Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1928-1971, n.d.

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Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1928-1971, n.d.

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Letters from Prentiss Taylor mention the progress of his work, Anne Goldthwite, lithographs sent to George C. Miller for printing, the American Artist's Group, gifts to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, exhibitions, speaking engagements, compliments on Carl Zigrosser's books and articles, artist Ruth Starr Rose, a brief biography of Taylor by Zirgosser, and exhibition catalogs. Prentiss Taylor also took photographs under the name of Baxter Snark. Included in the file is a photograph of Anne Goldthwaite by Snark.

58 items (68 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-1991

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Prentiss Taylor was born 1907 in Washington, D.C. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City and became a noted landscape painter. He spent four months in Charleston, South Carolina in 1933 doing sketches of rundown buildings. Working for the W.P.A., he made a series of lithographs from these drawings. He was also an illustrator about stories of blacks in the South. He served as president of the Society of Washington Printmakers for 34 years and did pioneering work in art theorapy wi...

American Artists Group

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In response to the hardships suffered by American artists during the Depression, the American Artists Group was formed in 1936 by Samuel Golden and Carl Zigrosser. They hoped to sell original prints by known artists made in unlimited runs, and sell them by mail at unusually low prices. By keeping costs low, the American Artists Group hoped to generate steady incomes for their artists, built on volume sales, by opening the fine art market to a new kind of customer. The Group quickly expanded into...

Rose, Ruth Starr.

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Snark, Baxter.

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Miller, George Chapman, 1828-1905

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Goldthwite, Anne, 1869-1944.

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