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Report of the Committee on Elementary School Art

Description: One pamphlet entitled Report of the Committee on Elementary School Art, Bess Eleanor Foster, Chairman, published by the Federated Council on Art Education, 1926. This report is 32 numbered pages in length; it is not illustrated. The first 7 pages include a list of related associations, a president's preface, a table of contents and an introduction. Several of the sections were written by named individuals, rather than the Council as a whole. There are ms. notes and annotations throughout. "Mabel Spofford, her book" is written in ms., in ink, on the bottom of the front cover.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1926
Call number: ephKAEE
Creator: Korzenik, Diana (1941-)

White's New Course in Art Instruction For Elementary Schools

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Two drawing books entitled White's New Course in Art Instruction For Elementary Schools, published by American Book Company, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, copyright 1892. One book is labeled 5th year, the other as 7th year. Bound in brown paper. 5th year is 32 pages in length, (numbered and unnumbered); 7th year is 36 pages in length (numbered and unnumbered). The unnumbered pages in these two volumes were used as copying pages. All of the copying pages in 7th year are blank; some of them in 5th year have been filled in with pencil drawings. 5th year contains one page with paper cutout pattern pasted in. In each book are also several pages of "Illustrated Definitions", and the inside front and back covers of each book are manufacturers' advertisements for "Materials for the Study of Color, Form, and Drawing" to be used in connection with the books in the series.

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The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern Edition

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One drawing book entitled The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern Edition, published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, New York and Chicago, copyright 1899. The subtitle reads: Description, Specimen Illustrations from different grades and Opinions of leading Supervisors and Teachers. This 40-page book is primarily a collection of written testimonials about the Prang drawing system. Pages 3-6 are devoted to an outline and explanation of the system and its various levels and courses, and the remaining pages are excerpts from letters of praise from art teachers in the U.S., illustrated with both images from the Prang instructional drawing books and samples of artwork created using the Prang courses. The first two pages are composed of illustrations. The front cover is illustrated in the upper left-hand corner with a small, rectangular image of three daffodils. On the inside of the front cover begins "European Opinions in Regard to the Prang Course", which continues onto the inside back cover and the back cover. "2- BDF as is" (price) written in ms. in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.

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The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, No. 9, Seventh Year, First Half

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One drawing book entitled The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, No. 9, Seventh Year, First Half, by John S. Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, and Walter S. Perry, published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, New York and Chicago, copyright 1898. Sixteen pages in length, this book is comprised of a wide variety of lithograph and photograph illustrations intended for study and copying. Some pages include space for copying of images. The front cover is framed by a decorative floral border. The insides of the front and back covers are blank. The back cover is a publisher's advertisement for "The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction", and discusses the philosophy and use of the course. As stated in this advertisement, the "three general subjects of Art, - Representation, Decoration and Construction,- are included in the scope of this Course." The focus of this Book 9 is on construction and its relation to composition. Some of the drawings, paintings, and images included in this volume are: "The First Step" by Millet; images of various trees; Shakespeare's house; Roman ornament and decoration and various Roman buildings. All of the exercises have been completed either in pencil or in pen and ink. Two additional original pieces of artwork have been mounted in: one is a pencil sketch of a basket of apples, the other is a pencil and watercolor work of a basket of fruit, with "Varney School" and "Harold C. Brown" written in ms. at the top. "Harold C. Brown" is written in ms., in ink, in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.

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Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 4-1882: Industrial Art in Schools

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One pamphlet, copyright 1882, entitled Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 4-1882: Industrial Art in Schools, by Charles G. Leland, published by the Government Printing Office, Washington. This pamphlet is 38 numbered pages in length, and is not illustrated. The table of contents is listed on p. 3, and is divided into three sections: Introduction; Practical Teaching; and General Observations. The embossed ownership stamp of the Essex Institute is stamped in the upper right-hand corner of the title page;a Dewey decimal call number is written in ms. on the title page verso.

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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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Art Career School

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One flyer advertising Summer Classes at the Art Career School, New York, New York, 1949. This advertisement is for the 1949 summer session, June 20-August 26. Four separate classes are offered: Figure Drawing, Drawing and Painting, Applied Design or Illustration, and Outdoor Sketching. The sheet is folded into eighths within a blue paper folder, the first two pages of which are text and the latter six of which are (reproductions) illustrations, presumably artworks created in previous summer school classes. The cover title reads: "Art Career School." The item is accompanied by an unused mailing envelope with the school's name printed on it.

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