Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
One painting book entitled Big Animal Paint Book, published by Charles E. Graham & Co., New York, 1916. The title page reads: Big Animal Painting and Drawing Book. This 44-page book contains both black and white and color images of wild and domestic animals. Instructions are printed opposite the title page. Some of the animals included are tigers, cows, goats, geese, squirrels, fox and lions. The pages are unnumbered and some are blank. The front cover is a color image of two yolked oxen, with the title in a banner over their heads. The back cover is blank. Some of the images have been colored in, and some of the blank pages contain original artwork. "Arnold Forster, Steep Falls, Maine" is written twice, in ms., in ink, on the first page. "6." (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the first page. The book's shape conforms to the lower portions of the animals' heads.
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One painting book entitled The Easel Painting Book: With Pictures that Children can "easily" paint, published by Ernest Nister, London, and distributed in the United States by E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, ca. 1890. The front cover of the book shows two children at an easel- a little girl holding a palette and paint brushes, a boy kneeling and playing with a dog. The book has been cut to fit the image on the cover so it has irregular edges. On the inside front cover is the note "To Inez Kimball from Aunt Inez, Christmas 1890." The book contains various images tied to nursery rhymes and verses. There are twenty pages in the book, some with multiple images. Most of the images are in outline form, although there are some printed in color as a guide to the student. The first page contains some brief instructions in verse, including the lines: If you take my advice what is proper to do, / Don't paint the skies red, or the moon blue. None of the images have been filled in.
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One painting book entitled The Artistic Painting Book, published by International Art Publishing Co., Ltd., London and New York. The book has a hole (as in a palette) cut through the upper-left hand corner. The front cover shows a young lad painting a landscape at an easel. The back cover depicts two song birds on a thorny branch with berries, overlooking a farm. The book contains 69 pages of images, both in outline and complementary color image formats. The majority of the images have no complementary color image, so presumably the student was to paint the image as instructed by a teacher or parent. The majority of the images have been filled in, using watercolor wax crayon (or colored pencil), and chalk. Many of the outlines are very light and some were traced over in pencil prior to being filled in. One image of two girls has been labeled "Elfrida" and "Beatrice" and the title page has been copied, in wax crayon or color pencil, on the inside front cover. In the upper-right corner of the title page has been written, in pencil, "6 Full Color Plates #40 amu/22--."
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One painting book entitled Father Tuck's Butterfly Painting Book, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., ca. 1910. The front cover features six butterflies against a blue sky; the lower left corner bears the series title "Father Tuck's Little Artists' Series." The back cover features the company's trademark and "No. 3093" in the lower left-hand corner. The book has 12 pages of butterfly and moth images, some in outline, some in color. The pages are perforated to allow easy removal from the book. Many of the outline images have been painted in using watercolor.
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One painting book entitled Hood's Sarsaparilla Painting Book, published by C.I. Hood & Co., of Lowell, Massachusetts, copyright 1894. The front cover illustration features a girl wearing a smock who is painting the title of the book; the back cover features a colored image which is reproduced inside the book. Cut to resemble a rectangular palette, the book has 36 pages of images, most of which are in outline form for painting. Colored images serve as a guide for student in the appropriate use of color. The book advertises Hood's Sarsaparilla, a patent medicine, and the company itself. There are images of children playing, of Hood's Factory and Hood's Farm, and even of Merry Maiden, the prize cow from Hood's Farm. The majority of the outline images have been filled in using watercolors. Instructions for the use of watercolor are included.
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One painting book entitled Something Pretty to Paint, published by Ernest Nister, London and E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, ca. 1915. This book is comprised of 10 plates, some chromolithographs and some lithographs, of perforated cards, largely containing floral images and Biblical verse. The chromolithographs are samples, and the images in outline form are intended for coloring and sending. Each leaf of the lithograph cards is perforated along the inner edge, and each leaf is comprised of four separate cards, with perforations in between. The front cover is a chromolithograph image of a girl in a pink dress holding her landscape painting. The back cover is blank. "Printed in Bavaria, 399" is printed at the bottom of the front cover and of the title page. "$4805amo/10-" is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.
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