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Title |
Design excercises for book covers and jackets in a variety of media by Martha Brookes Brown |
Scope & Content |
Design excercises for book covers and jackets in a variety of media by Martha, Signed M.B. Brown. -Pair of geometric designs in ink and watercolor. Long thin rectangles, possibly for spines. (BB2021.4.23.a-b) -Pair of practice pieces, one with yellow center surrounded by green wreath and the other blue watercolor around geometric design. (BB2021.4.24.a-b) -Cover and spine design for A Gentleman of France. (BB2021.4.25.a-b) -Cover and spine design for A Tale of Two Cities. (BB2021.4.26.a-b) -Cover design for A Collection of Ecclesiastical Relics (BB2021.4.27) |
Object Name |
Drawing |
Catalog Number |
BB2021.004.0023-.0027 |
Collection |
Bamboo Brook Collection |
Physical characteristics |
watercolors on paper |
Creator |
Hutcheson, Martha Brookes |
Biographical History |
Martha Brookes Hutcheson, née Brown, was born in New York City in 1871 and spent part of her childhood at her mother's family home in Burlington, VT where she was put in charge of her first garden at age 10. She attended New York School of Applied Design for Women from 1893 to 1895, studying watercolor painting and then attended a three-year landscape program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the few to accept women degree seekers, from 1899 to 1902 although she did not finish that degree program, leaving due to dissatisfaction with the focus of study lack of emphasis on horticulture and social reform. Before leaving the program, Martha gained additional horticultural education studying under Professor Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum. |
Year Range from |
1893 |
Year Range to |
1895 |
System of arrangement |
Arrangement 1)Papers- 92.1-29. 2)Account Books, BB1992.27.1-6, BB1992.28.1-5 3)Image Collection (BB2010.1) a. Negatives (BB2010.2) b.Glass Lantern Slides (BB2010.3) c. Photo Albums (BB2010.4.1-7) |
Subjects |
Drawings Watercolors Portfolios Design Design drawings |
Parent ObjectID |
BB2018.002 |
Copyrights |
Records may be copied for use in individual scholarly or personal research; however, as with all materials in the Park Commission, researchers are responsible for obtaining copyright permission to use the material from the collection. |
Level of description |
Item |