Ture Bengtz papers
name: label: Creator
content: Bengtz, Ture, 1907-1973
label: Names
content: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. School
topic: label: Occupation
content: Stained glass artists -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The unmicrofilmed material was donated 1980 by Lillian E. Bengtz, Ture Bengtz's widow. She lent the sketchbooks on reels 2541-2542 for microfilming in 1982 and subsequently donated them to the Boston Public Libary, print department.
creator: label: Creator
content: Bengtz, Ture, 1907-1973
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Museum director, stained glass artist, lecturer; Boston, Mass. Born in Finland; studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School where he subsequently taught.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet ((partially microfilmed on 2 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bengture
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 2541-2542 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: REELS 2541-2542: Originals located at the Boston Public Libary, print department.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Sketchbooks, cassette recording, biographical information, photographs, writings and notes, correspondence, sketches, and printed material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 2541-2542: 37 sketchbooks, 1935-1973, containing ink and pencil sketches. Some of the sketchbooks are annotated.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: A resume; letters; 2 photographs, one of Bengtz at work in his studio and one of a stained glass he designed; writings and notes, including annual reports of curriculum at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston School; watercolor studies for stained glass windows and drawings for a television program; business records concerning the Museum of Fine Arts School and the airing of the television program "The Art School of the Air in New England, Bengtz on Drawing" on WGBH Channel 2, 1956 and concerning the Jomala (Finland) Church stained glass window project; 2 catalogs; a book, THE LITHOGRAPHS OF TURE BENGTZ; a cassette of a lecture given by Bengtz at a school in Needham, Mass.; and miscellaneous printed material.