Collections
Preliminary inventories provide scope and content records and item-level collection descriptions, and internal inventories provide a working list of items in the collection (e.g., artist, title, description).
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (1919-1969) Art Collection
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Related Materials: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. records, Alfred A. and Blanche Knopf library
The art works in the Knopf collection form part of a large collection that includes the Knopf library, records collection, decorative items, and furniture. Visual materials include prints, drawings, reproductions, photographs, and illustrations. Artists in the collection include Walter Richards, John Taylor Arms, Pamela Bianco, W. Kelly, T. B. Modell, Joy Adamson, James Rosenberg, Paoli Gauguin, Miguel Covarrubias, George Bellows, George Cruikshank, and Jack Butler Yeats. Subjects include French prints, music, portraits, and posters of the Pacific, among others.
Merle Armitage (1893-1975) Art Collection
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The Merle Armitage collection was acquired in the 1970s and consists of Armitage's personal collection of paintings, drawings, magazine page spreads, and placemats. Many of the prints appeared in Western Family and Look magazines. A series of eagle drawings, landscape paintings of the Southwest, and art works by and relating to Merle Armitage are also present.
Artine Artinian (1907-2005) Art Collection
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Related Materials: Artine Artinian papers
The Artine Artinian art collection consists of over 400 portraits of French writers, artists, and notable French society celebrities, dating from 1880 to 1940. The portrait collection includes paintings, drawings, engravings, caricatures, and cartoons by artists such as Robert Kastor, Guy de Maupassant, Pazzi, George Izambard, and Max Jacob. The collection also includes over 500 color lithographic magazine covers for Les Hommes D' Aujourd ‘hui. Most of the covers were executed by "Coll-Toc" [C. H. Decaux] and André Gill.
Don Bachardy (1934- ) Art Collection
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The works of contemporary portraitist Don Bachardy consist of drawings of William Goyen, Chester Kallman, Elizabeth Mayer, Igor Stravinsky, E. M. Forster, Lillian Hellman, Anaïs Nin, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Tennessee Williams, and others. The works date from the 1960s.
Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) Art Collection
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Related Materials: Aubrey Beardsley collection
The Beardsley collection includes drawings, illustrations, lithographs, and reproductions. Illustrations by the artist are found in Salome by Oscar Wilde, Lucien's True History, and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe. Many of the drawings are scenes of women, and many of the works are initialed and inscribed. The collection was acquired in the 1960s.
John Biggers (1924-2001) Art Collection
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Related Materials: Limited Editions Club collection
The John Biggers collection includes the illustration drawings for John Mason Brewer's Aunt Dicy Tales (1956), a crayon drawing, and a poster. The Aunt Dicy Tales series consists of fifteen drawings, arranged in the order in which they appear in the book; their titles are also taken from the book. The works in the collection date from 1955 to 1983. These works appear in the Ransom Center's web publication Aunt Dicy Tales: John Biggers' Drawings for the Folktale. There are also John Biggers materials in the Center's book collections, searchable on the UT Library Catalog.
Frank Budgen (1882-1971) Art Collection
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Related Materials: James Joyce collection
The Frank Budgen collected works include 16 charcoal drawings of human figures, male and female, an oil painting of James Joyce, and a series of three oils of James and Nora Joyce.
Coleridge Family Art Collection
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The Coleridge family collection consists of portraits of family members by artists such as Matilda Bensham and C. R. Leslie. One piece is dated 1853. The items include paintings, drawings, lithographs, and reproductions.
Philip Core (1951–1989) Art Collection
The works include a portrait of John Betjemen and a painting of Nancy Cunard dancing with Brian Howard.
Gregory Corso (1930- ) Art Collection
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The art by Gregory Corso consists of over 100 drawings. Subjects include self-portraits, landscapes, human figures, nature, animals, and street scenes. Most of the images in the drawings are abstract and some are signed but have no dates. Illustrations for Earth Egg, a poem by Corso, are also present.
Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966) Art Collection
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Related Materials: Ransom Center manuscripts, Ransom Center performing arts collections
The Craig art collection consists of works by Craig and his son, Edward Anthony Craig (pseudonym Edward Carrick). Published and unpublished portraits and landscapes are found in a variety of media, including crayon drawings, woodcuts, engravings, lithographs, proofs, bookplates, and paintings.
Thomas Mabry Cranfill (1913-1995) Art Collection
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The Thomas M. Cranfill collection was acquired in batches and over time from the 1950s to the 1960s. This large collection consists of paintings, prints, engravings, and sculpture. Latin-American works and Japanese ukiyo-e are prevalent. Artists from the Americas include Diego Rivera, Picasso, Mauve, style, Ming Dynasty pieces (Chinese ink on silk), Julian Onderdonk, Louis-Marin Bonnet, Kelly Fearing, Raymond Everett, Rodolfo Hurtado, Jean Charlot, John Wesley Jarvis, Arthur Learned, Jesus Reyes, Donald Goff/Saff, Yves Ganne, Gordon Grant, Ernest Fiene, Gonzalo Ariza, Peggy Bacon, Henri Matisse, Trinidad Osorio, T. S. Boys, Paul Antragne, Frederico Cantu, Juan Manuel de la Rosa, George Oudot, and Lurcat. Subjects include Japanese prints, Latin-American art themes, Texana and early Texas art, portraits, still life, French, German, and British prints, and illustrations.
George Cruikshank (1792-1878) Art Collection
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The collection of George Cruikshank, English caricaturist and illustrator, comprises etchings, steel engravings, wood engravings, printing plates, and blocks. The collection includes sketches and drawings for book illustrations, magazines, broadsides, and pamphlets. The collected works span his entire career, from his 1803 etching, The Wonderful Mill, to works done in the 1870s. There are also a few works by his father, Isaac Cruikshank, his brother, Isaac Robert Cruikshank, and his nephew, George Cruikshank, including 30 watercolor illustrations by his nephew for Richard Harris Barham's The Ingoldsby Legends, 1875.
Among Cruikshank's book illustrations are colored etchings for William Hone's The Everyday book, or Everlasting calendar or popular amusements, 1825–1826; etchings for William Hone's The Queen's matrimonial ladder, 1826; etchings from John Bowring's Minor morals for young people, 1834–1839; both etchings (or glyphographs) and reproductions from Cruikshank's The Bottle, 1847. There is also a copy of Cruikshank's Mayhew's Great Exhibition of 1851.
The collection includes many prints and broadsides that were published separately, including Cruikshank's portrait of George Washington (engraved by Davenport) and three proofs of different states of the steel engraving, The Worship of Bacchus, 1864. Other prints include engravings designed by Cruikshank but executed by other engravers, including T. Bolton, Davenport, F. W. Pailthorpe, Roberts, Rouse, J. C. Thompson, Thomas Williams, and others; there are also prints designed by others (A. Crowquill, Woodward) and etched by Cruikshank.
Other artwork includes etchings of caricatures and portraits of Cruikshank by D. J. Pound, Daniel Maclise, Gillot, and others, and a watercolor and pencil caricature of Cruikshank by Sem [i.e., Georges Goursat]; a self-portrait etching of Robert Cruikshank; an etched portrait of Cruikshank's early publisher, William Hone "from a sketch by George Cruikshank," signed "AB"; a few engravings satirizing Cruikshank's The Bottle; and Cruikshank's calling card.
Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) Art Collection
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The Cunard art collection consists of drawings, prints, photographs, a scrapbook, and a needlepoint related to Nancy Cunard. Artists in the collection include John Banting, Augustus John, Wyndham Lewis, H. Viers, and Harry Bright. Subjects include portraits of Cunard, Norman Douglas, George Moore, and Abraham Lincoln, landscape drawings, and abstract drawings.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Art Collection
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The Charles Dickens art collection includes over 1,000 illustrations of Dickens's works, including his fictional characters and their locations. The collection includes paintings, drawings, prints, photomechanical reproductions, postcards, plates, clippings, and portfolios.
Among the illustrations are works by Robert Seymour, Robert Buss, and F. W. Pailthorpe, Hablot Knight Browne, Thomas Onwhyn, F. W. Pailthorpe, William Sharp, Everett Shinn, and Cecil Aldin. There are over 800 trial proofs pulled in 1936 from the original plates and woodblocks of Dickens's contemporary illustrators in preparation for The Nonesuch Dickens (Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1937–1938).
Other artwork includes prints by Frederick Barnard, Solomon Eytinge, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, Joseph Kenny Meadows, Cyril Saunders Spackman, Gerald M. Burn, and Alfred Rimmer; watercolor drawings of Dickens's characters by Kyd (pseud. of Joseph Clayton Clark); three published portfolios; drawings by Frederick Barnard, dated 1884, 1885, and 1887; and a published portfolio of reproductions of drawings by Charles Dana Gibson of Dickens's characters.
Portraiture and other biographical works include works by Alfred Crowquill, Augustus Egg, Charles Robert Leslie, R. Taylor after the miniature portrait by Margaret Gillies, Walter Crane, J. Reading, H. Blackburne Harte, Buttre, Charles Henry Jeens after Daniel Maclise's portrait, J. M. Johnstone, Sir Luke Fildes, an anonymous oil portrait, and engraved portraits. The collection also has the steel plate for Samuel Hollyer's 1875 engraving of Dickens in his study.
J. Frank Dobie (1888-1964) Art Collection
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Related Materials: Tom Lea art collection as well as materials in the manuscripts, books, and photography collections
The Dobie art collection consists of drawings, paintings, sculpture, illustrations, and lithographs collected by J. Frank Dobie. Notable artists represented in the collection include Tom Lea, Molina Campos, Frederic Remington, C. M. Russell, Sir William Rothenstein, E. Castells Capurro, Howard Cook, Kelly Fearing, Samuel Howitt, Erwin Smith, John James Audubon, Hermann Lungkwitz, A. Bartsch, and Ben Carlton Mead. Prevalent subjects include portraits of Dobie and his circle, Japanese prints, Texana and early Texas art, Latin-American and Native-American art, landscapes, and nature scenes.
Hugo Dreyfuss Art Collection
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Related Materials: Emanuel Romano art collection
The Hugo Dreyfuss art collection consists of sketchbooks, woodcuts, prints, paintings, bound books, and figurative sculpture by Henry Glicenstein and his son, painter/printmaker Emanuel Romano. The works of Glicenstein consist primarily of busts carved in either stone or wood; Romano's works consist of paintings, prints, woodcuts, and sketchbooks. His subjects include portraits of Marianne Moore, Tennessee Williams, William Carlos Williams, and other literary figures. Prints for The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot, and sketchbooks with illustrations for Songs For Ever by Archibald MacLeish and The Immortal Liar by Conrad Aiken are included. The Glicenstein sculptures are of Beethoven, Jeremiah, Sphinx, Spinora, Sibyl, Mrs. Carla Glicenstein, and one entitled "Awakening." The works span the dates between 1900 and 1967.
John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) Family Art Collection
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Related Materials: personal effects collection
The Dulles family collection consists of paintings, drawings, and prints that form a larger collection of decorative art. Subjects and images include political cartoons, Chinese and Japanese prints and drawings, portraits of Dulles family members, landscapes, and still-lifes by various artists.
David Douglas Duncan (1916- ) Art Collection
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Related Materials: photography collection and David Douglas Duncan web exhibition
The Duncan art collection consists of colorfully inscribed and dedicated (Picasso) books, etchings, scratchboard engravings, paintings, drawings, and cardboard caricatures. Artists in the collection include Pablo Picasso, Claude and Paloma Picasso, Andre Villers, Dorle Lindner, Wes Herschensohn, Dominique Charton, Kees Verkade, and various others. Some of the works are signed and/or dated by the artists. Duncan shared a friendship with Picasso and was one of his primary photographers.
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) Art Collection
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The works of Albrecht Dürer consist of seven woodcuts depicting religious characters and figures of men, women, and children.
Peter Evershed (1925– ) Art Collection
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The works by Peter Evershed consist of portrait drawings of Frieda Lawrence, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Brett, and Mervyn Levy. The works are signed or stamped and dated between 1945 and 1952.
Saul Field (1912-1987) Art Collection
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The Field collection includes 12 embossed color engravings by Saul Field entitled the Bloomsday Suite. Each print is titled, signed, and numbered 9/25. The works illustrate the book Bloomsday an Interpretation of James Joyce's "Ulysses" by Saul Field and Morton P. Levitt. The collection also includes three posters announcing the 1969 Second International Joyce Symposium held in Dublin, Ireland.
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889–1970) Art Collection
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The Erle Stanley Gardner collection was acquired by the Ransom Center in the 1970s. Along with memorabilia, books, and papers, the collection contains over 300 drawings, paintings, and prints. Most images illustrate Gardner's detective fiction stories for the Perry Mason series. Artists in the collection include James Bingham, Frank Thorne, Mel Keefer, Lolgren, Hal Keefer, and Raphael De Soto.
Golden Cockerel Press Art Collection, 1924–1929
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The Golden Cockerell Press art collection consists of engraved wooden blocks and some prints for illustrations in the press publications. The items are by 28 artists and a few unknowns. Illustrators represented in the collection include Robert Giddings, Eric Gill, Peter Barker-Mill, Lettice Sandford, John Farleigh, Clifford Webb, Eric Ravillious, and Gwenda Morgan, and are dated between 1924 and 1929.
Edward Gorey (1925–2000) Art Collection
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The works of Edward Gorey consist of illustrations for his books, including The Edward Gorey Nursery Frieze. The works include drawings, lithographs, etchings, and prints. The images are scenes of men, women, and children.
John Groth (1908–1988) Art Collection
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The John Groth art collection consists of drawings, paintings, sketchbooks, and illustrations. The illustrations are from works such as The Grapes of Wrath, Men without Women, and Don Quixote. Other items in the collection include a portrait of Hemingway, sketchbooks from Groth's time spent in Austin, Texas and at the University of Texas at Austin, drawings of bullfighters, and sketches of sporting events.
T. Edward Hanley (1893–1969) Art Collection
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The Hanley art collection helped form the nucleus of the art collection in its beginnings. It consists of sculpture, prints, drawings, and paintings holding associative literary value. The collection contains portraits of Walt Whitman, Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Artists in the collection include Alken, Bernard Partridge, William Strang, Ernest Marriott, G. K. Chesterton, James McNeill Whistler, Benjamin Kopman, Dan Smith, William Strang, Denis Tegetmeier, E. Boudin, and William Blake.
Desmond Harmsworth (1930–1990) Art Collection
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The artwork by Desmond Harmsworth consists of drawings and paintings. The works are portraits of James Joyce, Norman Douglas, Osbert Sitwell, Sylvia Beach, Stuart Gilbert, and Havelock Ellis. One of the Joyce portraits dates to 1932.
William Penhallow Henderson (1877–1943) Art Collection
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Related Materials: Alice Corbin Henderson collection
While primarily a visual artist, Taos, New Mexico resident William Penhallow Henderson was also a successful architect and furniture designer. The collection consists of almost 400 drawings, prints, and paintings by Henderson, including portraits, landscapes, documentary drawings of Navajo sand paintings, designs for the Navajo Museum, and sketches of people, animals, and nature.
T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) Art Collection
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Related Materials: T. E. Lawrence collection and T. E. Lawrence literary files collection
This collection includes art works by and related to T. E. Lawrence, including a sketchbook, illustrations, sculpture, drawings, and paintings. Other artists in the collection include Eric Kennington, Gilbert Spencer, William Roberts, William Rothenstein, Wyndham Lewis, and Robert Darrouzet. Pastel drawings by Kennington are of subjects included in Lawrence's book Seven Pillars of Wisdom, published in 1926. Other works in the collection consist of busts of Lawrence, portraits of Lawrence, and book illustrations.
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) Art Collection
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The Nash art collection consists of over 80 pencil sketches and cartoons.
José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) Art Collection
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The art collection holds theater cards, albums, prints (zincographs), broadsides, and hundreds of this important Mexican artist and illustrator's corridas y calaveras. Scenes and themes illustrate and describe bullfighting, public buildings, hard times, marriage, bandit heroes, execution, natural disasters, and more.
Arthur Rackham (1867–1939) Art Collection
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The Rackham art collection includes original illustrations and commercial reproductions of Rackham's work. Rackham's illustrations are found in Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, and Rackham's own books such as Arthur Rackham's Fairy Book. The collection also includes an illustration from Father Christmas's Book-Tea, which features some of the artist's celebrated Christmas drawings.
Emanuel Romano (1897–1984)
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Related Material: Hugo Dreyfuss art collection
The art of Emanuel Romano consists of portrait paintings and drawings. Subjects include T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Carson McCullers, W. H. Auden, Andre Gide, and Tennessee Williams.
Sir William Rothenstein (1872–1945) Art Collection
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The Rothenstein collection consists of drawings, paintings, and original and reproductive portraits by Sir William Rothenstein, dating from 1896 to 1944. Portraits of Maurice Baring, Max Beerbohm, Laurence Binyon, Edward Carpenter, R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Albert Einstein, Andre Gide, Edmund Gosse, Harley Granville-Barker, Laurence Housman, W. H. Hudson, Henry James, Florence Kahn, Eric Kennington, Frederic Manning, Axel Munthe, George William Russell, George Bernard Shaw, James Stevens, Dame Ellen Terry, and W. B. Yeats are included.
George William Russell (pseudonym A. E., 1867–1935) Art Collection
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The 21 works of Russell consist of paintings and drawings. The subjects include landscapes and portraits of George Moore, Frank O'Connor, Irene Haugh, Osbern Bergin, and James Stephens.
Ronald Searle (1920– ) Art Collection
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The Ronald Searle collection consists of over 500 drawings by Searle, including 438 pen and ink drawings and 80 sketchbooks. The collection provides a complete picture of English theatrical entertainment in the 1950s. Included are drawings and caricatures of theater productions, individuals, and theater columns published in Punch. Most of the works are signed or initialed by the artist.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Art Collection
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Related Materials: Felix Topolski art collection, Claire Winsten G. B. Shaw art collection, and the George Bernard Shaw collection
Spanning the dates 1887–1950, the G. B. Shaw art collection includes portraits and caricatures of Shaw, illustrations for Shaw's The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God and Short Stories and Scraps and Shavings, design blocks for Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, proofs and sketches for Prefaces, and drawings and illustrations for Back to Methuselah. Sketches for Good King Charles' Golden Days and John Bull's Other Island are also present.
Dudley Winn Smith Latin American Art Collection
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Related Materials: Diego Rivera art collection
The Dudley Smith collection consists of paintings, mainly by Latin-American artists, including landscapes, market scenes, and portraits. Artists represented in the collection include Athos Menaboni, Harold Osman Kelly, Eduardo Kingman, Moro, Diego Rivera, and Jose Sabogal. Many of the pieces are signed and dated.
Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) Art Collection
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The works by Spare include sketches, drawings, and paintings. Subjects include self-portraits, portraits of Henry Miller, Richard Church, and Igor Stravinsky, "automatic" drawings, and figure drawings.
Kelly H. Stevens Art Collection, 1822–1969
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The Kelly Stevens collection consists of paintings and drawings by Kelly Stevens and other artists relating to a larger collection of decorative arts, some of which are displayed in a special room in Stevens's name located on the third floor of the Ransom Center (view by appointment only). There are over 100 paintings in the collection by artists such as Hermann Lungkwitz, Julian Onderdonk, W. H. Huddle, Nannie Huddle, Ramon and Valentin de Zubiaurre, and Kelly Stevens. Most of the collection was donated by Kelly Stevens and his family members. Texas and Spanish themes are found throughout the collection. Painting subjects include landscapes, portraits, and scenes of life in 19th- and early 20th-century Texas and Spain.
Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957) Art Collection
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The works of Tchelitchew include a still-life of a head of lettuce, a portrait of Edith Sitwell, a graphite pencil portrait of Parker Tyler, a pen and ink and wash portrait of Charles Henri-Ford, a drawing of a mother and child, and a design for the frontispiece of the book English Eccentrics. The works span the dates 1933–1939, or are not dated.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) Art Collection
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The items in the Thackeray art collection consist of works by and related to William Makepeace Thackeray in a variety of media, including prints, drawings, engravings, and reproductions. The subjects include portraits and illustrations for Thackeray's writings. Some of the works are signed and dated.
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Art Collection
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Related Materials: Dylan Thomas collection and Dylan Thomas literary file
The collection consists of works by Thomas and others, including Michael Ayrton, Robert Colquhoun, Rosa Freedman, Gordon T. Stuart, Hugh Oloff de Wett, and Gordon Ziegler. One painting by an unidentified artist is of Constantine Fitzgibbons's house. Over 30 works in the collection span the dates 1938–1952.
Edward Larocque Tinker (1881–1968) Art Collection
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The Tinker art collection is large and includes American, Latin-American, and French prints and drawings, Japanese prints, and prints produced by Tinker. Artists in the collection include Tito Aubiday, E. L. Tinker, Francisco Goya, Joseph Pennell, Molina Campos, E. Castells Capurro, José Guadalupe Posada, Helen Torrey, Melgarejo Menoz, Emil Fuchs, unidentified artists, J. Cassel, J. T. Arms, T. W. Nason, Alfredo Guido, Liberato Spisso, Guillermo Rodriguez, A. M. Paz, Miguel Covarrubias, Carlos Merida, A. Rodriguez Luna, Ed Borein, Allen McNab, and Claire Leighton. Subjects include ranch life, cowboys, gauchos, vaqueros, horses, Texana, landscapes, figure drawings, Native-American and Latin-American imagery, maps of the Pacific, United Nations posters, and Mexican folkloric subjects.
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) Art Collection
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The Waugh collection consists of works from 1907 to 1928. Works by or related to Waugh include bookplates, Christmas cards, drawings of Pan, illustrations for Decline and Fall, sketchbooks with studies from Heatherley's art school, juvenalia, prayers and religious text in the style of illuminated manuscripts, a drawing from Max Beerbohm's Things Old and New, cover designs for The Oxford Broom, architectural drawings, and several versions of the drawing "Experimental surgery." Works by others include those of Edgar Allen Hicks, Colin Spencer, and John Wood.
Clare Winsten (1894–1989) G. B. Shaw Art Collection
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Spanning the dates 1922-1950, Clare Winsten's art works include portraits of Shaw, landscapes, village scenes, unidentified female subjects, and five original works by George Bernard Shaw. Also included is a letter and watercolor dated June 8, 1949, a sketch in blue ink of a man with a large ball or globe on his shoulders, and three architectural drawings. Illustrations by Winston include multiple versions of the title page and original drawings for Shaw's Buoyant Billions, drawings and reproductions for Shaw's My Dear Dorothea, a painting for the title page for Stephen Winsten's G.B.S. 90 aspects of his life and work, a portrait of Danny Kaye, inscribed and signed by Kaye, and self-portraits.
