Original Art for the dust-jacket of Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis.
New York: Circa 1955. Gouache on paper. 8.25 x 9 inches. Trial proof that was not used.
Philip Grushkin (1921–1998) was a calligrapher, book jacket designer and book designer. He studied calligraphy and book design under George Salter at Cooper Union, graduating in 1941. After a stint in the United States Army as a cartographer during the war, he set up as a freelance book jacket designer in New York. In 1956 Grushkin became an assistant book designer to Abe Lerner at World Publishing. Two years later he moved to Harry N. Abrams, Inc., the pioneering art book publishers, where he became art director and eventually vice president. The most famous book he designed while at Abrams was The History of Art by H.W. Janson (1962). Grushkin left Abrams in 1969 and spent the remainder of his life as a freelance book designer and publishing consultant. Item #51-1534
Price: $300.00