Beni Montresor Papers 1961-1991 with many undated titles

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Beni Montresor Papers 1961-1991 with many undated titles

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Beni Montresor's papers focus on his work as an illustrator and author of children's books. The collection contains production material for titles in English , French, or Italian. These include pencil sketches, a promotional card for a book, separations, layouts, ink and photocopy illustrations, pasteups, negative prints, jackets, corrected front matter layout proofs, photocopies of illustrations, some corrected, transparencies of illustrations, typescripts, some corrected, carbon, or photocopied, front matter, corrected, correspondence, legal agreements, holographs, some corrected, color page prints, ink and watercolor illustrations, research material, layouts, ink, watercolor and acrylic illustrations, ink studies, page prints, some colored, a jacket, artist's dummies, some corrected, pencil studies, ink studies, ink and pencil sketchbook, ink and watercolor studies, clippings, pastel illustrations on transparency, illustrations on transparency, awards, journals/sketchbooks, posters, stage blueprints, pencil and pastel illustrations and studies, ink and marker studies, costume designs, recipes, posters, set drawings for plays, and contracts,

94 folders--mss.3 boxes--illustrative

eng,

University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections

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Montresor, Beni

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Beni Montresor was born March 31, 1926 in Bussolengo, Italy. He studied at the Liceo Artistico in Verona, and later at the Academia de Belle Arti in Venice and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He worked in Italy as a newspaper film critic, author of radio plays, and set designer, and came to the United States in 1960. He continued to work as a set and costume designer for operas and musicals, and also began illustrating and writing children's books. He has illustra...