Alvin Lustig papers
name: label: Creator
content: Lustig, Alvin, 1915-1955
label: Names
content: Langsner, Jules, 1911-1967
topic: label: Occupation
content: Designers
label: Occupation
content: Graphic artists
label: Topic
content: Graphic arts -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Architectural design
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The donor, Elaine Lustig Cohen, is Lustig's widow.
creator: label: Creator
content: Lustig, Alvin, 1915-1955
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Graphic, architectural, and book designer, New York. Studied briefly with Frank Lloyd Wright, but was primarily self taught.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.8 Linear Feet ((1,200 items partially microfilmed on 3 reels))
label: Extent
content: 1 Item (1 rolled doc.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935-1955
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lustalvi
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 323-324 & 421 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photo of Lustig: Archives of American Art Journal, v. 12, no. 3, 1972, p.19.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material; correspondence; writings; graphic designs; sketches; clippings; and photographs.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel 323: biographical material, including a biographical sketch by Jules Langsner; correspondence, personal and professional, 1949-55; receipts for works sold; notes and articles on design by Lustig; original design layouts of trademarks, magazine covers, paricularly LOOK magazine, book jackets, record covers, girl scout pamphlets, advertisements, and stationery.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel 324: sketchbook of Lustig's designs; architectural drawings; magazine and newspaper clippings; and miscellaneous materials.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel 421: photographs of Lustig including two taken by Maya Deren, 1944 (one copyprint microfilmed on reel 1817, fr. 786), of his fabric designs, graphic designs, furniture designs (including some marginal notes), sculpture, helicopter designs, and packaging designs; pictures of the Beverly Landau building and the Beverly Carlton Hotel in Los Angeles; office interiors designed by Lustig; and photographs of Rath House, 1948.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Unmicrofilmed material: books whose jackets Lustig designed.