Maurice Sendak Papers 1951-1965

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Maurice Sendak Papers 1951-1965

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Maurice Sendak's papers focus on his work as an author and illustrator of children's books, with emphasis on the latter. The collection contains production materials for 21 titles published between 1951-1965, an illustration for a Robert Frost poem contained in a book of children's literature published in 1958, some miscellaneous art work, including studies for Esquire magazine, an ink and watercolor study inscribed for Irvin Kerlan, and a study for a version of Oscar Wild's The Happy Prince, not verified as published. The collection contains studies done in a variety of media, proofs, a dummy, a signed lithograph, and typescripts, notes, and galley proofs.

.4 linear feet--written2.5 cubic feet--illustrative

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University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections

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Sendak, Maurice

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Maurice Sendak was born June 10, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York. He began his art career as a cartoonist and display artist, and in the 1940s he started to illustrate children's books. Sendak illustrated many well-known author's books in the early years of his career, including Meindart De Jong, Ruth Krause, Charlotte Zolotow, and Janice Udry; he also illustrated Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear series. In the 1950s he began to write children's picture books. Throughout his long career he has c...