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200 Years of Returns collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-1043
Content Description
This collection contains several artifacts associated with the "200 Years of Returns" interactive theater piece developed by B4 Youth Theatre in 2022 in collaboration with Colonial Williamsburg and Liberian artist Omar El Shabu, also known as Baba Shabu. "200 Years of Returns" was created to commemorate the 200th anniversary since the first Black Americans settled in Liberia through the American Colonization Society.The items in this collection represent various...
Dates:
2022
Found in:
Special Collections
Adolf Katzenellenbogen papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0040
Abstract
Adolf Katzenellenbogen, internationally known art historian, was born in Germany in Frankfurt-am-Main on August 19, 1901. He was educated at the universities of Freiburg, Leipzig, Munich, Frankfurt and Giessen in 1924, and he received a doctor of philosophy degree in 1933 at the University of Hamburg. Katzenellenbogen joined the faculty of Vassar College in 1940 and remained there until 1958 when he came to Johns Hopkins University as full professor and department chairman. A specialist in...
Dates:
1933-1964
Found in:
Special Collections
Invitations and announcements to Surrealist artist exhibitions
Collection — Box: BW-3, Folder: 8
Identifier: MS-0688
Abstract
Invitations and announcements to Surrealist artist exhibitions, 1947-1976, featuring Camille Bryen, Rene Crevel, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Wilfredo Lam, Rene Magritte, and other painters.
Dates:
1947-1976
Found in:
Special Collections