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For the Walls of America: Prints from Associated American Artists

April 7, 2020 - Tracy Bonfitto

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. [Read more…] about For the Walls of America: Prints from Associated American Artists

Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: archive, Associated American Artists, Grant Wood, Stories to Tell, Thomas Hart Benton

The Golden Age of Magic Posters

January 23, 2020 - Eric Colleary

The turn of the twentieth century was a period of innovation, when advances in printing and color lithography coincided with a new golden age in the performance of magic and illusion. This convergence resulted in the most stunning, color-saturated advertisements in the history of magic. [Read more…] about The Golden Age of Magic Posters

Filed Under: Art, Digital Collections, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Harry Houdini, lithography, Magic, posters, Stories to Tell

Powerful currents: John Wilson’s Down by the Riverside prints

November 14, 2018 - Tracy Bonfitto

The dark male figure, head bent to the driving rain indicated by the dense lines that cover the page, lifts a slight woman into a simple rowboat. The boat’s bow is pointed through the floodwaters toward higher ground, its port side steadied by a second stooped male. [Read more…] about Powerful currents: John Wilson’s Down by the Riverside prints

Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: African American History Month, lithographs, Stories to Tell

A conversation on “Dying Well in Early Modern England” with curator Aaron Pratt

October 30, 2018 - Austin Downey

A current Stories to Tell display embraces the Halloween spirit with a collection of early printed books from throughout the Ransom Center’s collections that take on the topic of death. [Read more…] about A conversation on “Dying Well in Early Modern England” with curator Aaron Pratt

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: dying, England, Halloween, Pforzheimer, Stories to Tell

Meticulous free verse: Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés and Ellsworth Kelly

May 22, 2018 - Tracy Bonfitto

“The literary value, if I may say it, of this span of empty space on the page, which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one’s simultaneous view of the entirety of the page…” (Stéphane Mallarmé, “Observation Relative au Poème Un Coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard,” Cosmopolis, May 1897, p. 412 [trans.]) [Read more…] about Meticulous free verse: Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés and Ellsworth Kelly

Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: Ellsworth Kelly, Limited Editions Club, Stories to Tell

In the galleries: Dressing for success in Mad Men’s Season 6

January 16, 2018 - Leigh Hilford

The Ransom Center’s Stories to Tell exhibition features a rotating selection from the Ransom Center’s holdings.

[Read more…] about In the galleries: Dressing for success in Mad Men’s Season 6

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film Tagged With: Costumes and Personal Effects, Janie Bryant, Mad Men, Stories to Tell

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