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Hewitt (Winston) Collection
SPC.1900.043
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Contributing Institution:
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
Title: Winston Hewitt Collection
source:
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Creator:
Hewitt, Winston R., 1922-2006
Identifier/Call Number: SPC.1900.043
Physical Description:
11 boxes
(five document boxes; five photograph boxes; one oversized box)
Physical Description:
10 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1909-2004; undated
Date (bulk): 1940-1990
Abstract: This collection contains correspondence, photographs, 35mm slides, newspapers, memorandums, programs, and other material belonging
to Winston Hewitt, an artist and CSUDH emeritus faculty.
Language of Material: Some material is also written in shorthand.
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives
and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
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The Winston Hewitt Collection (1909-2004; undated) contains 11 boxes and 10 linear feet of material related to Winston Hewitt,
a former French language teacher at CSU Dominguez Hills, and artist. Included in this collection are materials related to
Hewitt's childhood, schooling, military stint, and teaching career; correspondence; photographs and slides; and catalogs,
advertisements, clippings, and photographs regarding Hewitt's artwork.
This collection is arranged into six series:
- Series I:Personal and Childhood Documents, 1930-2000; undated
- Series II: Education and Teaching, 1929-1981; undated
- Series III: World War Two and Military Materials, 1940-1945; undated
- Series IV: Correspondence, 1912-2004; undated
- Series V: Photographs, 1930s-2000s; undated
- Series VI: Artwork, 1909, 1970-2003; undated
Winston Russell Hewitt (1922-2006) was born in Minnesota to Lilian Nyquist and John Russell Hewitt. Hewitt had one brother,
John "Jack" Hewitt a doctor who was married with three children (including a nephew named Todd) to Marguerite Todd. Hewitt
spent most of his childhood in Casselton, North Dakota where his father founded a hardware business. Hewitt attended North
Dakota State College at sixteen, and enlisted in the Army where he was trained as a cryptographer in the Office of Strategic
Services headquartered in London and Paris. After the war, Hewitt earned a B.A. in Scandinavian Studies at the Unversity of
Minnesota in 1948. With the financial support of the Carnegie Institute through a scholarship, Hewitt returned to Europe to
the University of Stockholm to study Scandinavian literature, developing a fluency in Swedish, with knowledge of Norwegian
and Danish as well. Hewitt returned to University of Minnesota to finish his M.A. and met Mary Jane Cyrus. They married in
1953 in Paris, but divorced in 1968. Hewitt attended UCLA and earned a PhD in French in 1963. He taught French language and
literature at Occidental College from 1950-1966 and at CSU Dominguez Hills from 1966-1982. While at CSUDH, Hewitt became the
founding Chairman of Foreign Languages. In 1974, he received the first CSUDH Distinguished Professor Award, and that same
year also published a book of literary criticism entitled "Through Those Living Pillars: Man and Nature in the Works of Emile
Zola". In 1982, Hewitt retired so that he could devote all his time to his art, a passion he developed early on in his life.
In 1987, Hewitt moved to Oregon, and then sometime in the early 2000s relocated again to Sedona, Arizona before succumbing
to colon cancer in 2006.
Sources: Mouton Publishers file, Box 3, Folder 2; "Biography: Dr. Winston Hewitt", "The Art of Winston Hewitt" Webpage retrieved
via Internet Archive:https://web.archive.org/web/20081208231219/http://winstonhewitt.org/bio/biography.cfm
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Artists
Art
World War, 1939-1945
Correspondence
Teachers
Photographs
California State University, Dominguez Hills