US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Will James (born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault) was an artist and writer of the American West. He is known for writing Smoky the Cowhorse, for which he won the 1927 Newbery Medal. Photograph of Dorothy Jeakins, Otis Art Institute student, seated and working on a portrait of Will James, visiting artist. Related to the article, "Cowboy Artist Gives Talk: Will James Visits Otis Art Institute," 30 Mar. 1933: A2. Text from negative sleeve: Jeakins, Dorothy Artist, 1938. Handwritten: Jeakins former Otis student [negative misfiled in sleeve 5199-5200; should be in sleeve with 5197-5198] Handwritten on negative: Dorothy Jeakins & Will James
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5199 ark:/21198/zz002cv5wq
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Artists--American--California--Los Angeles James, Will, 1892-1942 Otis Art Institute Jeakins, Dorothy
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