About Paul Standard
Lived 1896 – 1992 (aged 95–96). Paul Standard was a calligrapher.
Paul Standard (May 19, 1896 – January 1, 1992) was an American calligrapher and author, who immigrated from Russia in 1903.
Standard taught at Cooper Union, New York University, and Parsons School of Design; edited the Associated Press; and was a publicist for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He published three books: Calligraphy’s Flowering, Decay and Restoration (1947, Society of Typographic Arts), Our Handwriting (1947), and Arrighi's Running Hand (1979). In 1983, he received the TDC Medal from the Type Directors Club.
He was married and lived in Manhattan during the 1960s.
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Who was Paul Standard?
American calligrapher
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Paul Standard was born on 19 May 1896.
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Paul Standard died in 1992.
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Paul Standard was a calligrapher.
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