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"Shillito – Ostwald – Munsell" by Helen Jean Burgess (1926-2018)

An analysis by Dr David J. C. Briggs and Eva Fay of a portfolio of student colour exercises and notes produced for Phyllis Shillito's Design Diploma course at the East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School, Sydney) in the mid-1940s. This pdf provides additional documentation for the published paper: Briggs, D.J.C., and Fay, E., 2022. A Shillito Student Portfolio from the Mid-1940’s . Proceedings of the International Colour Association (AIC) Conference 2022, Toronto, pp. 248-255. https://www.aic-color.org/resources/Documents/AIC2022-Conference_Proceedings.pdf Briggs and Fay found that the typed notes in this portfolio are closely derived or copied verbatim from a small number of sources, comprising Henry Barrett Carpenter's Suggestions for the Study of Colour ("Shillito Theory" section) and several texts relating to the Ostwald and Munsell systems, including Maitland Graves' The Art of Color and Design ("Ostwald Theory" and "Munsell Theory" sections). This supporting document provides specific page references to the sources identified for each text page and plate by Briggs and Fay. Fay's student notes from the Shillito Design School in 1976-77 show that text more or

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