Early Drawings by Goldsmith

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• Fonds: Myron Goldsmith fonds, 1933-1996
•    Series: Personal Papers, 1931-1995
•      Sub-series: Early Papers and Drawings, 1931-1967
•        Sub-series: Early Drawings by Goldsmith, 1938-1953

People

• Myron Goldsmith (creator)
• Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

Title

Early Drawings by Goldsmith

Dates of creation

1938-1953

Level of archival description

File 3

Extent and Medium

• 1141 drawings
• 10 textual records
• 2 sketchbooks

Scope and Content

This sub-series documents sketches and drawings completed during Goldsmith’s education and early career, from 1938 to 1953. The sub-series includes sketches completed while Goldsmith studied under Mies van der Rohe at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago (as of 2023 known as the Illinois Institute of Technology) in the late-1930s as well as Goldsmith’s notes and sketches from his trips to Taliesin East, Wisconsin, and Williamsburg, Virginia in the early-1940s. Further, the sub-series contains sketches and drawings for various buildings, infrastructure, and furniture from circa 1942-1943, in addition to sketches for the Stuart S. Borovay Residence and an unbuilt project dating from 1942 – 1953.

Reference Number

AP032.S1.SS1.D3

Arrangement

The records in this sub-series have been arranged by material type.