Robert Andrew Parker who knew Jackson Pollock as a young man, is a fine artist and printmaker whose work often appears in publications such as "The New Yorker". The illustrator of the Modern Library's edition of Stendhal's "The Charterhouse of Parma", his numerous children's books include" Grandfather Tang's Story", "Sleds on Boston Common", and" Cold Feet", winner of the 2002 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.