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Photographic slides of paintings owned by Wallace Stevens

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Description: Photographic slides of Chinese artwork owned by American poet Wallace Stevens. There are five color slides; three are of a scroll painting with birds and Chinese writing, and two are of a small, framed painting in Chinese art style. There is no other information about the art or the slides.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1997.
Call number: photPF 26035
Provenance: Gift of Zhaoming Qian, May 1997.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Books, objects, and art

Manuscripts

This series is made up of books, owned by Kenneth Y. Fung and family members, objects that belonged to the Fung family, and Chinese calligraphy art, some of which are dedicated to Kenneth Y. Fung. There are two Chinese-English dictionaries, including Herman A. Giles' English-Chinese dictionary, 2nd edition, 1912, Chinese poetry books, and a copy of The Boy Scout handbook, 1940, that belonged to Herbert Fung, Kenneth Y. Fung's youngest son. The objects include two art brushes and an abacus. The art includes several Chinese calligraphy items, one still framed. Two are dedicated to Kenneth Y. Fung and dated 1946.

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Unidentified house interior with Asian-style furniture

Visual Materials

Image of an unidentified house interior with Asian-style furniture, an Indian basket on the rug, sculpture of a woman before a cross, framed photographs, a piano and other furnishings. There is a painting of a woman wearing what appears to be a Spanish-style dress with mantilla on the left wall, and a mirror at center showing the blurred reflection of the photographer.

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Birds to Paint

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One painting book entitled Birds to Paint, published by the Saalfield Publishing Co., Akron, Ohio, 1910. The front cover features a parrot with a yellow head. On the back cover is a child's writing; the name "Louise" can be read. Thirty images of various birds are included, six of which have an identical color image. These color images were meant to guide the student in the use of color. The first page describes the book as: "a paint book for boys and girls which supplies sketches ready to color." Most of the images have been filled in with crayon rather than watercolor.

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Original painting unsiged and undated

Visual Materials

One original painting, untitled, unsiged and undated. It is a small, color painting of a shepherd and his dog, painted in a cubist style, on blue grid paper. A black grid is printed on the paper, and the artist has filled in the squares of the grid with paint to create an image. "35-50" and "13,570" are written in ms. in the upper right-hand corner of the paper. Title supplied by cataloger.

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The Artistic Painting Book

Visual Materials

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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Photographic Materials: Slides

Manuscripts

The Alexander Z. Kruse papers contain documents relating to Kruse's career as an artist, art critic, and author. The time frame covered is 1890 to 1975 with the bulk of the material originating from the 1930s to 1960s. The material is arranged by functional series and includes: literary manuscripts and notebooks; correspondence; photographic materials--photographs and slides; ephemera--clippings, catalogs, and biographical material; and books. The majority of the collection is in its original format with a few being photocopies. The photographic materials are in good condition. However, much of the ephemera (especially the newspaper clippings) is extremely fragile. Most of the clippings are from Kruse's columns with the Brooklyn Eagle and the New York Post.

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Photographic slides of paintings owned by Wallace Stevens

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