E. E. Cummings:
An Inventory of His Art Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
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Administrative Information
Acquisition:
Purchases (R264, R3819, R4114, R4188, R4289, R4488, R4497, R4720, R4731, R4815, R7995, R14887)
Processed by:
Alice Egan, 1997, and Helen Young, 2001
Restrictions
Access:
A minimum of twenty-four hours is required to pull art materials to the Reading Room.
Biographical Sketch
Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962) was brought up in a conservative Cambridge, Massachusetts home. His father, with degrees in both philosophy and divinity, taught at Harvard University until 1900 when he received ordination by the Unitarian Church and became a pastor at the South Congregational Church of Boston.
According to family diaries, Cummings wanted to be a poet from an early age. He was supported in this ambition by his mother who made up word games and other activities to encourage his creativity. Cummings also drew prolifically, and his childhood drawings were often inspired by literature; his drawings included storyboards. Cummings attended public schools, including the Cambridge High and Latin School, prior to entering Harvard in 1911. While there, he concentrated in the classics, including Latin, Greek, and literature, and he mastered the various forms of poetry, gaining the foundation he needed in order to begin the experimentation with poetic form and shape that became his trademark.
While at Harvard, Cummings published poetry in the Harvard Monthly and the Harvard Advocate. Through these organizations he became acquainted with S. Foster Damon, Stewart Mitchell, John Dos Passos, Scofield Thayer, and J. Sibley Watson. These friends would encourage and support Cummings through much of his artistic career; many of them also shared his interest in the visual arts as well as poetry and literature. Damon, a music student, introduced Cummings to the works of El Greco, William Blake, Paul Cézanne, James McNeill Whistler, the French Impressionists, and the Fauves. He took Cummings to the Armory Show of 1913 when it was in Boston, and there Cummings became excited by the Brancusi sculptures. Through Thayer, Cummings became acquainted with the works of Picasso, Toulouse Lautrec, Beardsley, the Post Impressionists, and the Cubists. While still in school, Thayer gave Cummings a copy of Willard Huntington Wright's Modern Painting, which Cummings annotated extensively. John Dos Passos also painted and drew. Cummings never had formal art lessons, but he learned new oil painting techniques from his Harvard group of friends.
Cummings earned his BA from Harvard in 1915, magna cum laude, like his father before him, and was invited to speak at the commencement ceremony. He presented a term paper on "The New Art." This paper demonstrated Cummings' affinity with the modern artistic sensibility, especially his interest in the overlap between the visual arts and literature, a keystone in his distinctive typographical style.
After finishing his Master's degree in 1916, also from Harvard, Cummings moved to New York City in January of 1917. He worked at P. F. Collier for a few weeks, but became bored and quit, deciding instead to pursue the freedom of life as a full-time artist and poet. At this time he was painting in a cubist style. In April, he volunteered for the Norton-Hajes Ambulance Service and shipped out for France. On the trip he met William Slater Brown and their friendship was cemented by an unexpected five weeks of free time in Paris awaiting the rest of their ambulance unit.
Several months later, events took a defining turn for Cummings when he and Brown were detained by the French military on suspicion of espionage and undesirable activities. As a result of censor-provoking letters home by Brown and a preference for the company of French soldiers over their fellow American ambulance drivers, the two young men were held for three months in a concentration camp at La Ferté Mace. They were kept, along with their fellow detainees, in a large room which was represented in the title of Cummings' book about this experience, The Enormous Room (1922). Cummings' father worked through diplomatic channels and finally wrote a letter to President Wilson to obtain Cummings' release in December 1917. Brown was released two months later. Cummings returned to the United States, first to his parents' home in Massachusetts and then to New York, where he was joined by Brown.
For the next several years, Cummings painted and wrote. His paintings were now inspired by what he had seen in Paris, and a futurist influence started to appear. In 1919 he entered two paintings in the spring show of the New York Society of Independent Artists, and Gaston Lachaise (whom Cummings had met through Lachaise's stepson, Edward Pierce Nagle) reported to Cummings that Albert Gleizes had expressed enthusiasm about Cummings' paintings. In 1920 he again entered two large paintings in the society of Independent Artists exhibition, which were mentioned favorably by S. Jay Kaufman in the New York Globe and Advertiser. In 1921 he entered his painting Noise Number 10 in the Independent exhibition, but this painting was attacked in a New York newspaper review of the show.
In 1924, he married Elaine Orr Thayer, the mother of his daughter Nancy. They divorced after two months and in 1929, Cummings married Anne Minnerly Barton. They spent much of the next two years living and traveling in Europe.
In May 1931, Cummings left Barton and traveled to the Soviet Union. Pre-disposed to enjoy the trip, Cummings found his personal sense of individualism disturbed by the lack of intellectual and artistic freedom that he found. He published his diary from the trip under the Greek title Eimi (1933), which translates to "I am."
In August 1931, Cummings exhibited 162 works at a show arranged by Philip Kaplan at the Kokoon Arts Club in Cleveland, Ohio. His book CIOPW, a collection of works in charcoal, ink, oil, pastel, and watercolors, was published in 1931.
In 1932, while his divorce from Barton was being settled, Cummings met Marion Morehouse, who was to be his companion and common law wife for the rest of his life. In 1933, Cummings received the Guggenheim Fellowship for the purpose of writing a "book of poems." In 1935, unable to find a publisher for his book, he published No Thanks (1935) with the help of his mother. It was dedicated to the fourteen publishing houses that had turned him down.
E. E. Cummings continued to produce a steady stream of poems and publications throughout the forties and fifties. In 1952, Harvard offered him the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship for the 1952-53 school year. Also during the fifties, Cummings began to tour, reading his poetry across America. In 1958, he won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry from Yale University and published his final volume of new poems, 95 Poems.
He died at his family farm on September 3, 1962.
Critics have generally divided Cummings' career as a painter into two stylistic phases. The first phase, about 1915-1928, was represented by his experimental large-scale abstracts and his drawings and caricatures published in The Dial. During the 1920s Cummings started to drop out of the gallery scene, and he came to view the art establishment as anti-intellectual. The second phase of his art was from about 1928 until his death; this phase was characterized by representational works: still lifes, landscapes, nudes, and portraits.
Sources:
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 48, American Poets, 1880-1945, 2d ser., edited by Peter Quartermain. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986.
Kennedy, Richard S. Dreams in the Mirror: a Biography of E. E. Cummings. New York: Liveright Publishers, 1980.
The Paintings of E. E. Cummings. Retrieved April 18, 2002, from http://www.eecummingsart.com/cummings.html
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of eighty-four original works by E. E. Cummings, as well as a few other works and items that belonged to the artist. It is organized into two Series: I. Works by E. E. Cummings, and II. Works by Others. Titles are transcribed from the items; titles of published works are from the publications. Cataloger's titles appear in brackets.
Series I., Works by E. E. Cummings is subdivided into four subseries: A. Oil Paintings, B. Watercolor Paintings, C. Drawings, and D. Sketchbooks and Miscellaneous. Within each subseries, works are organized by accession number. Subseries C., Drawings, is further divided into Portraits and Self-Portraits, Landscapes, Nature Studies, Drawings of People, Animal Drawings, Anatomical Studies of Humans, and Illustrations. Among the original works are: eleven self-portraits, as well as portraits of Marion Morehouse, Anne Barton, and his sister, Elizabeth Cummings; paintings of New Hampshire landscapes, and numerous anatomical studies of humans and various animals; five of the illustrations for By E. E. Cummings (1930); three works that were published in Cummings' CIOPW (1931); and designs for illustrations for a children's story (apparently unpublished) by Elizabeth Nagle. There are also three sheets with labeled color swatches in oil and watercolor, as well as Cummings' palette and box of oil paint supplies.
The Ransom Center's Art Collection also has a portrait drawing of E. E. Cummings by Robert Sheriffs in its Robert Sheriffs Collection. The Ransom Center also has extensive E. E. Cummings materials in its Manuscripts Collection, its Library, and its Photography Collection. Among Cummings' manuscripts is "Edward E. Cummings Grand Zoological Congress and Trained Wild Animal Arena," produced in 1902 at the age of seven, which contains some of Cummings' earliest drawings.
Container List
I. Works by E. E. Cummings, 1905-1962, n.d. |
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| A. Oil Paintings | |||||||||||||
| 65.168 [Self portrait: Cummings wearing hat, holding notebook and pencil, with pipe in mouth]. 1938, Medium painting (oil on canvas) visible 82.1 x 54.1 cm. HRC 5.2 |
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| 68.32 [Self portrait with palette and beret]. 1945, Medium painting (oil on canvas board) visible 39 x 28.8 cm. FAC Vault F1-A-b |
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| 1 | 1 | 70.5 [Marion Morehouse: head and torso; inscribed on verso: "Merry Christmas to George, M.M.C. 1963"]. n.d., Medium painting (oil on board) 44.4 x 22.2 cm. |
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| 73.266 Marion in blue kerchief [Marion Morehouse]. 1933, Medium painting (oil on canvasboard) visible 40.1 x 29.6 cm. FAC Vault F1-A-b |
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| 73.267 [Early self-portrait]. n.d., Medium painting (oil on canvasboard) visible 39.3 x 31.7 cm. FAC Vault F1-A-b |
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| 78.46.1 Girl in Grey [Anne Barton Cummings]. 1931, Medium painting (oil on board) visible 45 x 37.3 cm. FAC Vault F1-A-b |
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| 1 | 2 | 78.46.2 [Marion Morehouse, nude figure]. 1941, Medium painting (oil on board) 44.8 x 21.5 cm. |
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| 78.46.3 Landscape, New Hampshire [farm of Mrs. James Sibley Watson]. 1939, Medium painting (oil on canvasboard) 30.2 x 40.5 cm. FAC Vault F12-C-a |
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| 2001.6.1 Seine [landscape with bridge, river, boat; from CIOPW, p. 67]. 192-, Medium painting (oil on board) 23.8 x 34.9 cm. FAC Vault |
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| 2001.6.2 Street Winter [landscape]. 192-, Medium painting (oil on canvas board) 44.5 x 35.4 cm. FAC Vault |
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| B. Watercolor Paintings | |||||||||||||
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| 1 | 3 | 68.36.2 Porte Saint Denis [man wearing bowler hat, with arm around stout woman wearing green; from CIOPW, p. 113]. 192-?, Medium painting (watercolor) 34.7 x 28 cm. |
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| 4 | 68.36.3 [Landscape with mountains, large sky with clouds]. n.d., Medium painting (watercolor) 30.4 x 45.6 cm. |
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| 5 | 68.84 Danseuse Egyptienne [female figure dancing; from CIOPW, p. 99]. 192-?, Medium painting (watercolor) 34.7 x 28 cm. |
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| 6 | 69.6 [Paris landscape with church and Eiffel Tower]. n.d., Medium painting (watercolor) 22.5 x 30 cm. |
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| 7 | 69.21 [Landscape with sun over mountains]. n.d., Medium painting (watercolor) 30.4 x 45.8 cm. |
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| 8 | 73.144.4 [Tree; torn off portion of painting]. n.d., Medium painting (watercolor) 21.5 x 7.5 cm. |
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| 9 | 73.151.27 [Landscape with building; verso: cube studies]. n.d., Medium painting (watercolor) 48.9 x 28.5 cm. |
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| 10 | 78.46.4 [Landscape with blue mountains, large clouds]. n.d., Medium painting (watercolor) 30.2 x 45.5 cm. |
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| C. Drawings | |||||||||||||
| Portraits and Self-Portraits | |||||||||||||
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| 1 | 11 | 65.533.1 [Self-portrait, head and shoulders]. 1917, Medium drawing (pencil) 27.9 x 21.6 cm. |
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| 12 | 65.533.2 Elizabeth F. Cummings [head and shoulders portrait]. 1905, Medium drawing (pencil) 27.5 x 21.5 cm. |
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| 13 | 65.533.3 [Elizabeth Cummings; portrait of child on chair]. 1905, Medium drawing (pencil) 27.5 x 21.5 cm. |
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| 14 | 65.533.4 [Self-portrait; study of head proportions]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 27.9 x 21.7 cm. |
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| 67.27.1 [Self-portrait, head]. 1962, Medium drawing (charcoal) 45.6 x 35.5 cm. FAC Vault F1-A-b |
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| 1 | 15 | 67.27.2 [Self-portrait, head]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 27.9 x 21.5 cm. |
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| 16 | 67.75.8 [Woman's face (Elaine Thayer Cummings?), on verso of envelope]. 1924? Medium drawing (pencil) 16.5 x 9.2 cm. |
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| 17 | 68.36.1 [Self portrait with pipe]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 27.9 x 21.7 cm. |
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| 18 | 73.268 [Self portrait, head and shoulders]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 27.8 x 21.7 cm. |
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| Landscapes | |||||||||||||
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| 1 | 19 | 65.533.9 [Stream with trees]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 21.6 x 27.8 cm. |
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| 20 | 73.151.10 [Landscape with mountains, on grid]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 30.1 x 40.5 cm. |
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| 21 | 73.151.11 [Landscape with mountains, on grid]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 30.5 x 40.6 cm. |
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| Nature Studies | |||||||||||||
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| 1 | 22 | 73.151.9 Yellow Daisies. 1953, Medium drawing (pencil) 40.6 x 30.5 cm. |
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| 23 | 73.151.26 [Pine trees]. n.d., Medium drawing (watercolor) 37.8 x 27.5 cm. |
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| 24 | 80.13 [Flowers on Stalk]. n.d., Medium drawing (ink) 29.5 x 19.5 cm. |
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| Drawings of People | |||||||||||||
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| 1-10 | 68.36.4 [Woman, cubist line drawing]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 72.5 x 47 cm. |
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| 1 | 25 | 68.73 [Circus performers; 13 sketches on 1 sheet]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 20.4 x 12.7 cm. |
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| 26 | 68.86 [Couple dancing]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 57 x 36.2 cm. |
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| 27 | 73.151.5 [Cubist head studies on both sides of sheet]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 28 x 21.5 cm. |
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| 28 | 73.151.8 [Female nude kneeling on one knee]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 45.6 x 30.3 cm. |
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| Animal Drawings | |||||||||||||
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| 1 | 29 | 67.75.6 [Four beetles, and abstract sketch]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 27.9 x 21.5 cm. |
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| 30 | 73.151.1 [Anatomical studies of various animal skeletons]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 35.6 x 25.3 cm. |
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| 31 | 73.151.2 [Anatomical studies of lemur, flamingo, and other animals]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 35.6 x 25.3 cm. |
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| 32 | 73.151.3 [Anatomical studies of bat, hare, hornbill, and other animals]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 35.6 x 25.3 cm. |
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| 33 | 73.151.4 [Studies of gorilla, giant toad, and other animals]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 35.6 x 25.3 cm. |
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| 34 | 73.151.14 [Studies of various animal heads]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 35.5 x 25.3 cm. |
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| 35 | 73.151.15 [Studies of totem poles and various animals]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 35.5 x 25.3 cm. |
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| 36 | 73.151.18 [Penguin]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 15.1 x 9.9 cm. |
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| 37 | 78.46.5 [Elephant with banner; inscribed: "To my valentine"]. n.d., Medium drawing (crayon) 21.6 x 27.9 cm. |
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| Anatomical Studies of Humans | |||||||||||||
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| 1 | 38 | 65.533.5 [Anatomical studies of facial features]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 27.9 x 21.7 cm. |
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| 39 | 65.533.6 [Anatomical studies of head and facial features]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 28 x 21.5 cm. |
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| 40 | 65.533.7 [Anatomical studies of eyes, inscribed: "Holbein"]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 27.8 x 21.7 cm. |
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| 41 | 65.533.8 [Anatomical studies of eyes]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 27.7 x 21.5 cm. |
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| 42 | 73.151.7 [Anatomical studies of arm muscles and bones]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil, crayon, ink) 21.8 x 27.9 cm. |
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| 43 | 73.151.13 [Anatomical studies of bones of forearm, elbow, and hip]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 35.5 x 25.3 cm. |
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| 44 | 73.151.16 [Anatomical studies of arm muscles]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil, crayon, ink) 21.8 x 27.9 cm. |
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| 45 | 73.151.17 [Anatomical studies of arms, male torso]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil and crayon) 21.8 x 27.9 cm. |
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| 46 | 73.151.19 [Anatomical studies of male neck, shoulder, and thorax]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 27.9 x 21.7 cm. |
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| 47 | 73.151.20 [Anatomical study of pelvis]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 28 x 21.5 cm. |
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| 48 | 73.151.21 [Anatomical studies of arms]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil, ink, and crayon) 27.9 x 21.7 cm. |
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| 49 | 73.151.23 [Anatomical studies of human muscles and skeleton]. n.d., Medium drawing (ink, pencil, crayon) 42.6 x 21.7 cm. |
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| 50 | 73.151.24 [Anatomical studies of male torso muscles]. n.d., Medium drawing (crayon and pencil) 27.9 x 21.7 cm. |
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| 51 | 73.151.25 [Anatomical studies of human skull]. n.d., Medium drawing (crayon and pencil) 27.9 x 21.7 cm. |
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| Illustrations | |||||||||||||
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| 2 | 3 | 65.533.10 [Two figures holding shield lettered "Cambridge Review"]. 191-, Medium drawing (pencil) 26.6 x 20.3 cm. |
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| 4 | 65.533.11 [Design for cover, lettered: "Cambridge Review, Vol, No, January"]. 191-, Medium drawing (ink and pencil) 35.5 x 25.3 cm. |
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| Illustrations for stories by Elizabeth Nagle | |||||||||||||
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| 2 | 5 | 67.75.1 [Mouse wearing glasses, holding powder puff to face, standing on chair]. 1923, Medium drawing (pencil) 45.8 x 28.8 cm. |
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| 6 | 67.75.2 [Jack-in-the-box and leaping mouse, inscribed: "Episode 16, p. 45, Nibbly & J-I-B"]. 1923, Medium drawing (pencil) 45.7 x 28.8 cm. |
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| 7 | 67.75.3 [Mouse standing on cat, inscribed: "Episode 36, p. 95"]. 1923, Medium drawing (pencil) 45.7 x 28.8 cm. |
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| 8 | 67.75.4 [Group of five mice, one wearing glasses]. 1923, Medium drawing (pencil) 28.8 x 23.1 cm. |
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| 9 | 67.75.5 [Group of six mice inside wall, and cat outside wall]. 1923, Medium drawing (pencil) 45.7 x 28.8 cm. |
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| Illustrations for By E. E. Cummings, 1930, | |||||||||||||
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| 2 | 10 | 67.75.7 The Garden of Eden [elephant, snake, lizard, and other animals, with nude male and female figures; p. 10]. 192-? Medium drawing (pencil) 27.9 x 21.5 cm. |
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| 11 | 67.75.9 The Helping Hand [bearded man wearing cap, with small figure sitting on his lap, in flying row boat; p. 46]. 192-? Medium drawing (pencil) 27.9 x 21.5 cm. |
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| 12 | 67.75.10 The Helping Hand [bearded man wearing cap, with small figure sitting on his lap, in flying row boat; p. 46]. 192-? Medium reproductive print 26.7 x 18.9 cm. |
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| 13 | 67.75.11 The Death of Abraham Lincoln [bearded man in bed, with arms stretched out forward, other figures; p. 18]. 192-? Medium drawing (pencil) 26.7 x 18.9 cm. |
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| 14 | 67.75.12 The Swan and Leda [swan chasing girl; p. 26]. 192-? Medium drawing (pencil) 26.7 x 18.9 cm. |
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| 15 | 67.75.13 The Swan and Leda [swan chasing girl; p. 26]. 192-? Medium reproductive print 26.5 x 16.9 cm. |
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| 16 | 67.75.14 The Friend in Need [dog with collar lettered "Rover"; caricature of man in foreshortened perspective; p. 32]. 192-? Medium drawing (pencil) 27.9 x 21.5 cm. |
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| 17 | 67.75.15 The Friend in Need [dog with collar lettered "Rover"; caricature of man in foreshortened perspective; p. 32]. 192-? Medium reproductive print 32 x 17 cm. |
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| 18 | 67.75.16 The Spinster's Dilemma [woman standing with hands over ears, squawking parrot in cage; p. 38]. 192-? Medium drawing (pencil) 27.9 x 21.5 cm. |
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| 19 | 67.75.17 The Spinster's Dilemma [woman standing with hands over ears, squawking parrot in cage; p. 38]. 192-? Medium reproductive print 32 x 18 cm. |
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| 20 | 67.75.18 The Dog in the Manger [dog and horse, figure behind; p. 58]. 192-? Medium reproductive print 32 x 16.7 cm. |
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| 21 | 67.75.19 The First Robin [man in prison next to window with bars, bird on tree limb outside; p. 58]. 192-? Medium reproductive print 32 x 15 cm. |
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| 22 | 73.151.6 [Prisoner lying on cot in jail cell, bird on tree limb outside (preliminary drawing for The First Robin in By E. E. Cummings?); verso: anatomical muscle study of human back, caricature of man]. 192-? Medium drawing (pencil) 28 x 21.5 cm. |
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| D. Sketchbooks and Miscellaneous | |||||||||||||
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| 2 | 1 | 65.533.12 [Various figures on trapezes, figures on horses, figures with lassoes]. n.d., Medium sketch pad (32 leaves) 10.4 x 6.7 cm. |
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| 24 | 73.144.1 [Angel, Madonna, and Star]. n.d., Medium collage (paper) 30.5 x 22.7 cm. |
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| 23 | 73.144.6 [Three landscapes, 2 leaves of color swatches, sketch of two heads: sketchbook]. n.d., Medium sketchbook (watercolor and pencil) 24 x 31.5 cm. |
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| 25 | 73.151.12 [Grumbacher palette with tear-off sheets, with circles drawn on top sheet]. n.d., Medium palette 29.4 x 39.1 cm. |
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| 26 | 73.151.22 Cinema [outline of Chaplin-like figure with lettering]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 33.1 x 45.4 cm. |
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| 27 | 73.151.28 [Twenty-eight color swatches]. n.d., Medium painting (oil on board) 35.5 x 21.6 cm. |
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| 28 | 73.151.29 [Thirty-six color swatches]. n.d., Medium painting (oil on board) 32.9 x 21.9 cm. |
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| 29 | 73.151.30 [Twenty-three color swatches]. n.d., Medium painting (watercolor) 23.6 x 30.9 cm. |
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| 73.188 [Wooden paint box containing tubes of oil paint, bottles of linseed oil, and spatulas]. n.d., Medium box (wood) 10.1 x 31.4 x 25.5 cm. FAC vault |
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| 2 | 2 | 2001.7 [Figure on elephant; laid in E. E. Cummings: Sketches & Watercolors of the Twenties & Thirties, NYC NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1968]. n.d., Medium drawing (pencil) 12.5 x 20.2 cm. |
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II. Works by Others, 1888, n.d. |
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| 2 | 30 | 73.151.31 [Edward Cummings? (the artist's father), head portrait]. 1888, Artist J. S. L. (?) Medium drawing (pencil) 34.4 x 26.3 cm. |
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| 31 | 73.144.2 [Portion of gold and black gift wrap with design of bird and tree ornaments]. n.d., Artist Unidentified Medium print (silkscreen) 34 x 15 cm. |
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| 32 | 73.144.3 [Portion of gold and black gift wrap with angel design]. n.d., Artist Unidentified Medium print (silkscreen) 12.6 x 13.3 cm. |
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| 33 | 73.144.5 [Portion of gold and black gift wrap with duck design]. n.d., Artist Unidentified Medium print (silkscreen) 11 x 13.3 cm. |
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