Margaret Lange student notebook
1938-1939
- Collection Overview
- Biographical note
- Scope and Contents of Collection
- Administrative Information
- Related Materials
- Keywords for Searching Related Subjects
- Collection Inventory
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Guide to the Margaret Lange student notebook, 1938-1939
Collection Overview
- Repository
- Kellen Design Archives
- Creator
- Lange, Margaret
- Title
- Margaret Lange student notebook, 1938-1939
- Extent
- 2 linear ft: 2 binders
- Summary
- Margaret Louise Lange's notebook, produced while a student of Costume Design and Illustration at Parsons, 1938-1939, includes lecture notes, sketches, color studies and fashion clippings.
Biographical note
Margaret Louise Lange Nickerson attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Art beginning in 1938. She later married and resided in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
Scope and Contents of Collection
Consists of a student notebook divided into the following sections: First Year Problems, Painting -- Miss Basky, Research, Perspective and Layout, Perspective in Drawing Clothes and the Figure, Color, Cut Dress Design and Rules of Design, Victorian and Edwardian Influence in Fashion. The section titled "Perspective and Layout" consists primarily of exercises in understanding Dynamic Symmetry, a system of composition devised by Jay Hambidge and taught at the school for many years.
Notebook pages consist of handwritten notes and reports; drawings executed in pencil, tempera, and watercolors; and clippings of women's apparel. Many of the pages also feature an unidentified instructor's comments.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Kellen Design Archives August 11, 2010
66 5th Ave./lobby level/
New York, NY, 10011
212.229.5942
archivist@newschool.edu
Use Restrictions
To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the Kellen Design Archives. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Donated by Carolyn R. Guss, 2007.
Lange gave the notebook to the donor, a neighbor, in the 1970s.
Related Materials
Researchers may wish to consult the Kellen Design Archive's additional holdings of student work from the Costume Design Department to gain perspective on fashion design education.
Keywords for Searching Related Subjects
Corporate Name(s)
- Parsons School of Design.
Genre(s)
- Lecture notes.
- Student projects.
Subject(s)
- Art -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
- Costume design -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Fashion design -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
Collection Inventory
| Title | Binder | |||
| Notebook 1938-1939 | 1-2 | |||