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Georgiana Goddard King papers

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Call Number:
1974-15
Repository:
Bryn Mawr College
Extent:
1.5 linear ft.
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Georgiana Goddard King papers, Record Group 3H, College Archives, Bryn Mawr College, Special Collections.
Date:
1874-1939 (inclusive)
Creator:
King, Georgiana Goddard
Abstract:
Georgiana Goddard King was a professor of art history at Bryn Mawr College. The collection consists of handwritten notes on art subjects, correspondence, and publications.

Georgiana Goddard King graduated from Bryn Mawr College with an A.B. in 1896. She was a philosophy fellow in 1897 and a fellow in English in 1897-98. She studied for a year in France and then taught in Miss Graham's School, New York City, until 1906. She returned to Bryn Mawr College in 1906 as a Reader in English, and in 1911 she became Lecturer in History of Art and Comparitive Literature. In 1913 she founded the college's History of Art Department and became its first chair. She continued to teach at Bryn Mawr College until 1935 when she retired to California where she lived until her death in 1939. She was an occasional traveling companion of M. Carey Thomas and a friend of Gertrude Stein. She was an acknowledged authority in the field of art history, and in particular the art of Spain.

The Georgiana Goddard King papers house the personal papers of Georgiana Goddard King, Bryn Mawr class of 1896 and former professor of art history at the college. The collection is from circa 1874-1939, and consists of handwritten notes on art subjects, correspondence, and publications.

The collection consists of two series: "Series I: Handwritten notes on various topics" and "Series II: Miscellaneous correspondence, biographical material and publications."

"Series I: Handwritten notes on various topics" contains King's notes on various art subjects, including Spanish painters, early Italian painters, church frescoes, Turkish poetry, wooden architecture of the North. There are also some art history papers (not by King) along with the rest of the King material. Finally, it contains a MS for a Portuguese notebook. "Series II: Miscellaneous correspondence, biographical material, and publications" contains an incomplete listing of publications; materials concerning King's friendship with Gertrude Stein; various publications; and obituaries and memorials.

King founded the History of Art department at Bryn Mawr and was an acknowledged authority in the field of art history, in particular the art of Spain. This collection provides unique insight into King's notes. It would be useful for art history students and researchers, especially those interested in the art of Spain and Italy.

Exact provenance for these materials is unrecorded. Much appears to have been left behind upon King's retirement from the college. Other materials have been transfered to the college archives in the ensuing years.

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Publisher
Bryn Mawr College
Finding Aid Author
Lorett Treese, Melissa Torquato, Cassidy Gruber Baruth
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

The Georgiana Goddard King papers are the physical property of Bryn Mawr College's Special Collections Department. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns.

Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Beatus et al.
Box 1 Folder 1
Archival Resource Key. Two Ecologues of Juan Del Encima.
Box 1 Folder 2
Archival Resource Key. Early Spanish Painting.
Box 1 Folder 3
Archival Resource Key. Spanish Painting.
Box 1 Folder 4
Archival Resource Key. Catelan Painting.
Box 1 Folder 5
Archival Resource Key. Cervantes.
Box 1 Folder 6
Archival Resource Key. Greco.
Box 1 Folder 7
Archival Resource Key. Morales.
Box 1 Folder 8
Archival Resource Key. Valencia Cathedrale.
Box 1 Folder 9
Archival Resource Key. Spaniards in Italy.
Box 1 Folder 10 Box 1 Folder 9
Archival Resource Key. Juan de Flandas and Granada Cupboard.
Box 1 Folder 11
Archival Resource Key. Spanish Painting in the Golden Age.
Box 1 Folder 12
Archival Resource Key. Garcilaso.
Box 1 Folder 13
Archival Resource Key. The Picaresque.
Box 1 Folder 14
Archival Resource Key. Coplas de Mauriques.
Box 1 Folder 15
Archival Resource Key. The Drama: Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderon.
Box 1 Folder 16
Archival Resource Key. The Divine Morales.
Box 1 Folder 17
Archival Resource Key. Ecologue.
Box 1 Folder 18
Archival Resource Key. Mystics: Greco.
Box 1 Folder 19
Archival Resource Key. Capilla de S. Blas, and miscellaneous notes.
Box 1 Folder 20
Archival Resource Key. Portugal.
Box 1 Folder 21
Archival Resource Key. The Grail.
Box 1 Folder 22
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous Notes.
Box 2 Folder 23
Archival Resource Key. First andSecond Romanesque.
Box 2 Folder 24
Archival Resource Key. The East and Tuscany.
Box 2 Folder 25
Archival Resource Key. Ivories.
Box 2 Folder 26
Archival Resource Key. Italian Painting -- Introduction.
Box 2 Folder 27
Archival Resource Key. Florentine Humanism in the Quatrocento.
Box 2 Folder 28
Archival Resource Key. Slanrnina.
Box 2 Folder 29
Archival Resource Key. Early Italian -- Miscellaneous.
Box 2 Folder 30
Archival Resource Key. Church Frescos before Assissi.
Box 2 Folder 31
Archival Resource Key. Introductory Notes to Art.
Box 2 Folder 32
Archival Resource Key. Naples.
Box 2 Folder 33
Archival Resource Key. Free Equilibrium.
Box 2 Folder 34
Archival Resource Key. Ferrara.
Box 2 Folder 35
Archival Resource Key. Jacopo Della Quercia.
Box 2 Folder 36
Archival Resource Key. Southern Italy.
Box 2 Folder 37
Archival Resource Key. Giovanni Di Paolo.
Box 2 Folder 38
Archival Resource Key. Baroque.
Box 2 Folder 39
Archival Resource Key. Turkish Poetry.
Box 2 Folder 40
Archival Resource Key. Arab Commerce with Northern Europe.
Box 2 Folder 41
Archival Resource Key. Wooden Architecture of the North.
Box 2 Folder 42
Archival Resource Key. Art History papers (not by King) found with King material.
Box 2 Folder 43
Archival Resource Key. Ms for Portugese Notebook.
Box 2 Folder 44

Archival Resource Key. Incomplete listing of publications.
Box 3 Folder 1
Archival Resource Key. re GGK and Gertrude Stein friendship.
Box 3 Folder 2
Archival Resource Key. "Quemadnodum".
Box 3 Folder 3
Archival Resource Key. "French Figure Sculpture on some Early Spanish Churches", 1915.
Box 3 Folder 4
Archival Resource Key. Faculty appointment extract, 1916.
Box 3 Folder 5
Archival Resource Key. "Note on tne So-called Horse-shoe Architecture of Spain", 1916.
Box 3 Folder 6
Archival Resource Key. "Three Notes on Capitals", 1916.
Box 3 Folder 7
Archival Resource Key. "Three Unknown Churches in Spain", 1918.
Box 3 Folder 8
Archival Resource Key. Letters to Delphine Darby, 1920-1939.
Box 3 Folder 9
Archival Resource Key. "Italian Painting of the Renaissance", 1933-34.
Box 3 Folder 10
Archival Resource Key. Obituaries and memorials.
Box 3 Folder 11
Archival Resource Key. "Heart of Spain" Correspondence, 1939-1940.
Box 3 Folder 12
Archival Resource Key. GGK description by D. Darby, 1989-1990.
Box 3 Folder 13
Archival Resource Key. "Iconography," (notes for?).
Box 3 Folder 14
Archival Resource Key. "Romanesque".
Box 3 Folder 15
Archival Resource Key. "The Cardona Tomb of Bellpuig".
Box 3 Folder 16

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