Collection consists of 34 pieces of correspondence, including autograph letters, postcards, and holiday cards, from O'Keeffe to Susan and Alexander Girard, and their daughter Sansi Needham Girard Agnew. The Girards were residents of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and most letters discuss personal topics, including plans for visits to each others' homes. Also included are invitations to openings at museums exhibiting O'Keeffe's work which were sent on her behalf. The collection holds 23 snapshot photographs of O'Keeffe, the Girards, and others at events, gatherings, and on travels, and plus some scenery in New Mexico, and a portrait of O'Keeffe in an 8 by 10 inch format bearing a studio stamp of Charles Eames; the photographs date from 1963 to 1973. and With the collection is one letter from Robert Jaffie to Thomas Needham, dated March 10, 1959, discussing a recent visit with O'Keeffe.
Description:
Alexander Girard (1907-1993), American designer, art collector., Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), American artist., Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Memorial Fund, 2009., and Susan Needham Girard (1910-1996), American art collector.
Subject (Name):
Girard, Alexander, Girard, Susan Needham, 1910-1996, and O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
Subject (Topic):
Artists--United States and Painters--United States
Bien, Julius, 1826-1909 Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882 Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905
Published / Created:
ca. 1874].
Call Number:
WA MSS S-744
Container / Volume:
Box 47
Image Count:
60
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Photographs by Timothy O'Sullivan from the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th meridian, including views along the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, Kanab Wash and Black Canyon, Camp Apache and Apache Lake in Arizona, Inscription Rock, Canyon de Chelle, Zuni pueblo in New Mexico, Bull Run Mining District in Nevada, Conejos Canyon and Conejos River in Colorado, and the Snake River in Idaho. Also includes images of Apache, Navajo, and Zuni Indians. Views 16-25 are from the 1874 expedition.
Description:
Also described in finding aid for Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian Papers. and Descriptive legend accompanies each image, on facing page. Letterpress captions on mounts: War Department, Corps of engineers. U.S. army [...].
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona--Pictorial works, Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Pictorial works, Colorado--Pictorial works, Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Pictorial works, Idaho--Pictorial works, Nevada--Pictorial works, New Mexico--Pictorial works, Southwest, New--Pictorial works, United States--Discovery and exploration--Pictorial works, United States--Surveys--Pictorial works, West (U.S.)--Pictorial works, and Zuni (N.M.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Apache Indians--Pictorial works, Discoveries in geography--American--Pictorial works, Navajo Indians--Pictorial works, Pueblos--Pictorial works, and Zuni Indians--Pictorial works
Woodcut of the Crucifixion, within woodcut border in 20 compartments. Text as above within the border underneath the Crucifixion. Three lines of text below the border.
Alternative Title:
Image of pity. and To all them that deuoutly say 5. pater nosters
Description:
Inlaid and bound to 28 x 23 cm. Slightly mutilated, upper left compartment of border almost entirely gone.
Visual poem opposing the Vietnam War, signed by the author, consisting of a collage of words and images cut or torn from newspapers and magazines, glued on newsprint background and mounted on cardboard.
Description:
Eugenio Miccini (1925-2007) was a poet and artist based in Florence, Italy, a leading figure of Italian visual poetry ("poesia visiva"), and a founder of the avant-garde collective Gruppo '70., Formerly owned by the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. Purchased from Sackner Limited Parnership on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2018., and Title from heading.
Subject (Name):
Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry
Subject (Topic):
Experimental poetry, Italian--20th century, Poets, Italian--20th century, Political poetry--20th century, Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Poetry, and Visual poetry, Italian--20th century