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The original art for Peter Kuper's biographical comic on Harvey Kurtzman, drawn for the book Masterful marks: cartoonists who changed the world (Simon & Schuster, 2014), edited by Monte Beauchamp. This Kurtzman bio connects to the Kurtzman material in the Kitchen Sink Press archives.

The Book Arts Collection is both a major collection of examples of fine printing and book illustration, and a collection of books about various phases of bookmaking and related subjects. Book Arts was established in 1938, currently contains over 15,000 volumes and growing. The older part of the collection is shelved in Dewey classification. In 1975, we switched to a slightly-modified Library of Congress classification. Both Dewey and Library of Congress sets include BOOKART prefix). Additional cross-collection card catalogs of designers (654: 25A) illustrators (654: 25B-I) imprints (654 Mez: 62A-F), bindings (654: 24I-J, 654 Mez: 52C, 13V:1D) and presses (654: 26A-27H) are no longer maintained, but could still be useful.

Note: unpublished until this inventory can be verified. The collection consists of 22 items. The Collection inclides oil paintings, prints, and photographs as follows: Portrait of Gabriela Mistral (1971); photograph of clouds over Hudson River; Biography by Lonnie Sue Johnson (1950); German Department sign by Judith Gilbert; Sphinx by Naomi Savage; Family Album by Marie Sturkan; Barnard Poster with Big Apple motif (ca. 1990); Autograph portrait of Twyla Tharp; Black and white photo of unidentified man; Oil painting by Natalia Dumitresco; Woman Bathing Child print by A.D. Gardiner; Map of Columbia University by Marie Leis (1935); Folly or Saintliness lithograph by Jose Echegaray (1895); 4 Japanese prints; Portrait of Professor Wilhelm Braun; Painting of a Harbor by Dimitris Grammatikopulos (1972); Portrait of Isaac Railton by John Opie (ca. 1800); Portrait of Delphine Brown (ca. 1890); Mission at Santa Barbara by E.J. Kahn (1950).

Cover designs; original art work for illustrations, vignettes, charts, and mastheads; prints and photographs from the files of THE SURVEY. The collection consists primarily of art work for SURVEY GRAPHIC; some material for MIDMONTHLY is also included. SURVEY GRAPHIC included articles on broad social issues, including public health, world peace, welfare, labor conditions, and government regulations. It had striking pictorial covers, and was extensively illustrated with drawings, cartoons, reproductions of contemporary prints, and photographs, all represented in the collection. The cataloged artists include Wilfred Jones and Hendrik Willem Van Loon.