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Graphic communications through the ages

Author: Douglas M Parrish; George I Parrish; Robert Alan Thom; Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Publisher: ; [ca. 1965].
Edition/Format:   Image : Original artwork : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The collection consists of 24 paintings illustrating the history methods for communicating the written word developed between 950 B.C. and the early twentieth century. The paintings were commissioned by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation of Neenah, Wisconsin, from artists Robert A. Thom (1915-1979), Douglas M. Parrish (1922-2001), and George I. Parrish Jr. (1930-1992).
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Genre/Form: Illustrations
Oil paintings (visual works)
Pictorial works
Named Person: William Blake; Charlemagne, Emperor; Simon de Colines; Benjamin Franklin; George P Gordon; Frederic W Goudy; Johann Gutenberg; Frederic Eugene Ives; Nicolas Jenson; Friedrich Koenig; Toblbert Lanston; Aldo Manuzio; Ottmar Mergenthaler; William Morris; Ira Rubel; Alois Senefelder; William Shakespeare; Charles Stanhope Stanhope, Earl; Geoffroy Tory; John Peter Zenger
Material Type: Original artwork
Document Type: Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: Douglas M Parrish; George I Parrish; Robert Alan Thom; Kimberly-Clark Corporation
OCLC Number: 654456065
Notes: Custom-designed frames created for the paintings by House of Heydenryk, New York.
Description: 24 paintings on Masonite : oil ; 91.44 x 121.92 cm (36 x 48 in.) and smaller.

Abstract:

The collection consists of 24 paintings illustrating the history methods for communicating the written word developed between 950 B.C. and the early twentieth century. The paintings were commissioned by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation of Neenah, Wisconsin, from artists Robert A. Thom (1915-1979), Douglas M. Parrish (1922-2001), and George I. Parrish Jr. (1930-1992).

Specific events, people, and technologies are portrayed in a series of paintings meant to be viewed in a chronological order, and titled: Papyrus and Pictography (950-685 B.C.); the Roman Alphabet (506 B.C.); Charlemagne and the Monastic Scribes (800 A.D.); Chinese Block Printing (868 A.D.); Papermaking at Fabriano, Italy (1293); Johann Gutenberg and Movable Type (1455); Nicholas Jenson (1470); Aldus Manutius (1495); Geofroy Tory and Simon de Colines (1525); William Shakespeare's First Folio (1623); John Peter Zenger (1735); Benjamin Franklin (1758); Alois Senefelder and Lithography (1796); William Blake (1800); Fourdrinier and the Papermaking Machine (1803); Friederich Koenig and the Cylindrical Press (1814); Lord Stanhope and Stereotyping (1804); George P. Gordon and the Platen Press (1851); Frederic E. Ives and the Half-tone Process (1878); Ottmar Mergenthaler and the Linotype (1866); William Morris (1890); Tolbert Lanston and the Monotype (1894); Ira Rubel and the Offset Press (1905); and Frederic W. Goudy (1905).

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