Morgan, Charles H. (Charles Hill), 1902-1984 Search this
Extent:
0.02 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1976-2012
Summary:
The Lauris Mason research material on George Bellows dates from 1976-2012 and measures 0.02 linear feet. Records document research conducted by Mason for her book The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné; Lauris Mason; Joan Ludman; Charles H. Morgan (Millwood, N.Y.: KTO Press, 1977), through correspondence, a draft of the catalog, and printed material.
Scope and Contents:
The Lauris Mason research material on George Bellows dates from 1976-2012 and measures 0.02 linear feet. Records document research conducted by Mason for her book The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné; Lauris Mason; Joan Ludman; Charles H. Morgan (Millwood, N.Y.: KTO Press, 1977).
Records include correspondence with Charles H. Morgan and others discussing inquiries for information on Bellows and his lithographs, and progress on the catalog. Correspondents include museums and galleries such as Allison Gallery, Amon Carter Museum, Kennedy Galleries, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and others.
Other documentation includes a draft introduction for the catalog written by Morgan and related correspondence, and letters concerning a dispute with Jean Bellows Booth, daughter of George Bellows, over permissions to access her father's record book and publish his lithographs. Also found is a pamphlet announcing the publication, copies of two reviews of the catalog raisonné, and unrelated 1978 correspondence with Ivan Albright related to Mason's request to purchase prints by Albright.
Biographical / Historical:
Coral Gables, Florida, author, editor, and art historian Lauris Mason authored several anthologies and bibliographies on printmaking. Her publications include a catalog raisonné of the lithographs of New York painter and printmaker George Bellows, which she co-authored with Joan Ludman (1932-2015), an art historian with expertise in prints, and Charles Hill Morgan (1902-1984), an educator and art historian from Amherst, Massachusetts. Mason and her husband Daniel J. Mason are also collectors of pop-up books and related ephemera.
Provenance:
The collection was donated to the Archives of American Art by Lauris Mason in 1989 and 2023.
Restrictions:
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
The papers of weaver, author, and teacher Osma Gallinger Tod measure 3.7 linear feet and date from circa 1925 to 1993. The collection comprises biographical materials including photographs of Tod and writings about her by her daughter Josephine Couch Del Deo; files on Tod's numerous writing projects including typescripts, drawings, and samples; records documenting Tod's role as organizer and director of the National Conference of American Handweavers; and printed materials including a scrapbook of clippings, documenting Tod's career.
Scope and Contents:
The papers of weaver, author, and teacher Osma Gallinger Tod measure 3.7 linear feet and date from circa 1925 to 1993. The collection comprises biographical materials including photographs of Tod and writings about her by her daughter Josephine Couch Del Deo; files on Tod's numerous writing projects including typescripts, drawings, and samples; records documenting Tod's role as organizer and director of the National Conference of American Handweavers; and printed materials including a scrapbook of clippings, documenting Tod's career.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as four series.
Series 1: Biographical Materials, circa 1927-1993 (3 folders; Box 1)
Series 2: Writing Projects, circa 1925-1992 (2.8 linear feet; Boxes 1.3, 5)
Series 3: National Conference of American Handweavers, 1938-1957 (0.4 linear feet; Boxes 3-4)
Series 4: Printed Materials, 1927-1981 (0.4 linear feet; Boxes 4-5)
Biographical / Historical:
Osma Gallinger Tod (1895-1983) was a weaver, teacher, and author active in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Florida. Tod was at the forefront of the reawakened American craft movement of the 1930s, and was the author of Basket Pioneering, Joys of Handweaving, The Shuttle Service, and numerous other instructional guides in the field of decorative art.
Tod was born Lucy Osma Palmer in Newark, New Jersey. She graduated from Wellesley College and married artist Frank Byron Couch with whom she had a daughter, Josephine Couch Del Deo. She developed a craft project known as Cromaine Crafts in Hartland, Michigan, which became a model for efforts in teaching residents of rural communities how to earn money at home. Couch died in 1928 and Tod married cabinet maker and craftsman Milo Oliver Gallinger. They owned a studio and loom factory in Guernsey, Pennsylvania, and established their own business, Creative Crafts. Oliver died in 1956.
After moving to Coral Gables, Florida, Tod established a studio in 1962 from which she taught weaving. The Coral Gables Library and the Weavers Guild of South Florida held a retrospective of her work in 1981. Along with writing and teaching, Tod organized and directed the National Conference of American Handweavers for over 20 years.
Tod died in 1983 in Centerville, Massachussetts.
Provenance:
The Osma Gallinger Tod papers were donated in 1993 and 1995 by Josephine Couch Del Deo, daughter of Osma Gallinger Tod, and in 2020 by Romolo Del Deo, Tod's grandson.
Restrictions:
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Collection Citation:
Blanche Stuart Scott Collection, Acc. NASM.XXXX.0062, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Collection Citation:
Lee Ya-Ching Papers, NASM.2008.0009, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Lirman, Diego and Mate, Juan L. 2018. "Status of coastal habitats of Bocas del Toro, Panama: Coral reefs and seagrass meadows." In Coastal Resources of Bocas del Toro, Panama: Tourism and Development Pressures and the Quest for Sustainability. Suman, Daniel O. and Spalding, Ana K., editors. 5–263. Coral Gables: University of Miami (Coral Gables, Florida, USA).
Abstract expressionism : other dimensions : an introduction to small scale painterly abstraction in America, 1940-1965 / exhibition organization and essay by Jeffrey Wechsler ; with contributions by Sam Hunter and Irving Sandler ; and excerpts from writings by William Seitz and Matthew Lee Rohn
Manabu Mabe : a tribute to Manubu Mabe on the nineteenth anniversary of his first presentation at the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States
Peruvian colonial painting : [catalogue of an exhibition held from] September 28 through November 12, 1972 [at the] Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida [with] introduction, information on paintings from the Brooklyn Museum, technological notes and bibliography / by Pál Keleman
Florida ethnobotany : Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona : with more than 500 species illustrated by Penelope N. Honychurch ... [et al.] / Daniel F. Austin
