Yale Bulletin and Calendar

January 21, 2000

Volume 28, Number 17

Paul Rand's widow donates
artist's personal papers to Yale

The late designer Paul Rand's legacy and career as one of America's pioneering graphic designers will be reflected in the materials given to the Yale Library by his widow, Marion Rand. (see also related story)

The Paul Rand papers, to be housed in the Department of Manuscripts and Archives in the Sterling Memorial Library, include a complete set of Rand's graphic design work documented through publications, book covers, posters, advertisements, trademarks, product packaging, children's books and two large billboard advertisements.

In addition to these finished works, the papers will also include Rand's "job bags," containing the drawings, sketches and experiments that trace the development of each work.

Rand's correspondence with his colleagues, students and clients, and his design resource and photograph files will provide insights into the ideas that animated his development of many of the visual expressions that are an integral and instantly recognizable part of American culture.

The Rand papers join a growing collection of papers of Yale faculty and records of University programs maintained by Manuscripts and Archives documenting the evolution and influence of creative expression and teaching in the arts at Yale.

In addition to the designer's personal papers, Marion Rand donated more than 100 books from her late husband's personal library to the Arts Library and over 200 books and other publications to the Arts of the Book Collection in the Sterling Memorial Library.

Of the books donated to the Arts Library, more than half deal with color and color theory. These materials will significantly enrich the Arts Library's strong holdings in this field as embodied in the Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color. The other materials cover subjects ranging from art history to graphic design, and will enhance the Library's general research collections.

The Rand books given to Arts of the Book Collection -- including materials formative or inspirational to Rand himself, as well as a rich collection on the book arts, graphic design and typography -- will reside in a special area of the Arts of the Book Room. Several of these books fall into the category of early modernist classics of the literature of art.

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