A Guide to the Warren Chappell Papers, 1870-1994 Chappell, Warren Papers, 1870-1994 10204-av

A Guide to the Warren Chappell Papers, 1870-1994

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Accession Number 10204-av

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

10204-av

Title

Warren Chappell Papers, 1870-1994

Physical Characteristics

ca. 3,300 items (18 Hollinger boxes and seven oversize boxes, ca. 18.5 linear shelf feet)

Language

English

Abstract

The collection, 1870-1994, consists chiefly of Warren Chappell's illustrations, artwork, sketches and drawings; personal and professional correspondence; and articles, catalogs and photographs.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Warren Chappell Papers, 1870-1994, Accession #10204-av, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Processing Information

This material was transferred from the Rare Books Division to the Manuscripts Division on December 3, 1996.

Scope and Content Information

This addition to the papers of American book illustrator and artist, Warren Chappell (1904-1991) consists of ca. 3,300 items, ca. 1870-1994, chiefly Chappell's illustrations and artwork for books, dust jackets, magazines, Book-of-the-Month Club announcements, keepsakes, bookplates, and Christmas card designs; and individual sketches and drawings by Chappell and other artists (including some pre-twentieth century artists), but also including personal and professional correspondence; printed material; some photographs; articles; talks and speeches by Chappell; exhibition catalogs featuring Chappell; reviews and notices for books illustrated or written by Chappell; examples of various typefaces; political cartoons; and various topical files. Also present are some manuscripts and drawings by Chappell's grandfather, John Taylor Chappell (1845-1915), and Samuel Michael Chappell.

Organization

Series I: Topical & Miscellaneous Files
Subseries A: Artwork by Chappell & Other Artists (Boxes 1-2; Oversize Boxes N-1, S-34, S-35)
Subseries B: Topical & Miscellaneous Files (Boxes 3-8; Oversize Boxes N-1, )
Subseries C: Correspondence (Boxes 8-10)
Series II: Artwork & Illustrations by Warren Chappell for Books, arranged by book title (Boxes 11-18; Oversize Boxes S-32, S-33, S-35)

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

S[amuel?]

Contents List

Topical & Miscellaneous Files

Artwork by Chappell & Other Artists
- Oversize Box N-1
  Artwork, Calendar & Posters concerning "Rudolph Koch and the Offenbach Workshop" 1931-1932, 1980
- Box 1
  Artwork by Isabel Bishop 1982, n.d.
- Oversize Box S-35
  Artwork by Isabel Bishop n.d.
- Box 1
  Artwork by Paul Cadmus n.d.
- Oversize Box S-35
  Artwork by George Cattermole 1925
- Oversize Box N-1
  Artwork by [Guy?] Fleming n.d.
- Box 1
  Artwork by Willi Harwerth 1932-1934, n.d.
- Box 1
  Artwork by Rudolf Koch, including a notice of his death 1927-1934
- Box 1
  Artwork by Fritz Kredel n.d.
- Oversize Box S-35
  Artwork by Fritz Kredel n.d.
- Box 1
  Artwork by Allen Lewis 1931, n.d.
- Oversize Box S-35
  Artwork by Charles Locke 1930, n.d.
- Box 1
  Artwork by Imre Reiner n.d.
- Box 1
  Artwork by Boardman Robinson 1930-1937, n.d.
- Oversize Box N-1
  Artwork by Boardman Robinson, including 3 political cartoons [1918], 1922-1923
- Oversize Box S-35
  Artwork by Boardman Robinson 1923-1937
- Oversize Box S-35
  Artwork by J. Rodin 1978
- Box 1
  Artwork by Rudolph Ruzicka 1935
- Box 1
  Artwork by Ernest H. Shepard n.d.
- Oversize Box S-35
  Artwork by Hugo Steiner 1944
- Box 1
  Artwork - Unidentified 1935, n.d.
- Oversize Box S-35
  Artwork by Various Artists, 16th-19 Century: Hieronymus Bang (1553-1630); Annibale Carracci (1560-1609); Sebastiano Conca (1680-1764); [Salomon ?] Koninck (1609-1656); Charles Parrocel (1688- 1752); Giovanni Piazetta (1682-1754); Francesco Solimena (1657-1747); and Unidentified Flemish work
- Box 1
  Bookplates Cut & Engraved by Gustav Eichenauer n.d.
- Box 1
  Bookplates Designed by Warren Chappell n.d.
- Box 1
  Calendars Designed by Warren Chappell 1953-1961
- Oversize Box N-1
  Calligraphic Broadside by Eric Gill concerning Edward Johnston n.d.
- Box 1
  Cartoons - Political by Warren Chappell n.d.
- Box 1
  Christmas Card Designs ca. 1938-1959
- Box 1
  Christmas Card Designs by Warren Chappell ca. 1930-1985
- Box 1
  Christmas Card Designs for the Associates of the University of Virginia Library by Warren Chappell n.d.
- Box 1
  Christmas Card Designs for Alfred and Clarice Hamill by Warren Chappell 1945-1952
- Box 2
  Christmas Card Designs by Allen Lewis 1930-1954
- Box 2
  Christmas Card Designs by Ernest H. Shepard 1948-1965, n.d.
- Oversize Box N-1
  Colored Plates (2) from a botany book, Alopecurus pratensis and Holcus Canatus n.d.
- Box 2
  Designs for Emblems, Ornaments & Logotypes 1970, n.d.
- Box 2
  Designs for End Paper Patterns & Borders 1957, n.d.
- Box 2
  Drawings & Sketches by John Taylor Chappell and Samuel Michael Chappell ca. 1870-1884, n.d.
- Box 2
  Drawings & sketches (Pencil) by Warren Chappell n.d.
- Oversize Box S-35
  Four French Caricatures n.d.
- Box 2
  Engravings (facsimiles) n.d.
- Oversize Box S-35
  Engraving of [Pieter Breughel?] n.d.
- Oversize Box N-1
  Engraving of Peter Paul Rubens Picture n.d.
- Oversize Box N-1
  German Calligraphic Broadside by [Berthold Wolpe?] 1931
- Oversize Box S-33
  Gustav Dore's Illustrations for the Bible n.d.
- Box 2
  Letterheads n.d.
- Oversize Box N-1
  Pen & Ink Drawings "As one oldster to another" and two farm scenes (unidentified) n.d.
- Oversize Box N-1
  Pen & Ink Drawings (2) by John B. Crouchlee, including "Sabines" n.d.
- Oversize Box N-1
  Pen & Ink Drawing by [Walter Jack] Duncan n.d.
- Oversize Box S-34
  Pen & Ink Drawings of Fishermen from Glouchester, Virginia; and Nudes 1932, n.d.
- Oversize Box S-34
  Pen & Ink Drawings - Unidentified n.d.
- Box 2
  Pen & Ink Sketches by Warren Chappell 1931, n.d.
  
  2 folders
- Box 2
  Pen & Ink Sketches - Nudes by Warren Chappell n.d.
- Oversize Box S-34
  Pencil Drawing of Prospect Lake n.d.
- Box 2
  Prints - Bewick Owls from wood engravings by the English engraver Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) 1975
- Box 2
  Print by Hunter Middleton from a Thomas Bewick block of a bird n.d.
- Oversize Box S-34
  Printed Poster folded into a binder entitled "The Story of Advertising is the Story of Human Progress illustrated by Joseph Feher" 1944
- Box 2
  Sketches of Warren Chappell [Self-Portraits?] n.d.
- Oversize Box S-35
  Ten Political Cartoons by Warren Chappell 1940 & n.d.
- Box 2
  "Vow of Moderation in a New Position"by Paul Horgan for Warren Chappell 1969
- Box 2
  Woodcuts (2) by Warren Chappell n.d.
  Physical Location: (see mini-tray #39)
Topical & Miscellaneous Files
- Box 3
  The Art Students League of New York 1927-1946
- Box 3
  Articles 1953 & 1957
- Box 3
  Articles by Alfred Fairbank 1963-1974, n.d.
- Box 3
  Article by Fritz Kredel in Philobiblon , with a letter from Fritz and Annie Dredel to Warren Chappell, 29 April 1973 1971
- Box 3
  Articles by Paul Standard 1940, n.d.
- Box 3
  Articles by Warren Chappell, including: "The Woodcut in Book Decoration," "Illustrations Today in Children's Books," "Artist vs. Craftsman?" "Bench Marks for Illustrations of Children's Books," "Art vs. Adventitious Circumstances," "Let's Make a B for Bennett," and "The Anatomy of Printing" 1934-1976
- Box 3
  Biographical Information 1932-1951, n.d.
- Oversize Box S-34
  Blow-ups of Various Scripts n.d.
- Box 3
  Bookbinding Examples, Pictures of n.d.
- Box 3
  Book-of-the-Month Club 1945-1974
- Box 3
  Borzoi Books 1941-1966
- Oversize Box S-35
  Certificates, Posters, and Other Printed Items 1925-1994
  
  Includes: Art Students' League Poster for the Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition by Allen Lewis; Windrose Zur Landkarte von Deutschland Poster by Warren Chappell and Berthold L. Wolpe; Printed illustration by Fritz Kredel from Soldiers of the American Army 1775-1941 ; Littera Scripta Manet Posters printed at the Acorn Press; Poster advertising Warren Chappell and The Frederic W. Goudy Distinguished Lecture in Typography For 1970; Poster by Andrew Hoyem "In the Beginning/Was the Word/The Word Was God/In Him Was Life; American Typecasting Fellowship Certificate; Poster advertising "University of San Francisco Symposium XIX Egypt People of the Sun"; Exhibition Poster "Warren Chappell Artist and Artificer in the Twentieth-Century Book World."
- Box 3
  Chronicles of Culture Tear Sheets 1978-1982
- Box 3
  Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center 1935-1936
- Box 3
  Counterpunch and Stock for Punch & Counterpunch n.d.
- Box 4
  "Designs for U.S. Stamps - Opinions by 12 of the Country's Leading Design Authorities" Chappell featured on pages 12-13 n.d.
- Box 4
  Development Brochure for the Special Collections Department at the University of Virginia n.d.
- Box 4
  Dinner given by Friends of Warren Chappell 1955
- Box 4
  Dust Jackets A-Y ca. 1948-1978
  
  4 folders
- Box 5
  Dust Jacket Artwork ca. 1950-1968
- Box 5
  Enigmas Manuscript by Ted [Hodnett] n.d.
- Box 5
  Exhibition - "American Type Designers and Their Type Faces on Exhibit" 1948
- Box 5
  Exhibition - "American Type Designers and Their Work" Lakside Press Galleries R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago 1947-1948
- Box 5
  Exhibition - "Book Designs and Illustrations of Warren Chappell on Display at at New Canaan, [Connecticut] Library" n.d.
- Box 5
  Exhibition - Books Designed, Illstrated or Printed in Great Britain for Mr. George Macy of New York, British Museum, London 1952
- Box 5
  Exhibition - "A Charles Dickens Christmas: An Exhibition of Drawings by Warren Chappell for A Christmas Carol , The Chimes , and Cricket on the Hearth ", University of Virginia, Bayly Museum 1976
- Box 5
  Exhibition - "Charles Locke's New York" 1984 Mar-Apr
- Box 5
  Exhibition - "Fifty Books of the Year MCMXXXVI" 1936
- Box 5
  Exhibition - "Gallery 303 of The Composing Room, Inc. presents Warren Chappell A Retrospective" 1970
- Box 5
  Exhibition - "Illustrations for Herman Melville's Moby Dick A Suite of Drawings by Warren Chappell" University of Virginia, Bayly Art Museum 1975
- Box 5
  Exhibition - "Lettering and Calligraphy in Current Advertising and Publishing" 1945
- Box 5
  Exhibition - "Littera Scripta Manet My Life With Letters" University of Virginia Special Collections 1983
- Box 5
  Exhibition - "Pensacola National Calligraphy Exhibition" 1985
- Box 5
  Exhibition - "Warren Chappell Artist and Artificer in the Twentieth-Century Book World" 1994
- Box 5
  The Horn Book Magazine Cover 1951 & 1979
- Box 5
  The Illustrated Modern Library n.d.
- Box 5
  Interview with George W. Bunn, Jr., Hobby Horse Press, conducted by Sally Bunn Schanbacher 1972
- Box 5
  Invitations & Programs for Talks by Warren Chappell 1937-1980
- Box 5
  Italix The Warren Chappell Number 1975
- Box 5
  Keepsake - The Fugitives, The Agrarians and Other Twentieth-Century Southern Writers 1985
- Box 6
  Keepsake - The Imprints of Gloomth The Gothic Novel of England 1988
  
  2 folders
- Box 6
  Keepsake - A Salute to Clifton Waller Barrett 1981
  
  2 folders
- Box 6
  Keepsake - Writers in Residence and Resident Writers n.d.
- Box 6
  Lecture - "Forty-Odd Years in the Black Arts" Goudy Lecture 1970
- Box 6
  Lecture - "The Living Alphabet" for Heritage of Graphic Arts Lecture 1975
- Box 6
  Lecture - "The Phylogeny of Books" n.d.
- Box 6
  Leslie, Dr. Robert L. - 100th Birthday and Honor from Typophiles 1973 & 1985
- Box 6
  Lunceon honoring Charles Smith 1963
- Box 6
  Magazine Covers 1946-1956
- Box 6
  Manuscripts of John Taylor Chappell (1845-1915) n.d.
- Box 6
  Miscellaneous 1967, 1981-1987, n.d.
- Box 7
  PEN/Faulkner Award Design ca. 1980-1981
- Oversize Box N-1
  Photograph of Boardman Robinson n.d.
- Box 7
  Photographs 1912-1983, n.d.
- Box 7
  Poems by Robert Barrett n.d.
- Box 7
  Poem by S[amuel?] W. Chappell Ode To Michelangelo's David 1923
- Oversize Box N-1
  Poster for Exhibit "Littera Scripta Manet" n.d.
- Box 7
  Printed Material 1922, 1939-1986
- Box 7
  Printed Material - Gebr. Klingspor, Offenbach am Main 1927-1985, n.d.
- Box 7
  Program for Dedication of the Clemons Library 1982 Apr 13
- Box 7
  Reader's Digest 1965-1968
- Oversize Box N-1
  Religious Poster I N R I in Latin with a design of Christ crucified in the middle n.d.
- Oversize Box N-1
  Reproduction of Renoir Painting by the Metropolitan Museum of Art n.d.
- Box 7
  Reviews & Notices re Books Illustrated/written by Warren Chappell 1936-1984, n.d.
- Box 7
  Reviews & Notices re A Short History of the Printed Word 1970-1971
- Box 7
  Robert Frost Medal by Sedgewick n.d.
- Box 7
  Rockford Papers - Tear Sheets 1980-1982
- Box 7
  "Stories from Moliere" by Warren Chappell n.d.
- Box 7
  Trip to Puerto Rico with "The Junketeers" 1973
- Box 8
  Type Showings 1927-1957, n.d.
- Box 8
  Type Showings - Blow-ups n.d.
- Box 8
  Type Showings - D. Stempel AG 1984, n.d.
- Box 8
  Type Showings - Lydian 1938-1941, n.d.
- Box 8
  Type Showings - Trajanus ca. 1949
Correspondence
- Box 8
  Correspondence, A-Z 1923-1987
  
  2 folders
  
  Including: Amsterdam Continental; Sally Boggan; Matthew J. Bruccoli; Nash Burger; Paul Cadmus; Warren Chappell to Mr. Grabhorn re his stay at Offenbach, 1931 Aug 24 (typed copy); Carroll Coleman; Rick Cusick; George Mason University; Elizabeth Sage Hare; S.L. Hartz; Weston P. Hatfield; Thayer Hobson; Andrew Hoyem; Fridolf Johnson; Herb Johnson; Dorothy Kenyon; Liza Kirwin; Karl Hermann Klingpor; J. Van Krimpen; William McCleery; S.C. Mitchell; Dumas Malone; Mrs. Barrows Mussey; Joseph Pennell; R. Hoe & Co., Inc.; Rudolph Ruzicka; Harry Scherman; Anthony M. Schulte; Max Schuster; Ellery Sedgwicke; Al Silverman; Fred Smith; Paul Standard; [Louis M. Starr]; Francis Steegmuller-Hazzard; Stinehour Press; University of Richmond; Edward Wagenknecht; Robert Penn Warren (postcard); Eva Williams; Stuart Wright; Lili & Erich Wronker; Hermann Zapf; and Unidentified Correspondents
- Box 9
  Bernard & Barbara Arnest 1986
- Box 9
  Arnold Bank 1981-1983
- Box 9
  Martin & Ruthe Battestin 1982, n.d.
- Box 9
  Isabel Bishop 1949, 1979-1984
- Box 9
  Guy Botterill The House of Type 1983-1984
- Box 9
  D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt Am Main 1939-1983, 1986
- Box 9
  Max Dorn 1950-1956
- Box 9
  re Dinner given by Friends of Warren Chappell 1955
- Box 9
  Alfred Fairbanks 1968-1986
- Box 9
  Alfred Hamill 1944-1946, 1951
- Box 9
  Willi Harwerth 1932-1965
- Box 9
  Julius S. Held 1982-1984
- Box 9
  Howard M. Jones 1943-1944, 1976
- Box 9
  Neal T. Jones 1982-1983
- Box 9
  Alfred Knopf 1980-1983
- Box 9
  Charles Locke 1970-1976
- Box 10
  Ruth Nuzum 1981-1986
- Box 10
  Boardman Robinson 1934-1949
  
  2 folders
- Box 10
  Ernest Howard Shepard, with clippings of Punch Mastheads by Shepard 1946-1965
- Box 10
  re A Short History of the Printed Word 1970-1975
- Box 10
  University of Virginia 1976-1984
- Box 10
  John Updike 1961-1962, 1981-1984

Artwork & Illustrations by Chappell for Books

Box 11
ABC Alphabet Book n.d.
Box 11
The Adventure and Travels of Frank Folly n.d.
Box 11
The Adventures of Hanspfaall n.d.
Box 11
All the King's Men 1981

2 folders
Oversize Box S-33
All the King's Men 1981

artwork and dust jacket
Box 11
Alladdin or the Wonderful Lamp , illustrated by C. Hodgson 1831
Box 11
Anatomy of Letters by Warren Chappell 1976
Box 11
The American Imagination at Work 1947
Box 11
Angels & Awakenings 1980

2 folders
Oversize Box N-1
Angels and Awakenings , They Say Stories , and Comedies and Tragedies of Shakespeare 1944, 1980
Oversize Box S-30
Angels and Awakenings , A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court , and The Complete Novels of Jane Austen 1950, 1980
Box 11
The Borzoi Book of French Folk Tales 1956
Box 11
Boswell for the Defense 1770-1774 1959
Box 11
Boswell on the Grand Tour Germany and Switzerland 1953
Box 12
Bottom's Dream 1968-1969

4 folders
Box 12
Captain Coxcombe and the Pirates of Cathay 1950
Box 12
A Charles Dickens Christmas 1976
Oversize Box S-31
A Charles Dickens Christmas and The Sleeping Beauty 1961, 1976
Oversize Box S-33
Comedies and Tragedies of Shakespeare 1944
Box 12
Comedies and Tragedies of Shakespeare 1944

4 folders
Box 13
The Complete Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn 1978
Oversize Box S-32
The Complete Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn 1978
Box 13
Complete Novels of Jane Austen 1950
Box 13
Connecticut Yankee n.d.
Box 13
The Divine Order Western Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 1969
Box 13
Doctor Dogbody's Leg 1940
Box 13
Don Quixote de La Mancha 1960

2 folders
Box 13
The Fairy Ring 1967
Box 13
The Fisherman and His Wife n.d.
Box 13
The Food of Italy 1971
Box 13
Frog Went a-Courtin' A Woman's Day Chapbook 1953
Box 13
French Fairy Tales 1968
Box 13
Gulliver's Travels 1977
Oversize Box S-32
Gulliver's Travels & A Voyage to Laputa 1976-1977
Box 13
Home is the Sailor 1964
Box 14
The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke 1983

2 folders
Box 14
The Light in the Forest 1966
Box 14
The Little Book of the Ballet n.d.
Box 14
The Magic Flute 1962

3 folders
Oversize Box S-31
The Magic Flute , Pennybold , and Don Quixote 1939, 1962, n.d.
Box 15
The Mermaid ca. 1973
Box 15
Miracle at Philadelphia 1986
Box 15
Mr. Midshipman Easy 1956
Box 15
Mozart [1956?]
Box 15
Mrs. Searwood's Secret Weapon 1954
Box 15
The Nutcracker 1958

3 folders
Oversize Box S-33
Nutcracker 1958, 1980
Box 15
The Parables from the Old and New Testaments n.d.
Box 15
The Party of Humanity Essays in the the French Enlightenment n.d.
Box 15
Pennybold n.d.
Box 15
Pride and Prejudice 1976
Box 16
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot 1947
Box 16
The Ring 1964

2 folders
Oversize Box S-33
The Ring 1964
Box 16
Saroyan's Fables 1941
Box 16
A Short History of the Printed Word , including photographs and negatives 1970
Box 16
Sleeping Beauty 1961

3 folders
Box 17
Story of Easter n.d.
Oversize Box S-32
The Temptation of Saint Anthony 1943
Box 17
They Say Stories 1960

3 folders
Oversize Box S-30
They Say Stories 1960

2 folders
Box 17
Thomas Jefferson Father of Democracy 1953
Box 17
Tom Jones 1982

2 folders
Box 18
Tom Jones 1982
Box 18
Twelve Who Dared n.d.
Box 18
Upside-Down World n.d.
Box 18
A Voyage to Laputa 1976

2 folders
Box 18
Wine and the Good Life 1965
Box 18
Wines of France 1951
Box 18
"Words in Lines" - Bestiary Sketches n.d.
Box 18
Young Geoffrey Chaucer 1952
Box 19
Photographic Negatives, chiefly for illustrations in Warren Chappell’s book, A Short History of the Printed Word n.d.