Seymour Robins collection, 1962-1992.

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Seymour Robins collection, 1962-1992.

Materials consist of project catalogs for Mohawk Paper Mills and Neenah Paper, a division of Kimberly-Clark. The collection documents Robins' work as a graphic and industrial designer.

0.5 cu. ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7646796

Smithsonian Institution. Libraries

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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Cooper-Hewitt Design Archive.

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Genesco, Inc.

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Smithsonian Institution

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Mohawk Paper Mills (Cohoes, N.Y.)

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Robins, Seymour.

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Seymour Robins is a graphic and industrial designer. Born in Canada, he has lived most of his life in New York City and had his design practice there. Although locking together slotted pieces of paper has been done for many years, in the two decades that Robins has been designing these shapes that become forms when opened, he has developed them into a unique art form in itself. Robins' interlocking paper sculptures have been called "magic". He has had successful design a...

Whitney Museum of American Art

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Kimberly-Clark Corporation

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Neenah Paper (Firm)

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