Guide to the Thomas Cornell Papers, 1961-2012
Unprocessed portion of collection is restricted until processed; prints, posters, drawings, and broadsides are available for research.
Gift of Christa Cornell, 2015, 2021
Posters, prints, broadsides, and drawings available for research.
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Papers (ca. 1961-2012) of Thomas Cornell including: artwork, professional correspondence; subject files concerning curriculum, teaching, administration, and programs in the visual arts at Bowdoin College; files documenting Cornell's professional art projects; and information about grants. Papers also include a few original drawings by Cornell, a poem dedicated to Tom Cornell and signed by Anthony Hecht, and a poem (in an edition of 360) signed by May Sarton to Tom and Christa Cornell. Includes drawings made by Cornell of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bayard Rustin during King's speech given at First Parish Church, Brunswick, Maine, May 1964.
Itemised list of artwork prepared by donor available on request; digital photographs of all artwork also provided by donor.
Etching plates
Drawings made at Martin Luther King, Jr. speech, First Parish Church, Brunswick, Maine, May 1964
Prints from two early books done in conjunction with students: Native Americans and Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1964
Drawing for poster of BCMA exhibit: The Art of Sub-Sahara Africa, 1965
Civil rights and indigenous prints, 1964-1965
French Revolution drawings from sketchbook, 1963
French Revolution drawings for Babeuf book
French Revolution drawings not used in Babeuf book, 1963
Monkey Book mock-up
Broadsides
Drawings for poster on Civil Rights Forum, portrait of Eugene Baker, 1961-1962
Posters for Political Forum on Civil Rights and for lecture commemorating Chamberlain's acceptance of surrender, 1965