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By Special Collections Staff
Collection Overview
Title: Robert Weaver Collection, circa 1950-1980

ID: MGHL/mghl00003
Primary Creator: Robert Weaver
Extent: 80.5 Linear Feet
Arrangement:
Items are arranged by art medium and material type.
The collection is divided into 13 series as follows:
Series 1: Original Art: graphite on paper
Series 2: Original Art: graphite on board
Series 3: Original Art: collage binders
Series 4: Original Art: paintings on paper
Series 5: Original Art: paintings on board
Series 6: Original Art: paintings on canvas
Series 7: Original Art: pastels on paper and board
Series 8: Original Art: mixed media
Series 9: Original Art: shadow box collages
Series 10: Published Materials: tear sheets
Series 11: Published Materials: other material types
Series 12: Published Materials: projects
Series 13: Personal Papers
Date Acquired: 00/00/2004. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Magazine illustration--20th century, Weaver, Robert, 1924-
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection includes original artwork in various formats and published material by Robert Weaver mainly dating between the 1950s and the 1970s.
Collection Historical Note
Beginning in the 1950s, Robert Weaver epitomized a socially engaged approach to commercial illustration, drawing the human drama from the immediacy of life. By integrating formal and conceptual currents from fine art practices, he altered the practice’s methodologies thus dramatically expanding its possibilities.
Weaver was born in 1924, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Carnegie Institute, the Art Student’s League in New York, and the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Venice. He began his career in New York in 1952 and over the next three decades, his work appeared in Esquire, Fortune, Life, Look, Playboy, Seventeen, Sports Illustrated, and TV Guide, among many other publications. Weaver’s emphasis on expressionistic, bravura paint-handling wed with unstable narrative content moved the goals of illustration away from depicting an expected point of heightened drama, “to violate the sense of natural relationships,” as he put it. His was an art that flaunted subjectivity, a “visual journalism” truer to life than the compositional niceties and slick brushwork of the generation preceding.
With his bold line always dominant, and a focus on the lively urban landscape, Weaver left the process visible, reflecting his commitment to manifesting on the page the changing cultural climate. He stressed the importance of drawing life, from life, guided by a precisely rendered political conscience and incorporating collage elements that literally brought the physical world into his charged psychological space. Crucially, by fragmenting the image area he introduced multiple viewpoints and jagged sequential narrative into a traditionally fixed point of view, representing a cerebral approach to an illustration world in flux.
In addition to his magazine work, Weaver illustrated numerous books and record industry advertising campaigns. He was the recipient of numerous awards from The Society of Illustrators, which elected him into their Hall of Fame in 1985, and the Art Director’s Clubs of New York and Philadelphia. His work was the subject of the posthumous retrospective, “Seeing is Not Believing: The Art of Robert Weaver” at the Norman Rockwell Museum in 1997.
Weaver was a visiting faculty member at Syracuse University and taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York for more than thirty years, co-creating their Illustration as Visual Essay program. His teaching legacy was such that a 1997 issue of Drawing SVA was devoted to his memory, giving his former students the opportunity to reflect on his profound influence as an educator.
Sources
“Pioneers: Robert Weaver.” Communication Arts, May/June (2000): 106–9.
Reed, Walt. “Robert Weaver.” In The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000, 363. New York: The Society of Illustrators, 2001.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
MGHL Dowd Modern Graphic History Library
Accruals:
Accruals are interfiled within the collection.
Access Restrictions:
There are no restrictions to access.
Use Restrictions:
Some restrictions, please contact the Modern Graphic History Library Curator at (314) 935-7741 or spec@wumail.wustl.edu.
Users of the collection must read and abide by the Rules for the use of Modern Graphic History Library materials.
Users of the collections who wish to use items from this collection, in whole or in part, in any form of publication (as defined in the form) must sign and submit to the Washington University Department of Special Collections a hard copy of the Notification of intent to publish Modern Graphic History Library materials form.
All publication not covered by fair use restricted to those who have permission of the copyright holder.
Acquisition Method:
The collection was donated to University Archives by Robert Weaver's daughter Antonia Weaver Pelaez and by his brothers Daniel Weaver and Fritz Weaver in 2004 and 2007. It was later transferred to the Modern Graphic History Library.
Preferred Citation:
Name of the Collection, Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections
Processing Information:
The collection was processed by Washington University Department Special Collections Staff 2005, October 2007, and 2008. Item-level inventory was added by Jolie Braun in May 2012.
Finding Aid Revision History:
This finding aid was entered into Archon by Jolie Braun in July 2012.
Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: Original Art: graphite on paper],
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Series 2: Original Art: graphite on board],
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Series 3: Original Art: collage binders],
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Series 4: Original Art: paintings on paper],
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Series 5: Original Art: paintings on board],
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Series 6: Original Art: paintings on canvas],
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Series 7: Original Art: pastels on paper and board],
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Series 8: Original Art: mixed media],
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Series 9: Original Art: shadow box collages],
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Series 10: Published Materials: tearsheets],
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Series 11: Published Materials: other material types],
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Series 12: Published Materials: projects],
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Series 13: Personal Papers and works by other artists],
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- Series 1: Original Art: graphite on paper

Includes single and double-sided graphite sketches, the majority on sketchbook pages previous removed from spiral sketchpads by Robert Weaver. Two sets of materials organized by Robert Weaver are included in this series: one untitled sketchbook (red marbled paper cover) and one sketchbook titled "Spring Training."
Double-sided images are indicated with the notation "image on verso and recto."
- Note: (Personal and Commercial works.)
- Box 1

- Item 1: Portrait of student in cap and gown

- Item 2: Man with Henry George portrait and "Single Tax" book

- Item 3: Portrait of man

- Box 2

- Item 1: "9th Avenue in the 1930's" / "Hoboken N.J. Parade"

- Note: Images on verso and recto.
- Item 2: Storage room with crates / rough sketch

- Item 3: Four men talking / man smoking

- Box 3

- Item 1: Man with tank

- Note: Images on verso and recto.
- Item 2: Alley with garbage cans

- Item 3: Portrait of man

- Box 4

- Item 1: Two men on street

- Item 2: Hands

- Item 3: Police truck

- Item 4: Police at desk

- Item 5: Police with man

- Box 5

- Item 1: African American man seated

- Item 2: Two African American men

- Item 3: Profile of two African American men

- Item 4: Man holding "KKK Wallace for President" sign

- Box 6

- Item 1: Men writing at table

- Item 2: "I've Got a Secret" / Man at bar

- Item 3: Police searching African American man

- Item 4: Man in front of barricade reading "Police Line Do Not Cross"

- Box 7

- Item 1: Figure at table

- Item 2: Artist drawing portrait

- Item 3: Arcade game

- Item 4: "Lower East Side" / African American man at microphone

- Box 8

- Item 1: Vendor selling crabs

- Item 2: CBS Studios

- Item 3: Woman seated

- Item 4: Lower half of two men standing on protest sign in front of police line

- Box 9

- Item 1: African American men in line

- Item 2: Man reading book

- Item 3: African American man seated, leaning

- Item 4: Artist at drawing board

- Box 10

- Item 1: African American man reading

- Item 2: "Fulton St, Brookyln"

- Item 3: Man with children

- Item 4: Child on swing, seen through fence

- Box 11

- Item 1: Man yelling / police truck

- Item 2: African American man in fighting stance

- Item 3: African American man seated

- Item 4: Police searching African American man

- Item 5: Police station, summonses counter

- Box 12

- Item 1: 1920's automobile

- Item 2: "Arresting officer"

- Item 3: One man in profile, one from behind

- Item 4: Five men in suits

- Item 5: Police

- Box 13

- Item 1: "Hoaron High School" boy reading at desk

- Item 2: "Remedial Reading Class" boy at desk

- Item 3: "Birthplace of Babe Ruth, Balt" city street

- Item 4: African American woman holding protest sign

- Box 14

- Item 1: Police truck

- Item 2: Director's chair marked "Jackie Cooper"

- Item 3: Children on playground

- Item 4: "SF 66" Guard grabbing African American man by shoulder

- Box 15

- Item 1: Men watching circus elephant

- Item 2: African American boy in fighting stance

- Item 3: Two workers sawing wood

- Item 4: Voting

- Box 16

- Item 1: Construction worker on street

- Item 2: Man in workshop with tools

- Item 3: "Music teacher" African American man with music lessons on chalkboard

- Item 4: African American man holding "Think!" sign

- Item 5: Man painting house

- Box 17

- Item 1: Man in wheelchair

- Box 18

- Item 1: Spring training sketchbook pages

- Note: Some images on verso and recto.
- Box 19

- Item 1: Spring training sketchbook pages

- Note: Some images on verso and recto.
- Box 20

- Item 1: Spring training sketchbook pages

- Note: Some images on verso and recto.
- Box 21

- Item 1: Spring training sketchbook pages and original binder

- Note: Some images on verso and recto.
- Box 22

- Item 1: Spring training sketchbook pages

- Note: Some images on verso and recto.
- Box 23

- Item 1: Spring training sketchbook pages

- Note: Some images on verso and recto.
- Box 24

- Item 1: Spring training sketchbook pages

- Note: Some images on verso and recto.
- Box 25

- Item 1: Spring training sketchbook pages

- Note: Some images on verso and recto.
- Box 26

- Item 1: Spring training sketchbook pages

- Note: Some images on verso and recto.
- Box 27

- Item 1: Spring training sketchbook pages and original sketchbook

- Note: Some images on verso and recto.
- Item 1: Woman seated

Framed 16 x 24.25
Located on open shelf 16-04
- Series 2: Original Art: graphite on board

- Box 1

- Item 1: Man seated

- Item 2: Profile of man seated

- Item 3: African American man with glasses

- Item 4: Children in lot with garbage

- Item 5: Man seated with eyes closed

- Box 2

- Item 1: African American boy climbing fence

- Item 2: Two men in front of ship

- Item 3: Men playing cards

- Item 4: African American boy seated and car

- Item 5: African American man and woman watching TV

- Box 3

- Item 1: Children in lot with garbage

- Item 2: "Youth Employment Service"

- Item 3: Men on New York city street

- Item 4: Sketches of shoeshine cases and doll heads

- Box 4

- Item 1: African American woman with children in kitchen

- Item 2: African American men in prison cell

- Series 3: Original Art: collage binders

Arranged by size, then alphabetically.
Each item is stored in a separate box.
- Note: (Personal work.)
- Box 1

- Item 1: No title given.

- Box 2

- Item 1: ?

- Box 3

- Item 1: Antique, Articulated Paper To

- Box 4

- Item 1: Daily Times

- Box 5

- Item 1: Females 3

- Box 6

- Item 1: I Venezia Act 1

- Box 7

- Item 1: The Kite

- Box 8

- Item 1: Mutascope

- Box 9

- Item 1: Venezia 1849, A Boustrophedon

- Box 10

- Item 1: 4 x 3 II

- Box 11

- Item 1: Human Countenance a Mirror

- Box 12

- Item 1: Le Grand Tour

- Box 13

- Item 1: Paper View Ltd

- Box 14

- Item 1: Saints and Preserved

- Box 15

- Item 1: Stay Out: This Means

- Box 16

- Item 1: This Was Your Life

- Box 17

- Item 1: Trans

- Box 18

- Item 1: Auto De Fay

- Box 19

- Item 1: Circumstantial Evidence

- Box 20

- Item 1: Dissolving Views

- Box 21

- Item 1: Fountains of Unreason

- Box 22

- Item 1: Mystery, Magic and Fun

- Box 23

- Item 1: Nonsequences

- Box 24

- Item 1: See Variable Collages

- Box 25

- Item 1: Timeframes

- Series 4: Original Art: paintings on paper

- This series includes various types of paint material. Some have small amounts of mixed media.
- Box 1

- Item 1: Woman reading

- Item 2: Street scence

- Item 3: Bull with flowers

- Box 2

- Item 1: Window with banner

- Item 2: Hospital room scene

- Item 1: Portrait of Tolstoy

Framed 19.5 x 23.75
Located on open shelf 16-03
- Item 2: Audience members seated

Framed 45.75 x 36
Located in book studio
- Series 5: Original Art: paintings on board

- Box 1

- Item 1: Reflection of bride and groom

- Item 2: Body in cathedral

- Item 3: Horse, obscured

- Item 4: Girl in front of bulldozer

- Item 5: Worker at construction site

- Box 2

- Item 1: House fire

- Item 2: People seated; photos depicting several scenes between man and woman

- Item 3: Transmitter[?]

- Box 3

- Item 1: Factory work

- Item damaged
- Item 2: Factory work

- Item 3: Abstract

- Item 4: Factory work

- Box 4

- Item 1: "In Excavating and Destruction"

- Item 2: Dive bar with billboard

- Box 5

- Item 1: 3 images: African American boy running, studying, ordering food at a restaurant

- Item 2: Men in the street

- Item 3: Five boys, heads bowed

- Item 4: Portrait of nineteenth-century man

- Item 5: Calendar[?] abstract

- Box 6

- Item 1: Gang fight

- Item 2: African American man with gate, building

- Item 3: Portrait of Rudi Hoagland

- Box 7

- Item 1: Three African American men walking down street

- Item 2: Children's artwork

- Item 3: Pool hall

- Item 4: Pool hall

- Box 8

- Item 1: Boy on bunk bed

- Item 2: Boys on bunk bed

- Item 3: "Elect Fitzgerald" poster

- Item 4: Boy in tree

- Box 9

- Item 1: Faceless man

- Item 2: Man's eyes, close up

- Item 3: Boy on playground

- Item 4: Boy on playground

- Box 10

- Item 1: Street scene with collapsed man

- Item 2: Men in suits, dead on ground

- Item 3: Two images of man's face, obscured

- Box 11

- Item 1: Man in hat and overcoat, walking

- Item 2: Early 20th century dentist office

- Item 3: "No No," Headless figures in suits, seen through fence

- Box 12

- Item 1: Girl crying/ angel statue with blood splatter

- Item 2: Headless Jesus statue with three small houses

- Item 3: Street scene with violence, multiple frames

- Box 13

- Item 1: "Life mask," death mask, blankets

- Item 2: Close up of face

- Box 14

- Item 1: Men in suits

- Item 2: Abstract painting

- Drawer 19/1

- Item 1: Four Hunters and wolf

- Drawer 21/5

- Item 1: Cubist abstract

- Note: Item framed, some pieces loose
- Drawer 21/4

- Item 1: Man on bench, stretched perspective

- Note: This piece is on a very heavy one-inch board.
- Item 1: Man in suit, reading newspaper, umbrella

Framed 20.75 x 20
Located open shelving 16-03
- Item 2: Vendor at baseball game

Framed 19.25 x 15.5
Located open shelving 16-2
- Item 3: "Upper West Side", apartment building

Framed 14.5 x 20.5
Located open shelving 16-04
- Item 4: Man holding open umbrella

Framed 19.75 x 25.5
Located open shelving 16-2
- Series 6: Original Art: paintings on canvas

- This series includes various types of paint materials. Some have small amounts of mixed media.
- Box 1

- Item 1: Three Images: Man's face, man's body, man reclining

- Item 1: Trapeze Artists

- Framed 26 x 17
- Item 2: St. Valentine's Day Massacre

- Item 4: Picasso image, early modern man, clock, etc.


Oil on canvas, 24x50 inches
Framed
- Item 5: Variety Photo Plays sign, man in hospital bed, Dodgers pennant


Oil on canvas, 24x50 inches
Framed
- Item 6: Globe Hotel sign, fish, umbrella, etc.


Oil on canvas, 24x50
Framed
- Series 7: Original Art: pastels on paper and board

- This series includes both color and black and white pastels on board and on paper. Subjects include artwork for annual reports.
- Note: (Predominantly commercial work.)
- Box 1

- Item 1: Portraits of business men for annual report

- Box 2

- Item 1: Portraits of business men for annual report

- Box 3

- Item 1: Portraits of business men for annual report

- Box 4

- Item 1: Portraits of couples for annual report

- Box 5

- Item 1: Group and individual portraits for annual report

- Box 6

- Item 1: Individual portraits

- Box 7

- Item 1: Mobil Annual Report

- Box 8

- Item 1: Mobil Annual Report

- Box 9

- Item 1: Portrait of man

- Box 10

- Item 1: 4 scenes: boy on bus, men in boardroom, man in electric chair, etc.

- Box 11

- Item 1: Mobil Annual Report

- Series 8: Original Art: mixed media

- This series includes items with pastel, paint, graphite, and / or other art materials on board and paper.
- Box 1

- Item 1: Silhouette of artist at easel

- Item 2: People sitting on porch

- Box 2

- Item 1: Airplanes

- Box 3

- Item 1: Harry Truman in uniform / White House

- Item 2: Letter folded, woman, figure reading

- Item 3: Cartoon image of man smiling

- Box 4

- Item 1: Rioters / Uncle Sam / downtown of city

- Item 2: Ryan's Bar / bridge

- Item 3: Woman / person drawing window shade

- Item 4: Dancers

- Box 5

- Item 1: People on the phone, a bag of money

- Item 2: Black and gray abstract

- Box 6

- Item 1: Four images of man in hospital bed

- Item 2: Six full-length portraits of men and women

- Item 3: Man's face, obscured by paper figures

- Item 4: Man repairing machine

- Box 7

- Item 1: Eyes of a statue / skeleton in uniform

- Item 2: Circus poster on chair

- Item 3: Red and blue abstract

- Item 4: Man's reflection in car

- Box 8

- Item 1: African American men shooting guns in front of funeral home

- Item 2: Room interior in red, figures seen through window

- Item 3: Room interior in gray, figures seen through window

- Item 4: African American man yelling, running through woods

- Item 5: Police throwing / man bent over

- Box 9

- Item 1: Target practice / cadaver

- Item 2: Man with hands folded, theater

- Item 3: Room interior, headless man, artist painting portrait

- Item 4: Three anatomical men in suits

- Box 10

- Item 1: Two men and boy, small image of man behind bars

- Item 2: Winston Churchill

- Item 3: Two men in flood water

- Item 4: Newspaper image of older couple against blue sky

- Box 11

- Item 1: Men around table / woman swimming nude

- Item 2: Color portrait of two men, faces obscured

- Item 3: Black and white portrait of two men, faces obscured

- Item 4: African American children looking at African art in museum

- Box 12

- Item 1: Hitler, protestors, media

- Item 2: Stalin and Hitler

- Item 3: Bust of judge

- Item 4: Man with map of Europe, London in background

- Item 5: Collage of soldier

- Box 13

- Item 1: Josephy McCarthy

- Item 2: Various objects floating in front of door: apple, Coke bottle, etc.

- Item 3: Man in suit with skeleton face

- Item 4: 19th century man's face in pieces, man and woman in background

- Box 14

- Item 1: Priests in courtyard with Mary statue

- Item 2: Collage of woman (cardboard)

- Box 15

- Item 1: Man with chart, face obscured by ship

- Item 2: "1783: The Unseen Eye is Watching You"

- Item 3: Silhouette of 18th century man

- Drawer 19/4

- Item 1: Barn and tree against blue sky

- Drawer 19/3

- Item 1: Man in wheelchair, in apartment

- Drawer 19/2

- Item 1: Building collage

- Note: New York Magazine cover, August 8, 1974
- Drawer 21/5

- Item 1: Mixed media on canvas and wood

28.5 x 36.5
Pieces loose. Fragile.
- Dimensions: 28.5 in. x 36.5 in.
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Note: Item framed. Blocks pieced together.
- Drawer 21/1

- Item 1: "Hi-Ya-Ka-Wa"

- Item 2: Multiple images: man shouting, police officer, John Wayne, solider...

- Series 9: Original Art: shadow box collages

- This series contains three-dimensional works of art created with a variety of mixed media. Inquire with archives staff for printed guide to this series.
- Note: Personal work.
- Drawer 20/1

- Item 1: Arch

- Item 2: Proportions

- Item 3: Sun, color photo

- Item 4: Color wheel mirror

- Drawer 20/2

- Item 1: Oriental rug

- Item 2: Operation on man

- Item 3: Sunset/ pulley

- Drawer 20/3

- Item 1: Woman and menu

- Item 2: President

- Item 3: Comet, man's profile

- Drawer 20/4

- Item 1: Shakespeare

- Item 2: Melon/ stage

- Item 3: Mirror and wires

- Item 4: Jesus

- Item 5: Budweiser/ man

- Item 6: Planet/ skeleton

- Drawer 20/5

- Item 1: Newspaper collage

- Item 2: Lobster

- Item 3: Ships and wires

- Item 4: Statue of Mary

- Series 10: Published Materials: tearsheets


- Boxes 1-2 consist of tearsheets of Weaver's work from various publications. Boxes 3-5 consist of whole issues.
- Box 1

- Folder 1: America: An Illustrated Diary of Its Most Exciting Years


- 32 items.
- Folder 2: Audience

- 4 items.
- Folder 3: Chemical and Engineering News

- 3 items.
- Folder 4: Christian Science Monitor

- 1 item.
- Folder 5: Cosmopolitan


- 6 items.
- Folder 6: Dial

- 1 item.
- Folder 7: Esquire

- 7 items.
- Folder 8: Fortune


- 11 items.
- Folder 9: Good Life

- 1 item.
- Folder 10: GQ


- 2 items.
- Folder 11: Graphis

- 6 items.
- Folder 12: Intellectual Digest

- 1 item.
- Folder 13: Ladies' Home Journal

- 2 items.
- Folder 14: Life

- 3 items.
- Folder 15: Look

- 3 items.
- Folder 16: McCall's

- 2 items.
- Folder 17: Mother Jones

- 3 items.
- Folder 18: My House Is Your House

- 3 items.
- Folder 19: Newsweek

- 2 items.
- Box 2

- Folder 1: New York Magazine

- 17 items.
- Folder 2: New York News Magazine

- 2 items.
- Folder 3: New York Times

- 6 items.
- Folder 4: New York Times advertisements

- 8 items.
- Folder 5: New York Times Magazine

- 17 items.
- Folder 6: New York Times Weekly Background Student Report

- 1 item.
- Folder 7: New York: The World Journal Tribune

- 12 items.
- Folder 8: Playboy


- 5 items.
- Folder 9: Show

- 3 items.
- Folder 10: Sports Illustrated


- 13 items.
- Folder 11: Tennessee Gas

- 1 item.
- Folder 12: This Week

- 2 items.
- Folder 13: TIME

- 4 items.
- Folder 14: TRUE

- 1 item.
- Folder 15: TV Guide

- 2 items.
- Folder 16: Unidentified tear sheets

- 14 items.
- Folder 17: Venture: The Traveler's World

- 4 items.
- Folder 18: World Journal Tribune Book Week

- 2 items.
- Box 3

- Folder 1: Audience

- 1 item.
- Folder 2: Drawing SVA

- 2 items.
- Folder 3: Esquire

- 3 items.
- Box 4

- Folder 1: Graphis

- 1 item.
- Folder 2: Life

- 1 item.
- Folder 3: Line

- 1 item.
- Folder 4: Newsweek

- 1 item.
- Folder 5: New York Magazine

- 2 items.
- Folder 6: New York News Magazine

- 1 item.
- Box 5

- Folder 1: New York Times Magazine

- 5 items.
- Folder 2: Pizzazz

- 2 items.
- Folder 3: Print

- 4 items.
- Folder 4: Stanford Medical Magazine

- 1 item.
- Folder 5: Sports Illustrated

- 1 item.
- Folder 6: Smith Kline &; French Laboratories

- 3 items.
- Box 6

- Item 1: Binder of tearsheets

- 156 items.
- Note: Brown binder with tearsheets assembled by Robert Weaver.
- Series 11: Published Materials: other material types

- This series includes exhibit posters, publication proofs, album covers, and other published items featuring Weaver's work.
- Drawer 21/3

- Item 1: "When You Risk Becoming an Artist" School of Visual Arts poster

- Dimensions: 29 in. x 43 in.
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Note: Item framed, signed by Weaver.
- Drawer 21/2

- Item 1: "To Be Good Is not Enough" School of Visual Arts poster

- Dimensions: 30 in. x 44 in.
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Note: Item framed, signed by Weaver.
- Drawer 18/14

- Item 1: Posters, business materials

- Item 2: Posters, biographical

- Item 3: Posters, oversized

- Item 4: Proofs, oversized

- Box 1

- Folder 1: Album covers

- Folder 2: Album covers

- Folder 3: Album covers

- Box 2

- Folder 1: Business publications

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Biographical information

- Folder 2: Biographical information

- Folder 3: Biographical information

- Folder 5: Book jackets

- Folder 6: Book jackets

- Folder 7: Book jakcets

- Folder 8: "A Television Notebook," CBS Television Network calendar 1960.

- Includes handwritten notes by Robert Weaver
- Folder 10: Duplicates of originals

- Box 4

- Folder 1: Entry forms

- Folder 2: Entry forms

- Folder 3: Exhibits

- Folder 4: Gift books

- Folder 5: Gift books

- Folder 6: Gift books

- Box 5

- Folder 1: Posters

- Folder 2: Posters, art prints

- Folder 3: Proofs, article

- Folder 4: Proofs, mounted

- Folder 5: Proofs, mounted

- Folder 6: Proofs, mounted

- Folder 7: Proofs, single page

- Folder 8: Proofs, single page

- Box 6

- Folder 1: Slides and transparencies

- Folder 2: Stationary

- Folder 3: A Texas Romance, 1909 (1964).

- Box 7

- Folder 1: Color Photocopy Notebook, "Brief Lives"

- Series 12: Published Materials: projects

- Items grouped by project, including both original art and published materials.
- Box 1

- Item 1: Journey All Alone materials

- Note: Includes original artwork (graphite on paper, graphite on board, and paint on board) and published materials (book covers and proof sheets) for the book illustration project Journey All Alone.
- Series 13: Personal Papers and works by other artists

- Items grouped by date.
- Box 1

- Folder 1: Photocopy of a letter from John F. Kennedy March 20, 1959, March 20, 1959

- Folder 2: Letter dated March 21, 1989 from the Society of Illustrators informing Robert Weaver he was elected to the Society of Illustration Hall of Fame along with an invitation to the October 18, 1990 reception where the award was given.

- Folder 3: Picture of a man and child. Unidentified artist.

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Series 3: Original Art: collage binders],
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Series 4: Original Art: paintings on paper],
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Series 5: Original Art: paintings on board],
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Series 6: Original Art: paintings on canvas],
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Series 7: Original Art: pastels on paper and board],
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Series 8: Original Art: mixed media],
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Series 9: Original Art: shadow box collages],
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Series 10: Published Materials: tearsheets],
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Series 11: Published Materials: other material types],
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Series 12: Published Materials: projects],
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Series 13: Personal Papers and works by other artists],
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