Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Author/Creator:Feelings, Tom.
  
• Title:Tom Feelings artwork, 1940s-2010.
  
• Physical Description:139.31 linear feet (112 boxes) + 77 framed items, 26 broadside folders.
  
• Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
  

• Yale Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    To request for use in the Beinecke Reading Room select a box in the finding aid
    
    
  • Call Number: JWJ MSS 74
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: 1-61 (Art); Boxes 62-67 (Oversize); 68-74 (Art); Box 75 (Oversize); 76-78 (Broadside); 79-86 (Art); Boxes 87-96 (Oversize); 97 (Broadside); Boxes 98-104 (Oversize); 105-106 (Broadside); Box 107; Box 108 (Oversize); Boxes 109-112; Box 113 (Oversize); 114-118 (Broadside); 119 (Art); Boxes 120-130, 136, 138, 139, 141, 144-146; Boxes 150-152 (Oversize); 154 (Broadside); Box 163 (Oversize); 164 (Broadside); Boxes 165-167, 169, 175-178, 187, 191, 192, 194, 197-201 (Oversize); 202-206 (Oversize broadside); 207-214 (Broadside).
    

  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    To request for use in the Beinecke Reading Room select a box in the finding aid
    
    
  • Call Number: JWJ MSS 74
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: Boxes 142, 147, 149, 155-161, 179, 180, 184-186, 188-190, 193, 196, 196; Boxes 131-135, 137, 140, 143, 148, 153, 162, 168, 170, 171-174, 181-183 (Oversize), 215.
    

   
• Notes:Purchased from William Reese Company on various funds, 2010. For further information consult the appropriate curator.
  November 2013 acquisition: Purchased from Niani Feelings on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
  
• Organization:Organized into five series: I. Original Artwork, 1959-2003. II. Dummies, 1987-1995. III. Prints, undated. IV. Posters, 1987-1997. V. November 2013 acquisition, 1940s-2010.
  
• Access and use:This collection is open for research. Boxes 155-161 (audiovisual materials): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
• Biographical / Historical note:Tom Feelings (1933-2003), artist and illustrator, best known for his book The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo (1995).
  
• Summary:The collection consists of original artwork, dummies, prints, posters, professional and personal papers, and audiovisual materials documenting Tom Feelings's work as an artist and book illustrator. The collection includes the original artwork for The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo, which consists of 51 drawings, currently housed in 47 frames, created in mixed-media tempera, pen and tissue, heightened with white and collage; the artwork is accompanied by 11 text panels that were part of a traveling exhibition. Other book illustration projects documented in the collection include Now Sheba Sings the Song by Maya Angelou, Soul Looks Back in Wonder, and I Saw Your Face by Kwame Senu Neville Dawes. Also found are numerous portraits of women and children, as well as drawings of a Civil War soldier, New York City, and street scenes that document Feelings's early career as an artist. An addition to the collection includes artwork, materials related to book projects including The Middle Passage, Now Sheba Sings The Song, and others, professional and personal papers, comics and illustratoins, and audiovisual materials.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
  
• Cite as:Tom Feelings Artwork. James Weldon Johnson Collection in theYale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Angelou, Maya. Now Sheba sings the song.
  Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville, 1962- I saw your face.
  Feelings, Tom.
  Feelings, Tom. Middle passage.
  Soul looks back in wonder.
  African American artists.
  African American illustrators.
  Art, American--20th century.
  Artists--United States.
  Illustration of books--United States.
  Illustrators--United States.
  Slavery in art.
  
• Genre/Form:Audiovisual materials.
  Drawings (visual works)
  Dummies (printed matter)
  
• Occupation:Artists United States 20th century.
  Illustrators United States 20th century.