United States of America -- Mississippi -- Bolivar County -- Merigold
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets, additional photographs, and photocopies of articles.
General:
McCartys Pottery on a five-acre former mule lot is comprised of garden rooms delineated by weathered cypress boards from former plantation tenant houses, a prostyle of bare cypress columns that outlines the swimming pool area, and a lattice roof over a walled walkway. Natural and salvaged materials are the hardscaping while the garden plantings were chosen for texture, varying shades of green, and durability in the hot Delta summers. Ceramic vases, pots and ornaments made by the owners from Mississippi clay for their pottery business are placed throughout the garden as well as iron garden furniture, planters, fountains, and an old cast iron sugarcane cooker used as a planter. Rectangular raised beds edged with railway ties recur throughout the property as the owners were inspired by the artist Mondrian when they designed their garden. Rectangles are repeated in stepping stones laid in gravel walkways and in the square concrete paving stones in the swimming pool area. A patio is paved with mossy old brick.
Lush greenery contained in straight-edged raised beds predominates in all the garden rooms except for the irregularly-shaped lily pond with curving sides that is bordered by bamboo. There is a square water garden within the pond and another square water garden at one end of the pond. Evergreen perennials, shrubs and trees comprise the planting scheme, including camellias, azaleas, Live oak, tulip poplar and magnolia, aspidistra, monkey grass, canna and fatsia. Flowering trees, shrubs and bulbs add spots of color in season along with pots of crotons and other seasonal container plantings. A cutting garden and kitchen garden feature more of the owners' pots, planted containers and ornaments.
Related Materials:
McCartys Pottery related holdings consist of 1 folder (22 digital images)
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
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Collection Citation:
Marion Sanford and Cornelia Chapin papers, 1929-1988. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Funding for the preservation of the Cornelia Chapin Home Movies was provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation.
The collection consists of thrity-two (32) watercolor drawings of Zuni architecture, basketry and pottery created by or for Frank Hamilton Cushing. There are also a few drawings of Iroquoian and South American pottery. The drawings are numbered 1-55 (some drawings are missing) and may have been used to accompany a lecture given by Cushing. They were the basis of the illustrations in Cushing's article "A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth" in the 4th Bureau of Ethnology Annual Report. The descriptions and figure numbers below reference the published illustrations in that report.
1. A Navajo hut. (Figure 490)
2. Plan of pueblo structure of lava. (Figures 491, 492, and 493)
3. Plan of pueblo structure of lava. (Figures 496 and 497)
4. A typical cliff dwelling. (Similar to Figure 498). The verso of this drawing has partial illustrations of a vase (labeled "Mound Ms.") and a design (labeled "Peru").
5. Gourd vessel enclosed in wicker. (Figure 500)
7. Zuni earthen ware roasting tray. (Figure 502)
8. Havasupai boiling basket. (Figure 503)
9. Sketches illustrating the manufacture of spirally coiled basketry. (Figures 504 and 505)
10. Sketches illustrating the manufacture of spirally coiled basketry. (Figure 506)
11. Typical basket decorations. (Figures 507, 508 and 509)
12. Terraced lozenge decoration or "double-splint-stitch forms" (Figures 510-511)
15. Splints at neck of unfinished basket. (Figure 515)
16. Corrugated decorations to repeat bsketry forms preceding. (Figures 516 and 517)
17. Cooking pot of corrugated ware, showing conical projections near rim. (Figure 518)
18. Cooking pot of corrugated ware, showing modified projections near rim. (Figure 519)
19. Wicker water bottle showing double loops for suspension. (Figure 520)
20. Water bottle of corrugated ware showing double handle. (Figure 521)
21. Water bottle of corrugated ware, showing plain bottom.(Figure 522)
22. Food trencher of wicker work. (Figure 523)
23. Food trencher of wicker work, inverted as used in forming food bowls of earthen ware (Figure 524)
24. Food trencher of wicker work, inverted as used in forming food bowls of earthen ware (Figure 525)
39. Example of pueblo painted ornamentation. (Figure 542)
40. Amazonian basket decorations. (Figures 543 and 544)
45. Double lobed or hunter canteen. (Figure 550)
46. Painting of deer (Figure 551); painting of sea-serpent (Figure 552).
47. The fret of basket decoration (Figure 553)
48. The fret of pottery decoration (Figure 554); Scroll as evolved from fret in pottery decoration (Figure 555).
52. Rectangular type of earthen vessel. (Figure 561)
54. Iroquois bark vessel. (Figure 563)
55. Porcupine quill decoration (Figure 564)
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical Note:
Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857-1900) was curator of the ethnological department of the United States National Museum and an ethnologist for the Bureau of American Ethnology (1876-circa 1886), best known for his work at Zuni.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3300
Variant Title:
Previously titled: 31 drawings for Cushing's Zuni lecture
Publication Note:
The drawings in this collection were the basis of the illustrations in:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton. "A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth." Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-1883. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1886. pp. 467-521.
Rumpf, Friedrich Karl Georg, 1888-1949 Search this
Extent:
3 Notebooks (3 notebooks and loose notes. Notebooks are very worn and many pages are likely not in their original order. Notebook 3 is without covers)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Notebooks
Place:
Japan
Berlin (Germany)
Date:
circa 1914-1930s
Scope and Contents:
Three undated notebooks by artist and educator Friedrich Karl Georg (Fritz) Rumpf (1888-1949). With multiple notes in German and Japanese, and drawings in pencil, ink and wash made during his travels and research in Japan. The notebooks also contain many loose paper scraps and letters, including a draft letter addressed to Felix Tikotin.
Arrangement:
Arranged by notebook, thereafter loose material.
Biographical / Historical:
Friedrich (Fritz) Karl Georg Rumpf the Younger was the son of the Potsdam painter Fritz Rumpf (1856-1927). He grew up in Potsdam and at 15 studied Japanese from a Japanese officer who attended the military school in Potsdam. After graduating from middle school, he studied at the Royal School of Arts in Berlin. He moved to Japan in 1908, where he studied woodblock printing under Igami Bonkotsu (1875-1933) and was active in the literary society "Pan no Kai." From 1910 he continued his studies in Berlin under the artist Emil Orlik. At the beginning of World War I he was sent to China as a military officer and was taken prisoner following the surrender of Qingdao to the Japanese in 1914. He was a prisoner of war in Oita and Narashino until 1920. In 1931 under Asian art historian Otto Kümmel, he produced a dissertation on the Ise monogatari woodblock print edition of 1608. Rumpf traveled extensively in Japan throughout his career. In 1927-1928 he accompanied the art collector Felix Tikotin (1893-1986) in Japan.
Local Numbers:
FSA A2015.22
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Genre/Form:
Notebooks
Citation:
Fritz Rumpf Notebooks, FSA A2015.22. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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Collection Citation:
Leo Castelli Gallery records, circa 1880-2000, bulk 1957-1999. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the partial digitization of this collection was provided by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.
