Lynda Roscoe Hartigan research material on Perkins Harnly

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Lynda Roscoe Hartigan research material on Perkins Harnly

1979-1984

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In his correspondence with Hartigan (1979-1984), Harnly discusses Cornell, the Levy Gallery, the Index of American Design, his own career, and other artists such as Howard Taft Lorenz. Hartigan's correspondence concerning the exhibition includes letters from Harnly's friend Henry Warshaw. Hartigan's research materials on Harnly include her typed interview questions with Harnly's written responses, newspaper and magazine articles, exhibition catalogs and announcements, copies of the Index of American Design data sheets for Harnly's watercolors, an exhibition history and chronology, Harnly's undated autobiographical notes, two photographs of Harnly, and photographs of works of art by Harnly not included in the NMAA exhibition.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Harnly, Perkins, 1901-

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Painter; Culver City, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Perkins Harnly, 1981 Oct. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 227191283 Perkins Harnly (1901-1986) was a painter from Culver City, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Perkins Harnly, 1981 Oct. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276394222 Perkins Harnly (1901-1986) was a painter, illustrator, and watercolorist, who depicted Victorian furnish...

Index of American Design

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The Index of American Design was a part of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, which gathered information on significant artifacts in 35 states in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In Texas the effort was headquartered in San Antonio. Original watercolors of the artifacts were housed at the National Gallery of Art. From the description of Index of American Design Texas artifacts records collection 1937-1956. (University of Texas Libraries). W...

Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe

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Linda Hartigan is an art historian and museum curator; Washington, D.C. Perkins Harnly is best known for his imaginative watercolor renderings of Victorian interiors for the Index of American Design. Harnly grew up in Nebraska. From childhood he was fascinated by the decorative and popular arts, especially by late Victorian design and domestic architecture. Through travel and self-education, he broadened his knowledge of design and developed his skill as a watercolorist....