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The art of drawing women : a gallery of life figures

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    The art of figure drawing

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  • Drawing of the projected Bivouac Art Galleries

    Drawing of the projected Bivouac Art Galleries

    Manuscripts

    Black and white ink drawing of The Bivouac. Drawing used in an November 25, 1916 article in the Los Angeles Times about the projected "Bivouac Art Galleries." Caption on back of drawing reads, "For the Finer Side of Life. - Contemplated Transformation of a Unique Residence into a Home for the Fine Arts. (The arrow indicates the spot where the proposed extension, making 30 feet additional front, will be made.)" Duplicate print of Image Number LAT_00984.

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    A gallery of women

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    266957

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    Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. John Constable Drawings & Sketches : An Exhibition at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

    Manuscripts

    This collection contains research files of English art historian R. B. Beckett, chiefly consisting of study photographs and clippings collected from the late 1940s to early 1960s documenting the works of John Constable and other English artists including William Blake, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, J. M. W. Turner, and Richard Wilson. In addition there are also images and clippings related to English portraiture, as well as sporting and comic images. The artist research files contain study art photographs and clippings, with some occasional correspondence and notes and manuscripts by Beckett. Six artists (Blake, Constable, Gainsborough, Rowlandson, Turner, and Wilson) are distinguished as their own subseries, and their files typically contain study photographs, article clippings, some scattered manuscripts and correspondence, and exhibition catalogues. The largest of these are the John Constable files (Boxes 3-9), which includes seven boxes of study images. Other art images in the collection are arranged either in the "Artists (various)" subseries (Box 13) or in the "Portrait artists" subseries (Boxes 14-15). While some of the images are professional photographs acquired from museums, most of the images are clippings from British magazines such as The Connoisseur and Burlington. Most of the images are not annotated or only contain brief handwritten identifications typically of the artist, painting title, date, dimensions, etc. Overall there are very few manuscripts by Beckett in the collection. Exceptions consist of a sketchbook from the late 1920s containing pencil sketches of landscapes by Beckett and a few documents. The correspondence is chiefly from galleries, museums, and publishers related to Beckett's research and publications.

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    Art gallery

    Visual Materials

    Exterior and interior views of a commercial art gallery.

    photCL MLP 3820