Raymond Lufkin Collection

Collection

Identifier: RG 30-142

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of original drawings and prints by Raymond Lufkin that were used to illustrate the 1942 Oberlin College annual calendar. Illustration subjects include the Allen Art Museum, Bosworth Hall, Cox Administration Building, First Church, and Warner Hall. Some of Lufkin’s drawings were also used in the 1941 annual calendar.

Dates

Creation: 1941
Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1978

Creator

Lufkin, Raymond (Lufkin, Raymond Haskell) (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Permission of the Archivist required.

Biographical Sketch

Raymond “Ray” Haskell Lufkin was born on January 29, 1899, in Salem, Massachusetts to Parents: Joseph Garland (1868-1952) and Amanda Davis Manda Low Lufkin (1870-1936). His first published work, a pen and ink sketch, appeared in the Boston Herald. Lufkin attended New School of Design in Boston, Mass. and subsequently became a free-lance illustrator doing commercial work, first in Boston and then in New York starting in 1933. A veteran of World War I, Lufkin designed posters and worked as a camouflage artist for the Navy, and designed Treasury Department war bond posters and military maps during World War II. Lufkin designed the national tuberculosis Christmas Seal in 1947. He illustrated over fifty books and hundreds of advertisements over the course of his career, and also executed murals on commission for businesses in New York. Lufkin won Newberry Honor awards for his illustrations in Ood-le-uk the Wanderer (1931) and The Story of the Negro (1949). In 1941 he created drawings for the 1942 Oberlin College annual calendar.

Raymond Lufkin was married to Adeline Elizabeth "Addie" Lynch (1900-1978) and they had three children: Elizabeth L (1922-1993), Raymond Haskel Jr (1925-1942), and David Dudley (1928-1989). He died in St. Petersburg, Florida on December 10, 1978.

Sources Consulted

Something About the Author, Vol. 38 (Biographical entry, copy in case file).

St. Petersburg Independent, obituary, December 12, 1978.

The N Files, Amon Carter Museum of American Art website, March 30, 2013.

Extent

0.80 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Method of Acquisition

The drawings were received from the Allen Art Museum, ca. 1978. They were received in cardboard upon which was written “1942 Calendar Lufkin Drawings. WFB & JEW” [W.F. Bohn and J.E. Wirkler].