Phil Dike Collection
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The collection contains correspondence with colleagues, exhibitors, correspondence with Disney studios, art work, publications, exhibition pamphlets, and personal documents, lecture notes, and ephemera.
Dates
- Creation: 1932-2000
Creator
- Dike, Phil (Creator, Person)
- Dike, Phil (Person)
Language of Materials
Languages represented in the collection: English
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open for research with permission from Ella Strong Denison Library staff.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with Scripps College. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact Ella Strong Denison Library staff.
Biography of Phil Dike
Phil Dike is a native to Southern California; he was born in Redlands, California. He taught art to artists at Disney studios and students from the Brandt-Dike School of Art and Scripps College. He was a professional watercolor painter, muralist and an animator for Disney Studios. He coordinated such Disney animated films as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 and Fantasia in 1940. His art work is displayed in many museums, art galleries, private collections and at Scripps College. He was a founding member of the California National Water Color Society, which became later the National Watercolor Society (U.S.). He corresponded with Disney studios, gallery from around the United States, Lamar Dodd from the University of Georgia, California watercolorists Rex Brandt, Millard Sheets (who was affiliated with the Claremont Colleges), and Clarence Hinkle, as well as personal letters to his family from Europe.
Extent
4.5 feet
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence with colleagues, exhibitors, correspondence with Disney studios, art work, publications, exhibition pamphlets, and personal documents, lecture notes, and ephemera.
Series Arrangement
Series 1, Correspondence
Subseries 1.1, Correspondence
Series 2, Art Gallery Publications
Series 2.1, Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogs
Subseries 2.2, Art Gallery Exhibition Pamphlets
Series 3, Disney Studios
Series 4, Personal documents, 1865-1925
Series 5, Art Instruction
Subseries 5.1, Scripps College
Subseries 5.2, Summer School
Series 6, Personal Documents
Series 7, Artwork
SubSeries 7.1, Phil Dike
SubSeries 7.2, Photographs
SubSeries 7.3, Unknown Artists
Series 8, Cover Art by Phil Dike
Series 9, Ephemera
Physical Location
Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont University Consortium.
Acquisition Information
Gift received in 2007 from Dike family
Accruals
No addition to the collection is anticipated.
Processing Information
Arranged and Processed by Russell Michalak
Subject
- Brandt, Rex (American painter, 1914-2000) (Person)
- Dike, Phil, 1906-1990 (Person)
- Disney, Roy O. (Roy Oliver), 1893-1971 (Person)
- Dodd, Lamar (Person)
- Sheets, Millard (American muralist and teacher, 1907-1989) (Person)
- California National Water Color Society (Organization)
- Scripps College (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Phil Dike Collection
- Author
- Finding aid created by Russell Michalak
- Date
- July 11, 2008
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the 02 - Ella Strong Denison Library Repository