Title:
[Sylvia White collection of Giacomo Patri art]
Creator/Contributor:
Patri, Giacomo, 1898-1978, creator, artist.
Creator/Contributor:
White, Sylvia, creator.
Creator/Contributor:
San Francisco Examiner (Firm), publisher.
Abstract:
Miscellaneous works of art by Giacomo Patri, including many original pieces. Material shelved in --AX includes original scratchboard
drawings of dramatic scenes (perhaps executed for a wordless novel by Patri), stylized paintings of agriculture scenes, a
forest scene print, an abstract landscape, promotional material for the Patri School of Art Fundamentals, and printed material
illustrated by Patri's art (a menu for The Apollo restaurant in San Francisco, and a brochure for Ice Lakes Chalet winter
resort in the Sierra Nevada). Material shelved in --B includes stylized landscape paintings and drawings, a 1936 drawing of
a scene from the Spanish Civil War; a San Francisco Examiner publication promoting tourism via used cars, featuring many illustrations
by Patri; and miscellaneous printed material illustrated with Patri's art (Marinship construction brochure, Southern Pacific
Railroad in Mexico brochure, Fuller Paints brochure, poster for the novel Tombstone by Walter Noble Burns, World War II propaganda
broadsides discouraing travel to San Francisco, and a promotional broadside for San Francisco Examiner). Much of the original
material is annotated and/or otherwise marked for reproduction.
Date:
1925 (issued)
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by Sylvia White.
Most pieces includes signature of artist: "Patri".
Gift ; of Sylvia White ; 2017.
Sylvia White collection of Giacomo Patri art, BANC PIC 2014.117, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphic
Drawing.
drawings (visual works)
paintings (visual works)
prints (visual works)
illustrations (layout features)
Drawings.
Paintings.
Pictures.
Prints.
Scratchboard drawings.
Illustrations.
Drawings.
Paintings.
Prints.
Pictures.
Dessins.
Peintures.
Estampes.
Images.
Physical Description:
drawing
painting
print
45 items in 14 folders : prints, drawings and paintings ; sheets various sizes
Language:
English
Origin:
California