Bio

FREDERICK H CARLSON

Illustrator

Fred has been a successful free-lance illustrator for over four decades. His clientele stretches around the globe.

His awards have included two acceptances into the NY Society of Illustrators Annual Exhibition. Recent nationally recognized assignments have included a series for Guitar Workshop of famous blues guitarists including Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, Blind Willie Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Charley Patton. Other internationally recognized clients have included: European Music Festivals, NY Times, SONY Music, BMG/RCA/County, Koppers Corp, Westinghouse, WQED, Saturday Evening Post, Cable in the Classroom, Shanachie Recordings, Yankee, PNC Bank, Home Depot, National Science Foundation, Boy Scouts, AMERICA Magazine, Phillips-Exeter Academy, Dartmouth, the Eddie Taylor Foundation, and Carnegie Mellon.

Fred’s nature illustration is permanently installed at the Smithsonian/National Zoo in Washington DC, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, and Moraine State Park Jennings Education Center. A retrospective exhibition including 85 works of his scientific illustration was shown in 2009 at the Moench Hall Gallery on the campus of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana. Fred exhibited his Bill Monroe American Traveler CD cover for two years at the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY. His CD cover Stop & Listen for the Mississippi Sheiks was recently purchased for permanent display at the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame Museum in Memphis, TN. Fred recently staged a retrospective at CCAC Boyce Campus east of Pittsburgh. Fred was part of the America 250 exhibition “My America: An Illustrated Experience” at the Barensfeld Gallery of the Heinz History Museum in Pittsburgh with 4 works on display including one award winner.

Fred was privileged to illustrate the 32-page book “America and the Holocaust” in 2021. Fred considers this a lifetime highlight. This book has been placed on the WETA/Washington DC National Public TV Educational Resources website to accompany study of the Ken Burns recent documentary of the same name, and the book continues to gain international exposure through features in the Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel and availability in the National Holocaust Museum.