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Douglas W. Gorsline

1913–1985 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By Douglas W. Gorsline

Look homeward : Douglas Gorsline illustrates Thomas Wolfe

Gorsline, Douglas W. · 1998

Catalog of an exhibition of Douglas Gorsline's illustrations for Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, shown at the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill from March 29 to May 31, 1998, and later at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester and the Asheville Art Museum. Essays by Timothy A. Riggs on Gorsline's work for the novel, Wilma Dykeman on Wolfe and Asheville, and Marie Via on the illustrator's changing vision; drawn from UNC's North Carolina Collection. 44 pages with illustrations, 1998.

About Douglas W. Gorsline

Drawing on a classic

Palmer, Emily (Emily E.) · 2014

Emily Palmer writes on illustrations made for the Thomas Wolfe novel Look Homeward, Angel, naming the artists Douglas W. Gorsline, Harvey Harris and Lew Tilley. Dated 2014, concerning Wolfe illustrations and on the North Carolina Collection in the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Gorsline, Douglas W., 1913-1985.

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