Fellow collector Yu Xingang sent me three bookplates images by Willy Pogany and wondered if I knew anything about him. Although I have several bookplates he designed I really did know anything about the artist . I have begun a checklist of his bookplates. If you have any not shown in this blog posting please send a scan to Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com and your images will be added to the checklist.
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"William Andrew ("Willy") Pogany (born Vilmos Andreas Pogány) (August 1882 – 30 July 1955) was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's books and others. .] He is best known for his pen and ink drawings of myths and fables.] A large portion of Pogany's work is described as Art Nouveau. Pogany's artistic style is heavily fairy-tale orientated and often feature motifs of mythical animals such as nymphs and pixies."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Pogany
The reason not much has been written about his bookplates is that he was primarily involved with book and magazine illustration and movie set design. Most of his bookplates were universal and were distributed by The Castle Co.Ltd.The only custom designed bookplate shown below was done for Anna May Wong
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Born: March 20, 1890, Odessa, Ukraine
Died: November 17, 1971, Englewood, NJ
Spouse: Anatole France (m. 1914–1964)
3/24.2017 Sent by Tom Boss