Summary Information
University of
Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research
Collections [clrc]
Chen,
Tony
Tony Chen
Collection
1966-1985
CLRC-14
Tony Chen's papers focus
on his work as an illustrator of children's books. The collection contains
production material for twenty titles published between 1966 and 1985, as well
as material for one story, The Seeing Stick, published in a textbook. The
collection includes illustrations, separations, studies, dummies, a photostat,
and one page of correspondence.
5.0 cubic ft (7
boxes)
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for Box Locations
English
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States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify
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reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials.
Processing Information
This collection was processed with financial assistance from the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical
Sketch
Tony Chen was born January 3, 1929 in Kingston, Jamaica. He came to
the United States in 1949 and attended the Art Career School, and graduated
from Pratt Institute with a B.F.A. in 1955. Tony Chen has worked as an art
director for Newsweek magazine, and art
instructor, painter, and sculptor. He began illustrating children's books in
the 1960s; his first illustrated work was Helen Buckley's Too Many Crackers. Throughout his long career as an
artist, Tony Chen has illustrated many books for various authors that cover a
wide variety of subjects, including Bible stories, folk tales, and non-fiction.
Chen is noted for his illustration of animal and nature books, two areas of
personal interest. Tony Chen works with a variety of media, including
watercolor, pen, tempera, and acrylic.
Scope and Content
The collection contains production material for twenty titles
published between 1966 and 1985. It includes illustrations, including ink &
tempera, watercolor, crayon, ink & felt pen, felt pen, ink, watercolor
& acrylic, and ink & watercolor, watercolor, ink, ink and wash, along
with pencil drawings, separations, dummies, 1 page of correspondence for the
title In the City of Paris, and a seven page
printed proof for The Seeing Stick, a story
published in a textbook and illustrated for the textbook edition only by Tony
Chen.
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.
Chen, Tony
Accession Information:
This collection is a gift from Tony Chen, received in several
installments beginning in 1970 and continuing throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Gift of:
Chen, Tony
Arrangement
About Owls, 1975
After Dark, 1975
Breakfast with the Birds, 1972
Cozy Book, 1982
Cucumber Stem: Adapted From a Bengali Folktale, 1980
Do You Know a Cat?, 1968
Doubleday Illustrated Children's Bible, 1983
Fisherman's Son: Adapted from a Georgian Folktale, 1979
Follow a Fisher, 1973
Honschi, 1972
In the City of Paris, 1985
In the Land of the Small Dragon: A Vietnamese Folktale, 1979
Little Rystu, 1978
Many Hands Cooking: An International Cookbook for Girls and Boys,
1974
Once We Went on a Picnic, 1975
Pond Life: Watching Animals Find Food, 1970
Princess and the Admiral, 1974
There's a Train Going By My Window, 1982
Too Many Crackers, 1966
White Horse, 1970
Seeing Stick,
Collection Contents
About Owls
1975
M.C. S 60
felt pen, ink and acrylic dummy
37 p.
M.C. S 60
ink and tempera illustration for jacket
1 p.
M.C. S 60
ink and tempera study
1 p.
M.C. S 60
photostat
1 p.
M.C. S 60
watercolor
1 p.
After Dark
1975
Blossom Budney
New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1975
M.C. S 60
felt pen dummy
40 p.
M.C. S 60
ink and watercolor illustration for
endpapers
1 p.
M.C. S 60
ink and watercolor illustration for jacket
1 p.
MC S 60
ink and watercolor illustrations
3 p.
MC S 60
photocopy of jacket
1 p.
MC S 60
photocopies of illustrations
2 p.
Breakfast with the Birds
1972
M.C. S 60
crayon, ink and felt pen illustration with 3
separations
1 p.
M.C. S 60
ink and felt pen illustrations with 3
separations
3 p.
ink and felt pen illustrations with 2
separations
2 p.
Cozy Book
1982
M.C. 308
felt pen, ink and acrylic dummy
48 p.
M.C. 308
felt pen, ink, watercolor and acrylic illustration for
cover
1 p.
M.C. 308
acrylic, watercolor and ink illustrations
11 p.
Cucumber Stem: Adapted From a Bengali Folktale
1980
M.C. S 60
mixed-media dummy with type position
1 p.
M.C. S 60
pen drawings [on 2 sheets] with 2 separations for
color
3 p.
M.C. S 60
pen drawing with 3 separations for color
1 p.
M.C. S 60
pen drawing with 1 separation for color
1 p.
Do You Know a Cat?
1968
M.C. 205
ink and watercolor illustrations with 2
separations
2 p.
M.C. 205
ink and watercolor illustrations
2 p.
Doubleday Illustrated Children's Bible
1983
M.C. 204
full color illustrations
18 p.
Fisherman's Son: Adapted from a Georgian Folktale
1979
M.C. S 60
ink and watercolor dummy with photocopy
typescript
40 p.
M.C. S 60
ink and watercolor illustrations
4 p.
M.C. S 60
ink illustrations
8 p.
Follow a Fisher
1973
M.C. S 60
ink and felt pen dummy
54 p.
M.C. S 60
ink illustrations [on 8 sheets] with
typescript
12 p.
M.C. S 60
ink study [layout for cover]
1 p.
Honschi
1972
M.C. S 60
watercolor illustration
1 p.
In the City of Paris
1985
M.C. 205
dummy in watercolor with text pasteup
1 p.
M.C. 205
holograph for title page
1 p.
M.C. 205
correspondence
1 p.
M.C. 205
illustrations in watercolor and ink
5 p.
In the Land of the Small Dragon: A Vietnamese Folktale
1979
M.C. 206
ink and wash illustrations [on 5 sheets]
9 p.
M.C. 206
ink and watercolor illustrations
2 p.
M.C. 206
Mixed-media dummy with typescript
40 p.
M.C. 206
pencil dummy with typescript
48 p.
Little Rystu
1978
M.C. S 60
felt pen, pencil and photocopy dummy with text
proof
44 p.
M.C. S 60
ink and watercolor illustrations with 1
separation
9 p.
Many Hands Cooking: An International Cookbook for Girls
and Boys
1974
M.C. 204
watercolor illustrations
12 p.
Once We Went on a Picnic
1975
M.C. 205
ink and watercolor illustrations
4 p.
Pond Life: Watching Animals Find Food
1970
M.C. 308
ink and watercolor illustrations
5 p.
M.C. 308
ink and watercolor illustrations with 3
separations
3 p.
Princess and the Admiral
1974
M.C. 207
ink and wash drawings
6 p.
There's a Train Going By My Window
1982
M.C. 308
ink and watercolor illustrations
7 p.
M.C. 308
ink and watercolor illustration for jacket
1 p.
Too Many Crackers
1966
M.C. S 60
watercolor and ink illustrator's dummy with
typescript
29 p.
White Horse
1970
M.C. S 60
ink and wash illustrations with 3 color
separations
3 p.
M.C. S 60
ink and wash illustrations with 2 color
separation
2 p.
M.C. S 60
dummy in magic marker with xerox text
30 p.
M.C. S 60
dummy made with proof corrections
1 p.
Seeing Stick
M.C. S 60
printed proof
7 p.
M.C. S 60
pen and watercolor illustrations
3 p.