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
Spotlight on Machito and the Titos–The Three Kings of Mambo By Far
• January 6, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, collectors, Cuba, curators, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, interns, library donors, museums, Puerto Rico, The Wolfsonian Library
Tags: "King of the Mambo", Afro-Cuban dance culture, Afro-Cuban jazz, album cover art, album covers, arrangers, Arsenio Rodríguez, Big 3 Palladium Orchestra, Birdland (Nightclub), Cab Calloway, Celia Cruz, cha cha cha, Chano Pozo, Charlie Parker, Club Cuba, Club Cuba (Nightclub), composers, concerts, Cuban bandleaders, Cuban bebop, Cubans, Cubop City (Nightclub), Dizzy Gillespie, drummers, ephemera, Fania All-Stars, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Grillo, Harlem Renaissance, Israel ("Cachao") López Valdés (1918–2008), Jazz, jazz musicians, La Lupe, Machito, Machito and His Afro-Cubans, mambo, mambo madness, Mario Bauzá, Miguelito Valdés, New York City, Nuyoricans, Orchestra Siboney, Palladium (Dance hall), percussionists, Perez Prado, Puerto Rican bandleaders, Puerto Ricans, RCA Victor, Sheet music covers, Stan Kenton, the "Borscht Belt", the Catskills, The Peanut Vendor (song), The Three Kings, Three Kings Day, Tico Records, timbaleros, Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition : Oct. 2022-April 2023), United Artists Records, Vicki Gold Levi, Victoria Calveira
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
Caricaturist Conrado W. Massaguer and His Contemporaries
• August 20, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, curator, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, Folklorists, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, photography, political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian staff, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler caricatures, Alfredo de Zayas y Alfonso, American Weekly (magazine), Armando G. Menocal y G. Menocal, Axis, Babe Ruth, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Bohemia (magazine), Bohemia Libre (magazine), Calvin Coolidge, caricatures, caricaturists, celebrities, celebrity culture, Charles de Gualle, Charlie Chaplin, Chian Kai-shek, Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuba, Cuban caricaturists, Cuban exiles, Cuban presidents, Cubans, DiazCasas Collection, dictators, Diego Rivera, Don Alfonso XIII, Duke of WIndsor, Emperor Hirohito of Japan, Enrico Caruso, Fidel Castro, Florence Mills, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Fulgencio Batista, games, General Francisco Carillo, Gerardo Machado, Ghandi, Harlem Renaissance, John D. Rockefeller, Jose Cecilio Hernandez Cardenas (Hercar), Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Juan Eduardo David Posada (David), Karikato (magazine), King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Latin American illustrators, Martijn F. Le Coultre, mass media, Maurice Chavalier, Mexican caricaturists, Mexico, Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), movie stars, Nazis, New Yorker (magazine), Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Paul Whiteman, pictorial wit and humor, playing cards, politicians, portraits, Prince of Wales, public opinion, Queen Elizabeth II, Ramon Arroyo Cisneros (Arroyito), Ramon Grau San Martin, record album covers, Romulo Betancourt, Salon de Humoristas, Santa Claus, Satire, self-portraits, Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Social (magazine), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Vanity Fair (magazine), world leaders, Xavier Cugat (1900-1990), Yucef Merhi
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
Recent Florida International University Class Visits to The Wolfsonian Library
• February 10, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, African American History, American left artists, American war propaganda, Artists, book art, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, donations, Fascism, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Lin Shi Khan, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), memorabilia, museums, Nazi propaganda, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, Popular Front, posters, prohibition, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Scottsboro Trial, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, trains, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II
Tags: 1930s, Adolf Hitler, African-Americans, anti-lynching campaigns, Autobahn, Blues, Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) International Labor Defense (ILD), Great Depression, Harlem Renaissance, highways, infrastructure construction, Jazz, lynchings, memory, New Deal, New Negro, race, Race trials, racism, railways, roads, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), stereotypes, U.S. One
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)
Wolfsonian-FIU Library 