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• 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
MEMORIAL PLAQUE BY MICHELE OKA DONER HONORS FOUNDING WOLFSONIAN LIBRARIAN, JAMES FINDLAY
• March 25, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in children's books, displays, Michelle Oka Doner, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal (1933-1939), rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian, WPA
Tags: Art in public places, Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, bronze, Broward Public Library, Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995), exhibition catalogs, James Findlay (1943-2010), librarians, lost wax bronzes, memorials, Miami Airport terrazzo, Miami Beach artists, Michele Oka Doner, plaques, pop-up books, Vojtech Kubasta (1914-1992), Wolfsonian Foundation, WPA
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