Nourtahar by Mary Hallock Greenewalt
Permanent ID:
5086
Date:
1879 – 1944
Image Description:
This bound document represents an illustrated lecture given by Mary Hallock Greenewalt (1871-1951). Images 001-008 display the text; images 011-012 display two paintings by Greenewalt. Greenewalt spoke on what she idenitifed as the sixth fine art--the play of light and color rays to express human emotion. Borrowing from the Arabic words for "all light" (nour) and "essence of, flavor of, influence" (athar), she coined the term "nourthar" to describe this art form. The "paintings" are the lighting accompaniments she created for an unidentified love song and the "Ave Maria."
Inscription:
Nourtahar: Talk on the Fine Art of Light-Color Play. Deliverd before the Women's Club of Washington, New Jersey by Mary Hallock Greenewalt. Hotel du Pont, Wilmington, Delaware. March 24, 1942
(Title page)
Format:
Printed Matter; Painting
