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Title
Retrospective Exhibition of American Art, 1689-1921
Creator
Junior Art Patrons of America, creator
Date Created and/or Issued
1921
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information
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Description
One catalog entitled Retrospective Exhibition of American Art, under the direction of Mrs. Albert Sterner Inaugurating the Junior Art Patrons of America. At the bottom of the title page is printed: "May 7 to 21, 1921 Fine Arts Building, 215 West Fifty-Seventh Street, May 6th to May 21st." The catalog is 64 unnumbered pages in length, and contains a listing of the items in the exhibit, and several pages of illustrations. The first 4 and last 24 pages contain a variety of advertisements: Devoe Artists' Materials, various art galleries, and framers, for example. There are many ms. annotations, in pencil, on the pages throughout commenting on the exhibit items. "$1.50" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the first page. The front cover bears a reproduction of a woodcut by Rockwell Kent above the title. The insides of the front and back covers, as well as the back cover, contain advertisements.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
7 1/4 in. W x 9 1/4 in. H ; 18.3 cm. W x 23.3 cm. H
Identifier
Box 27 Env. 03
33466
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/5885
Subject
Catalogs
Source
Diana Korzenik Collection of Art Education Ephemera
Non-Instructional Materials
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Korzenik, Diana, 1941-, former owner.

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