Editing Terrance Lindall

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'''Terrance Lindall''' (born 1944) is an American artist and the co-director and chief administrator of the [[Williamsburg Art and Historical Center]] in [[Brooklyn]], New York.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/books/26milt.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 | title = Milton Regained: A Helluva Party | first = Charles | last = McGrath | work = The New York Times | date = September 25, 2008 | accessdate = November 10, 2013}}</ref><ref name=Personnel>{{cite web | url = http://www.wahcenter.net/about/personnel.html | title = Personnel | publisher = Williamsburg Art and Historical Center | accessdate = November 10, 2013 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120716032248/http://wahcenter.net/about/personnel.html | archivedate = July 16, 2012 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> Lindall's illustrations have been published in ''[[Heavy Metal (magazine)|Heavy Metal]]'', ''[[Creepy (magazine)|Creepy]]'', ''[[Eerie (magazine)|Eerie]]'' and ''[[Vampirella]]'', among others.<ref name=NYT/>

==Education==
Born in [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]], Lindall attended the [[University of Minnesota]] and [[Hunter College]] in [[New York City]], graduating from the latter in 1970 with degrees in Philosophy and English.<ref name=NYT/><ref name=Official>{{cite web | url = http://www.wahcenter.net/gallery/lindall/ | title = Terrance Lindall | accessdate = November 10, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Smith2011">{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Nia|title=Hunter College 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VVqBXVZNmbAC&pg=PT102|date=March 15, 2011|publisher=College Prowler|isbn=978-1-4274-9867-0|page=102}}</ref>

==Career==
[[File:Lindall illustration for Paradise Lost.jpg|thumb|Lindall illustration for ''Paradise Lost'']]

Lindall has worked in comic books, including [[Warren Publishing]]'s ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'' and ''Vampirella''.<ref name=NYT/> According to ''[[The Independent]]'', he has also done illustrations for [[Marvel Comics]].<ref name=Indepedent>{{cite web | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/paradise-deferred-john-milton-still-divides-readers-1051773.html | title = Paradise deferred: John Milton still divides readers | date = December 5, 2008 | accessdate = November 10, 2013 | work = The Independent}}</ref> His illustrations of [[John Milton]], some of which were originally published in ''Heavy Metal'', have been featured in textbooks and modern printings of Milton's work as well as Lindall's rendition of ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' in prose.<ref name=NYT/> One of his illustrations is featured on the [[Oxford University]] website created to support its 400th anniversary celebration of Milton.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/citizenmilton/xiv_destinies.shtml | title = 14. Exhumations and Destinies: 'For Books are not absolutely Dead Things' | last = Rowley | first = Richard | publisher = University of Oxford Centre for Early Modern Studies | date = 2007 | accessdate = November 10, 2013}}</ref>

Terrance Lindall has worked with [[Yuko Nii]] in developing the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/29/realestate/streetscapes-former-kings-county-savings-bank-broadway-brooklyn-bank-art-center.html?src=pm | title = Streetscapes/Former Kings County Savings Bank on Broadway in Brooklyn; From a Bank to an Art Center, Via an Artist's Vision | first= Christopher | last = Gray | work = The New York Times | date = October 29, 2000 | accessdate = November 10, 2013}}</ref> The Williamsburt Art & Historical Center was the site of a 2008 celebration in honor of Milton's 400th birthday, the Grand Paradise Lost Costume Ball; this event, which featured some of Lindall's illustrations of Milton, gained international attention.<ref name=NYT/><ref name=Indepedent/>

Lindall is also an author and editor. In addition to his prose synopsis of Milton's ''Paradise Lost'', his publication include a collection of short stories, ''Blue-eyed Satori: And Other Stories'', and an article in ''[[Time Out New York]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://blogs.mprnews.org/state-of-the-arts/2011/11/graffiti-vs-art-the-great-debate/ | title = Graffiti: is it art or is it vandalism? | first = Marianne | last = Combs | date = November 18, 2011 | accessdate = November 10, 2013 | work  = State of the Arts | publisher = Minnesota Public Radio}}</ref>

<gallery>
File:Lindall Surrealist2.jpg | Lindall, 2006
File:PL Ceremony.jpg | Lindall at the opening ceremony of the Milton festival, 2008
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==Select bibliography==
*{{cite book|last1=Lindall|first1=Terrance R.|last2=Nii|first2=Yuko|title=Blue-eyed Satori: And Other Stories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9-UJGwAACAAJ|year=1970|publisher=T. Gaus Sons}}
*{{cite book|last=Lindall|first=Terrance R.|title=John Milton's Paradise Lost: Synopsized and with Illustrations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7o9yAAAACAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Rodney Graphics|isbn=978-0-912493-00-8}}

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[[Category:1944 births]]
[[Category:20th-century American painters]]
[[Category:American male painters]]
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[[Category:New York University alumni]]
[[Category:Artists from Minneapolis]]
[[Category:University of Minnesota alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century American male artists]]