Died 2010 | ||
Books The Little Car that Wanted a Garage | ||
Edward Meshekoff (1917 in Bronx, New York City – 2010) was an American artist, illustrator and designer.
A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, Meshekoff worked and lived in both Los Angeles and New York City.
In 1957 Meshekoff designed a pair of mosaic map murals of New York City's five boroughs installed on the walls of what was then a newly-built Information Center located on a traffic island in the center of Times Square (in more recent years, the building has served as a NYPD police substation.) As of 2016, Meshekoff's mosaic maps are scheduled for restoration and move to an as-yet-undetermined new location.
His commissions included the design of a children’s playroom aboard the SS United States, illustrations for a 1952 children’s book, The Little Car That Wanted a Garage, wall murals, and decorative design elements such as a sculpted overdoor sailing ship.