John Steinbeck’s ideal woman? “I don’t want an ideal woman. I just like dames.”
Read the full article “Fellows Find: John Steinbeck’s ‘ideal woman’” on the Ransom Center’s blog Cultural Compass.
Learn how conservators at the Harry Ransom Center painstakingly repaired and framed a Norman Bel Geddes poster design for the 1926 Macy’s Christmas Parade.
This week, “From the Outside In” highlights the story of Dorothea Lange, whose photograph Migrant Mother is housed at the Ransom Center, and of Florence Owens, the migrant mother of the title.
“From the Outside In: A Visitor’s Guide to the Windows” provides an opportunity to discover more about the Ransom Center’s renowned collections of literature, film, photography, art, and the performing arts featured in the etched windows of the building.
Each Friday, the Ransom Center shares photos from throughout the week that highlight a range of activities and collection holdings. We hope you enjoy these photos that reveal some of the everyday happenings at the Center.
James Salter’s All That Is (Knopf), his first new novel since 1979, is a reflective work, a reconsideration of many of the themes he has explored in his earlier fiction. Looking back at Salter’s prior novels through his archive at the Harry Ransom Center, one can see the artist at work and better understand the sentiments that guide his craft.
Some notebooks from Salter’s archive can be seen on The Daily Beast.
Learn more about what Salter’s notebooks reveal about his creative process.
In conjunction with tonight’s lecture by author Morris Dickstein, an accompanying display case in the Ransom Center’s lobby features items from the Center’sCommentary magazine archive. Dickstein’s lecture, titled “America’s Best Magazine?: Commentary in the 1960s,” takes place tonight at 7 p.m. in the Prothro Theater. The Commentary magazine archive was donated to the Center in 2011.
The event will be webcast live at 7 p.m. CST.
Photo by Alicia Dietrich.
This week, “From the Outside In” examines Harold Edgerton’s stop-motion photography. The Ransom Center holds 35 of Edgerton’s prints, including this one of a “Milk Drop Coronet.”
Photo © Harold Edgerton, 2013. Courtesy of Palm Press, Inc.
Each Friday, the Ransom Center shares photos from throughout the week that highlight a range of activities and collection holdings. We hope you enjoy these photos that reveal some of the everyday happenings at the Center.
“Arnold Newman: At Work,” recently published by UT Press, draws heavily on archival materials at the Ransom Center to explore the photographer’s creative process.
Paper Conservator Jane Boyd recently completed a treatment of the 1819 manuscript for Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem “The Battle of Marathon,” which was recently digitized. Browning’s method of revising involved sewing pieces of paper containing handwritten notes directly into the manuscript, which had to be removed and preserved during the digitization process.
