User:Unionpearl

About
I am an art librarian at Cornell University with a range of interests, and a special focus on the history of photography, especially early photography, typography, letter and book arts, and textiles. I have created and maintain this guide to resources and strategies for research in art history for the Cornell community.

I am an avid participant in the annual Wikipedia: Art + Feminism edit-a-thon, and one of the hosts for the Ithaca, NY event.

I helped organize and participated in the editWikipedia4BlackLives edit-a-thon in June 2020.

Wikipedia articles I have written/originated:
(all in support of the Art + Feminism edit-a-thon)

Auto-generated list, or:


 * Deborah Castillo, Venezuelan performance and installation artist (translated, expanded and updated from her Spanish Wikipedia article), 2024
 * Yen Ospina, Colombian-American muralist, 2023
 * Pamela Tulizo, Congolese (DRC) photographer (translated from her French Wikipedia article) 2022
 * Josephine Kuuire, Ghanian photographer (translated from her French Wikipedia article) 2022
 * Aassmaa Akhannouch, Moroccan photographer (translated from her French Wikipedia article) 2022
 * Nelisiwe Xaba, South African performance artist (translated from her French Wikipedia article) 2022
 * Frédérique Lucien, French multi-media artist (translated from her French Wikipedia article) 2022
 * Joëlle le Bussy Fal, Franco-Senegalese sculptor, art dealer, arts organizer, and art curator (translated from her French Wikipedia article) 2021
 * Vonjiniaina, Malagasy sculptor (translated from her French Wikipedia article) 2021
 * Safaa Erruas, Moroccan painter (translated from her French Wikipedia article) 2021
 * Valérie Oka, Ivorian artist and designer (translated from her French Wikipedia article) 2021
 * Christine Eyene, Cameroonian art critic, art historian, and art curator (translated from her French Wikipedia article) 2021
 * Ingeborg Kahlenberg, photographer for the Dutch Resistance 2020
 * Miriam Macgregor, a British wood engraver and illustrator 2019
 * Yvonne Skargon, a British wood engraver and illustrator 2019
 * Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft, an American Naturalist and Botanical illustrator active in Cuba 2019
 * Harriet Cany Peale, Hudson River School painter, overshadowed by her famous husband, Rembrandt Peale. 2018
 * Edna Beilenson, of the Peter Pauper Press. American typographer, fine press printer, and publisher. 2017
 * Bertha M. Goudy, of the Village Press. American typographer and co-proprietor of the Village Press with her husband, the one who usually gets all the recognition, Frederic W. Goudy. 2017
 * Jane Bissell Grabhorn, of the Jumbo, Colt and Grabhorn Presses in San Francisco. American typographer and printer. 2017
 * Irene Wellington, British calligrapher. 2016
 * Claire Holt, Latvian-born American art historian and academic specializing in the arts (especially visual arts and dance) of Java, Bali, and Sumatra. 2016
 * Emma Jacobsson, Austrian-born Swedish botanist, art historian, knitwear designer, and entrepreneur. 2016
 * Bohus Stickning, Swedish knitting cooperative. 2016

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Re: Union Pearl
Union Pearl is the name of a typeface—the first display typeface produced in England, ca. 1708. More about that here. Someday, I'll write an article about it myself, if someone else doesn't beat me to it. Well illustrated in this reprint of John Smith's Printer's Grammar, published in 1787 by T. Evans:

Brief Union Pearl Bibliography:

 * John A. Lane, “The Origins of Union Pearl” Matrix.
 * Stanley Morison, “Decorated Types” The Fleuron
 * Stephenson, Blake & co. Union Pearl: A Seventeenth-Century Decorated Type
 * Rowe Mores, Edward. A Dissertation Upon English Typographical Founders and Founderies
 * Berry, Johnson & Jaspert. Encyclopaedia of Typefaces. 55th Anniversary Ed.