Tag Archives: fore-edge paintings

New in Digital Collections: December 2015

Posted on 2016 January 4 by Melissa Kunz

The University of Tulsa Special Collections and University Archives has added new items to our digital collections. Our new items of note include: More photographs from our university archives negatives collection. Images now include photographs of campus in the 1950s, … Continue reading →

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Fore-Edge Paintings: The Heavens and Seasons

Posted on 2015 December 23 by Melissa Kunz

Fore-edge paintings are illustrations worked, usually by watercolor, onto the exposed long edge of pages in a book. When the book is closed, the image or images are usually not visible, but when the pages are fanned out, an intricate … Continue reading →

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