Posts Tagged ‘Jennifer Hecker’
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Al Hirschfeld's 1954 letter to Edward Weeks. © Al Hirschfeld. Reproduced by arrangement with Hirschfeld's exclusive representative, the Margo Feiden Galleries, Ltd., New York. www.alhirschfeld.com.
John Steinbeck stamped his letters with a winged pig, Muhammad Ali’s letterhead alludes to his catchphrase “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,” and Al Hirschfeld signed his letters with a spiral-eyed self-portrait. Read about what we can learn from these and other illustrated letters found across the Ransom Center’s collections.
Tags: A la recherche du temps perdu, Al Hirschfeld, Amy Armstrong, Arnold Wesker, Carlton Lake, Cathy Henderson, Coen brothers, David Mamet, Edward Weeks, Elizabeth Garver, Fred Allen, Gertrude Stein, Harry Houdini, Irving Hoffman, Jennifer Hecker, Joan Rivers, John Steinbeck, Kenneth Brown, Marcel Proust, Mel Gussow, Morris Ernst, Muhammad Ali, Norman Mailer, Professor L. Krieger, Reynaldo Hahn, Tennessee Williams
by Elana Estrin at 11:41 AM |
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Each Friday, the Ransom Center shares photos from throughout the week that highlight a range of activities and collection holdings. We hope you enjoy these photos that reveal some of the everyday happenings at the Center.
Assistant Archivist Nicole Davis (left) and Archivist Jennifer Hecker work on cataloging the papers of lawyer Morris Ernst. Some of the more than 900 processed and unprocessed boxes of the Ernst collection surround Davis and Hecker as they work on making the collection accessible in fall 2011. Photo by Anthony Maddaloni.
Curator of Photography David Coleman (left) and Bill Ewing, Director of Curatorial Projects for Thames & Hudson, work with the Arnold Newman collection for a future project with the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography.…
Tags: Amy Armstrong, Anthony Maddaloni, Arnold Newman, Bill Ewing, Danielle Sigler, David Coleman, Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Jennifer Hecker, Morris Ernst, Nicole Davis, Paul Schrader, Thames & Hudson, Willem Dafoe
by Jennifer Tisdale at 11:08 AM |
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Each Friday, the Ransom Center shares photos from throughout the week that highlight a range of activities and collection holdings. We hope you enjoy these photos that reveal some of the everyday happenings at the Center.
Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson and his wife, Emily, view items from the Isaac Bashevis Singer archive, which include materials relating to Davidson’s film based on 'The Beard,' a short story by Singer. Photo by Pete Smith.
Jill Morena, Collection Assistant for Costumes and Personal Effects, and volunteer Emily Dellheim prepare a costume worn by Deborah Kerr in ‘An Affair to Remember’ (1957). Costumes were pulled for Professor James Glavan and MFA students in Costume Technology in the Department of Theatre and Dance. The students examined the…
Tags: An Affair to Remember, Anthony Maddaloni, Bruce Davidson, Carole Watson, conservation department, costume technology, Deborah Kerr, Emily Dellheim, Isaac Bashevis Singer, James Glavan, Jennifer Hecker, Jill Morena, Jim Leach, Magnum photographer, Morris Ernst, National Edowment for the Humanities, NEH, Pete Smith, photographer Bruce Davidson, The Beard
by Jennifer Tisdale at 10:12 AM |
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