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Sketches

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Rough or summary art works; less finished than studies. Though sketches are often in the drawing medium, the term "drawings" in general implies more finished works than does "sketches."

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

Norman Norell collection

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0035-01
Abstract

Norman Norell (1900-1972) was the first American fashion designer to compete successfully with French couture. In 1943, he received the first Coty American Fashion Critics Award, and was inducted into the Coty Hall of Fame in 1956. Norell served as a visiting critic at Parsons School of Design from 1943 to 1972. The collection includes biographical material, clippings, sketches, photographs, scrapbooks, and five examples of Norell's clothing.

Dates: 1941 - 1974

Parsons School of Design administrative and other offices collection

 Collection
Identifier: PC-03-01-01
Summary

Predominantly comprised of records produced by the Parsons School of Design Development Office, this collection documents fundraising, special programs, events, and reunion plans. Other offices included are Admissions, Alumni Relations, Career Services, Public Relations, Publication Design, Special Events, and Student Council. One series, Dean of Students correspondence, is restricted. Please email archivist@newschool.edu for details.

Dates: 1917-2007; Majority of material found within 1973-1999

Parsons School of Design Fashion Design Department records

 Record Group
Identifier: PC-02-02-01
Scope and Content of Collection

Contains the records of the Fashion Design Department of Parsons The New School for Design. Records include course syllabi and descriptions, look books, clippings scrapbooks, student work, and annual fashion benefit planning records, photographs, and programs. A name index for searching Parsons alumni and faculty in the clippings scrapbooks may be found here.

Dates: 1941 - 2008

Raymond Driscoll scrapbook and fashion sketches

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0013-01
Summary

With a career that spanned the 1930s to the 1960s, Raymond Driscoll (1915-2004) was perhaps most widely known for his annual best and worst-dressed lists. He also gained recognition for his costume designs for Mexican film stars. The collection consists of Driscoll's scrapbook of photographs, clippings, invitations, and greeting cards from celebrities documenting his work in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as original fashion sketches.

Dates: circa 1942 - 1961

Raymond Waldron papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0044
Summary Raymond S. Waldron, Jr. (1913-2002) attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons School of Design) from 1938-1941. After serving in World War II, Waldron worked for Lord & Taylor. In 1965, he established his own interior decoration firm. The collection includes his student work, a travel sketchbook, and professional files. Waldron's student work includes notebooks, instructor handouts, sketches and renderings, and tracings. A travel sketchbook...
Dates: 1938 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1994

Roy Little sketchbooks

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0029-01
Abstract

Roy Little graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1949 and went on to become a designer for renowned French couturier Jacques Fath. He returned to Parsons as an instructor in 1958 and remained in that position until 1979. The nine numbered sketchbooks held by the New School Archives represent Little's work for Fath.

Dates: 1951 - 1954

Seymour Lipton sketches for sculptures

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0056
Abstract

A trained dentist who became an acclaimed sculptor sometimes associated with the New York School of abstract expressionism, Seymour Lipton (1903-1986) achieved international recognition in 1958, when he was awarded a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Lipton taught sculpture at The New School from the 1940s until 1965. The New School Archives holds twenty of his sketches, made between 1960 and 1969, representing ideas for sculptures.

Dates: 1960 - 1969

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

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

William Frawley fashion sketches

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0088
Summary

Contains eight watercolor sketches by Frawley, who graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1983 and returned as an instructor from 1989 to 1996. Frawley is known for his illustrations in Parsons classmate Isaac Mizrahi's The Adventures of Sandee the Supermodel.

Dates: before 2000