Albin Polasek collection, 1910-1982.

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Albin Polasek collection, 1910-1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50636044

Scrapbooks, correspondence, business records, certificates, speeches, photographs, pamphlets, programs, invitations, newspaper clippings, and related papers. Newspaper clippings concern the Albin Polasek Foundation and Museum in Winter Park, Florida, and date from the 1960s and 1970s. Also in the collection are poems, display captions, birthday greetings sent from Frenstat, Czechoslovakia (the village where Polasek was born in 1879) for his 80th birthday, and other papers. There is also a hand illustrated photo album made for this birthday in 1959 by the residents of Frenstat.

1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

University of Central Florida, UCF

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SNAC Resource ID: 7630389

University of Central Florida, UCF

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Albin Polasek Foundation.

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Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens.

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Polášek, Albín, 1879-1965

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Artist, sculptor. Albin Polasek was born in Moravia, the Czech Republic, in 1879. He came to the United States in 1901 working as a wood carver. In 1906 he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Charles Grafly and won the Cresson Traveling Scholarship in 1907, 1908 and 1909. Albin was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome from 1910 to 1913 and, subsequent to his studies in Rome and Greece, he started his own studio in New York City. In 1916 he went...