Guide to the Joel P. Johnson graphic design files M2951
Gurudarshan Khalsa
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2023
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Joel P. Johnson graphic design files
Creator:
Johnson, Joel P.
source:
Johnson, Joel P.
Identifier/Call Number: M2951
Physical Description:
4.75 Linear Feet
(8 manuscript boxes, 1 half manuscript box, 1 flat box, and 1 map folder)
Date (inclusive): 1984-2021
Content Description
This collection consists of materials created by Joel Peter Johnson, a graphic designer. The materials include journals of
sketches and final design examples, especially book covers, illustrations within books, and illustrations in magazines. The
materials also include correspondence, awards, invoices, pamphlets, posters, newsletters, articles about Joel P. Johnson,
and a small amount of photographs.
Biographical / Historical
Joel Peter Johnson (born Bronx, New York) is a painter, graphic designer, illustrator, lecturer, photographer, and art director.
Since 1987 he has been a painter and a freelance illustrator. His illustrations have appeared in Time Magazine, the New York
Times, Sports Illustrated, Boston Globe, and others. He has also illustrated a number of book covers, and his paintings have
been exhibited in museums in the United States. Johnson has also received a number of awards.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], Joel P. Johnson graphic design files (M2951). Department of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford Libraries, Stanford, California.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual & born-digital
materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Conditions Governing Use
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization
to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction
beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Illustrators.
Graphic design
Graphic arts.
Graphic artists
book illustration
book art, book illustration
African American graphic artists
Johnson, Joel P.
Box 1, folder 1
Certificate and other documents
1986-1987
Box 1, folder 3
Periodicals with illustrations by Joel P. Johnson
1986-2003
Scope and Contents
Buffalo Physician, Autumn 1987
Reporter, Vol. 17, No. 21, February 27, 1986
John Hopkins Professional Studies, Winter 2003
Box 1, folder 4
Articles about Joel P. Johnson
1987-1988
Box 3, folder 5
Book covers illustrated by Joel P. Johnson
Scope and Contents
Anthony Storr, "Feet of clay"
Andre Dubus III, "The cage keeper and other stories"
Tom Hyman, "Prussian blue"
Sydney Blair, "Buffalo"
Marian Stamp Dawkins, "Through our eyes only?"
Dani Shapiro, "Picturing the wreck"
Speer Morgan, "The whipping boy"
Rosalind Miles, "Guenevere: queen of the summer country"
Rosalind Miles, "Guenevere: die herrin von Camelot Roman"
Bernadette J. Brooten, "Love between women"
Clemence McLaren, "Inside the walls of Troy"
Edward Bloor, "Tangerine"
Laurence Yep, "Hiroshima"
"The fractured image: exploring identities"
Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier, "Perspectives on personality"
Deborah Davis, "My brother has AIDS"
John Banville, "The book of evidence"
Jack Kornfield and Christina Feldman, "Soul food: stories to nourish the spirit and the heart"
Rosalind Miles, "The knight of the sacred lake"
John P. Meier, "A marinal Jew: rethinking the historical Jesus"
Alice Hoffman, "The drowning season"
Box 3, folder 6
Soul food - Jack Kornfield and Christina Feldman
1996
Box 4, folder 1
The sorrows of the young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by W.H. Auden
1990
Box 4, folder 2
The temptation of the West - André Malraux
1992
Box 4, folder 3
The walnut trees of Altenburg - André Malraux
1992
Box 4, folder 4
The conquerors - André Malraux
1992
Box 4, folder 5
Le médecin qui rêvait d'être magicien - Denis Labayle
1997
Box 4, folder 6
The hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo, adapted by Robin Moore, Aladdin Paperbacks
1996
Box 4, folder 7
Minuit passe: une enquête du Dr. Snow - David Laing Dawson
1995
Box 5, folder 1
Madonna ohne gesicht - Barry Maitland, Bastei Lübbe
1996
Box 5, folder 2
Madonna ohne gesicht - Barry Maitland, Bastei Lübbe
1996
Box 5, folder 3
The state of Black America 2000: Blacks in the new millennium, National Urban League
2000
Box 5, folder 4
The knight of the sacred lake - Rosalind Miles
2000
Box 5, folder 5
Spunk #14
2003
Scope and Contents
Page 70.
Box 5, folder 6
Launching the imagination: a comprehensive guide to basic design - Mary Stewart, 4th edition
2012
Box 6, folder 1
Launching the imagination: a comprehensive guide to basic design - Mary Stewart, 5th edition
2015
Box 6, folder 2
Design basics - David A. Lauer, 3rd edition
1990
Box 6, folder 3
Consider the alternatives: 20 years of contemporary art at Hallways
1996
Box 6, folder 4
Illustrators XXX - the Society of Illustrators 30th Annual of American Illustration
1988
Box 6, folder 5
Illustrators 31, the Society of Illustrators 31st Annual of American Illustration
1990
Box 7, folder 1
This face you got: the art of the illustrator - Jim McMullan
1994
Box 7, folder 2
American illustration 6 - edited by Edward Booth-Clibborn
1987
Box 7, folder 3
Periodicals with illustrations by Joel Peter Johnson (1 of 2)
1983-2004
Box 7, folder 4
Periodicals with illustrations by Joel Peter Johnson (2 of 2)
1983-2004
Box 7, folder 5
Articles about Joel Peter Johnson
1987-2013
Box 8, folder 1
Illustrations by Joel Peter Johnson
Box 8, folder 2
Jump for joy: jazz at Lincoln Center celebrates the Ellington Centennial
1999
Box 8, folder 3
Step inside design: best of the web, Volume 24, Number 5
2008
Box 8, folder 4
Exhibitions, museum newsletters, award ceremonies and other events (1 of 2)
1987-2021
Box 8, folder 5
Exhibitions, museum newsletters, award ceremonies and other events (2 of 2)
1987-2021
Box 8, folder 6
Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas (1 of 2)
2001-2007
Box 8, folder 7
Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas (2 of 2)
2001-2007
Box 8, folder 8
3 Joel Peter Johnson photographs
Box 8, folder 9
Illustrations and sketches
Scope and Contents
Includes loose pages of sketches for
My brother has AIDS,
Sage horizons magazine, Nancy Bruck and Eileen Moss,
Love between women, and other projects.
Box 8, folder 10
Invoices and artist agreements
1986-2001
Box 9, folder 1
Correspondence
1984-1998
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence about awards, commissions, projects, and other subjects.
Box 10, folder 1
Illustrations for Psychology Today
1988
Box 10, folder 2
Illustrations
Scope and Contents
JPJ-065, JPJ-090, JPJ-091, and JPJ-320.
Box 10, folder 3
The art of Barbie: artists celebrate the world's favorite doll, edited by Craig Yoe
1994
Box 10, folder 4
Psychology Today illustration (JPJ-373)
Box 10, folder 5
Lena Horne, "Stormy weather" - record cover
1990
map-folder 11
Posters
1986-2000
Scope and Contents
RSVP Student Competition 5, 1986
Buffalo News - 1989 Creative Advertising Award Competition
Rembrandt poster - Print Magazine cover, 1987
The Outrage Festival, University at Buffalo, 1994
Poster for KQED campaign for the future, 2000
6 ÷ 2 poster. Artists Gallery, Bethune Arts Gallery
"Hi this is Judy" poster for Women Making Art exhibition
1996 AIGA fifty books | fifty covers
Buffalo Lyric Opera Theatre, Shea's Buffalo Center for the Performing Arts present Aida
Dementia and communication symposium, University at Buffalo, 1989
