Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries
Mary Newell DePalma Papers
2011.0116
An Inventory
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries
- Creator - Illustrator
- DePalma, Mary Newell
- Title
- Mary Newell DePalma Papers
- ID
- 2011.0116
- Date [inclusive]
- 1995-2008
- Extent
- 4.6 Linear feet
- Language
- English
- Abstract
- The collection includes the materials used to create several of Ms. DePalma's works, such as My Chair, The Strange Egg, Many Millions of Leaves, A Grand Old Tree, The Perfect Gift, and The Nutcracker Doll.
Preferred Citation
[Item description, #:#], Mary Newell DePalma Papers. Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries.
Biography
Mary Newell DePalma is the author/illustrator of several children’s books and the illustrator of more than a dozen books for other authors. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mary is the second oldest of seven. She and her four brothers and two sisters attended Cathedral Grade School, within walking distance of the Carnegie Library, Museum of Art and Museum of Natural History. Mary attended Gloria Casey’s Saturday art classes at the Museum throughout grade school, and pre-college summer sessions at Carnegie Mellon University where she particularly enjoyed Arnold Bank’s calligraphy class. She began freelance work in high school, earning money lettering invitations and signs, and knitting sweaters for a local designer.
Mary has a BFA in Medical Illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology, where she also became an interpreter for the deaf. After a short stint as an engrosser in Chicago, Mary worked as a freelance medical, editorial, educational, advertising, children’s book, and semi-technical illustrator.
Mary gives presentations about the creative process in grades pre-K through high school and has taught several semesters of Picture Book Illustration at the New England School of Art and Design/Suffolk University. Intrigued by their use of Visual Thinking Strategies, Mary trained as a Museum Teacher at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and then joined their staff as gifts processor. Mary and her husband Alphonse have two children, Kepley and Alphonse. They live in Boston, Massachusetts.
Scope and Contents
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in three boxes a single series with a box inventory.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries December 2011
University of Connecticut Libraries405 Babbidge Road Unit 1205
Storrs, Connecticut, 06269-1205
860.486.2524
archives@uconn.edu
Access
The collection is open and available for research.
Restrictions on Use and Copyright Information
Permission to publish from these Papers must be obtained in writing from both the University of Connecticut Libraries and the owner(s) of the copyright.
Provenance and Acquisition
The collection was donated by Ms. DePalma in 2011.
Controlled Access Headings
Subject(s)
- Children's illustration.
- Children's literature
- Northeast Children's Literature Collection.
Bibliography
For complete information on the works of Mary Newell DePalma, please see her website at http://marynewelldepalma.com/mybookpage.htm.
Collection Inventory
Series I: Inventory undated |
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1998-2004 Scope and Contents noteCorrespondence, books, clippings, sketches, photographs, postcards, manuscript material, notes, publications, fliers, financial records, dummies [Subjects include: Arthur A. Levine, My Chair, Arthur: Final Rosa, greeting cards, Betsy James, Annapolis P-slips, Alphabet Chain, The Strange Egg, Egg drafts, Many Millions of Leaves, illustrations.] |
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1995-2008 Scope and Contents noteBooks, clippings, publications, correspondence, fliers, notes, manuscript material, dummies, sketches [Subjects include: A Grand Old Tree, The Perfect Gift, Hip Hop Plop (The Cherry Version), The Nutcracker, The Nutcracker Doll, West Roxbury-Roslindale Bulletin, illustrations, Scholastic Children’s Books, The Nutcracker Doll – for school visits.] |
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DePalma, Mary Newell 2003-2004 Scope and Contents noteControlled Access HeadingsSubject(s)
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