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Kathleen Blackshear and Ethel Spears papers, 1920-1991

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Series 6: Research and Subject Files, circa 1920s-circa 1960s
4 Linear feet
Boxes 6-9

Files consist of Blackshear's research and notes on art movements, places, and techniques. It is likely they were used to prepare for lectures at the School of the Institute of Chicago and other schools and institutions at which she was invited to speak. Files may contain handwritten notes taken from dismantled binders and printed material.
Researchers should note that many of the titles were transcribed from dismantled binders.
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19th and 20th Century Painting, circa 1940s-1960s
6
1-6
3-Dimensional Art, circa 1940s-1960s
6
7
Architecture, circa 1940s-1960s
6
8-13
Art Institute of Chicago, Summer School, circa 1940s-1960s
6
14
Books and Magazines, circa 1940s-1960s
6
15-16
Byzantine, circa 1940s-1960s
6
17
Ceramics, circa 1940s-1960s
6
18-21
Cezanne, circa 1940s-1960s
6
22-24
Christian Symbolism, circa 1940s-1960s
6
25
Color, circa 1940s-1960s
6
26
Composition Criticism, circa 1940s-1960s
7
1
Cubists, circa 1940s-1960s
7
2
Dada and Surrealism, circa 1940s-1960s
7
3-5
Design, circa 1940s-1960s
7
6
Europe, circa 1940s-1960s
7
7-9
Expressionists, circa 1940s-1960s
7
10
France, circa 1940s-1960s
7
11
Frescos, circa 1940s-1960s
7
12
Futurists and Fauves, circa 1940s-1960s
7
13
Gauguin, circa 1940s-1960s
7
14
Germany, circa 1940s-1960s
7
15
Gothic, circa 1940s-1960s
7
16
Goya, circa 1940s-1960s
7
17
Hinduism, circa 1940s-1960s
7
18
India, China, Japan, Persia, Mexico, circa 1940s-1960s
7
19
Italian Renaissance, circa 1940s-1960s
7
20-21
Italy, circa 1940s-1960s
7
22
Japan, circa 1940s-1960s
7
23-26
Lectures, circa 1940s-1960s
7
27-28
Lectures, circa 1940s-1960s
8
1-3
Line, circa 1930s-1940s
8
4
Lithography, circa 1940s-1960s
8
5
Map and Slide List, circa 1940s-1960s
8
6
Medieval Europe and Near East, circa 1940s-1960s
8
7
Modern-- Architecture, Artists, Painting, Sculpture, circa 1930s-1960s
8
8-13
Mohammedan Period, circa 1940
8
14
Non-Objective Art, circa 1940s-1960s
8
15
Painting, circa 1940s-1960s
8
16-17
Persia, circa 1940s-1960s
8
18
Picasso, Cubism, circa 1940s-1960s
8
19-22
Prehistoric, Ancient Art, circa 1940s-1960s
8
23
Primitive, Africa, American Indian, Australia, General, Melanesia, circa 1940s-1960s
9
1-9
Romanesque, circa 1940s-1960s
9
10
Russia, circa 1940s-1960s
9
11
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, circa 1920s-1960s
9
12-13
Slide Lists, circa 1940s-1960s
9
14
Spain, circa 1940s-1960s
9
15
Survey of Art, I & II, circa 1940s-1960s
9
16-17
Texture, circa 1940s-1960s
9
18
United States, Painting to Modern, circa 1940s-1960s
9
19-22
Van Gogh, circa 1940s-1960s
9
23

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