Ruben Toledo
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Ruben Toledo | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 64–65) |
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Ruben Toledo (born 1961, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist based in New York City.[1]
Toledo and his wife Isabel met in high school in West New York, New Jersey.[2]
Books
In 1997, Toledo authored Style Dictionary, a collection of drawings and watercolors. He completed his first film, Fashionation, an animated history of French fashion, based on a book of the same name.[1] Toledo illustrated special edition book jackets for Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions of Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Pride and Prejudice.[1]
List of titles:
- Style Dictionary. Abbeville Press. 1997. ISBN 0789203480.
- Fashionation. Edition 7L. 2009. ISBN 978-3865213013.
Exhibitions
Ruben Toledo's collaboration with his fashion designer wife, Isabel Toledo, was the subject of both a book and a museum exhibition titled Toledo/Toledo: A Marriage of Art and Fashion at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.[3]
