Alison Mason Kingsbury papers, [ca. 1923]-1965.
Collection Number: 3663
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Alison Mason Kingsbury papers, [ca. 1923]-1965.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3663
Abstract:
Drawings, illustrations, and paintings; charcoal landscape drawings; exhibition catalogs
and reviews; bound volumes of sketches, notebooks and pamphlets. Also, "Unheralded
Artist: Alison Kingsbury," Princeton University undergraduate thesis by Holly Markovitz,
2000.
Creator:
Kingsbury, Alison Mason, 1898-
Markovitz, Holly.
Quanitities:
1.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Artist.
Alison Mason Kingsbury was an artist in Ithaca, N.Y. She came to Ithaca in 1926 as
a student assistant to Ezra Winter, who designed the mural in the lobby of Willard
Straight Hall, Cornell University. She married Morris Bishop, a noted Cornell writer
and historian.
Drawings, illustrations, and paintings; charcoal landscape drawings; exhibition catalogs
and reviews; bound volumes of sketches, notebooks and pamphlets. Also, "Unheralded
Artist: Alison Kingsbury," Princeton University undergraduate thesis by Holly Markovitz,
2000.
See also Alison Mason Kingsbury Gannett Clinic mural materials, #43-32-1193, Alison
Jolly Papers, #8517, and Morris Bishop Papers, #14-18-641. A video of Kingsbury is
availible in the Cornell Artists and Local Video Programs collection, #3867.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Alison Mason Kingsbury papers, #3663. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Willard Straight Hall (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Artists.
Women artists -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Form and Genre Terms:
Sketchbooks.
Reviews.
Exhibition catalogs.
Paintings.
Illustrations.
Drawings.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Correspondence
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Box 11 | Folder 12 |
Letters to Katherine KK Chase, from Alison Mason Kingsbury and MGB, and obits
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Box 12 | Folder 3 |
Publicity correspondence and samples of early struggles with an uninformed community
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Box 12 | Folder 12-13 |
Letters, postcards, and pamphlets
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1920s-1970s |
Box 12 | Folder 14-15 |
Postcards and letters
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1980s |
Box 13 | Folder 5 |
Letters from Alison Mason Kingsbury to her mother
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1930s-1940s |
Box 14 | Folder 7 |
letters to Alison Mason Kingsbury relating to Stanton family
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Scope and Contents
12 letters (in large yellow envelope)from Stanton family members to Alison Mason Kingsbury
includes one copy of a portrait of a family member
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Series II. Papers and Family Documents
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Box 11 | Folder 1 |
"Emotional Eyesight: an Opinion on Art" manuscript by Alison Mason Kingsbury
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Box 11 | Folder 2 |
"Those Greeks" copy
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Box 11 | Folder 3-4 |
Plate descriptions, comments, and condensed version of "Emotional Eyesight"
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Box 11 | Folder 5 |
"Question of Taste" manuscript
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Box 11 | Folder 6 |
"Question of Taste" early, unfinished manuscript
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1973 |
Box 11 | Folder 7 |
"Question of Taste"
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Box 11 | Folder 8-9 |
"Question of Taste" paper bound, two parts
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Box 11 | Folder 10 |
"A Question of Taste" letter and summary
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1975 |
Box 11 | Folder 10 |
Essays on art and taste
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1930s-41, s 1978 |
Scope and Contents
essay and notes
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Box 11 | Folder 10 |
Art catalogues
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2009 |
Scope and Contents
AMK, Jillian Piccirilli, Documents include catalogues and newspaper cuttings
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Box 11 | Folder 13 |
Alison Mason Kingsbury documents on family history
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Box 11 | Folder 14 |
Notes mainly related to Alison Mason Kingsbury family history
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Box 11 | Folder 15 |
"Verse for Fun", AMKB
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1966 |
Box 11 |
"Unheralded Artist: Alison Kingsbury", by Holly Markovitz
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2000 | |
Box 12 | Folder 1 |
Early writings
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1930s |
Box 12 | Folder 2 |
Catalogues of one man shows and group exhibitions
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Box 12 | Folder 4 |
Memorial service for Alison Mason Kingsbury
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1988 |
Scope and Contents
Detail of Alison Mason Kingsbury's memorial service at First Presbyterian Church,
Ithaca, New York
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Box 12 | Folder 5 |
7 pages torn out from The New Yorker
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1971 |
Box 12 | Folder 11 |
Mrs Morris Gilbert Bishop written on small brass plate
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Box 12 | Folder 11 |
2 address books
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Box 12 | Folder 11 |
Alison Mason Kingsbury's passport
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1977 |
Box 12 | Folder 16-17 |
A Question of Taste', 'Play', 'Figures and Legends'
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1970s |
Box 12 | Folder 18 |
The Ithaca Journal
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1986 |
Box 12 | Folder 18 |
Newspaper cutting of the five Kingsbury daughters
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1950 |
Box 12 | Folder 23 |
Bibliography of Erskine Mason
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Discharge papers, marriage certificate and two Alison Mason Kingsbury passports
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1919, 1927, 1950s |
Scope and Contents
US discharge certificate (1919), Morris Bishop and Alison Mason Kingsbury's marriage
certificate and two US passports for Alison Mason Kingsbury
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Gannett Medical Clinic Lobby mural, press release
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Box 13 | Folder 1 |
draft of speech by Alison Mason Kingsbury on friendship
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1983 |
Scope and Contents
speech about friendship between Morris Bishop and Vladimir and Vera Nabokov at Cornell
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Box 13 | Folder 2 |
Personal Alison Mason Kingsbury documents
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Scope and Contents
several poems and letters in large white envelope
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Box 13 | Folder 3 |
Memorial service contents for Alison Mason Kingsbury
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1988 |
Scope and Contents
April 23 1988, at First Presbyterian Church, Ithaca, NY
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Box 13 | Folder 3 |
Appraisal of Alison Mason Kingsbury's estate
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1988 |
Box 13 | Folder 3 |
record book of accounts
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1929-1968 |
Box 13 | Folder 6 |
Account books
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1930 |
Scope and Contents
Alison Mason Kingsbury to Ithaca Trust Company, as trustee
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Box 3 |
Alison Mason Kingsbury's oil paints in silver box
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Box 14 |
Family tree, genealogical information
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Series III. Artwork
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Box 11 | Folder 10 |
Photographs of paintings
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Box 11 | Folder 11 |
Slides, negatives, and photographs of Alison Mason Kingsbury paintings, taken by Tony
de Camillo
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Box 12 | Folder 20 |
Painting of trees and boats
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1998 |
Box 12 | Folder 24 |
Two architectural drawings of The George House, Ithaca
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1923 |
Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Le Piece du Fou
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Scope and Contents
Four ink drawings
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Louis Fuertes sketch of a weasel lying down
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Gannett Medical Clinic Lobby mural
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Original chapter drawings, Henry Tabor
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Drawings for Paramount Poems and Spilt Milk
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Box 13 | Folder 4 |
Alison Mason Kingsbury sketch book
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1920s |
Scope and Contents
several pencil drawings, includes note to MJ from AJ
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Box 13 | Folder 7 |
Sketches
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Box 14 | Folder 1 |
Drawings for Love Rimes of Petrarch, and Letters for Petrarch
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Box 14 |
DeWitt Historical Society posters
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Box 14 | Folder 2-4 |
original art works by Alison Mason Kingsbury
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1920s |
Scope and Contents
pencil sketches and drawings
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Box 14 | Folder 5 |
Alison Mason Kingsbury and MMK drawings
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Box 14 | Folder 6 |
Unframed Madagascar sketches
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1963 |
Box 15 |
Original drawings for A Renaissance Story Book, A Classical Story Book, A Romantic
Story Book, and more
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Box 15 |
Photographs of original drawings
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Box 7 |
Adventures of Phunsi
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Box 8 |
Adventures of Phunsi
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Box 4 |
Drawing studies
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Box 6 |
Original, mounted drawings
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Box 9 |
Original, mounted drawings
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Box 10 |
Original, mounted drawings
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Series IV. Photographs
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Box 12 | Folder 6 |
7 photos of the Huntington Club Cornell
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1910-13 |
Box 12 | Folder 6 |
Alison Mason Kingsbury at 22 months
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1900s |
Box 12 | Folder 6 |
Mother and Alison Mason Kingsbury as a baby photos
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1900s |
Box 12 | Folder 6 |
Katherine Bishop's 75th birthday
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1980 |
Box 12 | Folder 7 |
photo of Margaretta, Alison Mason Kingsbury and little Alison
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1900s |
Box 12 | Folder 7 |
photo of Alison Mason Kingsbury
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1915 |
Box 12 | Folder 7 |
Photo of young girl
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1900s |
Box 12 | Folder 7 |
photos and letter re: class of 1936 women's reunion at Cornell
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1986 |
Box 12 | Folder 8 |
Kingsbury and Mason photos and portraits, including Gilbert Stuart
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Scope and Contents
Includes college and early Ithaca/Cornell prints cyanotype prints
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Box 12 | Folder 9 |
Alison Mason Kingsbury's Greek Photos, in album
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1951-1952 |
Box 12 | Folder 10 |
Color photographs of Alison Mason Kingsbury paintings and scenery, from Holly Markovitz
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Box 12 | Folder 19 |
Alison Mason Kingsbury portrait photo
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1916 |
Box 12 | Folder 19 |
Alison Mason Kingsbury portrait photo
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1958 |
Box 12 | Folder 19 |
Alison Mason Kingsbury portrait photo
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1919 |
Box 12 | Folder 20 |
Photos for 'A Question of Taste'
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1973 |
Box 12 | Folder 21 |
Betty Morey
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1979 |
Box 12 | Folder 21 |
Baby photos of Alison Mason Kingsbury and mother
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1900 |
Box 12 | Folder 22 |
Reproduction from the National Gallery
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Box 13 | Folder 3 |
Large photo of Alison Mason Kingsbury and others
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Box 13 | Folder 7 |
Photographs of paintings, negatives for drawings in "A History of Cornell"
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Box 2 |
Framed portraits of "Grandfather and Grandmother Knox"
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Box 2 |
Daguerreotype, unknown man
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Box 2 |
Three small photographs, two of children one of Alison Mason Kingsbury
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Box 14 |
Alison Mason Kingsbury and Morris Bishop's wedding photos
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1927 | |
Scope and Contents
7 large wedding portraits
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Box 14 | Folder 8 |
Alison Mason Kingsbury photos
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1930s |
Scope and Contents
7 portrait photos of Alison Mason Kingsbury
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Box 14 | Folder 9 |
3 wedding photos of Alison Morey
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1959 |
Scope and Contents
photos in envelope, friends to Alison Mason Kingsbury
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Box 14 | Folder 10 |
Portrait
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undated |
Series V. VHS Tapes
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Box 16 | V-9180-9182 |
AMKB Exhibition
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Box 16 | V-9183-9184 |
AMKB Art
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Box 16 | V-9185 |
Morris Bishop Interview: Audio Only
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Box 16 | V-9186 |
Vladimir Nabokov: Patricia Desmortiers-Cineteve
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