Skier Escaping Avalanche
Original Book Cover Illustration Art by Christopher M. Magadini

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Avalanche detail
detail: book cover
detail: signature
Christopher M. Magadini (1946-)
Avalanche
American: c. 1979
Oil on gessoed illustration board
Signed by artist, lower right
30 x 20 inches
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Dramatic scene of a boy in a red jacket, binoculars swinging from his neck, skiing away from an avalanche. This painting was used as the cover illustration for Point Avalanche by Arthur Roth, Scholastic, Inc., New York: 1979. The book is a survival story for young readers about a boy who is trapped in an avalanche. It was reissued in 1989 and is still in print.

Christopher M. Magadini is a prominent illustrator who earned his B.F.A. at the Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles and his M.F.A. at Syracuse University. Thereafter, he moved to the New York metropolitan area to further his career as a free-lance illustrator for publications such as Field & Stream, Reader's Digest, Audubon, Flying, Boating, Home Mechanix, Popular Science and The Wine Enthusiast. He has created illustrations for numerous books including those published by Reader's Digest Books, Scholastic Books and Zebra Books. In 1984, he was commissioned to design stamps depicting veterinary medicine for the United Nations. For Women's Day magazine, he has created a series of collectible bird posters. Having designed several successful collectors' plates, he was invited by Royal Copenhagen, Purveyor to Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark, to be its 1996 guest artist at the prestigious 22nd-Annual International Collectible Exposition in Rosemont, II. He is still based in the New York City area and concentrates on pleine aire and studio landscape paintings in oil, acrylic and watercolor.