Gregory Manchess


Gregory Manchess is an American illustrator from Kentucky. His illustrations have appeared in magazines, digital murals, illustrated movie posters, advertising campaigns, and book covers, including sixty covers for Louis L’Amour. His work has appeared on Major League Baseball World Series Programs, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Smithsonian and National Geographic. His style includes broad brush strokes and excellent figure work.
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Career

Gregory Manchess earned a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1977. He spent the next two years as a studio illustrator with Hellman Design Associates which was led by Gary Kelley.
He lectures frequently at universities and colleges nationwide and gives workshops on painting at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He leads an Illustration Master Class in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Manchess' first graphic novel, Above the Timberline, was published by Saga Press in 2017. Original artworks from the book were on display at the Norman Rockwell Museum. He is represented by Richard Solomon.

Work

Book covers

Nightrunners. Joe R. Lansdale, Dean Koontz 1987Ninja Vol III Warrior Path of Togakure by Stephen K. Hayes 1991To Capture The Wind. Sheila MacGill-Callahan. August 1997Nanuk: Lord of the Ice. Brian Heinz. 1999Cover Her Face. Simon & Schuster. P. D. James 2001Stories of Your Life and Others. Tor Books. Ted Chiang 2002Death of an Expert Witness. Simon & Schuster. P. D. James 2001The Alchemist's Door. Macmillan. Lisa Goldstein 2003Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert. Macmillan. Brian Herbert 2004The Knight. Tor Books. Gene Wolfe. January 2004Giving Thanks. Turtleback School & Library Binding. Jonathan London. September 2005The Last River: John Wesley Powell and the Colorado River Exploring Expedition. Mikaya Press. Stuart Waldman. October 2005Cheyenne Medicine Hat. Brian Heinz. September 2006Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas. Morgan Llywelyn. February 2007The Vengeful Virgin. Gil Brewer. April 2007Magellan's World Mikaya Press. Stuart Waldman. October 2007Glory Road. Macmillan. Robert A. Heinlein and Samuel R. Delany. 2008An Irish Country Doctor, Macmillan, Patrick Taylor 2011Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship. National Geographic Books. Barry Clifford. 2008Zero Cool. Michael Crichton, March 2008Lamentation (The Psalms of Isaak, Volume 2) Tor Books, Ken Scholes February 2009Lobster Johnson: The Satan Factory, Dark Horse, Thomas E. Sniegoski June 2009Canticle (The Psalms of Isaak, Volume 2) Tor Books, Ken Scholes October 2009Robert E Howard's Complete Conan of Cimmeria 1935: v.3 Book Palace Books, Robert E. Howard February 2010An Irish Country Girl: A Novel. Macmillan. Patrick Taylor 2011A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon. Tor Books. Ken ScholesLooking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder. Tor Books. Ken Scholes and Jay LakeThe Starship Mechanic. Tor Books. Ken Scholes and Jay Lake

Awards

Nominated for a Caldecott Medal in 1977
Society of Illustrators New York
Society of Illustrators Los Angeles
Artist's Magazine
  • First Prize Wildlife Art Competition 1990
Communication Arts
  • 1995
  • Featured in 1996, 1998, and 2000 in Step-By-Step Graphics.
Spectrum

Exhibitions

  • Eleanor Ettinger Galleries in New York and Hong Kong
  • Witham Gallery; Ohio - 1997
  • Walt Reed Gallery; Westport, Connecticut - “The Illustrator in America, 1860–2000”.
  • Members Gallery at the Society of Illustrators - February 1, 2011 - February 26, 2011
  • Arte Verissima Gallery - "Weightless" - January 24, 2015 - March 8, 2015