Skip to main content

Arts

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the arts in general, including the visual arts, literature, and the performing arts. General works on the visual arts are entered under Art.

Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

Doug Swink Theater Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-102
Scope and Contents

This collection contains theatre professor Doug Swink's memorabilia from his tenure as a Wilmington College faculty member during the 1960s. Included in the collection are slides, performance programs and tickets, photographs, newspaper clippings, and student information bulletins encompassing many facets of student and faculty happenings, as well as theatre news, both on and off campus.

Dates: 1938-2006; Majority of material found within 1957-1969

Dr. Ralph W. Brauer Print Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-MS-200
Scope and Contents

Collection of prints dating from the 16th century forward, with the bulk from the 1800s, including representations of the print art form by Francisco Goya, William Hogarth, Honoré Daumier, Fritz Eichenberg, Käthe Kollwitz, and others. To view prints in catalog, click here.

Dates: Undetermined

Edwin Booth Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-115
Scope and Contents This collection includes extensive biographical data on the actor, producer, and teacher, Edwin Booth. He was renowned in Europe, and the U.S.--with his brothers Junius and John Wilkes--for his interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedies. Edwin Booth's career spanned from the years 1849, to his last performance as Hamlet at the Academy of Music in 1891, in Brooklyn N.Y. This collection contains various scrapbooks, theatre collections, stage plans, and settings for all plays performed at...
Dates: Other: 1800s

Edwin E. Kirton Family Private Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-042
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, church programs and scrapbooks, as well as a large collection of sheet music that belonged to Mrs. Kirton. The scrapbooks in this collection highlight Father Kirton's career and other family events and the social column written by Mrs. Kirton for the Afro American newspaper.

Dates: 1927-1986

Elli Klein Sheet Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-369
Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of undated piano and choral sheet music consisting of music from play productions and operas, official United States military songs, and other songs of the era. Well-known pieces such as People Will Say We Are In Love from the musical Oklahoma and the musical score from Gone With The Wind are contained within this sheet music collection. The only dated source, The Marine's Hymn, is from 1942 and is the oldest and official song of the United State Marine Corps.

Dates: 1942, Undated

Fanny B. deRosset Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-097
Scope and Contents

Original sheet music, mostly of the the late nineteenth century, for voice and piano.

Dates: 1882-1952

Fritzi Huber Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-213
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers, photographs, and original artwork, which highlight the career of local Wilmington artist, Fritzi Huber. Spanning from the 1970s to the early 2000s, this collection includes a wide range of papers: correspondence, artist statements, resumes, press releases, brochures/newsletters, artists/gallery agreements, price list purchase orders, invoices, packing slips, gallery floor plans, and consignment agreements. Also included within the collection are...
Dates: 1979-2004

Gayle Tustin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-221
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers and media related to the career of local Wilmington artist Gayle Tustin. The collection includes sketchbooks, preliminary plans, interviews, magazine articles, applications, records, artists' biography, consignment forms, material lists, photographs, postcards, and brochures that map Tustin's artistic career from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. The collection ranges in terms of the size and scope of projects, including local commissions and plans for...
Dates: 1981-2006

Harry Lee Davis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-125
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the papers of Wilmington artist Harry Lee Davis (1949-2018). Included newspaper articles, correspondence, business agreements, and publicity materials documenting his career as an artist with an emphasis on local exhibition and marketing. Additionally, this collection contains limited edition prints of Davis' work.

Dates: 1984-2008

Hester Donnelly Prints

 Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-301
Scope and Contents

This collection contains original artwork created by local Wilmington artist, Hester Claire Donnelly (1904-1992). Included are a series of informal sketches and finished works ranging in topic. Most of the artwork was created on rough or semi-tooth drawing paper using watercolor paints, pencils, colored pencils, and markers.

Dates: Undated