Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1929-1953.

Mechlin, Leila, 1874-1949

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Adler, Elmer, 1884-1962

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Elmer Adler worked in his family's clothing firm in Rochester, N.Y. while developing an avocation as a book and print collector. In 1922 he came to New York City and established the Pynson Printers; he began to makea reputation as a book designer. Adler served as a typographic consultant to several magazines and to The New York Times. From 1930 to 1940 he published The colophon : a book collector's quarterly. In 1940 he was invited to establish a Department of Graphic Arts at Princeton Universit...

Cummings, Burton

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Jayne, Horace H. F. (Horace Howard Furness), 1898-1975

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Sir Leonard Woolley directed the excavations at Ur in southern Iraq from 1922 to 1934 for the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. As part of this involvement, the University of Pennsylvania Museum sent Leon Legrain, Curator of the Babylonian Section, as a cuneiformist during the 1924–1925 and 1925–1926 seasons. Most of the records of the Ur expedition are located at the British Museum. The Museum Archives hold only a few records. From the...

American federation of arts

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The American Federation of Arts was a non-profit education association that sponsored group and one-man shows as well as lecture tours to promote the arts in America. The correspondence with A.F.A. staff Leila Mechlin, Horace Jayne and Burton Cummings deals primarily with exhibitions of the work of Federico Castellón, Misch Kohn and Mauricio Lasansky. Also mentioned is a lecture tour on prints made by Elmer Adler. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1929-1953...

Lasansky, Mauricio, 1914-2012

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Mauricio Lasansky was born October 12, 1914 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to parents of Lithuanian ancestry. His interest in printing was stirred at a young age, because his father made engravings for printing the currency of Argentina. Young Lasansky began his formal printmaking education at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes, and within three years was the director of the Free Fine Arts School in Argentina. In 1943 he studied at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York under a Guggenheim Fel...

Castellon, Federico

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Printmaker and painter; Brooklyn, N.Y. Born 1914. Died 1971. From the description of Oral history interview with Federico Castellon, 1971 Apr. 7-1971 Apr. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 245518425 From the description of Oral history interview with Federico Castellon, 1971 Apr.7-1971 Apr.14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220179989 ...

Kohn, Misch, 1916-

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Misch Kohn was an influential and innovative Chicago printmaker. Carl Zigrosser took an early and active interest in Kohn's career, as he moved from WPA artist to educator to prominent artist and Guggenheim juror. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1941-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155901815 Printmaker, educator; Castro Valley, Calif. b. 1916. From the description of Misch Kohn papers, [ca. 1940]-20...