The collection contains original artwork by Clement Hurd for the children's books The Cat from Telegraph Hill and The Faraway Christmas: A Story of the Farallon Islands, both written by his wife Edith Thacher Hurd and published in the 1950's.

Clement Hurd was born January 12, 1908 in New York City, the son of a mortgage banker. He graduated with a PhD from Yale University in 1930 and later studied painting in Paris with the artist Ferdinand Leger from 1931 to 1933. He illustrated his first children's book in 1938, Bumble Bugs and Elephants by Margaret Wise Brown. The following year, he won the assignment to illustrate Gertrude Stein's first and only children's book The World is Round . The same year he married children's author Edith Thacher with whom he collaborated on more than fifty books. Their son Thacher Hurd also became an author and illustrator of children's books and all three worked on Little Dog Dreaming , published in 1967. Throughout his long and prolific career, Clement Hurd illustrated over seventy-five children's books, including the classics The Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. He died in 1988 in San Francisco.

1 flat file, 1 oversize flat box (2 linear feet)

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