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Call Number:
MSS 17
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Cass, Caroline
Title(s):
Grand Illusions: Contemporary Interior Murals. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1988.
Date:
1988
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series I: Books and Articles on Richard Shirley Smith
Part of Collection:
volume Moss no. 20
Provenance:
Gift of Roger W. Moss, 2011
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Shirley Smith's murals illustrated . 25, 38-39, 43, 61, 152. Bound in gray book cloth with dust jacket. Caroline Cass's survey of contemporary murals, like Patricia Seligman's book the year before (no.17 above), was published in both England and the United States in several hardback and paperback editions. Here Shirley Smith's trompe l'oeil murals, the first of which he executed in 1976 for owners of the Doric Villa in Regent's Park, were properly credited. A record for this item is also available in the <extref xlink:type="simple" xlink:actuate="onRequest" xlink:show="new" xlink:href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3051811">Yale University Library Catalog.</extref>
Physical Description:
Pp. [1-8] 9-160 ; 288 x 248 mm
Finding Aid Title:
Roger W. Moss Collection of Manuscript, Original Art and Printed Material by and about Richard Shirley Smith
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5884.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2395967
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2395967?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1