Letters to Robert Marshall Shepherd, 1948-1969.

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Letters to Robert Marshall Shepherd, 1948-1969.

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The letters and postcards were written by Mary Hambidge to Robert Shepherd between 1948 and 1969 and reflect her interests and concerns: the effects of modernization on man and nature and the South; notions of truth and beauty; writings about Western and Eastern philosophy and religion; and dynamic symmetry. While the letters provide minimal insight into Shepherd's life, they do address his relationship with Hannah, his wife, and work-related concerns.

50 letters, 3 postcards (1 folder)

Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6905739

Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (Rabun Gap, Ga.)

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Shepherd, Robert Marshall.

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As a young man Robert Marshall Shepherd moved to New York to establish a career in clothing design and merchandising. He became acquainted with Mary Hambidge while recuperating from a World War II wound in Nashville, Tennessee. The friendship between Shepherd and Hambidge spanned from the late 1940s to her death in 1973. In the mid-1990s, Shepherd retired to his birth state of Kentucky, where he met Philis Alvic, an artist, Appalachian scholar, weaver and writer. During the course of several per...

Hambidge, Mary, 1885-1973

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Mary Lee Crovatt (1885-1973) was born the daughter of an affluent family in Brunswick, Georgia with familial ties to Jekyll Island. Mary left home at an early age to attend a finishing school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was educated in the classics. In her twenties, she lived in New York and had aspirations to become an actress. It was during this period that she supported herself as an artist's model and professional whistler, and met Jay Hambidge (1867-1924), an artist, illustrator,...