Michel (“Mike”) Bouvier Mathews (September 15, 1955–March 26, 2021)
• March 31, 2021 • 1 CommentPosted in collectors, curator, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, library donors, memorabilia, Miami (Fla.), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: "Micky's Musings: Storage Company to Treasure Trove" (Members Only event), archival materials, archives, Betty Gutierrez, Coman Leonard, Dennis Curley, James F. Mathews III, Lea Nickless, Mary Hawk, Mathews family, Michel ("Mike") Bouvier Mathews, Mike Mathews, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., photographs, Sarah King, Steve Forero-Paz, Washington Storage Company (Miami Beach Fla.), Washington Storage Company archive, Washington Storage employees, Wolfson Foundation
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
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 Red Cross in Time of War
• August 22, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in American war propaganda, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, Ethiopia, First aid, First World War (1914-1918), Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, Russo-Japanese War, South African War, Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1864, Adolphus Solomons, ambulances, American Red Cross, atrocities, August 22, Broadsides, Clara Barton, Edith Cavell, emblems, ephemera, Frederic A. Sharf, Geneva convention, Hospitals, International Red Cross, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jean-Henri Dunant, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Ladysmith (South Africa), mechanical works, medical personnel, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nobel Peace Prize, Nurses, nurses and nursing, Pamela K. Harer, Periodicals, photograph albums, postcards, posters, Red Cross, Red Cross dogs, Red Cross nurses, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sheet music covers, South African War (1899-1902), Swiss flag, tents, Woodrow Wilson
Tuned In: RadioFest at The Wolfsonian
• March 17, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, airplanes, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, book art, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, displays, donations, FDR, Florida International University, Four Freedoms speech (1941), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Britain, Great Depression, Italy, library donors, Mediterranean Sea, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Occupied France, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Advertisements, “Back of the Mike” (film short 1938), Benito Mussolini, Brochures, caricatures, cartoons, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fascism, Father Charles Coughlin, Federal Music Project (FMP), fireside chats, Four Freedoms speech, Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harvey Mattel, Herbert Hoover, Joseph Goebbels, microphones, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Moonlighter Makerspace, Nazism, New Deal, People’s Receivers, postcards, posters, propaganda, Public radio, Radio, Radio London, Radio tower transmitters, RadioFest, radios, Red Scare, Second World War, Sound recordings, The New Tropic, VoxPop, Winston Churchill, WLRN, Wolfson Archives, Works Progress Administration (WPA), World War (1839-1945), WWII
TROUBLED U.S.-RUSSIAN RELATIONS, FROM 1917 TO TODAY: A WOLFSONIAN REFLECTION
• December 30, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in Communism, Communists, Constructivism, donations, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: Alexander Kerensky, American intervention, Barrack Obama, Bolsheviks, C.I.A., cartoons, Cyberattacks, destabilization, diplomacy, Donald Trump, First World War (1914-1918), hacking, John Reed's 10 Days That Shook the World, Leon Trotsky, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., propaganda, Propaganda posters, Provisional Government (Russia), regime change, ROSTA, Russian Civil War, Russian revolution, Russian Telegraph Agency (St. Petersburg Russia), sanctions, Sergey V. Lavrov, Soviet Union, U.S. presidential election (November 2016), U.S.-Russian relations, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Vlacheslav Polonskii (1886-1932), Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), Vladimir Ivanovich Lebedev (1894-1966), Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, World War I
A BRIEF POST FOR “WORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR” FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
• June 12, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Christopher DeNoon, donations, FDR, Great Depression, library donors, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, photography, political art, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Archibald MacLeish’s Land of the Free (1938), Art Deco illustrators, Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985), child labor, Christopher DeNoon, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement, documentary photography, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Ernest Fiene, Farm Secuirty Administration (FSA), Francis Xavier Luca, FSA photographers, graphic statistics, Great Depression, John Vassos (1898-1985), Jon Mogul, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., mural studies, New Deal America, newspaper boys, pictographic statistics, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Rudolf Modley, Russell Lee (1903-1986), shoe-shine boys, Sweat shops, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, World Day Against Child Labour
METADATA AT THE MUSEUM, OR, THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU INTERSECTS WITH THE SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ARCHIVISTS
• June 9, 2015 • 2 CommentsPosted in Uncategorized
Tags: Althea Silvera, Beatrice Skokan, Carlos E. Prado Herrera, Coconut Grove, Cory Czajkowski, Derek Merleaux, Emily Gibson, Florida International University, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, metadata, Miami, Miami Metropolis, Miami-Dade Public Library, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Pan Courtelis, Rochelle Pienn, SobekCM, Society of Florida Archivists, University of Florida, University of Miami Richter Library (Coral Gables), Wolfsonian-FIU
OVERT / COVERT: MIAMI DADE COLLEGE STUDENTS USE WOLFSONIAN ART OBJECTS TO DECODE THE ICONOGRAPHY OF LABOR
• April 18, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, Aryans, CCC, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Constructivism, curators, FAP, Fascism, FDR, Federal One, Futurism, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), interns, Italian design, Italy, leftist artists, Miami Dade College, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, photography, photomontage, political art, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, skyscrapers, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA, youth movements
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Amanda E. Caceres, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Bill Iverson, Carolina Gutierrez, Cecilia Arellano, Charlie Chaplin, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Diana E. Lopez, Fascist Italy, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Freedom Tower, Giselle Gonzalez, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Italian Futurism, Jonathan Sanabria, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Juan D. Rojas, labor, Lea Nickless, Lewis Hine (1874-1940), Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), Marta Palao, Miami Dade College, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Study Centre, Modern Times (film), Museum of Art + Design, National Socialism, Nazi Germany, neo-classicism, New Deal, Overt/Covert (exhibition), Photomontage, propaganda, Russian Constructivism, Savannah Diaz, Soviet Union, student curators, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), work, working class, Yanelis Valdes
A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, OR, A STUDENT RECEPTION WITH WOLFSONIAN-FIU RARE BOOK LIBRARIANS
• April 8, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Ben Stiller, New York Museum of Natural History, Night at the Museum
Tags: Antonio Pettini, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Boxer Rebellion, C. A. Lion Cachet, China, Dr. Annette Fromm, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Fannie Caldwell, Fascism, FIU Museum Studies, Germany, Indonesia, Jacob Maris, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Kawi, Milan Trenc, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sergeant Edwin Taylor, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, South African War (1899-1902), Wakana Utigawa, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Wolfsonian-FIU Library 