Walter Wick

Walter Wick

Wick at the Mazza Museum in 2013
Born Walter Wick
February 23, 1953
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation Artist, photographer, writer

Walter Wick (born February 23, 1953) is an American artist and photographer best known for the elaborate images in two series of picture book activities for young children, I Spy (1992 to 1999) and Can You See What I See? (from 2002), both published by Scholastic.

Wick was born in Hartford, Connecticut and attended the Paier College of Art. After school he embarked on a career as a commercial photographer and eventually shifted to photo-illustration for books and magazines. He contributed to Scholastic's Let's Find Out and Super Science series and photographed hundreds of mass-market magazine covers. He also created photographic puzzles for Games magazine.

In 1991 Wick began a collaboration with writer Jean Marzollo on the enormously successful I Spy search-and-find picture books. Eight original titles were produced and millions of copies sold.

Wick has received the Boston Globe-Horn Book first prize for non-fiction and had his book Walter Wick's Optical Tricks named one of the year's "best illustrated books" by The New York Times. In 2003 Wick and his wife purchased an abandoned 1920 firehouse from the city of Hartford and renovated the building to become a new studio for his artwork.[1] In 2009 Wick had a collection of his work, Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos, and Toys in the Attic, exhibited at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art.[2]

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  1. ↑ Span, Paula (2004-12-16). "Toys in the Attic, and Everywhere Else". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ↑ Haddock, Sharon (2009-04-19). "Walter Wick exhibit not for anyone in a hurry". Deseret News. Retrieved 2009-04-30.

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