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D'Arcy Hayman papers, 1946-1992

11 linear feet

The collection comprises materials authored by D'Arcy Hayman, including letters, invitations, essays, poetry, drawings, photographs, three monographs, proofs for one monograph, journals, and three scrapbooks. The three scrapbooks are referred to as 1, 2, and 3 (1 is a photo album, while 2 and 3 contain miscellanies: essays, drawings, poems, cards, photos, newsletters, conference materials, air travel documents, clippings, post-cards, festive cup holders, and a one-act play).

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Invitations by D'Arcy Hayman Box 1, Folder 3

[Hayman regarded her invitations as works of art, with decorated borders, drawings, and calligraphy

[Hayman regarded her invitations as works of art, with decorated borders, drawings, and calligraphy. Interestingly, perhaps because she regarded them as artwork, Hayman saved only her own writings to correspondents. There are no letters or invitations "to D'Arcy Hayman" in the collection. ]

  1. Series I. Correspondence

Series II. Manuscripts

calligraphy. She uses this method of presentation - combining word and image - in her collection from 1969

Poems are arranged in order by date (where available), so please do not disturb the sequence. The first poem in Box 2, Folder 8, was later included by its subject, Buckminster Fuller, in his book Synergistic Stew. Most of Hayman's poems, like her invitations, are decorated with illustrations and calligraphy. She uses this method of presentation - combining word and image - in her collection from 1969, Embrace Me Universe.

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Graphic Arts Book collection, 1850-present

20000 Volumes

The Graphic Arts collection contains over 20,000 books on the history of printing and publishing, and related topics such as illustrative techniques, bookbinding, calligraphy, and book collecting. It thus overlaps significantly with the Book Arts Collection, though the books tend to be newer (post-1850). Created in the 1950s within the Library Service Library to serve the needs of library school students learning about the history of the book, the collection was transferred to RBML in 1991 when the library school was closed. The books, classed in the Library of Congress system, are found in CLIO.

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John Howard Griffin papers, 1920-2004

28 linear feet

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and printed materials by and about John Howard Griffin. The correspondence is extensive and includes letter from Jacques Maritain; Thomas Merton; Maxwell Geismar; Eldridge Cleaver; Robert Casadeus; Abraham Rattner; P.D. East; Joseph Noonan; Sarah Patton Boyle; Lillian Smith; Father August Thompson; Nell Dorr; and Brother Patrick Hart. All of his major works are represented in manuscript form (usually typescript, carbon). In addition there are many original photographs by Griffin, which he pasted throughout his extensive journal, 1950-1980. This journal is a remarkable account of his life and thoughts, extending to over 3,000 pages.

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Subseries XIV.1: A Hidden Wholeness

"--abstract miniatures suggesting the influences of Franz Kline, Paul Klee, and Zen calligraphy). Griffin was

A Hidden Wholeness: The Visual World of Thomas Mertonwas published by Houghton Mifflin, in cloth and paperback-large-format editions, in 1970. An inferior cloth edition was later published by Norman Berg in 1977. The working title for the book wasThe Visual Merton, as cited in the correspondence between Griffin and publishers, as well as his correspondence with the Members of The Merton Legacy Trust. The book consists of a short text by Griffin, his photographs of Merton and the surrounding environment, and Merton's own photographs and paintings (which he called "calligraphs" or "signatures"--abstract miniatures suggesting the influences of Franz Kline, Paul Klee, and Zen calligraphy). Griffin was appointed "Official Biographer" in 1969; he worked on the "Official Biography" from 1969 until 1977.

  1. Series XIV. A Hidden Wholeness and Follow the Ecstasy
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Research Center for Arts and Culture Oral History Collection, 1990-1993

4 linear feet
The interviews of the Artist Career and Training Project were conducted by the Research Center for Arts and Culture at Columbia University from 1990 to 1993. The project sought to systematically analyze the career paths, training, and job satisfaction of artists, craftspeople, painters, actors, and related professionals, such as museum curators, critics, dealers, managers, directors, producers, and union representatives. The interviews address education, training, preparation to career entry, peers and colleagues, marketplace judgments, critical evaluation and public response, and career satisfaction and maturity. The study strove to include diverse participants in terms of gender, ethnicity, age, and stage of career. Other themes frequently discussed include the use of other jobs to supplement a career in the arts, aging, Actors' Equity, materials used in crafts, and the very meaning of having a career in the arts.
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Jean Vollum Transcript, 1990 May 29, 51 pages Box 6

, preferred artistic medium, experiences with weaving and calligraphy, role models, Yvonne Bianco, marriage

SIDE A: First involvement in the arts, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, family and childhood, first contact with the arts in university, reflections on lack of good arts education in primary and secondary schools, encouragement of children's art education, opinions of parents on art career, discouragement from pursuing an art career, undergraduate education in English literature, self-education in art, preferred artistic medium, experiences with weaving and calligraphy, role models, Yvonne Bianco, marriage, family life, sons' careers, artistic aspirations, reflections on competition in the art world, reflections on the arts and commercialism, work as judge in an art contest, work in arts organizations, Governor's Award for Art, National American Craft Council, work as arts patron, Oregon Symphony, work as spokeswoman for the crafts movement, reflections on arts collecting, artistic judgment as an arts collector, influence of outside opinions on art collecting, outside encouragement for involvement in crafts, relationship to husband, reflections on influence of outside people, reflections on major turning points in career as an artist and patron, relationship to finances, influence of the marketplace on the arts and crafts world, reflections on honors and awards, Hilda Morris, influence on other artists' careers, relationship to public, initiative for arts education, reflections on success, major concerns and interests in life: conservancy [National Board of the Nature Conservancy, Conservation International], art education in schools, classical music, children. SIDE B: reflections on greatest satisfaction and frustration in the arts world, influence of marketplace on art support work, self-description of occupation, advice for young artists.

  1. Interviews