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Creator:
Barbarossa, Theodore Cotillo, 1906-1992  Search this
Kennedy, Kennedy, Keefe and Carney (Firm)  Search this
Names:
Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.)  Search this
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, D.C.)  Search this
St. Thomas' Church (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Washington Cathedral  Search this
Feller, Richard T.  Search this
Hopper, Inslee  Search this
Extent:
0.8 Linear feet
8.6 Linear feet (Addition)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Drawings
Date:
1931-1991
Scope and Contents:
Biographical data; awards and citations; personal and business correspondence with: Inslee Hopper, consultant to the Chief of the Section of Fine Arts; Richard T. Feller, Clerk of Works for the Washington Cathedral; and Kennedy, Kennedy, Keefe and Carney (formerly Maginnis and Walsh and Kennedy), architects for the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. and the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, Md. concerning his work at those churches; correspondence regarding his work at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the St. Thomas' Church, NYC, and others; sketches, drawings, etchings and studies for reliefs and sculpture; clippings; and photographs of Barbarossa and his sculpture.
ADDITION: Biographical data; awards and citations; military records; correspondence, mostly business but including a few letters from friends and fellow sculptors such as Richard Barthe, Walker Hancock, Thomas Lo Medico, and Heinz Warneke; writings; sketches, drawings, and etchings by Barbarossa and others; studies for relief and figural sculpture; photographs and slides of Barbarossa, others, and of his sculpture, notably of his commissioned sculpture for the New York World's Fair (1939), for several Treasury Dept. art projects in the 1930s, and for his post-WWII commissions for churches, primarily in Baltimore, Md., Washington, D.C. and NYC, and Catholic schools in Tarrytown and Yonkers, NY.
Biographical / Historical:
Sculptor; Belmont, Mass. Died 1992.
Provenance:
Donated 1980 by Theodore Barbarossa. Addition donated 1996 by Susan Gray Barbarossa, Barbarossa's daughter.
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.
Occupation:
Sculptors  Search this
Topic:
Christian art and symbolism  Search this
Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- United States  Search this
Genre/Form:
Drawings
Identifier:
AAA.barbtheo
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9e1aa5d55-33f3-41a8-9fe3-c979791176a7
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-barbtheo