Creator:
Wilson, Edward A. (Edward Arthur), 1886-1970.
Inclusive Dates:
1915- 1963
Abstract:
Spanning 1915 to 1963, the
Edward A. Wilson Papers comprises biographical
material, correspondence, artwork, writings, and memorabilia
of the Scottish-born illustrator, lithographer, and painter
(1886-1970). The collection illuminates Wilson's artistic
career, which ranged from book and magazine illustration
to the design of advertisements, bookplates, magazine covers,
postage stamps, and war posters.
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Articles.
Book illustrations.
Bookplates.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Exhibition catalogs.
Photographs.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
Artists.
Illustrators.
Lithographers.
Painters.
Printmakers.
Art -- Illustrators
Art -- Painters
Art, American.
Art, American -- 20th century.
Commercial art.
Commercial artists -- United States.
Illustration of books -- United States -- 20th century.
Illustrators -- United States.
Lithographers -- United States.
Magazine covers.
Magazine illustration -- 20th century.
Marine art, American.
Marine artists -- United States.
Painters -- United States.
Printmakers -- United States.
Scottish Americans.
Creator:
Williams, Gluyas, 1888-1982.
Inclusive Dates:
1918- 1950
Abstract:
Papers of the American cartoonist, illustrator. Original book illustrations for books by Robert Benchley, Edward Streeter, William Freeman, and Corey Ford, magazine cartoons for Cosmopolitan, Life and The New Yorker, and newspaper cartoons (1922-1947); correspondence, 1918-1949, and manuscript of a poem about Williams by Kenneth Bird and prefaces to Fellow Citizens (1941) and The Gluyas Williams Book, both by Robert Benchley (1929). Correspondents include Randolph G. Adams, Robert Benchley, Kenneth Bird, Charles Dana Gibson, G.S. Lobrano, Christopher Morley, D. Nassau, H.W. Ross, Frank Sullivan, and K.S. White.
Type of Material:
Book illustrations.
Cartoons (humorous images)
Correspondence.
Manuscripts (document genre)
Subject:
Cosmopolitan (New York, N.Y. : 1952)
Life (New York, N.Y.)
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
Cartoonists.
Illustrators.
Art -- Cartoonists
Art -- Illustrators
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Caricatures and cartoons -- United States.
Cartoonists -- United States.
Illustrators -- United States.