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Diana Korzenik collection of art education ephemera and books
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Five scraps of manuscript notes, written by Diana Korzenik
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Five scraps of manuscript notes, written by Diana Korzenik, that had been laid into Arthur Dow's Composition: A Series of Exercises Selected from a New System of Art Education, 1899, (HEH RB# 603472). Accompanying these five notes is a photocopy of page 13 from Dow's Composition.
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Subseries L. Graduate Student Papers from various courses taught by Diana Korzenik
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This addenda contains museum publications, exhibition catalogs, and scholars correspondence regarding art education materials. Also includes listings from rare book dealers and art and art education-related clippings. There are research materials related to American artists and their childhood education, approximately thirty-six files relate to female artists and approximately sixty relate to male artists.
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New Art Education
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Nine books entitled New Art Education, published by Prang Company Publishers, "A Division of The American Crayon Company, Sandusky, Ohio", copyright 1944, 1945 and 1947. The books are numbered, 1-9; laid into each is a second book, an accompanying teacher guide, entitled Teachers Reference and Course of Study, published in 1947. (One book is intended for the teacher and one for the student.) Accompanying these nine sets are three teacher reference guides titled Teachers Reference and Course of Study. The first is labeled "A", "to accompany New Art Education Books I, II, III"; the second is labeled B, and the third C, to accompany Books 4, 5, 6 and 7, 8, 9 respectively. These books contain ideas, instructions and projects for a wide variety of arts and crafts projects for schoolchildren. All nine sets, and the Teachers Reference and Course of Study vols. A-C, are illustrated typically in black and white. Each of the nine New Art Education books and each of the Teachers Reference books have "Mabel Spofford" written in ms., in ink, on the front cover, and some on the title page. Laid into Book I of New Art Education are two TLSs on Stover School Art Service (of Birmingham, Michigan) letterhead, which are promotional and advertising solicitations for art projects and supplies. One letter is dated Jan. 18, 1933, the other Sept. 24, 1935; each is addressed to Miss Mabel Spofford , Supv. of Drawing, Gloucester, Mass. Within each letter are a few sample art projects for examination.
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The Identification of the Artisan and Artist: the Proper Object of American Education
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One pamphlet, published 1869, entitled The Identification of the Artisan and Artist: the Proper Object of American Education. Illustrated by a lecture of Cardinal Wiseman, on the relation of the arts of design with the arts of production, by Elizabeth P. Peabody, published(?) by Adams & Co., Boston. The subtitle reads "addressed to American workingmen and educators, with an essay on Froebel's reform of primary education." This pamphlet is 48 numbered pages in length, and is unbound.
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American Text Books of Art Education: Geometrical Drawing, Numbers One and Two
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Two drawing books entitled American Text Books of Art Education: Geometrical Drawing, Numbers One and Two, by Walter Smith, published by L. Prang & Co., Boston, 1875. Each of the two books are 20 pages in length, and contain numbered problems and exercises. Each exercise consists of instructional text, a lithograph illustration, and space for copying. The exercises increase in difficulty and complexity through the course of each book, and within the series. The front covers are identical to each other, as are the insides of the front and back covers. The insides of the front covers contain "General Directions to Teacher and Pupil"; the insides of the back covers contain names, definitions and visual definitions of "geometric solids", as well as publisher's advertisements for other Smith materials. The back covers advertise Prang's "American Text-Books of Art Education, prepared by Prof. Walter Smith." The exercises in Book Number Two have been completed, in pencil.
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Practical Drawing, Art Education Edition. Book 5
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One drawing book entitled Practical Drawing, Art Education Edition, Book 5 by Practical Drawing Company of Chicago and Dallas, copyright 1925. The book contains both black and white and color illustrations, some of which are meant to be copied in the space provided (the facing page); others are studies in color, image, composition or proportion. The front cover features a color illustration of two young girls in mid-19th century dress playing with a stick and hoop on the front steps of a home. The back cover features the logo of the Practical Drawing Company. The insides of the front and back covers are decorated with a pale orange geometric pattern. The contents of this drawing book include a mixture drawing lessons, craft projects and picture studies of both old and modern paintings, posters, and illustrations. Instructions to students for further creative work accompany many of the illustrations and images. "50 [cents symbol]" is written in ms., in blue pencil, on the upper right hand corner of the first leaf inside the front cover.
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