Page from Gail Anderson's sketchbook

© Gail Anderson

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Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Gail Anderson

Caption
Gail Anderson is a New York based designer and partner at Anderson Newton Design. Since 1987, Anderson has worked in the field of design at design firms, advertising agencies, and publications. Her work has received awards from major design organizations, including the Society of Publication Designers and the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). In 2008 she received a Lifetime Achievement Medal from the AIGA. Anderson currently works as Creative Director at the School of Visual Arts Press and is on the Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee for the US Post Office. In 2013, the US Postal Service commissioned Anderson to design the commemorative stamp for the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Anderson was only the second African American designer tapped to design a commemorative stamp, the first being Georg Olden who designed the Proclamation’s 100th anniversary stamp in 1963.

Description
This is a page from Gail Anderson’s childhood sketchbook. It is a single rectangular page torn from a sketchbook. It is filled from margin to margin with black and white hand drawn cartoons, figures and text in a variety of graphics and hand-lettered fonts. The top of the sheet has tabs from where the page was torn out of its notebook. In the bottom right corner is small text that reads “This was / done by / gail.” The name ‘gail’ is done in lowercase but bolded letters. The entire text is double outlined by two thin black lines. The back of the sheet is blank and has several pieces of clear tape adhering to it.

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Gail Anderson