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Creator:

Francisci, Anthony de  Search this

Names:

Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration  Search this

French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Manship, Paul, 1885-1966  Search this

Montana, Pietro, 1890-1978  Search this

Weinman, Adolph A. (Adolph Alexander), 1870-1952  Search this

Extent:

2.4 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 1 reel))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1904-1965

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence; notes; a scrapbook; sketches; photographs; announcements; and clippings.

REEL 37: Letters and telegrams, and cards of condolence to de Francisci's widow Theresa after his death, from Robert Weinman, Pietro Montana, Anthony Cirino, Max Kuehne, Donald DeLue and others. Also included is one letter, Sept. 1, 1954, from de Francisci to his daughter. Photographs, 1907-1964, show de Francisci with his Cooper Union graduating class, at work and with friends; clippings; announcements; and resumes.

UNMICROFILMED: Correspondence; notes; a scrapbook; sketches; and photographs of works of art. Correspondents include Daniel Chester French, Adolph Weinman, Paul Manship, Pietro Montana, and Chaim Gross.

Biographical / Historical:

Sculptor; New York, N.Y. and Rockport, Massachusetts.

Provenance:

Material on reel 37 donated 1971 by Theresa de Francisci, widow of de Francisci. One letter dated Sept. 1, 1954 was returned to de Francisci at her request. Unmicrofilmed material was transferred from the National Collection of Fine Arts, 1979.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Sculptors  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.defranth

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw95e2460ae-c23d-4236-83da-cc5fd12feee6

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-defranth

Creator:

Teichman, Sabina  Search this

Names:

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Gross, Renée  Search this

Extent:

0.5 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1947-1981

Summary:

The papers of painter and sculptor Sabina Teichman measure 0.5 linear feet and date from 1947 to 1981. The collection includes biographical materials and sketches, printed material, and one photo of a work of art. Also found is correspondence which is primarily professional but also includes personal letters from Chaim and Renée Gross.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of painter and sculptor Sabina Teichman measure 0.5 linear feet and date from 1947 to 1981. The collection includes biographical materials and sketches, printed material, and one photo of a work of art. Also found is correspondence which is primarily professional but also includes personal letters from Chaim and Renée Gross.

Arrangement:

Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.

Biographical / Historical:

Sabina Teichman (1905-1983) was a painter and sculptor in New York City, New York. Often, she used bold colors in her paintings. Her work, The Prophet is part of the collection of The Vatican, presented to Pope Paul VI.

Provenance:

Portions of the collection were donated by Sabina Teichman in 1973 and 1982. Additional material was donated in 1984 by George Arents Research Library, Syracuse University.

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Women painters  Search this

Women sculptors  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Citation:

Sabina Teichman papers, 1947-1981. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Processing of this collection received support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.

Identifier:

AAA.teicsabi

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Sabina Teichman papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw92d47f185-33fc-423b-b950-7eb76ef9e1a2

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-teicsabi

Creator:

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Berman, Avis  Search this

Subject:

Gross, Chaim  Search this

Gross, Renee  Search this

Type:

Sound Recording

Date:

1981 Mar. 7

Citation:

Chaim Gross and Avis Berman. Interview with Chaim and Renee Gross, 1981 Mar. 7. Avis Berman research material on art and artists, 1976-1994. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Collectors and collecting  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)12028

See more items in:

Avis Berman research material on art and artists, 1976-1994

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_12028

Creator:

Valente, Alfredo  Search this

Names:

Alfredo Valente Gallery  Search this

Aronson, Boris, 1900-1980  Search this

Avery, Milton, 1885-1965  Search this

Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975  Search this

Blatas, Arbit  Search this

Burliuk, David, 1882-1967  Search this

Carreño, Mario  Search this

Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989  Search this

DeMartini, Joseph, 1896-1984  Search this

Dobkin, Alexander, 1908-  Search this

Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973  Search this

Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974  Search this

Greenwood, Marion, 1909-1970  Search this

Gropper, William, 1897-1977  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Grosz, George, 1893-1959  Search this

Gwathmey, Robert, 1903-1988  Search this

Harmon, Lily, 1912-  Search this

Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943  Search this

Haucke, Frederick, 1908-  Search this

Kelekian, Dikran, 1868-1951  Search this

Kleinholz, Frank, 1901-  Search this

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953  Search this

Lassen, Ben, d. 1968  Search this

Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000  Search this

Lax, David, 1910-  Search this

Lebduska, Lawrence, 1894-1966  Search this

Liberte, Jean, 1896-1965  Search this

Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954  Search this

Masson, André, 1896-1987  Search this

Menkes, Sigmund, 1896-1986  Search this

Miller, Henry, 1891-1980  Search this

Ormandy, Eugene, 1899-1985  Search this

Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949  Search this

Rome, Harold, 1908-  Search this

Rose, Iver, 1899-1972  Search this

Ryan, Sally, 1916-1968  Search this

Soyer, Moses, 1899-1974  Search this

Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987  Search this

Stark, Margaret, 1915-1988  Search this

Teichman, Sabina  Search this

Toney, Anthony  Search this

Tschacbasov, Nahum, 1899-  Search this

Walkowitz, Abraham, 1880-1965  Search this

Weber, Max, 1881-1961  Search this

Wilson, Ben, 1913-  Search this

Extent:

1 Linear foot ((partially microfilmed on 3 reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Scrapbooks

Video recordings

Date:

1941-1978

Scope and Contents:

Photographs of artists; letters; printed material; and a motion picture film.

REEL D284: Exhibition catalogs, 1941-1952, from the Valente Gallery, and clippings; a letter and a sketch from Henry Miller; and a scrapbook containing photographs by Valente of 41 artists, their art work and clippings. Photographs of artists include Boris Aronson, Milton Avery, Arbit Blatas, David Burliuk, Mario Carreño, Joseph DeMartini, Alexander Dobkin, Philip Evergood, Jose Ferrer, Adolph Gottlieb, Marion Greenwood, William Gropper, Chaim Gross, George Grosz, Robert Gwathmey, Lily Harmon, Marsden Hartley, Frederick Haucke, Frank Kleinholz, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ben Lassen,Sigmund Menkes, Jose Clemente Orozco, Abraham Rattner, Iver Rose, Sally Ryan, Moses Soyer, Raphael Soyer, Margaret Stark, Sabina Teichman, Anthony Toney, Nahum Tschacbasov, Abraham Walkowitz and Ben Wilson.

REEL 2802: A letter from the National Gallery of Art regarding Valente's film "Art Discovers America"; exhibition catalogs on and written by Valente; clippings; and 30 photographs by Valente of 20 artists.

REEL 3480: Two letters from Henry Miller, dated 1943 and 1945. The letters refer to a "watercolor pad and brushes", and Miller also thanks Valente for a portrait of Abe Rattner.

UNMICROFILMED: Photographs by Valente of artists, each accompanied with the artists' self-portrait. Included are Milton Avery, Arbit Blatas, David Burliuk, Mario Carreño, Alexander Dobkin, Philip Evergood, Chaim Gross, Lily Harmon, Frank Kleinholz, Ben Lassen, David Lax, Lawrence H. Lebduska, Jean Liberte, Jose Orozco, Harold Rome, Moses Soyer, Raphael Soyer, Margaret Stark, Sabina Teichman, Anthony Toney, Nahum Tschacbasov, Abraham Walkowitz, and Ben Wilson and 4 photographs of composer Eugene Ormandy which are on the back of the Blatas portraits.

UNMICROFILMED: "Art Discovers America" (MGM shorts), ca. 1945, a 16mm b&w, 400 ft. film regarding the "new public interest" in American art. The film traces the trend back to the exhibition of The Eight, and shows various artists at work, including John Sloan, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh, and Abraham Walkowitz. The film was produced by Regency Pictures. Valente was the photographer and co-director along with Hal Frater.

REEL 439-441 AND SCANNED Photos of artists, previously microfilmed under Photos of Artists I, have subsequently been scanned and returned to the Valente papers.

Biographical / Historical:

Photographer; New York City.

Provenance:

Material on reel D284 lent for microfilming by Valente, 1966; Mrs. Valente subsequently donated the scrapbook, 1979. Material on reels 2802, and 3480 donated by Mr. & Mrs. Valente, 1966 through 1979. Unmicrofilmed material donated by Harold Rome, 1988. An additional 35 photos of artists were donated by Valente ca. 1966, and microfilmed on reels 439-441 with AAA's Photographs of Artists Collection I; search under Valente for more information. Many of the photographs are duplicates.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Art and photography -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Artists -- United States -- Photographs  Search this

Portrait photography -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Genre/Form:

Scrapbooks

Video recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for the preservation of the motion picture film "Art Discovers America" provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.valealfr

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw96dd15bae-a22b-4d09-8845-ff5fe98139a0

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-valealfr

Creator:

Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Subject:

United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture  Search this

Great Depression  Search this

Type:

Correspondence

Place:

Washington, D.C.

Date:

1935 May 31

Citation:

Edward Beatty Rowan. Edward Beatty Rowan, Washington, D.C. letter to Chaim Gross, New York, N.Y., 1935 May 31. Chaim Gross papers, 1920-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939  Search this

Public sculpture  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)11037

See more items in:

Chaim Gross papers, 1920-2004

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_11037

Creator:

Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946  Search this

Names:

Little Gallery (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)  Search this

Public Works of Art Project (Iowa)  Search this

Stone City Colony and Art School (Stone City, Iowa)  Search this

United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this

Bluemner, Oscar, 1867-1938  Search this

Cone, Marvin Dorwart, 1891-1965  Search this

Dornbush, Adrian  Search this

Dunton, W. Herbert, 1878-1936  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

McCosh, David J., 1903-1980  Search this

Peirce, Waldo, 1884-1970  Search this

Poor, Henry Varnum, 1887-1970  Search this

Pyle, Arnold  Search this

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962  Search this

Watson, Forbes, 1880-1960  Search this

Wood, Grant, 1891-1942  Search this

Extent:

3.2 Linear feet ((on 4 microfilm reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1929-1946

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence, printed material, photographs, business records and a diary.

REEL 103: Clippings, 1929-1932, on exhibitions and activities of the Little Gallery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, directed by Rowan (microfilm title: Little Gallery).

REEL 1208: Photographs used to publicize exhibitions at the Little Gallery, including 183 photographs of works of art, the Little Gallery Junior Art Club, Grant Wood, and William Herbert Dunton at work.

REEL D141-D142: Correspondence; a diary; business records of the Little Gallery, the Stone City Art Colony and Art School, and the Section of Fine Arts; photographs, including two of The Little Gallery, five of the Stone City Colony and Art School, six of Rowan and three of his paintings, and two photos showing Grant Wood, David McCosh, Arnold Pyle, Adrian Dornbush, and Marvin Cone; and catalogs, clippings and publications, including "A Report on Iowa Art Under Public Works of Art Jan. 20, 1934, under the direction of Grant Wood" containing reproductions of work, several clippings, a 2 p. report "three weeks after the beginning of work" and 2 p. typed "Notes" signed by Wood with a photograph attached.

Among the correspondents are Oscar Bluemner, Chaim Gross, Waldo Peirce, Henry Varnum Poor, Eleanor Roosevelt, Forbes Watson, and Grant Wood.

Biographical / Historical:

Gallery director, painter, sculptor, teacher; Falls Church, Va. and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Founder and director of The Little Gallery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1928-1934. The gallery was concerned with promoting education in the community. Because of his success with the Little Gallery, in 1931 he was chosen by the American Federation of Arts to be the director of a new experimental art center in Cedar Rapids. Rowan was affiliated with the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard before going to Cedar Rapids and served as Chief, Public Buildings Administration, 1930's-1940's.

Other Title:

Little Gallery records (microfilm title, reel 103)

Provenance:

Donated by Mrs. Edward Rowan, 1963.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Gallery directors -- Iowa -- Cedar Rapids  Search this

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.rowaedwa

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw95db62502-5d98-4e65-a4f3-0c15534f4c0d

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-rowaedwa

Creator:

Weber, Max, 1881-1961  Search this

Names:

American Artists' Congress  Search this

Forum Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Biddle, George, 1885-1973  Search this

Davies, Arthur B. (Arthur Bowen), 1862-1928  Search this

Gropper, William, 1897-1977  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943  Search this

Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971  Search this

Kroll, Leon, 1884-1974  Search this

Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970  Search this

Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987  Search this

Zorach, William, 1887-1966  Search this

Extent:

11.8 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Sound recordings

Motion pictures (visual works)

Date:

1902-2008

Summary:

The papers of New York painter and sculptor Max Weber measure 11.8 linear feet and date from 1902-2008. The collection documents Weber's career as an artist through scattered biographical material; correspondence with artists, curators, universities, arts organizations, and others; exhibition and gallery files; personal business records; writings by Weber and others; exhibition catalogs, news clippings, and other printed material; photographs of Weber, exhibitions, and works of art; audio recordings and motion picture films. Also included are records maintained by Joy Weber on the exhibition and sale of Weber's work after his death.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of New York painter and sculptor Max Weber measure 11.8 linear feet and date from 1902-2008. The collection documents Weber's career as an artist through scattered biographical material; correspondence with artists, curators, universities, arts organizations, and others; exhibition and gallery files; personal business records; writings by Weber and others; exhibition catalogs, news clippings, and other printed material; photographs of Weber, exhibitions, and works of art; audio recordings and motion picture films. Also included are records maintained by Joy Weber on the exhibition and sale of Weber's work after his death.

Biographical material includes biographical summaries, obituaries, award certificates, and a small amount of family memorabilia. Weber's personal and professional correspondence includes discussions of exhibitions, sales, and donations of his work, as well was requests to teach, write, or lecture. Also found is correspondence with arts organizations, clubs, and committees in which he participated. A small amount of family correspondence is also included. Artists that Weber corresponded with include George Biddle, Arthur Davies, William Gropper, Chaim Gross, Marsden Hartley, Rockwell Kent, Leon Kroll, Barnett Newman, Raphael Soyer, and William Zorach, among many others. Weber also corresponded with many art historians and critics, gallery owners, and art patrons. Joy Weber's correspondence primarily concerns the exhibition, loan, sale, and authentication of her father's artwork.

Exhibition files document various solo and group exhibitions of Weber's work. Five reels of motion picture film include footage of an exhibition at the Forum Gallery in 1975. Gallery files include correspondence, inventories, sales and loan records, gallery publications, and other documentation. Most files for exhibitions and galleries were created by Joy Weber after Max Weber's death in 1961. Personal business records include documents on sales, loans, and gifts of Max Weber's artwork; scattered financial documents; and mortgage and property records. Also found are files regarding his participation in the American Artists' Congress and art juries. Weber's writings primarily concern art theory, impressions of other artists, and social and political issues. Additionally there are notes, drafts speeches, and writings by others about Weber.

Printed material is extensive and includes exhibition publications, press releases, and two published booklets written by Weber: "Art Consciousness" and "Things." Also found are news clippings, brochures, newsletters, and publications produced by art organizations, schools, and museums. Photographs include portraits and snapshots of Weber, depicting him working in his studio, participating in art juries, at art openings, and with his family. Photographs also depict installation views of exhibitions and numerous photographs of Weber's artwork. Audiovisual materials include one sound recording of a National Gallery program on Max Weber and five reels of motion picture film that include home movies and footage of an exhibition at the Forum Gallery in 1975.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 9 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1905-1995 (Box 1; 10 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1902-2007 (Box 1-5; 4.2 linear feet)

Series 3: Exhibition Files, 1919-2003 (Box 5-6; 0.7 linear feet)

Series 4: Gallery Files, 1926-2005 (Box 6-7; 0.9 linear feet)

Series 5: Personal Business Records, 1906-2006 (Box 7; 0.8 linear feet)

Series 6: Writings, circa 1910s-1999 (Box 7-8; 0.6 linear feet)

Series 7: Printed Material, 1909-2008 (Box 8-10, 12; 2.6 linear feet)

Series 8: Photographs, 1930s-circa 2000 (Box 10-11; 1.1 linear feet)

Series 9: Audiovisual Material, 1954-2000 (Box 11, FC 13-17; 0.7 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Max Weber (1881-1961) was a painter and sculptor in New York City.

Weber was born in Bialystok, Russia. When he was ten years old his family moved to Brooklyn, New York. From 1898 to 1900 he attended Pratt Institute and studied theory and practice of design under Arthur Wesley Dow. After graduating he briefly taught drawing in Lynchburg, Virginia, and Duluth, Minnesota. In 1905 he moved to Paris to attend the Académie Julian, studying under Jean-Paul Laurens, and later attended classes at the Académie Colarossi and Académie de la Grande Chaumiere. In 1907 he attended Henri Matisse's studio class. The influence of Matisse and friend Henri Rousseau transformed Weber's painting style to include elements of cubism and fauvism.

Weber returned to New York in 1909, and over the next few years he frequently exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz's gallery 291. Initially his work was panned by American critics for being too modern. Despite criticism, Weber exhibited his work extensively in the 1910s and also began creating abstract sculptures. In 1914 he helped his friend Clarence H. White open the White School of Photography and taught art history there for four years. Also in 1914 his Cubist Poems were published in London. His second book of poetry Primitives was published in 1926.

In 1916 Weber married Frances Abrams. He began to explore narrative subjects in his paintings and in 1918 began carving woodblock prints. He also taught at the Art Students League for the 1919-1921 and 1926-1927 sessions. By the early 1920s he was recognized as an important American artist, serving as a leader in art organizations such as the Society of Independent Artists. In 1930 Weber became the first American modernist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

In the 1930s Weber became more active in political and socialist causes, participating in many organizations throughout the Depression and World War II. In 1937 he became the National Chairman of the American Artists' Congress. By the 1940s, his work was widely known and influenced a new generation of American painters. He continued to exhibit extensively, received many awards, such as the Temple Gold Medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and often served on art juries. In 1955 he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters and received an honorary doctorate from Brandeis University. He died in Great Neck, New York, in 1961.

Related Material:

Also found at the Archives of American Art is an Allen L. Wetmore letter from Max Weber, April 15, 1946.

Separated Material:

Material lent for microfilming in 1959 and 1969 which was not included in the 2011 donation is available on microfilm reels NY59-6 to NY59-10, N69-82 to N69-88, and N69-112.

Provenance:

Material was lent for microfilming in 1959 by Max Weber and in 1969 by Mrs. Max Weber and daughter, Joy Weber. The bulk of the microfilmed material and additional papers were donated in 2011 by Joy Weber.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Artists' studios -- Photographs  Search this

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Painting, American  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Sound recordings

Motion pictures (visual works)

Citation:

Max Weber papers, 1902-2008. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.webemax

See more items in:

Max Weber papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw917740067-13ca-42b3-a394-14c9d399c717

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-webemax

Creator:

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Subject:

Soyer, Raphael  Search this

Robbins, Warren M.  Search this

Grooms, Mimi Gross  Search this

Blume, Peter  Search this

Newman, Arnold  Search this

Type:

Sketchbooks

Video recordings

Motion pictures (visual works)

Citation:

Chaim Gross papers, 1920-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Jewish artists  Search this

Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century  Search this

Theme:

Sketches & Sketchbooks  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8992

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211180

AAA_collcode_groschai

Theme:

Sketches & Sketchbooks

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211180

Interviewee:

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Milton W., 1911-1998  Search this

Subject:

Gross, Renée  Search this

Soyer, Moses  Search this

Soyer, Raphael  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Chaim Gross, 1981 May 26- 27. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12754

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212287

AAA_collcode_gross81

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_212287

Interviewee:

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Interviewer:

Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Chaim Gross, 1964 Sept. 1. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Sculpture  Search this

Art and religion  Search this

Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12131

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213743

AAA_collcode_gross64

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_213743

Creator:

Whitney Museum of American Art  Search this

Names:

Whitney Studio Club  Search this

Whitney Studio Galleries  Search this

Baziotes, William, 1912-1963  Search this

Bellows, George, 1882-1925  Search this

Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975  Search this

Bloom, Hyman, 1913-  Search this

Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967  Search this

Burlin, Paul, 1886-1969  Search this

Cadmus, Paul, 1904-1999  Search this

Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926  Search this

Curry, John Steuart, 1897-1946  Search this

Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964  Search this

De Creeft, José, 1884-1982  Search this

Dickinson, Edwin Walter, 1891-1978  Search this

Eilshemius, Louis M. (Louis Michel), 1864-1941  Search this

Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973  Search this

Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956  Search this

Gatch, Lee, 1902-1968  Search this

Glackens, William J., 1870-1938  Search this

Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948  Search this

Graves, Morris, 1910-2001  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Grosz, George, 1893-1959  Search this

Harnett, William Michael, 1848-1892  Search this

Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943  Search this

Henri, Robert, 1865-1929  Search this

Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966  Search this

Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967  Search this

Inness, George, 1825-1894  Search this

Karfiol, Bernard, 1886-1952  Search this

Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949  Search this

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953  Search this

Lachaise, Gaston, 1882-1935  Search this

Lawson, Ernest, 1873-1939  Search this

MacIver, Loren, 1909-1998  Search this

Marin, John, 1870-1953  Search this

Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954  Search this

Motherwell, Robert  Search this

Mount, William Sidney, 1807-1868  Search this

Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988  Search this

O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986  Search this

Pereira, I. Rice (Irene Rice), 1902-1971  Search this

Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956  Search this

Prendergast, Maurice Brazil, 1858-1924  Search this

Pène Du Bois, Guy, 1884-1958  Search this

Reder, Bernard, 1897-1963  Search this

Rimmer, William, 1816-1879  Search this

Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002  Search this

Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970  Search this

Ryder, Albert Pinkham, 1847-1917  Search this

Schnakenberg, H. E. (Henry Ernest), 1892-1970  Search this

Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965  Search this

Sloan, John, 1871-1951  Search this

Smith, David, 1906-1965  Search this

Stella, Joseph, 1877-1946  Search this

Tobey, Mark  Search this

Twachtman, John Henry, 1853-1902  Search this

Tworkov, Jack  Search this

Walkowitz, Abraham, 1880-1965  Search this

Weber, Max, 1881-1961  Search this

Wyant, A. H. (Alexander Helwig), 1836-1892  Search this

Young, Mahonri Mackintosh, 1877-1957  Search this

Zorach, William, 1887-1966  Search this

Extent:

78 Microfilm reels

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Microfilm reels

Date:

1914-1966

Scope and Contents:

REELS N591-N597: Photographs of the Museum, Juliana Force, Herman Moore; scrapbooks on the Whitney Studio Club, Whitney Studio Galleries and the Museum, 1927-1965.

REELS N599-N604: Notebooks of Edwin W. Dickinson; photographs and provenance information for works by Philip Evergood; a catalog of information and some photographs of Chinese ink drawings and other works by Reginald Marsh; and photographs and information on Bernard Reder, Jack Tworkov, Max Weber (portions also microfilmed on reel NY59-8 (fr. 497-658), reel NY59-9 (fr. 1-51), and William Zorach.

REELS N604-N609: Exhibition catalogs, 1946-1966, for artists and groups shows at the Museum, including Robert Feke, William Rimmer, Ralph Blakelock, Albert Maurer, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Thomas Cole, Max Weber, Arshile Gorky, Mark Tobey, John Sloan, Loren MacIver, I. Rice Pereira, George Grosz, Reginald Marsh, Charles Burchfield, Morris Graves, Theodore Roszak, John Marin, Hans Hofmann, Bradley Tomlin, Stuart Davis, Milton Avery, Lee Gatch, Jose De Creeft, Maurice Prendergast, Edward Hopper, Hyman Bloom, Robert E. Jones, Balcomb Greene, Karl Zerbe, Arthur G. Dove, William Zorach, Philip Evergood, Bernard Reder, Herbert Feber, Oliver O'Connor Barrett,Arthur B. Davies, Jose De Rivera, Paul Burlin, Joseph Stella, Jack Tworkov, Ivan Albright, Stuart Davis, Edwin Dickinson, John Quidor, and Niles Spencer.

REELS N646-N694: Artists' files on: Oliver O'Connor Barrett,William Baziotes, George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Peter Blume, James Brooks, Patrick Henry Bruce, Charles Burchfield, Paul Burlin, David Burliuk, Paul Cadmus, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Cole, Glenn Coleman, Jon Corbino, John Steuart Curry, Jo Davidson, Arthur B. Davies, Jose DeCreeft, Charles Demuth, Jose De Rivera, Arthur Dove, Guy Pène du Bois, Stuart Davis, Frank Duveneck, Ralph Earl, Eastman Johnson, The Eight, Philip Evergood, Robert Feke, Lyonel Feininger, Ernest Fiene, George Fuller, Lee Gatch, William Glackens, Arshile Gorky, Balcomb Greene, Chaim Gross, George Grosz, William Harnett, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, John Heliker, Robert Henri, Hans Hofmann, George Inness, Leon Kelly, Franz Kline, Karl Knaths, Leon Kroll, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Gaston Lachaise, Robert Laurent, Ernest Lawson, Jack Levine, Seymour Lipton, George B. Luks,

Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Loren MacIver, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Alfred Maurer, K. H. Miller, Robert Motherwell, William Mount, Jerome Myers, Louise Nevelson, Georgia O'Keeffe (portions also microfilmed on reels NY59-13 (fr. 98-115, 406-424, 586-685), reel NY59-14 (entire), and reel NY59-15 (fr. 1-140, 145-153), I. Rice Pereira, Bernard Perlin, Joseph Pollett, Jackson Pollock, Reginald Pollack, Henry V. Poor, Richard Pousette-Dart, Maurice Prendergast, Abraham Rattner, Bernard Reder, Ad Reinhardt, William Rimmer, Larry Rivers, Hugo Robus, Theodore Roszak, Mark Rothko, Concetta Scarvaglione, Henry Schnakenberg, Ben Shahn, John Sloan, David Smith, Eugene Speicher, Theodoros Stamos, Joseph Stella, Maurice Sterne, Mark Tobey, Bradley Tomlin,Trajan, Allen Tucker, John Twachtman, Jack Tworkov, Abraham Walkowitz (also on reel NY/59-15) , Max Weber, James M. Whistler, Gertrude Whitney, Grant Wood, Alexander Wyant, Mahonri Young, and William Zorach.

REELS NWH 1-NWH 7: Artist files on Charles Sheeler, Bernard Karfiol, Louis Eilshemius; scatterred records of the Whitney Studio Club and Museum, 1914-1945, including minutes, Oct. 15, 1930, and Whitney Studio ledgers, 1928-1931; catalogs of one-man shows, 1932-1945; catalogs of annual painting exhibitions, 1932-1940, sculpture, watercolor and drawing exhibitions, 1933-1945, and group exhibitions, 1932-1945; and clippings, Oct. 1935-1936.

REELS NY59/8 (fr. 256-end)-NY59/10: Files on Max Weber, including biographical material, lists of work, and miscellany. Also found (NY59/8 frames 354-383) are ca.20 letters from Weber to Abraham Walkowitz, 1907-1924.

Biographical / Historical:

Whitney Museum of American Art is an American art museum in New York, New York. Founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and formally opened in 1931. Previous to its opening as a museum it was known as the Whitney Studio Club (1914-28) and Whitney Studio Galleries (1928-30).

Provenance:

The Weber files on reels NY59/8-10 were lent for microfilming 1959 by the Whitney Museum of American Art; the remainder was lent 1964-1967; additional material from the Museum was lent at the same time, and subsequently donated, including the papers of Lloyd Goodrich, Juliana Force, Thomas B. Clarke, the American Art Research Council, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; these have each been cataloged separately. Portions of Weber, and O'Keeffe material that was microfilmed in 1959 were refilmed in 1967.

Restrictions:

The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Topic:

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States  Search this

Artists -- Exhibitions -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Function:

Art museums -- New York (State)

Identifier:

AAA.whitmuse

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw990da7b91-a3b8-4ace-b8ba-b5c08cfe3284

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-whitmuse

Creator:

McVey, William Mozart, 1905-1995  Search this

McVey, Leza  Search this

Names:

Canaday, John, 1907-1985  Search this

Gonzales, Boyer  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974  Search this

West, Clifford B.  Search this

Extent:

22.8 Linear feet ((microfilmed on 22 reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1932-1974

Scope and Contents:

Papers regarding sculptor William McVey and to a lesser extent his wife, ceramist and weaver, Leza McVey.

REELS 869-870: Files on 26 commissions executed between 1938 and 1973; 2 scrapbooks; printed articles by McVey; sketches and drawings; clippings; and photographs. Correspondents include Chaim Gross, Zoltan Sepeshy, Boyer Gonzales, Clifford West, John Canaday, and others.

REELS 5439-5460: Correspondence, writings, art work by the McVey's and others, photographs, and printed material.

Biographical / Historical:

William McVey: Sculptor, educator; Cleveland, Ohio; Leza McVey: Ceramist, weaver, Cleveland, Ohio.

Provenance:

Material on reels 869-870 lent for microfilming by William McVey. He subsequently donated the originals to Rice University in Houston, Texas. Material on reels 5439-5460 was donated in 1998 by the McVey estate via executor Seth C. Taft.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Educators -- Ohio -- Cleveland  Search this

Sculptors -- Ohio -- Cleveland  Search this

Ceramicists -- Ohio -- Cleveland  Search this

Weavers -- Ohio -- Cleveland  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women ceramicists  Search this

Women textile designers  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.mcvewill

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw96ff7a5a5-8c79-4869-854d-7a56a177ab1c

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-mcvewill

Creator:

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Names:

Blume, Peter, 1906-1992  Search this

Grooms, Mimi Gross  Search this

Newman, Arnold, 1918-2006  Search this

Robbins, Warren M.  Search this

Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987  Search this

Extent:

21.1 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sketchbooks

Video recordings

Motion pictures (visual works)

Date:

1920-2004

Summary:

The papers of New York City sculptor and teacher Chaim Gross measure 21.1 linear feet and date from 1920-2004. The collection provides comprehensive documentation of Gross's career through biographical material, personal and professional correspondence with family, artists, writers, galleries, museums, educational institutions, and religious and philanthropic organizations, writings, personal business records, extensive printed and published material including motion picture film and video recordings of four documentaries, one hundred and fifteen sketchbooks spanning the bulk of Gross's career, and photographs of Gross, his family, many friends and colleagues from the art world, his studio, personal art collection, and works of art. An unprocessed addition of three sketchbooks was donated in 2020.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of New York City sculptor and teacher Chaim Gross measure 21.1 linear feet and date from 1920-2004. The collection provides comprehensive documentation of Gross's career through biographical material, personal and professional correspondence with family, artists, writers, galleries, museums, educational institutions, and religious and philanthropic organizations, writings, personal business records, extensive printed and published material including motion picture film and video recordings of four documentaries, one hundred and fifteen sketchbooks spanning the bulk of Gross's career, and photographs of Gross, his family, many friends and colleagues from the art world, his studio, personal art collection, and works of art.

Biographical material includes records collated to document awards and honors given to Gross documenting the recognition he received for his lifelong achievements in the last two decades of his career, including from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design. The series also includes Gross's birth certificate printed in 1920, some biographical notes and resumes prior to the 1970s, documentation of Gross's business and personal contacts through addresses and business cards, and a motion picture film of a documentary about Gross, Art and the Model, made in 1976 by Thea Bay and edited by Bob Worth.

Personal and professional correspondence constitutes the largest series in the collection and documents all aspects of Gross's prolific career including: personal letters from friends and family such as daughter Mimi Gross and Red Grooms; professional correspondence with galleries, museums, and other art institutions including the Jewish Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Whitney Museum of American Art; correspondence documenting commissions, loans, and sales of Gross's artwork through galleries including Forum Gallery; and correspondence with synagogues including International Synagogue, Temple Sharaay Tefila, and Temple Sinai, Pittsburgh, and multiple other Jewish organizations such as Hadassah and State of Israel Bonds. Correspondence also documents publications by and about Gross including letters from Abe Lerner, the Jewish Publication Society of America, Chaim Potok, and Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; Gross's work as a teacher including at the Educational Alliance and the New School for Social Research; and the significance of Gross's personal collection of African art through correspondence with Warren M. Robbins, the Smithsonian Museum of African Art, and others. Gross's work for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project and Treasury Relief Project, as well as for the 1939 World's Fair, is also documented in this series and includes contracts and correspondence with Ed Rowan.

Correspondence includes many letters from artist friends and colleagues including Isabel Bishop, Peter Blume, Eliot Elisofon, Eugenie Gershoy, Milton Hebald, Lewis Jacobs, Karl Knaths, Arnold Newman, Elias Newman, Saul Rosen, Moses Soyer, Raphael Soyer, Nicholas Sperakis, William and Marguerite Zorach, and many others. Writers and scholars who corresponded with Gross include Samuel French Morse, Jack C. Rich, Shea Tenenbaum, Roberta Tarbell, and others.

Writings primarily consist of a partial draft of Gross's book The Technique of Wood Sculpture but also include a copy of his first published article in 1938 in the American Federation of Arts Magazine of Art, and a few short writings by Gross on other artists. Writings by others include a memoir of Gross's boyhood written by his brother, poet Naftoli Gross.

Gross's personal business records are scattered, as many transactional records are included with his correspondence. They do include lists of Gross's artwork and his personal art collection, two agreements for rights to use his work, appraisals of twelve of his works of art, and receipts of consignments, sales, loans, and gifts of artwork.

Printed material is a comprehensive and substantial record of Gross's exhibitions, and his prolific engagement in the arts and his community throughout his long career. This series includes announcements and catalogs for many of his exhibitions, brochures and programs for art organizations for which he exhibited, taught, donated to, or was otherwise represented in, notably the Educational Alliance, the New School for Social Research, the Sculptors Guild, Inc., and numerous other private and public museums, galleries, and institutions. Also found is circa one linear foot of clippings about Gross that span his career from newspapers, magazines, and journals, including some Hebrew and Yiddish publications. The series also houses video recordings of the documentaries Tree Trunk to Head and A Sculptor Speaks, and an NBC broadcast of an interview with Gross entitled The Two Chaims, as the motion picture film, A Sculptor Speaks.

Sketchbooks provide a unique visual record of Gross's development and the shifting focus of his subject matter from 1933 to right before his death in 1991. They record his early subjects of acrobatic models, family bonds, and landscapes, and the emergence of darker "fantasy" drawings in the wake of the Holocaust and World War II which brought the news of the murder of his brother and sister and her family by the Nazis. The sketchbooks document Gross's travels abroad during the 1960s, and his incorporation of Jewish iconography and Old Testament themes in the 1960s and 1970s. They also illustrate how the constant theme of the celebration of the human form persisted in his work to the end of his life.

Photographs of people and events, although only measuring 0.7 linear feet, provide a rich visual record of Gross's life and his professional and personal relationships from the time he arrived in the United States in 1920 to the late 1980s. The earliest photographs picture Gross with his brothers and with new friends at the Educational Alliance including Moses and Raphael Soyer, Peter Blume, and Elias Newman. There are many photographs of Gross working in his studios, and at the Bedi-Makky Art Foundry in Brooklyn, photographs taken at parties, exhibition openings, receptions, and other events, and photographs of Gross's art collection and exhibition installations. Photographs picture artists such as Hyman Brown, Jose de Creeft, Joseph Hirsch, Moses Soyer, and Raphael Soyer; and gallery owners and collectors including Bella Fishko, Joseph Hirshhorn, Sidney Janis, and Warren M. Robbins. The series also houses photographs of works of art, primarily sculpture, executed by Gross between 1922 and 1987.

An unprocessed addition of three sketchbooks was donated in 2020.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as eight series.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1920-circa 1991 (0.35 linear feet; Box 1, FC23)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1926-1997 (8.75 linear feet; Boxes 1-9, 22)

Series 3: Writings and Notes, 1938-circa 1980s (0.25 linear feet; Boxes 9-10)

Series 4: Personal Business Records, circa 1936-1982 (0.25 linear feet; Box 10)

Series 5: Printed Material, 1925-2004 (3.7 linear feet; Boxes 10-14, 22, FC 24)

Series 6: Sketchbooks, 1933-1991 (6.1 linear feet; Boxes 14-19, 22)

Series 7: Photographs, circa 1921-circa 1990s (1.5 linear feet; Boxes 20-22)

Series 8: Unprocessed Addition, 1949-1951 (0.2 linear feet; Box 25)

Biographical / Historical:

New York City sculptor and teacher Chaim Gross (1904-1991) is considered one of America's foremost sculptors, known for his semi-abstract bronzes celebrating the human form, and his pioneering work in direct wood carving. Gross taught for over fifty years at the Educational Alliance Art School and for forty years at the New School for Social Research.

Born in 1904 in Wolowa, Galicia, in what is now the Ukraine, Gross studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest in 1919 and at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna in 1920 before immigrating to New York in 1921. He attended the Lower East Side Educational Art School in New York City from 1921-1927 where he began lifelong friendships with artists Moses Soyer, Raphael Soyer, Peter Blume and other important twentieth century artists. Gross also studied with Elie Nadelman at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design and Robert Laurent at the Art Students League. He began teaching at the Educational Alliance in 1927 where his students included Louise Nevelson.

Gross married Renee Nechin in 1932 and they had two children, Yehuda and Miriam (Mimi). Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist who was married to artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976.

Gross's first solo exhibition was held at Gallery 144 in New York City in 1932, and he began to develop a reputation as a major contemporary sculptor when he joined the Federal Art Project in 1934 and won a commission from the Treasury Department competition for art works for public buildings in 1936. His projects included relief panels for the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, D. C., and a large-scale family group for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In 1938 Gross founded the Sculptors Guild with William Zorach and served as the guild's first president. His work began to be acquired by major American museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art which in 1939 awarded Gross a $3000 purchase prize for his wood sculpture of circus performer Lillian Leitzel.

In 1938 filmmaker Lewis Jacobs produced a thirty minute film, Tree Trunk to Head, of Gross carving a wood sculpture of Renee Gross in his studio. Lewis subsequently produced a seventeen minute film, The Sculptor Speaks, of Gross working in his studio in 1957. That same year Gross published an influential how-to book The Technique of Wood Sculpture, featuring photographs by Eliot Elisofon.

Much of Gross's early work focused on performers such as acrobats and dancers, family groups, and the mother and child bond. The bulk of his work was in wood, particularly hardwoods with a dark or pronounced grain. In the 1940s, after hearing that his brother Pincus and sister Sarah and her family had been murdered by the Nazis, Gross devoted time daily to sketching in his notebooks, producing a visual diary of the emotional trauma involved in processing their horrific fate and navigating his own grief. A collection of the drawings was published in Chaim Gross: Fantasy Drawings (Beechurst Press) in 1956. Gross carved My Sister Sarah – in Memoriam (no. 36) in 1947 and made the first of seven trips to Israel in 1949.

By the late 1950s Gross was working less in direct carving and was focusing primarily on modeling in plaster on an armature for casting in bronze. In 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome, Italy, and worked with the Nicci Foundry. Bella Fishko began representing Gross's work after establishing Forum Gallery in New York City in 1961. After 1947 Gross had begun to incorporate more Jewish iconography and Old Testament themes into his work, designing and casting large scale menorahs for synagogues such as Temple Sinai in Pittsburgh and the Menorah Home for the Aged in Brooklyn during the 1960s. He executed six bronze panels, entitled Six Days of Creation, for Temple Sharaay Tefila in New York City in 1964, and Ten Commandments for the International Synagogue at Kennedy Airport in 1970-1971. In 1973 Gross illustrated The Book of Isaiah, published by the Jewish Publication Society of America.

Gross was active in many art-related and philanthropic organizations throughout his life and was the recipient of numerous awards, honors, and honorary degrees. He was elected to membership of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1964, became an Academician at the National Academy of Design in 1983, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1984. A solo exhibition Chaim Gross: Sculpture and Drawings, was held at the Smithsonian's National Collection of Fine Arts in 1974. In 1977 Gross had three retrospective exhibitions at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, the Montclair Art Museum, and the Jewish Museum in New York City. Scholar Roberta Tarbell wrote a key essay on Gross for the Jewish Museum exhibition.

In addition to being a professor of sculpture and printmaking at the Educational Alliance Art School and the New School for Social Research, Gross taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the art school of the Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Students League.

Gross had begun collecting African sculpture in the 1930s and was later introduced by art critic Frank Getlein to Warren M. Robbins, who established the Museum of African Art in 1964. Gross gave Robbins several pieces for the museum and connected him with other individuals whose private collections of African art Robbins learned would be key to the success of the museum. A selection from Gross's renowned collection was exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross in 1976.

The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation was created in 1974 at 526 LaGuardia Place, the historic Greenwich Village townhouse which Chaim and Renee Gross purchased in 1962 and renovated to include studio and gallery space with living quarters above. Three years after Gross's death in 1991, the Renee and Chaim Gross foundation opened to the public with a memorial exhibition of the sculptor's work. 526 LaGuardia Place continues to house an extensive collection of Gross's artwork, a photographic archive, and Gross's personal art collection. Gross's work is represented in major museums throughout the United States and abroad, with the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden housing the largest collection of his sculpture in a public museum.

Related Materials:

Additional Chaim Gross papers are held by Syracuse University.

The Archives of American Art also holds an oral history interview of Chaim Gross conducted 1964 September 1 by Dorothy Seckler and an oral history interview of Chaim Gross conducted 1981 May 26-27 by Milton Wolf Brown.

Separated Materials:

The Archives of American Art holds the microfilm (Reels D115a, 924, and 925) of ten record books, 1926-1975, containing rough drawings of artworks, dimensions, titles, dates, materials, production locations, and information regarding owners. The record books were returned to the donor after microfilming and are not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:

The Chaim Gross papers were given to the Archives of American Art in a series of accessions by Chaim Gross from 1963-1983. Thirteen postcards were given by Mrs. Irving Marantz in 1975. Mimi Gross donated eight letters and two envelopes in 2005. Additional papers were donated by the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation in 2016 via Susan Fisher, executive Director, and in 2017 and 2020 by the Foundation via Sasha Davis, Interim Director and Curator of Collections.

Restrictions:

Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Researchers interested in accessing audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art teachers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Jewish artists  Search this

Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sketchbooks

Video recordings

Motion pictures (visual works)

Citation:

Chaim Gross papers, 1920-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

The Chaim Gross papers were processed with funding from the Shirley Gorelick Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.groschai

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9e77fa914-8285-4fca-a0f9-63172974dee1

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-groschai

Creator:

New York Artists Equity Association  Search this

Names:

Art Bank (U.S.)  Search this

Artists Welfare Fund  Search this

Broome Street Gallery  Search this

Ashford, Doug  Search this

Avery, Frances  Search this

Babin, Angela  Search this

Berger, Ted  Search this

Bibro, Denise  Search this

Bolotsky, Marvin  Search this

Brodski, Judith  Search this

Carswell, Mary  Search this

Cohen, Jean  Search this

Concholar, Dan, 1939-  Search this

Diener, Bert  Search this

Facci, Domenico, 1916-1994  Search this

Fiene, Ernest, 1894-  Search this

Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011  Search this

Fuller, Sue (1914-2006)  Search this

Gillespie, Dorothy, 1920-2012  Search this

Golub, Leon, 1922-2004  Search this

Goulet, Lorrie, 1925-  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Gussow, Alan, 1931-1997  Search this

Gussow, Roy, 1918-2011  Search this

Hall, Nan  Search this

Hasen, Burt  Search this

Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988  Search this

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Kertess, Klaus  Search this

Knight, Gwendolyn  Search this

Kotik, Charlotte  Search this

Kramer, Hilton  Search this

Kroll, Leon, 1884-1974  Search this

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953  Search this

Laufman, Sidney, 1891-  Search this

Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000  Search this

Lipsky, Eleanor  Search this

Mandel, Howard, 1917-1999  Search this

Marinoff, Elaine  Search this

Marxer, Donna, 1934-  Search this

Millman, Edward, 1907-1964  Search this

Morris, George L. K., 1905-1975  Search this

Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988  Search this

Newman, Arnold, 1918-2006  Search this

Newman, Elias, 1903-  Search this

O'Hanlon, Richard E. (Richard Emmett), 1906-1985  Search this

Phillips, Helen, 1913-  Search this

Phillips, Renée  Search this

Poroner, Palmer  Search this

Reeves, Ruth, 1892-1966  Search this

Refregier, Anton, 1905-  Search this

Rothschild, Lincoln, 1902-  Search this

Sandler, Irving, 1925-  Search this

Searles, Charles Robert, 1937-2004  Search this

Simon, Sidney, 1917-1997  Search this

Sloan, John, 1871-1951  Search this

Smart, Bill  Search this

Smith, David, 1906-1965  Search this

Steinbaum, Bernice  Search this

Stirton, Laura  Search this

Teller, Susan  Search this

Walker, Hudson D. (Hudson Dean), 1907-1976  Search this

Waterson, Harry  Search this

Wayne, June, 1918-2011  Search this

Winters, Denny Sonke, 1907-1985  Search this

Zaleski, Jean  Search this

Zerbe, Karl, 1903-1972  Search this

deLisser, Carolyn  Search this

Extent:

26.8 Linear feet

2.99 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Photographs

Video recordings

Sketches

Scrapbooks

Sound recordings

Date:

1920-2012

Summary:

The records of the New York Artists Equity Association (NYAEA) measure 26.8 linear feet and 2.99 Gb and date from 1920-2012. The records include history and founding documents, presidents' files, board of directors' files that include monthly board meeting minutes, committee files and annual membership meeting minutes, general administrative and correspondence files, financial and legal files, event and program files, artists and subject files, extensive individual membership files, art project and exhibition files, Broome Street Gallery files, NYAEA publications that include issues of The Artists Proof, printed and digital materials, four scrapbooks, sketches created by artists attending a party in honor of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and photographs of member artists and events.

Scope and Contents:

The records of the New York Artists Equity Association (NYAEA) measure 26.8 linear feet and 2.99 GB and date from 1920-2012. The records include history and founding documents, presidents' files, board of directors' files that include monthly board meeting minutes, committee files and annual membership meeting minutes, general administrative and correspondence files, financial and legal files, event and program files, artists and subject files, extensive individual membership files, art project and exhibition files, Broome Street Gallery files, NYAEA publications that include issues of The Artists Proof, printed and digital materials, four scrapbooks, sketches created by artists attending a party in honor of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and photographs of member artists and events. The President's files appear to be complete and include files for presidents Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Louise Nevelson, Harry Waterson, Roy Gussow, Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, Karl Zerbe, Ernst Fiene, Sidney Laufman, Carolyn deLisser, Burt Hasen, and Bert Diener, among others. Committee files and meeting minutes are found, as well as general administrative and correspondence files which include information pertaining to the national level Association.

Event files include documentation of the Association's Art Thursday series, where they hosted talks and panels by artists. Artists referenced in these files include Jean Cohen, Charles Searles, Leon Golub, Doug Ashford, Bruno Palmer-Poroner, Dom Facci, Susan Teller, Eleanor Lipsky, Ted Berger, Hilton Kramer, Bernice Steinbaum, Laura Stirton, Jean Zaleski, Renee Philips, Denise Bibro, Dan Concholar, Irving Sandler, Angela Babin, Dorothy Gillespe, Donna Marxer, Nan Hall, Ivan Karp, Alan Gussow, Mary Carswell, Bill Smart, Charlotte Kotik, Klaus Kertess, Elaine Marinoff, and Judith Brodski. Additional events covered in this series include the annual awards dinner, masquerade balls, lectures, the Association's 55th Anniversary event, which includes recollections by Helen Frankenthaler, Sidney Simon, and Lorrie Goulet, as well as other events and programs. Videocassette and sound recordings of many of the events are found here.

Artists' and subject files contain mostly printed materials about a few artists and subjects or issues in which the Association was interested.

There are extensive files on individual members that include card files, applications, biographies, and clippings.

Project and exhibition files include material pertaining to the Artists Welfare Fund, the Art Bank artwork donation, and a few scattered exhibitions. Additional exhibition and event files are found in the series containing the Broome Street Gallery files.

Association publications consist of what appears to be a full run of Association newsletters and reports. The NYAEA newsletter changed its name to The Artists Proof in 1986. Additional printed materials include exhibition catalogs and announcements, programs, clippings, posters, and newsletters of other arts organizations. There are four scrapbooks (two unbound) that contain printed materials, and a few items of correspondence. One of the scrapbooks documents the annual "Bal Fantastique".

Artwork consists mostly of sketches and drawings by artists attending a 1948 dinner in honor of Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Photographs are of members and events. Photographers include Arnold Newman, Marvin Bolotsky, and Frances Avery, among others. Numerous notable artists are depicted in the images.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into sixteen series.

Missing Title

Series 1: History and Founding Documents, 1933-2000 (0.3 linear feet; Box 1, 27

Series 2: Presidents' Files, 1927-2007 (2.8 linear feet; Boxes 1-4)

Series 3: Board of Directors' Files, 1947-2003 (1.4 linear feet; Boxes 4-5)

Series 4: Committee and Meeting Files, 1950-2009 (1.5 linear feet; Boxes 5-6)

Series 5: General Administrative and Correspondence Files, circa 1930-2008 (2 linear feet; Boxes 7-8, 0.284 GB; ER01)

Series 6: Financial and Legal Files, 1947-2000 (1 linear foot; Box 9)

Series 7: Events and Programs, 1930-2010 (4.2 linear feet; Boxes 10-14, 27, 0.446 GB; ER02)

Series 8: Artists and Subject Files, 1930-1998 (0.4 linear feet; Box 14)

Series 9: Membership Files, 1920-2009 (4.4 linear feet; Boxes 14-18, 27, 2.26 GB; ER03)

Series 10: Project and Exhibition Files, 1934-2010 (2 linear feet; Boxes 19-20)

Series 11: Broome Street Gallery Files, 1990-2011 (2.7 linear feet; Boxes 21-23, 31)

Series 12: Association Publications, 1947-2012 (1 linear foot; Boxes 23-24)

Series 13: Printed Materials, 1930-2008 (1.6 linear feet; Boxes 24-25, 27, 31, OV 28, OV 29)

Series 14: Scrapbooks, 1947-1969 (0.3 linear feet; Box 25, OV 30)

Series 15: Artwork, 1947-2000 (0.1 linear foot; Box 26, 27)

Series 16: Photographs, 1930s-2004 (0.9 linear feet; Box 26, 27)

Biographical / Historical:

The New York Artists Equity Association (originally the Artists Equity Association) was created in 1947 to promote and support living American artists. Nine prominent New York artists founded the organization and elected Yasuo Kuniyoshi as the organization's first president. The original membership included 160 well-known American artists, but by the end of its first year, membership had grown to over one thousand. By the 1950s, the organization had grown into an influential national organization. Past and present members have included Milton Avery, Will Barnet, Romare Bearden, George Biddle, Isabel Bishop, Robert Blackburn, Paul Cadmus, Charles Burchfield, Stuart Davis, Jose de Creeft, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Leon Golub, Chaim Gross, Rockwell Kent, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Alice Neel, Isamu Noguchi, Jules Olitski, Philip Pearlstein, Henry Varnum Poor, Charles Scheeler, Ben Shahn, David Smith, Frank Stella, Andrew Wyeth, and many others.

In 1959, the New York Chapter, with more members than all of the other states combined, re-organized into the New York Artists Equity Association. The Association maintained it own gallery, Broome Street Gallery, from 1991-2011. The organization remains active today and is located in SoHo.

Provenance:

The records were donated to the Archives of American Art by the New York Artists Equity Association in several increments between 1980-2016.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information. Use of audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Topic:

Artists -- United States  Search this

Function:

Arts organizations -- New York (State)

Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State)

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Video recordings

Sketches

Scrapbooks

Sound recordings

Citation:

New York Artists Equity Association records, 1920-2012. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund.

Identifier:

AAA.nyarteqa

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New York Artists Equity Association records

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9262aeec9-d4bf-436e-aef6-73441a4b1195

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-nyarteqa

Creator:

Brooklyn Museum  Search this

Names:

Listening to pictures (1968-1973: Brooklyn Museum)  Search this

Anderson, Lennart, 1928-2015  Search this

Antonakos, Stephen, 1926-2013  Search this

Arisman, Marshall  Search this

Barker, Walter  Search this

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000  Search this

Bauermeister, Mary, 1934-  Search this

Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975  Search this

Bishop, Isabel, 1902-1988  Search this

Brackman, Robert, 1898-  Search this

Butchkes, Sydney, 1922-  Search this

Casarella, Edmond, 1920-1996  Search this

Constant, George  Search this

Dash, Robert  Search this

De Creeft, José, 1884-1982  Search this

Dombek, Blanche, 1914-  Search this

Doyle, Tom, 1928-  Search this

Ernst, Jimmy, 1920-1984  Search this

Estern, Neil, 1926-  Search this

Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973  Search this

Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011  Search this

Freilicher, Jane, 1924-2014  Search this

Goldin, Leon, 1923-  Search this

Goodman, Sidney  Search this

Graziani, Sante, 1920-  Search this

Greene, Balcomb, 1904-1990  Search this

Grillo, John, 1917-  Search this

Gropper, William, 1897-1977  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Gussow, Roy, 1918-2011  Search this

Gwathmey, Robert, 1903-1988  Search this

Hartigan, Grace  Search this

Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967  Search this

Jaffe, Nora  Search this

Jenkins, Paul, 1923-2012  Search this

Kawabata, Minoru, 1911-  Search this

Kienbusch, William, 1914-1980  Search this

Knaths, Karl, 1891-1971  Search this

Koch, John, 1909-1978  Search this

Kosama, Yayoi  Search this

Lam, Jennett, 1911-  Search this

Lang, Steven, 1944-1971  Search this

Laurent, Robert, 1890-1970  Search this

Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000  Search this

Levine, Jack, 1915-2010  Search this

Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973  Search this

Lipton, Seymour, 1903-1986  Search this

Margo, Boris, 1902-1995  Search this

Meyer, Ursula, 1915-  Search this

Moller, Hans, 1905-  Search this

Murch, Walter  Search this

Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988  Search this

Odate, Toshio  Search this

Offner, Elliot  Search this

Ohlson, Douglas Dean, 1936-  Search this

Okada, Kenzo, 1902-1982  Search this

Palmer, Amanda, 1931-  Search this

Pereira, I. Rice (Irene Rice), 1902-1971  Search this

Peterdi, Gabor  Search this

Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967  Search this

Richards, Bill, 1936-  Search this

Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002  Search this

Sanchez, Emilio, 1921-1999  Search this

Schrag, Karl  Search this

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969  Search this

Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965  Search this

Sopher, Aaron, 1905-1972  Search this

Soyer, Moses, 1899-1974  Search this

Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987  Search this

Thon, William, 1906-2000  Search this

Weinberg, Albert  Search this

Zorach, Marguerite, 1887-1968  Search this

Zorach, William, 1887-1966  Search this

Interviewer:

Jacobowitz, Arlene  Search this

Extent:

7 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Transcripts

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

1965-1968

Summary:

Interviews of 72 artists, and transcripts for all but five, conducted by Arlene Jacobowitz, the Associate Curator for the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum, between 1965 and 1968. The artists discuss their work in the museum collection. Also included are 38 edited excerpts of the interviews, approximately 2-3 min. in length, used as "audio-labels" in the 1968 "Listening to Pictures" installation at the museum.

Scope and Content Note:

Interviews of 72 artists, and transcripts for all but five, conducted by Arlene Jacobowitz, the Associate Curator for the Department of Painting and Sculpture, between 1965 and 1968. The artists discuss their work in the museum collection. Also included are 38 edited excerpts of the interviews, approximately 2-3 min. in length, used as "audio-labels" in the 1968 "Listening to Pictures" installation.

The artists interviewed are: Lennart Anderson, Stephen B. Antonakos, Marshall Arisman, Walter Barker, Leonard Baskin, Mary Bauermeister, Thomas Hart Benton, Isabel Bishop, Robert Brackman, Sydney Butchkes, Edmund Casarella, George Constant, Robert Warren Dash, Jose DeCreeft, Blanche Dombek, Tom Doyle, Jimmy Ernst, Neil Estern, Philip Evergood, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Leon Goldin, Sidney Goodman, Sante Graziani, Balcomb Greene, John Grillo, William Gropper, Chaim Gross, Roy Gussow, Robert Gwathmey, Grace Hartigan, Edward Hopper, Nora Jaffe, Paul Jenkins, Minoru Kawabata, William Kienbusch, Karl Knaths, John Koch, Yayoi Kosama, Jennett Lam, Steven Lang, Robert Laurent, Jacob Lawrence, Jack Levine, Jacques Lipchitz, Seymour Lipton, Boris Margo, Ursula Meyer, Hans Moller, Walter Murch, Louise Nevelson, Toshio Odate, Elliot Offner, Douglas Ohlson, Kenzo Okada, Amanda Palmer, Irene Rice Pereira, Gabor Peterdi, Ad Reinhardt, Bill Richards, Larry Rivers, Emilio Sanchez, Karl Schrag, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Aaron Sopher, Moses Soyer, Raphael Soyer, William Thon, Albert Weinberg, and William and Marguerite Zorach.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as a single series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Interviews, 1965-1968 (Box 1-7; 7 lin. ft.)

Historical Note:

The interview program at the Brooklyn Museum was begun by Arlene Jacobowitz in the spring of 1965 with artists whose works were on exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. In 1968, excerpts from the interviews were incorporated into an exhibition entitled "Listening to Pictures," in which visitors could access the sound recordings using headphones while standing before the painting being discussed. The exhibition opened April 28, 1968, and was gradually disassembled, 1971-1973.

Related Material:

The Brooklyn Museum Archives houses the records of the Departments of European Painting and Sculpture, American Painting and Sculpture, Contemporary Art (1897-2005), which contain records relating to the work of Arlene Jacobowitz.

Provenance:

This collection was donated to the Archives of American Art by Dierdre Lawrence of the Brooklyn Museum in 1989.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment. Researchers may view the original reels for the archival notations on them, but original reels are not available for playback due to fragility.

Rights:

Authorization to quote or reproduce for purposes of publication requires written permission from the interviewee. Citations must read:"Interview between [artist's name] and [interviewer's name] from the "Listening to Pictures" program of the Brooklyn Museum. Archives of American Art. Gift of the Brooklyn Museum." Contact Reference Services for more information.

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Topic:

Artists -- United States -- Interviews  Search this

Art, American -- Exhibitions  Search this

Genre/Form:

Transcripts

Interviews

Sound recordings

Citation:

Interview between [artist's name] and [interviewer's name] from the "Listening to Pictures" program of the Brooklyn Museum. Gift of the Brooklyn Museum. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.broomuse

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Brooklyn Museum interviews of artists

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9bdcd26e1-568c-4c81-8ba1-e07f5afbdfad

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-broomuse

Creator:

Grooms, Mimi Gross  Search this

Names:

Grooms, Red  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Gross, Renée  Search this

Extent:

0.9 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1960-1981

Summary:

The papers of painter Mimi Gross measure 0.9 linear feet and date from 1960 to 1981. The bulk of the papers focus on the relationships between Mimi Gross and Red Grooms and their artist friends and family members. Found are sketches, biographical material, correspondence, printed material, and an unsigned writing.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of painter Mimi Gross measure 0.9 linear feet and date from 1960 to 1981. The bulk of the papers focus on the relationships between Mimi Gross and Red Grooms and their artist friends and family members. Found are sketches, biographical material, correspondence, printed material, and an unsigned writing.

Arrangement:

Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.

Biographical / Historical:

Mimi Gross (1940- ) is a multimedia artist and painter in New York City, New York. Gross began exhibiting at a young age in Provincetown, Massachusetts and her work is included in numerous public collections in the United States and internationally. Gross is a member of the faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and is the daughter of Chaim and Renee Gross. She was married to Red Grooms from 1963-1976, and collaborated with him on many large mulitidimensional installations from 1960-1976.

Provenance:

Mimi Gross donated her papers to the Archives of American Art in 1981.

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Multimedia artists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Citation:

Mimi Gross papers, 1960-1981. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Processing of this collection received support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.

Identifier:

AAA.grosmimi

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Mimi Gross papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw92683c6fc-3ec0-4dbb-ad35-e945ee959982

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-grosmimi

Creator:

Goulet, Lorrie, 1925-  Search this

Names:

Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) -- Faculty  Search this

Carolyn Hill Gallery  Search this

Contemporaries (Gallery: New York, N.Y.)  Search this

David Findlay Galleries (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Inwood Pottery School  Search this

Kennedy Galleries  Search this

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.)  Search this

New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

New York Artists Equity Association  Search this

Scarsdale Studio Workshop  Search this

Anuszkiewicz, Richard  Search this

De Creeft, José, 1884-1982  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Nalle, Anna Beck  Search this

Vogel, Dorothy  Search this

Vogel, Herbert  Search this

Vorhees, Aimee  Search this

Extent:

10 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Diaries

Photographs

Interviews

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Scrapbooks

Sketches

Date:

1931-2009

Summary:

The papers of New York City sculptor, painter, educator, and writer Lorrie Goulet (1925- ) measure 10.0 linear feet and date from 1931 to 2009. Goulet's career is documented through biographical materials, correspondence, writings and notes, interviews, exhibition files, project and commission files, teaching files, personal business records, printed materials, photographs, and artwork.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of New York City sculptor, painter, educator, and writer Lorrie Goulet (1925- ) measure 10.0 linear feet and date from 1931 to 2009. Goulet's career is documented through biographical materials, correspondence, writings and notes, interviews, exhibition files, project and commission files, teaching files, personal business records, printed materials, photographs, and artwork.

Biographical materials include awards, resumes, membership documents for the New York Artists Equity Association, and a scrapbook and photograph portfolio for Jose de Creeft's birthday in 1969. Scattered school records include a photocopy of a letter from Aimee Vorhees at the Inwood Pottery School.

Goulet's correspondence is mostly professional in nature but includes some letters from friends and family, including Jose de Creeft. Other notable correspondents include Chaim Gross, Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, and Richard Anuszkiewicz.

Writings and notes by Lorrie Goulet include artists' statements; notes and essays on sculpture, including a disbound binder entitled "Quadrations"; three journals about the creation of Enigma; a statement on Green Serpentine; lectures and talks, including a memorial tribute to Jose de Creeft; and poems. There are also a few writings by others about Goulet.

There are five transcripts of interviews with Lorrie Goulet and with Lorrie Goulet and Jose de Creeft. One of the interviews includes the original sound recordings on cassette tape and one includes a version of the transcript on floppy disc.

Extensive exhibition files document fifty years of Goulet's solo and group exhibitions held at galleries, museums, and institutions throughout the United States. Many of the files are from shows at Carolyn Hill Gallery, The Contemporaries, David Findlay Jr. Gallery, and Kennedy Galleries. Also found is extensive material on Goulet's exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Lorrie Goulet: Fifty Years of Making Sculpture (1998). File contents vary, but often contain photographs of openings and of works of art, correspondence, printed material, and price lists.

Project and commission files document Goulet's public commissioned works in the New York Public Library, 173 St. Branch, the Nurse's Residence and School at the Bronx Municipal Hospital, the New York City 48th Precinct Station House and Fire House, and the bust of King Juan Carlos I of Spain. There are also files concerning Goulet's television show Around the Corner, an educational children's show that aired from 1964-1968.

Teaching files are from Goulet's positions at the Art Students League, the school at the Museum of Modern Art, the New School for Social Research, and Scarsdale Studio Workshop. Personal business records include scattered bills and receipts for works of art by Goulet and Jose de Creeft and a file regarding Goulet's affiliation with art agent Anna Beck Nalle.

Among the printed materials are clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and issues of magazines and periodicals, many of which include articles about Goulet or her exhibitions. Also found is a videocassette tape concerning Jose de Creeft's Alice in Wonderland narrated by Goulet.

Photographs and eleven photo albums depict Goulet, her family life with Jose de Creeft, celebrations with friends, her artwork and studio, and travel. Also found are photos, slides, and transparencies of works of art. Pencil sketches are by Goulet of her studio. There is also a sketch of Lorrie Goulet by Zorach.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 11 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1931-2009 (0.5 linear feet; Box 1, 11)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1940s-2006 (0.7 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 3: Writings and Notes, 1949-2002 (0.6 linear feet; Box 1-2)

Series 4: Interviews, 1967-2002 (0.3 linear feet; Box 2)

Series 5: Exhibition Files, 1948-2008 (3.1 linear feet; Box 2-5)

Series 6: Project Files, 1950s-2007 (0.8 linear feet; Box 6, 12)

Series 7: Teaching Files, 1958-2000 (0.2 linear feet; Box 6)

Series 8: Personal Business Records, 1969-1990s (2 folders; Box 6)

Series 9: Printed Materials, 1940s-1999 (1.1 linear feet; Box 7-8)

Series 10: Photographs, 1930s-2008 (2.3 linear feet; Box 8-11)

Series 11: Artwork, 1955-1956 (0.1 linear feet; Box 10)

Biographical / Historical:

Lorrie Goulet (1925- ) is a sculptor, painter, educator, and writer active in New York City, New York. She is well-known for direct sculpture on wood and stone.

Lorrie Goulet was born in Riverdale, NY in 1925. As early as the age of seven, Goulet attended the Inwood Pottery School in New York City where she studied under Aimee Vorhees. After the Goulet family moved to Los Angeles, Lorrie continued her studies in art and, in 1940, apprenticed under Jean Rose, a ceramicist in Southern California. In 1943, Goulet enrolled at Black Mountain College in North Carolina where she studied with Joseph and Annie Albers. This is also where she met her husband, sculptor Jose de Creeft; they married in 1944 and had one child, Donna Maria de Creeft. Goulet and de Creeft divided their time between Hoosick Falls, New York and New York City.

Goulet's first solo exhibition was held at the Clay Club Sculpture Center, New York, in 1948. She was represented by Kennedy Galleries in New York, David Findlay Jr. Gallery, and the Harmon Meek Gallery in Naples, Florida. She has exibited widely, including in a number of Annual Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and in the fine arts pavilion of the New York World's Fair of 1965. In 1998, she was honored by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. with a solo exhibition titled Fifty Years of Making Sculpture.

Goulet taught sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art's Peoples Center, New York, in 1957. From 1961 to 1975 she was on the faculty of the New School, New York, and in 1981 began teaching at the Art Students League of New York, where she taught until 2004. Between 1964-1968 Lorrie Goulet demonstrated sculpture techniques on a CBS Television children's program called "Around the Corner", sponsored by the New York City Board of Education.

Lorrie Goulet's sculpture can be found in the permanent collections of museums across the country. She also completed a number of public sculptures commissioned by the City of New York for several of its public buildings in the Bronx including the Branch Public Library at 173rd Street and Grand Concourse (1958), the Nurses School and Residence, Bronx Municipal Hospital (1961), and the 48th Precinct Police and Fire Station Headquarters (1971) - all in varying materials. A bronx bust of King Juan Carlos I of Spain created by Goulet is displayed in the Royal Palace in Madrid.

Goulet is also a painter, philosopher and poet and continues to work in her studio in New York City.

Related Materials:

Also found in the Archives of American Art are the papers of Lorrie Goulet's husband, sculptor Jose de Creeft.

Provenance:

Lorrie Goulet lent a portion of her papers in 1972 for microfilming and later donated those papers along with additional materials to the Archives of American Art in 2010.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Educators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Authors -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Artists' studios -- Photographs  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Women sculptors  Search this

Women educators  Search this

Women authors  Search this

Genre/Form:

Diaries

Photographs

Interviews

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Scrapbooks

Sketches

Citation:

Lorrie Goulet papers, 1931-2009. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund

Identifier:

AAA.goullorr

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Lorrie Goulet papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw902b5ece8-1adc-4620-a5f5-f3520a094ffd

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-goullorr

Creator:

Smith, Jacob Getlar, 1898-1958  Search this

Names:

American Artists' Congress  Search this

Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975  Search this

Cadmus, Paul, 1904-1999  Search this

Chain, Jack  Search this

Criss, Francis, 1901-1973  Search this

Edie, Stuart, 1908-1974  Search this

Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973  Search this

Fiene, Ernest, 1894-  Search this

Genauer, Emily, 1910-2002  Search this

Gershoy, Eugenie, 1901?-1983 or 6  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Halper, Nathan  Search this

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953  Search this

Levi, Julian E. (Julian Edwin), 1900-1982  Search this

Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954  Search this

Matulka, Jan, 1890-1972  Search this

Prestopino, Gregorio  Search this

Scaravaglione, Concetta, 1900-1975  Search this

Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974  Search this

Soyer, Moses, 1899-1974  Search this

Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987  Search this

Stone, Irving, 1903-  Search this

Tamotsu, Chūzō, 1888-1975  Search this

Zorach, William, 1887-1966  Search this

Extent:

2.5 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 2 reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Drawings

Date:

1919-1966

Scope and Contents:

Drawings, caricatures, scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, writings, and printed material.

REELS 723-724: Two scrapbooks, 1919-1935 and 1935-1966, containing clippings, exhibition catalogs, and printed materials; and 128 letters from artists, galleries, and art organizations, including American Artists Congress, Associated American Artists Gallery, Thomas Hart Benton, Paul Cadmus, Philip Evergood, Emily Genauer, Julian Levi, Gregorio Prestopino, Zoltan Sepeshy, Moses Soyer, Raphael Soyer, William Zorach, and others.

UNMICROFILMED: Caricatures and portrait drawings by Smith of Jack Chain, Francis Criss, Stuart C. Edie, Philip Evergood, Ernest Fiene, Eugenie Gershoy, Chaim Gross, Nathan Halper, [?] Hunt, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Julian Levi, Reginald Marsh, Jan Matulka, Concetta Scaravaglione, Irving Stone, Chuzo Tamotzu, and unidentified others. Also included is a self-portrait.

ADDITION: Ca. 40 letters; photographs, including Smith, other artists, and Woodstock, NY; draft manuscript for Smith's book, "Art and the Artist and You" (includes copy photographs of illustrations for the book); writings; exhibition catalogs and related printed material; and clippings. Ca. 35 of the letters were previously lent and microfilmed on reels 723-724.

Biographical / Historical:

Watercolor painter; New York, N.Y.

Provenance:

Material on reels 723-724 lent for microfilming 1974 by David Loeffler Smith, Smith's son. He subsequently donated the 2 scrapbooks and some correspondence from the loan, along with additional unmicrofilmed material, in 1983 and 1994.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Watercolorists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Watercolor painting  Search this

Drawing -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Genre/Form:

Drawings

Identifier:

AAA.smitjaco

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c96a691c-3920-4ef4-82d2-a54405460543

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-smitjaco

Creator:

De Creeft, José, 1884-1982  Search this

Names:

Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) -- Faculty  Search this

Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) -- Faculty  Search this

New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.) -- Faculty  Search this

Norton Gallery and School of Art  Search this

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture -- Faculty  Search this

Albers, Josef -- Photographs  Search this

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976  Search this

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 -- Photographs  Search this

Campos, Jules  Search this

De Creeft, William  Search this

De Diego, Julio, 1900- -- Photographs  Search this

Dickinson, Edwin Walter, 1891-1978  Search this

Diederich, William Hunt, 1884-1953  Search this

Dodd, Lamar  Search this

Escuder, Joseph  Search this

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 -- Photographs  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991 -- Photographs  Search this

Gómez Gil, Alfredo, 1936-  Search this

Lawrence, Gertrude -- Photographs  Search this

Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973  Search this

Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973 -- Photographs  Search this

Neumann, J. B. (Jsrael Ber) -- Photographs  Search this

Nivola, Costantino, 1911-1988  Search this

Rattner, Abraham -- Photographs  Search this

Roszak, Theodore, 1907-1981 -- Photographs  Search this

Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987 -- Photographs  Search this

Sweeney, James Johnson, 1900-  Search this

Zorach, William, 1887-1966 -- Photographs  Search this

Extent:

28.1 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Diaries

Interviews

Scrapbooks

Sketches

Date:

1871-2004, bulk 1910s-1980s

bulk 1910-1990

Summary:

The papers of Spanish-born sculptor and educator José de Creeft measure 28.1 linear feet and date from 1871 to 2004 with the bulk of the material dating from the 1910s to the 1980s. Found are biographical materials, correspondence, fifty diaries, writings, subject files, personal business records, printed materials, twenty-seven photo albums and other photographs, scrapbooks, and scattered sketches.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of Spanish-born sculptor and educator José de Creeft measure 28.1 linear feet and date from 1871 to 2004 with the bulk of the material dating from the 1910s to the 1980s. Found are biographical materials, correspondence, fifty diaries, writings, subject files, personal business records, printed materials, twenty-seven photo albums and other photographs, scrapbooks, and scattered sketches.

Biographical materials include address books, awards, recorded interviews with and about de Creeft, membership materials, naturalization records, resumes, and travel documents.

Correspondence is primarily professional in nature and concerns exhibitions, de Creeft's involvement in arts organizations, and awards. There are also scattered personal letters from family and friends. Correspondents include Alexander Calder, Nina, Alice, Barbara and William de Creeft, Hunt Diederich, Joseph Escudar, and Gil Gomez, Jacques Lipchitz, Edwin Dickinson, James Johnson Sweeney, Costantino Nivola, Abraham Rattner, and Lamar Dodd, among others.

De Creeft's fifty diaries are nearly complete for the period dating from 1926 to 1981. Some are bound volumes and others are loose pages. The bulk of the diaries are in Spanish and many include sketches. Additional writings, called "escritos varios" by José de Creeft, are mostly in Spanish and consist of typed manuscripts and essays, including "Roosty Was My Friend, 1957, notebooks, an artist's statement, and writings by others, including drafts for The Sculpture of de Creeft by Jules Campos, and a video recording entitled José de Creeft by Bob Hanson. There is one sound recording of Lorrie Goulet reading poetry.

Subject files are varied and include files on de Creeft's teaching positions at the New School for Social Research, Black Mountain College, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Art Students League. There are files for some of his sculpture projects, inlcuding Alice in Wonderland, Poet, and a proposed model for the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial in Georgia, as well as compiled information about various art related topics of interest.

De Creeft's business records include appraisals, contracts, leases, price lists, and scattered receipts. Also found are art inventories in the form of three sets of index cards, some of which include photographs.

Printed materials include books, clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, exhibition labels, postcards, and posters.

There are loose photographs and twenty-seven photograph albums depicting de Creeft, his family, friends, and works of art. There are photos of Alexander Calder; de Creeft and Goulet with Raphael Soyer, posing with Soyer's portrait of them; Gertrude Lawrence; art juries, which also include images of Chaim Gross, Jacques Lipchitz, Theodore Roszak, and William Zorach; students, friends, and faculties of Black Mountain College, the Art Students League, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Norton School of Art, which also includes images of Joseph Albers, Alexander Calder, Julio De Diego, Walter Gropius, J. B. Neumann, and Abraham Rattner.

Seven mixed media scrapbooks document de Creeft's career from 1929 to 1982. Also found are scattered pen and pencil sketches and one sketchbook dating from the 1920s.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 10 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1914-1979 (Boxes 1, 27; 0.9 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1910s-1980s (Boxes 1-6; 4.2 linear feet)

Series 3: Diaries, 1926-1981 (Boxes 6-11; 5.4 linear feet)

Series 4: Writings, 1871-1977 (Boxes 11-13, 28; 2.5 linear feet)

Series 5: Subject Files, 1924-1980 (Boxes 13-16, 27; 2.4 linear feet)

Series 6: Personal Business Records, 1909-1980s (Boxes 16-17, 27; 1.0 linear feet)

Series 7: Printed Material, 1921-1980s (Boxes 17-21, 27, 33; 4.7 linear feet)

Series 8: Photographs, 1900-2004 (Boxes 21-25, 29, 31; 5.1 linear feet)

Series 9: Scrapbooks, 1929-1982 (Box 26, 30, 32; 1.8 linear feet)

Series 10: Artwork, 1920s-1930s (Box 26; 2 folders)

Biographical / Historical:

José de Creeft (1908-1982) was a Spanish-born sculptor active in New York City, New York.

José de Creeft was born in Guadalajara, Spain and raised in Barcelona. In 1900, he apprenticed to sculptor Don Augustine Querol and studied drawing with Idalgo de Caviedas. De Creeft moved to Paris in 1905 and began formal art training at the Académie Julianand. He also took a studio in the Batteau Lavoir in Montmartre, where he interacted with Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Manolo, and Pablo Gargallo, all of whom also had studios there. During this period, de Creeft became friends with the artist Mateo Hernandez.

In 1915, de Creeft rejected the traditional technique of reproducing sculpture in stone from clay and plaster models and turned to direct carving in wood and stone. He was also one of the first sculptors who practiced assemblage and incorporated found objects into his work. His notable assemblage sculpture El Picador, a large figure on horseback, received worldwide press coverage and was exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Independents in 1926. Between 1919 and 1928, his work was exhibited in various Paris salons. In the late 1920s, he created 200 stone carvings for Roberto Ramonje's Forteleza (fortress) in Mallorca. It was around this time frame when de Creeft met Alexander Calder, who became his student in direct carving. De Creeft encouraged Calder to display his mechanical toys and Calder put his Circus together for the first time in de Creeft's studio.

De Creeft emigrated to the United States in 1929, right after marrying fellow sculptor Alice Robertson Carr. They divorced nine years later.

While in New York, de Creeft began sculpting with lead sheets beaten into three-dimensional forms and established a studio at 1 Washington Square. His first solo exhibition was at the Ferargil Galleries in New York City and included The Portrait of Cesar Vallejo in chased lead and The Silver Fox of found materials.

In 1932, de Creeft accepted a teaching position in sculpture at the New School for Social Research. He also taught courses at Black Mountain College, where he met his second wife, sculptor Lorrie Goulet, the Art Students League, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Norton Gallery and School of Art. In 1946, de Creeft and Goulet purchased a hundred-acre farm in Hoosick Falls, NY where they established a studio and part-time residence.

Perhaps De Creeft's most well-known monumental scuplture is Alice in Wonderland in Central Park, New York City. The 12' x 16' bronze was dedicated during a public event in 1959 and gave de Creeft worldwide recognition. In 1995 a short film about the making of the sculpture was produced by J. D'Alba and narrated by Lorrie Goulet.

De Creeft was as founding member of the American Artist's Congress, the Sculptors Guild, and the Artist's Equity Association. De Creeft was represented by the Georgette Passedoit Gallery from 1936 to 1949. Later, he joined The Contemporaries (gallery) and exhibited there until 1966. Kennedy Galleries represented de Creeft from 1970 until his death in 1982.

Related Materials:

The Archives of American Art also holds an interview of José De Creeft conducted October 1-8, 1968 by Forrest Selvig and the papers of de Creeft's wife Lorrie Goulet.

Separated Materials:

The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming (reels D150 and 375-378). While most of the items were included in subsequent gifts, material not donated to the Archives remain with the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:

The José de Creeft papers were first lent for microfilming by the artist in 1963 and 1972. Lorrie Goulet, José de Creeft's widow, donated most of this material along with additional items in 1985 and 2009.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Topic:

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Educators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Sculpture, Modern -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Stone Mountain Memorial (Ga.)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Diaries

Interviews

Scrapbooks

Sketches

Citation:

José de Creeft papers, 1871-2004, bulk 1910s-1980s. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund

Identifier:

AAA.decrjose

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9bbb83529-c881-4ef2-b3f3-7919c41b1404

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-decrjose

Creator:

Grossman, Sid, 1915-1955  Search this

Names:

Kootz Gallery (Provincetown, Mass.) -- Photographs  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966  Search this

Lipton, Seymour, 1903-1986  Search this

Reeves, Ruth, 1892-1966  Search this

Extent:

0.4 Linear feet ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1933-1981

Scope and Contents:

A journal; writings; lists of photographs; photographs; and printed material.

REEL 2910: A journal, 1933; and two "literary papers" from 1934 titled NAIVETE for which Grossman was editor and contributor, often signing his pieces "El Cid".

REEL 3361: 2 press releases and a clipping, concerning an exhibition of Grossman's work; lists of photographs; photographs taken by Grossman, 1949-1954, of art-related activities in Provincetown, 1950-1952, of the Kootz Gallery, 1954, of Highfield, 1952, and of artists including: Seymour Lipton, Chaim Gross, Hans Hofmann, Ruth Reeves, Jack Hall, Bobbie and Dagmar Lilian, and Weegee.

Biographical / Historical:

Photographer, writer; New York, N.Y. and Provincetown, Mass.

Provenance:

Material on reel 2910 lent for microfilming 1982 and material on reel 3361 donated 1985 by Grossman's widow, Miriam Cohen.

Microfilmed as part of the Archives of American Art's Texas project.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm.

Occupation:

Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Photographers -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  Search this

Topic:

Photography  Search this

Artists -- Photographs  Search this

Photography of artists  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.grossidn

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw97413ec94-610b-4aa7-a7cc-604a8e722180

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-grossidn