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Thomas Craven papers

1919-1949, 1975

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The papers of art critic Thomas Craven measure approximately .7 linear feet and date from 1919 through 1949 and 1975. The collection consists primarily of a dismantled scrapbook (1925 1949; 1975) containing newspaper clippings of Craven's articles and writings which span his career. Also found within the scrapbook are reviews by Oscar Bluemner and Byron Browne of Craven's two anti-modernist books, Men of Art and Modern Art. The collection also contains four letters concerning publications, a typescript essay about Thomas Craven's early career, two files of scattered writings in manuscript form, two bound handwritten manuscript versions of A Treasury of Art Masterpieces (1939), and Greek Art (1950), and miscellaneous loose newsclippings.

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Craven, Thomas, 1889-....

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Born in Kansas; graduate of Kansas Weslyan University; varied career as a reporter, teacher, free lance writer, and lecturer; considered a leader in the awakening of American art. From the description of Letter, [ca. 1940] March 28. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 17359223 Writer, author, lecturer, art critic. From the description of Thomas Craven letter to Alfred S. Dashiell [manuscript], 1931 December 13 and 14. (Unive...

Thomas Craven

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Author, art critic, and lecturer Thomas Craven (b.1888) was dubbed the "the principal ideologue of the American Scene" movement by the art historian Matthew Baigell. Craven wrote numerous articles, essays, criticisms, and reviews for Scribners, Harpers, The Dial, The Nation, The New Republic and The Forum. He was art critic for the New York American, the Hearst Paper. After graduating from Kansas Wesleyan University in 1908, Craven lived in Paris for a time. Upon his return to the U...