Making Pictorial Notes

Henry Edwards Scott Arthur Pope Harvard University, 1905-1949 Class notes of Henry Edwards Scott, a student of Arthur Pope, in which Scott refers to some of the color theory outlined in Pope’s own lecture notes. In addition to diagrams relevant to the...

Henri-Edmond Cross Paris, France, 1897 Henri-Edmond Cross (1856-1910) befriended the neo-impressionist painters Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in the 1880s, but did not adopt their divisionist style until 1891. This sketchbook—a loose collection of folded...

William James Brazil, 1865 The collection contains personal and professional correspondence of American philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910). Most of the letters are written by him, including over 1,300 to his wife Alice (1849-1922) and...