Faculty Department: Art, 1946 - 2006

File — Box: N-04

Identifier: N:039

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating appointments/promotions/changes, awards, deaths, faculty committees, faculty departments, grants, sabbaticals, Memorial Fund, individual faculty and staff members, policy/handbook, professorships, recruitment, retirement/resignation, salary, scholarship, schedules, visiting professors, tuition exchange/remission.

Includes newspaper clippings, newsletters, handbook, and brochures.

Dates

1946 - 2006

Creator

Muhlenberg College (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research, with only a few very limited restrictions; access by appointment.

Extent

From the Collection: 50 Linear Feet (The bulk of the printed material (previously the vertical files) is contained in flip-top document cases. Textiles, memorabilia, and other realia is stored in appropriate lidded boxes.)

Additional Description

Department brochures 1946-1948; history of art department; department assessment 2006; mentions original pastel of college done by Philip Evergood; "Door to Door" feature article on George Rickey 1994; Sunday Call-Chronicle on Peter Gross 1978; Tyson requests appropriation of $28,000 from Carnegie Corporation, NY, to establish instruction and active interest in art, to begin development of art department; requests for grant of $15,000 to establish a fine arts department in the college 1940; includes instruction, movie program, exhibitions, plant and equipment, picture lending library, museum trips; art department, establishment of; grant, Carnegie Corporation; black and white photo of students painting in class setting Melville Stark appointed lecturer n Art 1957