Excerpt:
A gift of John F. Harbeson, the archive consists of Cret's student and professional work and is displayed on approximately four hundred and seventy-six sheets containing one or more drawings, photos, or prints per sheet. The archival holdings may be broadly divided into eighty-eight sheets of student work at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon and Paris, fifty-three student and professional watercolors, thirteen sheets of bookplates, seals, medals and title pages, fifty-six sheets of competitions (thirty-two of various university designs), nine sheets of commercial work, one hundred and two of memorials, twenty-two sheets of government buildings, twelve residential designs, twenty-one sheets of bridge designs, five sheets of watercolors and ink sketches by Col. Oscar Lahalle (Cret's father-in-law), and one hundred and eleven sheets of varied design work.
Annotation:
The University of Pennsylvania School of Design has assembled a complete index of drawings by architect Paul Philippe Cret, a professor at PennDesign who went on to great success in his own firm. Only 20 of the 199 indexed works have links to actual drawings; however, the drawings themselves are of very high quality, and "next project" links underneath each scanned work make navigating from drawing to drawing simple. In addition, a biography on the first page of the site contexualizes Cret's influence very well. The site would be of use to any student of art or architectural design.