Jerry’s Honors & Awards

  • five Coretta Scott King Awards

  • four Coretta Scott King Honor Awards

  • Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, 2003

  • Doctorate of Fine Arts, honoris causa, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, 2010

  • Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Bank Street Graduate School of Education, New York, 2012

  • United States nominee, Hans Christian Andersen Illustration Medal, l997

  • Distinguished Arts Award, Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Pennsylvania, 2013

  • The Society of Illustrators in New York, NY; four gold medals, four silver medals, the Hamilton King Award, and the Original Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, 2006

  • Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame, 2011

Jerry’s work has been shown in 30+ one-man exhibitions worldwide, including:

  • the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL

  • the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, CA

  • the Brandywine River Art Museum in Chadds Ford, PA

  • the Schomberg Center in New York, NY

  • the R. Michelson Gallery in Northampton, MA

  • the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA

  • the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, MI

  • the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY

  • the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA

  • the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, PA

  • the African American Museum in Dallas, TX.

Jerry’s art can be found in the permanent collections at:

  • the Library of Congress

  • the New York Public Library

  • the Delaware Art Museum

  • the Brandywine River Art Museum

  • the Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

  • the National Museum of Wildlife Art, as well as in private collections. His works have also been featured in The New York Times, American Artist Magazine, The Horn Book Magazine, the CBS “Sunday Morning Show,” and on PBS’s “Reading Rainbow.”