Corcoran School of Art (Washington, D.C.) Search this
Sponsor:
Art Students' League (Washington, D.C.) Search this
Subject:
Society of Washington Fakirs (Washington, D.C.) Search this
Art Students' League (Washington, D.C.) Search this
Corcoran School of Art (Washington, D.C.) Search this
Physical description:
24 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Type:
Humor
Exhbitions
Exhibitions
Caricatures and cartoons
Place:
Washington (D.C.)
Date:
1905
20th century
Notes:
Cover title.
The colophon on page [21] features an emblem signed by Constance White.
The subtitle, "Messermerized," is a pun on the name of the Corcoran School of Arts' director at the time, Edmund Clarence Messer.
Advertisements for local businesses appear on pages [2]-[4] of the cover and pages 1-4 and 22-24 of the text.
AAPGRB has two copies (copy 1, 39088019637867; copy 2, 39088019637909). Each copy has the original brown paper cover printed in red and black. A coarse length of cord is tied in a bow at the spine. Housed in archival envelopes for preservation.
AAPGRB copy 1 has brief contemporary notes handwritten in pencil, possibly identifying the authors or intended targets of the humorous anecdotes.
Contents:
List of picturesque's in the dummicycle -- The quintet -- The National Buttinski Club -- Under the deminishing glass -- The model's dream -- The phonograph -- At the palmists -- Turkish proverbs -- Proverbs -- Rules and regulations -- The early history of James Henry Morsir -- A page of posers -- The art school commandments -- Society notes -- To the wholesale borrower -- Reflections -- Fuss and feathers -- A morning in the life class -- Grinds
Summary:
Catalog of an exhibition of works by members of the Art Students' League of Washington, D.C. (students at the Corcoran School of Art), with an auction held on April 13th, 1905 to benefit the scholarship fund.
