Artzybasheff

[ ahrt-si-bah-shif; Russian uhr-tsi-bah-shyif ]

noun

1. Bor·is Mi·khai·lo·vich [bawr, -is mi-, kahy, -l, uh, -vich, bor, -, buh-, ryees, myi-, khahy, -l, uh, -vyich], 1899–1965, U.S. illustrator and writer, born in Russia.

Example Sentences

Cuneo’s image nods to a magazine cover from another era—the drawing, by Boris Artzybasheff, for the August 31, 1962, issue of Time—though the subject, of course, is the ongoing government shutdown, which is now the longest one in history.

From The New Yorker

By the ’40s, the bizarre surrealism of Ukrainian-born Boris Artzybasheff proved ideal for works of fantasy by L. Sprague de Camp.

From Seattle Times

I would see Time magazine covers by Boris Artzybasheff or magazine illustrations by him or Pierre Roy, or any number of illustrators who were doing artistic, innovative things and sometimes those illustrations had a kind of metaphysical charge that really got me.

From The Guardian

Looking to turn professional, he approached the illustrator Boris Artzybasheff, who convinced him to finish his degree instead.

From The Guardian

Originally published in 1935 with illustrations by the late Boris Artzybasheff, Circus made the same impact on the American public then as it did on the people of Finney's fictional Arizona town.

From Time Magazine Archive