This collection consists of material by and about Warren Chappell (1904-1991), an artist-in-residence at the University of
Virginia, book designer and illustrator, from the collection of Ruth Nuzum, Boulder,
Colorado, 1906-1997, ca. 835 items (5 Hollinger boxes and one slipcase, ca. 2 linear feet and one oversize folder). The papers
chiefly comprise the correspondence of Warren Chappell with Herb Johnson and Ruth
Nuzum, but also include the following correspondents with Chappell and Ruth Nuzum: Janet Anderson, University of Virginia
Press; Flora and Franz Hess; William McCleery; Lydia Chappell; Malcolm Cowley; Elizabeth
Easton; Anne Freudenberg; Diana Klemin; Dr. Robert L. Leslie; David Vander Meulen; Oak Knoll Books; and Diantha C. Thorpe.
Other material in this collection besides correspondence includes articles by and about Warren Chappell; dust jackets illustrated
by Warren Chappell; a slide show and script highlighting five decades of
Chappell's work for the 50th Anniversary of the Association of American University Presses; Chappell's autobiography written
for the Gale Research Company Something About the Author
Autobiography Series; original artwork by Chappell; news clippings about John Updike; news clippings and obituaries about Warren Chappell; photographs
of Lydia and Warren Chappell and Chappell relatives; a
notebook and "want lists" kept by Ruth Nuzum for material containing any type of work done by Warren Chappell; oversize exhibition
posters, artwork, articles, and keepsakes; and page and galley proofs, with the
original artwork by Chappell, for Saroyan's Fables by William Saroyan in a separate slipcase.
American Artist
Articles featuring or mentioning Warren Chappell
1941-1952
Box 1
American Typecasting Fellowship Newsletter
"Recalling Type Design in the Era Before Pictures of Printing" by Warren Chappell
1993 Jul
Box 1
Angels & Awakenings
Dust Jacket
[1980]
Box 1
Anna Karenina
Dust Jacket
[1978]
Box 1
Association of American University Presses 50th Anniversary "Five Decades of Warren Chappell's Work" - Slide Show and Script
1987 Jun
Box 1
Autobiography of Warren Chappell, Autographed Manuscript
[1989] Mar 15
Box 1
Autobiography of Warren Chappell from
Something About the Author Autobiography Series,
Gale Research Company, with a letter from Warren Chappell, June 7, 1990
[1990]
Box 1
Book-of-the-Month-Club
ca. 1970-1982
Box 1
Booklet, "How Johnny Reb Outslicked the Yankees, For Johnny at Christmas" hand-drawn by Warren Chappell
1937
Box 1
Chapter & Verse - 3 (electrostatic copy)
1975 Feb
The Composing Room, Inc. 130 West 46th Street, New York Plan of Gallery 303
n.d.
Physical Location: Oversize
Box 1
Correspondence of Janet Anderson and Ruth Nuzum
1986-1989, 1991
Box 1
Correspondence of Warren Chappell and Flora and Franz Hess
1943-[1964?], n.d.
Box 1
Correspondence of Warren Chappell and Herb Johnson
1963-1972, n.d.
Box 1
Correspondence of Warren Chappell and Herb Johnson re the Supreme Court Series
1970-1971
2 folders
Box 1
Correspondence of Warren Chappell and Herb Johnson and Related Material regarding the production of John Marshall book
1973-1974
Box 1
Correspondence of Warren Chappell and Herb Johnson and Related Material regarding
Published in Paris
1974
Box 1
Correspondence of Warren Chappell and Herb Johnson and Related Material - Notes by Herb Johnson
1980 May 24
Box 1
Correspondence of Warren Chappell and Bill McCleery (Copies) and a postcard from McCleery to Ruth Nuzum
1962-1988
Box 2
Correspondence of Warren Chappell and Ruth Nuzum
1978-1988
2 folders
Box 3
Correspondence of Warren Chappell and Ruth Nuzum, including Lydia Chappell
1989-1991
Box 3
Correspondence of Lydia Chappell and Ruth Nuzum
1992-1996
Box 3
Correspondence of Chappell Relatives and Ruth Nuzum
1988-1997
Box 3
Correspondence - Malcolm Cowley Note to Warren Chappell
1986 Oct 19
Box 3
Correspondence of Elizabeth Easton and Ruth Nuzum
1987
Box 3
Correspondence of Anne Freudenberg and Ruth Nuzum
1980-1987, 1992
2 folders
Box 3
Correspondence of Neal Jones and Ruth Nuzum
1986
Box 3
Correspondence of Diana Klemin and Ruth Nuzum
1980-1983, 1988
Box 3
Correspondence of Dr. Robert L. Leslie and Ruth Nuzum
1976, 1986-1987
Box 3
Correspondence of David Vander Meulen and Ruth Nuzum
1993-1994
Box 3
Correspondence of Miscellaneous Correspondents and Ruth Nuzum
1980-1994
Box 3
Correspondence of Oak Knoll Books and Ruth Nuzum
1980, 1989-1993
Box 3
Correspondence of Diantha C. Thorpe, The Shoestring Press, and Ruth Nuzum and Dust Jacket for
Wolf Story
1987-1988
Box 3
Drawing from Don Quixote by Warren Chappell, accompanied by a note to Franz Hess (n.d.) and a much later note from Chappell to Nuzum (1980) concerning
its provenance
[ca. 1938], 1980
Box 3
Drawings by Warren Chappell
1937, 1989, n.d.
Engraver's Proof Frontispiece Portrait for the Illustrated Modern Library edition of Shakespeare's Tragedies by Warren Chappell
"to George," matted
1944
Physical Location: Oversize
Box 3
"Essences of the Graphic Arts" by Warren Chappell
[1949]
Exhibition Poster for "Littera Scripta Manet Warren Chappell: Fifty Years of Graphic Work"
1983
Physical Location: Oversize
Exhibition Poster for "Warren Chappell Artist and Artificer in the Twentieth Century Book World "and Lecture Poster for "Littera
Scripta Manet" by David Vander Meulen about Chappell's life work
1994
Physical Location: Oversize
Box 3
The Granite Farm Letters
Dust Jacket
[1988]
Box 3
"Illustrations for Herman Melville's
Moby Dick:
A Suite of Drawings by Warren Chappell" University of Virginia Art Museum, Thomas H. Bayly Memorial Building
1975 Oct 12-Nov 16
Keepsake presented to the Friends of Warren Chappell by The Composing Room, Inc. consisting of a facsimile of a letter from
Rudolf Koch, Germany, to Warren Chappell, August 19, 1932, with an English
translation on blue paper attached
[1932 original]
Physical Location: Oversize
Box 3
Letter of Warren Chappell to Martin K. Speckter
1959 Mar 11
Box 3
Material regarding the Keepsake for the Exhibition about the Art of Willa Cather
1980-1981
Box 3
Material regarding the Production of the Limited Edition Club
Moby Dick
1984
Box 3
Material regarding
Red Plush
by Guy McCrone
1947, 1985
Box 3
Material regarding Production of
The Rosa Luxemburg Prophylactic Cooperative A Primer on Communist Civilization
1971
"Messing About With Types" by Alex Berlyne, reprinted for the Typophiles
1974
Oral History - Warren Chappell - Interviews 1-9 Transcripts
1978
3 folders
Box 4
Oral History - Selected Pages of Interviews with Harry Scherman and Oscar Ogg from the Book-of-the-Month Club Project
1985
Box 4
Photograph of Lydia and Warren Chappell in Offenbach-A-Main
1931
Box 4
Photographs of Lydia and Warren Chappell and Relatives
ca. 1906-1987
Box 4
Postcards sent to Warren Chappell
1908-1910
Poster of a letter from Warren Chappell to Ruth Nuzum, mounted on board with illustrations by Chappell
[1985]
Physical Location: Oversize
Box 4
Publisher's Weekly
Articles featuring or mentioning Warren Chappell
ca. 1955-1986
Box 4
Records of Warren Chappell Items Sought by Ruth Nuzum
ca. 1938-1986
Specimen Broadside of Lydian and Lydian Bold Type and Specimen of Eastern Corporation's Atlantic Bond Paper
1948
Physical Location: Oversize
Box 4
Type Talks
"Forum 7 at 8" including Warren Chappell
n.d.
Box 4
"Want List" for Warren Chappell kept by Ruth Nuzum, with notations by Warren Chappell
1988 Apr 22
Box 4
"Want Lists" for Warren Chappell and Malcolm Cowley kept by Ruth Nuzum
n.d.
2 folders
Box 5
Alphabetically arranged Notebook of References to Material containing work by Warren Chappell kept by Ruth Nuzum
n.d.
Box 6
Saroyan's Fables
by William Saroyan
1941
in a red and black slipcase with four distinct compartments, including page proof sheets for author's correction, galley with
author's corrections, galley with printers corrections, and original drawing for
illustrations by Warren Chappell of the title page and 27 pictorial capitals.
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