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Anthony Freda is a freelance illustrator whose work has been published in high-profile publications such as Time, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Esquire, and Business Week. Freda's paintings have hung in galleries across the country, including the New York Society of Illustrators and The Puck Building at GenArts; Summer Art Festival in 2002. Trained at Pratt Institute and Tyler Art School in Rome, Italy, Freda easily glides between the worlds of commercial art, personal introspection and social commentary.

Freda's paintings are an amalgamation of vintage found-objects, such as scraps taken from antique rulers, aging books, bits of metal, old barn wood, and forgotten souvenirs combined with highly detailed drawings and paintings that may be a mix of handwork with some computer manipulation.

Freda is well-known and highly regarded among fans and collectors of American contemporary illustration. His work regularly appears in Communication Arts Annual, American Illustration Annual, and most recently in a book titled, "The 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide," published by Lurzer's Archive.

Freda's work was also shown prominently throughout a book published in 2008 by well-known animal rights activist Karen Dawn, whose column Dawnwatch goes out to fans across the country each week. The book, titled "Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals," published by Harper.

Other notable appearances of Freda's work were in national ad campaigns by Converse, Mini Cooper, and Rockport Shoe Company. Freda served as a judge for The Society of Illustrator's annual competition held in New York City in 2007, and his work has also appeared in several volumes of the society's annual publication highlighting the best of American illustration.