Stephen Longstreet Collection

(GC088)
 

Item Listing
by
Vicki Principi
 

Graphic Arts Collection
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University Library
2004



Consists primarily of watercolor and ink portraits of artists, authors, poets, and musicians by Longstreet. Most of the portraits were drawn in Paris, England, New York City, and Harlem. The portrait subjects include: Matisse, Picasso, Louis Armstrong, Colette, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ian Fleming, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Dylan Thomas, and Virginia Woolf. Also included in the collection is a watercolor which features spectators at a Princeton-Yale football game, and biographical materials regarding Longstreet and his work.

Map drawer F12 contents:
A Ballet West project [portfolio of 7 prints]; collage, 1990

Box 1 contents [Unmatted prints and drawings]:
50 yardline - Yale-Princeton game; pen and ink with watercolor, 1928
Alice Toklas; pen and ink, 1927
Alice Toklas - I'm not the best dressed woman in Paris; pen and ink with watercolor, 1927
Barbara C. at a fete - best selling author; pen and ink with watercolor
Blues; pen and ink with watercolor
Bunch of Grapes Pub - London; pencil and watercolor, 1977
Cafe: Boulevard Montparnasse; pen and ink, 1927
Chinatown eat and dance; black and white xerography, 1926
Colette, Paris; pen and ink, 1928
College date; pen and ink with watercolor, 1929
Dance contest Harlem - Solid stepping; pen and ink with watercolor, 1930
Diging [sic] the beat - Cotton Club; pen and ink with watercolor
Dylan Thomas - YMHA, NYC; pencil, 1952
Dylan Thomas NYC - 1952 YMHA; pen and ink with watercolor, 1952
E. Waugh, Esq. - drunk and nasty; pen and ink with watercolor, 1938
Edith Sitwell; pen and ink with watercolor, 1938
EH - Paris' Americans; pen and ink with watercolor, 1927
EH typing; pen and ink, 1925
Elliot Paul and James Joyce; pen and ink with watercolor, 1927
England - Ian Fleming's horse; pencil and watercolor
Frank Norris; pen and ink with watercolor, 1924
GBS London; pen and ink, 1938
George Orwell - It's all a great mistake; color xerography, 1927
Grace blues singer - New Orleans; pen and ink with watercolor, 1931
H. L. Mencken on the howl; pen and ink with watercolor, 1933
Horn man - Dixieland in Paris; pen and ink with watercolor, 1932
Intellectual - Paris; pen and ink, 1928
Isak Dinesen YMHA, New York; pen and ink with watercolor, 1958
James Joyce - Trianon at dinner - Paris; pen and ink, 1927
Jazz Age Mayor - Jimmy Walker; pen and ink with watercolor, 1929
Jazz voice - Harlem; pen and ink with watercolor, 1927
Jean Cocteau; pen and ink; fine line
John O'Hara; pen and ink with watercolor, 1964
Kay B. - Kiki - LeDome - Paris; pen and ink with watercolor, 1929
Long street - Paris; black and white xerography, 1928
Louie, the great man in a great sweat; black and white xerography, 1933
Matisse; pen and ink, 1928
Musicians at a drug cure session; black and white xerography
New masses dance down-town; black and white xerography
Orsen [sic] Welles - the last years; pen and ink
Painter - Utrillo - Paris; pen and ink, 1927
Paris - Night Club; hand-colored Xerox of a; pen and ink drawing, 1927
Paris - Outside the Ritz; pen and ink with watercolor, 1929
Picasso; pen and ink, 1955
Red Badge of Courage - film set: Stephen Crane novel; pen and ink
Scotty and Zelda at the Ritz; pen and ink with watercolor, 1927
The good stuff - Cotton Club; pen and ink with watercolor, 1926
Thomas Wolfe in Brooklyn; pen and ink with watercolor, 1929
Village Poets: friends of Bunny, Edna, Scotty and Dos; black and white xerography, 1927
Virginia Woolf; pen and ink with watercolor, 1927
W.C. Fields; black and white xerography, 1944
William Faulkner - Warner Bros.; pen and ink, 1942
William Faulkner riding; pen and ink, 1944
Zoot Cat, New York; pen and ink with watercolor

Box 1 contents [Matted drawings]:
Colette, Paris; pen and ink with watercolor, 1937
Edith Sitwell; pen and ink with watercolor, 1930
Gertrude Stein - Paris; pen and ink with watercolor, 1928
Scott Fitzgerald; pen and ink with watercolor, 1960
Somerset Maugham - after 3 martinis; pen and ink with watercolor, 1932
T. S. Eliot; pen and ink with watercolor, 1931

Box 1 contents [Biographical materials folder]:
Secrets of the Japanese print; offset printing, 1980
Stephen Longstreet [portrait]; silver gelatin, 1985
The banquet years - Paris: 1885-1925; offset printing, 1965
The jazz paintings of Stephen Longstreet; offset printing
The Olympian spirit; offset printing, 1984
The real jazz old and new; offset printing
The real West; offset printing, 1979



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