Newspaper clippings on McGill Szyk exhibition
- CA RBD MSG 444-c1-f15
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- 1954
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Newspaper clippings on McGill Szyk exhibition
Includes:
1 issue, 4 copies total The ‘Y’ Beacon’, vol. 26, no. 32,
Article announcing June 1950 Snowdon Library Exhibit.
1 book review ‘The Canterbury Tales’ June 11, 1952.
3 items announcing 1954 McGill exhibition including a press release regarding the extension of the exhibit.
Correspondence of Norman Friedman with respect to gathering items for his collection.
Correspondence with and receipts from: K. Bileski, Chiswick Book Shop; Philip C. Duschnes, Library of Congress, the Nestlé Company, Canadian Jewish Congress, George Szyk. New England Jewish National Fund, Canadian Jewish Review, Calmenson, Abramson and Co.
Vol. 10, no. 11; includes portraits of Kosciuszko and Pulaski.
Bileski, Konrad Kasimir – stamp dealer’s promotional material on Szyk.
Includes typed loose advertising inserts, printed subscription forms, order forms, pricing sheets, one mail order catalogues (15 pages), and one ‘advertising booklet’ signed K. Bileski ,6 pages with samples of China and France Title Pages by Szyk. Szyk stamp sets advertised include: ‘Liberia’, ‘Jehudi Ashmun’, ‘Title Pages for the Nations’.
Norman H. Friedman Arthur Szyk Collection
Fonds consists of many examples of Szyk's illustrations in the form of prints, commercially-reproduced illustrations, and drawing studies, as well as printed ephemera. Examples of Szyk's illustrations reproduced on commercial products or other items include postage stamps, posters, book jackets, and calendars. The fonds contains ephemera related to or containing Szyk illustrations, including newspaper clippings and issues of magazines featuring articles on Szyk or reproducing one of his designs. Box 10 contains original drawing studies, mostly for the Book of Esther. The fonds also contains materials related to an exhibition on Szyk at McGill University Library held in 1954.
Szyk, Arthur, 1894-1951
Sources on Szyk – articles, press releases, bibliographies
1 – Arthur Szyk Society brochure, Burlingame, CA. approximately 1991
1 – Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, annual report, 1950, 12 pages
1 – New York Times article, July 16, 2000 copy of article.
1 – World Medical Assoc., Dec. 1, 1949 press release, re.
exhibition of Szyk’s illuminated ‘doctor’s oath’, 2 pages
1 – handwritten draft notes of obituary for Szyk, on hotel
stationery Warwick hotel, Philadelphia, PA, 1 page
Not signed or dated.
1 – Notes on ‘Miniature Painting’ derived from
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 page, 3 copies total
1 – Typed draft of bibliography titled ‘Szyk Sources’, some entries handwritten. Not signed or dated. 1939-1951, 4 pages
Items from Philip C. Eisman a Szyk collector:
1 – Eisman correspondence with Leon Walters Society of
Israeli Philatelists, president and Dr. Winkelstein, with
Bibliography titled ‘Szykiana’, 1960, 6 pages
1 – typed bibliographic listings of Szyk illustrations
published in Coronet and Collier’s magazines, 1942-49,
3 pages
Arthur Szyk Society Newsletter 3 issues
Includes vol. 1, no. 1 and no. 2; vol. 2, no. 2.
5 loose prints from the series Washington and His Times
Printed in Vienna by Max Joffe.
Subjects include battle scenes.
Includes September 1941 issue: Francis Perkins Portrait US Secretary of Labor.