Cumberland Artist's Books Now at USM
July 26, 2004
The studio library of the late Warren Spaulding, a well-known
artist whose works are in the Portland Museum of Art and the
Farnsworth Museum, has come to the University of Southern
Maine Libraries.
Spaulding's wife, Dorothy, donated more than 750 art and
art history books that belonged to her husband, and they now
are housed in USM's general collection. All books are designated
part of the Spaulding gift by a bookplate, and most of the
books reside in the Gorham campus library, which is the campus
that is home to USM's Department of Art.
Spaulding was a graduate of the Yale University School of
Art. He exhibited nationally throughout his life, and was
art director at the Taft School in Conn., a faculty member
of the Yale University School of Art, and a tenured faculty
member at Washington University in St. Louis School of Art.
He and his wife spent many summers in Maine, eventually retiring
here, where Spaulding became one of the founders of the Maine
Coast Artists Association. Dorothy Spaulding resides in Cumberland.
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