Margery S. Knight sketchbooks
Online Access
Available digital items: https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/collections/KA0028
Summary
Margery Knight (1906-1994) taught figure drawing and fashion illustration at Parsons School of Design from 1946 to 1969. The twelve sketchbooks in this collection, dating from the 1950s to 1980, contain rapid figure and fashion sketches, lecture notes, and anatomy studies.
Dates
- circa 1951-1980
Creator
- Knight, Margery S. (Artist, Person)
Extent
0.8 Cubic Feet (12 sketchbooks)
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents of Collection
The collection consists of twelve spiral-bound sketchbooks kept by Margery Knight from the 1950s until 1980. Sketches depict travel, costumes, still life arrangements, and figure drawings. Two sketchbooks have drawings and notes from an Art Students League class on anatomical drawing taught by Robert Beverly Hale. A second set of sketchbooks are comprised of costume illustrations. Drawings are rendered in a variety of media, including pencil, ink, watercolor, marker, crayon, pastels, and pen.
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
Born in 1906, Margery S. Knight graduated from the Traphagen School. She also studied at the Art Students League and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere.
Knight taught at Parsons School of Design from 1946 until 1969 and again from 1973 until 1975. She began her Parsons teaching career as a figure drawing instructor and became a faculty member of the Fashion Design Department. She also taught fashion research in the 1960s.
Margery Knight died in 1994.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Sketchbooks included in the donation of the Stanley Barrows papers, 1997.
- Drawing -- Study and teaching (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Drawings (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Fashion illustrators (Occupation) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Human figure in art (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sketchbook (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Thumbnail sketches (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Travel sketches (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Guide to the Margery S. Knight sketchbooks
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- New School Archives and Special Collections Staff
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin