Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1953-1971, n.d.

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Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1953-1971, n.d.

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Ed Colker was a printmaker in correspondence with Carl Zigrosser and Kneeland McNulty. He did prints illustrating the poetry of Walt Whitman and E.E. Cummings. Colker travelled in France as part of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and printed at the Atelier Desjobert (along with other American artists). Included in the letters and printed matter is news of Colker's wife, the artist Elaine Galen.

73 items (113 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

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McNulty, Kneeland

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Kneeland McNulty was Carl Zigrosser's assistant (from 1952) and successor (1964) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1949-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902111 ...

Atelier Desjobert (Paris).

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Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...

Colker, Ed, 1927-

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Painter, graphic artist; Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Edward Colker papers, 1981-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86118693 ...

Galen, Elaine, 1928-

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Painter, sculptor, and educator, Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Galen is a multi-media painter whose work is inspired by nature, her emotions, and her faith. Though she began in the Abstract Expressionist style, her work quickly took on its own style, using the painting process to highlight the mystical, the surreal, and the spiritual. From the description of Elaine Galen papers, circa 1950-2007. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220241159 ...