Series 1:Scrapbooks, 1936-2007, undated.
(Box 1; 0.1 linear ft.)
The scrapbooks contain a variety of material: newspaper articles and publicity clippings, black and white photographs, recital and exhibition programs, correspondence, original art work by Art Center students, pamphlets, class and workshop schedules, personal comments, bulletins, flyers, surveys of activities, invitations, lists of artists in Sioux City and vicinity, and Christmas and thank you cards. Also found are the script and program for a three-act play, The Shoe Bears, and the program for a performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Frank-Rush collected articles from two newspapers in order to make the scrapbooks. This was her personal copy; duplicates were presented to the Central Library in Sioux City and to the regional WPA office. Items pre-dating the Art Center concern Frank-Rush's participation in an art contest for a scholarship.
The electronic record (ER) in Series 3 contains scanned images from both scrapbooks.
La Vern Frank-Rush's well-narrated 47-page memoir centers on her experiences and activities at the Art Center in Sioux City, Iowa. Her various jobs and salaries, Art Center instructors and friends are mentioned, and she recalls the Great Depression, Dust Bowl phenomenon, World War II, and difficulties in paying for food, shelter, and tuition.
The electronic record (ER) in Series 3 contains a digital version of the memoir.
The ER contains scans of both scrapbooks and the memoir. Also included are images of 5 paintings by La Vern Frank-Rush ( Downtown, undated; Grocery Orders, 1942; Downtown Rooftops, undated; Railroad, circa 1938, and Midwest Factory, 1941); a watercolor ( Old Houses (from a Sioux City Alley), 1939); and a lithograph ( Window Shopping, 1942). The original artwork is not a part of the collection.
This ER is created from a CD-ROM, which is a digitized version of the collection, produced by Phyllis Wrynn, director of the Park Slope Art Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. The gallery specialises in the art of the WPA Federal Art Project and American mid-century art and design. Images in the ER do not completely reproduce the scrapbooks. For instance, although the complete script for The Shoe Bears is found in volume 2, the entire play does not appear in the ER.
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