Wellesley College Museum: The Centennial Year

Wellesley: Wellesley College Museum, 1990. Slipcased. G+/VG: Bend to the slipcase and to the brochures about halfway down. Fading to the slipcase, especially around the edges. Some foxing to the brochure edges. Clean illustrations.. Seven folded portfolios inside a textured muted blue case. The case has a pink ribbon for easy removal of the brochures. Each brochure is folded accordian-style; some have laid-in pieces. Contents are as follows: Style and science : examining a Polykleitan sculpture -- Giorgio Vasari's Holy family: master and pupil in a Renaissance workshop -- Diana in late nineteenth-century sculpture : a theme in variations -- An object of the cultural imagination : a female image in Bamana art -- Duchamp-Villon's Baudelaire : sources and transformations -- Arcadia in America : New England scenery by Frederic Edwin Church, American harvesting by Jasper Francis Cropsey, Mount Washington from the Valley of Conway by John Frederick Kensett -- The Wellesley method.