Thursday, September 18, 2008

Scanning flyers and newspaper clippings

In hoping to clean house a little bit, I have been getting rid of duplicates and scanning Ruth Dicker documents.  Check out these show flyers and scanned newspaper clippings.  It is great to read a 46 year old newspaper article that contain paintings that I recognize.


Friday, September 12, 2008

Painting Speadsheet

Ruth Dicker left behind detailed records of all of the paintings she sold but they weren't very well organized.  A few years ago, I went through the documents and created a spreadsheet.  I uploaded the spreadsheet to google docs here and created a form that will allow people to submit additions here.  The starting spreadsheet already has over 800 paintings.

Monday, September 8, 2008

Google News archive search

I read today that google was adding more scanned newspaper archives to its new search.

I did a search for "Ruth Dicker" and set the range to "All dates" and got some cool results.

Although I'm not sure if the results are part of the new feature, this is from the May 27th, 1962 New York Times:
RUTH DICKER (Little Studio): Paintings that reveal a sound artist when the get-rich-quick investments in picturesque and poetic are replaced by more...
There are also interesting results from the San Mateo Times and the Oakland Tribune in the 1960's.  I wonder what else is out there.