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Courses for Teachers, Summer Session, 1930

Description: Cover for a brochure entitled Courses for Teachers, Summer Session, 1930, published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1930. This item consists of the front and back covers only, with pages two and eleven represented on the insides of those covers. An alphabetical list of instructors begins on page 2, and General Information is given on page 11. The front and back covers are photographic images of the MIT campus.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1930
Call number: ephKAEE
Creator: Korzenik, Diana (1941-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Diana Korzenik, August 1997.; transferred from Huntington Art Reference Library, May 2000.; purchased from Mike Kaplan, October 2000.

The Art of Seeing: Woodbury Course in Observation, Summer School

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One advertisement entitled The Art of Seeing: Woodbury Course in Observation, Summer School, published by Woodbury Training School, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1930. This 4-page leaflet is a brochure for summer art courses. "Sixth year. ... June thirtieth to July twelfth, Boston, Mass. ; July fifteenth to thirty-first, Ogunquit, Maine" is printed below the title on the first page, which is also illustrated with an ink drawing of a seascape. The interior 2 pages list the staff, course calendar and other information about the summer courses. On the last page is information about the philosophy and principles of the program.

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The Teacher of Oil Painting and Tapestry, 5th ed

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One book, ca. 1930, entitled The Teacher of Oil Painting and Tapestry, 5th edition, by D. M. Campana, published by D. M. Campana Art Co., Chicago. This book is 128 numbered pages in length, and is illustrated with black and white images. The title on the front cover is within an elaborate decorative frame, and bears the subtitle: "a useful book giving many informations on the method of coloring, composition, harmony, effects, materials etc. practical and good, low price." The inside front and back covers are blank; the title page is decorated with a floral frame and a floral device which appears below the title. The book is divided into chapters, and addresses issues such as canvases, brushes, color mixing, composition, drawing and painting specific subjects such as animals or fruit. A 3-page index is followed by 3 final pages listing other publications by D.M. Campana.

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The Home Teacher

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One book entitled The Home Teacher, published by Lewis E. Myers & Company, Chautauqua Park, Valparaiso, Indiana, 1913. The sub-title reads: "Explaining by word and illustration the source pictures of vocations comprised in the Chautauqua Industrial Art Desk." 126 pages in length, it is an instructional book for the Chautauqua Desk. Included are testimonials from users and owners of the desk and other instructional systems, a brief history of the company, and a wide variety of projects and activities that can be completed and skills that can be acquired using the Chautauqua desk. Some of these include: writing shorthand; bookkeeping for business; industrial drawing, and portrait and landscape drawing. The front cover has black and gray printing on a red background; the spine is reinforced with a cloth strip. The insides of the front and back covers, as well as the back cover, are blank. "Korzenik 1980" is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.

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The Teachers' Companion to the American Drawing-Slates: No. 1.--Free-Hand Drawing, Elementary and Advanced

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One book entitled The Teachers' Companion to the American Drawing-Slates: No. 1.--Free-Hand Drawing, Elementary and Advanced, by Walter Smith, published by Noyes, Holmes, and Company, Boston, 1872. On the verso of the title page is printed: "Riverside, Cambridge: Electrotyped and Printed by H.O. Houghton and Company." This booklet is 52 numbered pages in length, and features white-on-black drawing card reproductions as illustrations. Following an 8-page introduction, the book is divided into two sections, Free-hand Drawing, parts 1 and 2. Both sections include use of straight and curved lines. The insides of the front and back covers, as well as the back cover, are blank. "E.A.W." (previous owner) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover. "25-" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.

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Slate Drawings for the Young Folks

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One manufacturer's advertisement/drawing book entitled Slate Drawings for the Young Folks, published by Belding Bros. & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1891. This 16-page booklet is a promotional piece for Belding Bros. & Co.'s silk products as well as an instructional aid. Each page contains several white-on-black illustrations, designed to represent chalk drawings on a drawing slate. Above and below each illustrated page are advertising and promotional statements about Belding Brothers & Co.'s silk thread. The front cover is designed to look like a drawing slate, with the text written on the slate. The insides of the front and back covers are advertisements, as is the back cover. "Lillian Wright, Jan. 4, 1891, Ayer, Mass." is written in ms., in pencil, at the top of the inside front cover.

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Syllabus of a Course of Illustrated Lectures on Historic Art: Historic Ornament and Sculpture, Series of 1899

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One pamphlet entitled A Syllabus of a Course of Illustrated Lectures on Historic Art: Historic Ornament and Sculpture, Series of 1899, by James Frederick Hopkins, published by Geo. H. Ellis, Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1898. This book is 36 numbered pages in length, and is illustrated with black and white reproductions of photographs and drawings. The front cover is illustrated with a drawing of a sculpture, and is printed in green. Two quotations from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow appear on the back cover. The insides of the front and back covers are blank. "Pres of Geo. H. Ellis, Boston" and "Engravings by Folsom and Sunergren, Boston" are printed at the bottom of p. 2. The course schedule, with dates of lectures, is given on p. 4. A listing of some "General works on the history of art" is found on the next 3 pages. The remainder of the book is devoted to fuller descriptions, with illustrations, of each of the topics and sections addressed in the course. Beginning on p. 25 is "A selected list of books in the Boston Public Library recommended for reading in connection with the lectures." "6.50" (price) is written in ms. in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.

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