COLLECTION NAME:
CVPA Alumni (Swain)
Record
resource_ID:
urc28_15_15_0020
creator_name:
Swain School of Design
creator_nationality:
American
creator_notes:
A series of photographs documenting activities, events, exhibitions and buildings managed and occupied by Swain School of Design School
Title:
Outside painting and drawing class held on the Currier Building lawn.
work_dates_display:
1955
dates:
1955
genre:
photography
format_medium:
35mm ektachrome slide
subject:
studios (work spaces)
subject:
classrooms
subject:
easels
Subject_sourceID:
AAT 300079638
subject:
students
Subject_sourceID:
AAT 300025909
subject:
painting (image making)
Subject_sourceID:
AAT 300054216
subject:
outside
Subject_sourceID:
AAT 300010277
subject_culture:
American
subject_name:
Swain School of Design
subject_coverage:
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Description:
A group of female and male students sketching and painting outside the Currier Building. Allen Dale Currier Building 31 Hawthorn Street, 1885/1900 Currier buildingA shingle and clapboard structure built originally as Miss Lucy Leonard's School. It subsequently served as a private residence, and in the 1930s as the home of Allen Dale Currier, director of the Swain School from 1930-1943, and Director Emeritus until 1946. Currier's family later gave it to the school, which used it as classroom space, Painting majors' studios, faculty residence, and in 1986, as a second dormitory for 11 students.
DCMI Type Vocabulary:
Image
cataloger:
lscharf
date_of_catalog:
2014/04/24
Relation:
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Archives and Special Collections
Outside painting and drawing class held on the Currier Building lawn.
