{"id":7493,"date":"2013-06-03T20:42:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=7493"},"modified":"2013-06-03T20:42:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:42:28","slug":"fleur-de-lys-studios-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/fleur-de-lys-studios-interior\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleur-de-Lys Studios interior"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rare quality photograph of the interior of an art studio at the Fleur-de-Lys Studios (1885) in Providence, which features in Lovecraft\u2019s “The Call of Cthulhu”. Big sharp version here<\/a>, and some more pictures here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Wilfred Israel Duphiney painting Commodore John Barry. You just know<\/em> someone’s going to Photoshop Lovecraft’s face on the portrait in this picture… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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The place housed artists\u2019 studios for masters — many of whom were associated with the Rhode Island School of Design. It or adjacent buildings seem to have also served as a rooming house for students of a creative bent. The complex seems to have been what would now be termed a ‘live-work creative hub’? <\/p>\n

It is sometimes also called Fleur-de-Lis<\/em> is the art history literature. Designed by Charles Walter Stetson and Sydney Richmond Burleigh in collaboration with architects Stone, Carpenter, and Willson (who also built the Providence Public Library).<\/p>\n

Incidentally, there’s a 2009 book “Infinite Radius”: Founding Rhode Island School of Design<\/a>\"\"<\/em>…<\/p>\n

* rare archival photographs
\n* previously unpublished manuscripts
\n* Elsie Bronson\u2019s unpublished chronicle of RISD\u2019s first 50 years
\n* transcriptions of archival letters
\n* facsimiles of course & museum catalogues from 1877\u20131900<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A rare quality photograph of the interior of an art studio at the Fleur-de-Lys Studios (1885) in Providence, which features …<\/p>\n

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