April 7, 2020, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1For the Walls of America: Prints from Associated American Artists In 1934, publicist Reeves Lewenthal called together a group of 23 American artists to discuss his innovative plan for distributing art to the American public.
March 19, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Research + TeachingPicturing the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries The Ransom Center’s Spring 2020 Stories to Tell exhibition features some of the earliest printed examples of illustrated English plays.
March 4, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Conservation, Featured1Conservators painstakingly remove glue that binds Kress Paper Conservation Fellow Emily Farek, working with paper conservators Ken Grant and Jane Boyd, describes the painstaking work of removing modern adhesive from the back of this very large (10′ x 7′) 1648 Dutch map titled, Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula, commonly known as the Blaeu World Map.