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uwmspeccoll · 11 months
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Decorative Sunday with Henry P. Kirby
These charming sketches are the work of New York architect Henry P. Kirby (1853 - 1915). Architectural Compositions contains fifty loose plates printed on Whatman paper and housed in a portfolio. It was published in Boston in 1892 by Bates, Kimball & Guild, publishers of one of the United State’s leading architectural journals of that time, The Architectural Review (Boston), not to be confused with the longer running Architectural Review still in publication out of London. 
Kirby would have been working as a draftsman for George B. Post at the time of publication, for whom he later worked as lead designer before striking out on his own. Some of the subject matter also evokes Kirby’s time in France, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts after training with his father, also an architect. Per the subtitle, some of the sketches were “made in connection with actual projects,” while many were “the result of study during leisure moments.” I found Kirby’s eye for the human elements in his sketches particularly endearing, from the foreground figures to details on the buildings themselves, like open widows and overgrown foliage, or what looks like a duvet cover hanging out to dry (first image above). 
For any music buffs reading, the final sketch includes some bars of "Très-jolie" from the opéra comique smash hit La Fille de Madame Angot. 
Our copy of Architectural Compositions was gifted to UWM by Gustav A. Elgeti in 1966. 
Find more Decorative Sunday posts here.
-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern
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julykings · 7 months
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summer’s end
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theotherhufflepuff · 4 months
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Something Sunday!
No one tagged me but I'm excited to show you some baubles I made yesterday so I'm kicking things off early.
I basically haven't touched the baubles at all since I showed you the Barbie one last week... They're just not a lot of fun to make. But I sat down yesterday, put Brooklyn 99 on (again) and did some work. So here they are:
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I'm very pleased with the pride bauble, I just need to work on adapting some other pride flags now. There's only 2 weeks until the faire though so other flags might have to wait until next year, I just have too much left to do for this one!
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oldfarmhouse · 7 months
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amoralic · 15 days
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haii :3ㅤmayㅤiㅤ requestㅤforㅤsundayㅤ fromㅤhsrㅤrentryㅤgraphics?ㅤ^_^
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marinawoznjuksworld · 10 days
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danewsea · 2 months
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ourSundayMood🌿
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naomiknight-17 · 4 months
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I can't clean and tidy all of my apartment at once like I wish I could, but at least I can dust some shelves and put all my Pokemon pops together
Also Lion from SU is there. When I finally complete my Eeveelution collection (just need Umbreon!) I will have to relocate him... he is a placeholder
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jakemyboy · 7 months
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Nice foggy morning walk. Walking by the house with the overgrown weeds and the crabapple tree branches arching over the sidewalk.
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uwmspeccoll · 1 year
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Decorative Sunday
GEE’S BEND QUILTS
Since the 19th century, the women of Gee’s Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. In 2002, folk art collector, historian, and curator William Arnett organized an exhibition entitled "The Quilts of Gee's Bend," which debuted at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and later travelled to a dozen other locations across the country, including our own Milwaukee Art Museum (September 27, 2003 - January 4, 2004). This exhibition brought fame to the quilts, and Arnett's foundation Souls Grown Deep Foundation continues to collect and organize exhibitions for Gee’s Bend Quilts.
The images shown here are from Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts, with essays by John Beardsley, William Arnett, Paul Arnett, and Jane Livingston, an introduction by Alvia Wardlaw, and a foreword by Peter Marzio. The book was published in 2002 by Tinwood Books, Atlanta, and published in conjunction with the 2002 exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It includes 350 color illustrations and 30 black-and-white illustrations. The dust jacket notes observe:
The women of Gee’s Bend - a small, remote, black community in Alabama - have created hundreds of quilt masterpieces dating from the early twentieth century to the present. . . . [The] quilts carry forward an old and proud tradition of textiles made for home and family. They represent only a part of the rich body of African American quilts. But they are in a league by themselves. Few other places can boast the extent of Gee’s Bends’s artistic achievement, the result of geographical isolation and an unusual degree of cultural continuity. In few places elsewhere have works been found by three and sometimes four generations of women of the same family, or works that bear witness to visual conversations among community quilting groups and lineages.
Our copy is a gift from our friend and benefactor Suzy Ettinger.
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andallshallbewell · 5 days
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the-sartorial-journey · 5 months
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It's Sartoria...
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oldfarmhouse · 1 year
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🌄it's time to get inspired💫 welcome sunday!
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theotherhufflepuff · 4 months
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Something Sunday Monday
Thanks so much for the tags @forabeatofadrum and @ileadacharmedlife sorry I'm late to the game, again 😬
I bloody hate Christmas but the rest of the world (exaggeration, much of the world does not celebrate Christmas) seems determined to force it on me so I'm working on something christmassy for the next craft faire:
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I've been fiddling with these baubles and I think they're as good as they're going to get. I have done one in a more traditional red green and white Christmas colour way, but this brings me more joy and I thought people might be doing Barbie inspired Christmas decs this year, so here it is.
Yes I am wearing a giant fluffy oodie, that's basically the only good thing about winter. It's cosy.
I will tag people but you've probably already been tagged, so hello 👋
@rimeswithpurple @onepintobean @captain-aralias @martsonmars @backgroundhufflepuff @urban-sith @gingerethereal @una-voidable @hushed-chorus @sillyunicorn @mostlymaudlin @babethepig @blackberrysummerblog @uselessstardust @facewithoutheart
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benkeibear · 7 months
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Selfship Sunday! ✨
What was your first date like? Where did you go? What did you do? Feel free to tell us all about it 🫶
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alittleplanttherapy · 2 years
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🪴Plant chores & cat breaks 🐈
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