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Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop

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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.
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Date
1937-1946
Call number
ephKAEE
Creator
Korzenik, Diana (1941-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Diana Korzenik, October 2021.
Gift of Diana Korzenik, April 2025.
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