Over the following years De Pol began to devote even more time to his career as artist, printmaker, and wood engraver, working for such organizations as The Stone House Press, Pickering Press, Pandick Press. In 1952 his work was chosen to appear in a series of publications by The Woodcut Society, and in 1953 De Pol began illustrating the Ben Franklin Keepsake editions. His engravings have also appeared in keepsakes for Pandick Press and Security Columbian Banknote Company. De Pol has had one-man shows at Bucknell University, Syracuse University, and Juanita University and his prints can be found in the permanent collections of many libraries and museums. De Pol now teaches seminars around the country in wood engraving and in 1974 he and his wife Thelma established Endgrain Press.
All biographical information is derived from material in the collection.
The John De Pol Collection relates primarily to De Pol's extensive and accomplished career as a wood engraver and contains many examples of his work created for keepsakes, private presses, books, businesses, and corporations. The archive also consists of a broad range of materials dating from the 1950s and into 1993, such as letters, greeting cards, books, pamphlets, brochures, proofs, clippings, flyers, broadsides, and programs. I contains letters written to Renee Weber from De Pol, many of which appear on engraving proof sheets recycled as writing paper. Weber was a friend who worked at Fairliegh-Dickinson University and who frequently advised De Pol on his business ideas, publications, and seminars. This series also contains Christmas cards and letters De Pol sent to other friends over the holidays.