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Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center

Through August 18, the exhibition Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center features materials that provide insight into the creative process while also establishing meaningful, personal connections between the past and the present.

Discover stories of inspiration, adaptation, innovation, confrontation, collaboration and even frustration.


Highlights include:

•Materials from the newly acquired archive of playwright Arthur Miller

Selection from Arthur Miller’s three-volume FBI file, 1985. Arthur Miller Papers, Harry Ransom Center.


•Renaissance books showing collectors’ search for the “perfect” copy

Thomas Lodge, “The Wounds of Ciuill War” (London: John Danter, 1594; STC 16678), sig. A1r. Pforz 624. Harry Ransom Center.


•Early childhood writings by Charlotte Brontë, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Foster Wallace, and others

 

Opening page of Charlotte Brontë’s manuscript “The Green Dwarf,” September 2, 1833. Brontë Family Collection, Harry Ransom Center.

 

•Drawings from the Aubrey Beardsley Collection and techniques for authenticating them

 

Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), “Peacocks Flanking Apple Tree (design for Morte d’Arthur),” 1893. India ink on paper. Museum purchase, 69.79.2. Aubrey Beardsley Art Collection. Harry Ransom Center.

 

 

•Sketches, camera notes, and more from film director Norman O. Dawn

Norman O. Dawn, Effect No. 6, Missions of California, April 1907. Collage. Norman O. Dawn Collection, Harry Ransom Center.


•Photographic “fakes” from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Unidentified photographer (British, active 1860s), “Little Red Riding Hood,” ca. 1865. Albumen print with applied color, 10.0 x 6.1 cm (carte de visite). Photography collection, 975:0071:0160. Harry Ransom Center.



The exhibition shares the creative process across different mediums and divulges the steps and efforts of artistic works, reminding us how the humanities enrich us.

Stories to Tell is on view Mondays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended Thursday hours until 7 p.m. On weekends, the exhibition is open from noon to 5 p.m. Free.