Edward H. La Farge papers
name: label: Creator
content: LaFarge, Edward H. (Edward Hooper), 1901-1981
label: Names
content: Rhode Island School of Design
label: Names
content: Hatch, John Davis
label: Names
content: Washburn, Gordon B. (Gordon Bailey), 1904-1983
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Rhode Island
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reel 2707 lent for microfilming 1982 by Anne W. La Farge, wife of Edward H. La Farge; unmicrofilmed material donated 1982 by La Farge.
creator: label: Creator
content: LaFarge, Edward H. (Edward Hooper), 1901-1981
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art instructor. La Farge was an art instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design from ca. 1944-1974.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet (ca. 600 items (partially microfilmed on 1 reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1928-1974
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lafaedwa
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 2707 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 2707: Originals returned to Mrs. Edward H. La Farge after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Papers mostly regarding La Farge's teaching career at Rhode Island School of Design.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Resumes and applications, 1937-1962; correspondence, undated and 1928-1971, with letters from Gordon Bailey Washburn, John Davis Hatch, and others; 3 photographs, undated and 1958, of La Farge and others; ca. 200 slides and photographs, undated and 1969-1971, of his students' work; 2 small sketchbooks, undated, containing watercolor drawings, pencil drawings and pastel drawings; other artwork, including collage, ink and pencil drawings, and two woodblock prints, one signed "Phelps" and the other signed "Cardenas"; and five profusely illustrated notebooks and illustrated loose notes dating from his years as an art student.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also included are writings on art and on his family; teaching files, primarily containing lecture notes, undated; a film strip of student's work; a file on La Farge's activities with the Junior Recreation Center, including equipment lists, budgets, etc., 1943-1945; and printed materials, mostly regarding the RISD (newsletters, exhibition catalogs and reports by the school president, etc.).
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2707: An unpublished photographic essay by John McWilliams on La Farge and his freshman three-dimensional design class at the RISD in the early 1970's. Also included is a letter from David B. Manzella, to La Farge, 1974; and a newspaper clipping about La Farge, 1965.