Archive for April, 2017
The Rolls-Royce “Art Drive” Makes a Stop at The Wolfsonian
• April 21, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, automobile design, automotive design drawings, collectors, displays, Ford Motor Company, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, rare books and special collections library, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: aerodynamics, assembly line production, automobiles, Bobby Hupp, Buick, bumpers, Cadillac, designs, Detroit, Durant Motors, Ford Motor Car Company, Frederic A. Sharf, Futuristic vehicles, General Motors, grills, Henry Ford, hood ornaments, Hupmobiles, Hupp Motor Car Company, Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Company, Lansing (Michigan), Lincoln automobile, Lincoln Zephyr, Locomobile Company of America, Locomobiles, luxury automobile brands, Miami Art Drive (2017), Oakman Motor Vehicle Company, Olds Motor Vehicle Company, Oldsmobiles, promotional brochures, Ransom E. Olds, RDH Motorcar Company, Rocket V8 engine, Rolls Royce, Sketches, Sotheby's Auction House, Stock Market Crash (1929), T. W. Pietsch II, T. W. Pietsch III, Ted Pietsch
Unhappy Anniversary: The Sinking of the Unsinkable Titanic
• April 15, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, children's books, collectors, cruise ships, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, library donors, museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, transatlantic voyages, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1912, Disasters at sea, Icebergs, lifeboats, Margin of Error (Wolfsonian exhibition), ocean liners, paperbacks, passenger ships, polar bears, R.M.S. Titanic, sinkings, White Star Line
Back to Work with the New Deal
• April 14, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in AAA, Blue eagle, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, curators, displays, donations, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, political art, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, WPA
Tags: AAA, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Arsenal of Democracy, CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), CPUSA, Duard Marshall (1914-2010), Father Charles Coughlin, FDR, Federal funding for the Arts, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Townsend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Great Depression, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Iris Sanchez-Ruiz, Miami-Dade County schoolteachers, mural studies, murals, National Recovery Administration (NRA), New Deal, NRA, Public Works Administration (PWA), PWA, Rosita Maria Sosa, shovels, Social Security, Socialism, Teaching American History Master's Degree Program, Vaughn Shoemaker (1902-?), Victor Candell (1903-1977), Works Progress Administration (WPA), WPA
UNSEEN WILLIAM H. BRADLEY WORKS IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• April 6, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in Bill Bradley, bindings, book art, graphic arts, graphic designers, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nieuwe Kunst, posters, rare books and special collections library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: Advertising art, Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts movement, Ault and Wiborg Company, Chap-Book, Colombina, Commerial art, Inland Printer, Nicolae Harsanyi, Pantalone, Periodicals, printing ink companies, William H. Bradley (1868-1962), William Morris, Wolfsonian library installations
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