Visual Collections art and architecture postcards, 1920-1960 (bulk).

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Visual Collections art and architecture postcards, 1920-1960 (bulk).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/229474737

Collection consists of postcards collected by Kenneth John Conant and A. Kingsley Porter, among others. Architecture, sculpture, painting and the minor arts, mostly in Europe, are represented in the collection. Also included are some postcards of Islamic architecture.

ca. 189 linear ft.

Harvard University, Fine Arts Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7089463

Harvard University, Fine Arts Library

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Conant, Kenneth John, 1894-1984

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Kenneth John Conant (June 28, 1894 – March 3, 1984) was an American architectural historian and educator, who specialized in medieval architecture. Born in Neenah, Conant received a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1915. He was considered the academic heir of Herbert Langford Warren, a teacher at Harvard, and through him, of the art historians Charles Eliot Norton and John Ruskin. He served in the 42nd Infantry Division of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I a...

Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933

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Arthur Kingsley Porter was an art historian and scholar of Romanesque architecture who taught at Harvard University. From the description of Study collection of Romanesque architecture and sculpture, with emphasis on France and Italy. 19--. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84440691 Porter taught fine arts at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Arthur Kingsley Porter, 1863-1957 (inclusive), 1863-1933 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat rec...