Archive for the 'decorative arts' Category
In Memoriam: Dr. Marjan Groot
• June 17, 2019 • 1 CommentPosted in bindings, book art, cataloging, curators, decorative arts, Dutch Art Nouveau, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, graphic arts, graphic designers, museums, Nieuwe Kunst, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: Anna Sipkema, Art historians, Christie van der Haak, Cornelia van der Hart, cultural anthropologists, Dutch artists, Dutch decorative arts, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, Elisabeth Brandt, fellows, Lynton Gardiner, maker's marks, Marjan Groot (1959-2019), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Modern Dutch Design (Wolfsonian exhibition 2016-2017), scholars, The Netherlands, Willemina Drupsteen, Willemina Polenaar, Women designers
The Harlem Renaissance Comes to The Wolfsonian
• February 22, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, African American History, Artists, bindings, Civil Rights Movement, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, dance, decorative arts, displays, donations, erotic art, ethnohistory, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Great Britain, Great Depression, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal era, pochoirs, portfolios, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Aaron Douglas, African American art, African American artists, African American performers, African American poets, Alain LeRoy Locke, America & Movies: The Black Image in Hollywood and History, Body and Soul (film: 1925), Charles Cullen, colonialism, Countee Cullen, Daniel Morris, Elanor Colburn, Folies Bergere, Harlem Renaissance, Harmon Foundation, Historical Design, James Weldon Johnson, Jazz Age, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Le Tumulte Noir, Mabel Dwight, madonna, Miguel Covarrubias, modernism, mothers and children, NAACP, naturalism, Negro Uplift, Oscar Micheaux, Paul Colin, Paul Robeson, poetry, primitivism, the Charleston (dance), The Crisis, The Emperor Jones (film: 1933), The New Negro: An Interpretation, Winold Reiss, Zora Neale Hurston
Clear the Tables! French, Cuban, Native American, and Bakehouse Appetizers
• May 22, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in archives, Art Deco, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Cuba, curators, decorative arts, displays, donations, Dutch Art Nouveau, FDR, Federal One, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, forestry, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, health, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, portfolios, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), Afrique Equatoriale, Afro-Cuban jazz, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Art Deco facades, baked goods, Bakehouse Art Complex, bars, Batik, Borden, Brochures, Casinos, CCC camps, cha cha cha, Chemins de fer, Chris Horn, Christopher DeNoon, Cinemas, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Conrado W. Massaguer, cows, Crypt Cracking, Dahomey, Emily Barber, ephemera, ethnicity, Everglades National Park, Exposition coloniale internationale, Folies Bergere, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fredolin Kessler, French cinema, French colonies, French Empire, French language students, French literature, French Soudan, French Tunisie, game boards, Getty Council Members, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon, Havana (Cuba), Havana American Jockey Club, Havana Widows (film : 1933), Heather Cook, Hotels, Into the Stacks (Wolfsonian public program), Kellogg Company, Louis Miano, mambo, Maria Antonette Garcia, Maria Antonieta Garcia, Michigan Art and Craft Project (Detroit), mimeographs, Montmartre (nightclub : Havana), Nathaniel Sandler, National Parks, Native Americans, Navajo Indians, North Pacific Coast Indians, Osceola, photographs, portraits, postcards, Prohibition, race, Railroads, rare periodicals, recipe books, record jackets, rhumba, Rosa Lowinger, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), San Souci (nightclub : Havana), Seminole Indians, Sewing machines, silk screen, Sloppy Joe's, Sound recordings, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, theater, tobacco advertising, Trains, Tropicana (nightclub : Havana), U.S. Forest Service, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, VIP visitors, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Work Projects Administration, WPA
All Aboard! Recent Visit to The Wolfsonian by the SSHSA Board Members
• February 1, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in Art Deco, cataloging, collectors, cruise ships, Cunard Line, decorative arts, displays, donations, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, graphic arts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises
Tags: Ada Peacock, Black Sea Steamship Company, Bremen (Steamship), Brochures, Canadian Pacific Line, Carnival Cruise Line, Colonial tourism, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, Conte Grande (steamship), Crystal Garcia, Cunard Line, deck plans, Dunnottar Castle (steamship), Europa, Felix Roussel (steamship), Franconia (steamship), Fred Sharf, French Line, Good Neighbor Fleet, Great Lakes, H.M.S. Imperieuse, H.M.S. Sultan, H.M.S. Superb, Ile de France (steamship), Incres Line, Jean Dunand, John Henry, Laurence Miller, Liberte (steamship), logbooks, M.S. Victoria (steamship), menus, Messageries Maritimes, Moore-McCormack Lines, Norddeutsheler Lloyd Bremen (North German Lloyd), Normandie (Steamship), ocean liner aficionados, ocean liners, Pacific Line, Promotional materials, R.M.S. Alcantara (steamship), R.M.S. Edinburgh Castle, R.M.S. Pretoria Castle (steamship), Red Star Line, Reina del Pacifico (steamship), Round the World cruises, Royal Mail Lines, S. S. Belgenland (Steamship), S.A. Oranje (steamship), S.S. Argentina (steamhsip), Safmarine, SSHSA, St. Lawrence River Valley, Steamship Historical Society of America, steamships, Thomas Ragan, travel, Tropicale (cruiseship), Union Castle Line
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES THROUGH WESTERN EYES: VISITS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY BY SOME COLOMBIAN SCHOLARS AND A GROUP OF YOUNG AFRICAN LEADERS
• July 15, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Boers, colonial propaganda, colonialism, decorative arts, displays, donations, Ethiopia, ethnohistory, FIU, Folklorists, gifts, graphic arts, Italian design, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, ocean liners, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, South African War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Zulus
Tags: Art Deco posters, Aurelio Bertiglia (1891-?), Avram Glazer, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Block books, Boer Wars, carpets, Escuela de Diseno Grafico, Ethiopia, Frederic A. Sharf, Frijoles Canyon Pictoraphs, Great Northern Railway, Gustave Baumann, Hoke Denetsosie, Indian art, Indian culture, Indian dancers, indigenous art, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jill Glazer, John Collier, Jose Jairo Vargas, Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), Luz Helena Ballestas Rincon, Maude Oakes, medicine man, Native American art, Native American culture, Navaho, Navaho rugs, Navaho War ceremonial, Navajo, Navajo Indian Reservation, New Deal, Pictographs, Plains Indians, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, primers, sand paintings, Santa Fe (New Mexico), School of Graphic Design at the National University of Colombia, South African Wars, Symbols, Turkish periodicals, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
“MEET THE NEW BOSS, SAME AS THE OLD BOSS”: HARVEST OF SHAME REVISITED FROM A WOLFSONIAN PERSPECTIVE
• May 31, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, decorative arts, documentaries, donations, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Federal Writers' Project, Florida Writers' Project, FTP, FWP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Living Newspaper, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, photography, political art, rare books and special collections library, slums, The Cradle Will Rock, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: Axel Horn, Barbara Burrage, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Edward R. Murrows, Farm Security Administration (FSA), FSA photographers, Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), Great Depression, Harvest of Shame (documentary 1960), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Julian Levi, Labor unions, Longshoremen’s Strike (1936-1937), Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Max Weber, Michael Grabell, Millard Sheets, National Maritime Union, New Deal era, Photography, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), strikes, tenements, The Joads, Theodore G. Haupt, Triple-A Plowed Under, West Coast Longshoremen, William Gropper (1897-1977)
THE LAST SHOW: A COMMERCIAL CATALOG FOR FUNERAL “PROPS” IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• May 25, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in cataloging, decorative arts, interns, museums, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Art Nouveau, Austere Church Pew, Beaux-Arts, bronze, Caskets, commercial catalogs, Death, funeral customs, funerals, furniture-makers, hardwood, Harold and Maude (film : 1971), Kelly, library interns, National Casket Company, sales catalogs, seamstresses, silk, sofas, Streamline Moderne, trade catalogs
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY GRAPHIC DESIGN PROFESSOR AND STUDENTS COME TO THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU TO SEE VIENNESE SECESSION AND OTHER MATERIALS
• March 1, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in Artists, book art, collectors, decorative arts, displays, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, erotic art, exhibitions, FIU, Florida International University, graphic arts, graphic designers, museums, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vienna, Vienna Secession, Vintage postcards, Virtual library displays, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Aesthetic movements, Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts movement, Austrian Imperial Printing House, Carl Otto Czeschka (8178-1960), Evelyn Rumsey Cary (1855-1924), FAU Professor Lina Weiss, Florida Atlantic University, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Jugenstil, Kelmscott Press (England), Koloman Moser (1868-1918), Leonard A. Lauder, Mother Nature images, museum visitors, Nieuwe Kunst, Paintings, Postcard collectors, Rudolf von Larish (1856-1934), Stile Floreale, Suffragists, Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring) magazine, Vienna Secession, Woman's Suffrage Movement
A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXPERIMENT IN METADATA, DIGITIZATION, AND A POETRY SCAVENGER HUNT
• November 28, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in decorative arts, interns, museums, photography, propaganda arts, volunteers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: artifacts, Associate librarian, butterflies, cataloging, catalogs, Chief librarian, David Almeida, digital images, Digital library specialist, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Francis Luca, illustrated poetry, images, library tours, metadata, Mother Earth, mothers and sons, moths, museum collections, objects, opacs, pine needles, poetry, rare books cataloguer, Rochelle Pienn, scavenger hunts, snow
SOME RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY GIFTED BY MITCHELL WOLFSON, JR.
• June 21, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, American architects, American left artists, architects, architecture, book art, Children's propaganda books, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, cruise ships, decorative arts, displays, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, FIU, Florida International University, France, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, international expositions, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Occupied France, ocean liners, Orientalism, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Peter Behrens (1868-1940), political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Uncategorized, Unrealized architecture, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian rare books ephemera special collections periodicals Florida International University antiquarian propaganda persuasive arts design museum research provocative, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Arthur L. Weeks (architect), bears, catalogs, colonialism, Detroit International Bridge, Don Quixote, Elizabeth Bishop, furniture design, Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), Gallic roosters, George G. Sharp (naval architect), German artists, Hercules, Heywood-Wakefield Company, imperial eagles, International exhibitions, Kriegszeit, Manhattan Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair, Mississippi River Power Company, nationalism, New York Antiquarian Book Fair, Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance, Panama Canal, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco 1915), Park Avenue Armory, Patriotism, Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), poets, Republic of Turkey, sea lions, The Communist Manifesto in pictures, Trade shows, Vichy France, Wolfsonian Museum, wolves, World's Fairs
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