[Charles and Ray Eames Christmas card collection]
- Title: [Charles and Ray Eames Christmas card collection]
- Related Names:
Work of Charles and Ray Eames (Library of Congress) - Date Created/Published: [1945-1986]
- Medium: 291 items : chiefly color prints and drawings, some envelopes ; most images 35 x 30 cm or smaller.
- Summary: This group of visual materials contains 291 items: 278 Christmas cards (some with envelopes) and 13 envelopes without cards. All were sent to Charles and Ray Eames (Charles: 1907-1978; Ray: 1912-1988), with the exception of three cards that were created and sent by Charles and Ray Eames. Over half are original drawings, prints or designs created by the sender, and often exhibit a sense of wit or humor. Some items are commercial cards or art reproductions.
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
Publication may be restricted. For information see "The Work of Charles and Ray Eames" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/069_eame.html)
- Call Number: LOT 14048 (H) [P&P]
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Arrangement: Arranged by size (small and large), then alphabetically by the person, family, or organization that sent the item.
- LOT title devised by Library staff.
- Besides the Eameses' personal friends and colleagues, senders include many notable designers, artists, and architects: Buckminster Fuller, Jackson Pollock and wife Lee Krasner, Sister Corita Kent, Ad Reinhardt, and Max Bill.
- Digitized images of 140 cards from the collection along with their associated identifying information are available through the Prints and Photographs Division Online Catalog, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
- Gift; Charles and Ray Eames; 1989; (DLC/PP-1989:150)
- Finding aid is available in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room. The sender, brief description, and date sent are listed for each item.
- Forms part of: The Work of Charles and Ray Eames.
- Exhibited: Some were exhibited: Charles and Ray Eames.
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- Part of: Office of Charles and Ray Eames. Eames Collection (Library of Congress)
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- Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "The Work of Charles and Ray Eames" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/069_eame.html)
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: LOT 14048 (H) [P&P]
- Medium: 291 items : chiefly color prints and drawings, some envelopes ; most images 35 x 30 cm or smaller.
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- Call Number: LOT 14048 (H) [P&P]
- Medium: 291 items : chiefly color prints and drawings, some envelopes ; most images 35 x 30 cm or smaller.
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