Sara Carles Johns sketches
Scope and Contents
This collection holds sketches of women's outerwear.
Dates
- Creation: 1940-1959
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Sara Carles Johns (1894-1965) was an American artist and fashion illustrator. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1916-1921, where she won the 1919 William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship. She exhibited at the PAFA annual exhibitions in 1919, 1920, and 1925. In the 1940s Johns studies at Parsons, where she met Akexey Brodovitch and produced several covers for Harper's Bazaar, in the 1940s and 1950s
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Language of Materials
Undetermined
Existence and Location of Originals
The Library of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Department of Special Collections and FIT Archive, 27th St. at 7th Ave., NY, NY , USA, 10003
General
Sara Carles Johns (1894-1965) was an American artist and fashion illustrator. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1916-1921, where she won the 1919 William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship. She exhibited at the PAFA annual exhibitions in 1919, 1920, and 1925. In the 1940s Johns studies at Parsons, where she met Akexey Brodovitch and produced several covers for Harper's Bazaar, in the 1940s and 1950s
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- Title
- Sara Carles Johns sketches
- Date
- 2025-06-12
- Description rules
- Dacs; Isad(g); Lo C
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and FIT Archive Repository