travel sketches
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Sketches made when the artist or architect is traveling, especially for recording monuments and scenes for later study.Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Karl Kamrath collection
Collection
Identifier: KAM
Abstract
Karl Kamrath (1911-1988) grew up in Austin, Texas and earned his Bachelor's degree in architecture from The University of Texas at Austin in 1934. His early career was spent in Chicago but he moved back to Texas in 1937 and became a partner in the firm of MacKie and Kamrath, one of the first Houston firms credited with creating modern architecture. The collection includes records of Kamrath's personal life, professional practice, interest in Frank Lloyd Wright, and association with partner...
Dates:
1918-2004
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Sir Aston Webb collection
Collection
Identifier: WEBB
Abstract
Sir Aston Webb (1849-1930), London architect, designed many large public commissions throughout England between 1875-1915; he worked with E. Ingress Bell and later with his son Maurice Webb. The collection consists of architectural drawings, photographs, and tearsheets from British architectural periodicals that document the career of Sir Aston Webb.
Dates:
1868-1936
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Smith and Brewer drawings
Collection
Identifier: SB
Abstract
Arnold Dunbar Smith (1866-1933) and Cecil Claude Brewer (1871-1918) formed a partnership in London in 1895, establishing a reputation as arts and crafts architects working in the so-called "Free Style" of the 1890s. The firm's work was mainly domestic, using vernacular traditions, until their design for the National Museum of Wales (1910) in which they employed the then-popular Beaux-Arts style. The collection is comprised of architectural drawings which best represent Smith and Brewer's...
Dates:
1896-1939
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
William Hersey and John Kyrk collection
Collection
Identifier: HK
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...
Dates:
1970s-1980s
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives