Max Walter commercial art for W. & J. Sloane
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of pen-and-wash drawings of furniture and home accessories drawn by Max Walter for the W. & J. Sloane company. The drawings depict a range of furniture and home furnishing styles available to the public and were featured in advertisements for W. & J. Sloane printed in newspapers and magazines. The drawings document changing styles in the American commercial domestic furniture industry in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Also found are sketchbooks containing pastel, watercolor, pencil, and pen-and-wash drawings and copies of print advertisements featuring Walter's drawings.
Dates
- 1934-1981
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Max Walter Commercial Art for W. & J. Sloane is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Rachelle S. Blaxberg on the Library Associates Endowment Fund, 2012.
Arrangement
Organized into three series by format: I. Pen-and-Wash Drawings, 1934-1981. II. Sketchbooks, 1951-1952. III. Advertisements, undated.
Extent
5.33 Linear Feet (15 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The collection consists primarily of pen-and-wash drawings of furniture and home accessories drawn by Max Walter for the W. & J. Sloane company. The drawings depict a range of furniture and home furnishing styles available to the public and were featured in advertisements for W. & J. Sloane printed in newspapers and magazine. The drawings document changing styles in the American commercial domestic furniture industry in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Also found are sketchbooks containing pastel, watercolor, pencil, and pen-and-wash drawings and copies of print advertisements featuring Walter's drawings.
Max Walter (1908-1988)
Max Walter, American illustrator, studied at the Arts Students League of New York (1925-1926), and drew illustrations of furniture and home accessories for the W. & J. Sloane company for more than 35 years during the middle decades of the twentieth century.
W. & J. Sloane
W. & J. Sloane was a furniture and rug store in New York City that catered to the wealthy and operated from 1843 to 1985, reaching its peak in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Custodial History
From the collection of Jack Lubiner.
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.
This collection received a basic level of processing, including rehousing and minimal organization in 2012. Information included in this finding aid is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Advertisements -- United States -- 20th Century
- Advertising -- United States
- Commercial art -- United States
- Commercial art -- United States -- 20th Century
- Commercial artists -- United States
- Commercial artists -- United States -- 20th Century
- Furniture -- United States
- Furniture industry and trade -- United States
- House furnishings -- United States
- House furnishings industry and trade -- United States
- Illustrators -- United States
- Illustrators -- United States -- 20th Century
- Lubiner, Jack -- Ownership
- Pen and wash drawings -- United States -- 20th Century
- Sketchbooks -- United States -- 20th Century
- W. & J. Sloane
- Walter, Max, 1908-1988
- Title
- Guide to the Max Walter Commercial Art for W. & J. Sloane
- Author
- by Joanne McCarthy and Jennifer Meehan
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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