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Effective April 1, I have updated the Simeon Solomon Research Archive
(http://www.fau.edu/solomon).
For those unfamiliar with him, Simeon Solomon (1840-1905) was an
Anglo-Jewish Pre-Raphaelite artist who flourished in the 1860s, but whose
public career faltered when he was arrested for homosexual crimes in
1873.
I am pleased to announce that in March 2002, the SSRA received the first
Worldwide Books Electronic Publication Award, a research award from
ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America). I would like to
thank both Worldwide Books
(http://www.worldwide.com)
and ARLIS/NA
(http://www.arlisna.org)
for their support of my work on this electronic information resource and
the overall continuing growth of electronic art information
resources.
Current updates to the SSRA include the following:
** The section on Solomon's art has been fully enhanced with new pages
broken out for his extant 97 paintings, 135 drawings, and 47
illustrations. Information includes titles, dates, mediums, and
location. These web pages are of course works in progress, as many
of his paintings and drawings are being rediscovered on a continuous
basis.
** 12 new digital images of Solomon's illustrations of Jewish subjects to
the Victorian periodicals "Good Times," "Once a
Week," and "Leisure Hour" are now reproduced on the
SSRA. My thanks to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth for
providing these digital images and for granting me permission to make
these images available. My thanks also to Nancine Thompson and
Lynnette Connor at the FAU Library for creating thumbnail versions of
these works. Additional links to digital images provided by others
on the Internet of work by Solomon have been increased to the SSRA.
** Thomas Mosher's Foreword to the 1909 version of "A Vision of Love
Revealed in Sleep" (Solomon's 1871 prose-poem) is now available
online in full-text.
** 3 "new" annotations or updated annotations on secondary
sources have been added.
Statistics on the SSRA as of April 1, 2002:
** 32 web pages
** 133 annotated secondary sources (only 89 appeared in print
version)
** 3 "new" annotated citations or updated annotations
** 16 full-text documents in HTML
** 3 full-text documents in PDF
** 15 digital images
Please visit the Simeon Solomon Research Archive at
http://www.fau.edu/solomon.
As always, if you have any comments/questions/citations, etc. that you
wish to share, please do not hesitate to contact me at
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Roberto C. Ferrari
Florida Atlantic University
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Roberto C. Ferrari
Head of Access Services
Arts & Humanities Librarian
Wimberly
Library
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton, FL
33431
PHONE: 561-297-3575
FAX: 561-338-3863
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