Wednesday, January 1, 2014

robert snyder jr plate by Paul Avril


Robert Mc Clure Snyder Jr. was a member of the American Bookplate Society  in 1915.

His given address was 4550 Walnut, Kansas City, Missouri.

He collected bookplates.

Snyder's bookplate was done by the French artist, Paul Avril and was featured at the Grolier Club in New York in 1921 at the
Sixth Annual Bookplate Exhibition of Contemporary Bookplates. Engravings by Avril were well known to the Grolier Club as early as 1894, click HERE, then scroll down on article.

 
Photo of Robert Snyder, RIGHT.

Biography, Next.










 



















His bookplate, RIGHT, is # 562 in collection.

Double click on image to enlarge.





It was based on painting. From a postcard.
(images courtesy of Robert M. Snyder Jr. Collection, LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, M0, accessed Aug 8, 2013; Avril bio, Art Directory, http://www.paul-avril.com/; The Bookplate Annual of 1921, http://archive.org/stream/21bookplateannua00fowluoft#page/50/mode/2up; Grolier Club, New York Times, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10A12F93E5515738DDDAB0994D8415B8485F0D3, accessed Jan 1, 2014)

No comments:

Post a Comment