Vera Prasilova Scott portraiture collection
This collection contains portraits taken by Vera Prasilova Scott during her time in Houston, near the Rice Institute. The portraits mainly date from the period between 1926-1937. Rice related subjects include the Lovett, Baker, Blaffer, Cullinan, Weiss, Hutcheson, Tsanoff, and Sharp families.
Vera Prasilova Scott was born in 1899 in Kunta Hora, Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. Prasilova secured an apprenticeship at 18 with Czech photographer Frantisek Drtikol and earned a Journeyman’s certificate that led her to the Graphic Arts School of Munich, Germany, where she earned her Master’s degree. In Munich she met her husband Dr. Arthur F. Scott; when Scott returned to the U.S. Prasilova went to New York to study at Columbia University. In 1925 they married and relocated to Houston in 1926 when Scott secured a position at the Rice Institute. Prasilova became well known for her portraits. Her work was exhibited widely, and is also in the permanent collections of the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon and the Museum of Czech Literature in Prague, the Czech Republic.
The original materials are held by the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library. Search the finding aid/inventory for the Vera Prasilova Scott portraiture collection, MS 497.
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