Includes 23 category cards (20 x 18 cm.), each with ms. title listing a pattern category (e.g. Triangles & zig zags, Blue words on white, etc.)., Includes 3 table of contents cards (20 x 18 cm.), listing in ms. all 23 categories and the number of cards found in each one., and Includes 522 cards (18 x 18 cm.), pasted on each of which is a cut section from the interior of an envelope; each card has printed title: Envelope interior number [blank]. Cards numbered in ms. from 1 to 522.
Unidentified printed French almanac from the 1780s that has been hollowed out, glued shut, and lined with red velvet to serve as a container for a silver pyx, or Holy Communion holder, possibly by a French priest in the early 1790s. The top of the pyx is engraved with a cross on uneven ground.
Description:
Binding: contemporary full red morocco, covered with elaborate gilt stamps with vase and flower motifs; interlaced design on borders and spine., In French., and Purchased from Justin Croft on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2009.
Subject (Geographic):
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Religious aspects and France--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--France
Subject (Topic):
Liturgical objects--France, Lord's Supper--Catholic Church, and Sacramentals
A bronze sculpture by Augusta Savage portraying a boy holding his stomach and grimacing in pain. It is titled on the front of the base: "Green Apples." It is signed on the top of the base with the artist's monogram, "Savage" lettered vertically within a chevron, and dated 1928.
Description:
Augusta Savage (1892-1962), African American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance., Bequest of Grayce Fairfax Nail, 1970., and Title from base of sculpture.
Subject (Name):
Savage, Augusta,--1892-1962
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors and Sculptors--United States
Small-scale reproduction of Augusta Savage's plaster sculpture "Lift Every Voice and Sing" designed for and displayed at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The cast metal souvenir is lettered on the front "Life Every Voice and Sing" and on the back at the base, "Worlds Fair 1939." It bears a paper label on the underside of its base: "Reproduction of a Work of Art Created by Augusta Savage, 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' now on exhibit at the New York World's Fair. Augusta Savage Studios, Inc. 143 West 125th Street, New York, N.Y."
Description:
Augusta Savage (1892-1962), African American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance., Gift of Grace Nail Johnson, 1970., Label in English., and Title from paper label.
Subject (Name):
Savage, Augusta,--1892-1962
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors and Sculptors--United States
[Box containing an ink-slab and a water-spout], [Brushes used in the 8th century by copyists of Buddhist texts], Nara jidai fude, and Nara zhi-dai fude
Description:
This image combines two distinct groups of objects.
Subject (Topic):
Ink-stones and Writing --Materials and instruments --Japan
"Lithographs A and B / Using 8 aluminum plates and 9 colors, Lithograph A was hand printed on black Fabriano rag paper 27 1/2" x 40 1/4". Lithograph B, using 8 aluminum plates and 8 colors was hand printed on rag paper 27 1/2" x 40 1/4" ... / Hand printed under the supervision of Hollanders Workshop Incorporated, New York."--Colophon., 125 numbered examples plus 18 roman numeraled artist's proofs., A work created by John Cage and designer Calvin Sumsion in memory of Marcel Duchamp. The edition consists of 8 plexigrams, each comprised of 8 Plexiglas panels showing silk screened letters, words and visual images which Cage selected according to chance operations. Two panels are tinted bronze, six are clear. The panels can be arranged randomly on an accompanying slotted, wood base measuring 37 x 61 x 2 cm. A black sheet of paper with a white label has typed instructions on how to arrange. Also included is a booklet (38 pages ; 36 x 51 cm) with title: "To describe the process of composition used in Not wanting to say anything about Marcel: Plexigrams I-VIII lithographs A and B / together with a glossary." Inserted into the booklet is a diagram printed on a transparent sheet (fig. 3). Housed in a black cardboard box., Numbered in manuscript on instructions sheet: II, 40/125. Imperfect: lithographs A and B wanting. Autographs Calvin Sumsion and John Cage on wood base. Booklet annotated., and Signed and numbered faintly on slotted side of wood base.
Portrait painting depicting a profile of Ezra Pound in blue paint and pencil on an unglazed ceramic tile manufactured by the Robertson Art Tile Company, created by Sheri Martinelli at Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1957. The tile was originally a gift from Martinelli to Herman Alexander Sieber upon the release of Pound from the hospital in 1958. Sieber, a research assistant in the Senior Specialists Division of the Library of Congress, had written a report about Pound for the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress that played a role Pound's release from the psychiatric hospital. A letter signed by Sieber to Clifford Daniel Graubart, written in Atlanta in 1987, accompanies the tile and provides its context.
Description:
Purchased from James S. Jaffee on the Ezra Pound Archive Fund, 2005. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Graubart, Clifford Daniel, Martinelli, Sheri, Pound, Ezra,--1885-1972--Portraits, Robertson Art Tile Co. (Trenton, NJ), Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.), Sieber, H. A., 1931-, and Sieber, H. A.,--1931-
