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Creator:

Di Mare, Dominic, 1932-  Search this

Subject:

Susan Cummins Gallery  Search this

Palo Alto Arts Center  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

California College of Arts and Crafts (San Francisco, Calif.)  Search this

Type:

Scrapbooks

Photographs

Sketches

Drawings

Citation:

Dominic Di Mare papers, 1950-2003. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Sculptors -- California  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching -- California  Search this

Fiber artists -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Theme:

Craft  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)6041

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)239496

AAA_collcode_dimadomi

Theme:

Craft

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_239496

Creator:

De Patta, Margaret, 1903-1964  Search this

Subject:

Davis, Adelle  Search this

Barson, Fred  Search this

Bielawski, Eugene  Search this

Fleisher, Janet  Search this

Flory, Alice  Search this

McHendrie, Janet  Search this

Ries, Victor  Search this

Untracht, Oppi  Search this

Designs Contemporary  Search this

Oregon State System of Higher Education  Search this

Nanny's Design Gallery  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

San Francisco Metal Arts Guild  Search this

California College of Arts and Crafts (San Francisco, Calif.)  Search this

California Labor School  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Sketchbooks

Designs

Drawings

Citation:

Margaret De Patta papers, circa 1930-2012. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women designers  Search this

Women educators  Search this

Theme:

Women  Search this

Craft  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)11059

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)246467

AAA_collcode_depamarg

Theme:

Women

Craft

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_246467

Creator:

Ireland, David Kenneth, 1930-2009  Search this

Subject:

Tingle, Alta  Search this

Marion, Paul  Search this

Lienhard, Marie-Louise  Search this

Lee, Margie  Search this

Grobart, Jeffrey  Search this

Coppola, Eleanor  Search this

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture  Search this

Mattress Factory  Search this

Washington State Arts Commission  Search this

Gallery Paule Anglim  Search this

Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens  Search this

California College of Arts and Crafts (San Francisco, Calif.)  Search this

Arts Club of Chicago  Search this

American Academy in Rome  Search this

Stanford University  Search this

Walker Art Center  Search this

Helmhaus Zürich  Search this

San Francisco Art Institute  Search this

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts  Search this

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  Search this

Western Washington University  Search this

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

Type:

Video recordings

Sketches

Interviews

Prints

Sound recordings

Drawings

Photographs

Citation:

David Ireland Papers, circa 1910s-circa 2009, bulk 1960-2005. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Artists' studios -- Photographs  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Installations (Art)  Search this

Public art  Search this

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)15853

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)292739

AAA_collcode_ireldavi

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_292739

Interviewee:

Foote, Bill, 1937-  Search this

Interviewer:

Riedel, Mija, 1958-  Search this

Subject:

Foote, Peggy, 1935-  Search this

Arneson, Robert  Search this

Bransten, Rena  Search this

Carnwath, Squeak  Search this

Champion, Gloria  Search this

Coykendall, Vernon  Search this

Fiske, Charles  Search this

Foote, Bill  Search this

Frey, Viola  Search this

Hanson, Shirley  Search this

Hoffman, Nancy  Search this

Knecht, Gary  Search this

Laycox, Jack  Search this

Maybeck, Jackie  Search this

McDonald, Richard  Search this

Perry, Sam  Search this

Schulz, Maryanne  Search this

Treadwell, Noni Eccles  Search this

Voulkos, Peter  Search this

Wenger, Leslie  Search this

Viola Frey Oral History Project  Search this

California College of Arts and Crafts (San Francisco, Calif.)  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Bill and Peggy Foote, 2014 February 16-17. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Feminism and art  Search this

Women art collectors  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)16168

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)366486

AAA_collcode_foote14

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_366486

Interviewee:

Foote, Bill, 1937-  Search this

Foote, Peggy, 1935-  Search this

Interviewer:

Riedel, Mija, 1958-  Search this

Names:

California College of Arts and Crafts (San Francisco, Calif.)  Search this

Viola Frey Oral History Project  Search this

Arneson, Robert, 1930-1992  Search this

Bransten, Rena, 1933-  Search this

Carnwath, Squeak, 1947-  Search this

Champion, Gloria  Search this

Coykendall, Vernon  Search this

Fiske, Charles  Search this

Foote, Bill, 1937-  Search this

Frey, Viola, 1933-2004  Search this

Hanson, Shirley  Search this

Hoffman, Nancy, 1944-  Search this

Knecht, Gary  Search this

Laycox, Jack  Search this

Maybeck, Jackie  Search this

McDonald, Richard  Search this

Perry, Sam, 1963-  Search this

Schulz, Maryanne  Search this

Treadwell, Noni Eccles  Search this

Voulkos, Peter, 1924-2002  Search this

Wenger, Leslie  Search this

Extent:

5 Items (sound files (4 hrs., 38 min.), digital, wav)

131 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2014 February 16-17

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Bill and Peggy Foote conducted 2014 February 16-17, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Viola Frey Oral History Project at Bill's office and home in San Francisco, California.

Dr. and Ms. Foote speak of their early days growing up and their introduction to art; their meeting in Stockton; the beginnings of the Lincoln Square Gallery; their introduction to Viola Frey; their increasing involvement as art dealers in the Bay Area in the '60s and '70s; Peggy Foote's time at the California College of Arts and Crafts; their collection of Viola Frey's work and other artists' work; their interactions with Charles Fiske and Viola Frey; Frey's early years in Lodi; Frey's love of collecting jewelry and small ceramic figurines; and Frey's work in relation to gender issues. They also discuss Frey and Fiske's health issues; Frey's time at CCAC; Frey's relationship with Fiske; Frey's work as it related to Robert Arneson and Peter Voulkos and other Bay Area artists; Peggy Foote's gallery Conway Antiques in the 70's and 80's; Bill Foote's remembrances at Frey's memorial. Mr. and Ms. Foote also recall Shirley Hanson, Rena Bransten, Squeak Carnwath, Gary Knecht, Leslie Wenger, Nancy Hoffman, Richard McDonald, Maryanne Schulz, the Wiebe twins, Robert Arneson, Vernon Coykendall, Noni Eccles Treadwell, Sam Perry, Jackie Maybeck, Gloria Champion, Jack Laycox, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Bill Foote (1937- ) and his wife Peggy (1935- ) are art collectors and retired art and antique dealers in San Francisco, California who collected Viola Frey's works of art. Mija Riedel (1958- ) is an independent scholar in San Francisco, California.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Occupation:

Antique dealers  Search this

Art dealers -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Feminism and art  Search this

Women art collectors  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Artists' Legacy Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.foote14

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw91dd75b8f-c2c8-4bd2-af4e-5c0e95429cbd

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-foote14

Interviewee:

Brady, Robert David, 1946-  Search this

Interviewer:

Riedel, Mija, 1958-  Search this

Subject:

Arneson, Robert  Search this

Buck, John  Search this

Butterfield, Deborah  Search this

Chihuly, Dale  Search this

Coykendall, Vernon  Search this

De Forest, Roy  Search this

Neri, Manuel  Search this

Notkin, Richard  Search this

Riegger, Hal  Search this

Rubins, Nancy  Search this

Wiley, William T.  Search this

California College of Arts and Crafts (San Francisco, Calif.)  Search this

California State University, Sacramento  Search this

Mills College  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

University of California, Davis  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

Guatemala -- description and travel

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Robert David Brady, 2008 March 10-12. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Sculptors -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews  Search this

Ceramics  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)13688

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)274949

AAA_collcode_brady08

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_274949

Interviewee:

Brady, Robert, 1946-  Search this

Interviewer:

Riedel, Mija, 1958-  Search this

Creator:

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Names:

California College of Arts and Crafts (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Students  Search this

California State University, Sacramento -- Faculty  Search this

Mills College -- Students  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

University of California, Davis -- Students  Search this

Arneson, Robert, 1930-1992  Search this

Buck, John, 1946-  Search this

Butterfield, Deborah, 1949-  Search this

Chihuly, Dale, 1941-  Search this

Coykendall, Vernon  Search this

De Forest, Roy, 1930-2007  Search this

Neri, Manuel, 1930-  Search this

Notkin, Richard  Search this

Riegger, Hal, 1921-  Search this

Rubins, Nancy, 1952-  Search this

Wiley, William T., 1937-2021  Search this

Extent:

4 Sound discs (Sound recording (6 hr., 47 min.), digital, 2 5/8 in.)

107 Pages (Transcipt)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound discs

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

Guatemala -- Description and Travel

Date:

2008 March 10-12

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Robert David Brady conducted 2008 March 10-12, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in Berkeley, California.

Brady speaks of growing up in Reno, Nevada and developing a fondness for the desert and mountain environment around him; his first discovery and fascination with clay during junior high; a deep interest in symbols and the abstraction of language and how he has incorporated that into his work; studying art at California College of Arts and Crafts; continuing on to Mills College for graduate school; being drafted into the war and having to postpone his attendance to Mills College; finishing a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of California, Davis; wanting to become a college professor; teaching at California State University in Sacramento; wanting to depart from dependency on the vessel; exploring with figurative objects; abandoning the vessel and adapting an interest in object making and mixed media; the influence of Mexico, in particular, the imagery of the Day of the Dead, on his work; firing techniques he learned in Mexico; the influence from Hal Riegger toward his education and development; specific works and the inspiration and process behind them; his departure from clay and experimenting with wood; various shows and his experiences working with different galleries and curators; his trip to Guatemala and the emergence of angels and other religious motif in his work; other traveling experiences and the influence each had on his work; his desire to return to clay and continue making pots; the craft community; the influence of Japanese pots; his personal beliefs toward academically trained and non-academically trained artists; and his opinion toward various art and craft magazines. Brady also recalls Vernon Coykendall, Robert Arneson, William Wiley, Manuel Neri, Debbie Butterfield, John Buck, Dick Notkin, Nancy Rubins, Roy de Forest, Hal Riegger, Dale Chihuly, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Robert David Brady (1946- ) is a sculptor of wood and ceramics and a teacher from Berkeley, California. Mija Riedel (1958- ) is a curator and writer from San Francisco, California.

General:

Originally recorded on 4 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 14 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hr., 47 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Topic:

Sculptors -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews  Search this

Ceramics  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.brady08

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw90c526f05-fa96-48c2-8ff5-b6ec5d70182a

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-brady08

Artist:

Ireland, David, 1930-2009  Search this

Names:

American Academy in Rome  Search this

Arts Club of Chicago  Search this

California College of Arts and Crafts (San Francisco, Calif.)  Search this

Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens  Search this

Gallery Paule Anglim  Search this

Helmhaus Zürich  Search this

Mattress Factory  Search this

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

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts  Search this

San Francisco Art Institute  Search this

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  Search this

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture  Search this

Stanford University  Search this

Walker Art Center  Search this

Washington State Arts Commission  Search this

Western Washington University  Search this

Coppola, Eleanor  Search this

Grobart, Jeffrey  Search this

Lee, Margie  Search this

Lienhard, Marie-Louise  Search this

Marion, Paul  Search this

Tingle, Alta  Search this

Extent:

24.8 Linear feet

8.39 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Video recordings

Sketches

Interviews

Prints

Sound recordings

Drawings

Photographs

Date:

circa 1910s-circa 2009

bulk 1960-2005

Summary:

The papers of California conceptual artist and sculptor David Ireland measure 24.8 linear feet and 8.39 GB and date from circa 1910s to circa 2009, with the bulk of the material dating from 1960 to 2005. The papers include biographical material, correspondence, notes and notebooks, installation projects and exhibition files, teaching files, travel files, personal business records, printed and digital material and commercial recordings, photographic materials, artwork, and video and sound recordings.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of California conceptual artist and sculptor David Ireland measure 24.8 linear feet and 8.39 GB and date from circa 1910s to circa 2009, with the bulk of the material dating from 1960 to 2005. The papers include biographical material, correspondence, notes and notebooks, installation projects and exhibition files, teaching files, travel files, personal business records, printed and digital material and commercial sound recordings, photographic materials, artwork, and video and sound recordings.

Biographical material includes awards and certificates, address books and appointment books, artist's statements, resumes, chronologies, student university materials, passports, and sound and video recordings of interviews with Ireland. Correspondence is with friends, peers, universities, galleries, and museums, including Jeffrey Grobart, Eleanor Coppola, Margie Lee, Marie-Louise Lienhard, Paul Marion, and Alta Tingle, among others. Notes and notebooks contain incoming phone messages, notes to self, regarding projects and ideas, as well as various other notes and plans.

Installation projects and exhibition files constitute the bulk of the collection and document David Ireland's extensive projects and exhibitions around the world. Files are found for his Capp Street house project and Pacific Enterprises project in San Francisco; Boott Mills project in Lowell, Massachusetts; IKEA Emeryville Public Art Project in Emeryville, California; and several Washington State Arts Commission and Western Washington University projects. Other exhibition and installation locations found within the files include the American Academy in Rome; Yerba Buena Arts Center in California; Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in Australia; Helmhaus in Zurich, Switzerland; Arts Club of Chicago; SFMOMA; New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, among many others. The files contain a wide variety of materials, including sound and video recordings in various formats.

Teaching files document David Ireland's many roles as visiting artist, artist-in-residence, instructor, and conference and symposium panelist at the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco Art Institute, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Stanford University Department of Art, among others. Travel files document Ireland's trips abroad, both independent of and as a result of installation and project obligations.

Personal business records are comprised of financial materials and documentation relating to Ireland's two early South African import and safari businesses as well grants and project proposals, various loan agreements, representation through Gallery Paule Anglim, property sales and tax documentation, inventory materials, and various other business materials. Also found within the collection are printed material and four commercial sound recordings. Photographs are of the artist, friends and family, Ireland's Oakland studio, and works of art. There is artwork by Ireland, including sketches, drawings, and prints, and a few pieces of artwork by other artists. In addition to sound and video recordings arranged in other series, there is one video recording and six sound cassettes that are either unidentified or have no additional context within the collection.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged as 11 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, circa 1950-circa 2009 (1.5 linear feet; Boxes 1-2)

Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1937-circa 2008 (4 linear feet; Boxes 2-6)

Series 3: Notes and Notebooks, circa 1965-circa 2008 (0.7 linear feet; Boxes 6-7)

Series 4: Installation Projects and Exhibition Files, circa 1960s-circa 2009 (11.6 linear feet; Boxes 7-18, OV26, OV27, 7.84 GB; ER01-ER15)

Series 5: Teaching Files, 1977-1998 (1.2 linear feet; Boxes 18-19)

Series 6: Travel Files, circa 1950s-circa 1994 (0.6 linear feet; Boxes 19-20)

Series 7: Personal Business Records, circa 1965-circa 2008 (1.1 linear feet; Boxes 20-21)

Series 8: Printed Material and Commercial Recordings, 1932-circa 2009 (2.3 linear feet; Boxes 21-23, 0.553 GB; ER16)

Series 9: Photographic Materials, circa 1910s-circa 2005 (1 linear foot; Boxes 23-24)

Series 10: Artwork, circa 1965-circa 2003 (0.2 linear feet; Box 24)

Series 11: Video and Sound Recordings, circa 1965-circa 1990s (0.4 linear feet; Box 25)

Biographical / Historical:

David Ireland (1930-2009) was a conceptual artist and sculptor who worked in San Francisco, California.

Ireland was born in Bellingham, Washington and attended Western Washington University. In 1953, he received a degree in industrial design and printmaking from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) in Oakland. He then served two years in the U. S. Army in Missouri, returning to live and work in Bellingham. For several years, Bellingham served as his launch point for extensive travels in Europe and Africa.

In the late 1950s, Ireland founded Hunter Africa, an artifacts import business. He moved the business to San Francisco in 1965 and also began a second business leading safaris in Africa. He married Bellingham native Joanne Westford and had two children, Ian Ireland and Shaughn Niland; they divorced in 1970.

Ireland attended the San Francisco Art Institute and received a graduate degree in 1974. There, he met other Bay Area artists involved in the conceptual movement there, including Tom Marioni, Paul Kos, Howard Fried, and Terry Fox.

Much of Ireland's artwork of the 1980s and 1990s centered on the transformation of his home at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco, where he dramatically physically and conceptually transformed the interior and exterior structure into a mix of architectural sculpture and environmental art piece. He bought a second home in 1979 to transform, and, in the 1980s, completed a renovation of the main building at the Headlands Center for Arts in Sausalito with artist Mark Thompson.

David Ireland's work has been presented in more than forty solo exhibitions at venues that included the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.; The Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. He created major public projects and private commissions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, D. C., and other cities. His work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California, and University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, among others.

Provenance:

The David Ireland papers were donated in 2010 by the David Ireland Estate through Jock Reynolds, Special Trustee, The David Ireland Revocable Trust.

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:

Sculptors -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Conceptual artists -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Topic:

Artists' studios -- Photographs  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Installations (Art)  Search this

Public art  Search this

Genre/Form:

Video recordings

Sketches

Interviews

Prints

Sound recordings

Drawings

Photographs

Citation:

David Ireland papers, circa 1910s-circa 2009, bulk 1960-2005. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by The David Ireland Revocable Trust.

Identifier:

AAA.ireldavi

See more items in:

David Ireland Papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw927567772-c71f-4f30-a427-adbd535e1009

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-ireldavi

Creator:

De Patta, Margaret, 1903-1964  Search this

Names:

California College of Arts and Crafts (San Francisco, Calif.)  Search this

California Labor School  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Nanny's Design Gallery  Search this

Oregon State System of Higher Education  Search this

San Francisco Metal Arts Guild  Search this

Barson, Fred  Search this

Bielawski, Eugene  Search this

Davis, Adelle  Search this

Designs Contemporary  Search this

Fleisher, Janet  Search this

Flory, Alice  Search this

McHendrie, Janet  Search this

Ries, Victor, 1907-  Search this

Untracht, Oppi  Search this

Extent:

2.7 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Sketchbooks

Designs

Drawings

Date:

circa 1930-2012

Summary:

The papers of California jewelry designer Margaret De Patta measure 2.7 linear feet and date from circa 1930 to 2012. The papers include correspondence, writings, teaching files, exhibition files, personal business records, printed material, artwork and sketchbooks, and photographs.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of California jewelry designer Margaret De Patta measure 2.7 linear feet and date from circa 1930 to 2012. The papers include correspondence, writings, teaching files, exhibition files, personal business records, printed material, artwork and sketchbooks, and photographs.

Personal and professional correspondence is with family, friends, artists, galleries, museums, and universities. Notable correspondents include Fred Barson, Adelle Davis, Janet Fleisher, Alice Flory, Janet McHendrie, Victor Ries, Oppi Untracht, and Nanny's Design Gallery.

Writings include essays, personal statements, and notes. There is also an outline for a book on design and an annotated calendar.

Teaching files consist of course materials, administrative records, meeting minutes, and limited correspondence from the California Labor School. There are also a few folders from the California College of Arts and Crafts and the Oregon State System of Higher Education.

Exhibition files include announcements, correspondence, inventories, price lists, loan forms, and other material for Margaret De Patta shows at museums and galleries.

Personal business records consist of financial, legal, and administrative records on Margaret De Patta's jewelry designs and sales, as well as material related to Designs Contemporary, the jewelry production business created and managed by De Patta and her husband Eugene Bielawski. There is also material on large gifts and loans to museums and universities, and files relating to the San Francisco Metal Arts Guild.

Printed materials are mostly clippings about Margaret De Patta and other subjects, along with a few magazines and periodicals, including the San Francisco Metal Arts Guild newsletters, 1952-1964.

There is one sketchbook and several folders of drawings, jewelry designs, and flatware designs.

The bulk of the photographs are of jewelry and other objects designed by Margaret De Patta. There are a few photographs of Margaret De Patta working on jewelry and other subjects, such as a trip to Japan and her house on Laidley Street in California.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged as 8 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Correspondence, 1946-2011 (0.4 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 2: Writings, circa 1935-1963 (0.1 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 3: Teaching Files, 1944-1969 (0.2 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 4: Exhibition Files, 1948-2012 (0.4 linear feet; Boxes 1-2)

Series 5: Personal Business Records, 1943-2001 (0.9 linear feet; Box 2)

Series 6: Printed Material, 1938-1981 (0.1 linear feet; Box 3)

Series 7: Artwork and Sketchbook, circa 1930-circa 1960 (0.2 linear feet; Box 3)

Series 8: Photographs, circa 1935-1967 (0.4 linear feet; Boxes 3-4, OV 5)

Biographical / Historical:

San Francisco contemporary jewelry designer Margaret De Patta, née Strong, was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1903 and raised in San Diego, California. She was among the first contemporary studio jewelers and a proponent of modernism. De Patta studied painting at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts from 1921-1923, the California School of Fine Arts from 1923-1925, and the New York Art Students League from 1926-1929.

Margaret De Patta began to create jewelry when she designed her own modernist wedding ring for her marriage to Sam De Patta in 1929. By the mid-1930s, she had become an accomplished jeweler whose work was frequently shown in galleries and museums. Her jewelry was featured in the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. Around 1939, De Patta also started collaborating with Francis Sperisen, a noted San Francisco lapidary. De Patta designed the shapes of the jewelry using Lucite and wood, and Sperisen would use her models as a reference for the actual gem cutting.

From 1940-1941, De Patta attended the Chicago Bauhaus (now the Institute of Design) where she studied under Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. De Patta's time at the school was formative and Moholy-Nagy was tremendously impressed with her work. She also met her future second husband Gene Bielawski while she was a student in Chicago.

In 1941, De Patta returned to San Francisco, divorced Sam De Patta, and renovated her Laidley Street house in Glen Park. In 1946, she married Eugene Bielawski. The couple taught at the California Labor School. They also moved to Napa and founded Designs Contemporary, a business for producing jewelry that was as high quality as De Patta's handcrafted pieces at more affordable prices. Since all aspects of the business were conducted by the two of them, the workload became overwhelming and Designs Contemporary closed in 1957.

In 1951, Margaret De Patta was a founding member of the San Francisco Metal Arts Guild, established to promote the metal arts and specifically address the unique needs of studio jewelers. During her lifetime, she befriended many artists and continued to create jewelry, teach, and lecture. De Patta committed suicide in 1964. Her innovative jewelry designs continue to be influential today.

Provenance:

The Margaret De Patta papers were donated in two installments in 2003 and 2015 by Martha Bielawski, the second wife of Margaret De Patta's second husband, Eugene Bielawski. These papers were collected as part of the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

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.

Rights:

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Occupation:

Jewelers -- California -- San Diego  Search this

Educators -- California -- San Diego  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women designers  Search this

Women educators  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Sketchbooks

Designs

Drawings

Citation:

Margaret De Patta papers, circa 1930-2012. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.depamarg

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Margaret De Patta papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw94fb09f4d-503c-448e-b346-616d80a939d3

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-depamarg

Creator:

Di Mare, Dominic, 1932-  Search this

Names:

California College of Arts and Crafts (San Francisco, Calif.)  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Palo Alto Arts Center  Search this

Susan Cummins Gallery  Search this

Extent:

3.2 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Scrapbooks

Photographs

Sketches

Drawings

Date:

1950-2003

Summary:

The papers of Dominic Di Mare measure 3.2 linear feet and date from 1950 to 2003. The collection provides an overview of Di Mare's career as a fiber artist through biographical information, correspondence, writings, printed material, artwork, and photographs.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of Dominic Di Mare measure 3.2 linear feet and date from 1950 to 2003. The collection provides an overview of Di Mare's career as a fiber artist through biographical information, correspondence, writings, printed material, artwork, and photographs. Of particular interest is the material concerning Di Mare's 1998 retrospective exhibition, including correspondence, a guest book, writings, publications, and photographs.

Biographical material includes award certificates from the American Craft Council and an extensive professional resumé. The correspondence series includes personal and professional correspondence as well as three folders of incoming and outgoing correspondence with the Susan Cummins Gallery, revealing the relationship that Di Mare had with the gallery during the 1990s. Writings include those by Di Mare and others. Of note are numerous artist statements and an illustrated journal from 1971. The printed material provides researchers with press clippings, exhibition catalogs, announcements, and published material on Di Mare, as well as other printed material on topics that Di Mare found of interest, including craft in education and the art of his colleagues. The artwork series includes many drawings, the highlight being a sketchbook of color drawings and diagrams spanning a thirty year period. The extensive collection of photographs include many portraits of Di Mare, photos of exhibitions, and numerous photos and slides of his artwork.

An unprocessed small addition of 0.4 linear feet consists of correspondence with colleagues, arts organizations, galleries, and museums regarding exhibitions and publications; photographs of De Mare at work and of works of art, including two flash drives containing images of works of art; exhibition catalogs and announcements; and one schematic drawing of an unidentified work by De Mare, 1990.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into six series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1987-2003 (box 1; 4 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1970-2002, undated (box 1; 7 folders)

Series 3: Writings, 1971-1977, undated (box 1; 7 folders)

Series 4: Printed Material, 1964-2003, undated (box 1-2; 1.5 linear feet)

Series 5: Artwork, 1950-1999, undated (box 3; 3 folders)

Series 6: Photographs, 1959-2001, undated (box 3-4; 0.7 linear feet)

Series 7: Unprocessed Addition, circa 1950-2003 (box 5; 0.4 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Fiber artist Dominic Di Mare was born in San Francisco, California, in 1932. He grew up working on his father's fishing boat and was artistically influenced by the process of making rope and fishing lines. After finishing high school, Di Mare attended the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and later received his art teaching certification at San Francisco State University. In 1960, Di Mare married Margaret Nef, bought his first loom, and began teaching at Francisco Junior High School. He and his wife had three children together, Marcello, Lorenzo, and Livia. A highly respected teacher, Di Mare taught at Francisco Junior High until 1976, when he left to work in his studio full-time.

A self taught fiber artist, Di Mare has explored, throughout his career, the imagery of the ocean and the shore. He works with fiber, wood, handmade paper, and small found objects to create unique sculptures. Since his first one person show at The Yarn Depot in 1963, Di Mare has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions and has been represented by the Anneberg Gallery and Braunstein Gallery in San Francisco, Florence Duhl Gallery in New York, and most recently the Susan Cummins Gallery in Mill Valley, California. In 1998 the Palo Alto Art Center curated "Dominic Di Mare: A Retrospective," which traveled throughout the country. In 1999 Di Mare received the American Crafts Council Gold Medal Award.

Related Material:

The Archives also has a transcribed interview of Dominic Di Mare, conducted June 4 and 10, 2002 by Signe Mayfield for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America. The interview was conducted in Di Mare's home in Tiburon, California.

Provenance:

Dominic Di Mare donated his papers in 2003 and 2013 to the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. research facility.

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:

Sculptors -- California  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching -- California  Search this

Fiber artists -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Scrapbooks

Photographs

Sketches

Drawings

Citation:

Dominic Di Mare papers, 1950-2003. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.dimadomi

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Dominic Di Mare papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw92d0482bd-639d-4f71-bb12-a72737279a91

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-dimadomi