CLRC-1008 Beni Montresor CollectionJim Eyer and John Barneson University of Minnesota Libraries8/24/04

University of Minnesota Libraries Minneapolis, MN 55455

EAD 2002 Validated Finding Aid generated with the aid of a custom FileMaker Pro database developed by the staff of the Children's Literature Research Collections, University of Minnesota Libraries. Many thanks to all the staff and volunteers.8/24/04Description is in English Summary Information University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc] Montresor, Beni Beni Montresor Papers 1961-1991 with many undated titles CLRC-1008 Beni Montresor's papers focus on his work as an illustrator and author of children's books. The collection contains production material for titles in English , French, or Italian. These include pencil sketches, a promotional card for a book, separations, layouts, ink and photocopy illustrations, pasteups, negative prints, jackets, corrected front matter layout proofs, photocopies of illustrations, some corrected, transparencies of illustrations, typescripts, some corrected, carbon, or photocopied, front matter, corrected, correspondence, legal agreements, holographs, some corrected, color page prints, ink and watercolor illustrations, research material, layouts, ink, watercolor and acrylic illustrations, ink studies, page prints, some colored, a jacket, artist's dummies, some corrected, pencil studies, ink studies, ink and pencil sketchbook, ink and watercolor studies, clippings, pastel illustrations on transparency, illustrations on transparency, awards, journals/sketchbooks, posters, stage blueprints, pencil and pastel illustrations and studies, ink and marker studies, costume designs, recipes, posters, set drawings for plays, and contracts, 94 folders--mss. 3 boxes--illustrative See Detailed Descriptions for Each Title Item for Box Locations English Important Information for Users of the Collections Access and Use:

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Biographical Sketch

Beni Montresor was born March 31, 1926 in Bussolengo, Italy. He studied at the Liceo Artistico in Verona, and later at the Academia de Belle Arti in Venice and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He worked in Italy as a newspaper film critic, author of radio plays, and set designer, and came to the United States in 1960. He continued to work as a set and costume designer for operas and musicals, and also began illustrating and writing children's books. He has illustrated many books on a wide variety of subjects and settings, has done adaptations of operas, and has worked with fiction and non-fiction. In 1965 he received the Caldecott Medal for May I Bring a Friend?a by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. Throughout his career his illustrations have been praised by critics for their dream-like imagery that stimulates children's imagination. His drawings have also been lauded for their great sense of richness and depth.

Biographical Source: Something About the Author, Vol. 3, 38

Scope and Content

The collection includes written and illustrative materials for works published in English, French, or Italian, and includes pencil sketches,a promotional card for a book, separations, layouts, ink and photocopied illustrations, pasteups, negative prints, jackets, corrected front matter, layout proofs, photocopies of illustrations, some corrected, transparencies of illustrations, typescripts, some corrected, carbon, or photocopied, front matter, some corrected, correspondence, legal agreements, holographs, some corrected, color page prints, ink and watercolor illuistrations, research material, layouts, ink studies, ink, watercolor and acrylic illustrations, page prints, some colored, artist's dummies, some corrected, a jacket, ink studies, pencil studies, ink and pencil sketchbook, ink and watercolor studies, clippings, pastel illustrations on transparency, illustrations on transparency, awards, posters, journals/sketchbooks, pencil and pastel illustrations and studies, stage blueprints, ink and marker studies, costume designs, recipes, posters, set drawings for plays, and contracts.

Indexing Terms

The collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Montresor, Beni Accession Information:

This collection was originally given to Dr. Irvin Kerlan, who in turn donated his collection to the U. of Minn. In 2004 the Montresor family donated a large amount of additional material to the U. of Minn.

Gift of: Montresor, Beni

Arrangement

Great Rebellion, The, 1961

Mommies at Work, 1961

A is for Angel: Beni Montresor's ABC Picture Stories, 1969

Ah, Le Donne!,

Amorous Deceptions,

Bailiff's House, The,

Belling the Tiger, 1961

Birthday of the Infanta and Other Tales, 1982

C'era mas holta un guso,

Children's Literature Commentary,

Cinderella, 1965

Coppelia,

Delirio,

Daybreak,

Don't Wake Me up!,

Dramatis Personae,

Dragon Drummer, The, 1991

Enchantments,

Estate, The,

Fable of Glyndebourne, The,

Father,

Girasoli Scintillanti, Margherite Savillanti (Sunflowers Sparkling, Daisies Spinning),

Gospel According to Luke, The,

Gothic Night, The,

House of Flowers, House of Stars, 1962

I Saw a Ship A-Sailing, 1967

Cardinale e Il Killer Condannati A Morte, Il (The Cardinal and the Killer Condemned to Death),

Chercho Magico Deglis Dei, Il (Search for the Magic of the Circle),

Mondo, Il (The World),

Trono, Il (The Throne,

Io M'Immagino de Essere una Prinipessa e tu T'Immagini di Essere un Drago (I'll Pretend I'm a Princess and you Pretend You're a Dragon),

It is a sticky summer's day,

Derniere Fete, La (The Last Party,

Doodicesima Notte, La (Twlefth Night),

Famiglia, La,

Messe Doree, La (The Doree Harvest),

L'Amore Dei Tre Re (radio review of Kennedy Center performance,

Pronfonda Luce Dei Sensi, La (The Profound Sense of Light),

L'Enfant et les Sortileges,

Les Dix Fables d'un Conservateur (Ten Tales of a Conservative),

Gaspards, Les (The Gaspards),

Lifar,

Little Red Riding Hood, 1991

Liturgia (Liturgy),

Lo Spiritu Santo, (Holy Spirit),

May I Bring a Friend?, 1964

Miscellaneous costume designs,

Miscellaneous journals/sketchbooks,

Miscellaneous legal documents,

Miscellaneous recipes,

Miscellaneous posters,

Miscellaneous set drawings for plays,

Miscellaneous stage blueprints,

Nightingale, The, 1985

Nota Salla Mia Scenografia (Note About My Scene Designing),

On Christmas Eve, 1961

Penthesilea,

Personaggi: Il Fratello,

Picasso Studies,

Pilgrimage,

Siri the Conquistador, 1963

Sounds of a Summer Night, 1963

Star of Texas, The,

Sunday,

Tutti I bambino sanno,

Storia Veneziana, Une (A Venetian Story),

Unidentified illustrations,

United Scenic Artists Contracts,

Vangelo,

Villa Verdi,

Why Was It So?,

Witches of Venice, The, 1963

Collection Contents Great Rebellion, The 1961

New York: Harper, 1961

MF592 folder 1 pencil sketches on pages of corrected typescript 12 p. MF592 folder 1 promotional card for the book 1 p. Mommies at Work 1961

New York: Knopf, 1961

MC836 sheet with 5 ink illustrations 1 p. A is for Angel: Beni Montresor's ABC Picture Stories 1969

New York: Knopf, 1969

MC1640 layout of endpapers with colored pencil separation 1 p. MC1640 color separations on transparency 3 p. MC1640 ink and photocopy illustrations 4 p. MC1640 ink illustrations with text pasteup 6 p. MC1640 ink illustrations 9 p. MC1640 negative prints 39 p. MC1640 jackets 2 p. MC1640 corrected front matter layout proofs 10 p. MC1640 front matter pasteup 1 p. MC1640 photocopy of illustration with holograph text for title page 1 p. MC1640 photocopies of illustrations 4 p. MC1640 corrected photocopy of illustration 1 p. MC1640 transparencies of illustrations 2 p. MC1640 photocopy of illustration with pasteup 1 p. MF3415 typescript 15 p. MF3415 typescript, corrected 15 p. MF3415 front matter, corrected 1 p. MF3415 correspondence 4 p. MF3415 legal agreement 2 p. MC 1683 blueprints 2 p. MC 1683 photocopies of illustrations 56 p. MC 1683 photocopy of paste-ups 4 p. MC 1683 photocopies of illustrations with watercolor 3 p. MC 1683 photocopies of illustrations and ink on vellum 6 p. MC 1683 photocopy of paste-up with ink 1 p. MC 1683 photocopy of jacket with overlay 1 p. Ah, Le Donne!

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MF3417 holograph 25 p. MF3417 holograph, corrected 50 p. Amorous Deceptions

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MF3416 typescript 39 p. MF3416 typescript, corrected 97 p. MF3416 typescript, photocopy 92 p.q MF3416 front matter 2 p. Bailiff's House, The

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MF3417 typescript, photocopy 32 p. Belling the Tiger 1961

New York: Harper and Row, 1961

MC836 ink illustrations 6 p. Birthday of the Infanta and Other Tales 1982

New York: Atheneum, 1982

MF3415 holograph, Italian 2 p. MF3415 holograph, corrected 2 p. MF3415 typescript 10 p. MF3415 typescript, Italian 11 p. MF3415 3 typescripts, corrected 22 p. MF3415 4 typescripts, photocopied 60 p. MF3415 2 typescripts, corrected photocopy, Italian 21 p. MF3415 front matter, Italian 1 p. MF3415 front matter, photocopy 3 p. MF3415 correspondence 1 p.q MF3415 legal agreement 4 p. C'era mas holta un guso

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MF3417 holograph 4 p. Children's Literature Commentary

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MF3415 typescript 24 p. Cinderella 1965

New York: Knopf, 1965

MC836 ink illustration 1 p. MC836 ink and watercolor illustration 1 p. MF3415 correspondence 3 p. Coppelia

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MF3417 typescript, corrected 7 p. Delirio

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MF3417 typescript, corrected 4 p. MF3417 2 typescripts, photocopied 8 p. Daybreak

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MF3415 typescript, corrected 95 p. MF3415 front matter 3 p. Don't Wake Me up!

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MF3415 typescript, corrected photocopy 4 p. Dramatis Personae

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MF3417 typescript, corrected 45 p. Dragon Drummer, The 1991

New York: Delacorte Press, 1991

MF3419 legal agreement 11 p. Enchantments

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MF3416 holograph, corrected 4 p. Estate, The

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MF3415 typescript 77 p. MF3415 front matter 2 p. Fable of Glyndebourne, The

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MF3419 excerpt from book 4 p. Father

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MF3415 front matter 2 p. Girasoli Scintillanti, Margherite Savillanti (Sunflowers Sparkling, Daisies Spinning)

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MF3417 holograph, corrected 1 p. MF3417 typescript, corrected 7 p. Gospel According to Luke, The

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MF3415 typescript 87 p. Gothic Night, The

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MF3415 typescript 12 p. House of Flowers, House of Stars 1962

New York: Knopf, 1962

MC1640 ink illustrations 4 p. MC1640 ink pasteup 1 p. MF3415 2 holographs with sketches 16 p. MF3415 2 holographs, corrected 7 p. MF3415 typescript 1 p. MF3415 3 typescripts, corrected 7 p. MF3415 typescript, corrected, in Italian 46 p. MF3415 correspondence--1 postcard 1 p. MF3415 research material 1 p.` MF3415 layout of illustrations 1 p. I Saw a Ship A-Sailing 1967

New York: Knopf, 1967

MF3419 legal agreements 6 p. MC1640 ink, watercolor and acrylic illustrations 2 p. MC1640 ink study 1 p. MC1640 page print 1 p. MC1640 colored page prints signed by illustrator 7 p. MC1640 jacket 1 p. MC1640 corrected ink and pencil artist's dummy 35 p. MC1640 ink artist's dummy 10 p. MC1640 pencil studies with text pasteup 2 p. MC1640 ink studies with text pasteup 2 p. MC1640 text pateups 2 p. MC1640 ink and pencil sketchbook 1 p. MC1640 ink sketch 1 p. MC1640 ink and watercolor studies with test pasteup 3 p. Cardinale e Il Killer Condannati A Morte, Il (The Cardinal and the Killer Condemned to Death)

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MF3418 holograph, corrected 70 p. MF3418 typescript, corrected 1 p. Chercho Magico Deglis Dei, Il (Search for the Magic of the Circle)

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MF3417 2 holographs, corrected 95 p. Mondo, Il (The World)

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MF3418 typescript, corrected 11 p. MF3418 clippings, review 1 p. Trono, Il (The Throne

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MF3418 2 typescripts, corrected 10 p. Io M'Immagino de Essere una Prinipessa e tu T'Immagini di Essere un Drago (I'll Pretend I'm a Princess and you Pretend You're a Dragon)

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MF3417 holograph, corrected 7 p. MF3417 typescript 7 p. MF3417 correspondence 2 p. It is a sticky summer's day

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MF3415 typescript, corrected 41 p. Derniere Fete, La (The Last Party

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MF3418 typescript, corrected 2 p. Doodicesima Notte, La (Twlefth Night)

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MF3418 typescript, corrected, bound 65 p. Famiglia, La

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MF3418 2 holographs, corrected 15 p. MF3418 typescript 10 p. MF3418 4 typescripts, corrected 213 p. Messe Doree, La (The Doree Harvest)

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MF3417 2 typescripts 20 p. MF3417 3 typescripts, bound 185 p. MF3417 clippings, photocopy of review 1 p. L'Amore Dei Tre Re (radio review of Kennedy Center performance

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MF3418 clippings, review 1 p. Pronfonda Luce Dei Sensi, La (The Profound Sense of Light)

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MF3417 holograph, corrected 2 p. MF3417 typescript, corrected carbon 64 p. L'Enfant et les Sortileges

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MF3419 typescript, corrected photocopy 24 p. Les Dix Fables d'un Conservateur (Ten Tales of a Conservative)

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MF3418 typescript 4 p. Gaspards, Les (The Gaspards)

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MF3418 typescript 6 p. Lifar

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MF3417 typescript, corrected 24 p. Little Red Riding Hood 1991

New York: Doubleday, 1991

MC1640 corrected photocopy of illustration with pasteup 1 p. MC1640 corrected ink and photocopy illustrations with pasteup 3 p. MC1640 pastel illustrations on transparency 3 p. MC1640 page prints 3 p. MC1640 illustrations on transparency 3 p. MC1640 color separations 86 p.q MC1640 color separation layout 1 p. MF3419 clippings--award 1 p. MF3419 legal agreement 11 p. Liturgia (Liturgy)

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MF3418 holograph, photocopy 1 p. MF3418 front matter 1 p. Lo Spiritu Santo, (Holy Spirit)

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MF3418 holograph, photocopy 124 p. MF3418 front matter 3 p. May I Bring a Friend? 1964

New York: Atheneum, 1964

MF3415 holograph 1 p. MF3415 holograph, corrected, in Italian 1 p. MF3415 2 typescripts 21 p. MF3415 typescript, photocopy 1 p. MF3415 legal agreement 1 p. MC1640 extra large finished printed illustrations from oversize publisher's dummy 3 p. MC 1683 ink illustration 1 p. Miscellaneous costume designs

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MC836 photocopies of costume studies 5 p. Miscellaneous journals/sketchbooks

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MF3418 journals/sketchbooks 5 p. Miscellaneous legal documents

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MF3417 legal documents 137 p. Miscellaneous recipes

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MC3417 typescript, carbon 11 p. Miscellaneous posters

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MC1640 large poster of Montresor 1 p. MC1640 large poster, certification of knighthood 1 p. Miscellaneous set drawings for plays

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MC1640 photocopy pasteups 16 p. MC1640 transparency 1 p. MC1640 photocopy 1 p. Miscellaneous stage blueprints

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MC1640 stage blueprints 12 p. Nightingale, The 1985

New York: Crown Publishers, 1985

MC1640 pencil and pastel illustration 1 p. MC1640 pencil and pastel studies 2 p. MC1640 color proof of illustration 1 p. MF3419 correspondence 3 p. MF3419 legal agreement 7 p. Nota Salla Mia Scenografia (Note About My Scene Designing)

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MF3418 holograph 1 p. MF3418 typescript, corrected 2 p. On Christmas Eve 1961

New York: Young Scott Books, 1961

MC1640 ink illustrations 5 p. MC1640 ink illustrations with pasteup 5 p. MC1640 ink illustration with 1 separation 1 p. MC1640 ink illustration with pasteup for jacket 1 p. Penthesilea

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MF3416 clippings, 1 playbill 1 p. Personaggi: Il Fratello

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MF3417 typescript, corrected 74 p. MF3417 front matter 1 p. Picasso Studies

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MC1640 ink pasteups 5 p. MC1640 photocopies of illustrations 5 p. MC1640 ink studies 4 p. Pilgrimage

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MF3416 typescript, carbon 2 p. MF3416 typescript, bound 84 p. MF3416 typescript, corrected, fax 4 p. MF3416 typescript, corrected photocopy, Italian 57 p. Siri the Conquistador 1963

New York: Harper and Row, 1963

MC836 ink title page illustration 1 p. Sounds of a Summer Night 1963

New York: Young Scott Books, 1963

MC836 illustration 1 p. Star of Texas, The

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MF3416 typescript 79 p. MF3416 typescript 101 p. MF3416 typescript, corrected 57 p. MF3416 front matter 2 p. Sunday

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MF3417 2 holographs, corrected, Italian 14 p. MF3417 typescript, corrected 5 p. MF3417 front matter 1 p. Tutti I bambino sanno

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MF3417 holograph 4 p. MF3417 layout notes 1 p. Storia Veneziana, Une (A Venetian Story)

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MF3417 typescript 52 p. Unidentified illustrations

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MC1640 ink studies 6 p. MC1640 ink and marker studies 5 p. MC1640 acrylic color separation 1 p. MC 1683 photocopy paste-up 1 p. MC 1683 opera poster 1 p. MC 1683 pencil study for opera costume 1 p. MC 1683 photocopies of opera costumes 39 p. MC 1683 photocopy of illustration 1 p. United Scenic Artists Contracts

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MF3416 various contracts 74 p. MF3416 2 booklets related to contracts 98 p. MF3416 hospital contract 4 p. MF3416 insurance claim forms and cards 22 p. MF3416 official membership book 1 p. MF3416 membership dues 1 p. Vangelo

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MF3419 2 holographs, corrected 18 p. Villa Verdi

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MF3419 holograph, corrected, Italian 9 p. MF3419 typescript, bound, Spanish 25 p. Why Was It So?

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MC836 photocopies of illustrations 8 p. MC836 ink and photocopy pasteups 3 p. Witches of Venice, The 1963

New York: Knopf, 1963

MC1640 page prints 3 p. MC1640 page print with color study 1 p. MC1640 ink illustrations 2 p. MF3419 holograph, corrected, Italian 12 p. MF3419 typescript 17 p. MF3419 typescript, corrected, Italian 22 p. MF3419 typescript, photocopy 30 p. MF3419 typescript, photocopy with illustrations 25 p. MF3419 typescript, corrected photocopy, Italian 34 p. MF3419 front matter 5 p. MF3419 front matter, photocopy 3 p. MF3419 front matter, photocopy, Italian 5 p. MF3419 correspondence 2 p. MF3419 clippings, 1 card 1 p. MF3419 legal agreement 11 p.