Archive for January, 2013
A WINTER FLURRY OF UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND STUDENT VISITORS AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• January 24, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Advertisements, Andre Durenceau (1904-1985), Architects, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, automobile engines, Blackfeet Indians, calendars, Crystal Palace Exhibition (1851 : London), designers, dragons, Empire Builder, ephemera, exhibitions, Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 :Paris), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Glacier National Park, Grammar of Ornament / by Owen Jones, graphic artists, Great Depression, Great Northern Railway, Helen West Heller (1872-1955), Holland Robinson, Industrial design, Installation Art, Kiosks, locomotives, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), mechanical works, North American Indians in art, Oriental Line, Pochoir plates, postcards, Prairie Style (Architecture), Space Society and the Digital, Store window displays, The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (1851 : London), Tori Arpad-Cotta, transparencies, typewriters, Wasmuth Portfolio, William (“Bill”) Bradley (1868-1962), Winifred Elysse Newman, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Wood and linoleum block printing, Works Progress Administration, WPA
CARL FISHER’S SHADOWS: MIAMI BEACH MANSION AND MONTAUK POINT MANOR MATERIALS AT THE WOLFSONIAN
• January 19, 2013 • 4 CommentsPosted in American architects, architects, architecture, archives, gifts, Great Depression, library donors, Photograph albums, photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Architects, August Geiger (1888-1968), automobile enthusiasts, Bicycling enthusiats, Caribbean Club, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Carl G. Fisher Corporation, Dan Rettiner, Dixie Highway, Florida land boom, Florida Land bust, Hotels, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, John S. Collins (1837-1928), Lincoln (Transcontinental) Highway, Long Island (NY), luxury hotels, Mansions, Miami Beach (Fla.), Miami Beach developers, Montauk Beach Development Corporation, Montauk Manor (Hotel), Montauk Point (Long Island NY), rags to riches to rags stories, real estate promoters, Schultze and Weaver (architectural firm), summer resorts, the Shadows, Thomas E. Ringwood, Towers, winter resorts
PICTURE RELIEF: PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES FROM THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF COLLECTION AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• January 16, 2013 • 4 CommentsPosted in 1930s, Balochistan, British Army, colonialism, Disaster relief, Earthquakes, Frederic A. Sharf, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Pakistan, Photograph albums, Quetta, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 2nd Indian Signal Corps, Bolan Pass, Camels, certificates, Egypt, funeral pyres, H.M.S. Lancashire, Hospital, Hurricane Sandy relief, India, natural disasters, Port Said, Sandeman Memorial Hall, Suez Canal, Weddings
ART, WAR, AND REGENERATION: TOBY’S ROOM AND THE WOLFSONIAN BOOK CLUB
• January 8, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in Artists, avant-garde aesthetics, Futurism, Great Britain, leftist artists, propaganda, veterans, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: Art and Medicine, Art and propaganda, Art and war, C. R. W. (Christopher Richard Wynne) Nevinson (1889-1946), Censorship, Facial injury records, Futurism, George Grosz (1893-1959), Henry Tonks (1862-1937), Home front, landscapes, Lydia Lopez, No Man's Land, Pat Barker, Paul Nash (1889-1946), Queen's Hospital in Sidcup, Slade School of Fine Art (University College of London), Soldiers, surgeons, Thoby’s Room (1922), Toby’s Room (a review), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Vorticism, war artists, Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (1891-1969), Wolfsonian Book Club, women authors, World War (1914-1918), WWI
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE WIENER WERKSTÄTTE AND WOLFSONIAN
• January 2, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in Artists, Austria, collectors, displays, exhibitions, Leonard A. Lauder, museums, postcards, Vienna, Vienna Secession, Vintage postcards, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions
Tags: Advertisements, Collectibles, Dagobert Peche, Egon Schiele, Happy New Year!, Jewish New Year's Cards, Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, Maria Likarz, Mela Koehler, New Year Cards, Oskar Kokoschka, Prosit, Textile designs, textile patterns, upholstery, Vienna Workshop
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