Varied Views for a Variety of Visitors
• December 15, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, acquisitions, African American History, Art Basel, Artists, bindings, book art, children's books, Cuba, curator, dance, Disney, displays, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, French consulate, gifts, graphic designers, library donors, Michelle Oka Doner, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Orientalism, prohibition, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff, World's fairs
Tags: 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, A. Assus, Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), Al Hirschfeld, Alex Rigorard, All the World's a Stage: The Sketchbooks and Theatrical Designs of Albert Wainwright (Wolfsonian Library installation), André Suréda, Art Basel, Atomium, celebrities, Charles Laborde (1886-1941), collecting cards, Colonies, Cuba, dancers, Daniel Morris, Donald Deskey, ephemera, Expo '58 (Brussels), Exposition coloniale internationale, FIU, FIU Professor Maria Antonieta Garcia, Folies Bergere, France, France's overseas empire, Francis Xavier Luca, French Guiana, French Orientalists, Futurama, Guyane francaise, Harlem Renaissance, Josephine Baker, La Reunion, La Tunisie, LACMA, Louis Antoni, Marco Brambilla, Maurice Bouviolle, movies stars, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (Mexico), paper toys, Paul Colin (1892-1985), pop-up books, Progressland, Prohibition, revues, Sheet music covers, singers, Sketchbooks, the Charleston (dance), tourism, Walt Disney
From Birthday Bash to Art Basel
• December 21, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, acquisitions, American left artists, Art Basel, bars, bindings, book art, British Army, cataloging, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, Communist Party of the United States of America, Cuba, displays, donations, exhibit cases, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Great Britain, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, leftist artists, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, Popular Front, programs, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), A Universe of Things: Micky Wolfson Collects (exhibition), Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), African American poets, Al Hirschfeld, Art Basel, Book jackets, British Empire, caricatures, Charles Cullen, Countee Cullen, Daniel Morris, Fidel Castro, FIU marching band, Follies Bergere, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Britain, Harlem Renaissance, Havana (Cuba), Havana Chronicle (magazine), Historical Design, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), illustrated books, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Judith Berson-Levinson, Lea Nickless, Leonard Finger, Livia Cinquegrano, Louis Miano, Lutron Electronics, Marianne Lamonaca, Mark B. Rosenberg, Miami Beach (Florida), Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nightclubs, Nu Deco Ensemble, poetry, Prohibition, Richard Miltner, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Roger Arvid Anderson, Saville Ryan, Shoshana Resnikoff, Souvenirs, Speak-easies, Suffragettes, tourism, tourist trade, Tropicana, U.S. Army Air Forces, VIP visitors, Washington Storage Company
Italian Ethiopia at The Wolfsonian Library
• August 6, 2019 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, colonial propaganda, colonialism, donations, Ethiopia, Fascism, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gender, gifts, Great Britain, Italy, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, political art, portfolios, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Abissinia, Addis Abeba (Ethiopia), Akbaba (magazine), anthropology, anti-imperialism, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Ascari troops, atrocities, Aurelio Bertiglia, Autarky, Battle of Adwa, Benito Mussolini, Black Venus, British Somaliland, calendars, caricatures, collecting cards, Compagnia Italiana Liebig (Milano), Daniel Morris, East Africa, Enrico Cerulli, Eritrea, fans, fasces, gallows, General Baratieri, Haile Selassie, Harry Gannes, Historical Design, History Revealed, Il Travaso delle Idee, Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896), Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), James De Lorenzi, James W. Ford, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, League of Nations, Maps, March on Rome (1922), Marshal Graziani, Menelik II, military conquest, Ministero Africa Italiana, National Fascist Party (PNF), Nero, North African migrants, Orientalism, Orientalists, poison gas, postcards, Red Cross, road-building, school notebooks, sexual conquest, Sheet music covers, slavery, Tanks, Vulcania (steamship)
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
Winter Visits and Gift Acknowledgements
• January 29, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, acquisitions, African American History, American war propaganda, Art Basel, Art Deco, Artists, book art, cataloging, collectors, Cuba, dance, displays, donations, El Lissitzky, exhibitions, fashion for women, First World War (1914-1918), FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, fur, gifts, graphic designers, History Department, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Latin American and Caribbean Center, library donors, Lissitzky, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, photography, pochoirs, political art, portfolios, postcards, posters, preservation, prohibition, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, veterans, Vintage postcards, VIP vistors, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: "Mr. Babalú", 1920s, African American performers, Alain Locke, Alexander Archipenko, American Seduction, Art Deco design, Art Deco Weekend (2019), Barron Collier, bowling, Brooklyn Museum, Charles Gilpin, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, cocktail shakers, cocktail stirrers, Conrado Walter Massaguer, Cuba, dance in art, Daniel Morris, devils, dry laws, Eduardo García Benito, fashion, fur, fur garments, Harlem Renaissance, Historical Design, Into the Stacks, Jazz, Jean S. Sharf, Josephine Baker, Leonard Finger, Lisa Green, Louis Miano, Miami Dade public schools, Miguelito Valdés, Modern art, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), Nathaniel Sandler, National Endowment for the Humanities Dialogue on the Experience of War, New Negro, Paris (France), Paul Colins, Paul Poiret, Paul Robeson, pillowcases, pochoir prints, Preservation boxes, Prohibition (1919-1933), Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), race, recruiting posters, Satan, shotglasses, stencilwork, The Emperor Jones, Tropicana (Nightclub), U.S.-Cuba tourism, veterans, Vicki Gold Levi, vintage postcards, War and Healing program, Wit as Weapon: Satire and the Great War (Wolfsonian library installation), Zines
Holiday Gifts
• December 14, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, book art, children's books, colonial propaganda, colonialism, dance, displays, donations, Egypt, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Midways, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, pochoirs, portfolios, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: African expeditions, Art Basel, automobiles, Bedouins, Berbers, Catholic missionaries, Charles de Roucauld (1858-1916), Colonial expositions, Daniel Morris, Eiffel Tower, France's overseas empire, French (language), French colonies, German-occupied France, human zoos, Huts, indigenous peoples, International exhibitions, Jean Sharf, Jim nd Martha Sweeny, Lake Chad, Le Tumulte Noir, Leonard Finger, Lisa Green, Louis Miano, martyrs, Midways, missionaries, Paris, Paul Colin, primitivism, Professor Antonieta Garcia, Sahara desert, Streets of Cairo, Tripoli, Tuareg peoples
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