January 21, 2016, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsRansom Center showcased in new book on campus-wide university collections UT Press has just released a book of campus-wide holdings celebrating the University of Texas at Austin’s vast collections. The Collections: The University of Texas at Austin is the initiative of Andrée Bober, founder and director of the University’s public art program, Landmarks. The book shares more than 80 discrete… read more
January 20, 2016, Filed Under: PhotographyDavid Douglas Duncan at 100: A month of tributes to David Douglas Duncan in honor of his 100th birthday—Part 3 In the third installment of our tribute to David Douglas Duncan in the month of his 100th birthday, Mary Alice Harper, Head of Visual Materials Cataloging, writes about Duncan’s close relationship with Pablo Picasso.
January 19, 2016, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellow finds a kindred spirit in Shakespearean actor-manager Donald Wolfit Laurence Raw obtained a Fleur Cowles Fellowship to study at the Ransom Center in Spring 2011. He consulted the papers of British actor Donald Wolfit, which the Center acquired in the early 1990s. Comprising prompt books, stage plots, photographs, letters, diaries, and other ephemera, the Wolfit archive is the largest… read more
