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Biographical Sketch
Jean Day Zallinger was born on February 15, 1918 in Boston, Massachusetts. She
graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art after four years. Because
Massachusetts gave no degree she applied for a scholarship to go to Yale University.
She graduated in 1942 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She taught classes at Paier
College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut with her husband Rudolph Zallinger, who is also
an artist. She has illustrated for Life, Collier's Encyclopedia, and a Time-Life
series. In 1982, Dinosaurs, Asteroids, & Superstars: Why the Dinosaurs Disappeared
(1982) won the Outstanding Science Book for Children. She retired from Paier in
1996 and is still illustrating. Her next book will be Lizards, which will be
published in paperback by Scholastic.
Source:
Scope and Content
The collection has original illustrations, sketches, layouts, dummies, and blues for five
information trade books. There is also a few pieces of correspondence. The illustrations
are done in pencil and some have color separations. All of the
illustrations are very detailed and have complex color overlays.
The Biography of the Ant (1974) is a trade book about how ants live, feed, and
nest. There are layouts with the color separations, a dummy, and a mounted illustration
of the jacket cover. Another trade book with color separations and black line
illustrations is Discovering What Gerbils Do (1971). The book details the habits
and peculiarities of owning gerbils and how they interact with humans. What We
Find Under Rocks (1971) also has detailed illustrations with color separations of
insects, larvae, and other small creatures found under rocks. There is also a set of blues
with the final illustrations for this title.
The Natural History of the Nose (1976) is also a trade book that discusses the sizes, shapes, and varieties of noses for all sorts of land animals, birds, underwater creatures, and humans. The first set of layouts are sketches with text paste-ups. After the text was reworked, Zallinger went back and did the layouts again with final illustrations, color separations, and text paste-ups.
Zallinger's most awarded illustrations are in Dinosaurs, Asteroids, & Superstars: Why the Dinosaurs Disappeared (1982). The collection includes a dummy with pencil sketches, an illustration of the title page, and a sketch that was not used. After the dummy was finished, the size of the book and the arrangement of the text were changed. Because she was unsure of how the text would finally appear at the beginning of chapters 2-8, she drew a new sketch overlay and a final illustration when the changed text arrived. These chapter beginnings are all mounted, however, the final illustrations for the other pages are not.
See The Franklyn M. Branley Papers (DG0112) for related materials about Dinosaurs,
Asteroids, & Superstars: Why the Dinosaurs Disappeared (1982).
A. Books
Box/Folder
A. Books
Biography of an Ant by Alice Lightner Hopf, illustrated by Jean Zallinger
(New York: Putnam, 1974).
1/1 Dummy, includes original pencil sketches, 4 items.
1/2-1/12 Layouts with text paste-ups and original pencil and ink illustrations
with 2 piece color separations,
1/2 pp. 1-5.
1/3 pp. 6-11.
1/4 pp. 12-17.
1/5 pp. 18-23.
1/6 pp. 24-29.
1/7 pp. 30-35.
1/8 pp. 36-41.
1/9 pp. 42-47.
1/10 pp. 48-53.
1/11 pp. 54-59.
1/12 pp. 60-64.
1/13 Mounted illustration, pencil of jacket cover.
Dinosaurs, Asteroids, & Superstars: Why the Dinosaurs Disappeared
by Franklyn Mansfield Branley, illustrated by Jean Zallinger (New York:
Crowell, 1982).
1/14 Correspondence, 1982-1986, 4 items.
1/15-1/16 Dummy, includes original pencil sketches,
1/15 21 pp.
1/16 20 pp.
1/17 Illustration of title page, copied on lamination paper, 1 item.
1/18 Original pencil sketch and illustration, not used, 1 item.
2/1-2/4 Mounted illustrations, pencil originals with sketch overlays,
2/1 pp. 10-11.
pp. 28-29.
2/2 pp. 40-41.
pp. 48-49.
2/3 pp. 58-59.
pp. 64-65.
2/4 pp. 74-75.
2/5-2/12 Original illustrations, "pencil finishes,"
2/5 pp. "x"-1, 2-3, and 7.
2/6 pp. 8, 9, and 12-13.
2/7 pp. 14-15, 22, and 23.
2/8 pp. 25, 26-27, and 31.
2/9 pp. 34, 36, and 43.
2/10 pp. 51-54.
2/11 pp. 56, 62-63, and 66-67.
2/12 pp. 68, 71, and 73.
Discovering What Gerbils Do by Seymour Simon, illustrated by Jean
Zallinger (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971).
2/13 Correspondence, 1972, 1 item.
2/14-2/15 Original illustrations, pencil with 2 piece color separations,
2/14 pp. 2, 6, 15, and 18.
2/15 pp. 22, 30, 46, and 47.
2/16-2/17 Original illustrations, pencil for black line only,
2/16 pp. 1, 8, 13, 16, 20, and 25.
2/17 pp. 28, 32, 36, 38, 40, and 44.
The Natural History of the Nose by Lisbeth Zappler, illustrated by
Jean Zallinger (Garden City: Doubleday, 1976).
3/1-3/11 Layouts with text paste-ups and original pencil sketches,
3/1 pp. 1-5.
3/2 pp. 6-11.
3/3 pp. 12-17.
3/4 pp. 18-23.
3/5 pp. 24-29.
3/6 pp. 30-35.
3/7 pp. 36-41.
3/8 pp. 42-47.
3/9 pp. 48-53.
3/10 pp. 54-59.
3/11 pp. 60-64.
3/12-3/22 Layouts with text paste-ups and original pencil illustrations with 2
piece color separations,
3/12 pp. 1-5.
3/13 pp. 6-11.
3/14 pp. 12-17.
3/15 pp. 18-23.
3/16 pp. 24-29.
3/17 pp. 30-35.
3/18 pp. 36-41.
3/19 pp. 42-47.
3/20 pp. 48-53.
3/21 pp. 54-59.
3/22 pp. 60-64.
3/23 Mounted illustration, pencil of jacket cover.
What We Find When We Look Under Rocks by Frances L. Behnke,
illustrated by Jean Zallinger (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971).
3/24-3/27 Original illustrations, pencil for black line only,
3/24 pp. 2-3, 6-7, and 10-11.
3/25 pp. 14, 15, 18, 19, and 21.
3/26 pp. 22 top and bottom, 23 top and bottom, 26, 27, and 28.
3/27 pp. 30 top and bottom, 31 top and bottom, 34, and 36 top
and bottom.
3/28-3/30 Original illustrations, pencil with 2 piece color separations,
3/28 pp. 8-9, 12, 13, and 16 top and bottom.
3/29 pp. 20, 24, 25 and 29.
3/30 pp. 32, 33, 35, and 37.
3/31 Original illustration with paste-up text, pencil with 2 piece color
separations, pp. 38-39.
Original illustrations with paste-up text, pencil for black line only,
p. 17 top and bottom.
3/32 Blues, minor corrections, 3 items.
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