William Dolan Fletcher papers

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William Dolan Fletcher papers

1924-1986

Notebooks compiled by Fletcher listing prints by artists John Castigan, John Flannagan, Ruth Gannett, Gordon Grant, Norman Kent, Troy Kinney, Clare Leighton, Barry Moser, Chauncey Ryder, Benton Spruance, Walter Tittle and Keith Shaw Williams; and research material on Gerald Leslie Brockhurst and Benton Spruance. Brockhurst material includes correspondence, biographical sketches, notes, lists of works, a draft of Fletcher's catalog Complex Simplicity: Gerald Leslie Brockhurst and his Graphic Work, printed material, reproductions and photographs of work, and photographs of Brockhurst, his models and others;

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Grant, Gordon, 1875-1962

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Gordon Grant was born June 7, 1875 in San Francisco California, and died May 6, 1962 in New York City. He was a newspaper and magazine artist and book illustrator. He also wrote a number of self-illustrated books. He was most noted as a painter of ships and the sea. Biographical Source: Something About the Author vol. 25. From the description of Gordon Grant papers n.d. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 428024720 Marine painter, illustrator; East Gl...

Castigan, John.

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Gannett, Ruth Chrisman, 1896-1979

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American illustrator of children's and adult books; Caldecott Honor book recipient, 1946. From the description of Papers, 1936-1951. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62685237 American illustrator of children's books. From the description of My mother is the most beautiful woman in the world : production material. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62423707 From the description of Home place : production...

Moser, Barry

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Moser was born on Oct. 15, 1940 in Chattanooga, TN; became a graphic artist and printmaker; attended Auburn Univ.; studied with George Cress at the Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and with Leonard Baskin and Jack Coughlin; head of studio art, Williston Northampton School (1967-82), and beginning in 1990, with the Rhode Island School of Design; exhibited in one-man shows at the Berkshire Museum (1973) and the Boston Athenaeum (1976); also exhibited at the Los Angeles National Print Show (1974) a...

Brockhurst, Gerald Leslie, 1890-1978

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British artist. From the description of Portrait of a young woman, 1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81482018 ...

Kent, Norman, 1903-1972

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Artist and art educator Norman Kent (1903-1972) graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1925. He began his career as a Buffalo-based illustrator before teaching at Hobart and William Smith colleges in Geneva. He later served as the editor of American Artist magazine for more than 25 years. Kent was best known for his woodcuts and watercolor landscapes. [From http://artoncampus.rit.edu/artist/64/] From the guide to the Norman Kent Papers, 1920-1971, (Special Collection...

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...

Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989

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Engraver and writer; born in London, England. Came to the United States in 1939 and became an American citizen in 1945. In addition to membership in the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, London, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by Colby College, Maine. From the description of Clare Leighton papers, 1931-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86132872 English painter and etcher. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthe...

Tittle, Walter, 1883-1966

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American artist. From the description of Walter Tittle portraits, 1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867171 Walter Tittle, artist. From the description of Portraits of Billie Burke, 1929. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122484986 Painter, etcher; Carmel, Calif. Middle name: Ernest. From the description of Walter Tittle diaries, 1902-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84929623 ...

Flannagan, John Bernard, 1895?-1942

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Sculptor and engraver (New York, N.Y.). From the description of John Bernard Flannagan papers, 1923-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515006 ...

Ryder, Chauncey F., 1868-1949

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Fletcher, William Dolan

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Materials relating to John Taylor Arms, printermaker, of Fairfield, Conn. From the description of William Dolan Fletcher collection on John Taylor Arms, undated. (Fairfield Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 71058107 Priest, art historian; Connecticut. Taught at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. Author of a catalog raisonne on Gerald Leslie Brockhurst's etchings. From the description of William Dolan Fletche...

Spruance, Benton, 1904-1967

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Benton Spruance was an American artist and educator. Born and educated in Philadelphia, he displayed an early aptitude for graphic sketching. He became a pioneer in color lithography, and is remembered as an expert technician with an artistic eye; he was also an accomplished painter. His subject matter generally ranged through social, religious, and mythological subjects, as well as landscapes. He also had a long career in education, chiefly at Beaver College and the Philadelphia College of Art,...

Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1933

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Resident of Saginaw, MI. From the description of Diary, 1863-1865. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 31683745 ...

Kinney, Troy, 1871-1938

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Troy Kinney was an American artist and writer on dance, noted for his etchings and his treatise The Dance, Its Place in Art and Life (1924), co-written with his wife Margaret West Kinney. Kinney was born December 1, 1871 in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the School of Fine Arts at Yale. In 1900, he married Margaret West. He contributed articles on dance to magazines such as Century, Metropolitan, and New Republic during his career. Ki...