Art and artists
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:
James E. Davis, Artist, Papers and Artworks
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3157
Overview
Artwork, photography, and papers of James Edward Davis, an artist born in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Davis studied art at Princeton University and had a prolific and varied artistic career, being particularly noted for his experimental abstract films involving color, light, and movement. This collection contains paintings, sketches, mobiles, photographic prints, transparencies, memoirs, notes on Frank Lloyd Wright and John Marin, and other material. There are addenda to this collection,...
Dates:
1845-2013
Joseph E. Dodd, Artist, Papers and Artwork
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3747
Scope and Contents
Collected drawings, paintings, and sketches by Joseph Eldridge Dodd (1907-1945), painter and art professor, as well as biographical information about Dodd. The artworks by Dodd include examples of cover illustrations he did for publications such as "The Crisis", illustrations for sheet music and a newspaper article, and a photograph of an art exhibit presumed to have been at Bluefield State College. Thirty plus artworks from the original gift are now at the West Virginia...
Dates:
circa 1930-1945 and undated
Josephine Mather Aull, Artist, Photographs of Art Work
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2638
Overview
Photographs of the artwork (including sculpture, paintings, drawings, screens, and murals) of Josephine Mather Aull (1908-1971), a member of the WVU faculty and Morgantown artist. Of the 98 photographs in this collection, 62 are mounted in an album, 24 are unmounted and are either enlargements or different views of works included in the album, and 12 are unmounted photographs of works not included in the album.
Dates:
1908-1971
Kenneth Kreider, Artist, Illustrations and Prints
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3852
Scope and Contents
Two posters, 12 in. x 15 in. each, consisting of pencil drawings of subjects found in Morgantown, West Virginia, including "Architectural Landmarks of Morgantown" (2001) and "Faces of Morgantown" (2012).Addendum of 2025 April 29 includes two inkpen illustrations of Philippi, WV, and the Philippi Covered Bridge and two prints (one of various locations in Morgantown, WV, and another composite print of various locations in Philippi, including the two illustrations) by WV artist...
Dates:
circa 1980s-2001, 2012
Leslie Thrasher, Illustrator, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3097
Overview
Correspondence, sketches, illustrations and papers of a magazine illustrator, Leslie Thrasher (1889-1936) originally from Piedmont, WV (on microfilm). Best known for the humor in his illustrations, his career started in 1912 after he had finished attending the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Ecole de Grande Chaumiere in Paris. During World War I he was part of the camouflage regiment of the 40th. Engineers, U. S. Army, serving in France where he was wounded by...
Dates:
1912-1987
Louise C.H. Hill, Artist, Four Paintings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3978
Overview
Four oil on canvas board studies of wildflowers by Hill. A resident of Charleston, Hill exhibited with the Allied Artists of West Virginia during the 1930s and 1940s.
Dates:
ca. 1920s - 1930s
Malcolm Davis, Artist, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4263
Scope and Contents
Papers of Malcolm Davis, noted potter and ceramic artist. The collection includes slides of his work, some correspondence, shino glaze recipe cards, sketchbooks, photographs, and research books regarding ceramics. Davis was known for his shino pottery with a distinctive glaze, and much of the collection relates to that work. This collection is organized into six series:Series 1. Slides and Photographs, 1970s-2000s: Images of Davis's work, exhibitions and glaze samples,...
Dates:
1970-2015
Max Hayslette, Artist, Papers and Artwork
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3817
Overview
Papers of artist Max Hayslette, native West Virginian and longtime resident of Washington state, documenting his early life, his travels, and his work in industrial design and painting. There is a scrapbook from his youth in Rupert, West Virginia, prints of his artwork, photographs documenting his travels, and articles and news clippings about him and his work. There are also items related to his donation of a painting to the Rainelle Area Planning Commission to assist with their town...
Dates:
1927-2019
Perley Reed, Author, Poetry and Artwork
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1776
Overview
The Marriage Certificate of Perley Reed and Elizabeth Dee Frost, telegrams recieved by Elizabeth and Perley, as well as newspaper clippings celebrating their engagment. Elizabeth's certificate of intitiation into The Delta Kappa Gamma Society in 1965. There are also 6 artworks by Reed, who was a hobbyist painter.The artworks are:Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau
Oil on canvasboard,
30 x 24,
1966
A Soldier’s Farewell,
Oil on canvasboard,
20 x 16,
1963
Matterhorn,
Oil on...
Dates:
1922-1965
Richard Kidwell Miller, Artist, Papers and Artwork
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3982
Overview
Artwork and Papers of Richard Kidwell Miller (1930-2012), a Fairmont-born artist, teacher, singer, and actor. Includes paintings (3 items), biographical material, correspondence, programs and catalogs for exhibits, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, reproductions of artwork, and other material. Please see "Scope and Content Note" and "Historical Note" for further information.
Dates:
1939-2012, undated