Lynd Ward As Illustrator

Exhibit Space: 
Charles Marvin Fairchild Memorial Gallery
Start Date: 
June 4, 2001
End Date: 
August 9, 2001

Idylls of the King
Limited Editions Club
1953
Gouache on paper
Arthur, 15 x 20 cm.; Fighting Knights, 22.7 x 20.2 cm.

Unpublished illustrations

For the book by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Biggest Bear
Houghton Mifflin
1952
Gouache on illustration board
19.7 x 16 cm.

Book jacket design

For the book by Lynd Ward

America's Mark Twain
Houghton Mifflin
1962
Gouache on illustration board
28 x 25.5 cm.

For the book by May McNeer

The Secret Journey of the Silver Reindeer
Doubleday
1968
Gouache on paper
24.4 x 32.8 cm.

Book jacket designs

For the book by Lee Kingman

The Secret Journey of the Silver Reindeer
Doubleday
1968
Gouache on paper
24.3 x 16 cm.

Book jacket designs

For the book by Lee Kingman

The Silver Pony: a story in pictures
Houghton Mifflin
1973
Gouache on illustration board
43 x 38 cm.

Book jacket designs

For the book by Lynd Ward

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Limited Editions Club
1942
Pastel dummy illustration
24.6 x 16.7 cm.

For the book by Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Limited Editions Club
1942
Title page mock-up
24.6 x 16.7 cm.

For the book by Ernest Hemingway

Book Plates
Antioch Press
1945
Four watercolor on paper sketches
12.5 x 9 cm. each

Story and Verse For Children
Macmillan, third edition
1965
Ink on paper
37.5 x 27.8 cm.

Unpublished illustrations

For the book by Miriam Blanton Huber

Five Plays from Shakespeare Midsummernight
Houghton Mifflin
1964
Ink on fiber board
30.2 x 20 cm.

For the book edited by Katherine Miller

Prince Bantam, being the adventures of Yoshitsune the brave and his faithful henchman, great Benkei of the Western Pagoda
Macmillan
1929
Watercolor on illustration board
40 x 28 cm.

Unpublished illustration

For the book by May McNeer

Les Misérables: Cosette
Limited Editions Club
1938
Ink on illustration board
38.3 x 25.7 cm. each

Frontispiece illustration

For the book by Victor Hugo

Les Misérables: Jean Valjean
Limited Editions Club
1938
Ink on illustration board
38.3 x 25.7 cm. each

Frontispiece illustration

For the book by Victor Hugo

The Man with Four Lives
Farrar
1934
Watercolor on paper
41.5 x 38 cm.

Book jacket design

For the book by William J. Cowen

North Star Shining
Morrow & Co.
1947
Opaque watercolor on illustration board
28 x 20.2 cm.

For the book by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift

The Running of the Tide
Houghton Mifflin
1948
Gouache on illustration board
63 x 52.5 cm.

Book jacket design

For the book by Esther Forbes

Explorer's Digest
Houghton Mifflin
1955
Gouache on illustration board with mylar text overlay
36.2 x 48.8 cm.

Book jacket design

For the book by Leonard Clark

The High-Flying Hat
Ariel Books
1956
Watercolor on paper jacket design
20.7 x 16. 9 cm.

For the book by Nanda Ward

The High-Flying Hat
Ariel Books
1956
Ink on paper illustration
27.7 x 27.7 cm.

For the book by Nanda Ward

Jeremy Craven
Houghton Mifflin
1958
Watercolor on paper
21.8 x 32.4 cm.

Book jacket design

For the book by Joyce Collin-Smith

America's Robert E. Lee
Houghton Mifflin
1951
Watercolor on paper
23.4 x 17.5 cm.

Title page illustration

For the book by Henry Steele Commager

America's Robert E. Lee
Houghton Mifflin
1951
Two gouache illustrations
25.8 x 22 cm.; 10 x 22.6 cm.

For the book by Henry Steele Commager

Mexican Story
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
1953
Watercolor on paper
35.5 x 27.7 cm.

For the book by May McNeer

A Cup of Sky
Houghton Mifflin
1950
Gouache on illustration board
38 x 30.3 cm.

St. Francis Statuary Book jacket design

For the book by Donald Culross Peattie and Noel Peattie

The Curve and the Tusk
Gouache on illustration board
38 x 45.4 cm.

For the story by Stuart Cloete

Published in Colliers magazine (January 26, 1952)

Released in book form by Houghton Mifflin, 1952

The Curve and the Tusk
Gouache on illustration board
30.5 x 25.2 cm.

For the story by Stuart Cloete

Published in Colliers magazine (January 26, 1952)

Released in book form by Houghton Mifflin, 1952

Treasure Island
Dell
1963
Gouache on paper
22 x 32.5 cm.

Book jacket design

For the book by Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island
Dell
1963
Gouache on paper
25 x 19 cm.

Interior illustration

For the book by Robert Louis Stevenson

Early Thunder
Coward-McCann
1967
Gouache on illustration board
35.5 x 25.5 cm.

Frontispiece illustration

For the book by Jean Fritz

The Wolf of Lamb's Lane
Houghton Mifflin
1967
Watercolor on paper
35.5 x 25.2 cm.

Book jacket design

For the book by May McNeer

The Wolf of Lamb's Lane
Houghton Mifflin
1967
Interior dummy
35.5 x 25.2 cm.

For the book by May McNeer

America's Thomas Jefferson
The Limited Editions Club
1967
Charcoal and watercolor on paper
27.8 x 18.2 cm.

The Master of Ballantrae
Heritage Press
1965
Ink and gouache on colored paper
25.6 x 15.2 cm.

For the book by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Land Breakers
Winter 1965
Watercolor and ink on paper

Book jacket design, 21.6 x 29.5 cm.
Two illustrations, 18.5 x 13.5 cm. each

For the story by John Ehle

Published in Reader's Digest, Vol. I (Winter 1965)