Last week, I researched the origin of Beaux Arts Festival of Art, which is a well-know annul outdoor art event on the Coral Gables Campus. The organizer has created a beautiful website, which describes the organization, the event, and its history. Yet, a researcher contacted us looking for original materials on the first Festival took place in 1952.
I was able to find a Miami Herald article dated May 4, 1952 on the first Beaux Arts Festival in the Beaux Arts Scrapbooks. I also found several images on 1952 Clothesline Art Sale in the Historical Photograph Collection. (contact sheet and negatives only available, please see the image below).
The only information available for the images is the caption “Clothesline Art Sale” and the year 1952 written in pencil on the back of the contact sheet. We cannot identify the names of the artists or customers in the images. But, this is still a wonderful discovery for me.
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