Photographs of student theatrical groups and faculty at Oxford University
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 3
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Photographs of student theatrical groups and faculty at Oxford University, circa 1875-1910, collected by Falconer Madan.
Description:
. Transferred from Mudd Library, YaleUniversity
Subject (Geographic):
Oxford (England)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Brasenose College (University of Oxford)--Pictorial works, Bussell, F. W. (Frederick William), 1862-1944--Pictorial works, University of Oxford--Faculty--Pictorial works, University of Oxford--Pictorial works, and University of Oxford--Students--Pictorial works
Embossed: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten". and Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / 101 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission".
Subject (Name):
Marinoff, Fania, 1890-1971, Mauriber, Saul, Peterson, Dorothy, 1897-1979, and Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
Description:
Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.
Subject (Name):
Mondriaan, Carel, 1880-1956, Mondriaan-van den Berg, Mary, and Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944--Portraits