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Harry Scarey and Ann Tenna (Cyrano the Crow)
In the years 1952-1956 Don worked on a story about a scarecrow named Harry Scarey who fell in love with Ann Tenna. Standing above the roof of a nearby house, she was a TV antenna (there used to be...
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The Art Students League
That is John Sloan, front row second from left (with glasses), and that is Don behind him, second row far left (white shirt and tie). The others I have not yet identified. Does anybody know who they...
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Don the Musician
There are many stories of Don and his trumpet playing. On the back flap of Don’s children’s books is often the phrase: “With the loss of his trumpet on a subway train, Mr. Freeman turned his talents to...
View ArticleDon Arrives in New York
Don arrived in New York in late 1928. In one of the first letters he wrote back to Lydia (they were not married yet) he made his very first sketches of New York and Broadway. This style here is...
View ArticleDon and his Sketchbooks
Don always had a sketchbook in some pocket that he would automatically take out and start to draw, write, scribble in. Some photographs of Don’s sketchbooks are coming soon… In his semi-autobiography...
View ArticleDon and Al Hirschfeld
This is Al Hirschfeld’s caricature of Don for an exhibiton of Don’s work at the Museum of the City of New York in 1940. Don and Al must have been pretty wild buddies together. Recently, the curator of...
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Don and Beauford Delaney
This is a photograph of Beauford Delaney. On the back of this photograph, Beauford has written to Don and Lydia: “One winter day. Love, Beauford.” For Don’s illustrated biographical sketch of Beauford...
View ArticleDon and Jerome Myers
This image is from Don’s Newsstand Vol 1. No. 2 (April 1944). Don wrote: “Besides the many friends who miss him, I am sure not the least to be counted are the sidewalks of New York. There must be...
View ArticleDon on Broadway
After spending so much time in the standing room section making sketches, Don once got the chance to be on the Broadway stage himself! William Saroyan and Don were good friends. Saroyan wrote in a...
View ArticleDon and Children(‘s books)
Don published over 20 books for children in his lifetime and illustrated many others. Most of these were published by The Viking Press (now a division of Penguin USA). (A PDF of a list of all his books...
View ArticleCome One, Come All
Come One, Come All 280 pages, Originally published by Rinehart & Co., Inc New York, 1948. Click on the image to the left or on the “next” button (up and to the right) to browse through some pages...
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Goodwin the Goat
Goodwin the Goat, hitherto never published as a stand-alone book, is now out, published by Racehorse for Young Readers (skyhorse publishing). Look for it at your favorite bookstore! It can be ordered...
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Corduroy’s Guest Page
Here are individual contributions by people of all ages who have written me about Don’s books and given me explicit permission to post their contributions. The first is from Carmelo and his mom: “I...
View ArticleMCNY show in 2018!
The Museum of the City of New York will be hosting a major exhibit of Don’s New York graphic works: oil paintings, sketches, Newsstands, children’s books, and more. The show will include some works by...
View ArticleGoodwin the goat
“Goodwin (the multicolored Goat)” (Gayelord was the goat’s original name) was never published during Don’s lifetime. It is a story about a goat who ate the colors of an artist working in the fields,...
View ArticleAudio Downloads
Our partners and friends, Alan and Sharon Scofield have also refurbished their website click here to download Alan’s great readings of Don Freeman stories!
View ArticleNew iPad App: Chalk Box
Don’s The Chalk Box Story is now available as an educational interactive app for iPad, made by Auryn Inc. If you would like to give it a try, please visit the App Store to download it, it’s great fun...
View ArticleAbout Don – some biography
Don was born in San Diego, California, in 1908 and grew up in Chula Visa. He writes about his childhood in his humorous autobiographical novel Come One, Come All! in which he tells his own story of how...
View ArticleThe all new DonFreeman.info
The new DonFreeman.info site is online! The old DonFreeman.info site stopped working a while ago and while the content was still accessible it no longer worked, graphically as well as technically....
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