Sometimes, despite the best efforts of an impressive team of catalogers and processing archivists, an error can cause a work to become nearly invisible. Such was the case when a curator happened across a folder in our Art Collections flat-files, labeled “Eebster, H T.”: An unusual name indeed! Closer inspection revealed a beautiful piece of […]
Category: Comics and Cartoons
Book Publication Celebration | The Wild West Through European Eyes
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RBML Acquires Underground Comix Artist S. Clay Wilson’s Archives
Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) has acquired the papers of artist S. Clay Wilson, a transgressive pioneer of underground comix, whose mark on creative movements extended from the Beats to punk. Born and raised in Nebraska, Wilson lived briefly in New York in 1965, where he worked for the East Village Other. […]
A Companion to Rackham
Our current exhibition “Enchanted Vision” showcases some of the works from the Arthur Rackham Collection held here at the RBML. Rackham, a British illustrator, illustrated 50 major works beginning with Rip Van Winkle in 1905, Alice in Wonderland, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Winnie the Pooh, and other English and American classics. As a companion to this […]