Librarian and UI alumna Esther Walls was elected director of the United States Secretariat for the International Book Year 1972. In this capacity, she coordinated the activities of the U.S. Secretariat, an agency established to promote the United...
"The summer exhibition of contemporary art at the State University of Iowa [is] a major feature of the Annual Fine Arts Festival. This year there are 160 paintings, drawings and prints, drawn from private collections, artists' studios, and...
Festival included: an address by Gibson A. Danes; "From galleries, museums and private homes ... this exhibition is composed of irreplaceable art objects of great aesthetic quality and intrinsic value. It affords indisputable evidence of great...
Festival included: an exhibition of paintings and drawings by faculty, featuring works by three distinguished visiting artists, Ben-Zion, Keith Vaughan, and Mitchell Fields; lecture series including Vance Packard, Benjamin Fine, Morris Hindus;...
"The Art Exhibition of the Nineteenth Annual Festival of Fine Arts at the State University of Iowa introduces paintings, prints, sculpture, crafts and design representing recent work of former students who hold one or more degrees from the State...
Festival included: panel featuring Grant Wood, Paul Green, Lawrence Tibbett, Frank Lloyd Wright; exhibition of paintings by Grant Wood and Marvin Cone; graduate student art exhibition; plays and musical performances.
"The works in the exhibition divide into two esthetic categories: 1) those which achieve visual unity through a balance of stable shapes and 2) those which achieve visual unity through an ultimate equilibrium of shifting effects"--P. 5; "The works...
"This exhibition has been designed to dramatize the contrast between American art in the 1930's and 1950's. The painters who represent the decade of the thirties are the majority of those who were at that time considered the leading progressive...
"The fourth summer exhibition of contemporary art is presented as a major feature of the Tenth Annual Fine Arts Festival at the State University of Iowa. Dr. Lester D. Longman, Head of the Department of Art, selected the paintings"--P. 3.
Festival included: luncheon speakers featuring Jean Charlot, Modeste Alloo, Thomas Wood Stevens; exhibition of American paintings and etchings; graduate student art exhibitions; plays and musical performances.
Festival included: panel discussions featuring Lester D. Longman, Thomas Wood Stevens, Arnold Small, Philip Greeley Clapp, Fletcher Martin, W. D. Coder, E. C. Mabie, Thompson Stone, Horst Janson; exhibition of contemporary art of seventy-nine...
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.