[J. J. Lankes collection, 1905-1962]

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Title:

[J. J. Lankes collection, 1905-1962]

Author:

Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960.

Personal Author:

Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960.

Physical Description:

8 ft. (approximately 19 boxes) : illustrations, photographs, portraits (some color).

Summary:

A wide variety of items relating to the life and career of Julius J. Lankes, wood-engraver and painter, including : block prints and photocopies of his woodcuts, etchings, and bookplates, some mounted and matted ; an album of color photographs of his paintings ; correspondence, including that of his son, J. B. Lankes ; periodicals with articles by or about J. J. Lankes ; unpublished mss., "The history of my relations with William or Walter Gubelman or Gubelmann" and "From Jefferson [St.] to Adams [St.]" (a Lankes family history) ; a folder of photostats of woodcut records and of the woodcuts themselves ; J. J. Lankes's diary, Jan. 1, 1907 through Dec. 31, 1910 ; "Log Book of the Sketch Club, org. Aug. 3rd 1910" ; and a wooden box containing Lankes's first set of graver tools. Transcription of Lankes' Diary 1904-1906 by Welford Dunaway Taylor (2008) provided by the Buffalo History Museum Library, January 2024 (Box #2)

General Note:

Title assigned by cataloger.

Gift of J.B. Lankes, Hampton, Va. March 1980, except for 1991-1992 prints from the Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, N.Y.

Language:

English

Local Note:

Box 1 contains a collection finding aid.

Personal Subject:

Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960.

Subject Term:

Wood-engraving, American -- 20th century.

Wood-engraving -- Printing.