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  • Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop

    Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop

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    A collection of correspondence courses and bulletins entitled Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop, authored and published by Ralph M. Pearson, Nyack, New York, 1937-1946. This collection is roughly divided into four sections. The first section is a run of a magazine column/articles by Ralph M. Pearson; the second section is a collection of issues of a correspondence course entitled Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop, Courses by Mail: Course 4 - Critical Appreciation; the third is a gathering of Design Workshop Bulletins and the fourth is a miscellaneous collection of notices and flyers relating to the correspondence courses. Most of the miscellaneous mailings are addressed to Mabel Spofford. All of these items are from her personal collection. First section: A collection of 35 installments of a monthly column/article entitled "The Artist's Point of View" by Ralph M. Pearson, as published in Forum Magazine. Most of the installments are date stamped; the dates range from March 1937 to May 1940 (the first few articles are not date stamped). Second Section: An incomplete set of a correspondence course entitled Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop, Courses by Mail, Course 4 - Critical Appreciation, by Ralph M. Pearson, Nos. 1-4, 6-9, 11-13, and 15 (12 numbers in total). Number 15 is dated 1942; the others are not dated. Third section: An incomplete set of issues of Design Workshop Bulletin, by Ralph M. Pearson. The collection includes No. 5 February 1937; No. 6 March 1937; No. 9 [1938]; No. 9 October 1938; No. 5 March 1939, and No. 6 March 1939. Fourth section: A collection of 17 miscellaneous notices, bulletins, publisher's advertisements and mailings relating to Ralph M. Pearson's Design Workshop Courses by Mail. These mailings are dated between March 1939 and 1941.

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  • Design Workshop

    Design Workshop

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    Two issues of Design Workshop, No. 1 and Bulletin 2, by Ralph M. Pearson, published by Ralph M. Pearson, New York. Bulletin 2 is dated October 1935. Each is 4 pages in length. Accompanying these is an envelope from the Ralph M. Pearson Design Workshop addressed to Mabel Spofford.

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    Subseries H. Ralph M. Pearson materials

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    This collection contains approximately 700 pieces of ephemera that along with more than 500 separately cataloged books form the Diana Korzenik Collection of Art Education representing the evolution of art education in the United States from mainly 1800 to 1950. The collection was assembled by Massachusetts professor Diana Korzenik over a period of nearly three decades, and the ephemera is composed of instructional materials (e.g. art instruction manuals, art reproductions, drawing books, drawing cards, painting books, penmanship books, etc.), objects (e.g. boxed painting sets, drawing slates, models, drawing desks, colored pencils, crayons, paint, etc.) and non-instructional materials (e.g. promotional materials, scrapbooks, coursework by Korzenik's students, catalogs, etc.). With the exception of the Mabel Spofford archive, which she purchased as a whole, Korzenik pursued each item individually with the aim of assembling frequently overlooked and misunderstood material.

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    Eleven envelopes of materials relating to or about puppetry and marionette

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    A collection of 11 envelopes of materials relating to or about puppetry and marionettes, ranging in date from 1928 to 1940, all collected or authored by Mabel Spofford. There are approximately 60 pieces within this box. Env. 1: 2 newspaper clippings about a marionette performance, ca. 1930. Env. 2: 4 flyers from the New England Puppetry Institute, dated 1938. Env. 3: 2 flyers about marionettes and puppetry. Env. 4: 2 informational flyers regarding performances by the Fuller Studios (North Quincy, Massachusetts) and The Forrest Marionettes (Fitchburg, Massachusetts), ca. 1940. Env. 5: 5 flyers, notices and newsletters from the Kingsland Marionettes of New York; some of the flyers are notices of their summer workshops in Brandon, Vermont. These items range in date from 1937 to 1940. Env. 6: 2 leaves (an article) removed from a 1937 issue of Look magazine about marionettes. Env. 7: 3 pieces. The first is an article from a magazine entitled ""Marionettes in the Home"" by Howard L. White. The second is 2 typescript pages of notes; the third is a color image, removed from a magazine, of 5 male faces. Env. 8: 6 pieces, which include typescript pages about stage plays and lighting of stage plays, a marionette performance invitation, a publisher's advertisement, and a program for the Twelfth Annual Conference of Supervisors and Teachers of Art at the Massachusetts School of Art, February 1935. Env. 9: 4 typescript pages and 1 envelope from the New England Puppetry Institute, sponsored by the Curry School of Expression. Env. 10: approximately 30 pieces of manuscript notes and newspaper clippings and printed items, including drawings and plans of puppets, all relating to various puppetry shows and performances. Env. 11: a 1933 24-page exhibition catalog entitled Exhibition of Puppets and Marionettes with a note on Puppetry in America, by Paul McPharlin, held in Chicago from July-September 1933.

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  • The Aesthetic Factor in Education

    The Aesthetic Factor in Education

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    One meeting program, dated Saturday, March 20, 1937, entitled The Aesthetic Factor in Education, published by Harvard Teachers Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1937. This 4-page program is for the "Harvard Teachers Association Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting." The programs for the morning and afternoon sessions are listed on pages 2 and 3; the officers and executive committee members are listed on the last page. The interior 2 pages are heavily annotated with ms. notes and comments, perhaps by Mabel Spofford.

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    [Miscellaneous ephemera related to artists' materials and businesses]

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    A collection of 11 pieces of miscellaneous ephemera relating to the commercial promotion of artists' materials and businesses. Included are bills of sale (Envs. 06-10), an advertising envelope, and various other business advertisements. The companies represented within this group are: George H. Leck; Walter Adriance; Rennous, Kleinle & Co.; George E. Davenport; William Minifie & Son; J.W. Sargent; Frost & Adams; Noyes & Blakeslee, and M.J. Whipple & Co. These items bear dates ranging between 1850 and 1884.

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