Cipe Pineles papers, 1925-2005 and undated

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Summary

Creator:
Pineles, Cipe, 1908-1991
Abstract:
Cipe Pineles was an Austrian-born Jewish artist noted for innovations in magazine design, illustration and typography, based primarily in New York. Collection includes correspondence, photographs, drawings and illustrations and other design work, paintings, advertising and promotional materials, drafts of manuscripts, recipes, financial records and other printed materials that document Pineles's professional and private life, including correspondence and service orders during World War II. Collection also includes materials relating to a number of individuals: Ben Shahn, Carol Burton Fripp, Edward Sorel, Jay Leyda, John Alcorn, Mehemed Fehmy Agha, Sidney Meyers, Will Burtin and William Golden. Institutions represented in the collection include Alliance graphique internationale, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Art Directors Club, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Lincoln Center, Parsons School of Design and the Pratt Institute. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
Extent:
18.0 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English; German; Hebrew; Polish; Yiddish.
Collection ID:
RL.11739

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes correspondence, photographs, drawings and illustrations and other design work, paintings, advertising and promotional materials, drafts of manuscripts, recipes, financial records and other printed materials that document Pineles's professional and private life, including correspondence and service orders during World War II. Collection also includes materials relating to a number of individuals: Ben Shahn, Carol Burton Fripp, Edward Sorel, Jay Leyda, John Alcorn, Mehemed Fehmy Agha, Sidney Meyers, Will Burtin and William Golden. Institutions represented in the collection include Alliance graphique internationale, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Art Directors Club, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Lincoln Center, Parsons School of Design and the Pratt Institute. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Biographical / historical:

Cipe Pineles was an Austrian-born Jewish artist noted for innovations in magazine design, illustration and typography, based primarily in New York.

Born 1910 Austria; emigrate to US 1923. Bay Ridge High School, Brooklyn 1924-1926; Pratt Institute 1927-1930. Work: designer, Contempora 1931-1933; Assistant to Art Director, Conde Nast 1933-1936; Associate Art Director, Vogue 1936-1937; Art Director, Glamour 1938-1944; Art Director, Overseas Woman 1945-1946; Art Director, Seventeen 1947-1950; Art Director, Charm magazine 1950-1959; Art Director, Mademoiselle 1960-1961; Free lance designer, Will Burtin Inc. 1962-1972; Design Consultant, Lincoln Center 1965-1970; Director of Publication Design, Parsons School of Design 1970-1984; Visiting Committee, Harvard Graduate School of Design 1978-1981. First woman member of Art Directors Club 1948; Art Directors Club Hall of Fame 1975. Died 1991 New York.

Acquisition information:
The Cipe Pineles papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2018.
Processing information:

Processed by Alyssa Perez and Richard Collier, June 2019;

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2018-0105

Arrangement:

Organized into the following series: General Files; Activities and Projects; Correspondence; Organizations; People; and Photographs.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects

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Subjects:
Women artists
Jewish artists
Commercial art
Commercial artists
Women in the advertising industry -- New York (State)
Jewish women -- United States.
Names:
Harvard University -- History -- Sources
Golden, William

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