1 Microfilm reel, 2 volumes on partial microfilm reel1
Access Note / Rights:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Summary:
The microfilmed William Baziotes sketchbooks consist of two hard-cover sketchbooks dating from circa 1933. One (auction no. 90.5) contains 42 single-sided drawings and 26 double-sided drawings, in both pencil and pen and ink. The second (no. 115.5) contains 71 single-sided drawings and 26 double-sided drawings, all in pencil except for one charcoal drawing on frontispiece. The sketches are primarily of people; some animals and landscapes are also included. Landscapes may be of Baziotes' hometown area of Reading, Pennsylvania, where he often returned in the summer.
Citation:
William Baziotes sketchbooks (microfilm), 1933. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reel 5257 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Location of Originals:
Originals returned to lender after microfilming.
Loan:
Loan
Related Materials:
The Archives of American Art holds the William and Ethel Baziotes papers, circa 1900-1992; microfilmed Robert Motherwell postcard to William Baziotes, 1944; and William Baziotes (1912-1963): the formation of a subjectively based imagery / by Melinda Anne Lorenz, undated.
Biography Note:
William Baziotes (1912-1963) was an abstract expressionist painter in New York, New York. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Baziotes moved to New York City in 1933, where he studied painting at the National Academy of Design. He participated on the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project as a teacher from 1936 to 1938, and painted for the Easel Painting Project from 1938 to 1940.
Language Note:
Undetermined .
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1998 by John Castagno, a dealer who purchased the sketchbooks at auction. The auctioneer's label (Pennypacker-Andrews Auction Centre, N.Y.) affixed to each cover identifies the sketchbooks: "From the Private Collection of Constance and the Late Harry Baziotes, Purchased on September 25, 1995. Each page is stamped "Wm A. Baziotes Estate"
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
