Penelope Venola Collection of Art Education Ephemera: Finding Aid mssVenola
Kelly Kress
The Huntington Library
February 2022
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San Marino, California 91108
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Penelope Venola collection of art education ephemera
Identifier/Call Number: mssVenola
Physical Description:
0.21 Linear Feet
(1 half box)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1940-1950
Abstract: Collected ephemera related to drawing techniques.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item]. Penelope Venola collection of art education ephemera, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Penelope Venola, December 2015.
Penelope Venola is an artist, designer, and art educator from southern California. She has taught middle school, junior high,
high school, college students, and seniors, and provided art workshops at both the state and national level. She specializes
in collage, assemblage, and all types of design.
Collection consists of copies of
Technical Hints in the Use of the Pencil by Ernest W. Watson, for the Pencil Department of the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company in Jersey City, New Jersey. Each page
is a fully illustrated drawing lesson, primarily on architectural features such as stone walls, columns and arches, tiled
and other roofs, and doors. Lesson pages also served as magazine advertisements for pencils, appearing between 1913 and 1925.
Collection also includes a copy of the June 1950 issue of
School Arts magazine featuring illustrations by Pedro DeLemos.
Processed by Kelly Kress in February 2022.
Collection is arranged according to the existing order of the materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Drawing -- Study and teaching.
Art -- Study and teaching.
Pencil drawing
Artists' materials
Watson, Ernest William, 1884-1969
Box 1
Penelope Venola collection of art education ephemera approximately 1940-1950