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Heritage of the Graphic Arts Lecture Series

1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982

1965

Spring Series

  • John Howard Benson by Esther Fisher Benson April 6
  • T. M. Cleland by Max M Stein April 15
  • W. A. Dwiggins by Dorothy Abbe April 22
  • Bruce Rogers by James Hendrickson April 29
  • Eric Gill by Peter Oldenburg May 6
  • Frederic Goudy by Paul A. Bennett May 13
  • Edward Johnston by Alan M. Fern May 20
  • D. B. Updike by Karl Küp May 27
  • Rudolf Koch by Fritz Kredel June 10
  • Rudolph Ruzicka by Paul Bennett June 17

Fall Series

  • Stanley Morison by F. Ronald Mansbridge October 7
  • Jan Van Krimpen by John Dreyfus October 14
  • Hermann Zapf by Paul Standard October 21
  • George Salter by Philip Gushkin October 28
  • William Morris by E. Willis Jones November 4
  • Carl Purington Rollins by Chester Kerr November 11
  • Will Bradley & His Legacy to the Graphic Arts by Steve L. Watts November 18
  • The Grabhorns by Roland Baughman December 2
  • William Edwin Rudge by Melvin Loos December 16
1966

Spring Series

  • Will Ransom by James M. Wells February 3
  • Elmer Adler by P. J. Conkwright
  • Victor Hammer by Carolyn Reading Hammer February 16
  • Fred Anthoensen by Walter Muir Whitehall February 23
  • Oswald Bruce Cooper by R. Hunter Middleton March 2
  • Fritz Kredel by George Salter
  • T. J. Cobden-Sanderson by Rollo Silver
  • Peter Beilenson by Edna Beilenson
  • Gentlemen of a Typographic Turn by Sir Francis Meynell March 24
  • Henry Lewis Bullen by Steve Watts March 30
  • Porter Garnett by Frank Powers April 6
  • The Expression of our Time in Typography by Herman Zapf May 2

Fall Series

  • Experimental Typography by Adrian Frutiger September 24
  • Giovanni Mardersteig by John Dreyfus October 5
  • Meriden Gravure Lecture by Jim Barnett Oct 11
  • Planten Press lecture: Saul Marks and Lillian Marks by Paul Bennett Oct 19
  • Type Design in Our Time by Freeman Craw Oct 26
  • History of American Bookbinding by Hannah French Nov 2
  • Sir Sydney Cockerell by Philip Hofer Nov 9
  • Sir Francis Maynell by Paul Standard Nov 16
  • Sir Emery Walker by Alan Fern Nov 23
  • Lucien Bernhard by Karl Bernhard November 30
  • Jan Tschichold by Paul Standard December 7
1967

Spring Series

  • Three Centuries of Book Typography by James M. WellsJan 25
  • Lettering by David Kindersley January 31
  • Victorian Typography by Ruari McLean Feb 8
  • Virtues and Deficiencies of Ancient and Present Day Typography by Jan Tschichold Feb 23
  • Calligraphy - Old and New by Paul Standard Mar 1
  • Planten Moretus Museum by Mike Parker Mar 7
  • Hugo Steiner-Prag by Eleanor Steiner-Prag Mar 15
  • Ernst Reichl by Rollo Silver Apr 5
  • The Fleuron, Etc by Beatrice Warde Apr 12
  • The Making of a Private Press by Jack Stauffacher Apr 19

Paul Bennett Memorial Lectures Fall Series

  • The Pioneers of 20th CenturyTypography in the Netherlands by Dr. C. Reedijk September 13
  • Quality in Book Production by Hugh Williamson September 20
  • Typographic Design and the New Technology by Carl Dair September 27
  • The Didots by Walter Tracy October 3
  • The Design of Books by Adrian Wilson October 11
  • Pioneers of Modern Typography by Herbert Spencer October 18
  • A Typographic Dialogue by Beatrice Warde and Stanley Morison October 25
  • Typography - Evolution & Revolution by Fernand Baudin November 1
  • The Rampant Lions Press - Designer- Printer by Will Carter November 8
  • L. Pisarro & the Eragny Press by Alan Fern November 1
  • Private Press of Joe Graves by Richard Archer November 22
  • Type Models of the 20th Centruy by Dr. G. W. Ovink November 29
  • The Golden Cockerel Press by John Dreyfus December 6
  • Writing and the Alphabet by Dr. David Diringer December 13
1968

Fall Series

  • Punch Cutting and Its Contribution to Type by R. Hunter Middleton Sept 4
  • Johannes Gutenberg, New Thought on the Invention of Printing by Prof. Hellmat Lehmann-Haupt Sept 11
  • Bird and Bull Press and Papermaking by Henry Morris Sept 18
  • The Heritage of the Printer by Dr. James Eckman Sept 25
  • Alphabetic Calligraphistics by Arnold Bank Oct 9
  • The Road to Kelmsortt (Bonus Lecture)Joseph Dunlap Oct 9
  • Typographic Brainwashing by Father Catich Oct 16
  • My Life in Calligraphy Raymond da Boll Oct 23
  • A Small Renaissance, Southern California Style Jake Zeitlin Oct 30
  • Cranach Press by John Dreyfus Nov 13
  • Printing History James Mosley Nov 20
  • G. B. Bodoni's Typefaces by Giovanni Mardersteig November 11, 1968
  • Legibility and Impact: The Problem of Congeniality in Typographyby Bror Zachrisson December 4, 1968
  • Esthetic or Functional Book Design by Huib van Krimpen December 11, 1968
  • Typography - Art or Exercise by Beatrice Warde December 18, 1968
1969

Spring Series

  • Gregynog Press & Shakespeare Head by Colin Franklin Mar 5
  • Aspects of European and American Graphics by Alex Nesbitt Mar 12
  • The Gehenna Press by Alan Fern Mar 19
  • The 'Wing' Treasures in the Newberry Library by James M. Wells March 26
  • The Uses of Gold in the Graphic and Decorative Arts by Harold Hunter Apr 9
  • Fred Melcher, as I knew him. by Daniel Melcher Apr 16
  • 16c. Printers Materials and Methods by Ray Nash Apr 23
  • Future Problems of Design by Hermann Zapf April 25
  • Calligraphistics by Arnold Bank Apr 30
  • Baskerville, Berwick, & Wave Paper by Jacob Kainen May 7
  • Printers and Heraldry by James Moran May 14, 1969
  • Rampant Lions Press II by Will Carter May 21
  • C.H. Griffith by Jackson Burke May 28

Fall Series

  • The Colophon Story by Alfred Stanford Sept 10
  • Private Type Foundry by Paul Duensing Sept 17
  • Byways and Highways of Typography by Raymond GidSept 26
  • Pen and Brush; the author as artist by Lola Szladets Oct 1
  • Typographic Environments by Jack Stauffacher Oct 8
  • Traditional Printing in the Space Age by Roderick Stinehour, lecturer Oct 15
  • The Great Printed Books from Gutenberg to the Oxford Lectern Bible by Joseph Blumenthal Oct 22
  • The Dwiggins Marionettes by Dorothy Abbe Oct 29
  • The Story of John Mycall by Marcus A. McCorison Nov 5
  • The Golden Age of Manuscripts by Dorothy Miner Nov 12
  • Wood Engraving & Calligraphy by Reynolds Stone Nov 19
  • Orthography and Literacy by John Downing Nov 26
  • American History in Wood Types by Martin K. Speckter Dec 3
  • The Work of Oldrick Menhart by Paul Standard Dec 10
1970

Spring Series

  • H.N. Werkman by William Sandberg Jan 21
  • Modern Typography from Tschichold to Lubalin "What is Modern" by Ernst Reichl Feb 4
  • Typographic Rarities in Columbia University Libraries by Kenneth A. Lohf February 11
  • Eighteenth Century Paper in England by Prof. Allen T. Hazen Feb 18
  • Early Printing in China and its Spread by L. Carrinton Goodrich Feb 25
  • Some Yale Undergraduate Printers by Chester Kerr March 4
  • Posters, Then and Now by Mildred Constantine Mar 11
  • Anonymous art: the sign and the shop. by Rollo Silver Mar 18
  • Calligraphy and Illuminating by Donald Jackson Mar 25
  • The Private Press by Roderick Cave Apr 1
  • Issac Collins, a Quaker printer in 18c. America by Richard F. Hixso: Apr 8
  • The Curwen Press by Basil H. Harley: Apr 15
  • Benjamin Franklin, Should he be our Patron Saint? by Milton Glick: Apr 22
  • Modern Fine Printingn by Kenneth Day Apr 29
  • The John Stevens Shop by John E. Stevens May 6
  • Beatrice Warde (Memorial Lecture) by John Dreyfus May 13

Fall Series

  • Francois-Louis Schmied by Ward Ritchie Sept 9
  • The Latin American Alphabet by David Diringer Sept 16
  • The Printer's Manuel, Maxon in PIA by Alexander S. Lawson Sept 23
  • Newspaper Design and Typography by G. Allen Hunt Sept 30
  • The Visual Craft of William Golden by Cipe (Pineles) Burtin Oct 7
  • 1834 - 1965, California Typography from Zamorano to Grabhorn by George L. Harding Oct 14
  • The Klingspor Museum, Offenbach-am-Main by Hans A. Halbey Oct 21
  • Double Crown Club of London, 1924-1939 by Brooke Crutchley: Oct 28
  • Wood Type by Rob Roy Kelly November 4
  • The Strange World of the Picture Postcard by Peter Kneebone November 11
  • Ben Shahn by Bernarda Shahn: Nov 18
  • Prints and Protests by Fritz Eichenberg: Nov 25
  • American Illustrations, Bradley to Baskin by Alan Fern: Dec 2
  • The Engraved Work of Stephen Gooden by Duncan Andrews Dec 9
1971

Spring Series

  • Friendly Enemies, the Artist and the Printer by Sinclair Hitching Feb 3
  • The Print Magazine Story by William Edwin Rudge Feb 10
  • A Family Ramble with Hart Printing by Horace Hart Feb 17
  • E.R. Weiss, Type and Book Designer by Eleanor F. Steiner-Prag Feb 24
  • The Gutenberg Museum by Helmut Presser Mar 3
  • Henry Vande Velde and Typography by Fernand Baudin Mar 10
  • German Type Design since the 1890's by Gustav Stresow Mar 17
  • The Limited Editions Book Club by Robert L. Dothard Mar 24
  • Designs of the Nuremberg Chronicles by Adrian Wilson Apr 7
  • The Grabhorn Story by Andrew Hoyem Apr 14
  • R. Hunter Middleton and his Cherryburn Press by James M. Wells Apr 21
  • Book Design in Israel by Henri Friedlaender Apr 28
  • Hebrew Manuscripts by Dr. Menahem Schmelzer Apr 28
  • Artist or Designer by David Gentleman May 5
  • Albrecht Durer's Unpublished Drawings by Fritz Kredel May 12

Fall Series The Melvin Loos Memorial Lectures

  • Newspaper Typography by Edmund G. Arnold Sept 8
  • Weekends with Tom Cleland by Dr. James Eckman Sept 15
  • Lettering in Stone by Emil Neubrunn Sept 22
  • The Marchbanks Story by Joseph Francis Weiler Oct 6
  • Design of Contemporary British Postage Stamps by Stuart Rose Oct 13
  • Dutch Typographers and Designers Past and Present by Dick Dooijes Oct 20
  • Books from the Orient for America by Karl Küp Oct 27
  • 500 Years of Hebrew Printing by Dr. Moshe Spitzer Nov 3
  • Swiss Printers by Walter Amstutz Nov 10
  • John Baskerville by John Dreyfus Nov 17
  • Chicago Printers by R. Hunter Middleton Dec 1
  • Calligraphy, Past and Present by Paul Standard Dec 8
  • The Ashendene Press by Stuart B. Schimmel Dec 15
1972

Spring Series: The Beatrice Ward Memorial Lectures

  • My Life With Letters by Warren Chappell February 9
  • A History of Papermaking by Leonard Schlosser Feb 16
  • Printing for Fun by Dr. J. Ben Lieberman Feburary 23
  • Work in Progress by Hermann Zapf March 1
  • The Psychotherapy of Art by Dr. Edith Wallace: Mar 8
  • Dickens and his Illustrators by Lola Szladits: Mar 15
  • The Cuala Press by Liam Miller March 22
  • The Illuminated Manuscripts of William Morris by Jospeh R. Dunlap March 29
  • The Elbert Hubbard Story by Freeman Champney: Apr 5
  • Approaching Print as a Visible Language by Dr. Merald Wrolstad: Apr 12
  • Speaker canceled; William Sloane lectured on short films as a replacement.
  • Reclaiming Books from Fire, Flood, and Inherent Vice by Carolyn Norton: Apr 19
  • Beatrice Ward by Prof. Ray Nash Apr 26
  • My Crystal Goblet by Walter Muir Whitehill May 3
  • Books as a Means of Visual Communication by Erik Ellegaard Frederiksen: May 10

Fall Series: Series XV. The Stanley Morison Memorial Lectures

  • Manuscripts and Monks on Mt. Sinai by Karl Kup Sept 6
  • Imprint, Fleuron, & Others;
    Stanley Morison and the Literature of Printing
    by Alan Fern Sept 13
  • Treasures of the ATF Collection at Columbia University by Kenneth Lohf Sept 20
  • The Technique of the Early Lithographic Draughtsman by Dr. Michael Twyman Sept 27
  • Report on Printing in Britain by Bernard Roberts Oct 4
  • Stanley Morison: An Appraisal by Nicola Barker Oct 11
  • Officina Bodini - My Story by Giovanni Mardersteig Oct 18
  • Lettering Techniques in a Technical Age by John Mills Nov 1
  • The Making of New Times Roman by John Dreyfus Nov 8
  • The Merrymount Press by Rollo Silver Nov 15
  • Treasures of the Bodleian Library by Michael L. Turner Nov 22
  • Homage to Alberto Tollons by Jack Stauffacher Nov 29
  • Stanley Morison in Chicago by James M. Wells Dec 6
  • Hebrew Printing in the 20th Century by Israel Soifer Dec 13
1973

Fall Series

  • THe Society of Scribes and Illuminators Today and Calligraphic Practicalities by Donald Jackson September 12
  • The Arts & Crafts Movement by Susan Otis Thompson September 19
  • Sir Emery Walker by John Dreyfus October 3
  • The Last Kelmscott by Sebastian Carter October 10
  • A New Look at an Old Treasure by Arnold Bank October 17
  • Why New Type Design? by Hermann Zapf October 24
  • Calligraphy in the 1960s by P. W. Filby October 31
  • Treasures of the St. Bride Printing Library, London by James Mosley November 7
  • On Practical Type Design by Matthew Carter November 14/li>
  • Printing Forgeries by Graham Pollard November 21
  • The Roots of Printing by Karl Küp November 28
  • Collecting Books for Wellesley by Hannah D. French December 5
1975

A New Mini Series

  • Russian Constructivist Typography by Alan Fern October 8
  • Radio, Television and Typography by Lou Dorfsmann October 22
  • The Quincentenary of Caxton: The Introduction of Printing in England by John Dreyfus November 3
  • The Living Alphabet by Warren Chappell November 14
1976

Spring Series: The Lawrence C. Wroth Memorial Lectures

  • The First American Printer - Stephen Daye by Sinclair Hitchings February 4
  • The Great Colonial Printer, Isaiah Thomas by Marcus McCorison February 11
  • Benjamin Franklin by Edwin Wolf II February 18
  • Colonial Type and Typefounders by Stephen Harvard February 25
  • The Early Printers of Maryland by P. W. Filby March 3
  • The Sower Printing Family in Germantown Pennsylvania by James E. Mooney March 10
  • Colonial Bookbinging by Hanna D. French March 17
  • John Peter Zenger - His Trial by J. Ben Lieberman March 24
  • The Eliot Indian Bible by Roderick Stinehour April 7
  • The Practice of Printing during the Revolution by Rollo Silver April 21

Fall Series: Calligraphy - An Appreciation of the Art & Craft and Its Contemporary Application

  • Calligraphy and Letters by Father Edward M. Catich October 6
  • The Art of Calligraphy by Arnold Bank October 13
  • Edward Jonston by John Dreyfus October 20
  • Modern Writing by Paul Standard October 27
  • British Calligraphy by P.W. Filby November 3
  • My Life with Letters by Warren Chappell November 10
  • Calligraphy and Type Design by Hermann Zapf November 17
  • Eric Gil's Workshop by David Kindersley November 24
  • Teaching Calligraohy by Lloyd Reynolds December 1
  • Letter Image: Source and Resource by Philip Grushkin December 8
1977

Spring Series: Man and the Machine
The Arts and Crafts Movement of the 19th Century and its Continuity Today

  • Typographic Design by Berthold Wolpe February 2
  • Papermaking by Walter Hamady February 9
  • Printing Education by Alexander S. Lawson February 16
  • Illustrated Books Claire Van Vliet February 23
  • Pre-Raphaelites by James Ramer March 2
  • Printing - 1880 by Joseph R. Dunlap March 9
  • Engraving by Leo Wyatt March 16
  • Bookbinding by Arno Werner March 23
  • Letterform Design - 19th Century by James Mosley March 30
  • The Arts and Crafts Movement by Robert Judson Clark April 6

Fall Series: Graphic Design: A Critical Review by Professionals

Dedicated to the memory of Jerome Snyder
  • The New Technology of Type Design by R. Hunter Middleton September 14
  • Graphics in Architecture by Ivan Chermayeff September 21
  • The 1976 ADC TV Commercial Awards by Eileen Hedy Schulz September 28
  • Design for Historic Preservation by Susan Keig October 5
  • What is Graphic Design? by Herbert Matter October 12
  • Can a Design Program in a Corporation Maintain High Standards Forever? by Lou Dorfsman October 19
  • Type as Tool, Toy and Teacher by Bradbury Thompson October 26
  • Observing Some Obsessions by Milton Glaser November 2
  • Graphic Design: The Anonymous Profession by Herb Lubalin November 9
  • Book Designing or Book Directing by Ernst Reichl November 16
1978

Spring Series: Books and Their Makers

A tribute to the memory of Giovanni Mardersteig
  • Gutenberg and the Master of the Playing Cards by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt March 1
  • Practical Bookmaking by Will Carter March 8
  • My Life with Books by Ray Nash March 15
  • Books of the West by Jake Zeitlin March 22
  • Stanley Morison and the Art of the Book by David McKitterick March 29
  • Stone & Kimball - The Great Chicago Publishers by James M. Wells April 5
  • Giovanni Mardersteig and the Officina Bodoni by Alan Fern April 12
  • Damiel B. Updike and the Merrymount Press by Rollo Silver April 19
  • The Private Press Movement by Susan Otis Thompson April 26
  • History and the Making of Books by Fernand Baudin May 3

Fall Series: Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of Printing at Oxford

  • Princeton University Press by Herbert S. Bailey September 20
  • Harvard University Press by Mark Carroll September 27
  • University Press of Virginia by Edward Foss October 4
  • Yale University Press by Alvin Eisenman October 11
  • Cambridge University Press by John Dreyfus October 18
  • University of California Press by Ward Ritchie October 25
  • Oxford University Press by Nicolas Barker November 1
  • Japanese Paper and Printmaking by Hans Schmoller November 8
  • University of Chicago Press by Greer Allen November 15
  • Johns Hopkins University Press by Jack G. Goellner November 22
1979

Spring Series: Wood-Engraving

A mini seminar of exhibitions and demonstrations with slides
  • John De Pol March 7
  • Fritz Eichenberg March 14
  • Barry Moser March 21
  • Lynd Ward March 28
  • Claire Leighton April 4

Fall Series: Bookbinding Art and Craft

A Heritage of the Graphic Arts series of exhibitions and demonstrations with slides
  • Deborah Evetts September 19
  • Fritz Eberhardt September 26
  • Susan Spring Wilson October 3
  • Peter Waters October 10
  • Jaime K. Shalleck October 17
1980

Spring Series: The Alphabet at Work and Play

In memory of Professor Lloyd J. Rsynolds
  • Lloyd Reynolds: The Transmission of a Tradition by Reverend John Domin February 27
  • Scribal Sources for Creative Ideas by Lili Wronker March 5
  • The Integration of Type and Calligraphy by Freeman Craw March 12
  • Poster Design - Necessity into Art by Lance Hidy March 19
  • Penman's Progress by Raphael Boguslav March 26

Fall Series: Private Press Seminar

A Heritage of the Graphic Arts series
  • Kim Merker - director of Windhover Press, proprietor of Stone Wall Press October 1
  • Harry Duncan - director of Abbatoir Editions, proprietor of the Cunningham Press October 8
  • William Everson of the Lime Kiln Press October 15
  • Carol J. Blinn of the Warwick Press October 22
  • Leonard Seastone of the Tideline Press October 29
1981

Spring Series: Papermakers Seminar

A Heritage of the Graphic Arts series
  • Leonard Schlosser - Lindemeyer Paper Corporation February 18
  • Douglass Morse Howell - father of the American paper movement February 25
  • James Yarnell - papermaking on the Prairie March 4
  • Susan Gosi - paper professional March 11
  • Timothy Barrett - expert on Japanese papermaking March 18
  • Joyce Schmidt - papermaker in Israel March 25

Fall Series: The Great Libraries

A Heritage of the Graphic Arts series
  • The Library of Congress by Alan Fern October 21
  • The New York Public Library by Donald Anderle October 28
  • Harvard University Libraries by Kenneth Carpenter November 4
  • Yale University Libraries by Marjorie Wynne November 11
  • Columbia University Libraries by Terry Belanger November 18
1982

Spring Series: The Great Collections

The Karl Küp Memorial Lectures
  • Columbia University by Kenneth A. Lohf February 17
  • The Pierpont Morgan Library by Herbert Cahoon February 24
  • The New York Public Librart by Lola Szladits March 3
  • The Library Company of Philadelphia by Edwin Wolf II March 10
  • The American Antiquarian Society by Georgia Brady Bumgardner March 19
  • The Jewish Theological Seminary by Rabbi Martin S. Cohen March 24

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