Representative collections in the graphic arts include the works of illustrators Thomas Bewick, Aubrey Beardsley, William Blake, Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, George Cruikshank, Kate Greenaway, Maxfield Parrish, Arthur Rackham and Thomas Rowlandson. The Wolff Leavenworth collection of several thousand historical portraits covers a broad geographical area and several centuries. The SCRC also holds a beautiful collection of fore-edge paintings, a demanding form of art in which the outer edges of the book's pages are carefully painted to reveal the picture when the leaves are fanned slightly.
A growing collection on cartooning reflects the political side of illustration with the manuscript collections of works William Gropper and Fred Ellis now complemented by printed materials with the complete run of the Red Cartoons annual (1926-1929) containing works by Maurice Becker, Jacob Burck, Adolf Dehn, Fred Ellis, Hugo Gellert, Lydia Gibson, William Gropper, Robert Minor, William Siegel, and Art Young. |
"The Leaning Tower" by Fred Ellis
in the Daily Worker, February 17, 1928.
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American illustrator N. C. Wyeth (1882 - 1945)
In the spring of 2006, Syracuse University alumnus James Albright donated a comprehensive collection of the printed work of American illustrator N. C. Wyeth (1882 - 1945). The collection includes ninety books containing the first published appearances of Wyeth illustrations, more than a dozen books with dust-wrapper illustrations, thirty-five books containing illustrations reprinted from books and periodicals, and sixteen volumes constituting the uniform set of Scribner's Illustrated Classics. In addition, there are more than eighty exhibition catalogs, forty periodical issues bearing original Wyeth covers, together with seventy-five newer magazines that feature reprints of Wyeth's work, and more than two hundred volumes of modern reprints of Wyeth's work. The collection also includes assorted ephemera such as greeting cards, postcards, folders, brochures, booklets, pamphlets, commemorative souvenirs, and jigsaw puzzles.
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