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KA. Kellen Design Archives Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: KA

Found in 175 Collections and/or Records:

Stefan fashion design papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0137-01
Abstract

Collection mainly consists of publicity photographs, press clippings, fashion show programs, and other materials related to the fashion design career of Stephen Walton Biddle Mason, Jr., known professionally as Stefan, between the mid-1940s and early 1960s.

Dates: circa 1945 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1964

Sunbeam Randall student work

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0062
Abstract

Sunbeam "Sunny" Randall (1898-1993) graduated from Parsons School of Design Interior Design Department in 1951 and worked as a professional decorator. The collection includes course materials, furniture and decorative style sketches, class notes, and a scrapbook documenting Randall's art tour of Europe as a Parsons student in 1950.

Dates: 1948 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1951

Suzy Ehrlich fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0064
Summary

Suzy Lorraine Ehrlich (1919-2006), was a New York-based fashion illustrator and product designer. The collection is comprised of 69 fashion illustrations executed in pen and ink, pastel, crayon, watercolor, and collage. It also includes two mailers advertising Milliken yarns. Some illustrations may have been executed for a class taught by Jack Potter at the School of Visual Arts.

Dates: circa 1950s - 1960s

Sydney Fromkes student portfolio

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0163-01
Abstract

A leather portfolio embossed with "Sydney Fromkes, 1910-1927" on the front, containing student work from the brief time Fromkes attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Art before his death in 1927 at the age of 17. The portfolio contains theatrical costume drawings, poems, and other writings.

Dates: circa 1925-1927

Thoughts and Images: Selections from the Ruder Finn & Rotman Conference Room Quotations (Portfolio B)

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0081
Abstract

Photographer and Parsons School of Design Overseer David Finn created this portfolio of inspirational texts paired with photographs.

Dates: Publication: circa 1998

Tom Brigance fashion publicity and sketches

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0005-01
Abstract

After graduating from the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons School of Design) in 1934, Tom Brigance (1913-1990) became a fashion designer specializing in women's swimwear and sportswear. The collection includes scrapbooks of clippings and photographs of Brigance's designs, sketches, publicity materials, and four original fashion illustrations of Brigance swimwear by Dorothy Hood, produced for Lord & Taylor.

Dates: 1932 - 1977

Van Day Truex photograph albums and scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0160-01
Abstract The collection consists of five photograph albums and three scrapbooks compiled by the designer, style arbiter, and Parsons School of Design administrator and president Van Day Truex (1904-1979). Truex's travels and social interactions are documented in the albums' captioned photographs, while scrapbooks chronicle his design and artistic successes. One scrapbook, annotated by Parsons faculty member Stanley Barrows, documents Truex's apartments and the home of his predecessor as president of...
Dates: 1910-1979; Majority of material found within 1926-1969

Violet Holsinger Mueller papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0129-01
Summary

Violet Holsinger Mueller (1907-2003) studied fashion design at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons School of Design) from 1926 through 1929. She worked as an interior designer for Stix, Baer & Fuller, a St. Louis-based department store, and founded her own design consultancy in Belleville, Illinois. Her papers include personal materials, and documentation created during her studies at Parsons and her design career.

Dates: 1926 - 2010

Vital Vogue: A Biosocial Perspective on Fashion exhibition documentation

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0169-01
Abstract This collection contains physical and born-digital photographs, a sketchbook, a publication, and ephemera documenting Otto von Busch's exhibition, Vital Vogue: A Biosocial Perspective on Fashion, held in the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries of The New School, New York between March 16 and April 8, 2018, and inspired by Wilhelm Reich’s lectures at The New School for Social Research in 1940. As of 2024, Otto von Busch is Professor of Integrated Design at...
Dates: 2018

Walter Stein illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0040-01
Summary

Painter and illustrator Walter Stein (1924-1981) taught at Parsons School of Design from 1973 until his death. The collection consists of Stein's matted original watercolor illustrations, primarily depicting animals and plants, for the book, For Love of Her: Poems by Emily Dickinson, 1974.

Dates: 1972 - 1978