Fred Lynch
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 House as well as in situ paintings of the Boston-area and Italy. He is also known for journalistic illustration, urban sketching, teaching, and lecturing internationally about on-site art making.
Fred Lynch
- Occupation
- illustrator · educator
- Education
- Rhode Island School of Design
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
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 House as well as in situ paintings of the Boston-area and Italy. He is also known for journalistic illustration, urban sketching, teaching, and lecturing internationally about on-site art making.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Fred Lynch. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q56289957
In this article
Teaching
Lynch was a featured artist on a Boston episode of the Travel Channel's television series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, as an expert about the route of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride.
Lynch is an illustration professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), 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.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Miller, Adam. Fred Lynch. Tryptic Press. March 2016.
- 2.Lines and Colors: Fred Lynch
- 3.Salem State University Exhibition: A Sense of Place - Fred Lynch and Michael McLaughlin
- 4.Drawing on Experience in Italy
- 5.Why You Should Keep a Daily Sketchbook—and How to Get Started. Artsy. 2018-11-16.
- 6.Had to Be There: Drawing on Experience (Lecture C). Barcelona Urban Sketching Symposium. 2013.
- 7.Drawing on American History
- 8.Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Current Exhibitions—Paul Revere’s Ride Revisited: Drawings by Fred Lynch,”
- 9.RISD Illustration Faculty
- 10.RISD Recognizes Excellence in Teaching. Rhode Island School of Design. 2013-06-12.
- 11.Ensuring a Strong Start. RISDxyz. 62. 2015-06-01.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Illustration
5,224 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Fred ChanceIllustrator
- Fred EnockIllustrator
- Fred FieldsIllustrator
- Fred GwynneIllustrator
- Fred MarcellinoIllustrator
- Fred MartinIllustrator
- Fred OtnesIllustrator
- Fred RoeIllustrator
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Fred Lynch?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.