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Fashion illustrators

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Persons who draw or paint illustrations of fashionable apparel and accessories, especially for advertisement.

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

J. Hyde Crawford fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0155-01
Abstract

J. Hyde Crawford (1930-2013), an alumnus of Parsons School of Design, was a successful fashion illustrator associated with Bonwit Teller department store. This collection is comprised of approximately fifty original drawings and one hundred clippings and tearsheets documenting Crawford's illustration work.

Dates: 1960-1980s

Jim Howard fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0154-01
Abstract

James ("Jim") Howard is a fashion illustrator. The Jim Howard fashion illustrations consist of a portfolio of nine drawings executed in the 1970s and 1980s and a self-published monograph.

Dates: 1970s-1980s, 2011

Juke Goodman fashion illustration collection

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0112
Summary

A collection of eighteen 1940s and 1950s fashion and jewelry illustrations collected by art director Juke Goodman. Artists represented in the collection include René Robert Bouché, Burma Burris, Carl Erickson ("Eric"), Ruth Graftstrom, and Jacqueline Lindner. Goodman served as art director for Saks Fifth Avenue and was a visiting lecturer at Parsons School of Design.

Dates: 1940-1952, undated

Margery S. Knight sketchbooks

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0028
Summary

Margery Knight (1906-1994) taught figure drawing and fashion illustration at Parsons School of Design from 1946 to 1969. The twelve sketchbooks in this collection, dating from the 1950s to 1980, contain rapid figure and fashion sketches, lecture notes, and anatomy studies.

Dates: circa 1951-1980

Michaele Vollbracht fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0043-01
Abstract Fashion illustrator Michaele Vollbracht (1947-2018) graduated from Parsons in 1968, and returned periodically as a visiting critic. After working as a design assistant for Geoffrey Beene, Donald Brooks, and Norman Norell, Vollbracht turned to fashion illustration and portraiture. In 1985 Vollbracht published Nothing Sacred, an illustrated memoir, and in 2000 Parsons mounted an exhibition to celebrate the release of an updated version of the book....
Dates: circa 1972-1986

Portrait of Sophie Gimbel

 Item
Identifier: KA-0113
Abstract

Fashion illustration by René Robert Bouché depicting American fashion designer Sophie Gimbel. The illustration appeared in the April 15, 1961 issue of American Vogue with the caption, "Sophie's sari tactics for short evenings." A framed reproduction of this illustration hung at the entrance to Parson School of Design's Adam and Sophie Gimbel Design Library on West 13th Street. The portrait was taken down upon the 2014 closure of Gimbel Library.

Dates: circa 1961

René Bouché fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0038-01
Summary

A celebrated portraitist and leader in fashion illustration, René Robert Bouché (1905-1963) was a visiting lecturer at Parsons School of Design in 1947. The collection, assembled by Jerry Silverman and Shannon Rodgers, consists of over 100 of Bouché's fashion illustrations, as well as a poster from a 1974 exhibition of his work at Parsons.

Dates: 1949 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1954

Richard Rosenfeld fashion drawings

 Collection
Identifier: PC-02-02-04
Abstract

Fashion illustrator and Parsons School of Design alumnus Richard Rosenfeld taught figure drawing and fashion illustration at Parsons from the 1970s until his retirement in 2015. The Richard Rosenfeld fashion drawings consist of samples selected by Rosenfeld to illustrate teaching concepts and techniques.

Dates: 2000-2013

Suzy Ehrlich fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0064
Summary

Suzy Lorraine Ehrlich (1919-2006), was a New York-based fashion illustrator and product designer. The collection is comprised of 69 fashion illustrations executed in pen and ink, pastel, crayon, watercolor, and collage. It also includes two mailers advertising Milliken yarns. Some illustrations may have been executed for a class taught by Jack Potter at the School of Visual Arts.

Dates: circa 1950s - 1960s