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Image: “The Mock-Bird,” in The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: Containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects and Plants, Together with their Descriptions in English and French, by Mark Catesby, 1754.

Frank Bevan’s costume sketches, in watercolor and in pencil, for “Overlords,” a play produced/directed by George Pierce Baker at the Yale University School of Fine Arts Department of Drama in November of 1928 (UNCAT MSS 1213: view all images)

Margaret Paston

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Lord Moleyns

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Margaret Paston

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Martin

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Agnes Paston

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John Churchyard

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Prude Kitt

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Watercolor and ink drawing with manuscript poem by Arthur  Davison Ficke; photo of Edna St. Vincent Millay, inscribed to Ficke; photo of Millay and Ficke  (YCAL MSS 50)

A primer by Walter Crane.
To see the entire book online, click here.

a new artists’ book by Thomas Nozkowski and Cole Swensen
co-published by Yale University Art Gallery &
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

The Beinecke Library is pleased to announce the publication of Flare, the culminating project of the 2007–2008 collaborative Artist and Poet in Residence Program sponsored by the Yale University Art Gallery & Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

The book includes new poems by Cole Swensen and new prints by Thomas Nozkowski. The poet and illustrator visited Yale together on several occasions to work on this project, influencing one another’s artistic process and the completed work; the book reflects the makers’ creative conversation and collaboration. Original prints from Flare are currently  on view in the exhibition Continuous Present at the Yale University Art Gallery.

Flare can be ordered from Yale University Press: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300162400.

Thomas Nozkowski currently lives and works in New York. Cole Swensen is the author of over ten poetry collections and as many translations of works from the French.

Fruits and vegetables from the Beinecke garden.

Photograph by Carl Van Vechten
Photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used with permission of the Van Vechten Trust; permission of the Trust is required to publish Van Vechten photographs in any format. To learn more, contact the Curator, Yale Collection of American Literature.

The new issue of ESOPUS Magazine features an article by Beinecke Library Catalog Librarian Ellen Ellickson about a collection of buttons kept by Marjorie Wynne, who served as Rare Book Librarian at Yale for over 40 years. Ellen writes movingly about memories of Marjorie and the reasons why the  packages of buttons are so well-organized. Accompanying the essay are beautifully composed photographs of a selection of buttons. Two shots below have been provided by Tod Lippy, publisher of ESOPUS, described on its website as “. . . a twice-yearly arts magazine featuring fresh, unmediated perspectives on contemporary culture from a wide range of creative professionals. “

A memorial reception celebrating the life and work of Miss Wynne will be held at the Beinecke Library on Friday, October 30th, from 5:30 – 7:00. A copy of ESOPUS with the article by Ellen Ellickson will be on display.

Images from the Bonnie and Semoura Clark Black Vaudeville Collection (Call Number: JWJ MSS 15); for related images see “Ruckus! American Entertainments at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”

Bonnie & Semoura Clark

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Southern Pastimes

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Blaine & Brown

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a chorus line

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The Kentucky Trio

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Mack & Mack

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Gus Stevens

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The first issue of Icteric, an arts magazine published in 1967-68 by David and Stuart Wise, who would go on to form the King Mob.

Two covers and an interior page from The Blindman,
the Dada magazine published by Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, and Henri Pierre Roche.