Ruben Toledo

Cuban-American artist (born 1961)

Isabel Toledo

(m. 1984; died 2019)

Ruben Toledo (born 1961, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist based in New York City.^[1]

Personal life

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 3865213014.

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]

Awards

Ruben and Isabel Toledo were the recipient of the 2005 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for their work in fashion.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Steidl: Ruben Toledo". Retrieved October 18, 2012.
^ Grinberg, Emanuella; Weinberger, Hannah (July 6, 2012). "Partners by design: Isabel and Ruben Toledo". Retrieved October 19, 2012.
^ "Exhibition: Toledo/Toledo: A marriage of Art and Fashion". Contemporary Fashion Archive. Archived from the original on July 15, 2010. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
^ "Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Announces Winners of the Sixth Annual National Design Awards". Archived from the original on June 14, 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2012.

External links

Ruben Toledo at IMDb
"Isabel & Ruben Toledo: A Studio Visit". Studio 360. Retrieved October 20, 2012.
"Isabel & Ruben Toledo Interview". The Artist Toolbox.