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Carl N. Werntz drawings
- Title
- Carl N. Werntz drawings, 1923-1938.
- Author
- Werntz, Carl.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Still image | Supervised use | *T-Vim 2013-151 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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- Description
- 1 box (159 drawings) : some col.; 50 x 38 cm or smaller.
- Summary
- Original travel sketches (primarily pencil) of dance, theater, music, and general subjects, by Carl N. Werntz, drawn during trips to places such as Japan, Java, Africa, Bali, Borneo, Ceylon, China, Guatemala, India, Indochina, Indonesia, New Guinea, the Philippine Islands, and Tahiti, between 1923 and 1938.
- Subjects
- Masks > New Guinea > Pictorial works
- Dance > Indonesia > Bali (Province) > Pictorial works
- Theater > India > Pictorial works
- Musicians > India > Pictorial works
- Dance > Japan > Pictorial works
- Dance > Indonesia > Java > Pictorial works
- Dance > Indochina > Pictorial works
- Travel sketches
- Dance > India > Pictorial works
- Dance > Philippines > Pictorial works
- Masks > Japan > Pictorial works
- Theater > Japan > Pictorial works
- Dance > New Guinea > Pictorial works
- Drawings
- Theater > China > Pictorial works
- Dance > French Polynesia > Tahiti (Island) > Pictorial works
- Genre/Form
- Drawings.
- Travel sketches.
- Call Number
- *T-Vim 2013-151
- OCLC
- 869896594
- Author
- Werntz, Carl. Artist
- Title
- Carl N. Werntz drawings, 1923-1938.
- Biography
- Artist Carl N. Werntz (1874-1944) was born in Sterling, Illinois. He studied art in the Chicago area under several teachers, including Alphonse Mucha. Werntz continued his artistic studies in Paris, Rome and Japan. Early in his career he worked for The Chicago record. Werntz founded the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1902, later selling it in 1937. His illustrations appeared in various magazines and newspapers, and his work was often exhibited. With his wife, Millicent (nee Newman), Werntz traveled around the world numerous times, sketching people, places, objects, and events. Werntz died in Mexico City.
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- *T-Vim 2013-151