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
“All the World Is a Stage”: The Sketchbooks of Albert Wainwright
• August 19, 2023 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Artists, collectors, curator, exhibitions, Fascism, fashion, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Britain, Italy, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, rare books and special collections library, stickers, The Wolfsonian Library, theatre, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian museum library
Tags: actors, Albert Wainwright (1893-1943), altarboys, Anne Bolyn, artist models, Balillas, carabinieri, Castleford (England), choirboys, Clippings, Collages, costume design, costume designers, costumes, Fascist youth, Florrie Forde, Gondolas, Hamburg (Germany), Henry Moore, Henry VIII, Heywood-Wakefield Company, Hitler Jugend, Hitler Youth, Katherine of Aragon, Labels, Leeds, Leeds College of Art, library installations, Luneburg, Magdeburg, male models, Marco Polo Bridge (Venice), memorabilia, Milan (Italy), models, performers, Robin Hood's Bay (North Yorkshire), sailors, set design, singers, Sketchbooks, Stickers, Theater design, theatrical sets, Venetian canals, Venice (Italy), watercolors, West Yorkshire (England), young men
The Streets and Faces of Chas Laborde (1886–1941)
• February 28, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, Artists, book art, Broadway, collectors, First World War (1914-1918), France, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Depression, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Occupied France, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 20th century, airports, Berlin, book illustrators, Broadway, cafe life, Chas Laborde (1886-1941), cityscapes, Colette, commercial boulevards, crowd scenes, dance halls, Ecole de Patience (book), engraving, etching, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Carco (1886-1958), French authors, French illustrators, French soldiers, Gus Bofa (1883-1968), illustrations, Jean Giraudoux, L'Assiette au Beurre (magazine), L'Homme Traque (book), L'Inflation Sentimentale (book), La Baionnette (magazine), La Chronique filme du mois (magazine), landscapes, Le Rire (magazine), Le Rire Rouge (magazine), Librairie Walden, London, Metro subway, New York City, nightlife, Opera, outdoor cafes, Paris, Paris-Midi (magazine), Paul Morand, pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, Pierre Falké (1884-1947), Pierre Mac Orlan (1882-1970), portraits, promenades, prostitution, Salon des Artistes Humoristes, Satire, Sketchbooks, Social satire, Societe des Dessinateurs Humoristes, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Streets and faces, streetscapes, Tendres Stocks (books), theatre district, Trench warfare, Valery Larbaud, Vanity Fair (magazine), virtual book fairs, war artists, War in art
Through a Glass Darkly: Colonial Views of Africa
• July 26, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, children's books, Children's propaganda books, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Ethiopia, exhibitions, Fascism, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, ocean liners, passenger ships, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Zulus
Tags: 1910, 1935, 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques (Paris), Addis Abeba (Ethiopia), Adua (Ethiopia), Africa, Africans, Africans in art, Akbaba (Turkish periodical), Arthur Dupagne, Belgian Congo, Benito Mussolini, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Botswana, Brussels, Burkina Faso, calendars, Cameroon, Carl Weller, Children's propaganda books, collecting cards, Colonial expositions, Colonial tourism, colonialism, Colonies, Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Deutsche Afrika-Linien, Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie, diaries, displays, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Exhibition buildings, games, Ghana, Guinea, Huts, Italian Empire, Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896), Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, journals, Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy), La Barre à Mine (Mining Bar), Lamy, Laurence Miller, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mandela Washington fellows, menus, Namibia, Nazis, Niger, Nigeria, ocean liners, pavilions, photograph albums, photographs, postcards, propaganda, Rwanda, S.S. Leopoldville, Samoliland, Scrapbooks, sculpture, Sketchbooks, South Africa, Steve Heller, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania, Union Castle Line, Woermann-Linie, Zambia, Zanxibar, Zulus
Visit by Mandela Washington Fellows
• July 8, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, Boers, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, cruise ships, donations, FIU, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, rare books and special collections library, South African War, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, women, Zulus
Tags: Abissinia, Africa, Africa Oriental, Africans, Angola, Aurelio Bertiglia, bas relief, Belgian Congo, Brochures, Charles Montague Elliott Wilson, Colonial expositions, Congo, Deutsch Afrika-Linien, Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie, East Africa, Equatorial Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, European colonies in Africa, Gabon, indigenous peoples, International exhibitions, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Mandela Washington Fellowship, Maps, Mocambique, Musee des Colonies (Paris), native peoples, Niger, photograph albums, Portuguese empire, Sierra Leone, Sketchbooks, Somalia, Somaliland, South Africa, Steve Heller, sub-Saharan Africa, Union Castle Line, Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), Zanzibar, Zulus
GIVE THANKS TO TED PIETSCH, GET INTO MY CAR: OR, AUTOMOBILES OF DREAMS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• November 13, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in automobile design, automotive design drawings, Frederic A. Sharf, Theodore W. Pietsch, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Auburn Twelve Salon Chassis, Auto Show (Miami Beach), automobiles, Buick (automobile), Chrysler (automobile), Frederic A. Sharf, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz (automobile), Packard automobiles, Sketchbooks, Studebaker, Theodore (Ted) W. Pietsch II (1912-1993), Theodore (Ted) W. Pietsch III
THE PEN AND THE SWORD: ORIGINAL NEWSWORTHY DRAWINGS FROM THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF GIFT TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• October 31, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in colonialism, donations, ethnohistory, gifts, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Africa, al-Qaeda, al-Shabab, C. H. P., Donkeys, Ethnographic studies, Huts, indigenous peoples, Landscape painting, Nairobi, Native dwellings, Ottoman Empire, Saylac, Scrapbooks, Seascapes, Sketchbooks, Somali warriors, Somalia, Somaliland, Terrorism, terrorists, The Graphic, The illustrated London News, Warsangali, Water-colors, Watercolor paintings, William L. Thomas, Zeila
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NELSON MANDELA! CELEBRATING WITH SOME SOUTH AFRICA ARTIFACTS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
• July 18, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1899-1902, Boers, book art, British Army, colonial propaganda, colonialism, cruise ships, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, museums, ocean liners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, political art, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, South African War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises
Tags: Anti-Aparthied activists, Apartheid, Billy Bragg's "Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto" (song), Cry Freedom (film : 1987), ephemera, First Anglo-Boer War (1880-1881), Free Nelson Mandela (song), Ideal Gladestone, Invictus (2009), John Gladstone, Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, Nelson Mandela (1918- ), ocean liners, Peter Gabriel's Biko, postcards, Promotional materials, Reconciliation, rugby, San Diego Historical Society, Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sketchbooks, South Africa, South African War (1899-1902), Stephen Bantu Biko (1946-1977), Union Castle Line, Union Castle Mail Steamship Company
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