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Alison Mason Kingsbury papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3663

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Drawings, illustrations, and paintings; charcoal landscape drawings; exhibition catalogs and reviews; bound volumes of sketches, notebooks and pamphlets. Also, "Unheralded Artist: Alison Kingsbury," Princeton University undergraduate thesis by Holly Markovitz, 2000.

Dates

  • [ca. 1923]-1965.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Artist.

Alison Mason Kingsbury was an artist in Ithaca, N.Y. She came to Ithaca in 1926 as a student assistant to Ezra Winter, who designed the mural in the lobby of Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University. She married Morris Bishop, a noted Cornell writer and historian.

Extent

1.5 cubic feet. (1.5 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Drawings, illustrations, and paintings; charcoal landscape drawings; exhibition catalogs and reviews; bound volumes of sketches, notebooks and pamphlets. Also, "Unheralded Artist: Alison Kingsbury," Princeton University undergraduate thesis by Holly Markovitz, 2000.

RELATED MATERIALS

See also Alison Mason Kingsbury Gannett Clinic mural materials, #43-32-1193, Alison Jolly Papers, #8517, and Morris Bishop Papers, #14-18-641. A video of Kingsbury is availible in the Cornell Artists and Local Video Programs collection, #3867.

Physical Description

Manuscripts, printed materials.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
RMC Staff
Date completed:
June 2016
EAD encoding:
RMC Staff, June 2016
Date modified:
RMC Staff, June 2018
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by RMC Staff
Date
November 2016
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)