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Creator:
Cleo, 1908-1990  Search this
Subject:
Cleo  Search this
Art Institute of Chicago. School  Search this
Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Cranbrook Academy of Art  Search this
Type:
Albums
Date:
1927-1950
Place of publication, production, or execution:
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Physical Description:
Scrapbook : 1 v. ; 37 x 30 cm.
Summary:
Scrapbook is fragile, only two loose photographs have been scanned. <br>Title placard inside scrapbook reads: Cleo Dorman's collection. <br>Scrapbook contains items from Cleo's time as an artists' model at Cranbrook, the Art Institute of Chicago, the AIC Summer School in Saugatack, Michigan, and the Art Students League. It also concerns her personal art collection, and clippings about art modelling. Among the contents are clippings, photographs, articles about Cleo Dorman and the institutions where she worked, and a program for Charles White's memorial service. <br>The two scanned photographs depict Dorman posing, possibly for a class of Louie Ritman at the Art Institute of Chicago (a nearby notation reads "posing for Louie Ritman's class - 1942"). They measure 9 x 9 cm. each, and are stamped on verso: Samuel Woolf; 1646 E. 54th St.; Chicago 15, Ill.
Citation:
Cleo. Cleo Dorman scrapbook, 1927-1950. Cleo (Cleo Dorman) papers, 1924-1999. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Use Note:
Current copyright status is undetermined
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
Topic:
Artists' models  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA)15778
See more items in:
Cleo (Cleo Dorman) papers, 1924-1999
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_item_15778