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The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, No. 9, Seventh Year, First Half
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The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern Edition
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One drawing book entitled The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern Edition, published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, New York and Chicago, copyright 1899. The subtitle reads: Description, Specimen Illustrations from different grades and Opinions of leading Supervisors and Teachers. This 40-page book is primarily a collection of written testimonials about the Prang drawing system. Pages 3-6 are devoted to an outline and explanation of the system and its various levels and courses, and the remaining pages are excerpts from letters of praise from art teachers in the U.S., illustrated with both images from the Prang instructional drawing books and samples of artwork created using the Prang courses. The first two pages are composed of illustrations. The front cover is illustrated in the upper left-hand corner with a small, rectangular image of three daffodils. On the inside of the front cover begins "European Opinions in Regard to the Prang Course", which continues onto the inside back cover and the back cover. "2- BDF as is" (price) written in ms. in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.
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Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern Edition
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One scrapbook/collage created from The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern Edition, published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, copyright 1899. The scrapbook is 40 numbered pages in length, and scrapbook images have also been added to the insides of the covers, and to the back cover. The scrapbook images are cut from newspapers and magazines, and cover most but not all of the lithograph images of the instruction book. Most of the images are black and white, but there are also many chromolithograph images. The majority of the scrapbook images are of women. "Cora E. Nash" is stamped, in blue ink, on the front cover.
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White's New Course in Art Instruction For Elementary Schools
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Two drawing books entitled White's New Course in Art Instruction For Elementary Schools, published by American Book Company, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, copyright 1892. One book is labeled 5th year, the other as 7th year. Bound in brown paper. 5th year is 32 pages in length, (numbered and unnumbered); 7th year is 36 pages in length (numbered and unnumbered). The unnumbered pages in these two volumes were used as copying pages. All of the copying pages in 7th year are blank; some of them in 5th year have been filled in with pencil drawings. 5th year contains one page with paper cutout pattern pasted in. In each book are also several pages of "Illustrated Definitions", and the inside front and back covers of each book are manufacturers' advertisements for "Materials for the Study of Color, Form, and Drawing" to be used in connection with the books in the series.
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Prang's Shorter Course in Form Study and Drawing, No. 2 & No. 3
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Two drawing books entitled Prang's Shorter Course in Form Study and Drawing, No. 2 and No. 3 by John S. Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, and Walter S. Perry, published by Prang Educational Company, Boston, New York and Chicago, copyright 1888. Each is 32 pages in length and begins with three drill exercises, and continues with 13 numbered exercises which emphasize freehand copying of (lithographed) forms and objects. The front covers contain a single decorative element below the title, and the back cover features an illustrated publisher's advertisement for "Prang's Primary Course in Form Study and Drawing". Suggestions for use and a brief list of materials needed are given on the inside of the front covers; the inside of the back covers contain a publisher's advertisement for "Prang's Shorter Course in Form Study and Drawing for Intermediate and Grammar Schools". The three drawing drills at the beginning of the book are designed to familiarize the student with correct form and use of drawing with a pencil, and emphasize straight and curved lines. The numbered exercises encourage copying from given images and objects supplied by the teacher or student. Each exercise includes an image, brief textual instructions, and space for copying. No. 2: Some of the exercises in No. 2 include an envelope, designs, leaves, and tableware. Most of the exercises have been copied. Two-thirds of one leaf belonging to Exercise XIII has been cut off and is missing. "Esther Gilmore" is written in ms., in pencil, on the front cover, along the spine end. No. 3: Some of the exercises in Book No. 3 are: a group of fruit; a cylinder; a rosette ornament and a small house. "Matthew E. Welch" is written in ms. along the spine side of the front cover, "2.00" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right hand front cover of both No. 2 and No. 3.
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Instruction in Drawing in Primary and Intermediate Schools in Europe and America: A Critical Review of the Prang Course in Form-Study and Drawing
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One pamphlet entitled Instruction in Drawing in Primary and Intermediate Schools in Europe and America. A Critical Review of the Prang Course in Form-Study and Drawing, by Arnold Dodel, with an introduction by Louis Prang, published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, ca. 1890. This pamphlet is 36 numbered pages in length, and is not illustrated. The 9-page introduction is signed by Louis Prang, and is dated March 1, 1890. "University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge" is printed on the verso of the title page.
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Prang's Complete Course in Form Study and Drawing, Nos. 1-2, 4-10
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