Frederick R. Gardner Collection of Robert Lawson, 1900-1983.

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Frederick R. Gardner Collection of Robert Lawson, 1900-1983.

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This collection contains the literary papers of author and illustrator Robert Lawson (1892-1957), collected by rare book dealer Frederick R. Gardner. Materials date from 1900 to 1983. Lawson's illustrations make up the bulk of this collection; illustrations for forty-seven titles and unpublished artworks are represented. In addition to etchings and illustrations in graphite, pen and ink, and watercolor, the collection includes the papers of Robert Lawson, which contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles and speeches, unpublished manuscripts, promotional materials, photographs, sketchbooks, and Christmas cards designed by Lawson and his wife Marie. Frederick R. Gardner's catalogs, correspondence, and records documenting his purchases are also part of the collection. Margaret Otto, the Lawsons' former neighbor and executrix, was one of Gardner's correspondents, and Otto's sales ledger of Lawson material is included in these records. Of particular note in this collection are the dummy for Munro Leaf's The Story of Ferdinand (1936) and the original art for Mr. Popper's Penguins (1938) and Wee Gillis (1938).

69.8 linear feet.

Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library

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Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library

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Free Library of Philadelphia: Rare Book Department

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Lawson, Marie A. (Marie Abrams), 1894-1956

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Author and illustrator Marie Abrams Lawson was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1894. She was educated at the Sweet Briar Institute in Virginia, and studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. She wrote and illustrated four books for young people (Hail Columbia, Dragon John, The Sea is Blue, and Strange Sea Stories) and authored a volume for Random House's Landmark Series of juvenile histories. Many of her stories are simple retellings of old legends or fanciful tales, and her illustrati...

Gardner, Frederick R.

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Robert Lawson was born in New York City on October 4, 1892, and spent his early years in Montclair, New Jersey. Lawson attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts from 1911-1914, then served in France as a camouflage artist during World War I. After the war, Lawson returned to New York to work as a freelance illustrator. In New York he met fellow artist and illustrator Marie Abrams and they married in 1922, moving to Westport, Connecticut a year later. To pay off their house they desig...

Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957

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American author and illustrator of childre's books. From the description of The tough winter : production material. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62423681 Born in New York City in 1892, Robert Lawson was both an author and illustrator of children's books, and during his illustrious career was awarded both the Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal. From the description of Robert Lawson papers, ca. 1916-1920. (University of Southern Mi...

Otto, Margaret G. (Margaret Glover)

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Leaf, Munro, 1905-1976

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Munro Leaf was born in Hamilton, Maryland on December 4, 1905, and grew up in Washington, D.C. After receiving his B.A. from the University of Maryland and M.A. from Harvard University, Leaf first worked as an English teacher before moving to New York City with his wife, Margaret, in 1932. His first city job was as a manuscript reader at Bobbs-Merrill, but within the year he had moved to the F.A. Stokes Company where he remained an editor and a director until leaving to write full time in 1939. ...