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Art and artists

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:

Virginia B. Evans, Artist, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3256
Scope and Contents Papers and artwork of Virginia B. Evans, a landscape painter and glassware designer of the upper Ohio Valley. She was a native of Moundsville, West Virginia who at one time headed the art department at West Liberty State College. Her art was widely exhibited regionally and nationally. Although she preferred working in a variety of styles and media, she was most noted for her rather representational landscapes and her fusion of traditional Chinese sensibilities with modern Western industrial...
Dates: 1916-1984

West Virginia Portraits Collection

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0030
Overview

An artificial collection composed of portraits in the West Virginia University Libraries and West Virginia and Regional History Center of historical West Virginia subjects dating from approximately the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Includes portraits of political and military figures, and West Virginia University presidents.

Dates: ca. 1845-1960

West Virginia University, College of Creative Arts, Publicity Office, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5054
Overview Records of the WVU. College of Creative Arts. Publicity Office. Includes clippings (Music Dept., 1953-54; CAC, 1964-69); newsletters (Music Dept., 1950-66; CAC, 1982-83, 1992-95); and news releases (CAC, 1969-77, 1986-95). There are scrapbooks for the Women's Music Club (1 volume, 1904-1919), Music Dept. (1 volume, 1951-59), and CAC events (9 volumes, 1966-92). A photo album contains photographs of the construction of Eisland Hall (ca.1953-54). There are also slides, photographs, and other...
Dates: 1897-1995

West Virginia University, Student Affairs, Material regarding Art Objects for Towers Residence Halls

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5205
Overview Correspondence, photographs, invoices, receipts, and other material regarding art objects which decorated the Towers residence halls. The material mainly consists of correspondence between Betty Boyd, who was Dean of Women and later Assistant Director of Student Educational Services, and artists, art gallery owners, and university staff regarding the acquisition of art objects from 1964-1967. Art objects considered for purchase, donated, commissioned, or acquired included a number of...
Dates: 1964-2009; Majority of material found within 1964-1965

West Virginia Wildlife Artists, Works by Ray Harm, Charley Harper, and Others

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3609
Overview

Prints and magazine illustrations by West Virginia artists Ray Harm (5 small items, 21 framed items; 1968-1975), Charley Harper (11 small items, 23 framed items; undated), Don Whitlach (2 framed items), and Thomas J. Allen (2 framed items). A flat storage box (20 in. x 24 in.) contains 6 Charley Harper prints and 2 biographical prospectuses on Ray Harm; a portfolio (26 in. x 32 in.) contains 1 oversize Charley Harper print ("Crow in the Snow") and 1 oversize Ray Harm print.

Dates: circa 1968-1975

William Goebel, Artist, Three Prints

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4469
Content Description

Three prints of art works by William Goebel, a Charleston, West Virginia artist. Includes "The Sternwheeler PA Denny", "Bank One Center", and "Capital Street Looking North, Charleston, WV".

Dates: 1985-1986, undated