Charles Hobson collection: design and production materials for artist's books, 1985-2008

Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937

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Amelia Mary Earhart (AE) was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, the first daughter of Amy (Otis) Earhart and Edwin Stanton Earhart. Her sister, Grace Muriel, was born three years later. The family moved several times (to Kansas City, Kansas; Des Moines; St. Paul; Chicago) during AE's childhood as her father tried unsuccessfully to establish a profitable legal career. AE graduated from Chicago's Hyde Park High School in 1916. ESE's increasing reliance on al...

Honoré de Balzac

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Livy Clements

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Lopez, Barry

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Biography Charles Hobson is an artist who uses pastel, monotype and other printmaking variations to construct images for books and works on paper. He often works in series, follows a historical theme, and employs the monotype as an under painting for further work with pastel, acrylic and printed texts. He began creating artist's books after working on a tribute book for a friend, Bruce Nelson, after his death in 1984. The book contained Nelso...

John DeMerritt

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Evans, Katharine, -1692

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Levy, Harriet Lane

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Harriet Lane Levy was born in San Francisco in 1867. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. In the 1890s she wrote for journal The Wave and served as drama critic for the San Francisco Call. She then moved to Paris and became part of circle that included Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, et al. She returned to California at beginning of World War I. In 1947, she published her memoir, 920 O'Farrell Street, about her life in San Francisco. Levy died in 1950. From the d...

Collins, Billy

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Biography Charles Hobson is an artist who uses pastel, monotype and other printmaking variations to construct images for books and works on paper. He often works in series, follows a historical theme, and employs the monotype as an under painting for further work with pastel, acrylic and printed texts. He began creating artist's books after working on a tribute book for a friend, Bruce Nelson, after his death in 1984. The book contained Nelso...

Shaw, Alice

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Andre Breton

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Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x0002a1 French writer. From the description of Travel notes, ca. 1851. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80148606 Gustave Flaubert, a 19th century French novelist, known primarily for his first novel Madame Bovary, published in 1857 and for his collected letters. From the description of Doria: manuscript, [ca. 1851]. (Temple...

Wilbur, Richard

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Richard Wilbur (1921- ) is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, for Things of This World (1956) in 1957 (for which he also won the National Book Award) and for New and Collected Poems (1988) in 1989. Among Wilbur's other honors are the 1983 Drama Desk Special Award for his translation of The Misanthrope, the Edna St Vincent Millay Award, t...

Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904

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The California Street Cable Railroad began operation in April, 1878. From the description of [California Street Cable Railroad Co. [graphic] : power house at California and Larkin streets]. [ca. 1878] (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 48150769 American photographer known especially for his landscape views of the western United States, South and Central America, and for his photographic studies of animals in motion, Muybridge worked closely with Senato...

Alice Shaw

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Mann, Charmetta

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Biography Charles Hobson is an artist who uses pastel, monotype and other printmaking variations to construct images for books and works on paper. He often works in series, follows a historical theme, and employs the monotype as an under painting for further work with pastel, acrylic and printed texts. He began creating artist's books after working on a tribute book for a friend, Bruce Nelson, after his death in 1984. The book contained Nelso...

Admiral Sir Clowdishley Shovell

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Hobson, Charles

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Biography Charles Hobson is an artist who uses pastel, monotype and other printmaking variations to construct images for books and works on paper. He often works in series, follows a historical theme, and employs the monotype as an under painting for further work with pastel, acrylic and printed texts. He began creating artist's books after working on a tribute book for a friend, Bruce Nelson, after his death in 1984. The book contained Nelso...

Colet, Louise, 1810-1876

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French writer who published, with Benjamin Constant, the correspondence of Mme Recamier (1849); and "Lui, roman contemporain" (1860), a novel about her relationship with Gustave Flaubert. From the description of Sonnets manuscrits, 1867-1869. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702148003 French writer who published, with Benjamin Constant, the correspondence of Mme. Recamier (1849); and "Lui, roman contemporain" (1860), a novel about her relationship with Gustave Flaubert. ...

Centolella, Tom

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DeMerritt, John

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