toledo: A marriage of Art and Fashion". Contemporary Fashion Archive. Archived from the original on July 15, 2010. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  4. "Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Announces Winners of the Sixth Annual National Design Awards". Archived from the original on June 14, 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2012.