https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=photograph&page=1&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CCreator&output=atom2024-03-29T10:04:12+00:00Omekahttps://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/110954 Inscribed on reverse at top to Cecile "Cely" Goodman Ions [Maternal aunt of Adèle Clark and her godmother].
Inscribed on reverse: To dear Cely from her loving Gri. May 8th 1880
Inscription at bottom: Will my darling Brother [Berte?] accept his share of the Photo and with it the best and [?] love of his affectionate sister [?]]]>2023-03-17T14:07:22+00:00
Title: Amelia Harris Goodman with Edith Clark (Cowles). [Adèle Clark's grandmother and sister]
Creator: Lilienthal, Theodore
Date: 1880 May 8
Source: M 9 Box 238, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries.
Description: Photograph of Adèle Clark's grandmother and sister taken at the studio of Theodore Lilienthal, 121 Canal St., New Orleans.
Inscribed on reverse at top to Cecile "Cely" Goodman Ions [Maternal aunt of Adèle Clark and her godmother].
Inscribed on reverse: To dear Cely from her loving Gri. May 8th 1880
Inscription at bottom: Will my darling Brother [Berte?] accept his share of the Photo and with it the best and [?] love of his affectionate sister [?]
]]>https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/110953 "For my dear Papa- from his loving little Pet. Adèle Clark March 16th /87 Four and a half years old."
Photograph by Richmond Photo Co. 827 1/2 Broad St. Richmond, VA]]>2020-08-26T19:51:38+00:00
Source: VCU James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections & Archives.
Description: Pollak embarked on her first and only trip to Europe in 1962. Here, she is photographed with a tour group in Italy (2nd row, 6th person from the left).
Subject: Theresa Pollak
Format: JPEG
Type: Still image
]]>https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/2711Painter's Porch, at the opening night of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art's Virginia Artists Biennial Exhibition of 1971.]]>2018-06-01T15:04:11+00:00
Title: Theresa Pollak with a Painting
Date: 1971
Source: VCU James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections & Archives.
Description: Here, Pollak stands in front of her painting, Painter's Porch, at the opening night of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art's Virginia Artists Biennial Exhibition of 1971.
Title: Dr. Warren W. Brandt (President) Honors Theresa Pollak at the Dedication of the Theresa Pollak Building
Date: 14 November 1971
Source: VCU James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections & Archives.
Description: In this photograph, Dr. Warren W. Brandt (President of VCU) honors Pollak at the dedication ceremony of VCU's new School of the Arts building. Completed in 1971, this facility was officially named the Theresa Pollak Building in order to recognize Miss Pollak as the art school's founder.
Subject: Theresa Pollak -- Warren W. Brandt -- Theresa Pollak Building
Format: JPEG
Type: Still image
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Clark, together with Nora Houston, founded the Richmond Art Club, where Pollak received her first encouragement and training in the fine arts. Given her formative role in leading Pollak to a career in art, Clark became one of Pollak's most important mentors and lifelong friends--as this photograph clearly shows. ]]>2018-06-01T15:04:11+00:00
Title: Theresa Pollak and Adele Clark
Date: 1982
Source: VCU James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections & Archives.
Description: In this photograph, Adele Clark (left) and Theresa Pollak (right) celebrate Clark's 100th birthday at Westminster-Canterbury in Richmond, VA.
Clark, together with Nora Houston, founded the Richmond Art Club, where Pollak received her first encouragement and training in the fine arts. Given her formative role in leading Pollak to a career in art, Clark became one of Pollak's most important mentors and lifelong friends--as this photograph clearly shows.
Source: VCU James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections & Archives.
Description: Maurice Bonds (right) was one of Pollak's (left) earliest students. He was also one of her earliest colleagues, joining RPI's faculty in 1946 as an instructor of fine arts and art history. Bonds also served as the Chair for both departments during his 32-year-long tenure at RPI/ VCU, which concluded with retirement in 1978.
Source: VCU James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections & Archives.
Subject: Theresa Pollak
Format: JPEG
Type: Still image
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This photograph shows students in Pollak's children's class studying a model dressed as a ballerina. ]]>2018-06-01T15:04:11+00:00
Title: Children's Class Taught by Theresa Pollak at RPI
Date: Late 1920s
Source: VCU James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections & Archives.
Description: Based on the unexpectedly high enrollment and success of Pollak's daytime painting class in September, 1928, Dr. Hibbs allowed Pollak to add both an evening class and children's class to her schedule. The children's class was held on Saturday mornings between 1928 and 1930.
This photograph shows students in Pollak's children's class studying a model dressed as a ballerina.
Subject: Theresa Pollak -- Children's Art Classes at RPI
Format: JPEG
Type: Still image
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Nevertheless, Miss Pollak was persistent in her petitioning for the use of nude models in advanced art classes. Over time, the dance costumes gave way to two-piece bathing suits, then to burlesque-inspired "G-straps," and finally to the fully nude figure.
This photograph shows students participating in one of the earliest life classes offered at RPI--a privilege which, at the time, set Pollak's budding art program apart from most other schools in the south. ]]>2018-06-01T15:04:11+00:00
Title: Life Class Taught by Theresa Pollak at RPI
Date: 1950s
Source: VCU James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections & Archives.
Description: Having trained at the progressive Art Student's League of New York, Pollak was a strong believer in the educational value of the nude figure. However, Dean Hibbs knew that the then-conservative Richmond majority would condemn the college's use of nude models, and he insisted on ballet dance costumes as the minimum coverage required.
Nevertheless, Miss Pollak was persistent in her petitioning for the use of nude models in advanced art classes. Over time, the dance costumes gave way to two-piece bathing suits, then to burlesque-inspired "G-straps," and finally to the fully nude figure.
This photograph shows students participating in one of the earliest life classes offered at RPI--a privilege which, at the time, set Pollak's budding art program apart from most other schools in the south.