Prints and catalog of Julius J. Lankes's woodcuts [manuscript], 1918-1978.

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Prints and catalog of Julius J. Lankes's woodcuts [manuscript], 1918-1978.

The collection contains both photocopies of Lankes's woodcuts, 1918-1950, as well as a catalog, 1978, listing over 1224 wood-block prints, their titles and dates of execution, 1917-1958. Also included are an essay in tribute to Lankes which appeared in the Wells College Chronicle, June 1940, written by Robert Peter Tristram Coffin and entitled, A Genius This Late; and a Lankes family genealogical table.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7922240

University of Virginia. Library

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Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960

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Woodcut artist; Durham, North Carolina. From the description of Letter : Durham, North Carolina, 1955-1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122539131 Julius J. Lankes was a maker of woodcuts whose work was represented at the Weyhe Gallery. Carl Zigrosser admired his work and promoted his career. As with many American artists of his generation, Lankes' career was never financially stable, and he also worked as an illustrator, an art educator and as a technical artist for the F...

Coffin, Robert P. Tristram (Robert Peter Tristram), 1892-1955

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Robert Peter Tristram Coffin grew up in Maine and attended Bowdoin College, Princeton University, and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He taught at Wells College in Aurora, New York, and was Pierce Professor of English at Bowdoin College from 1935 until his death. Winner of the 1936 Pulitzer prize in poetry, Coffin authored more than forty books of prose and verse. He was a founder and a faculty member of the Towle Writers' Conference at the University of New Hampshire. ...

Lankes, Julius Bartlett, 1915-

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Lankes family.

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