Miscellaneous American calligraphy, 1812-1977.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273

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Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, popularly known simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Kurds, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, as well as Muslims of the Indian subcontinent have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. His poems have been widely tra...

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

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Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and House. He was the seventh House speaker and the ninth secretary of state. He received electoral votes for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 presidential elections. He also helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation of the "Great Compromiser" and was part of the "Grea...

Nesbitt, Alexander, 1901-1995

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Benson, John Howard, 1901-1956

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Benson was an American artist, calligrapher, sculptor, and designer of incised letters. From the description of Papers for Flags of the Old state house, ca.1942. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612205894 Artist, calligrapher, and sculptor. From the description of John Howard Benson items, 1953-1956. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64054605 Benson was an American artist, calligrapher, sculptor, and designer of incised letters. ...

Lorimer, George Horace, 1868-1937

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Editor of the Saturday Evening Post. From the description of Correspondence, 1921. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36272489 Lorimer became editor-in-chief of the SATURDAY EVENING POST in 1899, and held offices in Curtis Publishing Company which published the POST. He lived in Wyncote, Pa. His work as an editor brought him into a long association with author Booth Tarkington. From the description of Papers, 1912-1936. (Indiana Historical Society Lib...

Morris, Linda J. (Linda Joyce), 1949-

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B. I. Cooke.

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Bentley, Richard

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Epithet: of Add MS 11357 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001243.0x000384 Epithet: I publisher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x0002dd Epithet: of Add MS 32903 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001243.0x000387 Epithet: grandson of Dr. Ri...

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

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American poet from New England. Winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. From the description of Letters, 1931-1943. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122464432 American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Beggen [?], 1928. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 86129842 Robert Frost was an American poet. From the description of Papers concerning the Kenned...

Růžička, Rudolph 1883-1978

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Ruzicka was a Czech-American graphic artist and engraver. From the description of Designs for Harvard University, 1951-1973. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612374439 Graphic artist and type-designer, Ruzicka (1883-1978) was born in Bohemia, emigrated to Chicago, where he trained as a wood engraver and designer; continued his studies in New York. During the 1930s he collaborated with Philip Hofer on a number of projects, including a series of engravings for Harvard...

Geschwind, Elisabetha

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Lowes, John Livingston, 1867-1945

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Lowes was an American scholar of English literature, especially the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. At the time of these letters he was professor at Harvard University. Grace Hazard Conkling was a professor of English at Smith College (1914-1947) and the author of many books of poetry. From the description of [Letters to Mrs. Conkling, 1920-1922] / John L. Lowes. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 259487545 Lowes received a doctorate from Harvard in 1903 and taught Engl...

Evans, Jean

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Jean Evans is a freelance type designer and artist bookmaker in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From the guide to the ELLI typeface design materials, 1979-1993., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Sizer, Theodore, 1892-1967

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Society named after Horace Walpole (1717-1797), founded in 1910 to promote the study and appreciation of British art. From the description of Walpole Society papers, 1934-1967. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 550528065 Theodore Sizer was born on March 19, 1892 in New York City. He received a B.S. degree from Harvard in 1915. He worked in the import-export business from 1915 until 1922 and served as a first lieutenant in the Army in World War I. He was curator at the ...

Harvard, Stephen, 1948-1988

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Stephen Harvard was a calligrapher, stonecutter, illustrator, and book and type designer. Harvard was a Director of Meriden-Stinehour Press and an award-winning book designer and lettering artist. He was the author of Ornamental Initials, a catalogue raisonné of the woodcut decorative alphabets of the renaissance printer Christopher Plantin (Godine, 1974) and An Italic Copybook: The Cataneo Manuscript (Harvard University, 1981). Harvard graduated from Dartmouth in 1970 and until his trag...

Hidy, Lance

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Philip Hofer

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Cage, John, 1912-1992

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John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied composition with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1938 he began working as an accompanist for dance and a teacher at the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. It was here that he first met the dancer Merce Cunningham, with whom he would have a lifelong working relationship. Together they were responsible for a number of radical innovations in musical and choreographic compositions, such as the...

Rumbaugh, George.

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Beem, A. Q.

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Spencer, J. N.

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Berryman, John

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Cloher, William H.

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Rodney Dennis

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Abbott, Lawrence

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Pratt, Spencer and Rice.

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Spencer, H. A.

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DaBoll, Raymond F.

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Chicago and Arkansas calligrapher and designer. Raymond Franklin DaBoll (1892-1982) was born June 19, 1892 near Clyde, New York, he studied at the Rochester Athanaeum and Mechanics Institute (now RIT) and came to Chicago in 1912, where he continued his education at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Art. In Rochester he also studied singing, a hobby he pursued for the rest of his life. In 1915, he started working for Chicago advertising agencies. His...

McClelland, David C. K. (David Clarke Kiskadden), 1947-1976

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David C. K. McClelland (1947 February 11 - 1976 September 8) attended Harvard College with the Class of 1969. His family was from Rochester, Michigan. While at Harvard he was a member of Lowell House and joined the Harvard Lampoon in his freshman year as a cartoonist, eventually becoming the president. One of his best-known Lampoon covers was his parody of the Bayeaux Tapestry, portraying Harvard's victory over Yale in the Harvard-Yale football game; he also drew the "Boggie" cartoons. During...

Shih, Kao

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Heckscher, Philip Hofer

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Catich, Edward M.

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Catich was an American calligrapher, author, teacher, and priest. From the description of Edward M. Catich papers, 1962-1967. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612374286 ...

Bare

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Offner, Elliot

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Offner was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1931. He studied at the Cooper Union and then at Yale University (B.F.A., 1953; M.F.A., 1959). He taught at Smith College for over thirty years where he was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities. He is known for his scultpures, especially of animals and the human figure, and as a printmaker. From the description of [Bas-reliefs] / Offner. [1992]. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 85822206 ...

Spencer, Platt R. (Platt Rogers), 1800-1864

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Teacher and originator of Spencerian penmanship. From the description of P. R. Spencer letter : Geneva, Ohio, to A. H. Webster, 1855 Sept. 12. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 173260178 Penmanship teacher and business school co-founder, of Geneva, Ohio. From the description of Miscellanea, [late 18--]-1976 (bulk [late 18--]). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70953287 From the description of Letter, 1852 Dec. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7...

Sherman & Smith

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