Detail View: CVPA Alumni (Swain): Outside painting and drawing class held on the Currier Building lawn.

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: 
http://www.lib.umassd.edu/archives/
Relation: 
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Archives and Special Collections