The Dorothy Grafly collection. 1899-1962.

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The Dorothy Grafly collection. 1899-1962.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34201573

This collection includes personal and business information, scrapbooks from Grafly's school years, examples of her art work, and a collection of music for piano. Typescript drafts of "Sculptor's Clay", Grafly's unpublished biography of her father, are also included.

21.25 linear feet.

Wichita State University, Ablah Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7354484

Wichita State University, Ablah Library

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Grafly, Dorothy, 1896-1980

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gm8rz2 (person)

Art critic, author; Philadelphia, Penn. Died 1980. Dorothy Grafly's father, Charles Grafly, was an art instructor and sculptor, trained in Philadelphia. He taught at the Pennsylvania Academy, Drexel Institute, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. From the description of Sculptor's clay : typescript, [undated] / by Dorothy Grafly. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122404432 ...

Grafly, Charles, 1862-1929

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gx4cn2 (person)

Charles Grafley was a sculptor and a teacher. Born in Philadelphia in 1862, he began working as a stone carver at the age of 17. He attended night classes in art at the Spring Garden Institute and in 1884 entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, where he studied with Thomas Eakins. In 1888, Grafly went to Paris, studying at the Academie Julian and later at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He began teaching sculpture at the Drexel Institute and the Pennsylvania Academy in 1891. Grafley was a member...