Don Freeman papers : 1953-2003.

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Don Freeman papers : 1953-2003.

The colllection contains production material, including manuscript and/or illustrative material with an emphasis on the latter, for 35 titles published between 1953 and 2003. Illustrative materials include sketches, studies, and illustrations done in a variety of media, dummies, and paste-ups. The collection also contains some miscellaneous art including sketches, illustrations, proofs, and dummies, as well as six sketchbooks.

Illustrations: ca. 280 p.Sketchbooks: 6.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7857279

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Freeman, Don, 1908-1978

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Don Freeman was born August 11, 1908, in San Diego, CA. He attended the Art Students League in New York City for two years. In 1931 he married Lydia Cooley, an art student, and the couple had one son. Don Freeman worked as a freelance artist and as a graphic artist for the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune before beginning to illustrate books in the 1940s. In 1940 he illustrated William Saroyan's My Name is Aram . During his career, Don Freeman illustrated children's books by other well...