Joseph Anthony Mugnaini (July 12, 1912, in Viareggio, Province of Lucca – January 23, 1992) was an Italian-born American artist and illustrator.Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Ray Bradbury, beginning in 1952.
Biography He was born Giuseppe Mugnaini in Viareggio in the Tuscany region of Italy and immigrated with his family to America when he was three months old.Passenger list of the S.S. Taormina, Port of New York, October 18, 1912, sheet 21, line 23. He and his family resided on Solano Avenue in Los Angeles, California, during the 1930s, and Altadena during the late 1950s. He became an American citizen in 1941.Passenger list of the S.S. Taormina, ibid., later notation.
He trained at Camp Ritchie in the 10th class and is one of the Ritchie Boys of World War II.
He taught art at the Pasadena School of Fine Arts, among others.
He died in Los Angeles on January 23, 1992.Ancestry.com. California Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.
Bibliography Books by Mugnaini include: Drawing: A Search for Form (1965) Oil painting: Techniques and Materials (1969) The Hidden Elements of Drawing (1974) Joseph Mugnaini: Drawings and Graphics (1982) Expressive Drawing: A Schematic Approach (1989)
References
Further reading Who Was Who in American Art. 2nd edition. Edited by Peter Hastings Falk. Sound View Press, 1999. . A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists. By Robert Weinberg. Greenwood Press, 1988. . Who's Who in American Art. 12th edition. R.R. Bowker, 1976. Biography Index. Volume 6. H.W. Wilson Co., 1965.
External links Oral Histories and Interviews Audio interview of Joseph Mugnaini on Illustrating for Ray Bradbury Photography of Joseph Mugnaini with illustration for Bradbury Photograph of Ray Bradbury with Mugnaini painting Book: Wilderness Of The Mind: The Art Of Joseph Mugnaini The author of the above book with more art images Icarus Montgolfier Wright 1962 film; illustrated and voiced by Joe Mugnaini Art of Joe Mugnaini