The Melting Pot: Russian Jewish New York

Case 5: Artists: Simon Lissim > Book Illustrations

Illustrations to The Runaway Soldier and the Other: Tales of Old Russia / retold by Fruma Gottschalk (New York, 1946) and Yes and No Stories: a Book of Georgian Tales / by George and Helen Papashvily (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946)

"Two books arrived on my desk the other day and I found myself at once being delighted by their gay and colorful book-jackets. The style I recognized immediately as being of that fine costume and scene designer, Simon Lissim, who is now invading a new field and invading it very successfully indeed."— George Freedley

 

 

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