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| Creator: | Symeon Shimin |
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| Title: | Symeon Shimin Papers | ||
| Dates: | 1964-1976 | ||
| Quantity: | 2.55 cubic feet (1 box & 1 map drawer) | ||
| Identification: | DG0890 | ||
| Abstract: | The Symeon Shimin Papers contain illustrations and a promotional pamphlet created and accumulated by Symeon Shimin between 1964 and 1976. Shimin's papers were created from his illustration of seven published books and his creation of nine other illustrations. The majority of the book illustrations were made for A Kite Over Tenth Avenue by Joan M. Lexau (1967). Shimin illustrated more than 50 books for children over the course of his career, including two that he also authored. |
Symeon Shimin was born in Astrakhan, Russia, on the Caspian Sea, in 1902. His family immigrated to the United States ten years later, living in two small rooms behind their delicatessen. Already interested in drawing for a living, Shimin apprenticed himself to a commercial artist at age 16 to help support his family. He attended art classes at Cooper Union Art School at night. In 1929, after working as a freelance commercial artist and briefly studying in the studio of artist George Luks, Shimin spent a year and a half in France and Spain. He returned to New York and in 1938 was awarded a contract to paint a mural in the Department of Justice building in Washington. Shimin's work in children's books began in 1950 when friends Hermann and Nina Scheider asked him to illustrate a revised edition of their How Big is Big? Shimin subsequently illustrated more than 50 books for children, including two that he also authored. He died in 1984.
Sources:
Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and
Young Adults, ed. Laurie Collier and Joyce Nakamura (Detroit: Gale
Research, 1993), 2092-2094.
The Symeon Shimin Papers contain illustrations and a promotional pamphlet created and accumulated by Symeon Shimin between 1964 and 1976. Shimin's papers were created from his illustration of seven published books and his creation of nine other illustrations. The material is organized into two series: Books and Illustrations.
The Books Series contains pencil and watercolor illustrations and a promotional pamphlet for seven published books illustrated by Shimin between 1964 and 1976. The majority of the illustrations in the series were made for A Kite Over Tenth Avenue by Joan M. Lexau (1967). Only one item exists for each of the other six books. The papers in the Books Series are arranged alphabetically by title.
The Illustrations Series consists of nine undated pencil and watercolor illustrations made for unidentified books or other undetermined purposes. Six of the illustrations are either marked with intended page numbers or identified as being made for a dust jacket.
Series and Subseries |
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| A. Books (1964-1976) | ||
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I Wish There Were Two of Me (1976) |
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| B. Illustrations [n.d.] | ||
Noncirculating; available for research.
The collection is protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). Reproductions can be made only if they are to be used for "private study, scholarship, or research." It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials, other than that noted above.
Production material for Passover (1965) and Hanukkah (1966) is kept in the Norma Simon Papers (DG 0902). Manuscripts for Poems for Earth and Space (1967) are kept in the Claudia Lewis Papers (DG 0613). Production material for The House in the Tree: A Story of Israel (1968) is kept in the Molly Cone Papers (DG 0212).
(Identify the item), Symeon Shimin Papers, de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, University of Southern Mississippi Libraries, (cite the item's box/folder numbers).
These papers were donated to the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection of the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries by Symeon Shimin in 1974.
Processed by Hans Rasmussen, June 2003. Encoded into EAD Version 1.0 by Danielle L. Bishop. This finding aid is the product of a grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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B. Illustrations |
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| Drawer J-2 | Pencil and watercolor illustrations made for unidentified books and other undetermined purposes, (9 items) | ||||||||||||
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