William H. Elsner papers relating to Arthur Wesley Dow

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William H. Elsner papers relating to Arthur Wesley Dow

1976.0

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REEL 3620: Eighteen color photographs of Dow's works of art executed between 1888 and 1910. REEL 2803: a letter from Frederick C. Moffatt, guest director - Dow Project, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; and a letter from Rudolph Shaeffer, director of the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design, to Moffatt.

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Moffatt, Frederick C.

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Elsner, William H.

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Museum administrator (San Francisco, Calif.). From the description of William H. Elsner papers relating to Arthur Wesley Dow, 1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455313 ...

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...

Schaeffer, Rudolph

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Rudolph Schaeffer (1886-1988) was a designer, set designer, and educator from San Francisco, Calif. Schaeffer founded the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design, San Francisco, 1925-1984. From the description of Rudolph Schaeffer papers, 1880s-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 227190725 Rudolph Schaeffer (1886-1988), a proponent of the Arts and Crafts movement, aspired to unite technology, science, and lifestyle in order to live in harmon...