TYPED LETTER TO EDUCATOR HAROLD RUGG SIGNED BY SOCIAL REALIST AMERICAN PAINTER MITCHELL SIPORIN.

Siporin, Mitchell. (1910-1976). Social Realist American painter.

Published by New York: January 26, 1948., 1948

About this Item

- Typed letter on an approximately 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide sheet of cream-colored note paper. Signed "Mitchell Siporin". The top edge of the letter is lightly creased with a tiny chip out of the top left corner. Folded three times for mailing. There is a tiny tear to the left edge of 1 fold. Very good. Siporin replies to an invitation from Harold Rugg to speak at one of Rugg's lunchtime forums at Columbia University's Teachers College: "It would be a pleasure to take up your invitation to attend and address your All-College Luncheon Forum. The date I would prefer is March 31st. If that is no longer open, however, do suggest another time. As for the topic, may I communicate that to you after we've arrived at a satisfactory date?"Mitchell Siporin [1920-1976] was a Social Realist American painter. Beginning in the mid-1930s, Siporin worked as a painter for the Illinois Art Project through the Works Progress Administration. Together with Edward Millman he painted "the largest single mural awarded for a post office by the Section of Fine Arts" in the Central Post Office in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1951 he founded the Department of Fine Arts at Brandeis University.One of the best-known educators during the Progressive era of education, Harold Rugg [1886-1960] was a professor of education at Teachers College of Columbia University. A civil engineer, he had become interested in how students learn and pursued a doctorate in education. He was responsible for producing the very first series of school textbooks from 1929 until the 1940s.

Seller Inventory # 96243

Bibliographic Details

• Title: TYPED LETTER TO EDUCATOR HAROLD RUGG SIGNED BY SOCIAL REALIST AMERICAN PAINTER MITCHELL SIPORIN.
• Publisher: New York: January 26, 1948.
• Publication Date: 1948
• Condition: Very good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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