Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s until the late 1960s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island College of Design. Throughout the 50s, the publication served as a literary and art journal, with essays, student artwork, and advertisements from local businesses. By the 60s, Spectrum embraced a portfolio format, with a loose assemblage of primarily visual art produced by RISD students included in each issue.
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Spectrum 1968
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from 1968 is formatted as a portfolio, with over 30 loose pages of student artwork, including photographs, drawings, paintings, woodcuts and art in other media. Likely published in May.
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Spectrum 1967
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from 1967 is formatted as a portfolio, with loose pages of student artwork, including photographs, drawings, paintings, woodcuts and art in other media. Likely published in May. Contributors include Pam Resch, Richard Fleischner, Speiser, Markham, Holmes, Gerry Lubensky, Michael Cox, James Mahon, Lee Post, Derek Durst, Ann Worthington, Courtney McGlynn, Sergio Tarantino, Fredda Kapstein, Dianne Talan, and Xavier Brockman.
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Spectrum 1966
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from 1966 is formatted as a portfolio, with loose pages of student artwork, including photographs, drawings, paintings, woodcuts and art in other media. Likely published in May. Contributors include Robert Simone, Martin Mull, Judith Wolfe, Don Gill, Haig Arslanian, Marjorie Greenhut, Julie Wagner, James Stafford, Mark Rogovin, Amalie Rothschild, Kathryn Cleaves, Liza Jones, Leonore Katz, Walter Operer, Diane Talan, Bruce Tibbetts, and Gordon Goldberg.
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Spectrum May 1965
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from 1965 is formatted as a portfolio, with loose pages of student artwork, including photographs, drawings, paintings, woodcuts and art in other media. Likely published in May. Contributors include Martin E. Mull, Edward E. Grazda, Alex Grant, Bruce A. O'Hara, Pete E. Christman, Jerome H. Zimmerman, Daniel C. Wills, Lawrence A. Kahn, Michel M. Richard, Rosalie A. Hansen, Donald W. Pilcher, Moniz Rose, Joel D. Snyder, Alfred V. De Credico, Dennis J. McNaboe, Daniel A. Paul, Susan M. McSweeney, Donna C. Sutton, Adrienne S. Tolin, Elizabeth L. Moreton, Grant Boyd Sr., and Peter O'Keefe.
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Spectrum 1964
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from 1964 is formatted as a portfolio, with loose pages of student artwork, including photographs, drawings, paintings, woodcuts and art in other media. Likely published in May. Contributors include Judy Cougan, Keegan, Marty Mull, Peter O'Keefe, Phil Carroll, Sue Prendergast, Betty Donahue, Denji Noma, Annette Shaw, Clifford Gastler, Ginna Fritz, Steve Maka, David Taylor, Marilyn Miller, Peter Craft, Milton Zelman, Dave Frampton, Dale Saltzman, Thom Funk, Steve Kirk, Joe Snyder, Tony Seaman, and John McWilliams .
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Spectrum May 1963
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from 1963 includes essays by RISD students that examine theories on art and artists, presented alongside an excerpt from Paul Klee's "The Concept of Analysis." The issue also contains artwork by RISD students, and inspirational quotations about creativity. Contributors include Asher Derman, Robert Gotsch, Loren Kerst, Bill Foster, Bix Lye, Henry Adler, Ilse Buchert, Carolyn Voigt, Ann Armstrong Meyer, James Baker, and Norman Laliberte.
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Spectrum 1962
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from 1962 contains artwork by RISD students, including photographs, drawings, paintings, woodcuts and art in other media. Contributors include Cecile Behlers, Judith Bowering, Elaine Mendolia, Roger Mayer, Bette Young, Anne Armstrong, Philip Hackbarth, David Gustin, D.D. Zaug, Deborah Hoyt, Alex McBride, Sara Dunham, Terence Johnson, Alan Peterson, Robert Gotsch, Robert Lawrence, Robert Saabye, Abdul Imao, Richard Merkin, Raymond Lavin, Peter Bertola, Frank Glickman, Kathy Kelm, John Cardenas, Cynthia Feingold, Bruce Tibbetts, and Johanna Tiews .
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Spectrum 1961
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from 1961 contains artwork by RISD students, including photographs, drawings, paintings, woodcuts and art in other media. Contributors include Lois Goodwin, Samuel Otis, Bruce Bacon, David Bumbeck, Victoria Roman, Bette Young, Allan Peterson, Francisco Baron, Warren Hall, John Coughlin, Eugene Beck, Anthony Thompson, William Catlin, Michael Ashcraft, Jan Wampler, and Ronald Arnholm.
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Spectrum April 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from 1960 contains drawings, mostly figural, by RISD students and faculty. Likely published in April. Contributors include William Ouellette, Charles Wright, M. Illenberger, Santiago Cardenas.
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Spectrum April 1959
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from 1959 is formatted as a portfolio, with student and faculty artwork and creative writing, along with personal essays and essays that examine theories on art and artists. Likely published in April. Contributors include Bruce Berthiaume, Phelps, Hibbard, William Ouellette, M. Illenberger, Robert Cronin, T. Ryan, Cardenas, and Turner Johnson.
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Spectrum February 1959
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from February 1959 contains student artwork, including copies of paintings, prints, photographs, and other media, along with creative writing.
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Spectrum February 1958
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from February 1958 includes essays by RISD students and faculty that examine theories on art and artists, along with artwork by RISD students and faculty, and inspirational quotations about creativity. Contributors include John Dalton, George Sullivan, Robert Doherty, Anthony J. Woidyla, Gordon C. Allen, Bruce Berthiaume, H. Lane Smith, Garabed der Hohannesian, Richard Forte, Dr. Lyle Perkins, and Andy Andre.
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Spectrum February 1957
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. The "Synthesis" issue from February 1957 includes essays by RISD students and faculty that examine theories on art and artists, along with artwork by RISD students and faculty, and inspirational quotations about creativity. Contributors include J. Carol Fulkerson, Robert Hamilton, Roland Belhumeur, Carol Monosson, Herbert Fink, Edward Hill, Vanghel Lupu, Ernest Kirwin, Gilbert Franklin, Robin Koch, Richard Shira, and Edith Stewart.
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Spectrum May 1956
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from May 1956 features essays written by professional photographers on the theme of "photography as a visual art form." Guest essayists include Lyle Mayer, Beaumont Newhall, Jacob Deschin, Barbara Morgan, and Aaron Siskind. Two RISD students, Emilio Grossi and Ronald Binks also contribute. This issue additionally includes photographic plates by Lyle Mayer, Ronald Binks, Aaron Siskind, Howard Dearstyne, Emilio Grossi, Edward Weston, and Minor White.
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Spectrum January 1956
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from January 1956 features essays written by scholars from around New England on the theme of form in the arts, including visual communication, music, and poetry. It also features visual and written creative work submitted by students, faculty, and external scholars.
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Spectrum May 1955
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from May 1955 features articles from students and faculty on collaboration between the arts and architecture, with some additional articles on departments at RISD, as well as illustrations and other student creative work.
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Spectrum February 1955
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from February 1955 marks a new design for Spectrum. It includes editorials, student-submitted articles and creative writing, hand drawn illustrations, poetry, and advertisements primarily for local businesses. Articles cover illustrated books, artistic fellowships, calligraphy, and sculpture.
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Spectrum April 1954
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from April 1954 includes editorials, student-submitted articles and creative writing, hand drawn illustrations, poetry, and advertisements primarily for local businesses. Pieces cover satirical recipes, "Dixie" jazz, and more.
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Spectrum February 1954
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from February 1954 includes creative writing, illustrations, and campus news, along with articles on Take-A-Break Weekend, advice on how to pass a class in certain subjects, alumni relations, a scholarship for RISD students, and the Harvard School Executive Study.
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Spectrum December 1953
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from December 1953 includes editorials, student-submitted articles, hand drawn illustrations, poetry, and advertisements primarily for local businesses. Also, this issue has information about various scholarships, RISD club news and a brief history of RISD from 1878-1953 by John R. Frazier, RISD President from 1955-1962.
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Spectrum May 1953
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from May 1953 includes creative writing, illustrations, and campus news, along with articles on the Alumni Office and Alumni Bulletin, the textile industry, and a satirical treatment for a movie about RISD.
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Spectrum January 1953
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from January 1953 includes creative writing, illustrations, and campus news, along with articles on art criticism, the need for blood donors and political awareness, the importance of fashion to women, a RISD alumnus who still paints despite being a quadriplegic, and the strength of women.
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Spectrum December 1952
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from December 1952 includes creative writing, illustrations, and campus news, along with articles on freshmen, a symposium on "The Uses and Abuses of Design" at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Rhode Island College of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences, Illustration department head Harve Stein, Freshman Foundation instructor Matlack Price, and a transatlantic experience on the SS Waterman.
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Spectrum October 1952
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from October 1952 includes creative writing, illustrations, and campus news, along with articles on egg tempera painting, a fashion tour of the US for the Everglaze Fellowship, and a student finding a valuable Spanish painting in an antiques store.
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Spectrum April 1952
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Spectrum was a publication released in the early 1950s by the undergraduate students at Rhode Island School of Design. This issue from April 1952 includes creative writing, illustrations, and campus news, along with articles on grading at RISD, Ceramics students, Spectrum's role in uniting RISD, observations of student artists, visiting Landscape Architecture instructor Dr. John Byhouwer, the Machine Design department, travelling to Europe, and poor sales at art exhibits around Providence.