Guide to the Troy Kinney Etchings and Engravings
Processed by Adrian Turner; machine-readable finding aid created by
Adrian Turner
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Arts and Humanities--Art--Graphic Arts
Arts and Humanities--Dance--Dance Performance
Guide to the Troy Kinney Etchings and Engravings
Collection number: MS-P17
Special Collections and Archives
The UCI Libraries
University of California
Irvine, California
Contact Information
- Special Collections and Archives
- The UCI Libraries
- P.O. Box 19557
- University of California
- Irvine, California 92623-9557
- Phone: (949) 824-3947
- Fax: (949) 824-2472
- Email: spcoll@uci.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.uci.edu/rrsc/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- Adrian Turner
- Date Completed:
- 2001
- Encoded by:
- Adrian Turner
© 2001 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Troy Kinney etchings and engravings,
Date (inclusive): 1915-1928
Collection number: MS-P017
Creator:
Kinney, Troy, 1871-1938
Extent:
0.5 linear feet (5 oversize folders)
Repository:
University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Abstract: This collection consists of 22 color intaglio prints by Troy Kinney featuring dancers and dance performances, produced from
1915 to 1928. Among the dancers represented in these prints are Vaslav Nijinski, Adeline Genée, Anna Pavlova, Alexandre Volinin,
and Doris Niles. The plates were primarily produced by etching, drypoint engraving, or a combination of both processes. The
plate for Pastorale includes some mezzotinting.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Preferred Citation
Troy Kinney Etchings and Engravings. MS-P17. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Acquisition Information
Acquired, ca. 1970.
Processing History
Fully processed by Adrian Turner, 2001.
Biography
Troy Kinney was an American artist and writer on dance, noted for his etchings and his treatise
The Dance, Its Place in Art and Life (1924), co-written with his wife Margaret West Kinney. Kinney was born December 1, 1871 in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended
the Art Institute of Chicago and the School of Fine Arts at Yale. In 1900, he married Margaret West. He contributed articles
on dance to magazines such as
Century,
Metropolitan, and
New Republic during his career. Kinney died in 1938.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection consists of 22 color intaglio prints by Troy Kinney featuring dancers and dance performances, produced from
1915 to 1928. Among the dancers represented in these prints are Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinski, Adeline Genée, Alexandre Volinin,
and Doris Niles. The plates were primarily produced by etching, drypoint engraving, or a combination of both processes. The
plate for Pastorale includes some mezzotinting.
For a detailed discussion of these etchings and engravings, see Kinney's
The Etchings of Troy Kinney (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and company, Inc., 1929). This collection is arranged by the order of the checklist,
"Twenty-five of the etchings and drypoints of Troy Kinney," on pages 23-75. See also Kinney's
Troy Kinney (New York: The Crafton Collection, Inc., 1930) for more information about these works. Both monographs are cataloged separately
in Special Collections and Archives.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Dance--Archival resources.
Dancers--Archival resources.
Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931--Archival resources.
Genres and Forms of Materials
Etchings--Color.
Engravings--Color.
Occupations
Engravers.
Collection Contents
Box FB-19 : 3
Lopokova and Nijinski in Les Sylphides, 1916
Box FB-19 : 4
Pavlowa and Volinin in Amarilla, 1915
Box FB-19 : 4
Portrait of Mrs. H.P.W. (Harry Payne Whitney), 1915
