Fred Lynch is an American illustrator and educator from Cumberland, Rhode Island. Lynch is best known for his editorial and book illustrations for The Atlantic, Penguin and Random HouseLines and Colors: Fred Lynch as well as in situ paintings of the Boston-area and Italy.Salem State University Exhibition: A Sense of Place - Fred Lynch and Michael McLaughlin He is also known for journalistic illustration,Drawing on Experience in Italy urban sketching, teaching, and lecturing internationally about on-site art making. Lynch was a featured artist on a Boston episode of the Travel Channel's television series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern,Drawing on American History as an expert about the route of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride.Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Current Exhibitions—Paul Revere’s Ride Revisited: Drawings by Fred Lynch,”
Teaching Lynch is an illustration professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD),RISD Illustration Faculty where he has won the John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching. Lynch graduated in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. He is also a professor and chair of the Illustration Department at Montserrat College of Art and a recipient of the Carlos Dorrien Award for Teaching Excellence.
Artist Shepard Fairey's first project to garner international attention, the "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, which later evolved into the "Obey Giant" campaign, began in 1989 as an assignment in Lynch's class at the RISD.
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External links Fred Lynch's illustration and fine arts portfolio Picture It | Fred Lynch's teaching blog