Lili Cassel-Wronker Collection 1947-1993

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Lili Cassel-Wronker Collection 1947-1993

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Lili Cassel-Wronker's papers focus on her work as an illustrator of children's books. The collection includes production material for twenty-seven titles published between 1947 and 1979, and contains illustrations done in a variety of media, some with separations, calligraphy, sketches, studies, negatives, proofs, dummies, paste-ups and two photographs. There is also a substantial amount of miscellaneous art work including some greeting cards done for the Kerlan Collection by Lili Cassel-Wronker, an un-published self-portrait, miscellaneous samples of greeting cards, art work done for some titles not verified as published or unidentified, art done for an issue of the , and art done for "The Little Kerlan Golden Book" created by Lili Cassel-Wronker, and miscellaneous original art that includes some valentines done by the illustrator's children, Rona and Eytan Wronker, for Dr. Irvin Kerlan, and ephemera. The collection also includes holograph copies of a speech given by Lili Cassel-Wronker at the Children's Literature Research Collection in 1993, and some correspondence. Journal of the Long Island Book Collectors

ca. 0.4 linear ft. (non-illustrative material); ca. 4.0 cubic ft. (illustrations and non-book illustrative material)

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University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections

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Cassel-Wronker, Lili, 1924-

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Lili Cassel-Wronker was born May 5, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. She and her family fled the Nazis in 1938, and came to the United States in 1940. She attended the Art Students League in New York City and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Early in her career, Lili Cassel-Wronker worked for Time, Incorporated's art department, as a book jacket designer for World Publishing, and taught calligraphy. She illustrated her first children's book, The Rainbow Mother Goose, in 1947. Throughout her long and prol...