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Commercial art -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Lorraine Fox offprints, transparencies, and tear sheets

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0015-01
Summary

Lorraine Fox (1922-1976) began her career in commercial illustration in the 1940s, becoming one of the most celebrated female illustrators of the mid-20th century. The collection, spanning the final decade of Fox's life, includes proofs, transparencies and tear sheets of album covers, book illustrations, greeting cards, and advertisements. Fox taught at Parsons School of Design from 1965 until shortly before her death in 1976.

Dates: 1964 - 1976

Margaret Schmid Hartelius student work

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0079
Summary

Consists of two illustrations completed by Margaret Schmid (1922-2001) for an advertising design course at Parsons School of Design. After graduating in 1947. Schmid, whose name changed when she married Paul Hartelius, Jr., went on to a successful fifty-year career as an illustrator and children's book author.

Dates: 1946 - 1947

Naiad and Walter Einsel papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0166-01
Abstract

The work of illustrators Naiad and Walter Einsel appeared in numerous publications from the 1950s to the 1990s. This collection includes personal papers, slides and photographs, original sketches, and samples of their professional work, as well as teaching materials from their courses on illustration.

Dates: 1939-2011

Roselaine Boylan student work

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0077
Abstract

Roselaine Boylan studied graphic design and illustration at Parsons School of Design in the late 1920s-early 1930s. The hand-drawn commercial artwork in this collection represents five assignments from her classes.

Dates: circa 1929 - 1930