E.E. Cummings' exhibition catalogs and photographs of his paintings. 1927-1961.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

E.E. Cummings' exhibition catalogs and photographs of his paintings. 1927-1961.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612886329

E.E. Cummings' collection of material relating to exhibitions of his paintings and to public performances of his poetry. Included are exhibition catalogs from several venues, including two copies of his March 1944 exhibition at the American British Art Center (New York, N.Y.), one copy annotated and in an envelope addressed to Mrs. E.E. Cummings, along with the catalog mock-up and a New York Sun review of the exhibition (4 March 1944) by Henry McBride. Two photographs show the layout of his Chicago exhibition. Also included is the Gaston Lachaise Knoedler Galleries (1947) exhibition catalog (3 copies) with textual contributions by Cummings. In addition there is the announcement for the publication of Cummings' "No thanks" (April 15, 1935) and a title page design or proof for "Him" (New York : Boni & Liveright, 1927), and a crayon drawing by an unidentified child (laid into a Juilliard School program).

1 case (28 pieces) ; 29 cm.

Houghton Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7803159

Houghton Library

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Lachaise, Gaston, 1882-1935

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63j3g97 (person)

Gaston Lachaise (1882-1935) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. and Maine. Best known for his stylized monumental female nudes, dating from 1918 to the 1930s. From the description of Gaston and Isabelle Nagle Lachaise papers, 1903-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756821031 Sculptor; New York, N.Y.; Maine. Best known for his stylized monumental female nudes, dating from 1918 to the 1930's. From the description o...

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p55qkz (person)

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...