Picturing

hildhood

Illustrated Children's Books from University of California Collections, 1550–1990

Welcome to Picturing Childhood, an online version of the catalog produced to accompany an exhibition held at UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, April 16 through June 29, 1997. The catalog was published by the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts and the Department of Special Collections at the University Research Library, UCLA. To obtain the published catalog, contact the Department of Special Collections at spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Production of this Web exhibition was made possible by a grant from Lloyd E. Cotsen.

 

Index
  • Foreword
  • Introduction and Acknowledgments
  • Picturing Childhood: The Evolution of the Illustrated Children's Book
  • Checklist of Works in the Exhibition
  • Selected Bibliography

    • Walter Crane, illustration for Beauty and the Beast, 1874 (cat. no. 326).

     

     

    Gustave Doré, Puss in Boots, from Fairy Realm, by Tom Hood, 1865 (cat. no. 177).

     

    Kay Nielsen, Scheherazade Telling the Tales, from One Thousand and One Nights, 1918–22 (cat. no. 415).

     

    George Cruikshank, illustration from Cinderella, 1854 (cat. no. 168)

     

    Harold B. Lentz, The Pop–Up Mother Goose, 1933 (cat. no. 197).




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    Editor: Karen Jacobson
    Designer: Lilli Colton
    Photography: Robert Wedemeyer; except for Scheherazade (see above), Fig. 30, and Fig. 33 by Lou Meluso
    Exhibition design: Mitchell Browning
    Time line design: Deborah Edwards
    Web Site design: Michael W. Dula
    Title banner: Illustrated initial from The Wonder Clock, 1888 (cat. no. 392)
    Fig. 26: Reproduced with the permission of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division.

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