Title supplied by curator., Date derived from date of original work., Place of publication derived from artist's country of residence., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564,
Subject (Topic):
Human dissection, Human anatomy, Artists, and Dead persons
Drawing of the monument Nicholas Stone Senior (1586-1647).
Description:
Title devised be cataloger., Inscription in pencil, within design of the monument encirling effigy: Nicholas Stone, sculp. & architect, &c., Inscription in pencil, within design of the monument below effigy: 24 Aug 1642 departed this life., Inscription in pencil, within design at the base of the monument: H.S. posuit., Inscription in pencil, lower half of sheet: This monument was fixed in the north wall of the Parish Church of St. Martins in the Fields., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Stone in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 23., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Subject (Name):
Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647, and Stone, Nicholas, 1586-1647
The collection consists of seven portrait drawings of noted African Americans and Haitians by the artist Amy Einstein Spingarn. The sitters include scientist George Washington Carver (1935) and authors Langston Hughes (1930), Zora Neale Hurston (circa 1935), James Weldon Johnson (undated), René Piquion (undated), George S. Schuyler (1933), and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin (undated). The portrait of Carver is pastel on paper; the others are charcoal and graphite on paper. Each portrait is identified by the artist's inscriptions and signature
Description:
Amy Einstein Spingarn was born in New York on January 29, 1883, the daughter of American businessman and manufacturer David L. Einstein (1839-1909) and Caroline Fatman Einstein (1852-1910). In 1905 she married Joel Elias Spingarn (1875-1939), a Columbia University literature professor and a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In addition to being an artist herself, Amy Einstein Spingarn was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and supported the work of many black artists and writers; she also served on the board of directors of the NAACP for nearly forty years. Spingarn died at her home, Troutbeck, in Amenia, New York, on June 25, 1980., Title devised by cataloger., and Captions in English.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943, Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, Hurston, Zora Neale, Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, Piquion, René, Schuyler, George S. 1895-1977 (George Samuel),, Spingarn, Amy Einstein, 1883-1980., and Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe, 1904-1975
A portrait of the American academic and editor Norman Holmes Pearson by Deane Keller. The painting is oil on canvas, and is signed at the upper right: "Deane / Keller / 1976." Included in the portrait (hanging on the wall behind Pearson) is a painting titled "Arabella!" by D. H. Lawrence, which was in Pearson's personal collection of art works created by authors; the collection, called by him "Art for the Wrong Reason," is now at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library along with Pearson's papers
Description:
Deane Keller (1901-1992), American artist, academic, soldier, and preservationist. He earned a BA from Yale University in 1923 and a BFA from the Yale School of Fine Arts in 1926. Keller taught for forty years at the Yale School of Fine Arts, and during World War II was an officer with the Allied Forces's Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section., Norman Holmes Pearson (1909-1975, Yale 1932, 1941 PhD), professor of English and American Studies at Yale University and officer in the United States Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Pearson collaborated with Yale University Library curator Donald Gallup to develop the Yale Collection of American Literature, playing an instrumental role in the library's acquisition of the papers of H. D. and Bryher., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Keller, Deane, 1901-1992., Lawrence, D. H. 1885-1930. (David Herbert),, and Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975
Two undated crayon drawings by Don Freeman of African American artist Beauford Delaney. Each is signed "DF" at lower right and mounted on a sheet of blue paper. One drawing portrays Delaney seated at a table with a coffee cup and pot; the other is a bust-length portrait
Description:
Don Freeman (1908-1978), New York illustrator., Beauford Delaney (1901-1979), New York artist., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979 and Freeman, Don, 1908-1978.
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, Artists, and Illustrators
Design consists of 4 strips of figures engaged in various activities. Row 1: A dairy maid milking a cow; a mother and child beside a crib; a couple conversing; a musician with flute and drum; two women and a man around a tea table with a maid making tea. Row 2: A couple conversing; a man in stocks getting whipped; a woman with a basket on her head behind a lady with a fan; a boy with a book beside a cobbler, a dog at his feet; a hunter on horseback with a hunting dog. Row 3: An artist painting a portrait of a woman; an old woman seated with a boy at her feet, learning to read; two men; a man with a horn and dancing dog; a Scot in tartan looking at a woman with a yoke on her shoulders support two pails. Row 4: A trainer with a performing bear and dog; a vendor with an urn; a woman with a cart of apples; a boy with a toy hoop; a woman feeding her hogs and piglet as a boy looks on.
Description:
Title devised by curator., Imprint burnished from plate., Dated by costume., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Vryheyt.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Occupations, Trainged animals, and Stocks (Punishment).
Portrait of Anthonis Mor (ca. 1517-1576 or 7), portrait painter, born in Utrecht, Netherlands. He worked in London from 1553 until 1555 in the service of Prince Philip (later Philip II of Spain) until 1555. In addition to the portraits of members of the English court, he also portrayed élite merchants and financiers
Alternative Title:
Sir Antonio More and Anthonis Mor
Description:
Title from print based on this drawing, in Anecdotes of painting in England., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v.1, opp. p. 122., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Title supplied by curator., Carlo Losi was active in Rome., Date from item., In image bottom: Tyrones picturae Hbmo. et Exmo. Dno Iacobo Boncompagno Arcis Praefecto, ingenior(um) ac industriae fautori, Artiu(m) nobiliu(m) praxim, a lo Strade(n)si Belga artificiose expressa., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anatomy for artists.
Publisher:
Apud Carolus Losi
Subject (Name):
Boncompagni, Giacomo, 1548-1612,
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Artistic, Human anatomy, Human dissection, Art, Study and teaching, Students, Artists, Sculpture, Paintings, and Dead persons
Title from later impression with title and Hogarth's name added., After the design engraved on the tankard belonging to the Clare Market Artists Club which included William Hogarth., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 77., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.), no. 6., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Title added in pencil below: Silver tankard.
Title from later impression with title and Hogarth's name added., After the design engraved on the tankard belonging to the Clare Market Artists Club which included William Hogarth., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 77., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.), no. 6., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., With Steevens's ms. note in ink below image: Tankard., With ms. note in pencil: Sold at Gulstons sale for £10.0.0., Printmaker's name erased from this impression., and On page 3 in volume 1. Sheet 12.4 x 17.6 cm.
