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Donald Robert Lettis, “Intaglio Method of Printmaking” manual

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1099
Abstract

Donald Robert (Bob) Lettis (1925-2014) was an American artist and educator who taught printmaking and art education at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston from 1966 to 1987. "Intaglio Method of Printmaking" is a portfolio handcrafted by Lettis of his manuscript instructions for creating engravings, etchings, and drypoint prints. The manual contains descriptions of seven intaglio processes and incorporates the author's own printing plates and prints as examples.

Dates: between 1951-1987

Helen Farr Sloan Philadelphia Inquirer notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0562
Abstract

The Helen Farr SloanPhiladelphia Inquirernotebooks consist of fourteen binders of Philadelphia-area news clippings broadly related to the subject of art, encompassing the early years of John Sloan’s career in Philadelphia, and include a separately-organized group of materials from the same period about the Drexel family and publisher George W. Childs.

Dates: 1886-1896

George Adolphus Storey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0586
Abstract

The papers of George Adolphus Storey, R.A., prolific British painter and longtime teacher of perspective at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, include both published and unpublished books, poems, plays, fiction, essays, lectures, notes, sketches, inventories, diaries, and other personal writings. Also included are several items belonging to his daughter, Mary Gladys Storey, an actress well-known for her charitable work during World Wars I and II.

Dates: 1848-1946; Majority of material found within 1848-1919

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Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Diaries 1
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St. John's Wood (London, England)--Intellectual life--19th century 1
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Anshutz, Thomas Pollock, 1851-1912 1
Art Club of Philadelphia 1
Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942 1
Calderon, P. H. (Philip Hermogenes), 1833-1898 1
Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916 1