Visual Materials
Design
You might also be interested in
Publisher's advertisement for a portfolio of images entitled Art Ages by Pedro J. Lemos
Visual Materials
One postcard publisher's advertisement for a portfolio entitled Art Ages, by Pedro J. Lemos, published by School Arts Magazine, Worcester, Massachusetts, ca. 1929. This advertisement is folded into thirds, and is illustrated with reproductions of some of the plates found in the portfolio. The bottom third of the advertisement is a business reply postcard. This piece is addressed to: "Miss Mabel Spofford, Art Supervisor, Gloucester Public Schools, Gloucester, Massachusetts." Title supplied by cataloger.
ephKAEE
Flyer from the Lecture Bureau of the Rhode Island School of Design, 1948
Visual Materials
One flyer from the Lecture Bureau of the Rhode Island School of Design, 1948. It is 4 pages in length; (made from a single sheet that has been folded into fourths). The listing of the members of the Lecture Bureau and their respective talks for the 1948-49 season is contained within. The flyer is addressed to "Office of the Principal, Gloucester High School, Gloucester, Mass." "Miss Spofford" is written in ms. above the typed address. Title supplied by cataloger.
ephKAEE
Design Workshop
Visual Materials
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.
ephKAEE
Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop
Visual Materials
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.
ephKAEE
Two invitations issued by the Boston University Art Department
Visual Materials
Two invitations issued by the Boston University Art Department, one is for an art exhibition to be held May 29th to June 2 [1933]; the other for a demonstration "in the process of etching" to be held January 23 [1934?]. Neither invitation is dated with the year; the mailing envelope that accompanies these two invitations is postmarked May 25, 1933. The envelope is addressed, in ms., to "Miss Mabel Spofford, The High School, Gloucester, Massachusetts." Both invitations are folded cards, with original engraved illustrations on the front. The dimensions provided are for the larger of the two invitations. Title supplied by cataloger.
ephKAEE
Publisher's advertisement for a portfolio of images entitled Art Ages by Pedro J. Lemos
Visual Materials
One publisher's advertisement for a portfolio of images entitled Art Ages, by Pedro J. Lemos, published by School Arts Magazine, Worcester, Massachusetts, [1929]. This illustrated advertisement is 4 pages in length; it describes the content (plates illustrating the 'ten great art periods of the world') and possible uses of the portfolio. The flyer is addressed to "Miss Mabel Spofford, Art Supervisor, Gloucester Public Schools, Gloucester, Massachusetts." Title supplied by cataloger.
ephKAEE