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Creator:

Brown, Milton Wolf (Milton Wolf), 1911-1998  Search this

Names:

Armory Show 50th anniversary exhibition (1963 : New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Brooklyn College -- Faculty  Search this

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

City University of New York -- Faculty  Search this

Whitney Museum of American Art  Search this

Brown, Blanche  Search this

Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000  Search this

Lozowick, Louis, 1892-1973  Search this

Lynes, Russell, 1910-1991  Search this

Meltzoff, Stanley  Search this

Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968  Search this

Prendergast, Charles, 1863-1948  Search this

Prendergast, Maurice Brazil, 1858-1924  Search this

Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965  Search this

Extent:

26 Linear feet

0.225 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Travel diaries

Articles

Interviews

Essays

Drafts (documents)

Transcripts

Photographs

Notebooks

Lectures

Scripts (documents)

Date:

1908-1998

Summary:

The papers of art historian and educator Milton Wolf Brown date from 1908 to 1998 and measure 26.0 linear feet and 0.225 GB. The collection documents Brown's career through scattered biographical material, correspondence with friends, publishers, colleagues, artists, museums, and art organizations, travel journals, files for the Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project, exhibition, research, teaching, and organization files, printed and digital material, and scattered photographs. A large portion of this collection consists of writings by Brown including notebooks, draft writings for books and other publications, lectures, and his writings as a student.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of art historian and educator Milton Wolf Brown date from 1908 to 1998 and measure 25.8 linear feet and 0.225 GB. The collection documents Brown's career through scattered biographical material, correspondence with friends, publishers, colleagues, artists, museums, and art organizations, travel journals, files for the Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project, exhibition, research, teaching, and organization files, printed and digital material, and scattered photographs. A large portion of this collection consists of writings by Brown including notebooks, draft writings for books and other publications, lectures, and his writings as a student.

Biographical material includes academic records, travel documents, financial documents, Brown's military records, and a transcript of a 1997 interview. Correspondence is with students, museums, universities, publishers, art organizations, and others. The bulk of these letters document Brown's professional activities, but also found are scattered letters from friends, artists, and colleagues such as Russell Lynes, Stanley Meltzoff, Louis Lozowick, Erwin Panofsky, and Paul Sachs.

This collection also contains 33 detailed travel journals written primarily by Milton Brown's wife, Blanche, documenting their travels in Europe, the United States, and other parts of the world. Within the writings series are notebooks from the period that Brown was a student and while traveling in Europe in 1959 and 1960; book project files, which include draft writings as well as related correspondence, research material, notes, photographs and other material. Files are found for American Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts, Photography (1979), American Painting, From the Armory Show to the Depression (1955), The Story of the Armory Show (1963, 1988 2nd ed.), and other books. Among the writings are files for lectures written by Brown; essays, articles, and scripts written for various publications; general research notes and student writings; and writings by others sent to Brown for review and feedback.

Brown maintained a set of files documenting his work on the Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project, which consist of correspondence, drafts, reports, and research materials, including notes on twenty meetings with Mrs. Prendergast. Exhibition files document Brown's work as curator on several major exhibitions, including a Jacob Lawrence exhibition at the Whitney Museum, and his contributions to others. Also found here are three interviews of Milton Brown and Marcel Duchamp concerning the 50th Anniversary of the Armory Show and anniversary exhibition. Research files include notes, research material, and printed material on various art-related subjects that were maintained by Milton and Blanche Brown for regular use for lectures, teaching, and writing projects. Brown's teaching files contain scattered lecture notes, syllabi, correspondence, faculty records, and other materials from his time at CUNY, Brooklyn College, and other visiting professorships. Organization Files contain correspondence, reports, planning documents, and event materials. These records document his membership or advisory role in various organizations such as the Archives of American Art and Century Association.

This collection also contains printed material, such as exhibition announcements, newsletters, brochures, journals, event programs, and magazine and newspapers clippings compiled by Brown. Scattered photographs include nine photographs of Milton Brown, a few photographs of friends, and photographs of artwork.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 11 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, circa 1932-1998 (Box 1; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1908, 1934-1998 (Boxes 1-3; 1.8 linear feet)

Series 3: Travel Journals, 1941-1996 (Boxes 3-4; 1.6 linear feet)

Series 4: Writings, circa 1929-1990s (Boxes 4-13, 25; 8.7 linear feet)

Series 5: Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project, circa 1952-1990 (Boxes 13-14, 25; 1.8 linear feet)

Series 6: Exhibition Files, 1962-circa 1997 (Boxes 14-16, 28; 2.0 linear feet, ER01; 0.225 GB)

Series 7: Research Files, circa 1930s-1986 (Boxes 16-19; 3.0 linear feet)

Series 8: Teaching Files, circa 1946-1993 (Boxes 19-21; 2.0 linear feet)

Series 9: Organization Files, 1959-1995 (Boxes 21-22; 1.3 linear feet)

Series 10: Printed Material, 1925-1990s (Boxes 22-24, 26, 27; 3.2 linear feet)

Series 11: Photographs, circa 1956-1990s (Boxes 25, 27; 0.2 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Milton Wolf Brown (1911-1998) was an art historian and educator in New York City.

Known to his friends as "Mainey," Brown was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1911. At a young age he intended to be a painter and studied with Louis Lozowick. However, instead of attending art school, he entered New York University to study education and eventually received his master's and doctorate in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts. While there he took courses with Walter Friedlander, Erwin Panofsky, and Mayer Schapiro. He also received fellowships to the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1934 and Brussels in 1937, and studied from 1938-1939 at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. In 1938 he married fellow student Blanche Levine. After serving in World War II, he began teaching in the art department at Brooklyn College in 1946. There he developed a specialization in American art history and his doctoral dissertation, American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression, was published in 1955. In 1963 he participated in the fiftieth anniversary exhibition of the 1913 Armory Show. The publication of his book Story of the Armory Show coincided with this event.

In 1971 Brown established the graduate program in Art History at the City University of New York, which became preeminent in the areas of modern art and American art history. During the 1980s he remained a resident professor at CUNY, though he retired in 1979, and he held visiting professorships at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. From 1983 to 1987 he had a senior fellowship at Williams College for the Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project.

Over the course of his career Brown curated exhibitions, including an exhibition on the works of Jacob Lawrence and The Modern Spirit: American Painting and Photography, 1908-1935, and wrote for numerous publications. He also served as an active member of several professional societies. Brown was close friends with art scholars and artists, such as Jack Levine, Moses and Raphael Soyer, Ad Reinhardt, and Paul Strand. In 1991 he returned to painting landscape watercolors, and had the opportunity to exhibit his work before his death in 1998.

Related Material:

Also at the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Milton Wolf Brown, conducted in 1976 by Paul Cummings.

Provenance:

The Milton Wolf Brown papers were donated in 2000 and 2001 by Blanche R. Brown, Brown's widow. Three reel-to reel sound recordings were lent for duplication to cassette and transcript in 1986 by Milton Brown. A cassette copy of the Martha Deane interview was donated in 2006 by Milton Brown's estate, via Naomi Rosenblum. Additional material was donated in 2002 and 2004 by Naomi Rosenblum, executor for the estate of Blanche R. Brown, who died in 2002.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment.

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:

Art museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

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

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

Topic:

Art, American History Sources  Search this

Genre/Form:

Travel diaries

Articles

Interviews

Essays

Drafts (documents)

Transcripts

Photographs

Notebooks

Lectures

Scripts (documents)

Citation:

Milton Wolf Brown papers, 1908-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Identifier:

AAA.browmilt

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c2f1a099-bc53-4b03-a5fd-61e0feca9db8

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-browmilt

Author:

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Millet, Josiah B  Search this

Millet, Josiah B. 1853-1938  Search this

Weir, Julian Alden 1852-1919  Search this

Subject:

Weir, Julian Alden 1852-1919  Search this

Physical description:

x, 140, [1] p. front., plates, ports. 29 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1921

Call number:

ND237.W4 C4

927.W4 C3

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_669052

Creator:

Clarke, Thomas B. (Thomas Benedict), 1848-1931  Search this

Subject:

Inness, George  Search this

Vereshchagin, Vasili Vasilevich  Search this

Smyth, Frederick  Search this

Barye, Antoine-Louis  Search this

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Lambs (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)  Search this

National Academy of Design (U.S.)  Search this

Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France)  Search this

Union League Club (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Lincoln Club (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Merchants Club (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Citation:

Thomas Benedict Clarke scrapbooks, 1880-1936, bulk 1883-1920. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Theme:

Patronage  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7030

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209163

AAA_collcode_clarthom

Theme:

Patronage

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209163

Creator:

McEntee, Jervis, 1828-1891  Search this

Subject:

Donoho, J. R., Mrs  Search this

Derrenbacher, John  Search this

DeForest, H. G.  Search this

Johnson, Eastman  Search this

Cropsey, Jasper Francis  Search this

Hicks, Thomas  Search this

Hart, William McDougal  Search this

Gray, Henry Peters  Search this

Gifford, Sanford Robinson  Search this

Casilear, John William  Search this

Butler, Benjamin F.  Search this

Boughton, George Henry  Search this

Vaux, Calvert  Search this

Booth, Edwin  Search this

Church, Isabel  Search this

Church, Frederic Edwin  Search this

Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell)  Search this

Palmer, Erastus Dow  Search this

Meeks, Louisa B.  Search this

McEntee, James S.  Search this

Shumway, Henry Colton  Search this

Stoddard, Richard Henry  Search this

Sawyer, C. M.  Search this

Husted, James W.  Search this

Inness, George  Search this

Hubbard, Richard William  Search this

Huntington, Daniel  Search this

Kensett, John Frederick  Search this

Lang, Louis  Search this

Jourmans, E. L., Mrs  Search this

Wickes, E. T.  Search this

Whittredge, Worthington  Search this

Zarnnhus, E. L.  Search this

Youmans, Kate  Search this

Stribling, C. K.  Search this

Stone, William O. (William Oliver)  Search this

Thompson, Launt  Search this

Sykes, Charles W.  Search this

Von Glumer, Francisca  Search this

Weir, John F. (John Ferguson)  Search this

Ward, John Quincy Adams  Search this

Baker, George Augustus  Search this

Anthony, A. V. S. (Andrew Varick Stout)  Search this

Boardman, Andrew  Search this

Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney)  Search this

National Academy of Design (U.S.)  Search this

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Type:

Diaries

Sketches

Place:

Lake George (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works

Lake Champlain (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works

Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)

Citation:

Jervis McEntee papers, 1796, 1848-1905. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

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

Landscape painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Hudson River school of landscape painting  Search this

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

Art, Modern -- 19th century -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Artists' studios  Search this

Bull Run (Va.), 1st Battle, 1861  Search this

Theme:

Diaries  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7251

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209401

AAA_collcode_mcenjerv

Theme:

Diaries

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209401

Creator:

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Citation:

Century Association records, 1829-1958. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Theme:

Art organizations  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7362

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209517

AAA_collcode_centasso

Theme:

Art organizations

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209517

Creator:

Cummings, Thomas Seir, 1804-1894  Search this

Subject:

Bierstadt, Albert  Search this

Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby)  Search this

Durand, Asher Brown  Search this

Durand, John  Search this

Edmonds, Francis William  Search this

Elliott, Charles Loring  Search this

Inman, Jane  Search this

Inman, Henry  Search this

Huntington, Daniel  Search this

Gignoux, Régis François  Search this

Lang, Louis  Search this

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese  Search this

Perry, E. W. (Enoch Wood)  Search this

Sully, Thomas  Search this

National Academy of Design (U.S.)  Search this

Citation:

Thomas Seir Cummings correspondence and printed material [microfilm], 1826-1893. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7565

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209725

AAA_collcode_cummthom

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209725

Creator:

Ivins, William Mills, 1881-1961  Search this

Subject:

Lay, Charles Downing  Search this

Ivins, William Mills  Search this

Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph)  Search this

Ruzicka, Rudolph  Search this

Rogers, Bruce  Search this

Webster, Herman A. (Herman Armour)  Search this

Sizer, Theodore  Search this

Simonson, Lee  Search this

Sarton, George  Search this

Winter, Carl  Search this

Wind, Edgar  Search this

Käsebier, Gertrude  Search this

Ames, Winslow  Search this

Arensberg, Walter  Search this

Arms, John Taylor  Search this

Berenson, Bernard  Search this

Ivins, Emma Yard  Search this

Ivins, Barbara  Search this

Ivins, Katherine  Search this

Ivins, Florence Wyman  Search this

Greene, Belle da Costa  Search this

Friedländer, Max J.  Search this

Holmes, Margaret Ivins  Search this

Constable, W. G. (William George)  Search this

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir  Search this

Frankfurter, Felix  Search this

Dodgson, Campbell  Search this

Burroughs, Bryson  Search this

Boas, George  Search this

Carrington, Fitz Roy  Search this

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

Pierpont Morgan Library  Search this

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Grolier Club  Search this

Citation:

William Mills Ivins papers, 1878-1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Illustrators  Search this

Aesthetics  Search this

Art museums  Search this

Book collectors and collecting  Search this

Museum directors  Search this

Perspective  Search this

Designers  Search this

Museums -- Acquisitions  Search this

Prints -- History  Search this

Etching -- History  Search this

Engraving -- History  Search this

Medicine and art -- History  Search this

Illustrated books -- History  Search this

Museum curators  Search this

Theme:

Research and writing about art  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8805

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210990

AAA_collcode_ivinwill

Theme:

Research and writing about art

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210990

Creator:

Bolton, Theodore, 1889-  Search this

Subject:

Brown, Henry Kirke  Search this

Durand, Asher Brown  Search this

Gray, Henry Peters  Search this

Rogers, Bruce  Search this

Tolman, Ruel P. (Ruel Pardee)  Search this

Oakley, Thornton  Search this

Citation:

Theodore Bolton papers, 1917-1958. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art -- Pennsylvania  Search this

Illustration of books  Search this

Portrait painting -- United States  Search this

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9021

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211210

AAA_collcode_bolttheo

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211210

Creator:

Nichols, Hobart, 1869-1962  Search this

Subject:

Huntington, Archer M.  Search this

Root, Elihu  Search this

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

National Academy of Design (U.S.)  Search this

Citation:

Hobart Nichols papers, [ca. 1895]-1958. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

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

Landscape painting -- 20th century -- New York (State)  Search this

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9086

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211279

AAA_collcode_nichhoba

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211279

Creator:

Cox, Allyn, 1896-1982  Search this

Subject:

Bishop, Warner  Search this

Bayley, John Barrington  Search this

Conrad, Arthur  Search this

Cassio, Fabrizio  Search this

Cox, Louise Howland King  Search this

Cox, Kenyon  Search this

Frost, Stuart  Search this

DeWitt, Roscoe  Search this

Shutze, Philip Trammell  Search this

Schwengel, Fred  Search this

Lay, Charles Downing  Search this

Laning, Edward  Search this

Harbeson, John F. (John Frederick)  Search this

Keller, Deane  Search this

Keally, Francis  Search this

Lamb, Adrian  Search this

Young, Clifford  Search this

MacDonald, Pirie  Search this

Cox, Ethel  Search this

National Society of Mural Painters (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Park Club of Kalamazoo  Search this

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

United States Capitol Historical Society  Search this

American Battle Monuments Commission  Search this

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

Art Commission of the City of New York  Search this

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Cosmos Club (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Dumbarton Oaks  Search this

George Washington Masonic National Memorial (Alexandria, Va.)  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Diaries

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Citation:

Allyn Cox papers, 1856-1982. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

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

Muralists -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

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

Theme:

Diaries  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9398

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211595

AAA_collcode_coxally

Theme:

Diaries

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211595

Creator:

Simon, Sidney, 1917-1997  Search this

Subject:

Meredith, Burgess  Search this

Gonzalez, Xavier  Search this

King, William  Search this

Nevelson, Louise  Search this

Motherwell, Robert  Search this

Hélion, Jacqueline  Search this

Gotfryd, Bernard  Search this

Kelly, Ellsworth  Search this

Jencks, Penelope  Search this

Watson, Forbes  Search this

Pousette-Dart, Richard  Search this

Emmerich, André  Search this

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers  Search this

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Budd (Firm : New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Graham Gallery  Search this

Colby College  Search this

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture  Search this

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Transcripts

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Interviews

Illustrated letters

Diaries

Citation:

Sidney Simon papers, circa 1917-2008, bulk 1940-1997. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war  Search this

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

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

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9407

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211604

AAA_collcode_simosidn

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211604

Creator:

Oakley, Thornton, 1881-1953  Search this

Subject:

Morrow, George  Search this

Pennell, Joseph  Search this

Robinson, Alexander  Search this

Arms, John Taylor  Search this

Beaux, Cecilia  Search this

Brinton, Christian  Search this

Este, Florence  Search this

Hamilton, John McLure  Search this

Harkrider, John  Search this

Mechlin, Leila  Search this

Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)  Search this

Philadelphia Art Alliance  Search this

Artists' War Relief Committee of Philadelphia  Search this

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Council of Art Organizations of Philadelphia  Search this

Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, inc.  Search this

Philadelphia Water Color Club  Search this

Citation:

Thornton Oakley papers, 1906-1953. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Expatriate painters -- France  Search this

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10279

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213434

AAA_collcode_oaklthor

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_213434

Creator:

Brown, Milton Wolf, 1911-1998  Search this

Subject:

Panofsky, Erwin  Search this

Meltzoff, Stanley  Search this

Lynes, Russell  Search this

Lozowick, Louis  Search this

Lawrence, Jacob  Search this

Brown, Blanche  Search this

Prendergast, Charles  Search this

Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph)  Search this

Prendergast, Maurice Brazil  Search this

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Armory Show 50th anniversary exhibition (1963 : New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Brooklyn College  Search this

Archives of American Art  Search this

Whitney Museum of American Art  Search this

City University of New York  Search this

Type:

Travel diaries

Articles

Interviews

Essays

Drafts (documents)

Transcripts

Photographs

Notebooks

Lectures

Scripts (documents)

Citation:

Milton Wolf Brown papers, 1908-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art, American History Sources  Search this

Theme:

Diaries  Search this

Research and writing about art  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)6321

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)225216

AAA_collcode_browmilt

Theme:

Diaries

Research and writing about art

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_225216

Creator:

White, Robert W. (Robert Winthrop), 1921-2002  Search this

Subject:

White, Bessie Chanler  Search this

Matthiessen, Peter  Search this

Huntington, Willard R.  Search this

Pope, Laura Spencer  Search this

Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon)  Search this

Simon, Sidney  Search this

White, Lawrence Grant  Search this

Oxman, Katja  Search this

Oxman, Mark  Search this

Lowe, David  Search this

O'Cain, Walker  Search this

Hobbs, Susan  Search this

Harrison, Jim  Search this

Kean, Rebekah Harkness  Search this

Ames, Amyas  Search this

Lamb, Ward  Search this

Platt, Frank C. (Frank Cheney)  Search this

Resika, Ellen  Search this

Lessard, Suzannah  Search this

White, Claire Nicolas  Search this

La Farge, Bancel  Search this

Cremer, Theodore  Search this

Fosburgh, Hugh  Search this

Hancock, Walker Kirtland  Search this

Fleischmann, Patricia  Search this

Resika, Paul  Search this

Russotto, Paul  Search this

Styron, William  Search this

Franklin, Gilbert  Search this

Parsons School of Design  Search this

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture  Search this

Graham Modern (Gallery)  Search this

American Battle Monuments Commission  Search this

Graham Gallery  Search this

United States. Coast Guard  Search this

State University of New York at Stony Brook  Search this

Parsons School of Design  Search this

Suffolk Museum  Search this

Heckscher Museum  Search this

National Academy of Design (U.S.)  Search this

Steuben Glass (Firm)  Search this

American Academy in Rome  Search this

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Peabody Museum  Search this

Davis Galleries  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Diaries

Drawings

Essays

Sound recordings

Sketchbooks

Lectures

Notebooks

Sketches

Citation:

Robert W. White papers, 1889-2003, bulk 1915-2003. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

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

Sculptors -- New York (State)  Search this

Sculpture -- Study and teaching  Search this

Artists' studios -- Photographs  Search this

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

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

Theme:

Sketches & Sketchbooks  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)11144

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)246988

AAA_collcode_whiterobe

Theme:

Sketches & Sketchbooks

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_246988

Creator:

Simon, Sidney, 1917-1997  Search this

Names:

Budd (Firm : New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Colby College  Search this

Graham Gallery  Search this

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts  Search this

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture -- Faculty  Search this

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers  Search this

Emmerich, André  Search this

Gonzalez, Xavier, 1898-1993  Search this

Gotfryd, Bernard  Search this

Hélion, Jacqueline  Search this

Jencks, Penelope  Search this

Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923- -- Photographs  Search this

King, William, 1925-2015  Search this

Meredith, Burgess, 1907-1997  Search this

Motherwell, Robert -- Photographs  Search this

Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988 -- Photographs  Search this

Pousette-Dart, Richard, 1916-1992  Search this

Watson, Forbes, 1880-1960  Search this

Extent:

23.7 Linear feet

2.21 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Sound recordings

Transcripts

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Interviews

Illustrated letters

Diaries

Date:

circa 1917-2008

bulk 1940-1997

Summary:

The papers of sculptor, painter, and educator Sidney Simon measure 23.7 linear feet and 2.21 GB and date from circa 1917-2002, with the bulk of the papers dating from 1940-1997. The collection documents Simon's career through biographical material, correspondence, writings and notes, subject files, sketches, sketchbooks, printed and digital material, and photographs.

There is a 15.7 linear foot unprocessed addition to this collection donated in 2022 that includes exhibition files; commission files; project files; ledgers; photograph albums, slides, transparencies and glass plate negatives of works of art and installations and photographs of Simon, family and others; inventories of works of art; files relating to World War II including personal and professional photographs, blank postcards, sketches, printed material, and personnel information; unidentified CDs and a cassette with a letter from mother; journals with sketches and notes; biographical information including certificates and awards; printed material including catalogs and announcements and articles about Simon; appraisals; correspondence including posthumous letters of condolence; sketchbooks and drawings, including oversized student drawings and drawings for commissions and competitions; interviews with Simon on Hi8 tapes, mini DV; a scrapbook; and a zinc metal plate. Materials date from circa 1940-1997 and 2008.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of sculptor, painter, and educator Sidney Simon measure 23.7 linear feet and 2.21 GB and date from circa 1917-2002, with the bulk of the papers dating from 1940-1997. The collection documents Simon's career through biographical material, correspondence, writings and notes, subject files, sketches, sketchbooks, printed and digital material, and photographs.

Biographical material chronicles Simon's academic training and professional activities through curriculum vitae, biographical accounts, and awards. Included are letters and memoranda, many from Forbes Watson pertaining to Simon's service as a combat artist in World War II. Also found is a transcript of an interview with Simon recounting his experiences in the Southwest Pacific. Simon's personal correspondence with colleagues, friends, and family includes scattered letters from Jacqueline Helion, Penelope Jencks, William King, Burgess Meredith, among others. Many letters are illustrated by Sidney Simon and others. General correspondence includes letters from artists, galleries, museums, public and religious institutions primarily relating to Simon's exhibitions and commissioned projects. Among the correspondents are Castle Hill, Truro Center for the Arts, Colby College, André Emmerich, Eric Makler Gallery, Xavier Gonzalez, Graham Gallery, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Interspersed among the files are letters of a personal nature. Other correspondence relates to Simon's faculty positions and his activities in professional organizations, e.g., Century Association, National Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Writings and notes include Simon's 1943 diary entries recording his activities in the Army Corps of Engineers, draft versions of writings and lectures, and notes. Included are digital audio recordings of Simon's lectures at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Subject files provide documentation on Simon's commissioned projects, select exhibitions and competitions, as well as his faculty positions and memberships in several arts organizations. Printed material consists of clippings, invitations, announcements, newsletters, and programs. Exhibition catalogs are of Simon's solo and group shows at galleries, museums, and art organizations from 1959-1966. Photographs are of Simon by Budd Brothers, Richard Pousette-Dart, and Bernard Gotfryd. There are a number of photographs of the artist in his studio and outdoors as well as of Simon's family and friends, including group photographs with Ellsworth Kelly, André Emmerich, Robert Motherwell, and Louise Nevelson. Also found are three personal and family albums and twenty-one photograph albums of Simon's paintings and sculptures.

There is a 15.7 linear foot unprocessed addition to this collection donated in 2022 that includes exhibition files; commission files; project files; ledgers; photograph albums, slides, transparencies and glass plate negatives of works of art and installations and photographs of Simon, family and others; inventories of works of art; files relating to World War II including personal and professional photographs, blank postcards, sketches, printed material, and personnel information; unidentified CDs and a cassette with a letter from mother; journals with sketches and notes; biographical information including certificates and awards; printed material including catalogs and announcements and articles about Simon; appraisals; correspondence including posthumous letters of condolence; sketchbooks and drawings, including oversized student drawings and for commissions and competitions; interviews with Simon on Hi8 tapes, mini DV; a scrapbook; and a zinc metal plate. Materials date from circa 1940-1997 and 2008.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 10 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1940-1998 (Boxes 1, 9; 0.7 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1936-2002 (Boxes 1-2; 1.2 linear feet)

Series 3: Writings and Notes, 1943, circa 1960-1997 (Box 2; 0.4 linear feet, ER01-ER03; 2.21 GB)

Series 4: Subject Files, 1940-1941, 1951-1997 (Boxes 2-4, 9; 1.8 linear feet)

Series 5: Sketches, 1937-1942 (Box 4; 1 folder)

Series 6: Sketchbooks, 1939-1995 (Boxes 4-5, 9; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 7: Printed Material, circa 1933, 1942-1998 (Box 5; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 8: Scrapbooks, 1978-1995 (Box 5; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 9: Photographs, circa 1917-1997 (Boxes 5-10; 3.0 linear feet)

Series 10: Unprocessed Addition, circa 1940-1997, 2008 (Boxes 11-27, OV 28-43; 15.7 linear feet)

Biographical / Historical:

Sidney Simon (1917-1997) was a sculptor, painter, and educator who worked primarily in New York City and Truro, Massachusetts. Simon was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the age of 14, he won a place as a special student at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1934 and from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1936. Simon also studied at the Barnes Foundation from 1937-1940. Simon received professional recognition early in his career; he was awarded the Prix de Rome Collaborative Prize in 1939 and the Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship in mural painting in 1945.

In 1941, Simon enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the Army Corps of Engineers. Assigned to MacArthur's headquarters as an official war artist for the Southwest Pacific Theater, Simon was chosen to paint the signing of the peace treaty between the U.S. and Japan aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. He was discharged from the army with a Bronze Star and five presidential citations. In 1945, along with Bill Cummings and Henry Varnum Poor, Simon co-founded the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, where he later served as a director and a member of the Board of Governors. By the mid-1950s, Simon's interest shifted from painting to sculpture, creating works in wood, clay, and other media. Over the years, Simon collaborated with architects on a number of public and private commissions, including the doorway for the Downstate Medical Center, the Jewish Chapel at West Point, a playground sculpture for Prospect Park, and the totemic column for the Temple Beth Abraham. In addition to serving on the faculty at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Simon also taught at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum, and Parsons School of Design. An active champion of artists' rights, Simon established the New York Artists Equity Association. He participated in solo and group shows at the Graham Gallery, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Sculptors Guild, among other venues.

In 1997, Sidney Simon died at the age of 80 in Truro, Massachusetts. Simon was divorced from Joan Crowell in 1964. He is survived by his wife, Renee Adriance Simon and five children from his first and second marriages.

Related Materials:

The Archives has two oral history interviews with Sidney Simon conducted by Paul Cummings in October 17-November 8, 1973 and the Karl E. Fortress taped interviews with artists, [1963-1985].

Separated Materials:

The Archives of American Art also holds materials lent for microfilming (reel D210) including biographical material, correspondence, sketchbooks, scrapbooks, and photographs of Sidney Simon. Lent materials were returned to the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:

Sidney Simon lent the Archives of American Art material for microfilming in 1965. Rene Simon, Simon's widow, donated the Sidney Simon papers in 2009. Additional material donated in 2022 by the Renee A. Simon Revocable Trust via trustees Barbara Sussman, Alexa Elam and Susanne Howard.

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.

Researchers interested in accessing audiovisual recordings and born-digital records in this collection must use access copies. Contact References 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:

War artists  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war  Search this

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

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

Function:

Artists' studios -- New York (State)

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Transcripts

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Interviews

Illustrated letters

Diaries

Citation:

Sidney Simon papers, circa 1917-2002, bulk 1940-1997. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.simosidn

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Sidney Simon papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw973588e01-af09-4ddf-ae4c-721c446d46c3

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-simosidn

Creator:

Cox, Allyn, 1896-1982  Search this

Names:

American Battle Monuments Commission  Search this

Art Commission of the City of New York  Search this

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

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Cosmos Club (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Dumbarton Oaks  Search this

George Washington Masonic National Memorial (Alexandria, Va.)  Search this

National Society of Mural Painters (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Park Club of Kalamazoo  Search this

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

United States Capitol Historical Society  Search this

Bayley, John Barrington, 1914-1981  Search this

Bishop, Warner  Search this

Cassio, Fabrizio  Search this

Conrad, Arthur  Search this

Cox, Ethel  Search this

Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919  Search this

Cox, Louise Howland King, 1865-1945  Search this

DeWitt, Roscoe, 1894-1975  Search this

Frost, Stuart  Search this

Harbeson, John F. (John Frederick), 1888-1986  Search this

Keally, Francis, 1889-1978  Search this

Keller, Deane, 1901-1992  Search this

Lamb, Adrian  Search this

Laning, Edward, 1906-1981  Search this

Lay, Charles Downing, 1877-1956  Search this

MacDonald, Pirie, 1867-1942  Search this

Schwengel, Fred, 1907-1993  Search this

Shutze, Philip Trammell  Search this

Young, Clifford, 1905-  Search this

Extent:

11 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Interviews

Diaries

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Date:

1856-1982

Summary:

The papers of New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C. painter and muralist Allyn Cox measure 11 linear feet and date from 1856-1982. The collection documents Cox's personal and professional life through biographical material, family and general correspondence, writings and notes, research material, printed material, sketchbooks and loose sketches, and photographs. Photographs are of Cox at work, the Cox family, including Kenyon and Louise Cox, Cox's friends and colleagues, events, and Cox's artwork.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C. painter and muralist Allyn Cox measure 11 linear feet and date from 1856-1982. The collection documents Cox's personal and professional life through biographical material, family and general correspondence, writings and notes, research material, printed material, sketchbooks and loose sketches, and photographs. Photographs are of Cox at work, the Cox family, including Kenyon and Louise Cox, Cox's friends and colleagues, events, and Cox's artwork.

Biographical material includes family birth, death, and marriage certificates, and passports for Cox and his wife Ethel, whom he married in 1927; professional membership cards, awards and certificates; records related to sales of furnishings from the Cox family home in Essex, Massachusetts; and an untranscribed interview of Cox by Tony Janak of NBC TV.

Cox's family correspondence is primarily with his mother, Louise Cox. Also found is correspondence with Cox's sister, Caroline Cox Lansing, and his brother Leonard Cox and Leonard's wife, Sylvia, and letters from Ethel Cox to her mother. Additional correspondence relating to the disposition of Kenyon Cox''s artwork and archives to various institutions, can also be found here.

General correspondence documents Cox's career and professional relationships with artists and architects, including John Barrington Bayley, Fabrizio Cassio, Arthur Conrad, Roscoe DeWitt, Stuart Frost, John Harbeson, Francis Keally, Adrian Lamb, Edward Laning, Charles Downing Lay, Deane Keller, Philip Trammell Shutze, and Cliff Young; art institutions and organizations including the Art Commission of the City of New York, the Art Students League, Dumbarton Oaks, the National Society of Mural Painters, and the Smithsonian Institution; federal, state and local government agencies including the American Battle Monuments Commission, the Architect of the Capitol, and the General Grant National Memorial; members of Congress including founder of the United States Capitol Historical Society, Representative Fred Schwengel; and private social clubs in which Cox was active, including the Century Association, the Cosmopolitan Club and the Cosmos Club. Correspondence documents Cox's most well known commissions including work for the George Washington Masonic National Memorial and the United States Capitol, as well as work for many private clients including banks and residences.

Also found are typescripts, manuscripts and notes for Cox's lectures, as well as Ethel Cox's diary from 1923-1936 and her diary excerpt from 1955. Ten folders of research files, consisting primarily of clippings, comprise Cox's source material. Additional printed material provides scattered documentation of Cox's career through announcements and catalogs, and magazine and newspaper articles written by him or about his work. Also found is one folder of clippings about Kenyon Cox.

Four sketchbooks and circa twenty-two loose animal, figure, architectural and landscape sketches comprise Cox's artwork, in addition to two 1943 sketches Cox entered into a War Department mural competition. Also found is an 1873 sketchbook of Kenyon Cox, with sketches of people and scenes in Ohio.

Photographs are of Cox from childhood to the 1980s; his family, including parents, siblings, and grandparents; friends including Philip Trammell Shutze and Warner Bishop; family residences; artist models; events; and artwork, including many of Cox's commissions. In addition to photographic prints, slides, and negatives, the series includes vintage formats such as an ambrotype, 8 tintypes, 2 cyanotypes, and a platinum print. Of particular note are circa 16 photos of Kenyon Cox, one taken by Pirie MacDonald and three of him teaching a class at the Art Students League, and a series of circa 1906 photos taken in a garden, of Louise and Kenyon Cox with their children and others. Also found are 10 glass plate negatives of artwork by Cox.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 7 series. Glass plate negatives are housed separately and are closed to researchers.

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1916-1982 (0.33 linear feet; Boxes 1, 12)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1878-1982 (6.74 linear feet; Boxes 1-7, 12)

Series 3: Writings and Notes, 1919-1982 (0.58 linear feet; Boxes 7-8)

Series 4: Research Files, circa 1950s-circa 1970s (0.25 linear feet; Box 8)

Series 5: Printed Material, 1920s-1982 (0.5 linear feet; Boxes 8-9)

Series 6: Sketchbooks and Sketches, 1873-circa 1978 (0.25 linear feet; Box 9, OVs 13-14)

Series 7: Photographs, 1856-circa 1980 (2.25 linear feet; Boxes 9-12, OV 13)

Biographical / Historical:

New York, N.Y. and Washington, D.C. painter and muralist, Allyn Cox (1896-1982), was born in New York City to artists Kenyon and Louise Cox. Cox first trained as his father's assistant, serving as an apprentice to Kenyon Cox during the painting of the murals at the Wisconsin State Capitol, circa 1912. He attended the National Academy of Design from 1910-1915, and the Art Student's League with George Bridgman in 1915. In 1916 he was awarded the Prix de Rome and subsequently studied at the American Academy in Rome for 2 years before returning to New York City to begin a career in mural painting.

Cox completed numerous murals and decorative paintings for private residences, businesses, churches, and public buildings. Some of his most famous commissions included murals for the Royal Arch Room and Memorial Hall of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia; the Law School at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and the William A. Clark Memorial Library at the University of California, Los Angeles; panels for the National City Bank, the Continental Bank, and the Guaranty Trust Company in New York; and glass mosaics and inlaid stone maps for the United States Military Cemetery in Hamm, Luxembourg.

Cox is best known for his work in the United States Capitol, beginning in 1952 when he undertook a congressional commission to restore and complete the murals in in the Capitol rotunda begun by Constantino Brumidi and Filipo Costaggini in 1878. Over the course of the next two decades Cox, now residing in Washington, D.C., restored the Frieze of American History and the Apotheosis of Washington in the Rotunda, and designed murals for three first-floor corridors in the Capitol's House wing, now known as the Cox Corridors. Assisted by Cliff Young, Cox completed painting for two of these corridors before his death. In 1958 Cox also painted a portrait of Henry Clay for the Senate Reception Room and in 1975 completed a mural depicting the 1969 moon landing in the Brumidi Corridor.

Cox taught at the Art Students League in 1940 and 1941, and was active in professional organizations throughout his career. He served as President of the American Artists Professional League and the National Society of Mural Painters, and Vice President of both the Fine Arts Federation and the New York Architectural League. He was a member of the board of the New York Municipal Art Society and served on the the New York City Art Commission.

Cox retired in March 1982 at the age of 86 and died the following September.

Related Materials:

Also found in the Archives of American Art are the Allyn Cox papers relating to U.S. Capitol murals, 1970-1974, donated by the Committee on House Administration, via Cindy Szady in 1981. Papers include a resume; a cost estimate by Cox for designing and executing mural decorations in the U.S. Capitol, 1970; a letter, 1974, from the Office of the Architect of the Capitol to the Capitol Historical Society enclosing photocopies of printed material pertinent to the unveiling and dedication of the Capitol rotunda frieze in 1954; miscellaneous printed material, 1971-1974; and 15 photographs of the murals in the Capitol.

Provenance:

The bulk of the Allyn Cox papers was donated in 1977 and 1983 by the Estate of Allyn Cox, Stephen M. Pulsifer, Exectuor, including material that had been loaned for microfiliming in 1969. Two mural sketches were donated by the Essex County Greenbelt Association in 1984.

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. Glass plate negatives are housed separately and are not served to researchers. 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 -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Topic:

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

Muralists -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

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

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Diaries

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Citation:

Allyn Cox papers, 1856-1982. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

Identifier:

AAA.coxally

See more items in:

Allyn Cox papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw90c9efb57-6d34-4007-ad8a-8ce4b40537fd

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-coxally

Creator:

White, Robert, 1921-2002  Search this

Names:

American Academy in Rome  Search this

American Battle Monuments Commission  Search this

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Davis Galleries  Search this

Graham Gallery  Search this

Graham Modern (Gallery)  Search this

Heckscher Museum  Search this

National Academy of Design (U.S.)  Search this

Parsons School of Design  Search this

Parsons School of Design -- Faculty  Search this

Peabody Museum  Search this

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture -- Faculty  Search this

State University of New York at Stony Brook  Search this

Steuben Glass (Firm)  Search this

Suffolk Museum  Search this

United States. Coast Guard  Search this

Ames, Amyas  Search this

Cremer, Theodore  Search this

Fleischmann, Patricia  Search this

Fosburgh, Hugh, 1916-  Search this

Franklin, Gilbert, 1919-2004  Search this

Hancock, Walker Kirtland, 1901-1998  Search this

Harrison, Jim  Search this

Hobbs, Susan, 1945-  Search this

Huntington, Willard R.  Search this

Kean, Rebekah Harkness  Search this

La Farge, Bancel, 1865-1938  Search this

Lamb, Ward  Search this

Lessard, Suzannah  Search this

Lowe, David, 1933-  Search this

Matthiessen, Peter  Search this

O'Cain, Walker  Search this

Oxman, Katja  Search this

Oxman, Mark  Search this

Platt, Frank C. (Frank Cheney), 1932-  Search this

Pope, Laura Spencer  Search this

Resika, Ellen  Search this

Resika, Paul  Search this

Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001  Search this

Russotto, Paul  Search this

Simon, Sidney, 1917-1997  Search this

Styron, William, 1925-  Search this

White, Bessie Chanler  Search this

White, Claire Nicolas, 1925-  Search this

White, Lawrence Grant  Search this

Extent:

8.4 Linear feet

0.846 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Photographs

Diaries

Drawings

Essays

Sound recordings

Sketchbooks

Lectures

Notebooks

Sketches

Date:

1889-2003

bulk 1915-2003

Summary:

The papers of New York sculptor Robert White measure 8.4 linear feet and 0.846 GB and date from 1889-2003, with the bulk of the material from 1915-2003. The collection documents White's varied career as a sculptor, educator, painter, and illustrator through biographical material; extensive correspondence; project files; personal business records; notes and writings; sketchbooks and sketches by Robert White and others; printed and digital material; audiovisual material; artifacts; and photographs.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of New York sculptor Robert White measure 8.4 linear feet and 0.846 GB and date from 1889-2003, with the bulk of the material from 1915-2003. The collection documents White's varied career as a sculptor, educator, painter, and illustrator through biographical material; extensive correspondence; project files; personal business records; notes and writings; sketchbooks and sketches by Robert White and others; printed and digital material; audiovisual material; artifacts; and photographs.

Scattered biographical materials include a curriculum vitae, documentation relating to White's service in the U.S. Coast Guard, a certificate of appreciation, and a memorial card for White's daughter, Natalie Laura White.

Correspondence contains primarily incoming letters from family and friends, and from clients, galleries, museums, arts organizations, students, and university administrators. Spanning over a seventy year period, family and friends correspondence centers on daily activities, events, and work. There is extensive correspondence from Robert White's parents, Lawrence Grant White and Bessie Chanler White and from Claire Nicolas White and her family. Other correspondents include Gil Franklin, Walker Hancock, Jim Harrison, Susan Hobbes, Willard R. Huntington, Ben LaFarge, Ward Lamb, Suzannah Lessard, Peter Matthiessen, Walker O'Cain, Mark and Katja Oxman, Frank C. Platt, Laura Spencer Pope, Paul and Ellen Resika, Paul Russotto, Sidney Simon, and William Styron, among others.

General correspondence mostly concerns White's commissions, teaching appointments, and his activities in professional organizations. Also included are letters from family members, friends, and colleagues. Frequent correspondents include: the American Academy in Rome, Amyas Ames, the Augustus Saint Gaudens Memorial, Century Association, Theodore Cremer, Davis Galleries, Patricia Fleischmann, Hugh Fosburgh, Rebekah Harkness Kean, David Garrard Lowe, National Academy of Design, Parsons School of Design, S. Dillon Ripley, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Steuben Glass, and the Suffolk Museum and Carriage House.

Project files contain materials on Robert White's exhibitions and his commissioned projects. Materials include letters, lists of artwork, notes, price lists, receipts, exhibition schedules, contracts, and loan agreements. Files document White's exhibits at the Davis Galleries, Elaine Benson Gallery, Graham Gallery, Graham Modern, Heckscher Museum, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Included are extensive files on White's commissions for the American Battle Monuments Commission, Peabody Museum, and Steuben Glass.

Personal business records include files on Robert White's association with the Augustus Saint Gaudens Memorial and the National Academy of Design; his teaching appointments at the Parsons School of Design, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; and his dealings with foundries. There are scattered files on the Whites' St. James, New York property and residence.

Notes and writings contain Robert White's diaries, artist's statements, notebooks, essays on art, lectures, and scattered notes. Also found are writings by Clare White and others.

Sketchbooks and loose sketches contain preliminary studies by Robert White and scattered sketches by others. Printed material houses newspaper clippings and periodicals; exhibition announcements, catalogs, brochures, and posters; press releases and newsletters; and miscellaneous printed material.

Artifacts include two printing blocks: a portrait sculpture of Stephanie White and a landscape image. Audiovisual material consists of a digital audio recording of a classroom lecture by Robert White at an unidentified venue.

Photographs house images of Robert White; his studio; and snapshots of family and friends, many unidentified. Also included are photographs and slides of artwork.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into ten series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1939-2002 (Box 1; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1923-2002 (Boxes 1-4; 3.8 linear feet)

Series 3: Project Files, 1952-2003 (Boxes 4-5, OV 10; 1.2 linear feet)

Series 4: Personal Business Records, 1889, 1946-2003 (Boxes 5-6, OV 10; 1.3 linear feet)

Series 5: Notes and Writings, 1915, circa 1946-2002 (Boxes 6-7; 0.6 linear feet)

Series 6: Sketchbooks and Sketches, circa 1965-1972 (Boxes 7, 9; 0.3 linear feet

Series 7: Printed Material, 1937-2003 (Boxes 7, 9; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 8: Audiovisual Material, 1973 (ER01; 0.846 GB)

Series 9: Artifacts, circa 1965 (Box 7; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 10: Photographs, circa 1940s-2001 (Box 8; 0.5 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Robert Winthrop White (1921-2002) lived and worked in St. James, New York and was primarily known as a sculptor and educator.

He was the son of the architect, Lawrence Grant White (1887-1956) and Bessie Chanler White. Stanford White (1853-1906), Robert's grandfather, was one of the founding partners in the prominent New York City architectural firm, McKim, White, and Mead.

As a youth, Robert White traveled to Munich, Germany to study woodcarving, sculpture, and painting. In 1935, he entered Portsmouth Priory School in Rhode Island. From 1938-1942, he was enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design, where his mentors were Walter Raemisch in sculpture and John Howard Benson in calligraphy. In World War II, White served as chief boatswain's mate in the United States Coast Guard and later worked in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). At the end of the war, White continued his training in sculpture and painting. In 1947, Robert White married Clare Nicolas, daughter of the painter and stained glass master, Joep Nicolas and the sculptor, Suzanne Nicolas.

Robert White, influenced by the classical techniques of the Renaissance artists, worked in various media, such as bronze, stone, plaster, terra-cotta, and wood. His subjects included portrait, figure, and life studies; animals; and dancers. Robert White also was an illustrator. He illustrated works by Laura Spencer Pope, William Styron, and others. White also illustrated two collections of his own poems, Casques and Dust and Palace: The Story of A Friendship that were privately published before his death in 2002.

Robert White held teaching positions at several universities and schools, including the Suffolk Museum of Art, the Parsons School of Design, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. From 1967-1987, White was an associate professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

White exhibited his work in museums and galleries in the United States and abroad, including Artists Choice Museum, Artist's Gallery, Benson Gallery, Boston Athenaeum, Gallery North, Hartwick College Museum, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Patricia Fleischmann Gallery, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende, State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the Suffolk Museum and Carriage House, among others. Robert White was represented by the Davis Gallery, Graham Gallery, and Graham Modern in New York City.

Robert White's private and public commissions included works for the American Battle Monuments Commission, Amyas Ames, Theodore Cremer, John Marquand, Peabody Museum, State University of New York, William Styron, and Xerox Corporation. His work can be viewed in the collections of the Boston Athenaeum, Brooklyn Museum, Civici Musei 3 Gallerie di Storia e Arte, Heckscher Museum, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Robert White was the recipient of the Laurel Gallery's "New Talent" exhibition prize, 1948; American Academy's Rome Prize, 1952-1954; and the Proctor Memorial Prize at the National Academy of Design, 1962, 1982. He was also awarded grants from the Tiffany Foundation, 1950 and the Fairfield Foundation, 1968. From 1952-1955, White was a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, where he also served as an artist-in-residence from 1969-1970. Robert White was a member of the American Academy in Rome, the Augustus Saint Gaudens Memorial, Century Association, and the National Academy of Design.

Robert White continued to work on the family estate in St. James, New York until his death in 2002.

Provenance:

The Robert W. White Papers were donated in 2003 by Claire Nicolas White, widow of Robert White.

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Topic:

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

Sculptors -- New York (State)  Search this

Sculpture -- Study and teaching  Search this

Artists' studios -- Photographs  Search this

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

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

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Diaries

Drawings

Essays

Sound recordings

Sketchbooks

Lectures

Notebooks

Sketches

Citation:

Robert W. White papers, 1889-2003 (bulk 1915-2003). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.whiterobe

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Robert W. White papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw941b94026-e2dc-4e43-bf80-6c4659a39b74

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-whiterobe

Contents:

Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs.

Place:

New York (N.Y.)

Topic:

Art Organizations  Search this

Location:

Art & Artist files at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library

Data source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:SILAF_99827

Creator:

McEntee, Jervis, 1828-1891  Search this

Subject:

Bierstadt, Albert  Search this

Blum, Robert Frederick  Search this

Booth, Edwin Thomas  Search this

Brown, John George  Search this

Church, Frederic Edwin  Search this

Cooper, Peter  Search this

Dielman, Frederick  Search this

Gifford, James C.  Search this

Gifford, Sanford Robinson  Search this

Hall, George Henry  Search this

Hart, William McDougal  Search this

Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander)  Search this

Hubbard, Richard William  Search this

Huntington, Daniel  Search this

Johnson, Eastman  Search this

McEntee, Jervis  Search this

Norton, Charles Eliot  Search this

Perry, E. W. (Enoch Wood)  Search this

Robbins, Horace Wolcott Jr.  Search this

Shattuck, Aaron Draper  Search this

Vanderlyn, John  Search this

Vaux, Calvert  Search this

Ward, John Quincy Adams  Search this

Weir, John F. (John Ferguson)  Search this

Whittredge, Worthington  Search this

Wood, Thomas Waterman  Search this

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

National Academy of Design (U.S.)  Search this

Type:

Writings

Place:

Bismarck, N.D.

Chicago, Ill.

Fargo, N.D.

Greece

Me.

New Haven, Conn.

New Orleans, La.

Quebec, Canada

St. Paul, Minn.

Date:

1878 Dec. 15-1883 June 15

Citation:

Jervis McEntee. Diary, Vol. III, 1878 Dec. 15-1883 June 15. Jervis McEntee papers, 1796, 1848-1905. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Finances, Personal  Search this

Sketching  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)5250

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Jervis McEntee papers, 1796, 1848-1905

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_5250