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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Diana Korzenik collection of art education ephemera and books
Creator:
Korzenik, Diana, 1941-
Identifier/Call Number: ephKAEE
Physical Description:
134.1 Linear Feet
(approximately 700 items in 112 boxes)
Date (inclusive): Approximately 1780-1982
Date (bulk): 1850-1940
Abstract: A collection of art education materials
representing the evolution of art education in America, compiled by Massachusetts professor
Diana Korzenik, and composed of instructional materials (e.g. art instruction manuals, art
reproductions, drawing books, drawing cards, painting books, penmanship books, etc.),
objects (e.g. boxed painting sets, drawing slates, models, drawing desks, colored pencils,
crayons, paint, etc.) and non-instructional materials (e.g. promotional materials,
scrapbooks, coursework by Korzenik's students, catalogs, etc.)
Language of Material: English.
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[Identification of item]. Diana Korzenik collection of art education ephemera and books,
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Diana Korzenik, 1997. Box 15, Envelope 9-10, transferred from Huntington Art
Reference Library, May 2000. Box 31, Envelope 18, purchased from Mike Kaplan, October
2000.
The collection was assembled by Diana Korzenik over a period of nearly three decades. With
the exception of the Mabel Spofford archive, which she purchased as a whole, Korzenik
pursued each item individually with the aim of assembling frequently overlooked and
misunderstood material. Korzenik utilized many items from the collection in her professional
activities, including teaching and writing.
In 1999/2000, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded a grant to catalog,
digitize, and preserve the Diana Korzenik Collection.
This collection was organized into ephemera and book collections.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Diana Korzenik (born 1941) attended Vassar College and then
transferred to Oberlin College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history.
After studying art history at Columbia University, she taught in Harlem for five years
before entering the Harvard Graduate School of Education to study under Rudolf Arnheim. In
1972 Korzenik received her EdD from Harvard, and began teaching at the Massachusetts College
of Art in Boston shortly thereafter. In Boston she began the flea market visits that started
her collection of art education books and ephemera. She went on to serve as professor and
chairperson of the Art Education Department at Massachusetts College of Art for many years,
as well as course instructor at Harvard University. Publications include
Drawn to
Art: A Nineteenth-Century American Dream
(1985),
Art Making and
Education
(with Maurice Brown, 1993),
Objects of American Art Education:
Highlights from the Diana Korzenik Collection
(2004), and "The Myth of the Self
Taught" in
Grandma Moses : American Modern (2016), as well as several other
books and articles.
This collection contains approximately 700 pieces of ephemera that along with more than 500
separately cataloged books form the Diana Korzenik Collection of Art Education representing
the evolution of art education in the United States from mainly 1800 to 1950. An archive
reflecting specific techniques and values employed in the education of children and budding
artists of all ages during this period, the collection was compiled by Massachusetts
professor Diana Korzenik, and the ephemera includes 178 pamphlets, 40 serial titles, 277
coloring and drawing books, and over 200 artifacts such as wooden and metallic paint boxes,
tracing slates, stencil kits, geometric wooden blocks, chromolithographed scenes for
copying, sketchbooks, crayons, and posable wooden mannequins. In addition to actual
artifacts used by students, the collection also includes theoretical and instructional books
aimed at art educators, policymakers, and parents. Many of the items demonstrate more
traditional ways in which art has been taught in schools and homes, including the copying,
tracing and stenciling of prepared images, the composing of original images, and the
filling-in of outlined pre-defined images.
The ephemera is subdivided by series:
- Series I: Instruction materials consisting of materials clearly used for didactic purposes, such as painting or penmanship books.
- Series II: Non-instructional materials such as student drawings, commercial catalogs, and material chiefly collected by Mabel Spofford, an art supervisor for Gloucester, Massachusetts, public schools in the mid-twentieth century. The wide variety of art education ephemera amassed by Spofford includes art educators' meeting notes, bulletins, summer school announcements, sample art projects, and other items reflective of her professional interests.
- Series III: Objects consisting of three-dimensional artifacts that would have been used for art-making purposes including raw material such as paint and pencils, and devices such as drawing slates.
Among the oldest items in the collection is a Thomas Reeves and Sons watercolor paint set
(Box 75, Set 05) dating from 1781. The collection spans over 200 years, with the most recent
item being a copy of Some Events in the Life of Walter Smith (Box 22 Evelope 26) from
1982.
Related materials in the Huntington Library
- More than 500 books in the Diana Korzenik Collection of Art Education have been cataloged separated and can be retrieved by doing a title search for "Diana Korzenik collection of art education ephemera and books" in the Huntington Library Online Catalog
- Diana Korzenik Collection of Research Cards
- Huntington Library Louis Prang Collection
- Jay T. Last Collection of Education Prints and Ephemera
- Jay T. Last Collection of Printing and Publishing: Louis Prang Archive
Related materials in other institutions
- American Antiquarian Society: Diana Korzenik Drawn to Art archive (prints, drawings, and paintings)
- New Hampshire Historical Society: Diana Korzenik Drawn to Art book production documents (research notes, manuscript drafts, photographs and interviews)
- Massachusetts College of Art Library Archives: Diana Korzenik Drawn to Art Fruitlands Museums exhibition documents and objects
The collection is arranged in the following 3 series:
- Series I. Instructional Materials
- Subseries A. Art Instruction Books
- Subseries B. Art Reproductions
- Subseries C. Cards
- Subseries D. Charts/Posters
- Subseries E. Correspondence Courses
- Subseries F. Drawing Books
- Subseries G. Drawing Cards
- Subseries H. Flyers and Magazine Excerpts
- Subseries I. Miscellaneous Pamphlets and Books
- Subseries J. Miscellaneous Periodicals
- Subseries K. Painting and Coloring Books
- Subseries L. Pattern Books
- Subseries M. Penmanship Books
- Subseries M. Prints
- Subseries N. Puppetry
- Subseries O. Tracing Books
- Series II. Non-Instructional Materials
- Subseries A. Catalogs
- Subseries B. Mabel Spofford: Artwork and Notes
- Subseries C: Non-Art Related: Miscellaneous
- Subseries D. Promotional: Art Supplies
- Subseries E. Promotional: Institutes, schools, courses, etc.
- Subseries F. Promotional: Instructional books, textbooks, and magazines
- Subseries G. Promotional: Pictures
- Subseries H. Ralph M. Pearson materials
- Subseries I: Rewards of Merit and Certificates
- Subseries J. Scrapbooks
- Subseries K. Student Drawings and Paintings
- Subseries L. Graduate Student Papers from various courses taught by Diana Korzenik
- Series III. Objects
- Subseries A. Boxed Painting Sets
- Subseries B. Boxed Sewing Cards Sets
- Subseries C. Boxed Stencil Sets
- Subseries D. Boxed Weaving Sets
- Subseries E. Chalk
- Subseries F. Charcoal
- Subseries G. Clay
- Subseries H. Colored Paper
- Subseries I. Colored Pencils
- Subseries J. Crayons
- Subseries K. Decals
- Subseries L. Drawing Desks
- Subseries M. Drawing Slates
- Subseries N. Dyes
- Subseries O. Erasers
- Subseries P. Ink
- Subseries Q. Models: Paper
- Subseries R. Models: Plaster
- Subseries S. Models: Wood
- Subseries T. Object Cards
- Subseries U. Paints
- Subseries V. Pegs and Peg Boards
- Subseries W. Pencil Boxes
- Subseries X. Pencils
- Subseries Y. Tools
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art -- Study and teaching.
Art -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 19th
century
Art -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 20th
century
Art -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals.
Art teachers -- Massachusetts -- Archives
Artists' materials.
Artists' tools.
Crayons.
Copying -- Study and teaching.
Copying -- Technique.
Decorative arts -- Technique.
Decorative arts -- Study and teaching.
Drawing -- Study and teaching.
Drawing -- Technique.
Painting -- Study and teaching.
Painting -- Technique.
Penmanship -- Study and teaching.
Penmanship -- Technique.
Stencil work -- Technique.
Teaching -- Aids and devices.
Weaving -- Technique.
Artists' materials
Boxes (containers)
Catalogs
Cards
Chalk
Charcoal
Clay
Colored pencils
Copybooks
Crayons
Decals
Drawings
Engravings
Gameboards (board game elements)
Lay figures
Paint
Paintings
Pamphlets
Pattern books
Pegs
Pencils
Picture books
Pigment
Plaster
Prints
Rewards of merit
Scrapbooks
Slate
Solids (geometric)
Stencils (images)
Stencils (tools)
Student drawings
Study models
Tools
Tracings
Trade cards
Watercolors
Weaving
Wood blocks
Korzenik, Diana, 1941- -- Art
collections.
Korzenik, Diana, 1941- -- Private
collections.
Pearson, Ralph M.,
1883-1958
Smith, Walter,
1836-1886
Spofford, Mabel --
Archives
Chautauqua Institution.
Korzenik, Diana, 1941- former owner.
Spofford, Mabel, artist.
Spofford, Mabel, former owner.
Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879, artist.
Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot),
1805-1877, artist.
Bartholomew, William N. (William Newton),
1822-1898, artist.
Bartholomew, William N. (William Newton),
1822-1898 Bartholomew's drawing book.
Bartholomew, William N. (William Newton),
1822-1898 Bartholomew's national system of industrial drawing.
Bethune, George W. (George Washington), 1805-1862
Prospects of art in the United States.
Bush, Elmer Ellsworth, editor. Industrial and
applied art books.
Campana, D. M. (Domenic Mathews), 1871- Teacher
of oil painting and tapestry.
Coe, Benjamin H. (Benjamin Hutchins), 1799-1883,
artist.
Coe, E. M. (Emily M.), artist.
Croasdale, Elizabeth. Easy drawing lessons for
blackboard or slate.
Cross, Anson K. (Anson Kent), 1862-1944,
designer.
Farley, D. H. (Dickerson H.), 1846- Normal review
system of writing.
French, Thomas Ewing, 1871-1944 Lessons in
lettering.
Harn, O. C. (Orlando Clinton), 1871-1955 Dutch
Boy in story land.
Harn, O. C. (Orlando Clinton), 1871-1955 Dutch
Boy's jingle paint book.
Harn, O. C. (Orlando Clinton), 1871-1955 Dutch
Boy's lead party.
Herric, Pru, artist. Flowers, a paint
book.
Hildreth, Ellen Stephens. Clay modeling in the
school room.
Hodgman, Carolyn S., artist.
Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.), publisher. Hull-House
year book, forty-second year.
Jacobs, Harry Wallingford, 1885- Drawing teacher
: a Little folder of teaching projects for the art teacher.
Johnson, Walter R. (Walter Rogers), 1794-1852
Lecture on the importance of linear drawing, and on the methods of teaching the art in
common schools and other seminaries.
Kemble, Marion. Introductory lessons in drawing
and painting in water-colors.
Kerr, Rose Netzorg, 1892-1974 Design in dark and
light.
Knudsen, Carl Wilhelm, 1818-1894 Knudsen's method
of drawing instruction for schools.
Lemos, Pedro J.
Morgan, Lucius B. Grammar school drawing cards,
of elementary design.
Munsell, A. H. (Albert Henry), 1858-1918 Munsell
color system.
Nutting, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1803?-1887,
artist.
Palmer, A. N. (Austin Norman), 1859-1927 Advanced
edition of the Palmer method of business writing.
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894
Identification of the artisan and artist: the proper object of American
education.
Pearson, Ralph M., 1883-1958
Price, Charles Matlack.
Purcell, Edward B.
Riker, John C., publisher.
Sarg, Tony, 1882-1942, artist.
Schuster, Sigismond, 1807- artist. Systematic
drawing cards for schools
Seiss, Joseph A. (Joseph Augustus), 1823-1904
Arts of design.
Shaw, Ruth Faison, 1887-1969, artist.
Smith, Walter, 1836-1886, artist.
Smith, Walter, 1836-1886
Thompson, Langdon S. (Langdon Shook), 1838- Some
reasons why drawing should be taught in our common schools.
Welby, Edward. Welby's book of alphabets : for
ornamental penmen, professional letterers, and students, with practical directions for
lettering, illuminating, etc ...
Wetherbee, F. I. (Frank Irving), 1869-
Wise, Marjorie. On the technique of manuscript
writing.
Wright, Wynna, artist.
A.S. Barnes & Co. Barnes' national system of
penmanship.
American Crayon Company, publisher.
Atkinson, Mentzer & Company,
publisher.
Binney & Smith Co., publisher.
C.I. Hood & Co. (Lowell, Mass.), publisher.
Hood's sarsaparilla painting book.
Charles E. Graham & Co.,
publisher.
Chautauqua Institution.
D. Appleton and Company, publisher.
D. Lothrop & Company, publisher.
Eberhard Faber Pencil Company,
manufacturer.
F.W. Devoe & C.T. Raynolds Company,
manufacturer.
Faber-Castell (Firm), manufacturer.
George Rowney and Co., publisher.
Ginn and Company, manufacturer.
Grout & Putnam, publisher. Grammar School
Drawing Cards of Elementary Design.
Harper & Brothers, publisher. Harper's
writing books : symmetrical penmanship with marginal drawing lessons for schools and
families.
Ivison & Phinney, publisher. Systematic
Drawing Cards for Schools, with Instructions.
Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co,
publisher.
J.L. Hammett Co., manufacturer.
J.W. Schermerhorn & Co.,
manufacturer.
James R. Osgood and Company,
publisher.
Joseph Dixon Crucible Company,
manufacturer.
Koh-i-noor Hardtmuth AG, manufacturer.
L. Prang & Co., publisher.
Little, Brown and Company, publisher. Finger
Painting: A Perfect Medium for Self Expression.
M.A. Donohue & Co., publisher.
McLoughlin Bros., publisher.
Milton Bradley & Co.,
manufacturer.
Milton Bradley & Co., publisher.
National Lead Company, publisher.
P.P. Caproni & Brother,
manufacturer.
Perry Pictures Company, publisher.
Prang Company, publisher.
Prang Educational Company, publisher.
Raphael Tuck & Sons, publisher.
Saalfield Pub. Co., publisher.
Saml. Gabriel Sons & Company,
publisher.
Stecher Litho. Co., publisher.
Transogram Company, manufacturer.
Wadsworth, Howland & Co.,
manufacturer.
Weber Costello Company, manufacturer.
Whitman Publishing Company, publisher.
William Dixon, Inc., publisher.
Winsor & Newton, manufacturer.