Nancy Ekholm Burkert (born February 16, 1933) is an American artist and illustrator.
[1] In 2003, she was subject of an exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst.
[5] Together they went on to have a son and daughter, [6] with whom they spent time in Europe and at their family cottage in northern Wisconsin.
Beginning with The Nightingale and concluding with Snow White, her mastery of light, shadow and depth combined Renaissance chiaroscuro with an Oriental awareness of space in settings that were realistic in detail, yet also fanciful and timeless in content.
Her later work continued this emphasis on intense, intimate detail, revealing a passion for the complexity and variety of life.