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USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Harold L. Doolittle collection of art prints
Identifier/Call Number: 0032
Identifier/Call Number: 2019
Physical Description:
5 Boxes
Date: 1799-1964, undated
Date (bulk): 1920s-1960s
Abstract: Prints by various artists, including John Taylor Arms and Arthur H. Heintzelman, from Harold L. Doolittle's collection; 41
prints from the Printmakers' Society of California (1922-64); about 150 prints by artists of the U.S. and Europe of the period
1915-1950; 38 original prints by Doolittle.
Language of Material:
English
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Harold L. Doolittle (1883-1974) was born in Pasadena, California. He was an etcher and civil engineer who studied at Cornell
University (1903-1906) and Throop Polytechnic Institute (later California Institute of Technology). He served as President
of the Pasadena Society of Artists in 1943, and Vice President of the Los Angeles Section of the American Society of Civil
Engineers in 1934. He worked for many years as chief design engineer for the Southern California Edison Company. Doolittle
worked in all the graphic processes including photography and collotype, but he is most noted for his aquatints.
Harold L. Doolittle's collection of etchings, engravings, and lithographs mostly comes from the first 50 years of the 20th
century and represents a large number of artists, some more famous than others. Doolittle himself contributed more than 30
of his own etchings, all of which are landscapes. There are sketches of Yosemite, California hills, mountains and more. Other
art in the collection, especially from the Chicago Society of Etchers and the Society of American Etchers, takes a similar
approach. The oldest print dates to 1799 with Francisco Goya's "Ya es Hora," one of several 18th and 19th century works. Goya
is joined by other well known artists including Gustaf Dalstrom, George Elbert Burr, Maxime Lalanne, Richard E. Bishop and
Charles A. Platt.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Prints
Doolittle, Harold L. (Harold Lukens) -- Pictorial works
Doolittle, Harold L. (Harold Lukens) -- Archives
Print Makers' Society of California -- Archives
Heintzelman, Arthur William -- Pictorial works
Society of American Graphic Artists -- Archives
Costigan, John E. -- Pictorial works
Chicago Society of Etchers -- Archives
Arms, John Taylor -- Pictorial works
Dalstrom, Gustaf O. (Gustaf Oscar) -- Pictorial works