Part of this collection was originally given to Dr. Irvin Kerlan who in turn donated his collection to the University of Minnesota. In 1968 Arnold Bare added additional material to this collection.
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Arnold Edwin Bare was born June 20, 1920 in New York. He attended Yale University for two years where he learned the importance of setting in a story. In 1943 he illustrated his first book for children, Pierre Pidgeon, by Lee Kingman. The book's artwork was widely praised and the book was the Caldecott Award runner-up for 1944. Arnold Bare continued to illustrate books for children throughout the 1940s and 1950s, and 1952 wrote his book, Maui's Summer. Throughout his career, he has tried to make drawing descriptive of a country and its people and tried to travel to the country that was his setting. Biographical Sources: Something About the Author, vol. 16, p.32 Illustrators of Children's Books: 1946-1956, p. 68
The collection contains production materials for seven titles published between 1943 and 1955. It includes tempera illustrations for dust jackets, tempera studies, a crayon and and chalk sketch, a charcoal sketch, a watercolor study, tempera illustrations, some with text proof paste-ups, a crayon illustration, an illustration proof, and a crayon and pastel sketch. The materials are arranged by title with box level control.
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.
Materials are arranged alphabetically by published title and chronologically within each title.
1947
1945
1952
1955
1946
1948
1943