Gone With the Wind Paint Book: Museum Object and Cultural History
Gone With the Wind Paint Book: Date made: 1940. associated institution: MGM. depicted: Leigh, Vivien.
The object in the museum catalogue
Gone With the Wind Paint Book: Pictures of the Old South from the Screenplay. The Merrill Publishing Company published this 44-page paint book that includes pictures and texts of the movie set and typical "costumes, people and plantations of the Historic South." Copious notes were also made by the book's owner in black ink, inside front and back covers, about the film stars.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1940
- associated institution: MGM
- depicted: Leigh, Vivien
- depicted: McQueen, Butterfly
- depicted: Gable, Clark
- publisher: Merrill Publishing Company
- maker: Merrill Publishing Company
- Object Name: Paint Book
- Measurements: overall: 15 in x 10 in; 38.1 cm x 25.4 cm
- place made: United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Subject: Motion Pictures
- Subject: Gone With the Wind
- related event: Civil War
- ID Number: 2001.3007.27
- nonaccession number: 2001.3007
- catalog number: 2001.3007.27
- Credit Line: Gift of Donald E. Grepke in memory of Carolyn Grepke
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of American History through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed.
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