Illustrators -- United States -- 20th Century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Lois and Louis Darling papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 644
Overview:
The Lois and Louis Darling Papers consist of writings, correspondence, artwork, galley proofs, mock-ups, printed material, and other papers relating to the professional lives of Lois and Louis Darling. Material relates to the Darlings' collaborative and individual publications, including Greenhead (William Morrow, 1954); The Gull's Way (William Morrow,1965); The Sea Serpents Around Us: A Complete Guide to Sea Serpentology (Little Brown, 1965); A Place in the Sun: Ecology and the Living World...
Dates:
1954-1986
Emlen Etting papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 645
Overview:
The Emlen Etting Papers contain correspondence, writings, printed material, artwork, and photographs that document the professional and personal life of visual artist Emlen Etting. The papers span the years 1924 to 1982.
Dates:
1924-1982
Tom Feelings artwork
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 74
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of original artwork, dummies, prints, posters, professional and personal papers, and audiovisual materials documenting Tom Feelings's work as an artist and book illustrator. The collection includes the original artwork for The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo, which consists of 51 drawings, currently housed in 47 frames, created in mixed-media tempera, pen and tissue, heightened with white and collage; the artwork is...
Dates:
1940s-2010
Lillian Hoban papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1199
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of writings, drawings, posters, correspondence, other papers, and audiovisual materials. The writings and drawings document Lillian Hoban's career as a children's author and illustrator, including the Frances and Arthur books and her many collaborations with other authors including Miriam Cohen and Johanna Hurwitz. Audiovisual materials and born digital electronic media include interviews with Hoban and her then husband Russell Hoban.
Dates:
circa 1950s-2000
Karla Kuskin papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 791
Scope and Contents:
The Karla Kuskin Papers, which span from 1880 to 2009, contain writings and artwork, along with business and personal papers related to Kuskin's life and work. The papers also contain correspondence, reviews, photographs, audiovisual materials, and born digital materials.
Dates:
circa 1880s-2009, bulk circa 1930s-2009
Elizabeth MacKinstry collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 408
Overview:
The collection contains work by Elizabeth MacKinstry: autograph and typescript versions of poems, a set of illustrations for the children's book Eliza and the Elves, by Rachel Field (New York: Macmillan Company, 1926), and a scrapbook of her original and printed artwork dating from 1924-1934. One volume of poems was bound by John F. Grabau of Buffalo, New York, for MacKinstry's presentation to Emily Howland Leeming Lyman. Also present is a published volume of MacKinstry's poems, Helen's Mirror...
Dates:
1904-1957, bulk 1924-1934
Peter Newell collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 63
Overview:
The collection contains 73 drawings by illustrator Peter Newell which were acquired by the library, either by purchase or gift, primarily through funds left to the library by Newell's grandson Alfred Z. Baker (1907-1987). They include illustrations created for the Harper and Brothers firm and their periodicals Harper's Weekly, Harper's Monthly, and Harper's Bazar; illustrations created for other publishers; examples of Newell's personal artwork, such as a self-portrait and portraits of his wife...
Dates:
1878-circa 1920
Robert Osborn Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 938
Overview:
The Robert Osborn Papers contain drawings, paintings, posters, correspondence, collages, printed material, clippings, a sketch notebook, a wooden plate, and dolls. Drawings include drawings of Don Quijote, Charlie Chaplin, and drawings for several publications.
Dates:
1929-1994, bulk 1949-1994
[Walter L. Pforzheimer collection of Century Company illustrations]
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1219
Overview:
The collection consists of 142 drawings and watercolors by twenty-seven artists who were commissioned by the Century Company to create illustrations for their popular periodicals The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine and St. Nicholas Magazine, in particular to illustrate stories for children. Most of the drawings have paper labels or production marks in crayon on their versos indicating the magazine, volume number, and projected page number where the images were to appear, the section of the...
Dates:
1879-1914
Walter L. Pforzheimer collection of Frank Richard Stockton
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 560
Overview:
The Walter L. Pforzheimer Collection of Frank Richard Stockton contains correspondence, writings, photographs, artifacts, and other personal papers of Stockton and his family; drawings by illustrators of Stockton's works; writings about Stockton and adaptations of his works by others; and correspondence, notes, and related materials created by Pforzheimer in the course of his research and collecting. Correspondence includes autograph letters, signed, to and from Stockton, many with literary...
Dates:
circa 1829-circa 1993, bulk 1880-1940
Joseph W. and Kit Reed Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 843
Overview:
The Joseph W. and Kit Reed Papers contain correpondence, writings by Joseph and Kit Reed and others, notes and research papers, personal and professional papers, financial papers, photographs, artwork, printed material, audiocassettes and videocassettes, scrapbooks, and computer disks. The papers document their personal and professional lives and artistic endeavors.
Dates:
1905-2015, bulk 1950-2008
Saul Steinberg correspondence to Aldo Buzzi
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1135
Overview:
The papers are comprised of autograph manuscript letters from American artist Saul Steinberg to his friend, writer and architect Aldo Buzzi from 1936 to 1999.
Dates:
1936-1999
Saul Steinberg papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1053
Overview:
The Saul Steinberg Papers consist of correspondence, artwork, professional papers, personal papers, photographs, published artwork, clippings, collected and source material, realia, financial papers, and audio-visual material documenting artist Saul Steinberg’s professional and personal activities.
Dates:
1417-2001, bulk 1931-1999
James Stevenson papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1693
Overview:
The James Stevenson Papers contains personal and literary correspondence, original artwork, writings, notes, personal papers, clippings, photographs, and audiovisual material documenting the life and career of American cartoonist and children's book author James Stevenson. The bulk of the collection consists of drafts of writings and illustrations for children's books, illustrated memoirs, and young adult novels, as well as cartoons, writings, and illustrations submitted to The New Yorker and...
Dates:
1902-2017, bulk 1945-2016
Max Walter commercial art for W. & J. Sloane
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 929
Overview:
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...
Dates:
1934-1981