Crisell Collection on Paul Landacre MS.2020.009
Rebecca Fenning Marschall
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2022
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles 90018
clark@humnet.ucla.edu
Contributing Institution:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Title: Crisell collection on Paul Landacre
Creator:
Landacre, Paul, 1893-1963
Identifier/Call Number: MS.2020.009
Physical Description:
6 boxes
(8 linear feet)
Date (inclusive): 1928-2020
Abstract: The Paul Landacre collection formed by Robert and Toni Crisell consists of the artist's prints and related drawings, published
examples of his work, exhibition catalogs and other works about Landacre, and research files compiled by researcher Patricia
Adler Ingram.
Language of Material:
English
.
Access to Collection
Collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice.
Provenance
Gift, Robert and Toni Crisell, 2020.
Organization of the Collection
This collection is organized into 3 series:
- Prints, Proofs, and Drawings
- Published Work
- Research Files, Realia, and Posthumous Publications
Biographical Note
Paul Hambleton Landacre was born in Columbus, OH, on 9 July 1893. He attended Ohio State University where he was a track and
field athlete with dreams of participating in the Olympics. During his sophomore year, he contracted a streptococcus infection
that caused permanent damage to his right leg and meant the end of his running career. After a long convalescence, he left
the midwest for San Diego, where his father and stepmother had settled, and found work as a commercial illustrator at an advertising
firm where he met his future wife, copywriter Margaret McCreery. Margaret Gertrude McCreery had been born in Missouri in 1891,
but by the early 1910s had also relocated to San Diego with her parents and siblings.
Around 1923, Margaret moved to Los Angeles to further her career, and Paul soon followed. They married in 1925 and settled
in the Edendale neighborhood of Los Angeles, in a house on El Moran Avenue where they would live for the rest of their lives.
Landacre enrolled in some drawing courses at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, but he largely taught himself the craft
of printmaking. In 1929, Margaret introduced Paul and his work to Jake Zeitlin, the Los Angeles bookseller for whom she worked
at the time, and Zeitlin became an important early champion of Paul and his artwork. Through Zeitlin, Landacre also met Delmer
Daves, another significant supporter and friend. During the 1930s, Landacre produced editions of single prints, in addition
to working on book and magazine illustration. He also received some income from the Landacre Association, a subscription scheme
organized by Zeitlin and Daves. Increasing commissions for book illustrations drew his attention away from art prints during
the 1940s. The most notable books containing his work are
California Hills (1931),
The Boar and Shibboleth (1933), five books by Donald Culross Peattie (1939-1953),
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1943),
De Rerum Natura (1957), and
On the Origin of Species (1963). From 1953 until his death he taught a course at Otis Art Institute.
Over the course of their lives together, Margaret played an instrumental role in Paul's career, continuing to work outside
their home in addition to working behind the scenes to organize his business affairs and running their household (which included
a succession of bulldogs). In 1963 Margaret McCreery Landacre died of cancer, and four weeks later, Paul Landacre died of
injuries sustained in an attempt to take his own life.
Processing History
This collection was physically processed and described in 2022 by Rebecca Fenning Marschall. The entire Crisell collection
is also included in the finding aid to the Clark Library's
Paul Landacre Collection , which seeks to describe all Landacre materials at the Clark, for the ease of researchers.
Related Materials
Scope and Contents
This finding aid describes the Paul Landacre collection formed by Robert and Toni Crisell and includes a wide variety of the
artist's wood cut prints and related drawings, as well as published examples of his wor, and works about him, such as exhibition
catalogs. Prints collected by the Crisells include not just editioned prints, but preliminary proofs and progressive trial
prints. Research files compiled by collector Patricia Adler Ingram, whose Landacre collection the Crisells acquired, include
a significant amount of correspondence about Landacre with his printer colleagues and friends.
The Crisell collection is also enumerated in the finding aid to the Clark Library's
Paul Landacre Collection , which has been compiled over time through various donations and purchases.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Clark Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Prints, Proofs, and Drawings Series 1
Arrangement
This series is arranged in alphabetical order by title.
Scope and Contents
This series contains original artwork and prints by Paul Landacre. Works include preparatory drawings, intermediate trial
pulls, proof prints, and editioned prints.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 3, Folder 8
Bach [print]
General
Signed, 14/60. Removed from acidic mat August 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 5, Folder 8
Boar and the Shibboleth by Edward Doro: Title page [prints]
General
3 prints: 1 trial print, signed; 1 final version, unsigned, mounted in acid-free presentation mat; 1 final version on lightweight
paper, signed.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 3, Folder 3
Boar and the Shibboleth by Edward Doro: Title page trial proof [print]
General
Initialed and titled "Trial Proof" in Landacre's hand. Removed from acidic mat August 2022
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 27
Boar and the Shibboleth by Edward Doro: Trial proof [print]
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 2, Folder 7
Brahms [print]
General
Signed, 23/60. Removed from acidic mat August 2022
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 3, Folder 1
Celebration [print]
General
2 copies, 12/60 and 13/60. Engraved for Hawaiian Pineapple Co. 13/60 emoved from acidic mat August 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 3, Folder 5
Cesar Franck [print]
General
Signed, 17/60. Removed from acidic mat August 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 4, Folder 1
Claude Debussy [print]
General
Signed, 2/60. Removed from acidic mat August 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 2, Folder 4
Conflict [print]
General
Signed, 23/50. Mounted in acid-free presentation mat.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 5, Folder 5
De Rerum Natura by Lucretius: Birds, p. 97 [drawing]
General
Preparatory drawing for page 97 of book published by LImited Editions Club, 1957. With receipt from Claire de Heeckeren d'Anthes
Fine Art.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 19
De Rerum Natura by Lucretius: Proof print for page 64 [print]
General
Red estate stamp. Proof print. With dealer description from Dailey Rare Books.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 3, Folder 9
Edmund Converse bookplate [print]
General
Signed. Removed from acidic mat August 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 1
Elizabeth Watson Diamond bookplate [print]
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 3, Folder 9
Ex Libris Mell Efird [print]
General
Signed. Removed from acidic mat August 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 5, Folder 7
Faculty Glade, Berkeley [print]
General
Signed, number 4/100. Printed on very thin tissue, torn at top above print mark.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 2, Folder 1
Farewell Thou Busy World by John Hodgdon Bradley: Title page and decorations [prints]
about 1935
General
Mat with title written in Paul Landacre's hand; prints signed. Prints removed from acidic mat July 2022 (mat retained).
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 2
Flowering Earth by Donald Culross Peattie: Title page [print]
General
Stamped twice. Dealer stamp from Origins of Art to verso.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 2, Folder 6
Forest Girl [print]
1936
General
2 copies. Unsigned prints from American Artists Group. Printed labels on versos of original mats read: This print is an original
woodcut made by me and printed with my approval and under my direction. It is in every respect the equivalent in quality of
those prints issued by me in limited editions and sold at comparatively high prices. Its low price is made possible by the
edition being neither pencil signed nor arbitrarily limited.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 3, Folder 7
Franz Schubert [print]
General
Signed, 17/60. Removed from acidic mat August 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 4
Gil Blas in California: Chapter headings (albatross, ship, fruit, dice) [prints]
General
4 engravings on one block. 1 signed print, 1 trial proof, initialed.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 10
Gil Blas in California: Chapter headings (condor, deer, bear, salmon, gold panning, treasure box) [print]
General
Trial proof before routing, with red estate stamp.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 5
Gil Blas in California: Chapter headings (condor, deer, bear, salmon, gold panning, treasure box) [prints]
General
6 engravings on one block. 1 signed print, 1 trial proof, signed.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 6
Gil Blas in California: Chapter headings (fire, dagger, alligator, snake, town, church) [prints]
General
6 engravings on one block. 1 signed print, 1 trial proof, signed.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 5, Folder 6
Green Mansions: Chapter 1 page layout
General
Draft layout for Chapter 1 (p. 30), with woodcut print at top and header/lines of text roughly penciled in. Titled and signed
along left margin by Landacre.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 17
Happy New Year from the Landacres [print]
General
Print showing Margaret, Paul, and Chaucer the bulldog in front of their house, with a mockingbird on the roof. No recipient
or date written on the card.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 7
Harp (Christmas Card) [print]
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 14
Houses and stylized musical notes (New Year's card) [print]
1958
General
Cards sent to Mira Saunders and Samuel Kalish and Meta Stern Kalish, postmarked December 31, 1958.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 8
Housewarming invitation for Jake Zeitlin's shop at 614 W. 6th Street, with cover by Landacre
about 1935
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 4, Folder 5
Idols [print]
General
12/60. Signed. Engraved for Hawaiian Pineapple Co.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 7
Immortal Village by Donald Culross Peattie: Three views of Vence [print]
about 1945
General
Three prints, all signed. Traces of old mounting and adhesive tape at the top of each print.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 4, Folder 8
Indecision [print]
1935 February
General
Titled and signed by Landacre, 6/60. Date from Anthony Lehman. Gift of Robert and Toni Crisell, 2023 (MS.2023.041). Originally
from the collection of Patricia Ingram Adler.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 12
Jake Zeitlin bookplate [print]
General
Baby holding a book, riding a grasshopper - Zeitlin's shop logo.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 2, Folder 2
Laguna Cove [print]
General
Possible trial printing, or earlier version. Signed, titled in Landacre's hand. Number 15/60. Mounted in acid-free presentation
mat.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 2, Folder 3
Laguna Cove / Facing West [print]
General
Same image as Laguna Cove print in Box 2/2, but titled "Facing West" in Landacre's hand, both on the print and on the verso
of the original mat. Signed, number 1/60. Mounted in acid-free presentation mat.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 4, Folder 3
Lot Clearing (Trial II) [print]
General
Unsigned. Trial proof labeled "II" in red. Mounted in acid-free presentation mat.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 4, Folder 2
Lot Clearing (Trial l) [print]
General
Unsigned. Trial proof labeled "I" in red. Removed from acidic mat August 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 1
Muir's fish [print]
General
Inscribed in pencil "Paul Landacre for Muir Dawson." Accompanied by index card reading "'Muir's fish' from Agnes Dawson, Dec.
2007."
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 18
Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America by Donald Culross Peattie: White Elm [scratchboard]
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 3, Folder 9
Nettie Rothman bookplate [print]
General
Signed. Removed from acidic mat August 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 6
Ojala: Cabin and Trees [print]
1942
General
Signed. Removed from acidic mat July 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 16
Ojala: Cabins over stream [print]
General
Signed. Removed from acidic mat August 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 5
Ojala: Oak Tree (back cover) [print]
1942
General
Stamped. Inscribed at bottom "Ojala, Ojai, Calif. (back cover)." Dealer stamp from Origins of Art to verso. Mounted in acid-free
presentation mat
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 4
Ojala: Rocks & stream, Ojala [print]
1942
General
Signed. Removed from acidic mat July 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 18
Pepe by James Hopper: title page and page 5 proofs [print]
General
Stamped, unsigned. Origins of Art dealer stamp to verso.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 3
Poinsettias [print]
General
Printed in red. Signed, no edition statement. Later notes in ink at bottom edge; old mounting hinges at top corners.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 2, Folder 5
Rima [print]
General
3 copies. Unsigned prints from American Artists Group. Printed labels on versos of original mats read: This print is an original
woodcut made by me and printed with my approval and under my direction. It is in ever respect the equivalent in quality of
those prints issued by me in limited editions and sold at comparatively high prices. Its low price is made possible by the
edition being neither pencil signed nor arbitrarily limited.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 20
Road of a Naturalist by Donald Culross Peattie: Frontispiece [print]
General
Unsigned, but with Landacre's inscription of the title at bottom. Stamp from Origins of Art on verso.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 19
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 5, Folder 10
Stadium, Berkeley [print]
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 15
Trial prints of landscape woodcut [prints]
General
3 prints showing progressive work on woodcut, labeled Trial I, II, and III in Landacre's hand. Removed from acidic mats in
July 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 3, Folder 6
Tschaikovsky [print]
General
Signed, 17/60. Removed from acidic mat August 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 3, Folder 2
Vengeance [print]
1942
General
Unsigned print. Removed from acidic mat August 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 3, Folder 4
Verdi [print]
General
Signed, 7/60. Removed from acidic mat August 2022.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 3, Folder 10
Wagner [print]
General
Signed, 23/60. Removed from acidic mat August 2022
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 3
Ward Ritchie device [print]
General
2 copies. 1 initialed PL and labeled "Trial Proof," the other unsigned.
Published Work Series 2
Scope and Contents
This series consists of published works that include illustrations or other artwork by Paul Landacre, published during his
lifetime.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 5, Folder 9
El Dorado, land of gold : a series of pictorial interpretations of the history of California, with accompanying rhythmic story
by students of Otis art institute
1928
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 5, Folder 4
Foster, Stephen Clark, "Los Angeles on the Eve of the Gold Rush, Part II," Touring Topics
1929 August
General
Block print illustration by Paul Landacre. In Touring Topics. Vol. 21, no. 8, August 1929: pages 26-31. Entire magazine
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 22
KECA Concert Program with Franck illustration
1936 March
General
From Patricia Ingram Adler collection.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 5, Folder 2
Landacre, Margaret McCreery, "We Had a Lovely Ride," Touring Topics
1928 August
General
Block print illustrations by Paul Landacre. In Touring Topics. Vol. 20, no. 8. August 1928: pages 32-33, 48. Entire magazine
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 11
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 9
Paralellogram, The Amphisbaena, The Crocodile by A.E. Housman
1941
General
Printed booklet from Grant Dahlstrom's Breakfast Press with wood-engraving by Landacre.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 8
Paul Landacre Association pamphlet with Anna print on cover
about 1938
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 17
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 2
San Diego Art Institute, 20th century Realists exhibition program
1961
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 5, Folder 1
Westways: Steller's Jay cover by Landacre
1939 August
General
Entire magazine. From Patricia Adler Ingram collection.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 16
When Are You Going to Laugh, America by Howard Ickes
General
Printed booklet from Grant Dahlstrom's Breakfast Press with wood-engraving by Landacre.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 5, Folder 3
Zeitlin, Jake, "Bundle-stiff's Dream," Touring Topics
1929 February
General
Block print illustration by Paul Landacre. In Touring Topics. Vol. 21, no. 2, February 1929: page 11. Entire magazine
Research Files, Realia, and Posthumous Publications Series 3
Scope and Contents
This series consists of post-1963 articles and exhibition catalogs about Landacre and his work, research files compiled by
collector Patricia Adler Ingram, photographs of Landacre, and realia, such as prize ribbons awarded to him for his work.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 13
"Paul Hambleton Landacre: Wood Engraving Artist" by Audrey Spencer Arellanes, American Society of Bookplate Collectors and
Designers, 1979 Year Book
1979
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 4, Folder 6
"Paul Landacre Wood Engraver" photograph by Lou Jacobs, Jr.
General
Photograph mounted on acidic board, trimmed on three sides. Photograph of Landacre at work.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 4, Folder 4
"The hands of Paul Landacre wood engraver," photograph by Lou Jacobs, Jr.
General
Photograph mounted on acidic board, trimmed on three sides. Close-up of Landacre's hand working on a block.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 14
4 photographs of Paul Landacre by Sueo Serisawa
about 1948
General
4 photographic prints with envelope from Sunset Photo Lab.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 13
A Note on the Foster Washington Hand Press that once belonged to the Artist-Wood Engraver Paul Landacre
General
Keepsake printed at the International Printing Museum for members of the American Printing History Association.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 11
Correspondence between Delmer L. Daves and Glen Dawson
1977 March
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 12
George Houle Catalogue 39: Fine Printing
1987
General
Lists several Landacre-related books for sale.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 26
Great Composers from 12 Wood Engravings
1979
General
Printed by Invierno Press and signed by Ritchie, Lynton Kistler, and Carl Haverlin. With bookseller description from Dailey
Rare Books.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 6, Folder 15
Los Angeles County Fair ribbons awarded for "Yesterday" and "A Woman"
1937-1940
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 20
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Member Calendar: "Paul Landacre, Prints and Drawings"
1983 August
General
Article about exhibition. From Patricia Ingram Adler collection.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 9-10
Patricia Adler Ingram research files on Paul Landacre
1964-1969
General
Correspondence between Adler Ingram and others, in addition to clippings and other ephemera gathered in the course of her
research on Landacre.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 25
Ritchie, Ward, "Landacre"
1981
General
Printed by Invierno Press and signed by Ritchie, Lynton Kistler, and Carl Haverlin. From Patricia Ingram Adler collection.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 23
Sundays at Four: program calendar with Landacre Mozart engraving on cover
1991
General
From Patricia Ingram Adler collection.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 24
UCLA Librarian, "Ward Ritchie's 75th" with Landacre engraving of Ritchie device
1980 May
General
From Patricia Ingram Adler collection.
Box MS.2020.009 Bx 1, Folder 21
Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, "Paul Landacre: Wood-Engravings"
about 1963
General
3 copies. Exhibition announcement