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- McFarlin Library: A View from the Top | From McFarlin Tower on McFarlin Library blueprints are now available online
- Updated Digital Collections: Fall 2017 | From McFarlin Tower on World War I: 1917 – The Yanks are Coming exhibit
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko | From McFarlin Tower on Where did TU’s Picasso go?
- The Great War / World War I collections | From McFarlin Tower on Hugo “Hap” Gruenberg Collection
- Some new WWI Digital Collections uploads. | From McFarlin Tower on Hugo “Hap” Gruenberg Collection
Tag Archives: art
Anna Kavan
Self Portrait, by Anna Kavan. Coll. No. 80.29.1 Recent digitization work on the Special Collections fine art holdings has exposed the paintings and sketches of Anna Kavan (1904-1968), an enigmatic British author and painter who struggled with depression much of … Continue reading
Now On Display: “Mask-arade!”
Special Collections graduate assistants Kyle Ripley and Kristina Rosenthal have recently researched and displayed a collection of Mexican dancing masks. These masks predate the founding of the Americas and illuminate the culture and traditions of Mexico’s earliest people. So, to … Continue reading
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Tagged art, events, exhibit, history, Native Americans
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Roger Easson Library of William Blake
Also featured are a number of first edition texts that include Blake’s original engravings, notably Robert Blair’s The Grave: A Poem and William Hayley’s Ballads: Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals. o One extraordinary acquisition is Edward Young’s The Complaint, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Blake, collections, easson, Libraries, library
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Artwork showing
Although it is not what we are best known for, the Department of Special Collections and University Archives is responsible for much of the artwork that The University of Tulsa owns, and all that is in the McFarlin Library. We … Continue reading
New Acquisition
The department’s newest acquisition is three wood engraved illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis by Peter Forster (Coll. No. 2011.032). The signed and numbered prints were made from the woodblocks used in Forster’s 1991 Folio Society edition of De Profundis, … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, art, Oscar Wilde, Rupert Hart-Davis
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New Acquisitions
Since the beginning of the year, we’ve made a few more acquisitions that may be of interest. Unfortunately, we have neglected to mention them here. A photograph of Battery D 37th Artillery, C.A.C. (2011.001), photographer Irving I. Underhill. A photograph … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, andre deutsch, art, collections, Literature, photographs, World War I, World War One, WWI
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The Reader
Rodger Jacobsen’s The Reader (2010) is the latest work of art to make its home at McFarlin. Located in the Frances O’Hornett Grand Foyer, the bronze statue welcomes patrons to the library.