Watercolors

Abstract

Ida Scott was born Ida Calhoun Futch in Ft. Sill, Oklahoma in 1926 and studied at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas from February 1944 through June 1947. Photographs, drawings, and papers illustrate her education, career, and interests in furniture, barrier free architecture, and women in the profession.

Abstract

Walter Rolfe (1900-1967) taught at The University of Texas School of Architecture and practiced architecture in Houston and Beaumont, Tex. The collection includes papers, correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, photographs, books, awards and medals, paintings and drawings that document Rolfe's life and work.

Abstract William P. (Bill) Hersey and John Kyrk worked together as architectural illustrators from the early 1970s until Hersey's death in 1989. Based in California, the two traveled across the United States, often in a Volkswagen bus they operated as a mobile studio, producing contracted renderings for architects, firms, and developers. In addition to architectural drawings, the collection includes other visual material like travel sketches and botanical illustrations, fliers, rubbings, and wood...