Arnold Bank

Arnold Bank, 77, of Oakland, Pennsylvania, died of a stroke in Montefiore Hospital (Pittsburgh PA) on Sunday, February 16, 1983.
Mr. Bank was a retired Carnegie-Mellon University design professor and an internationally renowned calligrapher.
He achieved prominence as a calligrapher by lettering the inscription of a memorial to John D. Rockefeller Jr. at New York City’s Rockefeller Center and the serialization of Ernest Hemingway’s novel, “Old Man and the Sea,” in Life magazine.
One of few American calligraphers listed in “Who’s Who in Graphic Art,” Mr. Bank, in 1979, became the sixth person to receive the Type Directors Club Medal given by New York City’s Type Directors Club.
His publications include ‘Calligraphic Lettering,” “Lettering Portfolio,” Calligraphy and Its Influence in the Time of Plantin” and alphabet studies done for Scott Paper Company.

 
Born 1908 in New York City’s Harlem section, to Rose (née Springer) and Wolf Bank, Mr. Bank began his career as a sign painter and show card writer.
In 1941, he became art director for Time magazine.
He later became instructor of lettering and layout at Cooper Union and the Art Students League in New York City.
Mr. Bank also taught at Brooklyn Museum Art School, Columbia University, Pratt Institute, the Royal College of Art In London, England, and Reed College in Oregon before coming to CMU in 1960.
He was survived by his wife of 54 years (married on October 18, 1931), Rose Sokolow Bank, a wool designer, and a son, Stephen.