In January 2015, SMU Central University Libraries uploaded 301 items into CUL Digital Collections. CUL now has approximately 42,067 published items. Highlights include: 95 photographs in the new George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection, including portraits, stereographs, and postcards, and locations. The digital collection was unveiled to coincide with opening of the Cook Collection exhibit…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: January 2015
Exhibit: The George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection
First Impressions: The George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection Dates: January 30 – May 15, 2015 Times: Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Location: DeGolyer Library About the exhibit The George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection is an important addition to the DeGolyer Library and is a wonderful resource for research in Dallas…Continue Reading Exhibit: The George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection
12 from Texas: A Portfolio of Lithographs
The Bywaters Special Collection staff just installed the 12 From Texas portfolio on the second floor of the Hamon Arts Library. In 1952, Southern Methodist University Press decided to, according to its press release for 12 From Texas, “make available at a reasonable price the work of outstanding regional artists.” The subject matter of these…Continue Reading 12 from Texas: A Portfolio of Lithographs
Graphic Novels at Hamon
Hamon and Fondren hold diverse collections of graphic novels that cover a range of subjects such as cultural identity, illness, politics, and history. Graphic novels are usually longer than comic books and tell a single story within one volume. Graphic novels tell stories in a way that regular novels do not, with a certain level of abstraction, artistic…Continue Reading Graphic Novels at Hamon
Emil Nolde: Christ Among the Children
Thank you to LaGail Davis for contributing this commentary on Emil Nolde’s painting, Christ Among the Children, excerpted from a class essay. As quoted by Pois, Nolde declares, “I had to be artistically free, not to have God before me as a steel-hard Assyrian ruler, but God in me, hot and holy as the love of…Continue Reading Emil Nolde: Christ Among the Children
CUL Digital Collections Update: December 2014
In December 2014, SMU Central University Libraries uploaded 302 items into CUL Digital Collections. CUL now has approximately 41,766 published items. Highlights include: 99 Texas railroad negatives from the Everett L. DeGolyer Jr. Collection of United States Railroad Photographs as part of the TexTreasures FY2015 grant depicting Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company locomotives and…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: December 2014
Welcome
Welcome to the Hamon Arts Library’s new blog! In addition to library news and highlights, we are expanding our focus to include events and people around Meadows and Dallas. With this goal in mind, we invite community members to submit content to our blog about library findings and events in the community that may be…Continue Reading Welcome
CUL Digital Collections Update: November 2014
In November 2014, SMU Central University Libraries (CUL)’ uploaded 611 items into our CUL Digital Collections. CUL now has approximately 41,464 published items. Highlights include: 131 Texas railroad negatives from the Everett L. DeGolyer Jr. Collection of United States Railroad Photographs as part of the TexTreasures FY2015 grant. Images include Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: November 2014
CUL Digital Collections Update: October 2014
In October 2014, SMU’s Central University Libraries (CUL) uploaded 1,019 items into CUL Digital Collections. CUL now has approximately 40,853 published items. Highlights include: 136 shop drawings from the Potter Art Iron Studio Collection, including Box 03 and Box 04. Drawings mainly include a variety of andirons, as well as chandeliers, lanterns, and other lighting…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: October 2014
Exhibit – Defined By Light: Photography’s First 75 Years
Defined By Light: Photography’s First 75 Years Images and Objects from the Collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus in Celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Announcement of Photography Location: DeGolyer Library Dates: October 23 – December 19, 2014 Times: Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. About the exhibit: Jack and Beverly Wilgus…Continue Reading Exhibit – Defined By Light: Photography’s First 75 Years