March 6, 2014, Filed Under: Art, Books + ManuscriptsCorrespondence sheds light on illustrations for articles by landscape design critic Mariana Van Rensselaer Biographer Judith Major’s recent book Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer: A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age (University of Virginia Press) highlights the work of the pioneering landscape critic, and Major quotes from one of the letters in the Ransom Center’s Elizabeth and Joseph Pennell papers for her book. Joseph Pennell… read more
March 6, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingQ&A: New collection of Dashiell Hammett stories required detective work in Ransom Center’s collection Julie M. Rivett is the granddaughter of Dashiell Hammett, celebrated twentieth-century novelist and author of The Maltese Falcon. Together with Richard Layman, Rivett published The Hunter and Other Stories, a collection of Hamett’s little-known and previously unpublished works. The book—which includes screenplays, short stories, and unfinished narratives—largely draws from… read more
March 6, 2014, Filed Under: Art, PhotographyFrom the Outside In: David Douglas Duncan’s photograph “Picasso’s Eyes,” 1957 The atria on the first floor of the Ransom Center are surrounded by windows featuring etched reproductions of images from the collections. The windows offer visitors a hint of the cultural treasures to be discovered inside. From the Outside In is a series that highlights some of these images and… read more
