T.
F. Šimon
Catalogue of
Ex Libris (1910-1932)
 
Compiled and published by
Václav Rytíř, Prague 1932.
Vacláv Rytíř (* 22.12.1889 Prague - + 29.6.1943 Prague).
A
graphic artist, painter, publisher and editor.
He was a member of Spolek sběratelů a přátel exlibris (the Czech
Association of Collectors and Friends of ex libris)
and the American Society of Bookplate Collectors & Designers.
Introduction to
the book by
Arthur Novák.
Revised and annotated by Catharine Bentinck, 2015.
Literature: BBB = B. Beneš Buchlovan. Moderní Česká Exlibris,
1926.
T.F. Šimon, Ex libris a Novoročenky
( = New Year's cards), Praha, 1918.
Novak = according to the Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work
by T.F. Šimon, compiled by Arthur Novák in 1937.
Click on the
pictures to enlarge (if available).
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T.F. Šimon.
1910.
Sea (Moře).
7,2 x 6,3 cm, colour etching,
BBB 3709, Novak 539.
Tavík František Šimon (May 13,
1877, Železnice – December 19, 1942, Prague) was a painter and graphic
artist. Born
František Jan Šimon, he later adopted the additional name 'Tavik',
which was his mother's maiden name, generally signing his work T.F. Šimon.
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T.F.Š.
1911.
6 x 6 cm, etching,
BBB 3708, Novak 540.
T. F. Šimon, Ex libris a Novoročenky, nr. 1, Praha, 1918.
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E.H.B. (Edna Boies Hopkins).
1911.
Monogram E H B in a Biedermeier frame.
8,6 x 7,5 cm, etching, BBB 3684, Novak 541.
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Edna Boies Hopkins
(1872–1937) is best known for her floral woodblock prints that
range from delicate Japanese-inspired stylizations to boldly
coloured and progressively modernist works. In her brief
twenty-year career, Hopkins produced seventy-four known
woodblock prints, including figurative work and landscapes as
well as floral compositions. This catalogue raisonné is the
first in-depth study of this once well-known American artist. It
illustrates all of Hopkins’s known prints, related drawings, and
studies.
Edna Bel Beachboard was born in the south Michigan town of
Hudson on October 13, 1872, as a daughter of David J. Beachboard,
a prominent Hudson citizen and vice president of the Boies State
Savings Bank, and his wife Clotilda C. Sawyer. In 1887 her older
brother Earl James died of diphtheria at the age of sixteen,
making Edna an only child. On March 2, 1892, Edna married John
Henri Boies, a banker eight years her senior and a member of
Hudson’s most illustrious family.
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The newlyweds soon
moved to Chicago to further John’s career in finance,
but after only two years of marriage he died of
tuberculosis, leaving Edna a widow, alone but free to
pursue a career in art., Hopkins attended the Art
Academy of Cincinnati from 1895 to 1898. In 1899 she
took classes with the influential artist Arthur Wesley
Dow, an advocate of Japanese art. Following her marriage
in 1904 with James Roy Hopkins (1877-1969), Hopkins and
her husband settled in Paris, where they remained until
the outbreak of World War I. After returning to America,
Hopkins became part of a small group of artists in
Provincetown, whose innovations in woodblock printmaking
have come to be known as the Provincetown print or the
white line woodcut. In 1917, a visit to the Cumberland
Falls region of Kentucky provided the inspiration for
some of Hopkins’s most important prints which predate
the work of American regionalist painters and
printmakers by a decade or more. In addition to the catalogue raisonné, Edna Boies
Hopkins includes much new biographical research along
with a census of her prints and a comprehensive list of
her exhibitions.
Source: “Edna Boies
Hopkins: Strong in Character, Colourful in Expression”,
by Dominique H. Vasseur; Ohio University Press, 2007.
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John Marin.
1911.
Sailing ship at sea (Plachetní lod' na moři).
7,6 x 7 cm, colour etching,
BBB 3692, Novak 542.
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John Marin
(December 23, 1870 – October 2, 1953) was born in Rutherford,
New Jersey. Worked for four years in architects' offices, then
1893-5 as freelance architect. Became increasingly interested in
sketching, and studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts, Philadelphia, 1899-1901 and briefly at the Art Students
League, New York, 1904.
Marin lived in Paris 1905-9, with trips
to Holland, Belgium, Italy and England. Returned to New York in
1909 for his first one-man exhibition at Stieglitz's
Photo-Secession Gallery. In Europe again 1910-11, then settled
permanently in the USA. Lived in Brooklyn, then New York, then
in Cliffside, New Jersey, 1916-53. He is known for his abstract
landscapes and watercolours.
Source: Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection
of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists. London 1981.
p.486. |
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John Marin by Irving Penn, 1948.
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Karsavina.
1911.
7,4 x 5,8 cm, woodcut in colour and black,
Novak 543.
Tamara Karsavina
(1885-1978).
A daughter of a famous dancer, Platon Karsavin,
Karsavina was educated at the Imperial Ballet School,
St. Petersburg, under such teachers as Cecchetti, Christian
Johansson, and Paul Gerdt, graduating in 1902. As ballerina
at the Maryinsky Theatre she included in her repertoire
Giselle and Odette-Odile in Swan Lake.
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Colour woodcut. |
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Woodcut in black.
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Drawing in black ink. 9,5 x 6,8 cm. |
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Karsavina is best known as the leading ballerina of
Sergey Diaghilev's Ballets-Russes from its beginning in 1909
until 1922. She championed Mikhael Folkine's ideas of expressive
dance and between 1909 and 1914 (paired with Nijinsky until
1913) she created the majority of famous roles in Fokine's
neo-romantic repertoire, including Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de
la Rose, Carnaval, Firebird, Petrushka, and Thamar. After
marrying the English diplomat Henry James Bruce, Karsavina fled
to London in 1918.
She
was associated for many years with Great Britain's Royal Academy
of Dancing, for which she organised the Teachers' Training
Course and the Camargo Society, from the time it received its
charter in 1936. Her writings
include articles on technique for the journal Dancing Times, her
autobiography Theater Street (1930), and the text Classical
Ballet: The Flow of Movement (1962). Karsavina died on May 26,
1978, in Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire, England. Source: Encyclopćdia
Britannica. |
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Robert Šimon.
1911.
Chessboard with a game of chess pieces and a
group of books (Šachovnice s partii šachových figurek a skupinou knih).
11,4 x 7,4 cm, etching and aquatint, BBB 3710, Novak 544.
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Robert Antonín Šimon (*Železnice 01-06-1875-†
11-04-1943); brother of T.F. Šimon). Czech photographer
and journalist. |
Robert and Marie
Šimon and two children,
his father
Antonin
Šimon and his wife Rozalie.
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Vilma Šimon (Ex Libris V. Šimonová).
1911.
6,0 x 4,7 cm, woodcut, Novak 545.
Vilemina (Vilma) Kracik
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* 3 January 1882 - † Prague 4 January 1959. Daughter of Vaclav Kracik (†
1917) and Eleonora Soumarova († ca. 1935). Brothers: Josef (living
in Ljubljana in 1917), Jan (living in Belgrado in 1917). Sister Ruzena
Kracik (she married the artist Josef Kratina, living in New York in
1917).
Vilma married the Czech
artist T.F. Šimon in Prague on January 17th 1906, the couple had four
children, Kamil (1906 -1912), Eva (1908-1997), Ivan (1914 -2009) and
Pavel (1920 – 1958).
Because the Czech language adds “ova” to the family name if the person
is a woman, Vilma is called Šimonova in Czech, and was born Kracikova.
In English she is called Vilma Šimon-Kracik. |
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T.F. Šimon
Size: 6,0 x 4,7 cm,
drawing in ink and aquarelle.
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T.F. Šimon
Size: 6,0 x 4,7 cm,
woodcut and red ink.
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Vilma and T.F. Šimon in 1912.
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T.F. Šimon.
Drawing in ink and aquarelle.
Study for an ex libris,
in the manner of number 7a & b.
Size of the drawing: 6,0 x 4,7 cm.
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Dr. M.
Štefánik.
1911.
7,1 x 6,2 cm, etching and aquatint, BBB 3713, Novak 546.
Milan Rastislav Štefánik
(July 21, 1880 in Košariská – May 4, 1919 in Ivanka pri Dunaji) was a
Slovak general, politician, diplomat, astronomer and art-connoisseur. He
was one of the founders of Czechoslovakia. Štefánik was befriended with
the artist T.F. Šimon (1877-1942).
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Dr.
M. Štefánik.
1912.
5,9 x 5,7 cm, etching and aquatint,
BBB 3714, Novak 547.
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Black and white version.
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Portrait of Milan Rastislav Štefanik
by Tavik František Šimon, 1918,
drypoint, 190x155 cm.
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Tavik František Šimon, Philosopher, 1905.
Colour aquatint, 244 x 257 mm.
It is clear that Šimon had this graphic in
mind when he
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R. Šimon.
1913.
4,9 x 3,6 cm, woodcut, BBB 3707, Novak 548.
Robert Antonín Šimon (*Železnice
01-06-1875-† 11-04-1943); brother of T.F. Šimon. Czech photographer and
journalist.
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T .F. Šimon and his brother Robert.
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K.J. Obratil.
1913.
13 x 9 cm, etching, BBB 3697, Novak 549.
Karel Jaroslav Obratil (* 2
November 1866, Hukvaldy - 5 April 1945, Prague Pankrác) was a Czech
cultural worker, journalist, writer, poet and translator.
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Obratil on a photo.
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He collected vulgar songs and jokes in his country and was therefore
hated by the Catholics in his province, he lost his job as a teacher
and moved to Prague. Before his son shot himself dead in an accident
what caused his wife to be insane. In 1932 his collection was
published in a private edition in 3 volumes: Kryptadia (Latin for
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Obratil`s ex libris from the artist P.F.Maly,
1942.
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During the German occupation he made
no
secret of his anti-fascist resistance, which long went through
without penalty, but eventually he was arrested by the Gestapo
6th March 1945 and taken to Pečkárna, their headquarters in
Prague. A month later, April 5, 1945, as a result of torture he
died in the prison hospital in Pankrác in Prague.
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Vilma
Šimon (Vilma Šimonova).
1914.
9,7 x 6,4 cm, etching, BBB 3711, Novak 550.
T. F. Šimon, Ex libris a Novoročenky, nr. 3, Praha, 1918.
Vilma (Vilemina) Kracik.
She was born January 3rd 1882 Kutna Hora, daughter of Dr. Vaclav Kracik
(+ June 30 1917 Hradec Kralové), and Eleonora Soumerova. Beloved wife of
the artist
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T.F. Šimon: “Portrait of Vilma”, 21x17cm,
pencil/white chalk on paper.
Onival (Normandy) 17/8 1903.
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Notary Hejna (Ex Libris
Notarii Hejna).
1914.
14 x 10,4 cm, colour aquatint,
BBB 3686, Novak 551.
Ferdinand Hejna was notary in
Kutna Hora from 1923 - 1951 (see State District Archives Kutna Hora).
The bookplate shows Prague castle (Hradčany) with St.Vitus Cathedral.
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Ferdinand Hejna.
1914.
See 13.
15,2 x 12 cm, etching, BBB 3685, Novak 552.
T. F. Šimon, Ex libris a Novoročenky, nr. 4, Praha, 1918.
The bookplate shows Nové Město (New Town) from the Charles Bridge. Left
is the bridge tower, behind the Prague castle (Hradčany) with St. Vitus
Cathedral. |
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Karel Reinwald.
1915.
Castle of Točník.
11,6 x 8,6 cm, etching, , BBB 3701, Novak 553.
T.F.Šimon, Ex libris and Novoročenky, nr. 5, 1918.
Reinwald, Karel (1868-1932).
He left his native Poříčany to Budapest, where he worked for a railway
company. Buried at the Olšanský Cemetery in Prague.
Točník Castle is situated in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech
Republic. It was built 1395 - 1398 during the reign of Václav IV above
the already existing, but burned castle Žebrák. The two castles, Točník
and Žebrák, make up a picturesque "couple," standing almost right next
to each other.
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Karel Reinwald.
Photo from the National Museum, Prague
(the private collection of Karel Fouse).
Dating June 22, 1889. |
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Arthur Novák
(Artur Novak).
1915.
Bundle of five books.
9,4 x 7 cm, etching,
BBB 3696, Novak 554.
T.F.Šimon, Ex libris and Novoročenky, nr. 6, 1918.
Artur Novak (or Arthur Novak)
(1876, Terezin -1957, Prague). Bibliophile, critic, translator and
monographist. Editor of Hollar and Vitrinky. Author of: Kronika
Grafického dila T.F. Šimona; Chronical of the Graphic work
of T.F. Šimon and
Seznam Grafických Prací T. F.
Šimona;
Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic work. Published by the Art
Society Hollar in 1937.
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Bedřich Petrlík
(BP). 1916.
Flag with monogram BP.
8,9 x 6,3 cm, etching, BBB 3698, Novak 555.
There is also a version with red letters.
Bedřich Petrlík (*1886). Sugar
engineer from Kostelci nad Labem earlier from Neštěmice (Usti nad
Labem), Bohemia. Collector of art.
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Arne Novak.
1916.
The Castle of Prague and the Baroque statue "The Dream of Saint
Lutgardis".
10,1 x 7,1 cm, woodcut,
BBB 3695, Novak 556.
Magazine "Bibliofil", Brno, 1923 (with image).
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Dr.
Arne Novak, director of seminars for
Slavic philology(* 2.3.1880 Litomyšl – † 26.11.1939 Polička) was a Czech
literary historian and critic, specialist in German and Czech
studies. 1920:
ordinary
professor of Czech literature at Masaryk University in Brno,
director of seminars for Slavic philology,
1924-1925 dean of the Faculty of Arts in Brno, 1938/1939 and
1939 rector.
The bookplate shows Nové Město (New Town) from the Charles Bridge.
Left is the bridge tower, behind the Prague castle (Hradčany)
with St. Vitus Cathedral. In front the statue of St. Lutgardis,
a baroque statue on the Charles Bridge by Matthias Braun in
Prague in 1710 as a commission from Evžen Tyttl, the abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Plasy.
Saint Lutgardis of Aywičres (Dutch: Sint-Ludgardis; 1182 – 16
June 1246; also spelled Lutgarde) was a Flemish saint. She was
born in Tongres in Belgium (for which she is also called "Lutgardis
of Tongres"), and entered into religious orders at the age of
twelve. During her life various miracles were attributed to her,
and she is known to have experienced religious ecstasies. Her
feast day is June 16. St. Lutgardis is the patron saint of the
blind and physically disabled.
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Josef Hladký.
1916.
13,2 x 9,4 cm, etching, BBB 3688, Novak 557.
T. F. Šimon, Ex libris a Novoročenky, nr. 9, Praha, 1918.
Hladký, Josef (1885-1960).
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Born on 13 1.1885 in Brod, died on 18 2.1960 of pneumonia in Hranice.
Czech bookseller, publisher, book artist, printmaker and collector.
Published books for young people and translations of fiction in
Prague and bibliophile prints in Hranice; co-founder of the magazine
Bibliofil. |
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The bookplate is an allegory. The man stands on Vyšehrad (Czech for
"upper castle") a historical fort located in the city of Prague. It was probably built in the 10th century, on a hill over the
Vltava River (Moldau). Behind is the Prague castle (Hradčany).
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Ella Weissberger (Ella Weissbergerová).
1917.
6,3 x 5,9 cm (10,5 x 7,4 cm), etching, BBB 3717, Novak 558.
T. F. Šimon, Ex libris a Novoročenky, nr. 10, Praha, 1918.
Rytíř writes in his book: souvenir majitelky paní E.W.-Taussigové na
cestu do Italie (= souvenir of the owner
Mrs. Ella Weissbergerová -Taussigová on a trip to Italy).
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A picture of an ex libris (a woodcut, 11,7 x 7,8 cm) of Mrs.
Ella Weissbergerová -Taussigová by Karel Vik ( 4 November 1883
in Hořice - 8 October 1964 in Turnov) a Czech graphic artist,
illustrator and painter.
The Prague City Gallery has in their collection an ex libris of
Ella Weissbergerová by the Czech artist Jan Konůpek (October 10,
1883 in Mladá Boleslav – March 13, 1950 in Prague), an etching,
22,8x15,1.cm.
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Max Fischl.
1917.
Birch at the lake (bříza u jezera).
9,5 x 6,5 cm, etching, BBB 3682, Novak 559.
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Arnošt
Procházka.
10,5 x 8,9 cm, etching, Novak 560.
T. F. Šimon, Ex libris a Novoročenky, nr. 11, Praha, 1918.
Arnošt Leopold Antonín Procházka
( 15 November 1869, Prague - 16 January 1925, Prague) was a
Czech literary and art critic and translator of modern European
literature. In 1894, along with Jiří Karásek from Lvovice,
founded the magazine Modern Review. Translated from the Germanic
and Romance languages, as well as the Russian and Polish.
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Drawing in pencil by T F Šimon, 1917.
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Photo.
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Library bookplate of the Municipal Industrial Museum in Hradec
Kralove
(Knihovna Městského Průmyslového Musea V Hradci Králové).
1917.
A man reading a book, leaning against the trunk of a lime tree. The right
hand holds up a statue of Pallas Athena. In the tree trunk, arrows are
scored and its roots stand in the dustbin with bundles of documents,
etc. In the background right the spire of the Church of the Holy Ghost
in Hradec Králové. (Muž čtoucí knihu, opřený o kmen lípy. V pravici drží
vzhůru sošku Pallas Athéné. Do kmenu stromu vstřeleny jsou šípy a v jeho
kořenech spatřuje se popelnice, svazky listin atd. V pozadí vpravo věže
kostela sv. Ducha v Hradci Králové.)
7,7 x 5 cm, zincography, BBB 3719, Novak 561.
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The Museum of East Bohemia,
one of the most beautiful building in Hradec Králové,
originates from 1908-1912, and is designed by the Czech
architect Jan Kotera. He also designed the interiors including
furniture and other equipment. The sculptor Vojtęch Sucharda and
the painters Jan Preisler, František Kysela and Josef Novák
participated in the interior.
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Vítězslav M. Pavlousek (V.M. Pavlouskovi).
1918.
Sailing ship at sea on the left-mast a flag with the inscription Ex
libris (Plachetní lodi na moři vlevo na žerdi vlajka s nápisem Ex libris).
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Engineer Vítězslav Pavlousek
(* 10 Oktober 1874 Mladá Boleslav - + 25 April 1957
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Vítězslav Pavlousek was
an important sports functionary in several sport events – honest
member of the Czech Ski Club in Prague, co-founder of the
Association of British skiers, Czech Lawn - Tennis Association
(1906) and Czech Canoe Union (1913); frequent delegate to ski
and congresses. He was also the editor of the Olympic Journal
(1924-1927) and four protocols of the International Olympic
Congress in 4 languages.
He worked as a technical council of Prague, was a successful
proposer, architect, designer and director of water structures
in Bohemia (sluice near Štvanice in Prague and Střekov hydro
plant at Podlešín - Vaňov).
Literature: 1. JEŽEK, Přemysl. Česká tělovýchovná a sportovní
literatura 1919–1945. Praha: FTVS UK, 2002. s. 659–660. ISBN
80-86317-26-9. 2. Slovník českých a slovenských výtvarných
umělců 1950 - 2003 (XI. Pau - Pop) (= art dictionary).
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Antonín Podlaha (Ex Libris Antonii Podlaha).
1918.
6,4 x 4,7 cm (14,8 x 10,9), colour etching,
BBB 3699, Novak 563.
Th. Dr. Antonín Podlaha
( 22 January 1865, Prague - 14 February 1932, Prague ) was a Czech Roman
Catholic priest, theologian, archaeologist, art historian and -
collector and associate professor at Charles University.
In the years 1919 - 1930 he was Vicar General of the Archdiocese of
Prague since 1920 auxiliary bishop of Prague and titular bishop of
Paphus (Cyprus). Was a leading organizer of the activities of the
Association for the completion of St.Vitus in Prague and archaeological
excavations, including royal tombs and previous buildings at this place. |
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T.F. Šimon.
1918.
5,5 x 4 cm, colour woodcut, 3 versions, BBB 7306. Novak 564.
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Drawing in pencil by Šimon.
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Ex
libris in black.
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In yellow.
In blue.
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Drawing.
Ink and pencil. |
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V. Slavik. 1919.
7 x 4,5 cm, woodcut, BBB 3705, Novak 565.
Slavik is the Czech name for
Nightingale (Luscinia).
The owner of the bookplate is
unknown.
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Rudolf Jehlička. 1919.
Invalid, as a convalescent, reading a book in the shade of a tree. Left
in the distance St. Vitus and right the sacred Řip. (Invalida, jako
rekonvalescent, čtoucí knihu ve stínu stromu. Vlevo v dáli chrám sv.
Víta a vpravo posvátný Říp).
10,3 x 8 cm, etching,
BBB 3691, Novak 566.
Prof. MD. Rudolf Jehlička
(*1869), Czech doctor and patron.
Mount Říp the place which, according to Cosmas’ magnum opus, the
Chronicle of Bohemians, was settled by the first Slavs to arrive in the
area, led by forefather Čech, after whom the Czech Republic is named.
The top of this basalt bell-shaped mountain was probably a cult site in
prehistoric times, and both prehistoric and medieval ceramic fragments
have been found there. On the top we find the Romanesque Rotunda of St.
George, dating from the 11th century. Říp has been a favourite place for
pilgrimage and folk gatherings throughout Czech history. One of the most
beautiful views of the Central Bohemian Massif, and the Krušné Hory (Ore
Mountains; German: Erzgebirge) can be enjoyed from the top of Říp.
During good weather you can see as far as Prague.
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Carlisle V. Hibbard.
1920.
11 x 8,8 cm, etching, BBB 3687, Novak 567.
Carlisle V Hibbard, born in
Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA on 12 Aug 1876 to Daniel Osmer
Hibbard and Ida F Brightman.
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Carlisle married Susie Eugenia Lowell and had 2 children. He passed
away on 28 November1954. Hibbard's life was spent in the service of
the Y.M.C.A., and every position he had was concerned with the work
of that organization or with students.
Source: YMCA
Biographical Records, Kautz Family YMCA Archives, University of
Minnesota.
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The bookplate:
Nové Město from Charles Bridge in Prague
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Carlisle V. Hibbard and Sue Eugenia Lowell
were married in August, 1902. He was the son of a school
principal in Racine, Wisconsin and she, the daughter of a
Janesville, Wisconsin businessman. The couple had three
children, Esther, Lowell, and Russell. Lowell died in Dairen,
Manchuria in 1914. At the time of Mr. Hibbard's death, Nov. 28,
1954, Esther was Dean of Doshisha Women's College, Kyoto, Japan;
and Russell was an executive with General Motors in Detroit.
Hibbard's years in the
service of the Y.M.C.A may be divided thus:1902-1914. Student
Secretary for the International Committee of the Y.M.C.A.;
working in Japan, Korea, and Manchuria with students and
soldiers.1915-1924.
Associate General Secretary for the International Committee of
the Y.M.C.A.; working in prisoner of war camps during and after
World War I, in Germany, Russia, Italy, France, Japan, Great
Britain, and the United States.
1924-1940. Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at the University of
Wisconsin.1941-1942. Y.M.C.A. representative in raising funds
for prisoner of war work, traveling and lecturing.1943-1944.
Executive Secretary of the National Japanese American Student
Relocation Council, Swarthmore College.1944-1953.
Secretary of the University of Wisconsin Y.M.C.A. Board of
Trustees. Spearheaded the drive to raise one half million
dollars for the new Y.M.C.A. building.
Source: Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives
Division.
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Antonín Müller.
1920.
In a landscape an engineer, as tall as Gulliver, measures astride
with a compass a bridge. (Inženýr jako Gulliwer rozkročmo nad krajinou
měří kružidlem most).
14,6 x 9,4 cm, etching,
BBB 3693, Novak 568.
Antonín Müller
(1852–1927) a civil engineer, founded in Plzeň in 1890 [with Vojtěch
Kapsa (1855–1915] the building company Podnikatelství staveb, at that
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John I. Scull.
1920.
Le stryge, a gargoyle from Notre Dame in Paris. (Le stryge, chrlič z
chrámu Matky Boží v Pařiži).
10 x 7 cm, woodcut, BBB 3703, Novak 569.
John Irwin Scull
(1888-1959) was a newsman and banker. The bookplate shows a sculpture on
the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, called Le Stryge.
Left, north of the cathedral, is the tower of Église St Jacques de la
Boucherie, 39 Rue de Rivoli.
This bell tower was built between 1509 and 1523 by John Felin, Julien
Ménart and John Revier. It measures 54 meters to the railing. In 1523,
Rault, "Image tailor" received 20 pounds "for had three animals
(three of the four symbols of the Evangelists) and St. Jacques on the
tower and steeple." This colossal statue measured, say, 10 meters high.
The church was destroyed in 1793; the purchaser of the church had been a
condition not to demolish the tower. The statue of St. Jacques, shot in
the Revolution, is replaced by another, due to Chenillon Paul, who made
a
plaster model, high of 3.80 meters.
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This grotesque, located on an angle along the gallery of the
south tower of Notre-Dame, is one of a group of fantastical
figures carved during the 19th C. restoration of the cathedral.
This restoration was carried out between 1843-64 under the
direction of Eugčne-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (with Jean-Baptiste
Lassus, until his death in 1857), chief architect for the
Commission de monuments historique, France's agency for national
preservation at the time. By the mid-19th C., the medieval
gargoyles that had protectively spouted water away from the
building had deteriorated. Inspired by Victor Hugo's 1831 book
Notre-Dame de Paris (English: Hunchback of Notre Dame),
Viollet-le-Duc replaced the gargoyles with chimčres, as he
called them, guardian-demons that, from an architectural
viewpoint, are simply decorative. An 1852-54 series of etchings
on Paris by artist Charles Meryon featured an image of the
grotesque pictured here. Meryon showed it overlooking the city
below; he named the print Le Stryge (The Vampire), and
catapulted the stone carving to fame.
From St. Johnsville, New York, Enterprise and News on Wednesday,
March 13, 1938:
John Irwin Scull (Caroline,
Lucinda, Caroline, Anna, Jacob, John, Nicholas) born Somerset,
Pa. Feb. 16, 1888. A member of an old and prominent Somerset
county family, Mr. Scull was born in this part of Pennsylvania
and has spent practically all his life here. Like his father,
one of the leading bankers of Somerset county, Mr. Scull is
identified with two of the most prominent banks of the city of
Somerset, of both of which he is vice president. He is regarded
as one of the most able and, most successful of the younger
generation of bankers in Somerset county and holds a position of
importance and influence in the community. Mr. Scull prepared
for college Mercersburg Academy from which he was graduated in
1905. He then entered Princeton University, graduated in 1909
with degree B. of A. one year's post graduate course M. of A.
1910. In summer of that year he was a member of the reportorial
staff of the Philadelphia Press. Later in 1910 became connected
with the U.S. Fidelity and Guaranty Co., continued until 1918
serving in various capacities. Spent three years 1918-21 with
American Red Cross. Returned to Somerset in 1922 became
connected with Somerset T. Co., with which he remained until
1926. Actively engaged since with First National Bank of
Somerset. Vice president of both. While attending college he
became a member of the Quadrangle Club of Princeton, also member
of Somerset Country Club. Unmarried.
Source:
The American Historical Society, Inc.,
N.Y. City.
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John Irwin Scull.
1921.
At a bookstall in Paris on Quai Montebello at Notre Dame. Marked on the
leaves down in the middle the imprinted green sign. of the artist (U
pařížského bouquinisty na Quai Montebello u Notre-Dame. Označeno na
listech vtištěnou zelenou sign. umělcovou dole uprostřed).
11,2 x 8,9 cm, colour aquatint, Novak 570.
John Irwin Scull.
Biographical
Sketch of John Irwin Scull (1888-1959) by the Historical Society of
Western Pennsylvania:
J.I. Scull was a newsman, banker and lifelong citizen of
Somerset (Somerset County), Pennsylvania. Scull served in non-combat
roles during World War I and upon his return to Somerset, joined the
banking profession. Scull eventually became President of the Somerset
Trust Company and Chairman of the Board of the First National Bank of
Somerset. In addition to his role in Somerset's financial community,
Scull was also greatly involved in the cultural and social life of
Somerset as a patron of the arts and philanthropist. John Irwin Scull
was also an avid genealogist and spent a good deal of his adult life
tracing his lineage back to Cork County, Ireland in the 17th century.
His ancestors were members of the prominent Scull and Irwin families.
These families included some of the first settlers of the Western
Pennsylvania region. Scull undertook the burden of his family's
genealogical research to provide his grandnieces and nephews with a
better indication of their ancestors. See also Ex Libris 31.
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Dr. Hugo Siebenschein.
1921.
9,2 x 7,3 cm, etching, BBB 3704, Novak 571.
Professor dr. Hugo Siebenschein
( 6 April 1889 Strážnice - 13 December 1971 in Prague ) was a Czech
literary historian, germanist, lexicographer
and author of textbooks. He is known especially for his Czech-German and
German-Czech dictionary. His mother stemmed from a German Protestant
family, his father was of Jewish origin. Hugo was married with Anna Siebenscheinová, born Rozená Sládečková (29 March 1918 Prague - 13
February 2006), a Czech translator from German and university teacher.
Anna Siebenscheinová studied Czech and German at Charles University.
From1955-1985 she taught German at artistically oriented universities.
From 1959-1971 she worked as a lecturer of fine arts at the University
of Prague and at the Academy of Fine arts in Prague. She participated in
the Czech-German and German-Czech dictionary of her husband Hugo
Siebenschein and cooperated with the Czechoslovakian and Czech Radio in
Prague.
The library of České Budějovice owns the ex libris
Two children in the mountains by T.F.
Šimon
(etching 9,2x7,3 cm), former owner Lila Blažková, born 1900.
Probably
she is
Lila Siebenscheinová.
She wrote “Ženy v životě básníků” (= Women in the life of
poets), Volume 1 of Husova lidová škola (= Hus Folk School). Publisher
Husova lidová škola, Roudnice 1923.
She wrote also “Art means Sokol Education / Lila Siebenscheinová” Otisk
z Věstníku župy Podřipské (The imprint of the
Bulletin of the county Podřipské).
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Right: Portrait of Hugo Siebenschein (1889–1971) by Otakar Kubín
(1883–1969), Undated (1907–08), Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 40.5 cm.
Jewish Museum in Prague.
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Maybe he only ordered
the ex libris.
There is a bookplate of Lila Siebenschein(ová).
Dve dęti na horách.
Two children in the mountains.
Monogram TFŠ.
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Vaclav Rudl.
1922.
11,2 x 6,5 cm, aquatint, BBB 3702, Novak 572.
Václav Rudl, or Vácslav Rudl
(* September 8, 1875 Bechyně - + March 12, 1958 Nová Ves u
Bakova (Mladá Boleslav). Inland Revenue
Director, bibliophile and collector of ex libris, co-founder of
the Czech Exlibrisist's Society (Kroužku českých exlibristů) and
collaborator of the Boleslavan.
Literature: K. Bílek: “Václav Rudl”, Prague, 1999.
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Alice Lee and Richard Myers.
1922.
Notre Dame de Paris (Chrám Matky Boží v Pařiži).
10 x 7,4 cm, aquatint, BBB 3694, Novak 573.
The bookplate shows Notre Dame in Paris and the river Seine.
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RICHARD EDWIN MYERS (1888-1958).
Richard Edwin Myers was born in Chicago on December 25, 1888.
After graduation from the University of Chicago in 1911, he
considered becoming a pianist and songwriter, but his first job
was in the shipping department of the American Radiator Company
in St. Paul. In 1917, however, he moved to New York City to
pursue a theatrical career. These plans were interrupted by
World War I, when Myers joined the U. S. Army and served in the
American Expeditionary Force in France.
Upon demobilization, he
returned to Chicago, where in 1920 he married his college
sweetheart, Alice Lee Herrick. In 1920 the Myers's settled in a
Paris apartment. Over the next decade and beyond, Alice Lee and
Richard Myers would play host to many major literary and
artistic figures on the European scene. From 1921-28 Myers was
advertising manager for the American Express Company in Paris.
For the next four years he remained in Paris as an associate
editor of the Ladies Home Journal, but returned to New York City
in 1932 and was hired as a sales representative for M. Lehmann
Inc., a wine and liquor retailer. During World War II he served
in the Office of Strategic Services in London and after the war
became a director of M. Lehmann, Inc.
Well known in New York
and Paris social circles as a fine amateur musician, the former
student of Nadia Boulanger composed the piano music for
Archibald MacLeish's "Alien" and some music for Philip Barry's
play "Without Love." In 1949 Richard E. Myers received the Cross
of the French Legion of Honor for encouraging the performance of
French music in the United States and for his work with American
aid to France. He served on the board of directors of the New
York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera Guild. He was also
a connoisseur of French wines, associate editor of Gourmet, and
a regular contributor to Town & Country.
Richard E. Myers and Alice Herrick Myers had three children:
Frances Margaret ("Fanny") born in 1921, Richard Herrick ("Dicky")
in 1923, and Alice Lee ("Boo" or "Lee") in 1929. Myers died on August 8, 1958.
ALICE LEE HERRICK MYERS
(1890-1986).
Alice Lee Herrick was born in Chicago on August 27, 1890. After
the death of her mother in 1898, Alice and sister Frances lived
with their grandmother, Mrs. Anthony French Merrill, in Camden,
Maine. She majored in English at the University of Chicago,
where she met her future husband, and after graduation worked in
Chicago. In 1918 she volunteered for service in the American Red
Cross and worked in France and Germany in its Bureau of
Canteens.
After marriage the
couple moved to Paris, where she directed the bilingual
education of their children and managed a dress shop that
featured embroidery work by Russian émigrés. In 1933 she wrote,
from Paris, a fashion column for the Chicago Daily News. The
talent, however, for which Alice Lee was best known,
particularly during her Paris years, was her skill at
entertaining. The Myers's home attracted scores of American and
French writers, playwrights, singers, producers, critics,
musicians, and diplomats, many of whom became close personal
friends. Alice Lee remained in Paris for two years after her
husband began working for M. Lehmann, Inc., but thereafter New
York City became their permanent home.
The children finished their education in New York City and
Connecticut. During World War II, Fanny served with the Office
of War Information in London and Paris. Dicky enlisted in the
Royal Air Force but was killed on a training flight in Canada on
November 28, 1943. Alice Lee nursed her husband during his long
illness in the 1950s and after his death remained devoted to her
family and friends until her death on June 5, 1986.
Source:
Yale University Library.
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Study drawing in pencil by Šimon. 10,2 x 7,3 cm.
Alice Lee. Portrait by Boleslaw Jan Czedekowski, Polish/Austrian
artist (1885 Wojnilow – 1969 Wien).
Dick Myers and Stephen Vincent Benét (right).
Around 1940.
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Frances and Thomas Daniels.
1922.
View of a part of the bridge towers of Malá Strana with St. Nicholas. At
the Charles Bridge, pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage with
tarpaulin. Marked on the bottom right of the board. Under the picture
then the legend. (Pohled na čast malostrankých mosteckých věží s chrámem
sv. Mikuláše. Na mosté Karlové pak chodci a koňský povoz s plachtou.
Označeno na desce vpravo dole. Pod obrázkem pak legenda).
9,8 x 7,2 cm, etching, Novak 574.
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A bookplate for the couple Thomas
L. Daniels and Frances H. Daniels.
Thomas father, John W. Daniels (February 23, 1857 – June
8, 1931), was a founder of the Archer-Daniels Linseed Company
which became the Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM). John
married Amelia (*1859) in 1879 and they had one son,
Thomas (*1893).
Thomas married
Frances (*1897). They had 3 children
Forrest L. Daniels (*1919), John H. Daniels (*1921; later
president of ADM), David (*1927 – 2002; a singer/actor). In
1936, a baby girl, Carol, was adopted by Tom and Frances. The
adoption order provided that Carol should to all legal intents
and purposes, be the child of the petitioners [Tom and Frances]
and for the purpose of inheritance and all other legal incidents
and consequences, shall be the same as if she had been born to
them in lawful wedlock. John's wife Amelia died in 1938. Tom's
wife Frances died in March of 1969.
The Winona Daily News
from Winona, Minnesota, December 3, 1969 · Page 13: “Daniels
estate $1.6 million ST. PAUL (AP) - An Inventory filed Tuesday
with Probate Judge Andrew A. Glenn in St. Paul shows that Mrs.
Frances H. Daniels left an estate of $1,671,523. Mrs. Daniels,
who died last March 23 at the age of 73, was the wife of Thomas
Daniels, retired president of Archer. Tom remarried June. Tom
died in 1977.
[See the case TOOMBS v. DANIELS NO. C9-83-89. Supreme Court of
Minnesota.
January 25, 1985]. Today ADM is one of the world’s leading
processors and distributors of agricultural products for food
and animal feed.
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Helen and Francis Hardy.
1922.
St Vitus Cathedral seen from
Jelení příkop
(Chrám sv. Víta z Jeleního přikopu).
Jelení příkop (Deer Moat, a natural ravine in the area of
Prague Castle, sprawling over an area of 8 hectares).
9,9 x 7,1 cm, etching, Novak 575.
Francis (Howe) Hardy was a summer
resident of Ephraim from 1930 until his death in 1960. Although he was a
businessman and not a professional artist, it was his ambition to create
in Door County/Wisconsin a climate of understanding and appreciation of
the arts which would attract both artists and art lovers to the area. To
this end he encouraged annual well presented exhibits of art work.
Helen
and Francis Hardy were both non-professional artists. They made
significant financial contributions to cultural projects.
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Dr. Vladimir Hoppe.
1923.
Nocturno. Antique Alley with statues and a poem in the foreground.
Framed by two columns on the cornice is an open book. Marked down in the
middle. (Nocturno. Antická alej se sochami a basenem v popředí.
Orámováno dvěma sloupy, na jejichž řimse spočívá rozevřená kniha.
Označeno dole uprostřed).
10 x 7,4 cm, aquatint and etching, BBB 3689, Novak 576.
Prof. Dr. Vladimír
Hoppe (* August 19, 1882 Brno - † 3 March
1931 in Prague) philosopher, professor of philosophy at Masaryk
University in Brno. Partner Marie-Teinitzerová Hoppe (Teinitzerová).
Marriage: July 18, 1925.
Parents
Frederick Hoppe and Olga Hoppe (Kozánková), 2 brothers: Viktor Hoppe and
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Adolf Wenig.
1923.
6,4 x 4,9 cm, woodcut in two colours, BBB 3718, Novak 577.
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Adolf Wenig
(1874 - 1940) was born in Stankov u Horšovského Týna in a teaching
family. Because his father soon died, the son could end only the
lower secondary school and then completed his education at the
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All his life he devoted himself to teaching mission and a collection
of legends and myths. Among the best known are rumors of Old Prague,
heroic rumors of Blanik Moravian-Silesian reputation. Also
translated and wrote songs and libretti, among other things, worked
with Antonín Leopold Dvořák on the opera The Devil and Kate. He was
a close friend of the famous singer Ema Destin.
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Fredricka Boyles.
1924.
Castle Strečno in Slovakia. Marked on the bottom plate.
(Hrad Strečno
na Slovensku. Označeno dole na desce.)
10,5 x 7,3 cm, etching, Novak 578.
Fredericka Boyes,
an oil heiress, also called Freddy Child, was a bookbinder and teacher,
She married the artist Charles Jesse Child in 1926.
Photo source: Appetite for Life, The Biography of Julia Child by Noel
Riley Fitch.
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The Child Family: Fredericka Boyes, Erica, Jonathan, Charlie, Julia,
Paul, and Rachel in the late 1940s.
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Strečno Castle (Slovak: Strečniansky hrad) is a Gothic
castle in northern Slovakia, 16 km east of Žilina, above the
river Váh. The very first mention of Strečno castle is dated
1321. During the last years of the 17th century Emperor Leopold
I ordered the castle to be destroyed. Fortification and roofs
were demolished, the castle well and the rain water vessel were
buried and so the castle has been in ruins for three centuries.
T. F. Šimon, Novak 589, 1932,
Strečno at the Vah, etching 210x295 mm. |
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Strečno
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Strečno castle, etching 106x63 mm. |
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Charles Jesse Child (painter, writer),
husband of
Fredricka Boyles, born
January 15, 1902, Montclair, New Jersey, died February
8, 1983, Pennswood Village, Newtown, PA.".
...no culture is an exclusive
culture. All arts are influenced by other arts, and it's
important to include historical perspective and be
familiar with other arts."
Photo: Charles Jesse Child in a newspaper
clipping, courtesy the James A. Michener
Art Museum library.
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After a brief career at Harvard University, where he was
art editor of The Lampoon, Charles Child spent five
years travelling and studying in Europe and Asia, which
contributed to his great versatility as an artist. He
made portraits, murals, and landscapes, illustrated
children's books and poems, and designed fabric. He
painted the stage curtain for the Bucks County Playhouse
and a mural for the Doylestown Post Office. In 1942, he
directed the art and music section of the Cultural Board
of the State Department and later as an advisor on the
arts and humanities, helped develop the cultural
exchange program. He illustrated and wrote a book in
1965, Roots in the Rock, which was a non-fiction account
of the building of his summer home in Maine. For many
years Child wrote a weekly column for the New Hope
Gazette called The Inner Eye, often focusing on his
travels and his observations of contemporary life.
Charles Jesse Child and his identical twin brother, Paul
Cushing Child, were born in Montclair, New Jersey on
January 15, 1902. Six months after their birth, their
father, Charles Triplet Child, a scientist working at
the Astrophysical Observatory in the Smithsonian, passed
away and their mother, Bertha May Cushing, a singer,
moved to her family’s home in Boston. The brothers grew
up in a musical environment; Charles played the violin,
Paul the cello and Mary, their older sister, the piano.
After high school, Charles attended Harvard University
where he became the art editor of The Harvard Lampoon;
and Paul briefly attended Columbia College. The family
moved to Paris in the 1920s for Bertha’s career, there
Charles and Paul studied art and photography,
respectively. In 1926, Charles married Fredericka
(Freddie) Boyles, an oil heiress whom he met while
painting her portrait, and together they travelled
through Europe and Asia pursuing his interest in art.
Charles and Freddie returned to the US in 1930 and
settled in Bucks County, on Green Hill Road in
Lumberville, PA. She worked as a bookbinder and teached
bookbinding. He worked for the U.S. State Department
(primarily UNESCO), first in Washington then in San
Francisco before retiring in 1947 and returning to Bucks
County. Paul, a cartographer with a refined palate, met
Julia McWilliams, a researcher who helped develop a
shark repellent, in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) during World War
II when they were both working for the Office of
Strategic Services – the precursor to the CIA. They
married in Stockton, NJ on Labor Day, 1946, and held
their wedding reception in the backyard of Charles and
Freddie’s Lumberville home, Coppernose. Paul and Julia
lived in various European cities before Paul retired
from the United States Foreign Service and settled in
Cambridge, MA where they lived for 40 years. Always
close, Paul is known to have written weekly letters to
Charles, as well as other family members and friends,
detailing Paul and Julia’s lives in France. Julia also
wrote frequently and called Freddie her
sister-in-cooking. In the 1940s, the two couples
hand-built a log cabin on Blue Hill Bay, Mt Desert
Island off the coast of Maine where Charles had a summer
studio and Julia visited frequently to perfect her
recipes. In 1965 Charles wrote and illustrated an
amusing family memoir of their summers in Maine, Roots
in the Rocks. Upon meeting Julia, he describes her as “a
tall, willowy creature with dark, curly hair and blue,
blue eyes, as jolly and gay as Paul was serious….She was
a tough, relentless worker at whatever she undertook,
immensely systematic, determined to carry through
anything she began.” The date was 1945, Paul and Julia
were living in France and visiting the family in Maine
when they announced their engagement, Julia was
“mastering the art of French cooking, and would spend
her free hours every day at the stove, notebook in hand,
enthusiastically reeling out miles of cookies, pots full
of Boeuf Bourguignon and Tripe ŕ la mode de Caen.”
[Roots in the Rocks, page 123 – available in the
Michener Art Museum Library]. Paul enjoyed photography
and writing poetry, his photographs were used in Julia’s
cookbooks such as The French Chef Cookbook and From
Julia Child’s Kitchen. Charles painted landscapes,
portraits and murals; his drawings and poems illustrated
adult and children’s books; he also created decorative
screens and panels, and designed rugs and fabrics, for
private homes. Charles created a mural titled William
Markham Purchases Bucks County Territory for the
Doylestown, PA Post Office in 1937 as part of
Roosevelt’s New Deal program. He painted the stage
curtain for the Bucks County Playhouse in 1939. In it he
depicted the town of New Hope, Pennsylvania, and local
landmarks such as Bowman’s Tower, the Logan Inn, the New
Hope Railroad Station, and the Bucks County Playhouse,
along with the townspeople and artists to emphasize New
Hope’s reputation as an artists’ colony. Charles’s
artwork was shown in a number of exhibitions over the
years, including the Woodmere Art Gallery in 1970 and
Phillips Mill in 1979. Charles also wrote a weekly
column for the New Hope Gazette entitled “The Inner
Eye”, centering on his travels and interpretations on
everyday life.
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Louisa Houžvička (Ex
libris Luisy Houžvičkové). 1924.
Castle Orava in Slovakia.
8,5 x 6,0 cm, etching, BBB 3690,
Novak 579.
A bookplate for Louisa Houžvička,
a Czech artist.
Památník národního písemnictví (Monument of National Literature)
owns a bookplate from Louisa Houžvičková from 1925 by the Czech
artist Bohumil Krs, titled EX LIBRIS LOUISA HOUŽVIČKOVÁ.
Zincograph, 130 x 87 mm, not signed.
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Orava Castle (Slovak: Oravský hrad), is situated on a
high rock above the River Orava in the village of Oravský Podzámok,
Slovakia. It is considered to be one of the most beautiful
castles in Slovakia.
The castle was built in the Kingdom of Hungary in the thirteenth
century. Orava Castle stands on the site of an old wooden
fortification, built after the Mongol invasion of Hungary
of 1241. Its history since then reveals a
familiar pattern of construction, destruction, reconstruction,
fire, various ownerships and territorial squabbles. The original
design was in Romanesque and Gothic style; it was later
reconstructed as a Renaissance and Neo-Gothic structure, hugging
the shape of the 520-metre spur on which it perches.
The mining magnate Thurzo family, who took charge in the mid
16th century, was responsible for a great deal of rebuilding
work, although its present form was not finalised until 1611. It
burned down again in 1800, after which the Pálffy’s occupied the
castle. And then, after a period of dilapidation and World War
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T.F. Šimon, Novak 1923 AP2.
Orava castle, woodcut, 162x126. |
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D.K. and C.L. Rose.
1924.
The owner is an American (Majitelka je američanka).
10,9 x 8,3 cm, aquatint, Novak 580.
Prague Castle (Hradčany) and St Vitus Cathedral in the snow, seen from
Jelení příkop (= Deer Moat, a natural ravine in the area of Prague Castle,
sprawling over an area of 8 hectares).
Probably is meant Dr. D.K. Rose (1886-1976), a well-known urologist. The
first urodynamic instrument for measuring bladder pressure during
filling and voiding has been used clinically for the first time by Dr.
D.K. Rose in 1927; only in the 50s, this simple instrument, based on
physical principles of hydrodynamics, was converted into an electronic
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Dr D.K. Rose holding a urethroscope, ca 1939, Washington
University, School of Medicine Faculty.
His name is found in: Symposium on Cancer, Surgical
Clinics of North America, Barnard Free Skin & Cancer
Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, W. B. Saunders Company,
Philadelphia & London, 1944, First edition, hardcover in
dust jacket, 6" x 9", ill. (Combined Surgical and
Hormonal Treatment for Cancer of Prostate, Dr. D.K.
ROSE).
Left: Dr. Rose as a faculty member in the Hatchet of the Washington University, 1922.
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Souvenir de L‘Albanie, Judr.
D. Teller. 1924.
13 x 8,9 cm, etching, BBB 3715,
Novak 1924 AP2.
David Teller was born
in 1875 in Zahrádkách u Pelhřimova, died
August 5, 1929 in
Dolní Lipová. Lawyer in Česke Budějovice, bookplate collector, a member
of the Association of collectors and friends of bookplates.
Source data found in: Milan Humplík: Osobnosti Českého Exlibris
(Personalities of Czech bookplates), 2015.
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Walter and Helen Gethman.
1925.
Saint Lutgardis on Charles Bridge in Prague.
11 x 7,8 cm, aquatint, Novak 581.
T. F. Šimon made two versions of this print.
The first (right) with the text "Christmas Greetings Mr. and Mrs. Walter
W. Gethman, and the second (below; which is the drawing for the ex
libris) with the text "Ex libris Walter and Helen Gethman. The first
version is published in the catalogue raisonné by Václav Rytíř. I
state – PF 1924 (compare N 411), II – Ex libris.
Walter Wesley Gethman,
born 21 Feb 1882 in Spring Creek/Gladbrook, Tama Co, died 07 July 1938
in Geneva, Switzerland. He was the son of Johann William Edward Gethmann
(called himself John Gethman, having dropped the second "n" from
Gethmann and Helene Mertens, who had five children). Walter went to work
with the troops in France during WWI, married in England, and ended
working for the YMCA for the rest of his life in Europe, first in Prague
and then Geneva. He married Helen Maxwell King, an American nurse, 28
July 1920 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England.
They met in France during WWI, she ran the so-called Women's Force while
he was with the YMCA.
Helen Maxwell King,
born 05 June 1885 in Olivet, Eaton Co.; died 30 Oct 1967 in Waukesha,
Waukesha Co. She was the daughter of Hon. Hamilton King and Cora Lee
Seward. Hamilton was the first US envoy to Siam, from 1898 to 1912. He
is buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Bangkok. There is a picture of
his grown daughter (Helen King) marching as the only woman in a parade
celebrating the coronation of the king in 1912. Her father had been ill,
and it is said that Helen was effectively running the American consulate.
Children of Walter Gethmann and Helen King are: 1. Mary Helen Gethman,
born 23 May 1921 in Prague, Republic of Czechoslovakia (now Czech
Republic); died 13 Nov 2002 in Waukesha; married Gordon Marshall
Galloway. 2. Cora Lee King Gethman; married Prof. Julian Howard Gibbs.
Walter and Helen first settled in Prague as part of an international
effort to establish the YMCA of Czechoslavakia. They later settled in
Geneva, Walter having been appointed head of the World Council of the
YMCA, which was and is headquartered in Geneva. Both Walter and Helen
were buried in Geneva. (Information by James H. Gibbs, greatgrandson of
Walter and Helen).
Walter Gethmann is mentioned in the Northwestern University -
Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL) - Class of 1912. Philosophy Charles
City College. In 1910 he published the book “The Development of the Idea
of Religious Morality in Hebrew”, Northwestern University Prophecy.
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Chicago Tribune, July 9, 1938.
Obituary Walter W. Gethman.
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Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Gold bowl with garudas and celestials; 1920–1921;
Thailand. Gift of the family of Helen King Gethman
This gold bowl
was given in 1921 as a wedding present from King Rama VI
to Helen King, the daughter of Hamilton King, a U.S.
diplomat in Siam. It was delivered by the Siamese
ambassador to King’s family in the St. Petersburg,
Florida.Bowls such as this one were made to contain
religious objects or offerings. In old Siam they were
included as part of the insignia of royal family members
and high officials. A gold bowl was a popular wedding
gift from the royal family.
This bowl is decorated with several alternating motifs:
a mythical bird with human attributes (a garuda),
stylized foliage, and a celestial being with hands in
the gesture of adoration.The
Siamese traditionally preferred objects of high-karat
gold of a reddish colour. According to analysis in the
museum’s conservation laboratory this bowl is 71 percent
gold, 24.5 percent silver, and small quantities other
metals and minerals. In Western terms this would be
considered 17 karat gold. Why the surface is so reddish
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Dr. Rudolf Tille.
1925.
9,5 x 7,6 cm, zincography, BBB 3716, Novak 582.
Engineer Rudolf Tille
(1892-1998) Czech brewer, born in a brewing family. Devoted to
scientific activities, he worked in several breweries. He started in
Breznice, also worked in Pécs, Nitro, Brno, Jagodina Ratiboř, Karviná
and Cheb. From 1938-1948 he worked at the brewery in Karvina. He lived a
long life of 106 years.
Literature: Starec M., 2010: “Die Geschichte der Brauerei in Karviná”,
2010. Tille, R.: “Pameti ing. Rudolf Tille”. Plzen, 1990.
Label of the brewery of Karviná.
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Brewery in Karviná.
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Longhaired Girl with Books. 1925.
Lithograph, 12 x 7,5 cm.
Edmund Donauer.
In her diploma thesis of 2007 “Líšeň between Democracy and Nazism (Development
in the Years 1918 - 1945)” Monika Sobolová of the Masaryk University,
College of education, Department of History, calls
Edmund Donauer as one of the
representatives of the former local political parties of Líšeň. In a new
party he is managing director (Czech: jednatel) in October 1938. Líšeň (German:
Lösch) is a historic market town, today under the name of Brno- Líšeň
also part of Brno (German: Brünn).
Left: New year's card, Novak
1925 AP3, with the same motif.
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Václav Mareš.
1927.
Charles Bridge in the snow.
12 x 7,7 cm, aquatint, Novak 583.
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Václav Mareš
* 22.7.1891 Hluboš - + 27.10.1954 Prague; bookseller and
publisher.
Literature:Velký slovník osobností vědy a kultury příbramského
regionu (Great Dictionary of personalities of science and
culture of the Přibram region), author Trantina Václav, 2001.
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Máňa Pátková (Ex Libris Máni Pátkové).
1928.Castle of Křivoklát (Hrad
Křivoklát).
9,5 x 7 cm, Etching, Novak 584.
A bookplate for a woman called
Máňa Pátek.
Křivoklát Castle is located in
the Central Bohemia Region of the Czech Republic, west of Prague. The
castle of Křivoklát belongs to the oldest and most important castles of
the Czech princes and kings.
The history of its construction starts in the 12th century. During the
reign of Přemysl Otakar II. a large, monumental royal castle was built
to be later rebuilt by king Václav IV, who used it primarily for leisure
and sport, preferring it to his father's more famous Karlstejn, located
in the same region. Later the castle was generously enlarged by king
Vladislav of Jagellon. The castle was seriously damaged by fire several
times. It became a feared prison and its importance sank rapidly. First
during the Romantic époque of the 19th century (when under rule of the
family of Fürstenberg that owned the castle until 1929) the castle was
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V. Fanderlik.
1929
9,3 x 5,9 cm, etching, Novak 585.
Dr. Velen Fanderlik
(11 February 1907 Prague - 2 February 1985 Trail, British Columbia,
Canada), was born and educated in Czechoslovakia. He displayed artistic
ability from an early age, but followed family tradition and tradition
and after graduating from the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University in
Prague, he opened a law office. Both Velen and his father Vladimír
Fanderlik were instrumental in organizing the Czechoslovakian Boy
Scouts, Junák, of which Velen became President.
World War II and the absorption of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union,
forced Velen to flee his homeland. He practiced law in England, and also
in France, where he worked as an evacuation officer for Czechoslovak
refugees. He married his wife, Stanislava Fanderlíkova (Zvědělíková) 27.
7. 1941 in England (St. George in Whitchurch). He later served as a
military judge and became a member of the prosecuting team at the
Nuremberg war crime trials.
A visit to Czechoslovakia in 1947 coincided with
the Communists taking control. Velen was warned that his name appeared
on a list of persons considered dangerous to state security. He fled
Czechoslovakia illegally to the American zone of West Germany, where he
became involved in the work of the International Relief Organization.
About a year later, he returned to England, but before long, made the
decision to relocate to Canada. He studied art in London, San Francisco,
Banff and Vancouver
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They settled in Vancouver, where Velen worked at the YMCA and
studied at the University of British Columbia (U.B.C.) to become
a teacher. In 1955, Velen accepted a teaching position at J.L.
Crowe Secondary School in Trail. Here, he taught Latin, History,
Social Studies, Law and Art until his retirement. He also taught
the History of Art at night school classes in Trail and
Castlegar and at summer schools at U.B.C. and Notre Dame
University in Nelson. Velen continued to study art throughout
his life, attending classes at the University of Brno, St.
Martin School of Art in London, Cambridge University, the
Academy of Art in San Francisco, University of British Columbia
and the Banff School of Fine Arts. His favourite medium was
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He became known as a miniaturist and for his lino cuts. The
Trail Arts Club annually gives a Dr. V. Fanderlik Scholarship to
a promising student of art and very well known around town.”
Fanderlik, known as “Doc Fanderlik”, and his wife did not have
children. Stanislava (* March 18, 1914 Dvur Kralove), studied
painting in Canada and died March 10, 1980 in Trail, British
Columbia (Canada). She was also called Velenka. Fanderliks
family originates from Holland – the name was written “Van der
Lijk”.
Source: most information from the Museum of Vancouver and
http://encyklopedie.brna.cz).
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Dr O. Riegl (Z Knih Dra. O. Riegla).
1930.
I State
10 x 8 cm.
II State 9,5 x
6,5 cm.
Woodcut, Novak 586.
A bookplate for Dr. O. Riegl.
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T.F. Šimon.
1932.
10,8 x 7,7 cm, etching, astrial in brown, Novak 587. |
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Ex Libris without text (Ex Libris bez textu).
Girl with roses at the table (Dívka s růží u stolu).
Etching, BBB 3720, Novak 588.
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Bookplates:
since the 15th century, distinguished artists and their patrons have
given serious attention to this art form. It represents a miniature art
developed to adorn books and a convenient, individualized way for the
book’s owner to be identified. The bookplate or ex libris, is a label
placed on the inside of the front cover of a book, bearing its owners
name and a sign of personal identification. The words ex libris on a book-plate
translate roughly from the Latin as "from the books of" or
"from the library of".
Many techniques and mediums are used in creation of book-plates. Some
include the woodcut, engraving on metal, silkscreen, etching or pen and
ink. This, along with the fact that the work is all done in small scale,
plays an important part in the execution of these works. Also, utilizing
the finest in papers, with hand printing in many examples. Bookplates
have been designed by artists and engravers such as Albrecht Dürer,
Thomas Bewick, Paul Revere, Kate Greenaway, Aubrey Beardsley, Marc
Chagall, M.C. Escher,
František Šimon, Rockwell Kent, Leonard Baskin,
Barry Moser, and others.
Ex libris enthusiasts have created an international network for the
purposes of attaining designs by establishing societies in forty-one
countries. Every two years an International Ex Libris Congress is held in
a different country inviting members of the world bookplate societies to
attend. Under the auspices of the Federation International des Societé's
d’Amateurs d’Ex Libris (FISAE) one enjoys lectures, slide
presentations, exhibitions and sufficient time is allowed for
socializing and trading book-plates. In USA is
The American Society of
Bookplate Collectors and Designers.
Czech
Bookplates: the modern Czech book-plate-making started around the year
1868, with the oldest book-plate for Knight Vojtěch Lanna by Josef Manes. Among the Czech book-plate makers belonged great Czech artists such
as Alfons Mucha, Max Švabinský, Vojtěch
Preissig,Tavik
František Šimon,
Hugo Boettinger and Mikoláš Aleš. An article in the Moderni Revue magazin
of 1897 by the poet and first collector of bookplates, S. K. Neumann
is considered to be the first trace of the organized bookplate-collecting.
Since then, the great interest in book markings and collecting them, has
continued. Bedřich Beneš Buchlovan informs us of as many as five thousand
Czech book-plates as early as in 1926. With the time going, the
book-plates changed their characteristics and from the book markings of an
owner of a book, it had been transformed into a collector`s object of
interest. Even contemporary artists have nourished the tradition of the
book-plate, for example E. Haskova, M. Houra, J. Liesler, Pavel
Šimon, J. Pileček,
and K. Beneš. The Association of Collectors and Friends of Bookplate
(Spolek Sbęratelu a Přátel Exlibris - SSPE) founded in 1918 has
contributed greatly to the promotion of book-plates and of
bookplate collecting. The Association issues a magazine quarterly called
The Book Marking (Knizni Znacka).
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Announcement of the publication of the Catalogue, 1932.
T.F. Šimon: "Ex libris", drawing in ink and aquarelle.
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T.F. Šimon: "Ex libris".
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