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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Untitled (from the Stonehenge Portfolio)
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.
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Three portfolios of samples from Germany which represent various forms of art with paper: paperweaving, sewing cards and paper-cutting and folding. The first set, in Env. 1, is entitled Flecht -u.-Ausuäh Schule; the second, in Env. 2, Versdur-u.-Buchzeichen Schule (Stringing and Bookmarking School); and the third, in Env. 3, Falt-u.-Ausscheide Schule (Folding and Cutouts School). The name "Louise Chur" is stamped at the bottom of the front cover of each of the three portfolios. The first portfolio contains 24 numbered (in ms.) samples of paper weaving, each labeled "Blott" and has "Louise Chur" written in ms., in ink, in the upper right-hand corner. Each sheet measures 5 3/4 in. W x 8 3/4 in. H ; 14.5 cm. W x 22.2 cm. H. The second portfolio contains a total of 23 samples of artwork; the first 11 of which are completed sewing cards; the next 2 are yarn tracings, and the last 10 are examples of paper weaving and folding. The sizes of the pieces vary. The third portfolio contains 20 examples of paper folding and paper cutouts, mounted onto cardstock. Much of the paper folding samples are reminiscent of origami. Each completed, mounted piece measures 8 in. W x 10 3/8 in. H ; 20.3 cm. W x 26.4 cm. H Title supplied by cataloger.
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Portfolio of 14 photographs by 14 photographers, all of whom participated in one or more workshops sponsored by the Ansel Adams Gallery. The prints are mounted on boards and in a handmade portfolio case. The photographs were made between 1973-1977 and represent a range of subjects including landscape, architecture, abstraction, and portraiture, by such well-known photographers as John Sexton, Bruce Barnbaum, Ray McSavaney, Alan Ross, and others.
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A portfolio consisting of 12 black-and-white photographs depicting the terrain, inhabitants, and laborers in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in California. The portfolio was produced in 1976, though the photographs are signed by the artist with dates from 1966-1969. The twelve prints are the original works related to "Delta West: The Land and People of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta" by Roger Minick and Dave Bohn to Delta West (Scrimshaw Press, 1969).
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A portfolio of 12 black-and-white photographs depicting landscapes, inhabitants and farming life in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. There are some portraits of people, and titles include their names.
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A portfolio of approximately 50 loose pages of printed photographs and text related to Wallace Neff's life and works. Note: this is not a copy of Wallace Neff Jr.'s 1986 book of the same title; the content is completely different. Includes reproductions of some of the contemporary renderings of Neff houses. Publication information reads: Copyright Wallace Neff Jr.; book design by Robert Hansen. Center Gallery Editions, printed in San Juan Capistrano, California, by Robert Hansen.
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