Papers of Charles William Smith 1910-1979.

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Papers of Charles William Smith 1910-1979.

The collection contains Smith's personal and business correspondence with artists, admirers, critics, museums & galleries, and University of Virginia officials. Many are complimentary letters and thanks for Smith's books. The collection also contains official army papers, certificates for various honors, clippings, articles, photographs of Smith and his paintings and a copy of "Charles Smith and others," 1976. In addition the collection contains the woodblocks he used to print "The University of Virginia"; 32 woodcuts, 5 linoleum block prints of Williamsburg, Va. and a woodblock print of the Virginia Quarterly Review Office. Correspondents include Elmer Adler, J. Malcolm Bridges, Leslie Cheek, Francis Welch Crowninshield, Virginius Dabney, Colgate W. Darden, John D. Forbes, Charles Dana Gibson, Jean Hélion, Philip Hofer, Dard Hunter, Frank Loucks Hereford, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Wassily Kandinsky, Reginald Marsh, Lewis Mumford, William B. O'Neal, Maxfield Parrish, Herbert Read, Hilla, Baroness Rebay Von Ehrenwiesen, Rudolph Ruzicka, Fred O. Seibel, Theodore Sizer, Marion Willard and Carl Zyrosser.

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Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

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Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...

Hunter, Dard, 1883-1966

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Hunter was part of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, and a member of Elbert Hubbard's Roycrofters in East Aurora, NY, in 1904. He devoted his life to research, collecting, writing, and publishing the history of hand papermaking and printing. He published books at his Mountain House Press and established Lime Rock Mill, a paper mill in Connecticut. In 1939 he established the Dard Hunter Paper Museum at MIT, which later moved to the American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, Ga. F...

Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954

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American painter and illustrator. From the description of Photographs, [ca. 1930-1940] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155486635 Painter, illustrator, etcher; New York, N.Y. From the description of Reginald Marsh printed material, 1915-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84389391 Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) was a painter, illustrator, and etcher from New York, N.Y. Marsh was a lifelong free-lance illustrator for the New Yorker, Es...

Smith, Charles (Charles William), b. 1893.

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Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990

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American writer. From the description of Correspondence with Alfred S. Dashiell, 1931-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51846130 Carl Zigrosser and Lewis Mumford were life-long friends with shared interests in the arts, society and politics. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1925-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902319 Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologi...

Hereford, Frank L. (Frank Loucks), 1923-2004

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University of Virginia Professor of Physics, Department Head, Graduate Dean, Provost, Vice-President; Chairman of the Committee on the Future of the University and President of the University. From the description of Oral history interview of Frank L. Hereford, Jr. by Lisa G. Guernsey [manuscript], April 12, 1993. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647920270 ...

Zyrosser, Carl,

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Hilla, Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, Baroness, 1895-

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Bridges, J. Malcolm,

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Willard, Marion,

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Růžička, Rudolph 1883-1978

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Ruzicka was a Czech-American graphic artist and engraver. From the description of Designs for Harvard University, 1951-1973. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612374439 Graphic artist and type-designer, Ruzicka (1883-1978) was born in Bohemia, emigrated to Chicago, where he trained as a wood engraver and designer; continued his studies in New York. During the 1930s he collaborated with Philip Hofer on a number of projects, including a series of engravings for Harvard...

Sizer, Theodore, 1892-1967

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Society named after Horace Walpole (1717-1797), founded in 1910 to promote the study and appreciation of British art. From the description of Walpole Society papers, 1934-1967. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 550528065 Theodore Sizer was born on March 19, 1892 in New York City. He received a B.S. degree from Harvard in 1915. He worked in the import-export business from 1915 until 1922 and served as a first lieutenant in the Army in World War I. He was curator at the ...

Hélion, Jean, 1904-1987

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Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/30/obituaries/jean-helion-abstract-and-representational-artist.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Hélion...

Forbes, John Douglas, 1910-

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University of Virginia professor in the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business. From the description of Papers of John D. Forbes [manuscript], 1984-1987. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647817263 University of Virginia business school professor. From the description of Papers of John Douglas Forbes [manuscript], 1954-1986. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816668 University of Virginia Professor of the Colgate Darden Grad...

Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966

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Frederick Parrish was born July 25, 1870 in Philadelphia, PA. He later took a family name, Maxfield, as his middle name. He was an illustrator and commercial artist who designed his first magazine cover for Harper's Weekly in April, 1895. Following that he did pictures and posters for other popular periodicals. His works also became familiar to the public through his illustrations for calendars and advertisements. He was noted for his use of rich colors, especially the shade of blue named for hi...

Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981

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President of the University of Virginia, 1947-1959; former Governor of Virginia; Lawyer; Farmer; Teacher; Businessman; United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Delegation to the U.N. during the Eisenhower Administration. From the description of Oral history interview of Colgate W. Darden by Ann L. S. Southwell and Michael F. Plunkett [manuscript], [1972?]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647920804 University of Virginia president, Gov...

Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944

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American artist and illustrator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Small, Maynard & Co., [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269577087 Charles Dana Gibson was an American graphic artist, noted for his creation of the "Gibson Girl", an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century. Gibson owned a 700-acre estate in Islesboro, Me., where he and his wife spent an increasing amount of tim...

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1893-1953

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Yasuo Kuniyoshi was born in 1893 in Okayama, Japan. At the age of thirteen he came to the United States and a year later began studying at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. In 1910 he moved to New York and took courses at the National Academy of Design, the Independent School of Art, and the Art Students League, where he studied with Kenneth Hayes Miller. He was married to fellow artist, Katherine Schmidt from 1919 to 1932, and after traveling throughout Europe, they moved to the Woodsto...

Adler, Elmer, 1884-1962

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Elmer Adler worked in his family's clothing firm in Rochester, N.Y. while developing an avocation as a book and print collector. In 1922 he came to New York City and established the Pynson Printers; he began to makea reputation as a book designer. Adler served as a typographic consultant to several magazines and to The New York Times. From 1930 to 1940 he published The colophon : a book collector's quarterly. In 1940 he was invited to establish a Department of Graphic Arts at Princeton Universit...

O'Neal, William B. (William Bainter), 1907-1994

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Professor of architectural design and history at the University of Virginia. Art collector. From the description of [Scrapbook] / [William Bainter O'Neal] [195-?] (National Gallery of Art Library). WorldCat record id: 170972066 ...

Read, Herbert, 1893-1968

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Sir Herbert Edward Read was a poet, art critic and champion of modern art in Britain. He produced approximately 1,150 titles on a broad range of topics. His 80 monographs include: 26 on art and artists; 14 on literary criticism; 13 collections of poetry; 10 on politics, primarily on anarchism; 7 on "belles lettres" and biography; 5 on education, most notably "Education Through Art"; and 5 autobiographies. From the description of Sir Herbert Edward Read fonds. [1918-1965]. (University...

Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944

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Russian-born painter and writer on art. From the description of Mitgliedskarte, ca. 1908, for Neue Künstlervereinigung München. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80564007 The Russian-born artist, Wassily Kandinsky [Vasilii Vasil'evich Kandinskiĭ] is considered one of the creators of abstract painting. He taught at the Bauhaus between 1922 and 1933. From the description of Wassily Kandinsky papers, 1911-1940 (bulk 1921-1937). (Getty Research Insti...

Dabney, Virginius, 1901-1995

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Newspaper editor. From the description of Reminiscences of Virginius Dabney : oral history, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513091 Virginia newspaper editor and author. From the description of Papers of Virginius Dabney [manuscript], 1926-1987. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806495 From the description of Papers, 1926-1987. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32958583 Editor...

Crowninshield, Frank, 1872-1947

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American editor. From the description of Typewritten letter signed "Frank" : Vanity Fair, New York, to Anita Loos, 1926 Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270539358 Francis Welch Crowninshield was editor of Vanity Fair for over 20 years and one of the founders of the Museum of Modern Art. From the description of Frank Crowninshield papers, 1880-1940. (Fashion Institute of Tech Library). WorldCat record id: 226537671 Epithet: editor of 'Vanity Fair' ...

Seibel, Fred O. (Fred Otto), 1886-1969

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Editorial cartoonist of Richmond Times-Dispatch. From the description of Cartoons drawn by Fred O. Seibel, 1952-1956. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31083931 Editorial page cartoonist for the Richmond Times Dispatch, 1926-1968. From the description of One world and two birds, 1947 November 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 123755754 From the description of Cartoons for the Richmond Times Dispatch, 1929-1952. (University of ...

Cheek, Leslie, 1908-

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Director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va. Died 1992. From the description of Leslie Cheek interview, 1982 June 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185204 Leslie Cheek, Jr. was born in 1908. He was professor of fine arts at the College of William and Mary and director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He married Mary Tyler Freeman, the daughter of Douglas Southall Freeman. (After Cheek's death she married John Mcclenahan.)In the 1930's, Leslie Cheek and ...

University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...