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Terrance Lindall is an American artist who was born in Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...

, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

in 1944. Lindall attended the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

and graduated magna cum laude from Hunter College

Hunter College

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in New York City

New York City

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in 1970, with a double major in Philosophy and English and a double minor in Psychology

Psychology

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and Physical Anthropology

Physical anthropology

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. He was in the Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy

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program in philosophy at New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

from 1970 to 1973. He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America 2006. Information about this artist is also on file in the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

Library Collection. Lindall's art has been on the covers of numerous books and magazines and has been exhibited at many galleries and museums, including the Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is an encyclopedia art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum holds New York City's second largest art collection with roughly 1.5 million works....

, Hudson River Museum

Hudson River Museum

The Hudson River Museum, located in Trevor Park in Yonkers, New York, is the largest museum in Westchester County. The Yonkers Museum, founded in 1919 at City Hall, became the Hudson River Museum in 1948...

, the Museum of the Surreal and Fantastic and the Society of Illustrators

Society of Illustrators

The Society of Illustrators is a professional society based in New York City. Founded in 1901, the mission of the Society is to promote the art and appreciation of illustration, as well as its history...

Museum. There is an artists file on Lindall in the Thomas J. Watson

Thomas J. Watson

Thomas John Watson, Sr. was president of International Business Machines , who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956...

Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...

. http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_lib.asp#thoLindall is currently president of the Yuko Nii

Yuko Nii

Yuko Nii is an artist and philanthropist. She studied English and American Literature at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. In 1963 she transferred to Macalaster College, St. Paul, Minnesota as a scholarship student, and earned her BFA. in 1965...

Foundation and a member of the Milton Project at the Townsend Humanities Labhttp://townsendlab.berkeley.edu/users/wahcenter, University of California

University of California

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, Berkeley

Berkeley

-United Kingdom:* Berkeley, Gloucestershire** Berkeley Castle**Berkeley * Berkeley Square, London* Berkeley Square, Bristol-United States of America:*Berkeley, California, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area...

Overview

Terrance Lindall produced art for Warren Publishing

Warren Publishing

Warren Publishing was an American magazine company founded by James Warren, who published his first magazines in 1957 and continued in the business for decades...

's Creepy
Creepy
Creepy was an American horror-comics magazine launched by Warren Publishing in 1964. Like Mad, it was a black-and-white newsstand publication in a magazine format and thus did not require the approval or seal of the Comics Code Authority. The anthology magazine was initially published quarterly but...

, Eerie
Eerie
Eerie was an American magazine of horror comics introduced in 1966 by Warren Publishing. Like Mad, it was a black-and-white newsstand publication in a magazine format and thus did not require the approval or seal of the Comics Code Authority. Each issue's stories were introduced by the host...

and Vampirella
Vampirella
Vampirella is a fictional character, a comic book vampire heroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and costume designer Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella #1 . Writer-editor Archie Goodwin later developed the character from horror-story hostess, in...

, for Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica. In the mid-1970s, while publisher Leonard Mogel was in Paris to jump-start the French edition of National Lampoon, he discovered the French...

magazine, for the Epic Comics

Epic Comics

Epic Comics was a creator-owned imprint of Marvel Comics started in 1982, lasting through the mid-1990s, and being briefly revived on a small scale in the mid-2000s.- Origins :...

imprint of Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

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and for Rod Serling

Rod Serling

Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling was an American screenwriter, novelist, television producer, and narrator best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen and helped form...

's Twilight Zone Magazine
Twilight Zone literature
Twilight Zone literature is an umbrella term for the many books and comic books which concern or adapt The Twilight Zone television series.-Novels:...

. In the book Ghastly Terror: The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics, http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/g/ghastly-terror.shtml", Stephen Sennitt credits Lindall with the attempt to save the line of Warren horror magazines from extinction through his new style of cover art.

Lindall's book Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse...

Illustrated (poetry by John Milton

John Milton

John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...

) has been compared to other Milton illustrators including William Blake

William Blake

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...

. According to New York University professor Karen Karbiener, many students prefer Lindall's version, which appeared in Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica. In the mid-1970s, while publisher Leonard Mogel was in Paris to jump-start the French edition of National Lampoon, he discovered the French...

magazine and has a popular following among young people. Professor Karbiener, a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, gave a lecture at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in 2004 on "...Milton's Satan

Satan

Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...

and his impact on countercultural

Counterculture

Counterculture is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition. Counterculture can also be described as a group whose behavior...

artistic movements from William Blake to the Beat poets

Beat generation

The Beat Generation refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired...

in essence, the artists "between" Milton and Lindall http://www.wahcenter.net/events/2004/mothersday/index.html, the radical artistic legacy." Lindall owns Charles Lamb's copy of the first illustrated 1691 edition of Paradise Lost, as well as Lady Pomfret’s copy of the first illustrated edition (circa 1688). Pomfret was a noble 18th century British woman of great learning, and the Lady of the Bedchamber of Queen Caroline

Caroline of Ansbach

Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach was the queen consort of King George II of Great Britain.Her father, John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, was the ruler of a small German state...

.http://www.wahcenter.net/center/news/2006/mpl/.

Apart from being an artist, Terrance Lindall has a background in philosophy and has been very active in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordering Greenpoint to the north, Bedford-Stuyvesant to the south, Bushwick to the east and the East River to the west. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 1. The neighborhood is served by the NYPD's 90th ...

art community http://www.11211magazine.com/details.asp?id=76&issue_id=3 http://www.wahcenter.net/exhibits/LindallRetrospective/index.html. He writes for New York Arts Magazine, Block Magazine, and 11211 Magazine, a Breuk Iversen

Breuk Iversen

Breuk Iversen, is a designer and writer. Iversen is named the raconteur of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, one of the liveliest and largest art communities in the world...

production, and other publications. His essay "The Epistemological Movement in Late 20th century Art"http://www.11211magazine.com/editor/issue14/artart14d.htm assesses what he sees as the new artistic trends in the contemporary art world and its context in new thinking about fractal geometry, quantum mechanics, historical will, and epistemological and analytic traditions. He curated Charles Gatewood's "The Body and Beyond" http://www.wahcenter.net/exhibits/gatewood/index.html (1997) and "Apocalypse 1999" http://www.wahcenter.net/exhibits/apocalypse/index.html. "Apocalypse 1999" was the most lavish art production seen in Williamsburg to date, including over 125 artists from around the world and incorporating many provocative musical and theatrical productions. Since then, Lindall has produced the show "Brave Destiny"https://sites.google.com/site/terrancelindallsparadiselost/the-grand-paradise-lost-costume-ball-september-2008/brave-destiny, including nearly 500 artists. For the show he wrote his New International Surrealist Manifesto (NISM), http://www.cinemavii.com/Events/BraveDestiny/NISM.htm. The opening reception was a one-night "Grand Surrealist Costume Ball" event for which people flew in from countries around the world, including Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

and Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

. The arriving guests stopped traffic on the Williamsburg Bridge

Williamsburg Bridge

The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City across the East River connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan at Delancey Street with the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn at Broadway near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway...

, the second time Lindall's shows have done this. Lindall, wrote an article on "The New Surrealists" which appeared in the March 2006 issue of Art and Antiques Magazine
Art and Antiques Magazine
Art & Antiques is an American arts magazine.-1984 launch:Art & Antiques began with the March, 1984, issue, also called the "Premier Issue." While the magazine disclaimed any connection to a previous publication of the same name, the company had in fact bought the rights from a previous magazine...

(March, 2006), tracing the continually evolving art form from the 1960s through today, citing several of the world's foremost artists.

Terrance Lindall is a builder of institutions such as the Greenwood Museum

Greenwood Museum

The Greenwood Museum at the 19th century Upperville Meeting House was created by artist Terrance Lindall in the 1980s. The Quaker meeting house was flanked by a park, a rectory and overlooked a waterfall on Pleasant Brook alongside Quaker Hill Road...

and the Upperville Meeting House

Upperville Meeting House

Upperville Meeting House is a historic Friends meeting house on New York State Route 80 in Upperville, Chenango County, New York. It was built in 1896 and is a one story rectangular wood frame building on a dressed stone foundation...

in New York State, and has worked with Yuko Nii

Yuko Nii

http://www.wahcenter.net/center/news/2001/womanshistoryaward/index.html in developing the Williamsburg Art & Historical Centerhttp://www.wahcenter.net/, which has achieved international recognition. A full-page article appeared in the New York Timeshttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E2D71231F93AA15753C1A9669C8B63&sec=&pagewanted=print about their creation of this institution. Lindall is mentioned in the book Museum Founders alongside such notables as Augustus Pitt Rivers

Augustus Pitt Rivers

Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for his innovations in archaeological methods, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections.-Life and career:Born Augustus Henry Lane-Fox at...

, Hans Sloane

Hans Sloane

Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, PRS was an Ulster-Scot physician and collector, notable for bequeathing his collection to the British nation which became the foundation of the British Museum...

, Peggy Guggenheim

Peggy Guggenheim

Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim was an American art collector. Born to a wealthy New York City family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912 and the niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, who would establish the Solomon R...

, Nelson Rockefeller

Nelson Rockefeller

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the 41st Vice President of the United States , serving under President Gerald Ford, and the 49th Governor of New York , as well as serving the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower administrations in a variety of positions...

, Elias Ashmole

Elias Ashmole

Elias Ashmole was a celebrated English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, and at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded with several lucrative offices.Ashmole was an antiquary with a...

, and many other builders of outstanding institutions http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Unknown/Museum-Founders-Augustus-Pitt-Rivers-Hans-Sloane-Peggy-Guggenheim-Nelson-Rockefeller-Elias-Ashmole-Terrance-Lindall/9781155565859/.

In other aspects of his life, Lindall served as financial manager of Roundabout Theater Companyhttp://www.roundabouttheatre.org/, the world's largest not-for-profit theater in New York City, and as assistant treasurer and business manager of the American Numismatic Society

American Numismatic Society

The American Numismatic Society is a New York City-based organization dedicated to the study of coins and medals.-Introduction:...

http://www.amnumsoc.org/, one of the United States' oldest museums with the largest and finest collections of coins and medals going back to Greek coinage and Roman currency

Roman currency

The Roman currency during most of the Roman Republic and the western half of the Roman Empire consisted of coins including the aureus , the denarius , the sestertius , the dupondius , and the as...

. He is currently the president of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, and is an expert on not-for-profit law and finance

Finance

"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...

.

Lindall has been in Kate Spade

Kate Spade

Kate Brosnahan Spade is the co-founder and namesake of the designer brand, Kate Spade New York .- Early life and beginnings :...

fashion ads appearing in several other top magazines. In 2004, the Kate Spade ad campaign was featured at the Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...

in New York Cityhttp://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2004/fashion_fiction.html in a groundbreaking show "Fashioning Fiction" http://www.lookonline.com/momaexhibition.html. A short film on this campaign, Visiting Tennessee, was produced by Andy Spade.

Lindall’s art for Paradise Lost appears on the cover of Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, released by Random House in 2008. Holt Rinehart & Winston used another Lindall Paradise Lost image in a 2009 high school textbook. Oxford University's major exhibit "Citizen Milton" at the Bodleian Library

Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...

(to which Milton himself personally donated copies of many of his works), honoring Milton's 400th birthday, used one of Lindall's artworks for Paradise Lost from the Nii Foundation collection. Oxford University has also recognized Lindall's contribution to the continuing Miltonian artistic legacy http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/citizenmilton/xiv_destinies.shtml. Available only to scholars, a signed copy of Terrance Lindall's Paradise Lost Illustrated is in the Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of the Thomas Cooper rare book library at the University of South Carolina

University of South Carolina

The University of South Carolina is a public, co-educational research university located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, with 7 surrounding satellite campuses. Its historic campus covers over in downtown Columbia not far from the South Carolina State House...

. The collection's special focus on illustrated editions make it perhaps "the most comprehensive collection ever of Milton illustration." http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/milton/intro.html

Lindall enjoys working with composers and musicians on his projects, believing that artists and their work are elevated by interaction of disciplines. His art is in the collections of both Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz (composer)

Stephen Lawrence Schwartz is an American musical theatre lyricist and composer. In a career spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell , Pippin and Wicked...

, the famous lyricist for Broadway and films and winner of three Academy Awards, and Michael Karp http://michaelkarpmusic.com/, whose music is perhaps the most performed on television. Famed Lutheran hymn writer Amanda Husberg

Amanda Husberg

Amanda Husberg is an American composer of hymns.-Education:She received her B.S. in Education in 1962, from Concordia Teachers College, in Seward, Nebraska where she majored in Organ, studying with Jan Bender. She taught elementary school for two years at Redeemer Lutheran School in Westfield,...

even composed a requiem mass for Terrance Lindall in recognition of his contributions to the understanding of and earthly resurrection of John Milton's "glorious" Paradise Lost. Noted Lutheran hymn text writer and poet Richard Leach

Richard Leach

Richard Leach is an American hymn writer and poet.He received a B.A from Bowdoin College in 1974, and an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1978. He was a United Church of Christ pastor in Connecticut from 1978 to 1999. He began writing hymns in 1987...

wrote a new text for the requiem mass. Lindall commented, "It will be the final act of my Paradise Lost project and acknowledgement of my own resurrection. The 'two handed engine of truth and justice' will prevail in resurrecting the spirit of John Milton!"

On Paradise Lost Series

"I plead guilty to being a fan of Terrance Lindall's illustrations – I guess that's pretty obvious to those who've seen his work on the cover of the Modern Library Milton. Plate 3 http://www.wahcenter.net/gallery/lindall/plates/3.html in particular rocks my world, as a surfer friend of mine is wont to say." – Professor John Rumrich, Professor of English at the University of Texas in Austin

On Lindall's September 2008 Paradise Lost Festival at WAHC: "The exhibit and programs promise to be a diverse collection of multiple perspectives and strategies that should engage the audience you hope to reach." – Wendy Woon, the Edward John Noble

Edward John Noble

Edward John Noble was an American broadcasting and candy industrialist originally from Gouverneur, New York. He co-founded the Life Savers Corporation in 1913...

Foundation Deputy Director for Education of the Museum of Modern Art in New York

"Lindall's image (on the cover of Random House’s 2008 Essential Milton) is, of course, the star. It seems to me at once unmistakably modern and yet just as unmistakably archaic: exactly the doubleness I was hoping for on our cover." – William Kerrigan, former president of the Milton Society of America and recipient of its award for lifetime achievement, 2007

"Radical artist and nonconformist Terrance Lindall has channeled Milton’s spirit into a modern context, in a provocative series of illustrations to Paradise Lost. His visual celebration of Milton reveals his remarkable affinity for the radical English poet, and his ability to create a fitting tribute to Milton’s enduring influence in the arts." – Professor Karen Karbiener, New York University, 2007

"Terrance Lindall’s fanciful illustrations are bound to arouse response & provoke thought in the may persons interested in Paradise Lost & its subjects & in surreal illustration generally" – Professor Thomas Clayton, University of Minnesota Department of English

"Clearly avoiding the view that Pop imagery is inherently a sign of trauma, Terry Lindall employs the cartoon elements of style with a charming and often unnerving directness and simplicity, frequently aimed at causing a trauma all his own. This is particularly the case with his illustrations of Milton’s Paradise Lost, with which he reaches a hyper-intensified and nearly hysterical verve." – Mark Daniel Cohen, critic for Review Magazine and NY Arts Magazine

"Since I was a teenager back in 1982, I’ve considered Terrance Lindall one of the globe’s greatest artists. My particular favorite is his intense adaptation of Paradise Lost, which never fails to instill a pervasive dread in my mind." – Greg Fasolino, 1997

Others

"It is nice to know there is a latter day Bosch around" – Dr. Leo Steinberg

Leo Steinberg

Leo Steinberg was an American art critic and art historian and a naturalized citizen of the U.S.-Life:Steinberg was born in Moscow, Russia and grew up in Berlin, Germany. He was the son of Isaac Nachman Steinberg. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art...

, art critic

"The high water mark in the Golden Age of this uniquely American art form." – James Kalm, NY Arts Magazine

"Surreal nightmare...DNA seems to have gone berserk" – The New York Art World Magazine, November 1999

"Natural insanity" – Art Alternatives Magazine, 1996

"Eerie, magical, dreamlike, devastating, jarring...Lindall's illustrative style is magnificent!" – Julie Simmons, Heavy Metal Editor in Chief, 1980

"Lindall's use of color & detail to achieve effect, his dramatic compositions, but most of all his totally unique vision make him a new wave artist to be reckoned with." – Louise Jones (now Louise Simonson

Louise Simonson

Louise Simonson, born Mary Louise Alexander , is an American comic book writer and editor. She is best known for her work on comic book titles such as Power Pack, X-Factor, New Mutants, Superman: The Man of Steel, and Steel...

), Warren Communications Senior Editor, 1980

"Lindall's striking and unique visionary fantasy art is breaking new ground in the field" - David Hartwell, Pocket Books Senior Editor, 1980

"My reward for the purchase of a Lindall masterwork has been a cover that draws raves. It is a very valuable addition to my collection of fine art." - Stuart David Schiff, winner of the Hugo Award

Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...

, twice winner of the World Fantasy Award

World Fantasy Award

The World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...

, editor of the acclaimed Whispers anthologies

The World’s First Grand Paradise Lost Costume Ball

Lindall created the world’s first "Grand Paradise Lost Costume Ball" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n40CoySmS94&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMQZNMTBRjI&feature=user, which opened the largest festival in the world honoring John Milton

John Milton

John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...

’s 400th birthday. The festival took place between September 27 and November 2, 2008 at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (WAH Center), exhibiting over 70 contemporary artists from around the world and includind writers, poets, composers and performers. The exhibit included Terrance Lindall’s original illustrations for Paradise Lost.

An article by Charles McGrath

Charles McGrath

David Charles McGrath was an Australian politician. Originally a member of the Australian Labor Party, he joined Joseph Lyons in the split that led to the formation of the United Australia Party.-Early life:...

in the New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/books/26milt.html?ref=design the day before the ball and ensuing festival, along with the opening ceremony with the "firing up" of Milton's head and the reading of the "testament of the poet" by Arthur Kirmss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYh1bSsslF0&feature=related http://arthurkirmss.com/default.aspx, temporarily scandalized the exhibit among Milton scholars worldwide who thought Kirmss’ ceramic bust of Milton looked like Milton's nemesis King Charles I

Charles I of England

Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles...

. The Fordham University

Fordham University

Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

Observer said in a major article, "It’s a celebration of Paradise Lost in a most unabashed form.http://fordhamobserver.com/twisted_paradise_in_williamsburg_celebrates_milton_s_400th" Award-winning UK paper The Independent

The Independent

The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...

said: "I suspect Milton might have trusted his vision to a heavy-metal illustrator more readily than to any licensed preacher, then or now.http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/paradise-deferred-john-milton-still-divides-readers-1051773.html"

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg

Michael Rubens Bloomberg is the current Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $19.5 billion in 2011, he is also the 12th-richest person in the United States...

issued a proclamation recognizing the hard work and labor of love in creating this Milton Festival, which Random House's website confirmed as the "largest birthday tribute to Milton in the world." WAH Center founder and Artistic Director Yuko Nii

Yuko Nii

personally received a letter from the Equerry of The Prince of Wales

Prince of Wales

Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...

and The Duchess of Cornwall

Duchess of Cornwall

The Duchess of Cornwall is the title held by the wife of the Duke of Cornwall. Duke of Cornwall is a non-hereditary peerage held by the British Sovereign's eldest son and heir....

, Major Will Mackinlay, who stated that that their Royal Highnesses were “grateful” for Yuko’s “thinking of them” in inviting them to the ball, and passed on their well wishes for the success of the event.

The show had many letters of appreciation, including one from Wendy Woon, the Edward John Noble

Edward John Noble

Edward John Noble was an American broadcasting and candy industrialist originally from Gouverneur, New York. He co-founded the Life Savers Corporation in 1913...

Foundation Deputy Director for Education of the Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art

in New York, who said: “The exhibit and programs promise to be a diverse collection of multiple perspectives and strategies that should engage the audience you hope to reach." However, The New Statesman

The New Statesman

The New Statesman is an award-winning British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time...

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/arts-blog/2008/10/american-cobain-obama called it "The Devils Party," and the controversy over the show prompted discussion blogs such as Professor Horace Jeffery Hodges' “The Milton Bash(ing) Continues.” http://gypsyscholarship.blogspot.com/2008/09/milton-bashing-continues.html

The Paradise Lost Gold Illuminated Scroll

Terrance Lindall During his year-long celebration of John Milton's 400th birthday (which began December 8, 2008), Terrance Lindall created "The Paradise Lost Gold Illuminated Scroll," a scroll that reads from right to left like a Torah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCLUAAfPzUw&feature=channel. Completed December 8, 2009, the scroll is now in the Milton collection at the Yuko Nii Foundation. It is 14 inches high and over four feet long, with 24 karat gold illuminated miniature paintings. It has been well received by Milton scholars and collectors worldwide. Copies are now in some of the world's foremost collections including:

1) Huntington Library in California, gift purchased by Professor Joseph Wittreich, noted Milton scholar and collector. The Huntington’s highlights include one of the world’s most extensive collections of William Blake material, most notably Blake's original illustrations for Paradise Lost.

2) The University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

rare book collection, gift purchased by Professor Joseph Wittreich, noted Milton scholar and collector. The university holds over 560 exemplars of books printed in Europe from movable type before 1501. Sixty-six of these titles are the only recorded copies in North America.

3) The University of Kentucky

University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...

, gift purchased by Professor Joseph Wittreich, noted Milton scholar and collector. Their collections include many famous artists.

4) The Alexander Turnbull Library in the National Library of New Zealand

National Library of New Zealand

The National Library of New Zealand is New Zealand's legal deposit library charged with the obligation to "enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations"...

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5) The collection of Robert J. Wickenheiser, one of the world's foremost collectors{http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/milton/06497_Milton%20booklet.pdf of Milton books and original illustrations for Milton's works.

6) Professor John Geraghty

7) The Thomas Cooper rare book library at the University of South Carolina

Scholarly reaction included:

"I think you are rather overemphasizing the 24k gold leaf, because the real 'gold' lies in the perceptions incorporated in the artist's concepts. This is the best since Blake and Doré." - Nancy Charlton, Milton Lists{http://lists.richmond.edu/pipermail/milton-l/2009-December/010417.html

"Terrance: Would that Milton had been as rich in writing about his great epic as you have been about everything you have written about your scroll and the inspiration for it. I don't mean to sell Milton short by any means because, like all great artists, somewhere in his writing can be found his own profound reasons for what he has done and why he did it. In this you stand side by side with the great bard in wanting your paintings to be appreciated and understood." - Dr. Robert J. Wickenheiser, 19th President of St. Bonaventure University
“Thank you Terrance. I am grateful for all you are doing. It is an amazing project. You are creating a great legacy.” - Professor John Geraghty http://www.johngeraghty.com

“This is stunningly beautiful! There is so much to look at, both traditional and intriguingly mysterious. It really makes me think of Blake's 'Marriage of Heaven and Hell,' as well as some of the Serbian iconography I've been looking at recently in the monasteries of Fruska Gora

Fruška Gora

Fruška Gora is a mountain in north Syrmia. Most part of the territory is located within Vojvodina, Serbia, but a smaller part on its western side overlaps the territory of Croatia...

. I visited the ancient monastery and chapel of Hopovo, and the brilliant colors of the figures crowding into the inner sanctum recall your powerful sunsets and energetic (yet static) figures.” - Professor Karen Karbiener, Department of English, New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

The Paradise Lost Elephant Folio

In 2011 and 2012 Lindall will be working on production of "The Paradise Lost Elephant Folio," a hand-embellished and gold illuminated 13 x 19 inch book containing 14 full-page printed illustrations with hand-painted illustrated borders.
{https://sites.google.com/site/terrancelindallsparadiselost/home/elephant-folio-paradise-lost

The borders of the elephant folio are complete paintings in themselves. Although the border art focuses principally on elements of design, they also tell stories or make commentary about what is illustrated in the featured central paintings. The borders also are tributes to both humanity’s great achievements, such as music, dance and architecture, as well as tribute to those individuals and institutions and friends who have had important influences on his ideas, or who have shown substantial support or affinity. For example, the Filipino surrealist artist Bienvenido “Bones” Banez, Jr.

Bienvenido “Bones” Banez, Jr.

“’Bienvenido Bones Banez, Jr.”’ is a Filipino surrealist painter born in Davao City in the southern island of Mindanao, the Philippines, on June 7, 1962...

{http://www.welcomebones666artworld.trilogistick.com/ discovered Lindall’s repertoire during the Brave Destiny Show and communicated to Lindall the idea of how “Satan brings color to the world.” Lindall thought the idea to be an insightful and original "affinity" and so he honors Banez in the page of the elephant folio that is a tribute to art by placing Banez’s name under an artist's palette of colors in the border.

Published Books

Blue Eyed Satori, 1970, hardcover, short stories with Yuko Nii

Paradise Lost Illustrated, 1983, hardcover

Published Art

Heavy Metal, October 1979: “Xeno Meets Dr. X”

Epic #3, Fall 1980, story by Archie Goodwin

Archie Goodwin (comics)

Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on a number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is best known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work...

: “Worker in the City”

Heavy Metal, December 1980, story by Ted White

Ted White

Ted White may refer to:* Ted White , American science fiction author* Ted White , American stuntman* Ted White * Ted White , Canadian politician...

: “Mary Quite Contrary”

Creepy #108, cover: "Visions of Hell"

Creepy #116, May 1980, cover: “The End of Man”

Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...

, Pocket Books

Pocket Books

Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.- History :Pocket produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in America in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry...

, 1980: cover for Watchstar by Pamela Sargent

Pamela Sargent

Pamela Sargent is an American, feminist, science fiction author, and editor. She has an MA in classical philosophy and has won a Nebula Award. She wrote a series concerning the terraforming of Venus that is sometimes compared to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, but predates it...

Swank, November 1980, for story "A Quiet Trip to Nevada"

Zebra Science Fiction, 1980, cover for Three-Ring Psychus by John Shirley

John Shirley

John Shirley is an American fantasist, author of noir fiction, and science-fiction writer. Shirley is a prolific writer of novels and short stories, TV scripts and screenplays who has published over 30 books and 10 collections...

Simon & Schuster

, Pocket Books

Pocket Books

, 1980: cover for Web of Angels by John M. Ford

John M. Ford

John Milo "Mike" Ford was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet.Ford was regarded as an extraordinarily intelligent, erudite and witty man. He was a popular contributor to several online discussions...

Eerie #103, cover: "The Horizon Seekers"

Vampirella #86, April 1980, cover: "Demon from the East"

Twilight Zone Magazine Annual Collectors Edition, 1983, cover,

Heavy Metal, October 1984, story by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...

: "Silence, a Fable"

Art Exhibit Catalogs

Kent State University

Kent State University is a public research university located in Kent, Ohio, United States. The university has eight campuses around the northeast Ohio region with the main campus in Kent being the largest...

, catalog for group exhibit (SF & Fantasy Art), 1981

Society of Illustrators

Society of Illustrators

Annual, hardcover, 1982

Published Writing

New York Arts Magazine, June 2000: "Epistemological Movement in Late 20th Century Art"

11211 Magazine, March/April 2004: "Documenting Williamsburg"

Art & Antiques Magazine, March 2006: "Surrealism Isn’t Dead, It’s Dreaming"

The Tomb #21, February 2007: "My Time with Warren Magazine"

Fashion Appearances

Southwick Clothing catalog, 2000

Bergdorf Goodman, Spring 2001

Vogue Magazine, September 2002

Vanity Fair, September 2002

W Magazine, September 2002

Nest Magazine, September 2002

The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...

, September 2002

New York Times Magazine, September 2002

Museum of Modern Art, New York City, “Fashioning Fiction,” 2004

Articles on Terrance Lindall

Art Alternatives Magazine, 1998: “Natural Insanity”

NY Arts Magazine: “Lindall Retrospective,” by James Kalm

Block Magazine: “Williamsburg’s Bad Boy,” by Alex Padalka

Articles on Terrance Lindall's Curatorial Projects

The Phoenix News, 1981: "Worlds of Wonder at the Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

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The Evening Sun, Norwich, October 6, 1988: "Greenwood Museum Opens"

The Evening Sun, Norwich, October 9, 1991: "Quilts, Quilts, Quilts"

The Evening Sun, Norwich, August 21, 1992: "Celebrating 500 Years Since Columbus - The Gothic Chapel"

Block Magazine, 2003: “Surrealism and Its Offspring,” by Joel Simpson

Anna Magazine (Russia), October 2003: “The Grand Surrealist Ball”

Block Magazine, October 2003: “The Grand Surrealist Ball” by Alex Padalka

Curatorial Projects

"19th Century Decorative Arts" at the Greenwood Museum

Greenwood Museum

, 1988

"The Art of the American Quilt" with Margit Echols, at the Greenwood Museum, 1991

"Selections from the Library, illuminated manuscripts, 15th & 16th C." at the Greenwood Museum, 1991

"The 15th Century Gothic Chapel" at the Greenwood Museum, 1992

"Charles Gatewood Restrospective" at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 1998

"Apocalypse 1999" at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 1999

"Brave Destiny" at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 2003

John Milton's 400th Birthday "Paradise Lost Festival" at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 2008

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