Artists -- Biography
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
John Sloan 1871-1951 Series , bulk: 1950 - 2000, 1892 - 2012
Series
Identifier: BMA.PPD.JS
Abstract
Contents include materials related or pertaining to American artist John Sloan as arranged by the collector Paul Preston Davis, who volunteered alongside Sloan’s second wife, Helen Farr Sloan, at the Delaware Art Museum, circa 1990. The John Sloan series was part of several donations made by Davis and includes exhibition catalogues, books, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, and ephemera that reproduce, advertise, or include works either by or in relation to John Sloan and Helen Farr...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950 - 2000; 1892 - 2012