Barlowe Dorothea - Illustrating Nature

The authors are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce some of their earlier illustrations in this book:

American Museum of Natural History : An illustration by Sy Barlowe from Novitiates , July 17, 1947, issue no. 1350. (Page 109)

Chanticleer Press , Inc.: Adaptations of illustrations by Sy and Dorothea Barlowe from The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians . Copyright 1979 by Chanticleer Press, Inc., under the International Copyright Convention (Berne). (Page 79)

The Cousteau Group, Inc .: Two illustrations by Dorothea Barlowe from The Art of Motion , The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau series, volume 5. Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Copyright 1973 by Jacques-Yves Cousteau. (Pages 4849; color plates 6 and 9)

Follett Publishing Company : An illustration adapted from Oceans by Sy Barlowe. Copyright 1969 by Follett Publishing Company. (Pages 86 and 92 bottom)

Grolier, Inc. : Illustration by Dorothea Barlowe from Encyclopedia Americana. All rights reserved. (Page 84)

Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., and Andr Deutsch Ltd: Five illustrations from Through the Fishs Eye by Mark Sosin and John Clark, drawings by Dorothea Barlowe. Copyright 1973 by Mark Sosin and John Clark. (Pages 51, 52 top left, and 54 bottom)

Hendrickson Publishing Company : An illustration from A Guide to Long Island Fishing by Sy Barlowe. Copyright 1979 by Hendrickson Publishing Company, Inc. (Page 49 top right)

Holt, Rinehart and Winston Publishers : From The Outermost House by Henry Beston. Copyright 1928, 1949, 1956 by Henry Beston. Copyright 1977 by Elizabeth C. Beston. (Epigraph, page 2)

Los Angeles County Museum of History and Science : Adaptations of illustrations from Rancho La Brea by Chester Stock, sixth edition, Science Series 20, 1972. Courtesy of Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. (Page 93 top)

Macmillan Educational Company, A Division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc .: Illustrations by Dorothea and Sy Barlowe from Merit Students Encyclopedia , 1967 by Crowell-Collier Educational Corporation. (Pages 96 and 99 right; color plates 16, 18, and 19)

McGraw-Hill Book Company : Illustrations by Dorothea and Sy Barlowe from Animals: The Strange and Exciting Stories of Their Lives by Bertel Bruun. Illustrations copyright 1970 by Sy and Dorothea Barlowe. (Pages 20, 38 top, 42, 44, 50 top, 58 top, 62, 63, 64 top, 67, 72, 73, 75 bottom, 76, 80 top, 82 top, 83, and 106; color plates 23, 24, and 25)

William Morrow & Company : Illustrations from The Minnow Family by Laurence Pringle. Illustrations copyright 1976 by Dot Barlowe and Sy Barlowe. (Pages 53 bottom right and 54 top right)

Newsday : Illustrations of Dot and Sy Barlowe from Newsday, the Long Island Newspaper, issue dates 3/16/75, 8/17/75, 5/8/77, and 5/13/79. (Pages 38 bottom left, 5859, 98 top, and 100101 bottom; color plates 4, 7, 10, 11, 20, and 27)

The New York Times : Illustrations by Sy Barlowe from the Long Island Weekly section of The New York Times , issue dates 7/1/79, 10/28/79, 12/23/79, and 10/12/80. (Pages 37 bottom, 38 bottom right, 47 top, and 64 bottom)

Random House, Inc .: Four illustrations from Who Lives Here? by Dorothea and Sy Barlowe. Copyright 1978 by Dorothea and Sy Barlowe. (Pages 1819, 33, and 81 top and middle; color plate 5)

Time-Life Books Inc .: An illustration by Dorothea and Sy Barlowe from the Reptiles & Amphibians , Wild, Wild World of Animals series, courtesy Time-Life Films. (Page 78)

Vineyard Books, Inc .: An illustration by Dorothea and Sy Barlowe from The Total Book of House Plants , copyright 1975 by Vineyard Books, Inc. (Page 98 bottom)

Western Publishing Company, Inc.: Illustrations from What Is an Insect , illustrated by Dorothea Barlowe. Copyright 1976 by Western Publishing Company, Inc. (Page 70 bottom) Illustrations from Amphibians of North America , illustrated by Sy Barlowe. Copyright 1978 by Western Publishing Company, Inc. (Pages 74, 75 top, 80 middle and bottom, and 81 bottom; color plate 26) Illustrations from What Is a Flower , illustrated by Dorothea Barlowe. Copyright 1975 by Western Publishing Company, Inc. (Page 103; color plates 17 and 21) Illustrations from Seashores , illustrated by Dorothea and Sy Barlowe. Copyright 1955 by Western Publishing Company, Inc. (Pages 50 bottom and 59 top left and right; color plate 8)

DOROTHEA and SY BARLOWE are successful free-lance artists whose work has appeared in dozens of books, magazines, newspapers, and scientific journals. They began their careers in the 1940s at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where Dorothea was a staff illustrator and Sy worked in the Preparations department.

The Barlowes were married in 1946 and started free-lancing in 1950. They have continued to do so ever since. Their work has won several book awards and has been exhibited at the Society of Illustrators in New York and at Expo 67 in Montreal, as well as in galleries on Long Island. Both teach courses on how to illustrate nature and botany at the Parsons School of Design.

For the Golden Press, the Barlowes have illustrated fifteen books, including a number of nature identification guides, such as Seashores, Trees of North America, and Amphibians of North America . They have done nature features for The New York Times and Newsday , and have illustrated nature books for Knopf, Random House, Morrow, Follett, American Heritage Press, Putnam, Harper & Row, McGraw-Hill, and Grosset and Dunlap. In addition to the books they have illustrated, the Barlowes have contributed illustrations to several Audubon Society field guides and to The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds, Encyclopedia Americana , Websters New World Dictionary, and other reference books.

Massapequa, Long Island, is where the Barlowes have made their home for the past 44 years. There they maintain a studio, where they work together surrounded by books and also enjoy listening to classical music, attending to the whims of three domineering cats, and keeping up with the artistic careers of their two childrenAmy is a concert violinist and assistant professor of violin at Willamette University in Oregon, and Wayne is an award-winning illustrator of science-fiction books.