Word: graphical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LANDMARKS OF MAPMAKING by R. V. Tooley and Charles Bricker. 276 pages. Elsevier (distributed by the New York Graphic Society...
...VICTORIAN SCENE: 1837-1901 by Nicolas Bentley. 296 pages. Weidenfeld & Nicolson (distributed by the New York Graphic Society...
...library was built in 1942. "This was the time," Philip Hofer, curator of the department of Printing and Graphic Arts, recalled last week, "When period styles were going out of fashion and modern art and architecture were coming in. The building was heavily criticized by all the modernists and heavily supported by all the traditionalists--Coolidge, for example, of Coolidge, Shepley, Bull-finch, Abbott, and God." Hofer's eyes twinkled. "Please do not leave out God, because he was one of their junior partners...
Hofer, who founded the department of Printing and Graphic Arts, has been with the Houghton Library since its beginning. "Before the Houghton was built," he recalls, "the rare books and manuscripts were being kept in Widener Library, in stacks that were on the ground, or even below ground, where the heat was enormous. There wasn't any way to turn it off adequately. Every morning when Bill [William A. Jackson, curator of the Houghton from 1942 until his death in 1964] and I arrived at the so-called rare book room of Widener Library, the temperature would be a minimum...
...graphic artist you know and love best is almost sure to be represented at the Roten Gallery. Piles of Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Daumier, Goya, Dufy and Miro are in the collection, often in a series or representing a particular phase or motif. In addition to the modern Europeans are some original Gothic, Persian, modern manuscript pages, and quite a few modern Japanese prints...