James Vinton Stowell sketch of Harry Baker
Online Access
Available digital items: https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/collections/KA0100
Summary
James Vinton Stowell graduated from the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons The New School for Design) in 1917 with an Advertising Design degree, and was employed by the school as a trade representive through the 1918-1919 academic year. The subject of the pencil sketch, titled "Portrait of 'Our Mr. Baker'," is Harry B. Baker, who taught life drawing at the school from 1915 until his death in 1941.
Dates
- circa 1916
Creator
- Stowell, James Vinton (Artist, Person)
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet (1 illustration)
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Content of Collection
James Vinton Stowell graduated from the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons The New School for Design) in 1917 with an Advertising Design degree, and was employed by the school as a trade representive through the 1918-1919 academic year. The subject of the pencil sketch, titled "Portrait of 'Our Mr. Baker,'" is Harry B. Baker, who taught life drawing at the school from 1915 until his death in 1941. The sketch is accompanied by an envelope, written by an unidentified person identifying the artist, erroneously, as C. Vinton Stowell, with the title. The envelope also identifies the sketch as having been done in "1913(?)," which is probably incorrect.
Access Restrictions
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Use Restrictions
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Biographical Note
James Vinton Stowell, Sr. (1897?-1970) was an artist, archaeologist and explorer. Stowell graduated from the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons The New School for Design) in 1917 with an Advertising Design degree, and was employed by the school as a trade representive through the 1918-1919 academic year. A native of Elmira, New York, Stowell served in the U.S. Navy in 1917-1918. While he worked as an art director in advertising, Stowell devoted his life to amateur archaeology of Native American sites. Some of the artifacts he collected were acquired on arctic expeditions, including a 1946 trip to Nova Scotia and Labrador on the ship Bowdoin, and a 1952 trip on the Regina Polaris to Hudson Bay. Stowell lectured and wrote extensively, primarily on his espeditions to the North and on archaeology. He died in 1970.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The sketch was found out of context in the Kellen Design Archives in 2009.
- Art teachers -- Training of (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Baker, Harry B., 1848-1929 (Depicted)
- Portraits (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Sketches (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Guide to the James Vinton Stowell sketch of Harry Baker
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- New School Archives and Special Collections Staff
- Date
- November 9, 2010
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin