This collection documents Jehu Dewitt Paulson's career as an artist and educator and contains drawings, paintings, prints, plates, photographs and illustrations for published and unpublished manuscripts. The Personal files include Paulson's application for a Guggenheim Fellowship (1934), photographs of Paulson and his family, certificates of memberships to various societies and fraternities, a curriculum vitae, and notes from his college years. The North Carolina State College series includes class notes, a partial history of the Department of Architecture, course materials and notes on the appreciation of paintings. The Building Images subseries contains photographs, pencil sketches and plates of various campus buildings, including Memorial Tower, Primrose Hall, and Pullen Hall. Files of picture clippings on varied subjects (architecture, bridge building, interiors, landscaping, murals, paintings and sculpture, etc.) comprise another series. The Writings, Research and Inventions series contains identifications of paintings (by painter and subject), correspondence regarding the identification process, and published writings, including The Exterior Form of the Solitary Atom (1952), and unpublished manuscripts ("Appreciation of Painting," "Escape from Atlantis," and "People Makers, a Fantasy of Evolution"). Among the inventions are plans for an elevated storage tower and for an improved internal combustion rotary motor. Also included in this series are subject files of picture clippings on varied subjects (architecture, bridge building, interiors, landscaping, murals, paintings and sculpture, etc.). The Paintings, Sketches, Drawings, and Designs series comprise a good representation of Paulson's original artwork. This series also contains drawings and related papers on The Forms of the Elementary Atoms and The Periodic Law. The Photographic series contains undated photos of various atoms and elements. The Family Papers series contains a printed book on family history.
Jehu Dewitt Paulson (1893-1972), an artist and educator, served on the faculty of the Department of Architecture at North Carolina State College from 1925 to 1961.
This collection documents Jehu Dewitt Paulson's career as an artist and educator and contains drawings, paintings, prints, plates, photographs and illustrations for published and unpublished manuscripts. The Personal files include Paulson's application for a Guggenheim Fellowship (1934), photographs of Paulson and his family, certificates of memberships to various societies and fraternities, a curriculum vitae, and notes from his college years. The North Carolina State College series includes class notes, a partial history of the Department of architecture, course materials and notes on the appreciation of paintings. The Building Images subseries contains photographs, pencil sketches and plates of various campus buildings, including Memorial Tower, Primrose Hall, and Pullen Hall. Files of picture clippings on varied subjects (architecture, bridge building, interiors, landscaping, murals, paintings and sculpture, etc.) comprise another series. The Writings, Research and Inventions series contains identifications of paintings (by painter and subject), correspondence regarding the identification process, and published writings, including The Exterior Form of the Solitary Atom (1952), and unpublished manuscripts ("Appreciation of Painting," "Escape from Atlantis," and "People Makers, a Fantasy of Evolution"). Among the inventions are plans for an elevated storage tower and for an improved internal combustion rotary motor. The Paintings, Sketches, Drawings, and Designs series comprise a good representation of Paulson's original artwork. For Howard M. Ellis's drawings from Paulson's Elements of Design Class (1926-1927), see North Carolina State University Library Manuscript Collection 175. This series also contains drawings and related papers on The Forms of the Elementary Atoms and The Periodic Law. The Photographs series contains undated photos of various atoms and elements. The Family Papers series contains a printed book on family history.
The collection is divided into seven series: Personal Papers; North Carolina State College Papers; Picture Clippings; Research, Writings, and Inventions; Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, and Designs; Photographs; and Family Papers.
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The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.
[Identification of item], Jehu Dewitt Paulson Papers, MC 00056, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Gift of Mr. James Devlin, February 24, 1972; Gift of Mrs. Stanley Ballenger, April 21 and 28, 1972; Gift of Donald J. Mack Jr., 2009; Gift of Dr. George Paulson, 2012 (Accession 2012.0125)
Processed by Edith Woodcock, 1997; Encoded by Linda Sellars, 2005; Updated by Aaron Cusick, 2009 November; Updated by Judy Allen Dodson, 2010 July
The collection is organized into seven principal series:
This series consists of various personal photographs, certificates, and correspondence, including a statement answering to charges of insubordination at North Carolina State. This series also contains Paulson's art history notebook compiled from lectures at Yale School of Fine Arts.
27 folders
The material in this series relates directly to North Carolina State College. It includes a report of Paulson's trip through several northern states in connection with the development of fine arts courses for North Carolina State. Also housed in this series are lecture notes, textbook outlines, and worksheets used in courses taught by Paulson. Finally the series contains a series of sketches and photographs of North Carolina State campus buildings. Some of these drawings were used for the set of commemorative plates sold by the North Carolina State University Alumni Association in 1946.
71 folders
1 folder
8 folders
43 folders
This series consists of pictures clipped from print media. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject. Some of these subjects are: costumes, furniture, interiors, landscapes, lettering, men, paintings, sculpture, and women. Whether Paulson used these files as references for his teaching or his creative work is unclear.
24 folders
The research files deal largely with research involving the identification of some well-known paintings. In particular he believed that Adoration of the Kings, usually attributed to Botticelli, was really painted by Leonardo da Vinci. His writings consist of manuscripts covering the areas of art, science, and fiction. Included are The Forms of the Elementary Atoms and the Periodic Law and The Exterior Form of the Solitary Atom with its accompanying plastic electron orbital models of the elementary atoms. This series also contains correspondence, paperwork, and patent applications for Paulson's inventions. These inventions were: an elevated storage tower, a container, a stool, an improved internal combustion rotary motor, and a trypent star structural form.
43 folders
20 folders
10 folders
5 folders
Examples of Paulson's original artwork make up this series. The media used include oil, watercolor, pencil, and pen and ink. The works vary in size and subject matter. The full size paintings used to illustrate his book The People Makers are located in this series. Of particular note in this series is a booklet about North Carolina signed by Governor Scott.
Oversized materials include paintings, drawings of male and female models; sea scenes; various buildings (including Joel Lane House); religious themes; outdoors themes; work winning First Medal in USA competition at Beaux Arts Institute of Design New York City; drawing of William Neal Reynolds Coliseum "preliminary to construction; NC State University plate design; bird's eye campus view; Cleopatra; "Adoration of Magi" by Sandro Botticelli; a Greek theme drawing; 14 lessons on "perspective"; heads with wings; NC Board of Architecture certification of Paulson, 1941; drawings of perspectives of furniture; Burlington nuclear reactor, 1950-51; drawings on Tryon Palace, 1949 including "Proposed Restoration of"; blueprint on chair designed for Hall of Representatives NC State Capital, 1950; "Speculative Study of the Exterior Form of the Solitary Atom".
8 folders
1 item
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[Identification of item], Jehu Dewitt Paulson Papers, MC 00056, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.
