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- Title
An Autobiographical Note.
- Authors
Whyte, Kathleen King
- Abstract
The author had moved to New York at 17 to study at the Art Students League. Most of his parents' friends were horrified that they would allow her to go and live alone. As a child, she was always drawing, and she planned a year at the League while she decided on a college. She stayed four years and studied life drawing, illustration, and oil painting. Her chief subject was print making, etching, wood engraving and especially lithography, all of which they printed in hand presses. She wanted to be an illustrator but realized that she knew nothing of preparing work for reproduction. She heard of George Salter, a German refugee, who had been a prominent book designer and had taught in a large Berlin art school until the Nuremburg Laws forbade it. He was teaching at Columbia. Most of the students were librarians and teachers, who wanted to learn about book design. He wanted to teach actual designers but felt he could not give her extra attention in class. He invited her to his apartment once a week for instruction. This led to a real friendship with her and her family and an invaluable apprenticeship of three years.
- Subjects
ART students; ILLUSTRATORS; ARTISTS; GRAPHIC arts; APPRENTICESHIP programs; AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1993, Vol 16, Issue 4, p333
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00989968