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Photographer:

Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders), 1917-1994  Search this

Creator:

Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Names:

Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993  Search this

Subseries Creator:

Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders), 1917-1994  Search this

Custom Craft  Search this

Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964  Search this

Scurlock, George H. (Hardison), 1919-2005  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (3-1/4" x 4-1/4"..)

Container:

Box 55

Culture:

African Americans -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Photographs

Place:

Washington (D.C.) -- African Americans

Date:

April 9, 1939

Scope and Contents:

No. 144 and "1 - 8x10 GL" on original envelope. No ink on negative edge. No manufacturer's mark on film edge. Probably a film pack negative.

General:

In a lecture at George Washington University, 10/19/01, Jeff Fearing attributed the Anderson documentation to Robert Scurlock, and Vivian Scurlock corroborated this on 6/26/02.

From negative Box C.

Subseries Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs and negatives. Special arrangements required to view negatives due to cold storage. Using negatives requires a three hour waiting period. Contact the Archives Center at 202-633-3270.

Subseries Rights:

When the Museum purchased the collection from the Estate of Robert S. Scurlock, it obtained all rights, including copyright. The earliest photographs in the collection are in the public domain because their term of copyright has expired. The Archives Center will control copyright and the use of the collection for reproduction purposes, which will be handled in accordance with its standard reproduction policy guidelines. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Civil rights  Search this

Concerts  Search this

African American singers -- 1930-1940  Search this

Documentary photography  Search this

Memorials  Search this

Singers -- 1930-1950  Search this

Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- Black-and-white negatives -- Acetate film

Subseries Citation:

Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

The collection was acquired with assistance from the Eugene Meyer Foundation. Elihu and Susan Rose and the Save America's Treasures program, provided funds to stabilize, organize, store, and create digital surrogates of some of the negatives. Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.

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Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.1: Black-and-White Silver Gelatin Negatives

Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.1: Black-and-White Silver Gelatin Negatives / 4.1: Black-and-White Silver Gelatin negatives

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8f6da8e22-e2e7-4865-8aec-e5df63d20095

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0618-s04-01-ref1799

Author:

Richards, Eugene  Search this

Author:

Bird, Christiane  Search this

Altongy, Janine  Search this

Physical description:

218 pages illustrations 29 cm

Type:

Portraits

Interviews

Pictorial works

Case studies

Illustrated works

Place:

United States

Etats-Unis

Date:

1987

1981-2001

1980-2020

1981-

Topic:

Poor  Search this

Documentary photography  Search this

Economic history  Search this

Social conditions  Search this

Bildband  Search this

Fotografie  Search this

Pauvres--Interviews  Search this

Pauvres--Ouvrages illustrés  Search this

Economic conditions  Search this

Conditions économiques  Search this

Call number:

TR647.R514 C7

TR647.R514C7

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_337809

Author:

Stange, Maren  Search this

Physical description:

xvii, 190 p. : ill. ; 27 cm

Type:

Books

Pictorial works

Place:

United States

Date:

1989

19th century

20th century

Topic:

Documentary photography  Search this

Social life and customs  Search this

Call number:

TR820.5.S69 1989X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_387217

Author:

Sørensen, Annemette  Search this

Sekaer, Peter 1901-1950  Search this

Kongelige Bibliotek (Denmark)  Search this

Subject:

Sekaer, Peter 1901-1950 Exhibitions  Search this

Physical description:

71 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Pictorial works

Place:

United States

Date:

1990

1918-1945

1933-1945

Topic:

Documentary photography  Search this

Economic conditions  Search this

Pictorial works  Search this

Exhibitions  Search this

Social conditions  Search this

Call number:

TR647.S4586 S6 1990

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_494730

Author:

Edwards, Susan H  Search this

Shahn, Ben 1898-1969  Search this

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery  Search this

Chrysler Museum  Search this

Tampa Museum of Art  Search this

Subject:

Shahn, Ben 1898-1969  Search this

United States Farm Security Administration Exhibitions  Search this

Physical description:

26 p. : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Pictorial works

Place:

United States

Date:

1995

C1995

1918-1932

1933-1945

Topic:

Documentary photography  Search this

Social conditions  Search this

Pictorial works  Search this

Exhibitions  Search this

Call number:

TR647.S519 E393 1995

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_567573

Photographer:

Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders), 1917-1994  Search this

Creator:

Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Names:

Howard University -- 1930-1940  Search this

Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993  Search this

Subseries Creator:

Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders), 1917-1994  Search this

Custom Craft  Search this

Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964  Search this

Scurlock, George H. (Hardison), 1919-2005  Search this

Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (3-1/4" x 4-1/4".)

Culture:

African Americans -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Photographs

Place:

Washington (D.C.) -- African Americans

Date:

April 9, 1939

Scope and Contents:

Reception at Howard University. Ms. Anderson is shown in profile, wearing a fur. A man stands beside her, and a female figure with bare shoulders is in the foreground, hiding the face of the man. No ink on negative edge. No manufacturer's mark on film edge.

General:

In a lecture at George Washington University, 10/19/01, Jeff Fearing attributed the Anderson documentation to Robert Scurlock, and Vivian Scurlock corroborated this on 6/26/02.

From negative Box C. No. 147 on original container. Contact proof on 2-image print (labelled "reception at Howard U" on verso) , in Box 81.

Subseries Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs and negatives. Special arrangements required to view negatives due to cold storage. Using negatives requires a three hour waiting period. Contact the Archives Center at 202-633-3270.

Subseries Rights:

When the Museum purchased the collection from the Estate of Robert S. Scurlock, it obtained all rights, including copyright. The earliest photographs in the collection are in the public domain because their term of copyright has expired. The Archives Center will control copyright and the use of the collection for reproduction purposes, which will be handled in accordance with its standard reproduction policy guidelines. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Civil rights  Search this

African American singers -- 1930-1940  Search this

Documentary photography  Search this

Singers -- 1930-1950  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- Black-and-white negatives -- Acetate film

Subseries Citation:

Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

The collection was acquired with assistance from the Eugene Meyer Foundation. Elihu and Susan Rose and the Save America's Treasures program, provided funds to stabilize, organize, store, and create digital surrogates of some of the negatives. Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.

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Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.6: Black and white negatives in cold storage arranged by client

Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.6: Black and white negatives in cold storage arranged by client / 4.6.1: Black and white negatives Part 1 / Anderson, Marian

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep82b8db5a3-5848-4233-9a96-933c38100038

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0618-s04-06-ref27324

Creator:

Survey Associates  Search this

Uniform title:

Survey graphic  Search this

Survey midmontly  Search this

Subject:

Stryker, Roy Emerson 1893-1975  Search this

Hine, Lewis Wickes 1874-1940  Search this

Kellogg, Paul Underwood 1879-1958  Search this

Kellogg, Arthur P. d. 1934  Search this

Taylor, Paul Schuster 1895-  Search this

Lange, Dorothea  Search this

United States Farm Security Administration Historical Section Photographs  Search this

Physical description:

2 microfilm reels

Type:

Archival materials

Collection descriptions

Place:

United States

Date:

1891

1891-1952

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Documentary photography  Search this

Social problems  Search this

Social conditions  Search this

Local number:

AAA 3826-3827

AAA

AAA survasso

Restrictions & Rights:

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

See more items in:

Survey Associates selected correspondence, 1891-1952

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_214064

Creator:

Survey Associates  Search this

Names:

United States. Farm Security Administration.Historical Section.Photographs  Search this

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940  Search this

Kellogg, Arthur P., d. 1934  Search this

Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958  Search this

Lange, Dorothea  Search this

Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975  Search this

Taylor, Paul Schuster, 1895-  Search this

Extent:

2 Microfilm reels

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Microfilm reels

Place:

United States -- Social conditions

Date:

1891-1952

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence with Lewis Hine, Roy Stryker, Paul Taylor and Dorothea Lange concerning the publication of photographs and articles. Hine correspondence is with Paul and Arthur Kellogg, 1918-1940, and concerns Hine's work for the American Red Cross and many other projects. Stryker correspondence, 1934-1948, is mainly with managing editor Florence Kellogg concerning his work in the Farm Security Administration. Taylor, professor of economics at University of California at Berkeley, and husband of photographer Dorothea Lange, corresponds mainly with Kellogg, 1934-1945, about articles he is writing for the magazine on "rural immigrants," Japanese internment camps, and other topics, and the photographs illustrating them by Lange. The Lange correspondence consists of a few letters, 1943-1945, concerning the mailing and payment for photographs.

Biographical / Historical:

Publisher (New York, N.Y.) of the magazine The Survey, which appeared as two separate periodicals from 1933-1948, Survey Graphic and Survey Midmontly. Leading journal of the social work profession and social reform activities. Paul Underwood Kellogg was editor 1912-1952; his brother Arthur was managing editor.

Provenance:

Microfilmed for the Archives of American Art by the University of Minnesota Libraries, 1987. The University received the Survey Associates, Inc. records in 1964 from Helen Hall.

Restrictions:

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

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Documentary photography  Search this

Social problems  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.survasso

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw931bd101b-2727-4832-94d9-69f3d4e06f3b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-survasso

Photographer:

Nadel, Leonard, 1916-1990  Search this

Author:

Galarza, Ernesto  Search this

Extent:

3 Cubic feet (10 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Photographs

Black-and-white photographs

Scrapbooks

Place:

Mexico

Texas -- 20th century

Texas

California

Date:

1950-2006

bulk 1956-1960

Summary:

Photographer Leonard Nadel's supplemental material relating to and photographs of the Mexican braceros (manual laborers). They were photographed in California, Texas, and Mexico for the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic during the late 1950s and early 1960s in support of a report entitled Strangers in Our Fields by Dr. Ernesto Galarza.

Scope and Contents:

The collection is divided into three series. Each series is arranged chronologically.

Series 1: Scrapbooks, 1950-1968, contains scrapbooks of clippings of magazine articles and newspaper stories written by Nadel and others as well as magazines and newspaper articles making use of his photographs. The material is from a variety of specialty and mainstream publications and varies in subject matter. The scrapbooks are not only focused on Nadel's work for the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic but also offer a broad sampling of his work throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Material in the scrapbooks are arranged in rough chronological order. There is also a sample custom cover from one of the scrapbooks.

Series 2: Photographs, 1956-1960, undated, contains photographs printed from his negatives of the braceros. This series also contains a complete run of 8" x 10" contact sheets from his negatives of the bracero. The negatives themselves are in this series but not available for research per donor request. There are photographs ranging in size from 8" x 10" to large format photographs (10 1/2" x 13 1/2") that are keyed to frames on the contact sheets for easy reference. Negatives are arranged chronologically and captions are keyed to the negative numbers. These images have been digitized and may be found by searching "Nadel" on the collections section of the National Museum of American History website or by contacting the Archives Center.

Series 3: Publications and Supplemental Materials, 1956-2006, undated, contains correspondence, copies of Strangers in Our Fields, the publication making use of Nadel's bracero photographs, and other publications citing Nadel's work or based on it. This series also contains correspondence and written material from Evelyn De Wolfe Nadel, wife of Leonard Nadel; material relating to Nadel's photographic archive and captions for a selection of the bracero photographs. There is a selection of assorted loose news clippings.

Arrangement:

This collection is divided into three series:

Series 1: Scrapbooks, 1950-1968

Series 2: Photographs, 1956-1960, undated

Series 3: Publications and Supplemental Materials, 1956-2006, undated

Biographical / Historical:

Primarily known as a freelance photographer and photojournalist, Leonard Nadel (1916-1990) was born in Harlem, New York to Austro-Hungarian immigrant parents. He attended the City College of New York. Entering the Army during World War II, he trained at the Army Signal Corps Photographic Center. During the war he served in Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines. After the war he returned to New York and received his master's degree in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He moved to Los Angeles, California and studied at the Art Center College of Design.

In Los Angeles, Nadel photographed both the Pueblo del Rio and Aliso Village housing projects. He was also hired by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) to document living conditions in the city's slums and their new post-World War II housing projects. Nadel continued his employment with HACLA until 1953, when he resigned because his HACLA colleague, Frank Wilkinson, was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) and forced to resign.

Between 1953 and 1980 Nadel worked as a freelance photographer for such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Harvester News, Life, Business Week, and other major publications. His work with the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic resulted in his work documenting the bracero program. These photographs were taken by Leonard Nadel in connection with a survey of braceros done by Ernesto Galarza for the Fund for the Republic in 1956 in support of the publication, Strangers in Our Fields. During World War II, the United States and Mexico entered an agreement to alleviate the US labor shortage created by the war by importing Mexican workers. This arrangement outlasted the end of the war and by the time of Nadel's photographs nearly half a million Mexican contract workers, in the common vernacular of the time known as "drybacks," were legally imported to the United States annually working on short term labor contracts predominately in agriculture. These workers were also known as braceros, in Spanish translated as "manual laborer".

Nadel wrote of his work with the braceros, "I covered 5,000 miles during a circuit that took me from California to Mexico to Texas. It would have been easy enough just to turn over to the Fund the finished collection of photographs from the 2,000 images I took in attempting to accurately document the story of Strangers in Our Fields. But the conditions I had witnessed stirred me deeply. I felt that it was as much my responsibility to help 'sell' the picture story."

Nadel's photographs were the subject of the National Museum of American History (NMAH) exhibition, "Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964" in 2009-2010. Nadel's photographs are featured in NMAH's "America on the Move" exhibit. This quote from the "America on the Move" exhibition website gives the history of the photographs as well as the bracero program.

"In 1956, Leonard Nadel was hired by the Fund for the Republic, an anti-McCarthy liberal spin off of the Ford Foundation, to document the Bracero Program. In the 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution acquired the Nadel images. The collection contains 64 captioned photographic prints and 1730 original 35mm negatives (with corresponding contact sheets). The images document life in Mexico, men's experiences of crossing the border, and work and life in the US.

"The Bracero Program came into existence in 1942. Growers argued that labor shortages in the United States resulting from World War II required the recruitment of Mexican nationals. Mexico saw the program as a contribution to the war effort. Although the program began as a temporary war measure, it became a fixture of agricultural work landscape until it was finally terminated in 1964.

"Over the course of its lifetime, the Bracero Program became the largest and most significant U.S. labor guest worker program of the 20th century. In all, over 4.5 million contracts were awarded through the twenty-two years of the program. Despite the well-intentioned contracts, the program did not escape controversy. Some point out the widespread abuses of many of the contract's protective provisions and the violation of the legal rights and civil liberties of the braceros while others describe the program as an opportunity for Mexican nationals to make a living and improve the conditions of their families. Regardless of one's opinion of the program, it had a profound effect on Mexican American settlement patterns in the U.S. and numerous Latino families have ancestors who were involved in the Bracero Program."

Nadel married Los Angeles Times staff writer Evelyn De Wolfe in August 1961. She was Brazilian by birth and after their marriage she resigned from the Times and collaborated with Nadel on many projects that covered both national and international subjects. Nadel died in 1990.

Related Materials:

Materials in Other Organizations

The collections of the Los Angeles Public Library and the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research each contain photographic images made by Leonard Nadel during the time he worked for The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA). The Photo Collection of the Los Angeles Public Library contains approximately 290 copy negatives and corresponding black-and-white copy prints made from original materials held by HACLA. The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection, held at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, contains 225 black-and-white photographs produced by HACLA, forty-two of which were taken by Nadel.

The Getty Research Institute, Special Collections, Los Angeles, California, contain 8.75 linear feet (14 boxes) of Leonard Nadel photographs and other material relating to housing and urban redevelopment in Los Angeles, 1947-1998. The collection is described as, "Consisting primarily of photographic material by Leonard Nadel from 1947 to 1957, the collection records early efforts by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) to promote integrated public housing for the city's growing multi-ethnic population, and also documents several areas of the city that the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) had targeted for commercial revitalization. Nadel's black-and-white negatives, contact prints and two unpublished photographic books form the bulk of the collection, supplemented by handwritten notes and related documents."

Provenance:

The collection was purchased with funds from the Jackson Fund in 2000. All rights were transferred to the National Museum of American History in 2000-2001.

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research use. Photographic negatives are not available for research at the donor's request, but contact sheets of the negatives are available in the collection. Some images are restricted for publication, but may be viewed in the Archives Center's reading room.

Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs, negatives, and slides.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Farmers -- Mexico  Search this

Agriculture -- Research  Search this

Agriculture -- Photographs -- 20th century  Search this

Labor  Search this

Agricultural laborers  Search this

Labor and laboring classes -- Photographs  Search this

Documentary photography -- United States  Search this

Photographers -- 1950-1980  Search this

Bracero Program  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographic prints

Photographs -- 1950-1960 -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin

Photographs -- 1950-2000

Black-and-white photographs

Scrapbooks -- 20th century

Citation:

Leonard Nadel Photographs and Scrapbooks, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.1313

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Leonard Nadel Photographs and Scrapbooks

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8b054fe8c-7f40-4865-9b3d-b623e3e5ac43

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-1313

Creator:

Faul, Jan, 1945-  Search this

Extent:

0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Topographical views

Manipulated photographs

Photographs

Painted photographs

Hand coloring

Landscapes (representations)

Portfolios (groups of works)

Place:

Washington (D.C.) -- 1990-2000

West Virginia -- 1990-2000

Virginia -- 1990-2000

Maryland -- 1980-2000

Potomac River -- 1990-2000

Date:

1991

Summary:

The collection is a set of twenty-four black-and-white silver gelatin prints entitled "Potomac: East and West," by Jan Faul, 1991. They include agricultural landscapes, cemeteries, industrial buildings commercial buildings in rural areas, etc., in the Potomac River region of Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Each image contains a small area hand-colored by the photographer, providing a subtly mysterious, often whimsical or humorous effect.

Scope and Contents:

The collection is a set of twenty-four black-and-white silver gelatin prints entitled "Potomac: East and West," and is number six in an edition of forty five. The photographs all were taken in 1991 and the prints were made shortly thereafter. The photographs are basically somewhat romantic documentary images of locales in Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia, including landscapes and industrial settings, interiors and exteriors, some of which are apparently abandoned. Human figures are seen only incidentally in several images. Each print has a small area hand colored by the artist, usually adding subtle humor and/or a hint of mystery. The titles are brief and geographical, and the set is numbered I to XII and XIV to XXV; there is no number XIII, the artist was careful to point out.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into one series. Sequence arranged by artist: numbered I-XII, XIV-XXV (no number XIII).

Biographical / Historical:

Jan Faul was born in Port Chester, New York in 1945. His family moved frequently, living in Washington, D.C., New York, Boston, Denver, Toronto, Strasbourg, and Bern, Switzerland. In Bern he received his first camera as a gift for his fourteenth birthday. He returned to the United States and completed high school in Washington.

In his late teens Faul met Roy Stryker, legendary director of the Farm Security Administration documentary photography project, who suggested that he spend time looking at photographs in the Library of Congress which he did, concentrating on the F.S.A. files. Influenced by his artist parents, Faul studied art history and graphics in college, hoping to become a printmaker, but had begun to support himself with photography by the time he graduated from The George Washington University in 1969.

The "immediacy" of photography and other aesthetic considerations in addition to the financial ones finally led to Faul's abandonment of printmaking and commitment to photography. Since 1970 he has been a self employed photographer, working in landscape, still life, and portraiture. He documented the lives of poor people in the U.S. from July 1970 to March 1971 for the Office of Economic Opportunity. In summer 1971 he photographed scenes of rural poverty for the Appalachian Regional Commission. A grant from the Upjohn Institute for American Labor Studies in 1974 supported his photographic documentation of American workers and changing work habits. In the summer of 1975 he worked for the Smithsonian, portraying the locksmen and pilots of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Further grants and contracts for documentary photography followed, including the 1976 Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife.

Faul moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1979, and there worked on commercial accounts for Esso, Polaroid, and others, while continuing to pursue a variety of personal photographic projects. He returned to the Washington, D.C., area a decade later.

The photographer's career has included commercial work and contractual documentary projects, as well as the sale of photographic prints as art to private collectors and sales and donations to institutions. Fourteen photographs were donated to the Division of Photographic History of this Museum in 1970, and his work is in the collections of the Royal Museum of Art in Denmark, The Library of Congress, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Oakland Museum, and others. He has received a number of awards, and has been included in a number of group and solo exhibitions. He has received an artist's residency at Yaddo for 1992 1993. Additional biographical information, including a bibliography, is on file in the Archives Center.

Provenance:

Collection donated by Jan Faul, November 13, 1991.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

Rights:

Use and copyright restrictions: all rights retained by the artist. The Museum may exhibit and reproduce photographs in its publications, but cannot make copies or authorize reproduction by others. Contact artist for reproduction arrangements.

Topic:

Agricultural land -- 1990-2000  Search this

Rivers -- 1990-2000 -- United States  Search this

Commercial buildings -- 1990-2000  Search this

Cemeteries -- 1990-2000  Search this

Industrial complexes -- United States  Search this

Industrial towns -- 1990-2000  Search this

Genre/Form:

Topographical views

Manipulated photographs

Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1990-2000

Painted photographs

Hand coloring

Landscapes (representations) -- 1990-2000 -- United States

Portfolios (groups of works) -- 1990-2000

Citation:

Jan Faul "Potomac East and West" Portfolio, 1991, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of the artist.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0441

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Jan Faul "Potomac : East and West" (portfolio of photoprints)

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep851520cd3-8ba6-48d1-acdc-c078e9c85d55

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0441

Extent:

XXX Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Digital images

Place:

Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)

Adams Morgan (Washington, D.C.)

Chinatown (Washington, D.C.)

Maryland -- Baltimore

Date:

2016-2019

Historical Note:

Since 1968, the Anacostia Community Museum's staff photographers have created a visual record of life in contemporary urban communities, including documentary photography of residents and their activities, neighborhood events and landmarks, foodways, festivals, and public spaces.

Photographs in this collection were taken by Susana Raab who has worked at the Anacostia Community Museum from 2010-2019 and also maintains a personal practice.

Historical:

Since 1968, the Anacostia Community Museum's staff photographers have created a visual record of life in contemporary urban communities, including documentary photography of residents and their activities, neighborhood events and landmarks, foodways, festivals, and public spaces.

Provenance:

Created by Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Restrictions:

Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Festivals  Search this

Carnivals  Search this

Cityscapes  Search this

Urban Development  Search this

Urban renewal  Search this

Portraits, Group  Search this

Storefronts  Search this

Genre/Form:

Digital images

Citation:

Community Documentation Photographs, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

ACMA.CDC.1

See more items in:

Community Documentation Photographs

Archival Repository:

Anacostia Community Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/qa7a1d7e57b-0069-4c72-8403-71df90a600ee

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-acma-cdc-1

Creator:

McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965  Search this

Names:

American Art Research Council  Search this

Barnard College -- Faculty  Search this

Federal Art Project (U.S.)  Search this

United States. Farm Security Administration  Search this

Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991  Search this

Dove, Arthur Garfield, 1880-1946  Search this

Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943  Search this

Hawthorne, Charles Webster, 1872-1930  Search this

Henri, Robert, 1865-1929  Search this

Henry, Edward Lamson, 1841-1919  Search this

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940  Search this

Inness, George, 1825-1894  Search this

Kleinholz, Frank, 1901-  Search this

Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000  Search this

Maurer, Alfred Henry, 1868-1932  Search this

Morgan, Barbara Brooks, 1900-1992  Search this

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946  Search this

Weegee, 1899-1968  Search this

Weston, Edward, 1886-1958  Search this

Extent:

45 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Scrapbooks

Prints

Drawings

Photographs

Watercolors

Place:

New York N.Y. -- Pictorial works -- Photographs

Date:

1838-1995

bulk 1920-1960

Summary:

The papers of art critic, writer, and historian Elizabeth McCausland measure 45 linear feet and date from 1838 to 1995, with the bulk of the material dating from 1920 to 1960. The collection provides a vast accumulation of research data on various artists and aspects of American art, especially the early American modernists and the Federal Arts Projects. Papers include McCausland's extensive research and writing files, particularly on Marsden Hartley, E. L. Henry, Lewis Hine, George Inness, and Alfred H. Maurer. McCausland's correspondence with artists includes a substantial amount with Arthur Dove and Alfred Stieglitz. Her collaborative work with Berenice Abbott on the Changing New York book and series of photographs is well-documented within the collection. Also found are general writings, subject files, files relating to exhibitions, teaching, and committees, photographs, art work, personal papers, and printed material. Additional McCausland material donated later from the estate of Berenice Abbott include biographical materials, project files, writings, and printed materials.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of art critic, writer, and historian Elizabeth McCausland measure approximately 45 linear feet and date from 1838 to 1995, with the bulk of the material dating from 1920 to 1995. The collection provides a vast accumulation of data on various artists and aspects of American art, especially the early American modernists and the Federal Arts Projects. Papers include McCausland's extensive research and writing files, particularly on Marsden Hartley, E. L. Henry, Lewis Hine, George Inness, and Alfred H. Maurer. McCausland's correspondence with artists includes a substantial amount with Arthur Dove and Alfred Stieglitz. Her collaborative work with Berenice Abbott on the Changing New York book and series of photographs is well-documented within the collection. Also found are general writings, subject files, files relating to exhibitions, teaching, and committees, photographs, art work, personal papers, and printed material. Additional McCausland material from the estate of Berenice Abbott include biographical materials, project files, writings, and printed materials.

McCausland's personal papers consist of appointment books and engagement calendars, scrapbooks, student papers, works printed on her private press, financial records, biographical material, and scattered memorabilia, which together document other aspects of her life apart from her work. Correspondence includes incoming and outgoing letters along with enclosures, dating from McCausland's time as a journalist for The Springfield Republican in the 1920s and 1930s to her time as a freelance writer, art critic, and historian (1940s-1960s) and mostly concerning professional matters. Also included is a substantial amount of correspondence with artists, particularly Arthur Dove and Alfred Stieglitz, and some personal correspondence with her mother. General writings consists primarily of copies of McCausland's speeches and lectures on various art topics in addition to her early poems (dating from the 1930s) and scattered essays and articles.

The most extensive part of the collection is comprised of McCausland's research and writing files pertaining to large research and curatorial projects, such as ones on the artists Alfred H. Maurer and Marsden Hartley (which was begun by the American Art Research Council and subsequently taken over by McCausland), and one for the American Processional exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery in 1950. A wide variety of smaller projects are also well-documented in the series Other Research and Writing Files, including ones on E. L. Henry, Lewis Hine, George Inness, her collaborative work with Berenice Abbott on the Changing New York book and series of photographs. Numerous other artists and art topics are covered as well, such as Arthur Dove, Robert Henri, Jacob Lawrence, Charles Hawthorne, film, and photography. Files for her book Careers in Art (1950), her many speaking and lecture engagements, and editing work are also found in this series. Files consist primarily of correspondence, notes, research material, manuscripts, bibliographies, photographs of works of art, completed research forms for works of art, card index files, and printed material.

Also found are subject files containing printed material, scattered notes and correspondence, and photographs, which may have been used for reference and/or collected in the course of McCausland's research activities; files relating to various exhibitions organized by McCausland from 1939 to 1944, including ones of silk screen prints and modern photography; files relating to courses on art history taught by McCausland, especially the one she taught at Barnard College in 1956; and files stemming from her participation in various art organizations and committees, especially during the time period just before and during the Second World War.

Printed material consists primarily of clippings and tear sheets of McCausland's newspaper articles and columns, which document her contributions to The Springfield Republican from 1923 to 1946, in addition to scattered exhibition catalogs, announcements, books, and miscellaneous publications. Photographs include ones of various artists and works of art, ones from the Farm Security Administration, and ones by photographers, such as Berenice Abbott (including ones from the Federal Art Project book, Changing New York), Barbara Morgan, Weegee, and Edward Weston, among others. Photographs, sometimes annotated or including notes, are scattered throughout her research files. Also included are photographs of McCausland, dating from her childhood. Art work found in the collection includes drawings, prints, and watercolors that were either given to McCausland by the artist or collected by her in the course of her work as an art critic and historian.

Additional material belonging to Elizabeth McCausland and donated by the estate of Berenice Abbott includes biographical material; business and personal correspondence; professional project files and writings, including drafts and research materials related to the book projects Art in America, Conversations with March, and Frank Kleinholz; and printed materials, including reprints of critical essays and articles by McCausland.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 15 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Personal Papers, 1838, 1920-1951 (Boxes 1-2, 34; 1.5 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1923-1960 (Boxes 2-5; 2.9 linear feet)

Series 3: General Writings, circa 1930-1954 (Boxes 5-6; 0.9 linear feet)

Series 4: Alfred H. Maurer, 1851-1951, bulk 1948-1950 (Boxes 6-9; 3.7 linear feet)

Series 5: American Processional, 1949-1951 (Boxes 10-11; 1.8 linear feet)

Series 6: Marsden Hartley, 1900-1964, bulk 1944-1964 (Boxes 11-21, OV 37; 10 linear feet)

Series 7: Other Research and Writing Files, 1896, 1926-1958 (Boxes 21-25, 31; 4.6 linear feet)

Series 8: Subject Files, 1927-1954 (Boxes 25-26; 1.0 linear feet)

Series 9: Other Exhibition Files, 1939-1941, 1944 (Box 26; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 10: Teaching Files, 1939-1965 (Box 27; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 11: Committee Files, 1936-1960 (Box 27; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 12: Printed Material, 1923-1953 (Boxes 28-32, 34, OV 38, BV 44-47; 4.6 linear feet)

Series 13: Photographs, circa 1905-1950 (Boxes 32-36, OV 37; 1.4 linear feet)

Series 14: Art Work, 1887-1942 (Boxes 33-34, OV 39-43; 0.7 linear feet)

Series 15: Elizabeth McCausland Material from the Estate of Berenice Abbott, 1920-1995 (Boxes 48-53; 5.4 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Elizabeth McCausland, the art critic and writer, was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1899. She attended Smith College, receiving her Bachelor's degree in 1920 and her Master's in 1922. Beginning in 1923, she worked as a general reporter for The Springfield Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts). After several years, she began to review art exhibitions and soon became an established art critic. In the course of her work, she began to develop friendships with artists, such as Alfred Stieglitz and Arthur Dove. During these early years, she also wrote poetry and designed and printed limited edition publications on her private press.

McCausland moved to New York in 1935, but continued to contribute a weekly art column to The Springfield Republican until it suspended publication in 1946. From the mid-1930s on, she worked primarily as a freelance writer and art critic, contributing articles to publications such as Parnassas, The New Republic, and Magazine of Art. In the latter part of her career, her writings focused more on art history and special studies on artists.

In the late-1930s, McCausland collaborated with the photographer Berenice Abbott on the Federal Art Project book, Changing New York, for which she provided the text to Abbott's now-famous photographs of New York City neighborhoods, architecture, and street scenes. She studied and wrote about photography, including numerous articles on the photographer Lewis Hine (of whose work she organized a retrospective exhibition at the Riverside Museum in 1939), and was appointed to the Advisory Committee of the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Photography in 1944.

McCausland went on to organize other exhibitions, including a show of contemporary work, "The World of Today" (Berkshire Museum, 1939), shows of silk screen prints (Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, March 1940 and New York State Museum, Summer 1940), and a photography show, "Photography Today" (A.C.A. Gallery, 1944). In the late 1930s, she embarked upon a study of "the status of the artist in America from colonial times to the present, with especial attention to the relation between art and patronage," which continued over twenty years (and was never completed) and for which she received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1943.

In addition to her other writing, during the 1940s, McCausland carried out studies on the artists, E. L. Henry and George Inness, which resulted in exhibitions at the New York State Museum in 1942 and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in 1946, respectively and publications (a report on Henry and a book on Inness). From 1948 to 1949, she carried out an extensive study of the painter, Alfred H. Maurer, organizing an exhibition, "A. H. Maurer: 1868-1932," which showed at the Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1949, and publishing the biography, A. H. Maurer, in 1951. In 1950, she worked as a special consultant on the American Processional exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery and as editor of the accompanying book. Shortly thereafter, she began a study of Marsden Hartley for a monograph, which was published in 1952, and she helped organize the Hartley exhibition at the University of Minnesota that same year. She continued the Hartley study on larger scale for a planned biography and catalogue raisonne; although she continued to work on it off and on for the next decade, the project was never completed.

McCausland published other books, including Careers in the Arts (1951), and undertook other research and consulting projects, such as photo-editing Carl Sandburg's Poems of the Midwest (1946), conducting surveys of art and advertising for an article in Magazine of Art and of art education for Cooper Union Art School, and contributing yearly articles on art to various encyclopedias. At different times throughout her career, she supplemented her income by taking teaching positions. She taught courses on art history at Sarah Lawrence College from 1942 to 1944 and at Barnard College in 1956, as well as courses at the Design Laboratory (1939) and the New School for Social Research (1946). She also gave numerous lectures and speeches on various art topics, and regularly participated in conferences and symposiums. Towards the end of her career, she was publishing less, but was still involved in many projects, most notably the Hartley study.

McCausland was a tireless promoter of the arts, and often an advocate for artists. Even though her work was well-known among certain art circles, she never received the recognition as a writer that she deserved. Nor was she ever able to free herself from the pressure of writing for a living. Continually suffering from poor health, she died on May 14, 1965.

Related Material:

Related material found in the Archives includes a sound recording from a symposium on Marsden Hartley, of which McCausland was a participant, held at the Portland Museum of Art in 1961. The Frank Kleinholz papers contain a recorded interview of McCausland done in 1944-1945 for radio station WNYC. Some of McCausland's correspondence is found in the G. Alan Chidsey papers; Chidsey served as a trustee of the Marsden Hartley estate.

Separated Material:

Material separated from the collection includes some issues of Camera Work (Vol. 30, 47, 49/50), which were combined with other issues in an artificial collection created by the Archives at some earlier point.

Provenance:

Elizabeth McCausland donated the bulk of her papers in several installments from 1956 to 1961. An unknown donor, perhaps her literary executor, donated additional papers sometime after her death in 1965. It appears that McCausland originally donated her research files on Marsden Hartley, measuring 10 linear feet, to the Whitney Museum, who then lent them to the Archives for microfilming in 1966, and donated them sometime thereafter. McCausland originally donated files of newspaper clippings and offprints of her articles to the The New York Public Library, who gave them to the Archives in 1968. Additional McCausland material from the estate of Berenice Abbott was donated to the Archives in 2009.

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:

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

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

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Art criticism -- United States  Search this

Documentary photography -- United States  Search this

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

Art -- Exhibitions -- United States  Search this

Art -- History -- Study and teaching  Search this

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

Modernism (Art)  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Function:

Arts organizations

Genre/Form:

Scrapbooks

Prints

Drawings

Photographs

Watercolors

Citation:

Elizabeth McCausland papers, 1838-1995, bulk 1920-1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

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

Identifier:

AAA.mccaeliz

See more items in:

Elizabeth McCausland papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9cebe32f8-0180-44bb-a2a8-8ed061f173c1

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-mccaeliz

Collection Creator:

McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965  Search this

Container:

Box 51, Folder 37

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

circa 1945-1960

Collection 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.

Collection 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.

Collection Citation:

Elizabeth McCausland papers, 1838-1995, bulk 1920-1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

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

See more items in:

Elizabeth McCausland papers

Elizabeth McCausland papers / Series 15: Elizabeth McCausland Material from the Estate of Berenice Abbott / 15.9: Writings

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b0f54a80-2ed3-45db-b16d-ab2ec0726fc9

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-mccaeliz-ref1725

Collection Creator:

McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965  Search this

Container:

Box 22, Folder 16

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1938-1940

Collection 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.

Collection 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.

Collection Citation:

Elizabeth McCausland papers, 1838-1995, bulk 1920-1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

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

See more items in:

Elizabeth McCausland papers

Elizabeth McCausland papers / Series 7: Other Research and Writing Files / 7.2: Lewis Hine

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ef034f39-5f15-41e5-8ac2-9419a54ce93e

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-mccaeliz-ref2673

Collection Creator:

McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965  Search this

Container:

Box 22, Folder 15

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1938

Collection 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.

Collection 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.

Collection Citation:

Elizabeth McCausland papers, 1838-1995, bulk 1920-1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

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

See more items in:

Elizabeth McCausland papers

Elizabeth McCausland papers / Series 7: Other Research and Writing Files / 7.2: Lewis Hine

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw975f33055-f1ad-4bf3-b832-df908f678093

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-mccaeliz-ref799

Collection Creator:

McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965  Search this

Container:

Box 22, Folder 18

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1938

Collection 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.

Collection 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.

Collection Citation:

Elizabeth McCausland papers, 1838-1995, bulk 1920-1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

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

See more items in:

Elizabeth McCausland papers

Elizabeth McCausland papers / Series 7: Other Research and Writing Files / 7.2: Lewis Hine

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c3653fc3-c77b-4cb0-9ea1-f716db7e2cbe

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-mccaeliz-ref801

Creator:

McCausland, Elizabeth 1899-1965  Search this

Uniform title:

Springfield republican  Search this

Subject:

Hartley, Marsden 1877-1943  Search this

Hawthorne, Charles Webster 1872-1930  Search this

Henri, Robert 1865-1929  Search this

Henry, Edward Lamson 1841-1919  Search this

Hine, Lewis Wickes 1874-1940  Search this

Inness, George 1825-1894  Search this

Kleinholz, Frank 1901-  Search this

Lawrence, Jacob 1917-2000  Search this

Maurer, Alfred Henry 1868-1932  Search this

Abbott, Berenice 1898- Changing New York  Search this

Dove, Arthur Garfield 1880-1946  Search this

Morgan, Barbara Brooks 1900-  Search this

Stieglitz, Alfred 1864-1946  Search this

Weegee 1899-1968  Search this

Weston, Edward 1886-1958  Search this

American Art Research Council  Search this

Barnard College Faculty  Search this

Federal Art Project (U.S.)  Search this

United States Farm Security Administration  Search this

Physical description:

45.0 linear feet

Type:

Drawings

Collection descriptions

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Place:

United States

New York N.Y

Date:

1838

1838-1995

bulk 1920-1960

20th century

Topic:

Art--Exhibitions  Search this

Art--Societies, etc  Search this

Art criticism  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Art, Modern  Search this

Documentary photography  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Modernism (Art)  Search this

Pictorial works  Search this

Local number:

AAA mccaeliz

Restrictions & Rights:

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

See more items in:

Elizabeth McCausland papers, 1838-1995, bulk 1920-1960

Elizabeth McCausland papers 1838-1995 [McCausland, Elizabeth 1899-1965]

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_210006

Creator:

Siporin, Mitchell 1910-1976  Search this

Subject:

Cheney, Sheldon 1886-  Search this

Cahill, Holger 1887-1960  Search this

Halpert, Edith Gregor 1900-1970  Search this

Rowan, Edward Beatty 1898-1946  Search this

Millman, Edward 1907-1964  Search this

Nordness, Lee  Search this

Federal Art Project  Search this

Physical description:

5.3 linear feet

Type:

Video recordings

Collection descriptions

Place:

United States

Date:

1913

1913-1990

20th century

Topic:

Documentary photography  Search this

Painting, Modern  Search this

Mural painting and decoration  Search this

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

War in art  Search this

Local number:

AAA 1328

AAA 1332

AAA 2061

AAA 2011-2012

AAA sipomitc

Restrictions & Rights:

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

See more items in:

Mitchell Siporin papers, 1913-1990

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_211606

Interviewee:

Sekula, Allan  Search this

Interviewer:

Panzer, Mary  Search this

Subject:

Altoon, John 1925-  Search this

Antin, David  Search this

Antin, Eleanor  Search this

Ascott, Roy  Search this

Braderman, Joan  Search this

Baldessari, John 1931-  Search this

Barthes, Roland  Search this

Becker, Howard  Search this

Bercovitch, Sacvan  Search this

Beveridge, Karl  Search this

Bo Diddley 1928-2008  Search this

Brach, Paul 1924-  Search this

Burch, Noël 1932-  Search this

Burn, Ian 1939-1993  Search this

Captain Beefheart  Search this

Charlesworth, Sarah 1947-2013  Search this

Chayefsky, Paddy 1923-1981  Search this

Conde, Carol  Search this

Connell, Brian  Search this

Evans, Walker 1903-1975  Search this

Farber, Manny  Search this

Feldman, Ronald 1938-  Search this

Folks, Homer 1867-1963  Search this

Fox, Terry 1943-  Search this

Fried, Howard 1946-  Search this

Ginsberg, Allen 1926-1997  Search this

Graham, Dan 1942-  Search this

Graves, Michael 1934-2015  Search this

Halleck, DeeDee  Search this

Hanhardt, John G  Search this

Hassan, Ihab 1925-2015  Search this

Hayes, Woody 1913-1987  Search this

Heinecken, Robert 1931-  Search this

Higgins, Dick 1938-1998  Search this

Hine, Lewis Wickes 1874-1940  Search this

Kienholz, Edward 1927-  Search this

Kirschenbaum, Baruch David 1931-  Search this

Knowles, Alison 1933-  Search this

König, Kasper  Search this

Kosuth, Joseph  Search this

Kozloff, Max  Search this

Kramer, Hilton  Search this

Krauss, Rosalind E  Search this

Liebling, Jerome  Search this

Lifson, Ben  Search this

Little Richard 1932-  Search this

Lonidier, Fred  Search this

Lord, Catherine 1949-  Search this

Lunn, Harry 1933-1998  Search this

Mac Low, Jackson  Search this

Mandel, Mike  Search this

Matta 1912-2002  Search this

Mayer, Grace M  Search this

Michelson, Annette  Search this

O'Doherty, Brian  Search this

Pommer, Richard  Search this

Ramsden, Mel  Search this

Raskin, Jef  Search this

Reagan, Ronald  Search this

Rosler, Martha  Search this

Ross, David A. 1949-  Search this

Ruby, Jay  Search this

Ruscha, Edward  Search this

Salle, David 1952-  Search this

Salvesen, Britt  Search this

Schimmel, Paul  Search this

Segalove, Ilene 1950-  Search this

Stein, Sally  Search this

Steinmetz, Philip  Search this

Sultan, Larry  Search this

Van Riper, Peter  Search this

Wakoski, Diane  Search this

Wall, Jeff 1946-  Search this

Artforum  Search this

California Institute of the Arts  Search this

Ohio State University Faculty  Search this

Rhode Island School of Design  Search this

Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)  Search this

University of California, San Diego  Search this

Physical description:

Sound recording: 12 sound files (6 hr.,14 min.) digital, wav

Transcript: 143 pages

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

New York (State)

New York

Date:

2011

2011-2012

2011 August 20-2012 February 14

20th century

Topic:

Activism  Search this

Antisemitism  Search this

Architecture  Search this

Art--Exhibitions--Economic aspects  Search this

Art--History  Search this

Art, Modern  Search this

Art--Study and teaching  Search this

Conceptual art  Search this

Documentary photography  Search this

Korean War, 1950-1953  Search this

Music  Search this

Photographers  Search this

Photography  Search this

Realism  Search this

World War, 1914-1918  Search this

Local number:

aaa

AAA sekula11

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_arc_370420

Interviewee:

Sekula, Allan  Search this

Interviewer:

Panzer, Mary  Search this

Names:

Artforum  Search this

California Institute of the Arts  Search this

Ohio State University -- Faculty  Search this

Rhode Island School of Design  Search this

Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)  Search this

University of California, San Diego  Search this

Altoon, John, 1925-  Search this

Antin, David  Search this

Antin, Eleanor  Search this

Ascott, Roy  Search this

Baldessari, John, 1931-  Search this

Barthes, Roland  Search this

Becker, Howard  Search this

Bercovitch, Sacvan  Search this

Beveridge, Karl  Search this

Brach, Paul, 1924-  Search this

Braderman, Joan  Search this

Burch, Noël, 1932-  Search this

Burn, Ian, 1939-1993  Search this

Captain Beefheart  Search this

Charlesworth, Sarah, 1947-2013  Search this

Chayefsky, Paddy, 1923-1981  Search this

Conde, Carol  Search this

Connell, Brian  Search this

Diddley, Bo, 1928-2008  Search this

Evans, Walker, 1903-1975  Search this

Farber, Manny  Search this

Feldman, Ronald, 1938-  Search this

Folks, Homer, 1867-1963  Search this

Fox, Terry, 1943-  Search this

Fried, Howard, 1946-  Search this

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997  Search this

Graham, Dan, 1942-  Search this

Graves, Michael, 1934-2015  Search this

Halleck, DeeDee  Search this

Hanhardt, John G.  Search this

Hassan, Ihab, 1925-2015  Search this

Hayes, Woody, 1913-1987  Search this

Heinecken, Robert, 1931-  Search this

Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998  Search this

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940  Search this

Kienholz, Edward, 1927-  Search this

Kirschenbaum, Baruch David, 1931-  Search this

Knowles, Alison, 1933-  Search this

Kosuth, Joseph.  Search this

Kozloff, Max  Search this

Kramer, Hilton  Search this

Krauss, Rosalind E.  Search this

König, Kasper  Search this

Liebling, Jerome  Search this

Lifson, Ben  Search this

Little Richard, 1932-  Search this

Lonidier, Fred  Search this

Lord, Catherine, 1949-  Search this

Lunn, Harry, 1933-1998  Search this

Mac Low, Jackson  Search this

Mandel, Mike  Search this

Matta, 1912-2002  Search this

Mayer, Grace M.  Search this

Michelson, Annette  Search this

O'Doherty, Brian  Search this

Pommer, Richard  Search this

Ramsden, Mel  Search this

Raskin, Jef  Search this

Reagan, Ronald  Search this

Rosler, Martha  Search this

Ross, David A., 1949-  Search this

Ruby, Jay  Search this

Ruscha, Edward  Search this

Salle, David, 1952-  Search this

Salvesen, Britt  Search this

Schimmel, Paul  Search this

Segalove, Ilene, 1950-  Search this

Stein, Sally  Search this

Steinmetz, Philip  Search this

Sultan, Larry  Search this

Van Riper, Peter  Search this

Wakoski, Diane  Search this

Wall, Jeff, 1946-  Search this

Extent:

12 Items (Sound recording: 12 sound files (6 hr.,14 min.), digital, wav)

143 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2011 August 20-2012 February 14

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Allan Sekula conducted 2011 August 20-2012 February 14, by Mary Panzer, for the Archives of American Art at Sekula's studio and home in Los Angeles, California and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York.

Sekula speaks of his career and some of the mediums he works in; language and contemporary art; Roland Barthes; his relation to contemporary art; west coast conceptualism; genre switches; realism; documentary photography; Belgium and the industrial revolution; Meunier; minor figures; art history and marginalism; Roberto Matta; World War I; Homer Folks; Fish Story; historic cinema; economic factors of art shows and publication; galleries and the art world; growing up and his family; his father and moving; Ohio; his brothers and sisters; San Pedro; demographics of students at school; sports at school; Vietnam; protests; cross country and swimming; California; fishing; college; U.C. system; declaring a major; John Altoon; Ed Kienholz; exposure to art; visiting museums; Marcuse's classes; Baldessari's classes; course work and student life; student demonstrations; working in a library and exposure to books; father losing his job; science and working as a chemical technician; politics; his uncle committing suicide; moving away from his father; the draft; John Birch; Students for a Democratic Society; his mother; politics of his parents; Aerospace Folk Tales, autodidacts and scholarship; San Diego and Mexico; obtaining a camera and starting to use it; art school; CalArts; UCSD; Meditations on a Triptych; David Salle; Fred Lonidier; Phel Steinmetz; MFA and art training; poets; story of Allen Ginsberg and one of Sekula's sculptures; production and the audience; A Photograph is Worth a Thousand Questions, photography and the burden of tradition; pictorialism; moving to New York; Artforum; October; New York music scene; Captain Beefheart; Bo Diddley; Little Richard; Steichen and aerial photography; origins of October; New Criterion; Art Critic's Grant; teaching at Ohio State; television; technological historians; New York subway and getting a ticket for using French money; RISD lectures; Long Beach; photography; collages; Metro Pictures; New Topographics; School as a Factory; moral choice and the viewer; work method and the audience; Social Criticism and Art Practice; east and west coasts; Ed Ruscha; documentary; film, Los Angeles; cinema and social history; Ohio State Department of Photography and Cinema; Los Angeles Plays Itself; Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador; Ohio State campus, anti-Semitism; Ronald Reagan and protest; influences and colleagues; intellectual genealogy; Michael Graves and Ohio State architecture; Bad Ohio; tenure; University Exposed; AIDS issue of October; The Body and the Archive; making film; Korean War; collectors and images. Sekula also recalls Eleanor Antin, Jeff Wall, Terry Fox, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Paul Saltman, Marcuse, Baldessari, Sacvan Bercovitch, Stanley Miller, Jef Raskin, Paul Brach, David Antin, Howard Fried, Peter Van Riper, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Manny Farber, Ihab Hassan, Diane Wakoski, Jackson Mac Low, Martha Rosler, Lenny Neufeld, Joshua Neufeld, David Wing, Brian Connell, Max Kozloff, Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, Carole Conde, Karl Beveridge, Barry Rosens, Tom Crow, John Copeland, Harry Lunn, Hilton Kramer, Grace Mayer, Carol Duncan, Eva Cockroft, Richard Pommer, Rosalind Krauss, Sally Stein, Paddy Chayefsky, John Hanhardt, Mel Ramsden, Sarah Charlesworth, Jospeh Kosuth, Baruch Kirschenbaum, Robert Heinecken, Brian O'Doherty, Howard Becker, Jay Ruby, Jerry Liebling, Anna Wilkie, Ronald Feldman, John Gibson, David Ross, Britt Salvesen, Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel, Roy Ascott, Ilene Segalove, Paul Schimmel, DeeDee Halleck, Noel Burch, Joan Braderman, Woody Hayes, Thom Andersen, John Quigley, Ron Green, Kasper Koenig, Dan Graham, Jonathan Green, Christa Wolf, Catherine Lord, Ben Lifson, and Annette Michelson.

Biographical / Historical:

Allan Sekula (1951-2013) was a photographer, filmmaker, and writer, based at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Mary Panzer (1955- ) is a historian from New York, New York.

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:

Photographers -- California  Search this

Filmmakers -- California  Search this

Authors -- California  Search this

Topic:

Activism  Search this

Antisemitism  Search this

Architecture  Search this

Art -- Exhibitions -- Economic aspects  Search this

Art -- History  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Conceptual art  Search this

Documentary photography  Search this

Korean War, 1950-1953  Search this

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

Photography  Search this

Realism  Search this

World War, 1914-1918  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Identifier:

AAA.sekula11

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9d657e5da-cd1b-4366-9fe9-1852a4c5be81

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-sekula11