Heading: (Gyo Fujikawa - Japanese-American children’s illustrator , collected work)
Author: Gyo Fujikawa
Title: Archive of book and magazine illustration, 1931-80, by the popular California Japanese-American artist
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Date Published: 1931-80
Description:

Collection of work, over a half century, by the popular Japanese-American children's artist Gyo Fujikawa, including a copy of her rare first book (1931) and her second (which did not appear until 1957); three books inscribed by her (1969-80); and a collection of the magazine work she did in the 1950s and 60s, before achieving fame and popularity, including 25 issues of the monthly Children's Digest; the iconic (uncredited) "Peter Pan" front cover of a 1953 Newsweek; 6 issues of Family Circle with her Christmas illustrations (1959-65); 2 delightful cover illustrations for American Weekly (1961); and a 1954 feature article about her in American Artist. Detailed list of the contents of the archive available on request.

After illustrating her first book in 1931 at age 23, over the next 25 years, the Berkeley-born Japanese-American artist (whose family spent World War II in an internment camp) would do much commercial work - unsigned and uncredited - as art director of an advertising agency and illustrator for Walt Disney. (reportedly including the avidly collected 1940 book version of Fantasia) In the 1950s, she illustrated the covers of many issues of the monthly Children's Digest and Family Circle while she transitioned from advertising and commercial work to the start of three decades as author and illustrator of more than 50 books (notably including some of the earliest inclusion of Black and Asian children's faces on book covers) - as well as postage stamps and greeting cards - before her death in 1998.

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Some normal wear, very good.