Christopher Fleming Collection of Jon Nielsen Visual Materials, 1960s

Summary

Creator:
Nielsen, Jon, 1912-1986.
Date:
1960s
Extent:
2 box(es) (3 linear feet), including 70 photographs and 6 drawings
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Christopher Fleming Collection of Jon Nielsen Visual Materials, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia, 30602-1641.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection includes 28 folders containing 70 photographs and six ink drawings by Jon Nielsen. Subjects include U.S. military personnel, vehicles, buildings and medical facilities, as well as Vietnamese citizens, vehicles, buildings, street and market scenes, and school scenes. Also includes one clipping dated June 6, 1983, about Nielsen and his career.

Biographical / historical:

Jon Nielsen was an artist, illustrator and portraitist whose career spanned over 35 years. Born in 1912 to Danish parents, Nielsen graduated from Brooklyn's Pratt Institute and went on to become a children's illustrator in New York, eventually illustrating over 200 children's books and textbooks and teaching college art for a time. An avid traveler, Nielsen also accepted commissions to sketch portraits in Vietnam during the war for the US State Department, and to go on safari in Zambia to make woodcuts of the native animals for the Zambian government. His work has been featured in galleries in New York and Florida. He created the children's book "The Wishing Pearl and Other Tales of Vietnam" with his wife, Kay.

Nielsen moved with his family in 1979 from Westchester County, New York to Bradenton, Manatee County, Florida. He died in 1986.

Arrangement:

The collection is organized into two series: photographs and drawings.

Access and use restrictions

Terms of access:

Library acts as "fair use" reproduction agent.

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Preferred citation:

Christopher Fleming Collection of Jon Nielsen Visual Materials, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia, 30602-1641.