Artists’ materials
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Box 1, circa 1895
Ida C. Failing was a Colorado artist and illustrator who exhibited with the Arisits' Club of Denver in 1894. She is also listed as a Denver artist in the 1925 Who Was Who in American Art. She illustrated Authar Ward's 1902 Buttercups and Clover, and Other Verses.
Box 1: Postcards and Scrapbook
This box contains postcards (19th century, art, and ballet related), (1) scrapbook, (1) signed photo from Tchelitchew, programs, and correspondence.
Box 1: Receipts and paint samples, circa 1895
Receipts for purchases by Ida C. Failing, paint in envelope, cards and envelopes. She was a turn of the century artist in Denver.
Ida C. Failing Paint Box and Receipts
She was an artist in Denver, Colorado around the turn of the century. She did paintings on canvas as well as hand painting bone china pieces. Ida C. Failing was born in Illinois in 1857 and died in Denver Colorado in 1918. Collection contains a paint box containing art supplies and receipts related to Ida C. Failing from 1895.
Petteys, Chris Collection
Brochures on exhibits, articles correspondence regarding women artists.
Porter-Waring Family Material Culture Collection
The Porter and Waring families have long histories in Colorado. The collection consists of various lace and/or embroidered items including table cloths, doillies, pillow covers, clothing, animal fur, and a wedding dress dating to 1938.