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| Creator: | De Lue, Donald, 1897-1988. |
| Title: | Donald De Lue Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1941-1965 |
| Quantity: | 1 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Papers of the American sculptor. Incoming and outgoing correspondence (1957-1964); photographs of work (1941-1965); and published material by and about De Lue. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Donald De Lue (1897-1988) was an American sculptor and medallist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and spent several years in Paris. He is perhaps best known for his 45-foot high sculpture of the "Rocket Thrower," commissioned for and exhibited at the New York World's Fair in the Plaza of the Astronauts. This figure is familiar not only to those who have visited the Fair but to people all over the world, as it was reproduced in the official World's Fair postage stamp.
De Lue lived in Leonardo, New Jersey for much of his career but maintained a studio in New York City. He taught at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City during the early 1940s. He also did work for the Boy Scouts of America, Carnegie Technical Institute, the United States Naval Academy, and West Point Academy, and served as Advance Editor for American Artist Magazine and as Chairman of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University.
Over his career he received numerous recognitions, including a Guggenheim Fellowship from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and several gold medals, one from the Architectural League and one from the National Sculpture Association. In 1960 he won two Henry Hering Awards (given by the National Sculpture Society) for his Omaha Beach Memorial in Normandy, France and for the Stations of the Cross at the Loyola Jesuit Seminary in Shrub Oak, New York. In 1967, De Lue won the American Numismatic Society's Saltus Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Art of the Medal.
The Donald De Lue Papers consist of correspondence, subject files, manuscripts, and published materials.
Correspondence includes both incoming and outgoing. Subject files consists of a few dedications but mostly of photographs of Mr. De Lue and his work.
Manuscripts contain one paper written by Mr. De Lue. Published material includes books, magazine articles and newspaper clippings about Mr. De Lue and his work, magazine articles and a book review by him, pamphlets about his work and a postage stamp with his work represented on it.
Correspondence is subdivided into incoming and outgoing; incoming is arranged alphabetically by author, outgoing is arranged chronologically. Subject files and Published material are arranged alphabetically by type, and then (where possible) in chronological order.
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Donald De Lue Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Gift of Donald De Lue.
Created by: --
Date: Feb 1967
Revision history: 11 Apr 2008 - converted to EAD (MRC)
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Incoming | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | H 1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | N 1960 | ||||||||||
| Outgoing | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1957, 1964 | ||||||||||
| Subject file | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Dedications 1957, 1960, 1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Photographs of 1941, 1947, 1958-1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Photographs of Studio Interiors 1959, 1961, undated | ||||||||||
| Photographs of Work | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina 1946 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Chapels at West Point and Arlington, Virginia undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Chemistry Building, University of Pennsylvania 1940 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Christian Herald Building, New York City 1946 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Edward Hull Crump Memorial undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Federal Court House, Philadelphia undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Federal Reserve Bank, Boston undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Harvey Firestone Memorial 1950, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Germantown Jewish Center, Philadelphia 1953 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Junior High School, New York City undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Interchurch Center, New York City undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Memorial Chapel, Virginia undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | New Orleans Civic Center 1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | New York World's Fair 1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Portraits of others 1943, 1960, 1962, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Relief frieze, unidentified | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Reliefs for medals 1945, 1961, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Science and Engineering Building, Carnegie Technical Institute undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Sisters of St. Joseph, Toronto, Canada undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | United States Cemetery Memorial, St. Laurent, Sur-mer-France undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | United States Military Cemetery Memorial, St. Laurent, Normandy, France 1957, 1963, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | United States Naval Academy 1956, undated | ||||||||||
| Manuscripts | |||||||||||
| Manuscript about | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | "The Word of the Lord Endureth Forever" 1963 | ||||||||||
| Published material | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Books about 1955-1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Book review by 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Magazine articles by 1957, 1962-1963 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Magazine articles about 1951, 1963-1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Magazine about others 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Magazine reproductions 1951-1955 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Magazine reproductions 1955, 1956-1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Newspaper and magazine clippings about 1941-1947, 1950-1957, 1959, 1963, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Pamphlets 1947, 1953-1954, 1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Postage Stamp 1964-1965 | ||||||||||
