Artists as authors
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Henry C. Pitz 1895-1976 Collection
Collection
Identifier: BMA-HCP
Abstract
The Henry C. Pitz Collection includes manuscripts, research, and reference materials pertaining to two publications written by Henry Pitz on Howard Pyle: The Brandywine Tradition (1969) and Howard Pyle: Writer, Illustrator, Founder of the Brandywine School (1975).
Dates:
1969 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1969 - 1975
Henry Louis Stephens 1824-1882 Series, bulk: circa 1850-1880, bulk: circa 2000-2010, 1850 - 2021
Series
Identifier: BMA.PPD.HLS
Abstract
The Henry Louis Stephens series includes materials compiled by collector and historian Paul Preston Davis relating to Stephens’s work as an illustrator, cartoonist, and author. A particular focus of this series is Stephens’s personal scrapbook, dated 1880, that contains print proofs featuring anthropomorphic animals. This series contains advertising prints, trade cards, print proofs, four original drawings, and Davis’s research materials and notes on Stephens’s published cartoons and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1850-1880; Majority of material found within circa 2000-2010; 1850 - 2021
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
Paul Preston Davis 1931-2021 Collection
Collection
Identifier: BMA-PPD
Abstract
The Paul Preston Davis Collection contains secondary and tertiary research materials that cover four artistic subjects local to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware regions: Alexander Charles Stuart, Henry Louis Stephens, Howard Pyle, and John Sloan.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1880 - 2000; 1820 - 2021