Roselaine Boylan student work
Online Access
Available digital items: https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/collections/KA0077.
Abstract
Roselaine Boylan studied graphic design and illustration at Parsons School of Design in the late 1920s-early 1930s. The hand-drawn commercial artwork in this collection represents five assignments from her classes.
Dates
- circa 1929 - 1930
Creator
- Carpenter, Roselaine Boylan (Person)
Extent
.1 Cubic Feet (5 illustrations)
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Content of Collection
Advertising illustrations by Roselaine Boylan completed as a student at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (now, Parsons School of Design). Boylan studied in the Graphic Advertising and Illustration Department in 1929-1930. The collection is comprised of five student assignments, probably executed for a third year advertising design class. The assignments consist of illustrated advertising displays executed in tempera and watercolor for the Grayline Tours bus company, Jell-O, Bloomingdale's department store, and Lord & Taylor.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for appointment.
Use Restrictions
To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the New School Archives. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Biographical note
Roselaine Boylan Carpenter studied in the Graphic Advertising and Illustration Department of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (now, Parsons The New School for Design) around 1929-1930. Originally from Westchester, New York, Roselaine Boylan Carpenter later became a cinema manager in the Bronx. She and her children moved to Long Island in the mid-1960s, where she continued managing theaters, including the Patchogue Playhouse. She died in the mid-1970s.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Roselaine Boylan Carpenter's son, Kevin Carpenter, 1997.
External Support
The processing of this collection was supported in part by a grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust.
- Advertising layout and typography (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Commercial art -- United States (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Drawings (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Graphic arts -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Local sources
- New York School of Fine and Applied Art
- Student projects (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Guide to the Roselaine Boylan student work
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Anne Kumer
- Date
- 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- August 11, 2010: Bernadette Vitale significantly revised and expanded descriptive content.