Charles Locke Purchase Fund

Seal of the University of Virginia
The Charles Locke Purchase Fund, endowed in 1984 by Warren and Lydia Chappell, is to be used for the purchase of books on drawing, composition and printmaking, and examples of their applications, including catalogues of drawing exhibitions. Mr. Chappell, an illustrator and book and type designer, named the fund for the teacher and artist Charles Wheeler Locke.


To check availability of items purchased with this fund:

  1. Visit Virgo Advanced Search.
  2. Open the ‘Bookplate’ filter on the left side of the page.
  3. Click the box next to the name of this fund.
  4. Click the Search button.