Archive for October, 2013
THE PEN AND THE SWORD: ORIGINAL NEWSWORTHY DRAWINGS FROM THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF GIFT TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• October 31, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in colonialism, donations, ethnohistory, gifts, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Africa, al-Qaeda, al-Shabab, C. H. P., Donkeys, Ethnographic studies, Huts, indigenous peoples, Landscape painting, Nairobi, Native dwellings, Ottoman Empire, Saylac, Scrapbooks, Seascapes, Sketchbooks, Somali warriors, Somalia, Somaliland, Terrorism, terrorists, The Graphic, The illustrated London News, Warsangali, Water-colors, Watercolor paintings, William L. Thomas, Zeila
LOU REED: A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY TRIBUTE
• October 29, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, book art, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Jews, leftist artists, museums, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, photography, political art, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: African-Americans, American Artists' Congress, Book jackets, boxing, Breadlines, burlesque, Charles Laborde (1886-1941), Clare Veronica Hope Leighton, Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), Comrade Gulliver, Dirty Boulevard (song), Dust jackets, Erskine Caldwell, Harlem Renaissance, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Ida Abelman, J. B. Turnbull, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Lou Reed (1942-2013), low life, Lucienne Bloch, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), Miss Liberty, New York City, Peter Berent, racism, Rues et visages de New-York, Song lyrics, Statue of Liberty National Monument, urban life, Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
AIRSHIPS, SEAPLANES, AND FLYING MACHINES AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• October 18, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, airplanes, displays, documentaries, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, Fascism, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, Italian design, Italy, library donors, memorabilia, Photograph albums, photography, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, transatlantic voyages, Vintage postcards, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: 1920s, air force, air shows, Airplane industry, airplanes, airships, Aristotle Ares, Art directors, art handlers, aviation, Aviators, Balloons and ballooning, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Besnier, biplanes, Carlos Alejandro, Clément Ader (1841-1925), Crowds, curators, Cyrano de Bergerac, dictators, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Edmond Rostand, Exhibition designers, fascist dictators, flight, Flying machines, France, Graf Zeppelin (airship), Helicopters, Henri Farman (1874-1958), Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), Hindenburg (airship), Hindenburg disaster, Hot-air balloons, Hydrogen gas balloons, Icarus, Industrie Aeronautique, Italo Balbo (1896-1940), Italy, James Taylor, Jean-Baptiste Dante de la Perouse, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lisa Li, Louis Blériot (1872-1936), Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Luftwaffe, LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, LZ 129 Hindenburg, LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II (airship), March on Rome (October 1922), Marquis of Bacqueville, Michel Potop, Montgolfier brothers, Mylinh Nguyen, parachutes, Peter Clericuzio, Richard Miltner, Savoia Marchetti seaplanes, seaplanes, Silvia Barisione, Statue of Liberty, Steve Forero-Paz, Tato (1896-1974), transatlantic flights, v. Römer, Voison biplane, Zeppelin at Friedrichshafen (Germany), zeppelins
MEMORABLE SEA TRAGEDIES, AND AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER: RECENT DONATIONS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• October 10, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in collectors, cruise ships, Cunard Line, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1874-1965, Antwerp (Belgium), Around the world cruises, Belgenland (Steamship), Disasters at sea, Editorial cartoons, Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.), Fenner, Franconia (Ship : 1923-1956), Frederic A. Sharf, Icebergs, Laurence Miller, log books, Lusitania (Steamship), MacArthur Causeway, Miami Beach, R.M.S. Titanic, Red Star Line, Roland C. Fenner, Thomas C. Ragan, Troopships, U-Boats, Uncle Sam, unrestricted submarine warfare, White Star Line, Winston Churchill
LET’S GO DUTCH: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE DE VEEZE COLLECTION AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• October 7, 2013 • 6 CommentsPosted in Artists, bindings, colonialism, donations, Dutch Art Nouveau, exhibitions, Far East, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, museums, Nieuwe Kunst, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: Acculturation, Art Nouveau, Art Nouveau funiture and furnishings, assimilation, “going native”, Batik, book bindings, C. A. Lion Cachet (1864-1945), calendars, Chris Lebeau (1878-1945), Colonial administrators, colonialism, Colonies, De Stille Kracht, de Veeze Collection, Decorative arts, Director Walter van der Kamp, Dr. Marjan Groot, Dutch artists, Dutch Colonial Society, Dutch colonies, Dutch designers, Dutch East Indies, Gerrit Willem Disselhof (1866-1924), Gustaaf Frederik van de Wall Perné (1877-1911), Herman Teirlinck (1879-1967), hinges, Indonesia, Jan Theodoor Toorop (1858-1928), Jan Toroop (1858-1928), Java, L. W. R. Wenckebach (1860-1937), Louis Couperus (1863-1923), Max van Alphen, Miscegenation, NEA (National Endowment for the Arts), Nieuwe Kunst, Opium, Orientalism, PALMM (Publication of Archival Library & Museum Materials), Publishing House ephemera, The Hidden Force, The Netherlands, Theodoor Willem Nieuwenhuis (1866-1951), TV mini-series, Women designers
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