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Kindred [graphic]

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Description: A watercolor and pencil sketch for the book jacket of Octavia E. Butler's novel, Kindred (1979). The illustration depicts two profiles of Black women with their backs parallel to one another, centered by an image of a flowing hourglass. The woman on the left is accessorized and in modern attire, while the woman on the right is in lace-collared clothing. Signed in pencil on the lower right by the artist, "L. Schwinger."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1979.
Call number: priPEF 46
Creator: Schwinger, Larry (1941-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Christie's Sale 23204, Lot 33, December 2024.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Kindred : a graphic novel adaptation

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"Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's science fiction classic is a powerfully moving, unflinching look at the violent, disturbing effects of slavery on the people it chained together, both black and white - and made kindred in the deepest sense of the word"--

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Theodore Roethke [graphic]

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A sitting portrait of poet Theodore Roethke done in black ink by Don Bachardy. Roethke is depicted in profile looking towards his lower right while dressed in a single-button jacket and decorative tie. The illustration is signed in ink by Bachardy on the lower left. The verso of the item is signed "Theodore Roethke" in pencil on the lower right. Paper is embossed with a watermark reading, "Strathmore Seconds." The date of the item is based on additional portraits of Theodore Roethke in the same outfit and similar poses found in the Don Bachardy papers.

priPEF 110

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A free man [graphic], 1868

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A watercolor and graphite drawing depicting a formerly enslaved Black family with their animals outside their home. Illustration is centered by a Black man in the foreground chopping a log of wood to add to a pile of logs and kerosene. To his right is a small dog, and presumably his two children, a young Black girl dressed in red, and a Black boy in yellow holding a red bucket. The left side of the illustration is partially torn but depicts a horse in a fenced enclosure looking towards the family. The background includes a cabin with a smoking chimney in front of a hilly enclosure. The drawing's paper is fragile and deteriorating on all edges; a signature and date by the artist is partially visible on the lower right corner, reading, "Caleb Brown, 1868." Titled, "A Free MAN" towards the lower center of the drawing. Verso of drawing includes a partial portrait of a woman titled "Eliza," lithographed by James Baillie.

priPEF 47

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Portrait of a woman

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Item is a framed side view portrait of a woman standing. Portrait is a collage of various fabrics for the woman's dress, paper cutouts for accessories, with hand colored details. Signed "A" in pencil on the lower right.

priPEF 27

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"Come, fellow Americans, let us worship!" [graphic] / Interlandi

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An ink drawing by Frank Interlandi for the Los Angeles Times. The drawing is a paste-up which included a glued clipping of a revolver (now loose), originally placed on top of a drawn column labeled "God." Additional loose clippings include a typed paper slip of the title, and another typed slip reading, "Below Olympus... By Interlandi." The cartoon is signed and dated by Interlandi on the left corner of the image. Signed text towards the lower right of the image also reads, "With best wishes, from Frank Interlandi." The title, "Come, fellow Americans, let us worship!" is written in blue pencil below the image. Verso of drawing includes a blue note from the Los Angeles Times with information regarding the original order request.

priPEF 5

The celebrated cosmopolitan shirts

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Image of two vignettes advertising Cosmopolitan shirts; top vignette features three men in formal evening attire (tail coats, trousers, collared shirts, waist coats, white ties, and gloves) in a lavish home with large staircase, folded white shirt in circular frame to the left; lower vignette shows several men and a woman at leisure or on vacation near a large body of water, collared patterned shirts worn with caps, breeches and hose worn by the men, racquet, bicycle, ladies fan, parasol, and travel bag visible; two ships in the distance, folded patterned collared shirt in circular frame to the right.

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