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Fine Arts

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 300 Collections and/or Records:

Two plays and a poem

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230232495]
Identifier: MSS SC 17
Scope and Contents

Holograph scripts for The Converts (1844-1849), a three act play, and My Wife's Gone to the City (1856), and a holograph copy of his song, "The Men of 76 and the Boys of 47" (1856). Also includes a playbill, newspaper clipping and provenance notes.

Dates: approximately 1844-1856

Johann Uhl portrait drawing

 File — Oversize 1: [Barcode: 31197231190478]
Identifier: MSS 1698
Scope and Contents

Portrait of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) done in colored pencil. The portrait has the words, "Ehrenbuergerurkunde Bergen Chiemgau fuer Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler." The item has a seal attached and makes Hitler an honorary citizen probably of Bergen bei Traunstein when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933. The portrait depicts Hitler in a Bavarian peasant costume, looking stern, and holding his right hand up.

Dates: 1933

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 9177
Scope and Contents

Contains fourteen photographs from various local photographers of Utah that were featured in the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. Some of the photographs are framed, and most are photos of landscape or scenery. Dated approximately 1961 to 1993.

Dates: approximately 1961-1993

Utah, Salt Lake City

 Collection — Item 1: [Barcode: 31197233645438]
Identifier: MSS 8428
Scope and Contents

Watercolor painting of some of the landscape and city of Salt Lake City, Utah. Item bears the phrase "L. Rock, 1858."

Dates: 1858

Mark A. Vieira papers

 Collection — Carton 1: [Barcode: 31197232563251]
Identifier: MSS 8945
Scope and Contents

Contains research consisting of photocopies of newspaper articles, telegrams, magazine articles, internet resources, film still copies, interview transcripts, book excerpts, and correspondence used in the writing of Vieira's book on Cecil B. DeMille's work. Includes approximately 300 pages of the untitled publisher's manuscript of CeCil B. DeMille: The Art of the Hollywood Epic. Dated approximately 2010-2015.

Dates: approximately 2010-2015

W. D. poetry and illustrations

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230310598]
Identifier: MSS SC 1303
Scope and Contents Two unbound booklets of handwritten poetry with pen and ink illustrations. One of the booklets is a fully illustrated poem entitled "A Mormon Romance" which satirizes the Mormon practice of polygamy. On the cover of this item is a pen and ink illustration of Nauvoo, Ill. The other item contains poems describing the author's experiences while visiting the Mormon community of Nauvoo, Illinois in 1840 when she was introduced to the Mormon Church, met Brigham Young, and heard a sermon...
Dates: 1871

Theodore Milton Wassmer autobiography

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232502093]
Identifier: MSS 6175
Abstract

Life history of Theodore Milton Wassmer, including autobiography, photocopies of paintings, pictures, and newspaper clippings. Approximately 475 pages.

Dates: 1992

Max Dickson Weaver theses

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308006]
Identifier: MSS SC 986
Scope and Contents

Thesis outlining the life and art works of Calvin Fletcher, art professor at Utah State, includes photocopies of photographs of his works as part of Weaver's Master of Arts in Education degree.

Dates: 1955

Waltraud Weissenbach papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233290326]
Identifier: MSS 7944
Scope and Contents

Contains letters from Waltraut Weisenbach to Dale Fletcher during the period of 1975 to 1978. The letters chronicle their professional relationship and the path to display her art at Brigham Young University. Also includes clippings, postcards, and a notebook.

Dates: 1975-1978

Lorin Farrar Wheelwright papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 3164
Scope and Contents Collection primarily documents the activities of Lorin Farrar Wheelwright but contains some of the personal papers of his parents David R. and Valborg Rasmussen Wheelwright from 1890 to 1980, including documents pertaining to their lives as children, students, parents, missionaries, and workers through personal autobiographies, pictures, journals, correspondence, and personal writings.The bulk of the collection contains personal documents of Lorin Wheelwright's life in music,...
Dates: 1890-1980