Collection of Material by Arthur Wesley Dow and Students of the UCLA Dow Association ca. 1886-1937

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Collection of Material by Arthur Wesley Dow and Students of the UCLA Dow Association ca. 1886-1937

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Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) was a artist and author. He taught at the Pratt Institute (1895-1904), the Art Students' League in New York (1897-1903), and Teachers College, Columbia University (1904- ). The collection consists of prints done by Arthur Wesley Dow and work of students at UCLA.

3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.); 2 oversize boxes.

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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University of California, Los Angeles. Arthur Wesley Dow Association

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Biography The Arthur Wesley Dow Association was founded at UCLA in 1922 to promote the ideas and teachings of artist and educator Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922). Dow, a native of Ipswich, Mass., studied painting at the Acade'mie Julien in Paris and Brittany. He returned to the United States to paint and teach, establishing the Ipswich Summer School which offered classes in arts and crafts. His exposure to a book of prints by the Japanese woodb...

Dow, Arthur W. (Arthur Wesley), 1857-1922

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Dow was born in 1857 in Ipswich, MA; received a classical education under private instruction; studied art in Boston and in Paris, as a student of Boulanger and Lefebvre; his pictures were exhibited in Paris in 1886-87, where he won an honorable mention in 1889; won medal at the Buffalo Exposition; became curator of Japanese art at the Eastern Museum of Fine Arts, instructor of art at the Pratt Institute (1895-1904), instructor of composition at the Art Students' League in NY (1897-1903), direct...