Keith Shaw Williams papers

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Keith Shaw Williams papers

1920-1950

Biographical sketches; 2 National Academy of Design certificates, 1942; correspondence, 1920-1950, with parents, friends and colleagues including F. Luis Mora, Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Chauncey F. Ryder; a journal, 1931-1950, listing sales and exhibitions, and recording his activities and impressions of places and people, such as John Taylor Arms, Ernest David Roth, Chauncey Foster Ryder and Stow Wengenroth; writings about art education, technique and Col. Albert Duane Shaw (with 2 letters to Shaw); printed material, 1939-1949; and 5 photographs, including 2 of Williams and one of a self-portrait.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6678066

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Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927

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Artist, naturalist. From the description of Louis Agassiz Fuertes exhibit items, 1982-1983. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 74897982 From the description of Louis Agassiz Fuertes pencil drawing, [ca.1900]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 77010685 Louis Agassiz Fuertes was an ornithologist and a painter of birds. He was a resident lecturer at Cornell University for several years. From the description of Louis Agassiz Fu...

Mora, F. Luis (Francis Luis), 1874-1940

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Luis Mora (1874-1940) was a painter and illustrator from New York, N.Y. Mora is best known for his illustrations in magazines such as Century, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal. From the description of F. Luis Mora papers, 1895-1969, bulk 1895-1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233006983 From the description of F. Luis Mora papers, 1895-1969, bulk 1895-1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779476887 Painter, illustrator; New York, N.Y. From the descrip...

Wengenroth, Stow, 1906-1978

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Williams, Keith Shaw (American painter 1906-1951)

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Painter, watercolorist, printmaker; New York, N.Y. Williams was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and trained in art at the National Academy of Design, the summer school of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Art Students League, and in Paris at L'Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. In 1929 he was made director of the art school of the Brooklyn YWCA, and by the 1930s was also an instructor at the Grand Central School of Art, NYC. By the 1930s, he was noted as a portrait pa...

Greenbaum, William

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Greenbaum earned his Harvard EdM in 1969 and his EdD in 1978. From the description of The university's public service function : a time for assessment / by William N. Greenbaum. January 14, 1969. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228513331 ...

Arms, John Taylor, 1887-1953

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Etcher. From the description of John Taylor Arms papers, 1923-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122606 John Taylor Arms was an American artist, known for his architectural etchings. Born in Washington, D.C., he attended Princeton as a pre-law student, but transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study architecture. He moved to New York, and was working as an architectural draftsman when his wife bought him an etching kit as a Christmas gift, revealing...

Ryder, Chauncey F., 1868-1949

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Roth, Ernest David, 1879-1964

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Part of a series of plates Roth created in 1935 depicting the waterfront in lower Manhattan. From the description of Downtown New York, Financial Towers [graphic] / E.D. Roth. 1935. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 45368355 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Ernest D. Roth (1879-1964) was born in Stuttgard, Germany. He came to the United States at an early age and studied at the National Academy of Design with James D. Smillie. He returned to Europe in 1905 and remained t...