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Medical illustrations of the eye and its diseases
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Title
Medical illustrations of the eye and its diseases, 1951-1963 (bulk).
Physical Description
1 linear foot (2 boxes)
Language
English
Notes
Separate from this collection is a large oil painting of the eye by Beatrice Grover, also donated by Robinson Grover.
Materials are in English.
Provenance
Most of the collection was donated by Robinson Grover (YC 1954), Beatrice Grover's son. Additional framed paintings and biographical information were donated by Nancy Grover, widow of Robinson Grover, in 2016.
Access and use
Collection contains some patient information. Consult with Librarian for Medical History.
Biographical / Historical Note
Beatrice Beard Grover was born in New York City where she lived most of her life. She studied at the Art Student League in New York, and learned lithography from George C. Miller. Earlier in her career Grover painted in various media, created lithographs, and wrote and illustrated children's books. From 1951 to 1963, she was employed as a medical illustrator by the Department of Ophthalmology, New York University College of Medicine - Bellevue Hospital . At Bellevue Hospital she drew ophthalmological illustrations for use in teaching and for research publications. She drew all of the colored illustrations for Helena Biantovskaya Fedukowicz, M.D., External Infections of the Eye: Bacterial, Viral, and Mycotic (New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1963). After 1963, Grover returned to oil painting, including painting abstract works based on what she had learned as a medical illustrator. Later she painted informal portraits on commission and for friends. Grover had several individual shows in New York City and East Hampton, NY, and her works are held in a number of major collections. She married Allen Grover in 1929 and had two children.
Helena Fedukowicz was trained as an ophthalmologist in Russia. After coming to the United States in 1954, she joined the faculty of the Department of Ophthalmology at NYU-Bellevue Hospital. A later edition of her book was published in 1978.
Summary
The collection contains colored drawings of the eye and its diseases, probably intended for publication. They are earlier than the drawings used in Dr. Fedukowicz's book. Some drawings are labelled with the name of the patient, the name of the physician, and the eye disorder. A number of drawings were made for the ophthalmologist Arthur Gerard De Voe. One series illustrates the eye before and after an operation. Two of the drawings have been framed, including one of the skull which comes with two colored overlays to place over the eye sockets. Also in the collection are a typed prospectus for Dr. Fedukowicz's proposed book, Grover's draft layout of the illustrations for the book, diagrams for drawings of microscopic bodies in the eye, two copies of the book owned by Grover, one of which was inscribed by Dr. Fedukowicz to Grover, and reviews of the book. There is also a copy of Philip C. Ritterbush, The Art of Organic Forms (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968), a catalog for an art exhibit at the Smithsonian which included one of Grover's oil paintings titled "Vulcan."
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 13, 2016
Subjects
Genre/Form
Drawings - United States - New York.
Illustrations (layout features)
Occupation
Artists United States New York.
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