Collection, 1906-1965.

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Collection, 1906-1965.

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Consists primarily of works on paper in pencil, ink, wash, watercolor, and colored pencil. Because Edwards was mainly a metalsmith, most of the items are arts and crafts designs for metal objects and architectural elements including doors, windows, grills, furniture hardware, switch plates, latches and locks, and lighting devices. A few are associated with his work at the Bryn Athyn Cathedral. Also included are miscellaneous sketches and drawings, some of them inspired by medieval sources. Some works are figure studies and free hand perspective drawings of geometric shapes probably done when Edwards was a student. Others were apparently sketched while on field trips or vacations in Europe. A series of leaf rubbings, perhaps collected as design inspirations, are included. Some metal artifacts presumably designed by Edwards are part of the collection. There are also clippings collected by Edwards and copies of correspondence addressed to him, many from Howard Fremont Stratton.

18 boxes : ill.

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Pitcairn, Raymond, 1885-1966

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J. Barton Benson, Inc.

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Edwards, Parke, 1892-1975.

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Parke Edwards was an early 20th century artist. Born in 1892 into a farming family in Smithville, Lancaster Co., Pa., his formal education took him as far as the 8th grade. Edwards became interested in art and enrolled in a mail-order course in show-card writing and sign painting with the International Correspondence School. He then attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art. As a sophomore, Edwards was award a scholarship to travel to Europe, where he documented the artistic tale...

Iron Craftsmen (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Stratton, Howard Fremont.

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Bryn Athyn Cathedral (Bryn Athyn, Pa.)

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