Janet deCoux papers

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Janet deCoux papers

1895-2000

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The papers of sculptor Janet deCoux measure 3.92 linear feet and date from 1895 to 2000. Found within the papers are scattered biographical material, including curriculum vitae and a file concerning deCoux's induction as a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania. Correspondence is primarily between family, friends, and colleagues. It includes letters from Carl Milles, Bruce Moore, C.P. Jennewein, the Guild of Liturgy, Art and Design (GLAD), the Liturgical Arts Society, Inc., sculptor James Earle Fraser, offering advice on various sculpture projects, his wife Laura Gardin Fraser, a letter of congratulations from Paul Manship on the occasion of deCoux's election to the National Academy of Design, and approximately fifty letters, 1944-1952, from Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer and wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh. There are also one or two letters from Lu Duble, Joseph Bailey Ellis, Mark Tobey, and Albert Wein.Found within the papers are a transcript of an interview of deCoux by George Gurney, and audio cassettes with transcripts of an autobiographical narrative by deCoux. Miscellaneous notes and writings include autobiographical accounts and poems by deCoux and miscellaneous writings by others. Seven of deCoux's sketchbooks and a folder of drawings by deCoux, as well as a portrait of deCoux by C. Paul Jennewein are found in the Artwork series. Project files contain letters, receipts, clippings, brochures, and photographs for sculpture projects primarily commissioned by religious organizations. Printed material includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, and miscellaneous brochures. Photographs are of deCoux, family members, friends including Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her children, colleagues including James Earle Fraser, Laura Gardin Fraser, Carl Milles, and Bruce Moore, and sculpture.

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Gurney, George

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Gurney is Curator of Sculpture, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Emanuel is a sculptor known for his cubist style who lived in Rome, and later Westport, Ct. From the description of Correspondence with Herzl Emanuel, 1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122595256 Epithet: Rector of Tacolnestone, county Norfolk British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001189.0x000320 Art histo...

De Coux, Janet, 1904-1999

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Sculptor; Gibsonia, Pa. From the description of Janet De Coux papers, 1895-2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220245550 ...

Milles, Carl, 1875-1955

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Milles was born in Sweden and later taught at Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Henry Booth was the son of George G. Booth, a founder of Cranbrook. From the description of Carl Milles letter to Henry Booth, 1943 September 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220146114 Fitch graduated from the Pratt Institute of Art and worked as a professional artist before coming to CMU in 1933. She retired as Assoc. Prof. Emeritus in 1957. Fitch also designed her own house and was...

Fraser, Laura Gardin, 1889-1966

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Gurney, George

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Guild of Liturgy, Art and Design.

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Fraser, James Earle, 1876-1953

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Sculptors; Westport, Connecticut. From the description of James Earle and Laura Gardin Fraser papers, 1913-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122355085 James Earle Fraser was born on November 4, 1876, in Winona, Minnesota, the son of Thomas A. and Cora West Fraser. His father was a railroad engineer and contractor, and when James was less than a year old the family moved to the Dakota territory, where a railroad was pushing westward. During his childhood on th...

Jennewein, Carl Paul, 1890-1978

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Sculptor; Bronx, N.Y.; d. 1978. From the description of Carl Paul Jennewein papers, 1910-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81543309 ...

De Coux, Janet

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Janet De Coux was born on October 5, 1904 in Niles, Michigan, the youngest of the five children of Bertha Wright De Coux and Rev. Charles John De Coux, an Episcopal clergyman. The family moved to Grand Rapids in 1908 and four years later to a farm in Gibsonia, outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. De Coux studied with Joseph Bailey Ellis at the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1925 to 1927. She then apprenticed in the New York studio of C. Paul Jennewein for fifteen mon...

Manship, Paul, 1885-1966

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Sculptor. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Manship : oral history, 1956. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733743 From the description of Paul Manship interview, 1959 Feb. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80437629 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. From the description of Paul Manship papers, 1863-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502772 From the description of Paul Manship interview, 1956 Oct. 9-31...

Liturgical Arts Society

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The Liturgical Arts Society was organized in New York in 1928 as a national effort to promote the arts that support Roman Catholic liturgy and culture. It was formed by lay people but also included members of the American hierarchy, foreign prelates, clergy, and women religious. Gerard L. Carroll was its president. In 1931 it began publication of the journal Liturgical Arts with the secretary of the society, Maurice Lavanoux, serving as editor. In 1972 Liturgical Arts ce...

Moore, Bruce, 1905-

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