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Artist/Maker
Don Freeman
(American, 1908 - 1978)
DateJune 1937
MediumVolume of fifteen bound lithographs
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (24.1 x 31.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Dorothy Pilkington
Object number2008.2.10
Not on view
DescriptionFifteen illustrations including cover. Bound by three metal tacks. A bi-monthly magazine that reports all around town (NYC) from a "roving sketchbook" presenting news not found on the front pages of the newspaper, but told in a series of lithographs depicting New York's own cast of characters on original plates in black and white and color. Published by Don Freeman of 219 W. 14th Street, NYC.
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Provenance
prior to 1983: Private collection of Walter Pilkington
2008: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Dorothy Pilkington, widow of Walter Pilkington
2008: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Dorothy Pilkington, widow of Walter Pilkington
Inscribed
Inscribed on second page: "Best regards to Jim Dugan Don Freeman"
André Masson
Date: 1943
Medium: Bound volume with 34 reproductions of pen-and-ink drawings
Object number: 1992.46.1
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.26
Nathanial Currier
Date: published 1846
Medium: Two lithographs with hand-coloring pasted together back-to-back
Object number: 1959.26a-b
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with brass tacks, glass beads, sinew, and thread
Object number: 1984.539
Currier & Ives
Date: unknown
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.22
Richard Margolis
Date: December 27, 1985
Medium: Gelatin silver print on paper
Object number: 1991.134
Yinka Shonibare MBE
Date: 2017
Medium: Five woodcuts with fabric and paper collage in a wooden portfolio box bound in Dutch wax batik fabric with colophon sheet
Object number: 2018.2.1-5
Date: date unknown
Medium: Wood, bone or antler, and feather, bound with sinew
Object number: 1984.515
Raven Chacon
Date: 2020
Medium: Series of 11 Lithographs
Object number: 2021.8.1.1-11
Thomas Francis Barrow
Date: 1992
Medium: Portfolio of seven lithographs and title page in metal box
Object number: 2014.8.1.1-7