“I have invented a new way of imitating flowers.” — Mrs. Delany MRS. DELANY AND HER CIRCLE Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts, eds. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art; London: Sir John Soane’s Museum;… 2009 xNX547.6 D45 M77 2009 Publication to accompany an exhibition organized by the Yale Center for...
“Mrs. Delany’s was an age when genteel women, whether amateur or professional, were occupied with crafts, decorative works, design and fine arts. Embroidery, quilling, shellwork, japanning, silhouette making, drawing, painting in oils and watercolours, knitting, sewing, flower making, modelling in wax and clay, miniature painting,...
It all started with a tour of the library’s Preservation Department led by the Marriott Library’s Preservation Head, Randy Silverman. The group of academics was visiting from the country of Georgia, a post-Soviet state, when the subject of dealing with a mold outbreak affecting rare...
Dianne Harris is Dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Utah, where she is also a Professor in the History Department. She holds a PhD in Architectural History from the University of California, Berkeley. She is particularly well-known for her scholarly contributions to...
“The following letters were written to the Tribune from Camp Scott by Mr. ….. during my absence from the Camp from Jan 5. to May 27. 1858. During that interval I was employed on a journey to the States with despatches from Gen. Johnston to...
“Out of heaven the stars we were reading a little as they tarried into exile.” — Brewster Ghiselin, from “Light” Images and Impressions Salt Lake City: Printmaking Department, University of Utah, 1969 Z239 U8 U8 1969 Project conception by Professor Russell T. Gordon, Department of Art. Work by students of the...
“‘Let us have peace.’ The expressions of these kindly feelings were not restricted to a section of the country, nor to a division of the people. They came from individual citizens of all nationalieties; from all denominations — the Protestant, the Catholic, and the Jew;...
“Who are we that fled the thousand lives we did not lead in order to escape the very one life that we were destined for?” The Architextures 1-7: The Man of Music Nathaniel Tarn (b. 1928) Sherman Oaks, CA: Ninja Press, 1999 PS3570 A635 A7 1999 Nathaniel Tarn was born...
“Love is enough: though the World be a-waning And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the sky be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, & the sea a dark wonder, And this...
Google Earth – a unique and innovative program for visualizing locations on the Earth within a virtual, 3-dimensional environment. Many of us have used this program for locating places or obtaining information, but did you know the tools within this program can be utilized for...