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Irving Seidmon Docktor (July 10, 1918 – February 14, 2008) was an American artist and educator best known for his work as a book and magazine illustrator in the 1950s and 1960s. An early work on the history of paperbacks identified Docktor and
During this period, Docktor also pursued a separate career as a fine artist. A mural commission in 1960 led him to relocate temporarily from Fort Lee, New Jersey, to New York City, and eventually to shift his emphasis from commercial illustration. By the late 1960s he had refocused on fine art, exhibiting paintings in numerous galleries and art shows in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. In additions to landscapes and nudes, Docktor also returned repeatedly to a sequence of paintings he called the "Heritage series," featuring juxtaposed figures and faces from village life in the old world. “With technical perfection, the mystic characteristics and pathos give his art an exquisite, aesthetic quality,” remarked one reviewer in 1963.
Docktor taught part-time at the
Strangers on a Train
(Harper, 1950) * Selwyn Jepson
The Hungry Spider
(Doubleday, 1950) * Theodora DuBois
High Tension
(Doubleday, 1950) * Christiana Brand
Cat and Mouse
(Knopf, 1950) * David William Meredith arl Schenck Miersbr>The Christmas Card Murders
(Knopf, 1951) * Jessamyn West
The Witch Diggers
(Harcourt, Brace, 1951) * Ed Lacy
The Best that Ever Did It
(Harper, 1955) * Leigh Brackett
The Long Tomorrow
(Doubleday, 1955) * Lucile Iremonger
The Young Traveler in the West Indies
(Dutton, 1955) * Ruth Adams Knight, First the Lightning (Doubleday, 1955) * Ullin W. Leavell, Mary Louise Friebele, Tracie Cushman, Paths to Follow (American Book Company, New York, 1956) * J. T. McIntosh, Rule of the Pagbeasts (Crest 150, 1956) * Sylvia Tate, The Fuzz
Pink Nightgown
(Harper, 1956) * Anon. ladys Parrishbr>Madame Solario
A Novel (Viking, 1956) * Carl Carmer
The Screaming Ghost
(Knopf, 1956) * Booton Herndon, Bergdorf's in the Plaza (Knopf, 1956) * Norman Dale, The Casket and the Sword (Harper, 1956) * Nora Benjamin Kubie, King Solomon's Horses (Harper, 1956) * Lincoln Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1956) * John P. Marquand, The Late George Apley (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1956) * Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1956) * Norman Douglas, South Wind (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1956) * John Steinbeck, The Wayward Bus (Grosset & Dunlap, 1956) * Herman Melville, Typee (Grosset & Dunlap, 1956) * Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (Grosset & Dunlap, 1956) * Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Grosset & Dunlap, 1956) * Benjamin Appel, We Were There in the Klondike Gold Rush (Grosset & Dunlap, 1956) * W. R. Burnett, Pale Moon (Knopf, 1956) * Leonard Bishop, Creep Into Thy Narrow Bed (Pyramid G206, 1956) * Erskine Caldwell, Georgia Boy (Grosset & Dunlap, 1957) * Erskine Caldwell, God's Little Acre (Grosset & Dunlap, 1957) * Erskine Caldwell, The Sure Hand of God (Grosset & Dunlap, 1957) * Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road (Grosset & Dunlap, 1957) * Erskine Caldwell, Tragic Ground (Grosset & Dunlap, 1957) * Maria Bellonci, The Life And Times of Lucrezia Borgia (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1957) * Zsolt de Harsanyi, The Star-Gazer (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1957) * Mary Freeman, D. H. Lawrence: A Basic Study of His Ideas (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1957) * Herman Melville, The Shorter Novels (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1957) * Lloyd Lewis, Myths after Lincoln (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1957) * Henrik Ibsen, Four Plays of Henrik Ibsen (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1957) * Benjamin Appel, We Were There at the Battle for Bataan (Grosset & Dunlap, 1957) * William Goldman, The Temple of Gold (Knopf, 1957) * Ercole Patti, A Roman Affair (William Sloane, 1957) * Vinnie Williams, The Fruit Tramp (Harper, 1957) * Francis Steegmuller, Maupassant: A Lion on the Path (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1958) * James Mitchell, The Lady is Waiting (Morrow, 1958) * Elizabeth Cadell, Shadows on the Water (Morrow, 1958) * Marjorie G. Fribourg, Benkei the Boy-Giant (Sterling, 1958) * Marjorie G. Fribourg, Bimo: Young Hero of Japan (Sterling, 1958) * Ben Botkin and Carl Withers, The Illustrated Book of American Folklore (Grosset & Dunlap, 1958) * Richard Bissell, Say, Darling (Atlantic / Little, Brown, 1958) * Monica Stirling, Sigh for a Strange Land (Little, Brown, 1958) * John Coates, The Widow’s Tale (William Sloane, 1958) * Pauline Rush Evans, Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Mystery Stories (Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1958) * Lillian and Godfrey Frankel, A Scrapbook of Real-Life Stories for Young People (Sterling, 1958) * Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West, Mystery of the Vanishing Stamp (Sterling, 1958) * Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West, Mystery at the Haunted House (Sterling, 1959) * Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West, Mystery at Plum Nelly (Sterling, 1959) * Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West, Mystery at Fearsome Lake (Sterling, 1960) * Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West, Mystery at Rock City (Sterling, 1960) * Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West, Mystery at the Snowed-In Cabin (Sterling, 1961) * Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West, Mystery at the Echoing Cave (Sterling, 1965) * John Dickson Carr, Scandal at High Chimneys (Harper, 1959) * General de Caulaincourt, With Napoleon in Russia (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1959) * August Strindberg, Letters of Strindberg to Harriet Bosse (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1959) * Margery Sharp, The Eye Of Love (Little, Brown, 1959) * James Wellard, The Affair In Arcady (Reynal, 1959) * Dorothy Lee, Freedom and Culture: A Unique View of the Individual in His Society (Prentice Hall, 1959) * Willa Gibbs, The Dedicated: A Novel of Two Doctors (Morrow, 1959) * Julian Mayfield, The Hit (Pocket 1229, 1959) * Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (Washington Square Press W561, 1959) * Francoise des Ligneris, Psyche 59 (Avon T-482, 1959) * Francoise des Ligneris, Fort Frederick (Avon #T-456, 1960) * Helen McCloy, The Slayer and the Slain (1960) * Muse A. Norcross, Li-Ho of the Boat People (Franklin Watts, 1960) * Alexander Rose, Four Horse Players are Missing (Coward-McCann, 1960) * Charmian Clift, Walk to the Paradise Gardens (Harper, 1960) * Alice Ekert-Rotholz, A Net of Gold (Viking, 1960) * Murray Gitlin, All the Voices (Coward-McCann, 1960) * Louis Vaczek, The Troubadour (William Sloane, 1960) * Marjorie Vetter, Journey for Jennifer (Scholastic, 1960) * Edgar Allan Poe, Ten Great Mysteries, ed. Groff Conklin (Scholastic T-210, 1960) * Edgar Allan Poe, Eight Tales of Terror (Scholastic T-290, 1961) * Lawrence Williams, The Fiery Furnace (Avon T-497, 1961) * Jose Luis De Vilallonga, The Man of Blood (Berkley Medallion G503, 1961) * Peter Elstob, Warriors for the Working Day (Coward-McCann, 1961) * Guy de Maupassant, Contes Choisis (Doubleday, 1961) * Elliott Arnold, Brave Jimmy Stone (Knopf, 1962) * Ervin Seale, Learn to Live: The Meaning of the Parables (Morrow, 1962) * Anne Colver, Abraham Lincoln for the People (Scholastic TW359, 1962) * Philip Van Doren Stern, Great Ghost Stories (Washington Square Press 592, 1962) * Mary MacEwan, ed., Stories of Suspense (Scholastic T 487, 1963) * Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road (Putnam, 1963) * Robert A. Heinlein, Podkayne of Mars (Putnam, 1963) * Robert A. Heinlein, Farnham's Freehold (Putnam, 1964) * Robert A. Heinlein, Orphans of the Sky (Putnam, 1964) * Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Putnam, 1966) * Robert Arthur, Ghosts and More Ghosts (Random House, 1963) * Roger Fulford, George the Fourth (Capricorn CAP 78, 1963) * Dorothy M. Fraser, Discovering Our World's History (American Book Company, 1964) * Charlotte Jay, A Hank of Hair (Harper, 1964) * Oscar Pinkus, Friends & Lovers (Midwood Tower 347, 1964) * Alan Riefe, Tales of Horror (Scholastic 10063, 1965) * James Blish, Mission to the Heart Stars (Putnam, 1965) * Jakov Lind, Soul of Wood and Other Stories (Crest R897, 1966) * Daoma Winston, The Wakefield Witches (Award 0185, 1966) * Laura Duchamp, Duet (Midwood, 1966) * Record albums * Ellabelle Davis, Ellabelle Davis Sings Negro Spirituals (Camden LPS 182, 1950) * Prince Onago & Princess Muana & Native Drummers of the Belgian Congo: The Drums of Africa (20th Century Fox FOX 3000, 1959) * Djamal Aslan, Lebanon: Her Heart, Her Sounds (20th Century Fox FOX 3001, 1959) * Nina Dova, Child of the Sun: Songs from the Torrid Zone (20th Century Fox FOX 3014, 1959) * Enrico Simonetti Orchestra, Bravissimo! (20th Century Fox FOX 3015, 1959) * Hugo Montenegro with 20th Century Strings, 20th Century Strings, Volume 1 (20th Century Fox FOX 3018, 1959) * Glenn Miller & His Orchestra, Original Film Soundtracks, Volume 1 (20th Century Fox FOX 3020, 1959) * Glenn Miller & His Orchestra, Original Film Soundtracks, Volume 2 (20th Century Fox FOX 3021, 1959) * Tommy Dorsey and His Greatest Band Vol. 1 (20th Century Fox FOX 3022, 1959) * Tommy Dorsey and His Greatest Band Vol. 2 (20th Century Fox FOX 3023, 1959) * Woof Whistler & His Terriers, "Woof" (20th Century Fox FOX 3024, 1960) * Al Martino, Al Martino (20th Century Fox FOX 3025, 1960) * The Dixie Double-Cats, Is It True What They Say About Dixie? (20th Century Fox FOX 3027, 1960) * The Dew Drops, Rain (20th Century Fox FOX 3028, 1960) * Art Tatum, Discoveries (20th Century Fox FOX 3029/SFX 3029, 1960) * Hugo Montenegro with 20th Century Strings, Great Standards: The 20th Century Strings, Volume 3 (20th Century Fox FOX 3030, 1960) * Art Tatum, Piano Discoveries (20th Century Fox FOX 3033/SFX 3033, 1960) * Jon Ern and the Olympic Festival Orchestra, Songs of the Olympic Years (20th Century Fox FOX 3042, 1961) * Harry Simeone Chorale, The Little Drummer Boy (20th Century Fox TFM 3100, 1963) * Harry Fryer and His Orchestra, March Medley (London LPB 197) * Richard Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra (London LLP 232) * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 ("Pathetique") (London LLP 257) * Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 (Record of the Month Club, 1956) * Serendipity Singers, Love Is a State of Mind (United Artists UAS 6619, 1967)
In Memoriam: Irv Docktor
B. Docktor photography
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Docktor, Irv American speculative fiction artists 20th-century American educators American illustrators Science fiction artists University of the Arts (Philadelphia) alumni 1918 births 2008 deaths United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II United States Army Air Forces soldiers 20th-century American male writers
Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an Americans, American writer, Tony Award-winning costume designer, and artist, noted for his own illustrated books as well as cover art and illustration for books by other w ...
as executing some of the most interesting and appealing cover designs in the field.
Early life
Irving Seidmon Docktor was born and raised in Philadelphia. He graduated from Central High School in Philadelphia, and won a scholarship to the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) and theBarnes Foundation
The Barnes Foundation is an art collection and educational institution promoting the appreciation of art and horticulture. Originally in Merion, the art collection moved in 2012 to a new building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pen ...
in Merion, Pennsylvania
Merion Station, also known as Merion, is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It borders Philadelphia to its west and is one of the communities that make up the Philadelphia Main Line. Merion Station is part of Lower M ...
. A weight lifter in his youth, Docktor performed in walk-on roles with Mary Binney Montgomery's ballet troupe while he was in college as a supernumerary actor
Supernumerary actors are usually amateur character actors in opera and ballet performances who train under professional direction to create a believable scene.
Definition
The term's original use, from the Latin ''supernumerarius'', meant someon ...
, a job he obtained one day while sketching the dancers during their rehearsal. When Docktor noticed the male lead had trouble lifting his partner, he stepped in and was offered a position on the spot.
Career
Illustration
After graduating from art school, Docktor entered the army and was trained in photography. During World War II, he served as an aerial photographer in a map-making unit in the Technical Intelligence Team based in Australia and the Philippines. The sketches he made during this period served as visual referents for some of his later work, such as his illustrations for a book "We Were There At The Battle For Bataan" by Benjamin Appel.Fine art
During this period, Docktor also pursued a separate career as a fine artist. A mural commission in 1960 led him to relocate temporarily from Fort Lee, New Jersey, to New York City, and eventually to shift his emphasis from commercial illustration. By the late 1960s he had refocused on fine art, exhibiting paintings in numerous galleries and art shows in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. In additions to landscapes and nudes, Docktor also returned repeatedly to a sequence of paintings he called the "Heritage series," featuring juxtaposed figures and faces from village life in the old world. “With technical perfection, the mystic characteristics and pathos give his art an exquisite, aesthetic quality,” remarked one reviewer in 1963.
Docktor taught part-time at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts
Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art (NSFIA) was a city-run vocational and art school in Newark, New Jersey. Opened in 1882 as the Evening Drawing School, its name was changed in 1909 to the Fawcett School of Industrial Arts, and changed agai ...
. At age 60, he began teaching full-time at the High School of Art and Design
The High School of Art and Design is a career and technical education high school in Manhattan, New York City, New York State, United States. Founded in 1936 as the School of Industrial Art, the school moved to 1075 Second Avenue in 1960 and mor ...
in New York City, his first full-time job, which he held for 15 years.
Personal life
Docktor married Mildred Sylvia Himmelstein. In 1957, Docktor lived in a home overlooking theHudson River
The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the New York Harbor between N ...
. After receiving a commission in 1960 to do murals in New York City, he spent most of his time there. In 1975, they moved back to Fort Lee, New Jersey. They frequently went to museums, the theatre, the Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is operat ...
, the Philharmonic
An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola ...
, the American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City. Founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant, it is recognized as one of the world's leading classical ballet companies. Through 2019, it had an annual ei ...
, and the New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company' ...
. During performances, Docktor sketched what he was seeing in his copy of ''Playbill
''Playbill'' is an American monthly magazine for theatergoers. Although there is a subscription issue available for home delivery, most copies of ''Playbill'' are printed for particular productions and distributed at the door as the show's pr ...
''.
Docktor died February 14, 2008.
Published works
Books
* Clark Gavin, Foul, False, and Infamous: Famous Libel and Slander Cases of History (Abelard, 1950) * Patricia HighsmithStrangers on a Train
(Harper, 1950) * Selwyn Jepson
The Hungry Spider
(Doubleday, 1950) * Theodora DuBois
High Tension
(Doubleday, 1950) * Christiana Brand
Cat and Mouse
(Knopf, 1950) * David William Meredith arl Schenck Miersbr>The Christmas Card Murders
(Knopf, 1951) * Jessamyn West
The Witch Diggers
(Harcourt, Brace, 1951) * Ed Lacy
The Best that Ever Did It
(Harper, 1955) * Leigh Brackett
The Long Tomorrow
(Doubleday, 1955) * Lucile Iremonger
The Young Traveler in the West Indies
(Dutton, 1955) * Ruth Adams Knight, First the Lightning (Doubleday, 1955) * Ullin W. Leavell, Mary Louise Friebele, Tracie Cushman, Paths to Follow (American Book Company, New York, 1956) * J. T. McIntosh, Rule of the Pagbeasts (Crest 150, 1956) * Sylvia Tate, The Fuzz
Pink Nightgown
(Harper, 1956) * Anon. ladys Parrishbr>Madame Solario
A Novel (Viking, 1956) * Carl Carmer
The Screaming Ghost
(Knopf, 1956) * Booton Herndon, Bergdorf's in the Plaza (Knopf, 1956) * Norman Dale, The Casket and the Sword (Harper, 1956) * Nora Benjamin Kubie, King Solomon's Horses (Harper, 1956) * Lincoln Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1956) * John P. Marquand, The Late George Apley (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1956) * Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1956) * Norman Douglas, South Wind (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1956) * John Steinbeck, The Wayward Bus (Grosset & Dunlap, 1956) * Herman Melville, Typee (Grosset & Dunlap, 1956) * Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (Grosset & Dunlap, 1956) * Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Grosset & Dunlap, 1956) * Benjamin Appel, We Were There in the Klondike Gold Rush (Grosset & Dunlap, 1956) * W. R. Burnett, Pale Moon (Knopf, 1956) * Leonard Bishop, Creep Into Thy Narrow Bed (Pyramid G206, 1956) * Erskine Caldwell, Georgia Boy (Grosset & Dunlap, 1957) * Erskine Caldwell, God's Little Acre (Grosset & Dunlap, 1957) * Erskine Caldwell, The Sure Hand of God (Grosset & Dunlap, 1957) * Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road (Grosset & Dunlap, 1957) * Erskine Caldwell, Tragic Ground (Grosset & Dunlap, 1957) * Maria Bellonci, The Life And Times of Lucrezia Borgia (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1957) * Zsolt de Harsanyi, The Star-Gazer (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1957) * Mary Freeman, D. H. Lawrence: A Basic Study of His Ideas (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1957) * Herman Melville, The Shorter Novels (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1957) * Lloyd Lewis, Myths after Lincoln (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1957) * Henrik Ibsen, Four Plays of Henrik Ibsen (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1957) * Benjamin Appel, We Were There at the Battle for Bataan (Grosset & Dunlap, 1957) * William Goldman, The Temple of Gold (Knopf, 1957) * Ercole Patti, A Roman Affair (William Sloane, 1957) * Vinnie Williams, The Fruit Tramp (Harper, 1957) * Francis Steegmuller, Maupassant: A Lion on the Path (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1958) * James Mitchell, The Lady is Waiting (Morrow, 1958) * Elizabeth Cadell, Shadows on the Water (Morrow, 1958) * Marjorie G. Fribourg, Benkei the Boy-Giant (Sterling, 1958) * Marjorie G. Fribourg, Bimo: Young Hero of Japan (Sterling, 1958) * Ben Botkin and Carl Withers, The Illustrated Book of American Folklore (Grosset & Dunlap, 1958) * Richard Bissell, Say, Darling (Atlantic / Little, Brown, 1958) * Monica Stirling, Sigh for a Strange Land (Little, Brown, 1958) * John Coates, The Widow’s Tale (William Sloane, 1958) * Pauline Rush Evans, Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Mystery Stories (Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1958) * Lillian and Godfrey Frankel, A Scrapbook of Real-Life Stories for Young People (Sterling, 1958) * Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West, Mystery of the Vanishing Stamp (Sterling, 1958) * Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West, Mystery at the Haunted House (Sterling, 1959) * Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West, Mystery at Plum Nelly (Sterling, 1959) * Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West, Mystery at Fearsome Lake (Sterling, 1960) * Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West, Mystery at Rock City (Sterling, 1960) * Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West, Mystery at the Snowed-In Cabin (Sterling, 1961) * Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West, Mystery at the Echoing Cave (Sterling, 1965) * John Dickson Carr, Scandal at High Chimneys (Harper, 1959) * General de Caulaincourt, With Napoleon in Russia (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1959) * August Strindberg, Letters of Strindberg to Harriet Bosse (Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library, 1959) * Margery Sharp, The Eye Of Love (Little, Brown, 1959) * James Wellard, The Affair In Arcady (Reynal, 1959) * Dorothy Lee, Freedom and Culture: A Unique View of the Individual in His Society (Prentice Hall, 1959) * Willa Gibbs, The Dedicated: A Novel of Two Doctors (Morrow, 1959) * Julian Mayfield, The Hit (Pocket 1229, 1959) * Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (Washington Square Press W561, 1959) * Francoise des Ligneris, Psyche 59 (Avon T-482, 1959) * Francoise des Ligneris, Fort Frederick (Avon #T-456, 1960) * Helen McCloy, The Slayer and the Slain (1960) * Muse A. Norcross, Li-Ho of the Boat People (Franklin Watts, 1960) * Alexander Rose, Four Horse Players are Missing (Coward-McCann, 1960) * Charmian Clift, Walk to the Paradise Gardens (Harper, 1960) * Alice Ekert-Rotholz, A Net of Gold (Viking, 1960) * Murray Gitlin, All the Voices (Coward-McCann, 1960) * Louis Vaczek, The Troubadour (William Sloane, 1960) * Marjorie Vetter, Journey for Jennifer (Scholastic, 1960) * Edgar Allan Poe, Ten Great Mysteries, ed. Groff Conklin (Scholastic T-210, 1960) * Edgar Allan Poe, Eight Tales of Terror (Scholastic T-290, 1961) * Lawrence Williams, The Fiery Furnace (Avon T-497, 1961) * Jose Luis De Vilallonga, The Man of Blood (Berkley Medallion G503, 1961) * Peter Elstob, Warriors for the Working Day (Coward-McCann, 1961) * Guy de Maupassant, Contes Choisis (Doubleday, 1961) * Elliott Arnold, Brave Jimmy Stone (Knopf, 1962) * Ervin Seale, Learn to Live: The Meaning of the Parables (Morrow, 1962) * Anne Colver, Abraham Lincoln for the People (Scholastic TW359, 1962) * Philip Van Doren Stern, Great Ghost Stories (Washington Square Press 592, 1962) * Mary MacEwan, ed., Stories of Suspense (Scholastic T 487, 1963) * Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road (Putnam, 1963) * Robert A. Heinlein, Podkayne of Mars (Putnam, 1963) * Robert A. Heinlein, Farnham's Freehold (Putnam, 1964) * Robert A. Heinlein, Orphans of the Sky (Putnam, 1964) * Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Putnam, 1966) * Robert Arthur, Ghosts and More Ghosts (Random House, 1963) * Roger Fulford, George the Fourth (Capricorn CAP 78, 1963) * Dorothy M. Fraser, Discovering Our World's History (American Book Company, 1964) * Charlotte Jay, A Hank of Hair (Harper, 1964) * Oscar Pinkus, Friends & Lovers (Midwood Tower 347, 1964) * Alan Riefe, Tales of Horror (Scholastic 10063, 1965) * James Blish, Mission to the Heart Stars (Putnam, 1965) * Jakov Lind, Soul of Wood and Other Stories (Crest R897, 1966) * Daoma Winston, The Wakefield Witches (Award 0185, 1966) * Laura Duchamp, Duet (Midwood, 1966) * Record albums * Ellabelle Davis, Ellabelle Davis Sings Negro Spirituals (Camden LPS 182, 1950) * Prince Onago & Princess Muana & Native Drummers of the Belgian Congo: The Drums of Africa (20th Century Fox FOX 3000, 1959) * Djamal Aslan, Lebanon: Her Heart, Her Sounds (20th Century Fox FOX 3001, 1959) * Nina Dova, Child of the Sun: Songs from the Torrid Zone (20th Century Fox FOX 3014, 1959) * Enrico Simonetti Orchestra, Bravissimo! (20th Century Fox FOX 3015, 1959) * Hugo Montenegro with 20th Century Strings, 20th Century Strings, Volume 1 (20th Century Fox FOX 3018, 1959) * Glenn Miller & His Orchestra, Original Film Soundtracks, Volume 1 (20th Century Fox FOX 3020, 1959) * Glenn Miller & His Orchestra, Original Film Soundtracks, Volume 2 (20th Century Fox FOX 3021, 1959) * Tommy Dorsey and His Greatest Band Vol. 1 (20th Century Fox FOX 3022, 1959) * Tommy Dorsey and His Greatest Band Vol. 2 (20th Century Fox FOX 3023, 1959) * Woof Whistler & His Terriers, "Woof" (20th Century Fox FOX 3024, 1960) * Al Martino, Al Martino (20th Century Fox FOX 3025, 1960) * The Dixie Double-Cats, Is It True What They Say About Dixie? (20th Century Fox FOX 3027, 1960) * The Dew Drops, Rain (20th Century Fox FOX 3028, 1960) * Art Tatum, Discoveries (20th Century Fox FOX 3029/SFX 3029, 1960) * Hugo Montenegro with 20th Century Strings, Great Standards: The 20th Century Strings, Volume 3 (20th Century Fox FOX 3030, 1960) * Art Tatum, Piano Discoveries (20th Century Fox FOX 3033/SFX 3033, 1960) * Jon Ern and the Olympic Festival Orchestra, Songs of the Olympic Years (20th Century Fox FOX 3042, 1961) * Harry Simeone Chorale, The Little Drummer Boy (20th Century Fox TFM 3100, 1963) * Harry Fryer and His Orchestra, March Medley (London LPB 197) * Richard Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra (London LLP 232) * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 ("Pathetique") (London LLP 257) * Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 (Record of the Month Club, 1956) * Serendipity Singers, Love Is a State of Mind (United Artists UAS 6619, 1967)
Magazines
* Ace * All Girls * Amazing * Applause * Boy's Life * Calling All Girls * Cavalcade" * Children's Digest * Christian Herald * Collier's * Compact * Coronet * Creepy * Escapade * Every Woman * Family Weekly (Chicago) * Galaxy Science Fiction * Gent * Gourmet * Harpers * Hi-Life * High * House Beautiful * Life Magazine * Management Review * Mineral Digest * Monsieur * Nugget * Pageant * Parent's Magazine * Playboy * Redbook * Rex * The Saint Mystery Magazine * Snowflake * Suburbia (Chicago) * Tween * Westminster * Women of Italy * Women of the Orient * Young AmericansBibliography
* "The Art of Irv Docktor". ''Cavalcade'', December 1963. * "In Memoriam: Irv Docktor". ''Portfolio'' (Philadelphia Sketch Club), May 2008. * https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/search?search-type=singleFilter&search-text=docktor&doctype=visual * https://www.tarabaillustrationart.comReferences
External links
*In Memoriam: Irv Docktor
B. Docktor photography
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Docktor, Irv American speculative fiction artists 20th-century American educators American illustrators Science fiction artists University of the Arts (Philadelphia) alumni 1918 births 2008 deaths United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II United States Army Air Forces soldiers 20th-century American male writers