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The Sculpture Of Anna Hyatt Huntington In The Syracuse University Art Collection, Myrna Garvey Eden

The Courier

Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973), one of the foremost American sculptors of her time, presented a large quantity of her personal and professional papers and sculpture to Syracuse University. In addition to the Huntington Manuscript Collection located in the George Arents Research Library at Syracuse University, the University owns diverse and numerous examples of her art. These statues, numbering over sixty pieces, represent a variety of subject matter, mood, and grouping completed throughout a career that spanned seventy years of artistic activity. Her general approach continued the French naturalistic tradition of Barye, Fremiet, and Falguiere. Although both wild and domestic animals …

Codex Atlanticus, Carol Hanley

The Courier

The gift of the Codex Atlanticus to the George Arents Research Library by the Class of 1912 and Chester Soling is a generous gesture of scholastic importance. Publishers are the Johnson Reprint Corporation, a subsidiary of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Centro Editoriale Giuinti, of Florence.

The Codex is a collation of sections from many of Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks, compiled by Pompeo Leoni, a sixteenth century sculptor who came to acquire them through the descendants of Leonardo's devoted disciple, Francesco Melzi.

Swinburne In Miniature, John S. Mayfield

The Courier

This article describes John Mayfield's acquisition of a rare notebook written by English poet A.C. Swinburne, which contains unpublished poetry that was later used in a miniature book publication.

Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson: A Study Based On His Journals, Elizabeth Mozley

The Courier

The revival of fine bookmaking in England during the last decades of the nineteenth century is well represented in the collection at the George Arents Research Library at Syracuse Uuiversity. The excellent work of the private presses became a major expression of the Arts and Crafts movement, led by William Morris and his Kelmscott Press. Morris's work still dominates our impressions of the period. However, the movement's basic purpose, to beautify useful everyday objects, resulted in books from one of the private presses as restrained in design as the others were exuberant.

Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, following the same artistic tenets …

Lord Byron At The Armenian Monastery On San Lazzaro, Arpena Mesrobian

The Courier

George Gordon, Lord Byron, arrived in Venice on November 11, 1816, a bitter and unhappy man at age 28. He had left England on April 24 in a cloud of controversy and scandal attending the breakup of his short-lived and unsatisfactory marriage.

Immediately after installing himself and his attendants in an apartment in Venice, the young poet sought solace and diversion, finding both in congenial social life and in what became an over-lapping series of ardent love affairs, all well known to the more tolerant Venetians. Eager, too, for mental exercise to distract him from his painful memories, Byron, with …

Margaret Bourke-White And Erskine Caldwell: A Personal Album, William A. Sutton

The Courier

Margaret Bourke- White presented her personal and professional papers, including hundreds of prints and negatives of her photographs, to Syracuse University before her death in 1971. Following her death, the Library received additional thousands of photographs and negatives from her estate. As a result, the Bourke- White Collection at Syracuse provides an invaluable store of research materials for photographers, journalists, and historians.

Dr. Sutton has chosen in this essay to portray Margaret herself during one seven-year period ofher life, with the addition of a few photographs from the books You Have Seen Their Faces and North of the Danube, published …

The Romanian Village In Peter Neagoë'S Short Stories, Ioan A. Popa

The Courier

A Transylvanian immigrant at the beginning of the century, a painter turned writer in Paris in the late twenties, and an active force in the American expatriate movement there, Peter Neagoe (1881-1960) holds a special position in the history of letters. He was best known in the United States between 1930 and 1950 as a painter and writer, and also as the editor of an anthology of the writings of expatriates. However, because of the major theme of his novels and short stories, Neagoe belongs rather to Romanian literature. His main source of inspiration was the Transylvanian village at the …

The Lost Voice Of Criticism, Hilton Kramer

The Courier

Part of an address during the dedication of the Ernest S. Bird Library at Syracuse University, Hilton Kramer describes the bleak state of literary criticism in the early 1970s. He also relates his experiences under the tutelage of Professor Leonard Brown, who taught literary crticism.

Syracuse In Literature, Donald A. Dike

The Courier

Part of an address during the dedication of the Ernest S. Bird Library of Syracuse University, Donald Dike talks about the dying art of literary criticism, and also remarks on the impact of Syracuse professors and authors on the university.

The Westcotts And David Harum, Richard G. Case

The Courier

In the 1890's, the Westcotts lived at 826 James Street, Syracuse. The man of the house was an occasional clerk, banker, and stock broker who worked for the Syracuse Water Commission. When he died, the obituary writer of a Syracuse newspaper described Edward Noyes Westcott as a "clerk," and added, "Mr Westcott was facile with a pen but never indulged himself in writing to any great extent."

Today, few of us recognize the name Edward Noyes Westcott, although we probably know the book he wrote, David Harum, A Story of American Life, which is, by almost any standard, fairly called …

The Mayer Wetherill Collection: Music Of The Nineteenth Century, Peter Korff

The Courier

The Wetherill collection contains many reductions, adaptations, and arrangements of music by the major figures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There are several bound collections of music for piano and violin based on "favorite opera melodies." There are also, of course, many works by the masters themselves. The true worth of this collection, however, is not to be found in anyone rara avis, but rather in the quality of the whole as representative of the chamber music of its time.

The A.E. Coppard Papers At Syracuse, Arsiné Schmavonian

The Courier

Some of the most choice collections in the Manuscript Department of Syracuse University Libraries are also among the most modest in extent. The papers of English author and poet A.E. Coppard fit into both categories. Housed comfortably in a single box, fifty-five letters, three short stories in holograph and one speech provide a close look at Coppard's literary theories, criticism, opinions of his own work and that of a few others, reaction to approaches regarding dramatizing, filming or televising his prose works, dealings with publishers, and his activities on behalf of world peace through the Authors' World Peace Appeal in …

Frederic W. Goudy, "Type Man" Extraordinary, Edmund C. Arnold

The Courier

Edmund C. Arnold comments on the work of Frederic Goudy, America's foremost type designer. Along with Vassar and the Library of Congress, the Goudy collection at Syracuse University is one of the most complete in the world.

Four Bachrachs, Bradford Bachrach

The Courier

The art collections in the George Arents Research Library are greatly enhanced by the Louis Fabian Bachrach Sr. Papers, the gift of the Bachrach family, documenting the career of a leader in the photographic arts. In addition to manuscripts of magazine articles, speeches and interviews, correspondence and subject files, the collection includes some 200 photographs made by Mr. Bachrach and members of his family: his father, David, and his sons, Louis Fabian, Jr. and Bradford Bachrach.

With the exception of a few early scenes of the Maryland District of Columbia area, the photographs are examples of the fine portraiture for …

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, American Sculptor, Syracuse Library

The Courier

In 1964 Harriet Frishmuth graciously presented her papers to Syracuse University for perpetual care, making them available for research by reputable scholars. The collection consists of professional correspondence, photographs of works, scrapbooks, memorabilia and plaster casts. Also in the collection is a series of tape recordings made in 1964 by Miss Frishmuth, in which she informally reminisces about he·r life and work and provides descriptions and comments relative to a few of her outstanding sculptures. Gleanings from the Syracuse tapes, with Miss Frishmuth's own comments on the pictured works, have been brought together by Miss Ruth Talcott, companion-secretary to Miss …

The Stainless-Steel Illuminated Indian, William Chaitkin

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Chaitkin presents an overview of the history and design of the Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse, which is considered a master piece of Art Deco Architecture.

Consistency In Community Identity: Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Robert Haley

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Haley specifically discusses the form of communities in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico that could be found during the first millenium AD.

The Development Of Structural Form In Franconian Rococo, Michael Warmington Earls

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Earl discusses the development and use of structural forms at the time of the late Baroque and early Rococo, referencing many German examples of architecture.