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Miscellaneous typescript and manuscript notes relating to the lectures and teachings of Ralph M. Pearson, 1929-1938
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Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop
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A collection of correspondence courses and bulletins entitled Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop, authored and published by Ralph M. Pearson, Nyack, New York, 1937-1946. This collection is roughly divided into four sections. The first section is a run of a magazine column/articles by Ralph M. Pearson; the second section is a collection of issues of a correspondence course entitled Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop, Courses by Mail: Course 4 - Critical Appreciation; the third is a gathering of Design Workshop Bulletins and the fourth is a miscellaneous collection of notices and flyers relating to the correspondence courses. Most of the miscellaneous mailings are addressed to Mabel Spofford. All of these items are from her personal collection. First section: A collection of 35 installments of a monthly column/article entitled "The Artist's Point of View" by Ralph M. Pearson, as published in Forum Magazine. Most of the installments are date stamped; the dates range from March 1937 to May 1940 (the first few articles are not date stamped). Second Section: An incomplete set of a correspondence course entitled Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop, Courses by Mail, Course 4 - Critical Appreciation, by Ralph M. Pearson, Nos. 1-4, 6-9, 11-13, and 15 (12 numbers in total). Number 15 is dated 1942; the others are not dated. Third section: An incomplete set of issues of Design Workshop Bulletin, by Ralph M. Pearson. The collection includes No. 5 February 1937; No. 6 March 1937; No. 9 [1938]; No. 9 October 1938; No. 5 March 1939, and No. 6 March 1939. Fourth section: A collection of 17 miscellaneous notices, bulletins, publisher's advertisements and mailings relating to Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop Courses by Mail. These mailings are dated between March 1939 and 1941.
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Design Workshop
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Two issues of Design Workshop, No. 1 and Bulletin 2, by Ralph M. Pearson, published by Ralph M. Pearson, New York. Bulletin 2 is dated October 1935. Each is 4 pages in length. Accompanying these is an envelope from the Ralph M. Pearson Design Workshop addressed to Mabel Spofford.
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Subseries H. Ralph M. Pearson materials
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This collection contains approximately 700 pieces of ephemera that along with more than 500 separately cataloged books form the Diana Korzenik Collection of Art Education representing the evolution of art education in the United States from mainly 1800 to 1950. The collection was assembled by Massachusetts professor Diana Korzenik over a period of nearly three decades, and the ephemera is composed of instructional materials (e.g. art instruction manuals, art reproductions, drawing books, drawing cards, painting books, penmanship books, etc.), objects (e.g. boxed painting sets, drawing slates, models, drawing desks, colored pencils, crayons, paint, etc.) and non-instructional materials (e.g. promotional materials, scrapbooks, coursework by Korzenik's students, catalogs, etc.). With the exception of the Mabel Spofford archive, which she purchased as a whole, Korzenik pursued each item individually with the aim of assembling frequently overlooked and misunderstood material.
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A Lecture On The Importance of Linear Drawing, and On The Methods of Teaching The Art in Common Schools and Other Seminaries
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One pamphlet entitled A Lecture On The Importance of Linear Drawing, and On The Methods of Teaching The Art in Common Schools and Other Seminaries..., by Walter R. Johnson, published by Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, Boston, Massachusetts, 1831. This unbound pamphlet is 20 numbered pages in length, and is not illustrated. As stated on the title page, it is a copy of a lecture "delivered in the Representatives' Hall, Boston, August 23, 1830, before the American Institute of Instruction." "Franklin Institute, Presented by the author April 1831" is written in ms., in ink, at the top of the front cover. The blue ink stamp of the Franklin Institute Library is stamped at the bottom of the second page, and a ms. call number (presumably) is also written in ms., in ink, in the upper left-hand corner of the front cover, and at the bottom of the third page, next to the library stamp.
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[Ephemera from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]
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One group of 4 pieces of ephemera (with 2 duplicates) issued by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, relating to courses and lectures on the teaching of ancient art: a schedule of lantern slide talks for 1934-1935 (2 copies); an "Outline for Teachers' Course in Ancient Art" schedule for 1934-1935; a lecture reservation form (2 copies); and an informational sheet about use of the museum's lantern slides.
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Eleven envelopes of materials relating to or about puppetry and marionettes, 1928 to 1940
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A collection of eleven (11) envelopes of materials relating to or about puppetry and marionettes, ranging in date from 1928 to 1940, all collected or authored by Mabel Spofford. There are approximately 60 pieces within this box . Env. 1 contains 2 newspaper clippings about a marionette performance, circa 1930. Env. 2 contains 4 flyers from the New England Puppetry Institute, dated 1938. Env. 3 contains 2 flyers about marionettes and puppetry. Env. 4 contains 2 informational flyers regarding performances by the Fuller Studios (North Quincy, Massachusetts) and The Forrest Marionettes (Fitchburg, Massachusetts), circa 1940. Env. 5 contains 5 flyers, notices and newsletters from the Kingsland Marionettes of New York; some of the flyers are notices of their summer workshops in Brandon, Vermont. These items range in date from 1937 to 1940. Env. 6 contains 2 leaves (an article) removed from a 1937 issue of Look magazine about marionettes. Env. 7 contains 3 pieces. The first is an article from a magazine entitled "Marionettes in the Home" by Howard L. White. The second is 2 typescript pages of notes; the third is a color image, removed from a magazine, of 5 male faces. Env. 8 contains 6 pieces, which include typescript pages about stage plays and lighting of stage plays, a marionette performance invitation, a publisher's advertisement, and a program for the Twelfth Annual Conference of Supervisors and Teachers of Art at the Massachusetts School of Art, February 1935. Env. 9 contains 4 typescript pages and 1 envelope from the New England Puppetry Institute, sponsored by the Curry School of Expression. Env. 10 contains approximately 30 pieces of manuscript notes and newspaper clippings and printed items, including drawings and plans of puppets, all relating to various puppetry shows and performances. Env. 11 contains a 1933 exhibition catalog entitled Exhibition of Puppets and Marionettes with a note on Puppetry in America, by Paul McPharlin, held in Chicago from July-September 1933. It is 24 pages in length, and is illustrated. "Katharine Daniels, 1933" is written in ms., in ink, on the front cover. Title supplied by cataloger.
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