Art -- History

Scope and Content The George Kubler papers consist of his unpublished masters thesis, a literary manuscript of a published work based on his dissertation, along with editorial notes and photographs. The Religious Architecture of New Mexico In the Colonial Period and Since the American Occupation was published in 1940 by the Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. The manuscript is the original Kubler submitted for his Ph.D. dissertation. Of special interest are...

Scope and Content The Hilaire Hiler papers consist of photographs, clippings, and correspondence of Hilaire Hiler and family. A sketch book of water color paintings by him is of special interest. Included are photographs of some of Hilaire Hiler's paintings as far back as the late 1920s before his family changed their name. News clippings and some color reproductions are represented. Family history and travels throughout Europe are but a few of the varied experiences that are documented in Hiler's...