Muralists
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
B. Stafford Good 1893-1969 Collection
Collection
Identifier: BMA-BSG
Abstract
This collection contains materials on B. Stafford Good’s career as an illustrator, such as: clippings, scrapbooks, print proofs, photographs, original sketches, and a manuscript that records an outline of the illustrations planned for “Adventures of Karki”, based on Good’s own experience during World War I.
Dates:
1907 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1970
Franz de Merlier 1878-1974 Collection
Collection
Identifier: BMA-FDM
Abstract
The Franz de Merlier Collection was given to the Museum by the artist’s son, Edouard de Merlier in 1972. The collection includes a significant number of scrapbook pages with newspaper clippings and photographs of de Merlier’s murals and paintings compiled by his son Edouard; slides, photographs, and catalogs; a cassette tape of an oral interview from 1962; and two binders of autobiographical, handwritten notes by Franz de Merlier, arranged by his son Edouard in 1972. The collection largely...
Dates:
1898 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1952
Red Rose Girls Collection
Collection
Identifier: BMA-RRG
Abstract
The Red Rose Girls Collection includes materials purchased by the Brandywine Museum of Art pertaining primarily to three prominent female illustrators and artists of the early 20th century: Violet Oakley (1874-1961), Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954), and Jessie Wilcox Smith (1863-1935). The three lived together at the Red Rose Inn in Villanova during their time as students under illustrator Howard Pyle (1853-1911), who began referring to them as “the Red Rose Girls.” The collection is...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1911 - 1947; 1899 - 1979