Beatrice Takeuchi memoir, 1998. Takeuchi begins with her recollections of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and her stay in a War Relocation camp and describes in detail her impressions of the faculty, staff, and students at School of Design in Chicago. Most notable recollections involve instructors Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Jack Waldheim, George Fred Keck, Hubert Leckie, S.I. Hayakawa, and others. The memoir concludes with a summation of her career in the arts.
Biographical / Historical:
Beatrice Takeuchi (1921-2020) was a Japanese American educator based in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C. Takeuchi was born in Seattle, Washington. After the bombing of Pearl Harber, she was sent to a War Relocation Center, Pallyup, Washington and Minidoka, Idaho in August 1942. In October of 1942 she was allowed to leave to pursue studies in industrial design and architecture at the Chicago School of Design (fd. 1937 as New Bauhaus). From 1945-54 she taught foundation and visual design and held various positions in architecture and design studios in Washington, D.C., moving to NYC in 1954 and working as a free lance architect until 1968. She lived and worked in Chicago from 1968-1993, when she retired to Michigan.
Provenance:
Donated 1998 by Beatrice Takeuchi.
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.
23 photographic prints : col. ; 6 x 4 in. + negatives
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
circa 1994
Scope and Contents:
Photographs taken in 1994 by Peter Agoos, son of art collector Herbert Agoos, of works by Richard Filipowski in Herbert Agoos' collection, including paintings, collage, and sculpture completed circa 1947-1953.
Biographical / Historical:
Richard Filipowski (1923-2008) was a designer, sculptor, and teacher from Massachusetts.
Provenance:
Donated 1994 by Peter Agoos, whose father, Herbert Agoos, was a collector of Filipowski's work. Agoos was asked to photograph the works by AAA's New England Regional Collector at Filipowski's suggestion.
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.
The records of the Joan Peterson Gallery measure 0.6 linear feet and date from 1958 to 1980. The records document the history of the gallery through artists' files relating to Richard E. Filipowski, Jason Berger and Marilyn Powers, including biographical information, correspondence, price lists, exhibition catalogs, announcements, clippings, and photographs of works.
Scope and Contents:
The records of the Joan Peterson Gallery measure 0.6 linear feet and date from 1958 to 1980. The records document the history of the gallery through artists' files relating to Richard E. Filipowski, Jason Berger and Marilyn Powers, including biographical information, correspondence, price lists, exhibition catalogs, announcements, clippings, and photographs of works.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into one series.
Series 1: Joan Peterson Gallery Records, 1958-1980 (0.6 linear feet; Boxes 1-2)
Biographical / Historical:
The Joan Peterson Gallery was an art gallery in Boston, Massachusetts. Joan Peterson was one of the most prominent art dealers in Boston from the late 1950s into the early 1980s. The gallery showed the work of leading regional modernists. It closed in 1981.
Related Materials:
Also found in the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Richard Filipowski conducted by Robert Brown, September 25, 1989-March 14, 1990; an oral history interview with Jason Berger conducted by Robert Brown, January 12, 1979 and February 1, 1980; and the Jason Berger and Marilyn Powers papers, circa 1942-1993.
Provenance:
Donated in 1992 by Joan Peterson Klimann, former director of the Joan Peterson Gallery.
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.
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.
Function:
Art galleries, Commercial -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Citation:
Joan Peterson Gallery Records, 1958-1980. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.
Kessler, William H. (William Henry), 1924-2002 -- Art collections Search this
Extent:
3 Photographic prints (col., 3 in. x 5 in.)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Date:
circa 1994
Scope and Contents:
Photographs of works by Richard Filipowski collected by William Kessler including two oil paintings and one sculpture completed circa1947-late 1950s, and photographed by Kessler in 1994.
Biographical / Historical:
Filipowski: designer, sculptor, teacher; Mass. Kessler: architect, art collector.
Provenance:
Donated 1995 by William Kessler. Kessler photographed the works at Filipowski's suggestion.
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.
An interview of Richard E. Filipowski conducted 1989 Sept. 25-1990 Mar. 14, by Robert Brown for the Archives of American Art. Filipowski discusses his early childhood in Poland; immigration and childhood in Ontario, Canada; attending the Chicago School of Design (formerly New Bauhaus) under Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; freelance work in Chicago; teaching at the School of Design, at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and at MIT; his sculpture; and associations with Walter Gropius, Joseph Hudnut, Robert Preusser, Lawrence Anderson, Gyorgy Kepes, and Pietro Belluschi.
Biographical / Historical:
Richard E. Filipowski (1923-2008) was a sculptor, designer, filmmaker, and educator in Massachusetts.
General:
Originally recorded as 6 cassette tapes. Reformatted in 2010 as 11 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hrs., 48 min.
Provenance:
These interviews are 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:
Art teachers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews Search this
Topic:
Sculptors -- Massachusetts -- Interviews Search this
Designers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews Search this
Filmmakers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews Search this
Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- United States Search this
Printed material consists of exhibition catalogs and announcements; clippings about his art, designs, and teaching; and reproductions of Filipowski's designs and illustrations.
Arrangement:
The material in this series is arranged by document type, such as catalogs and clippings, then arranged chronologically within each grouping.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.
Collection Citation:
Richard E. Filipowski papers, circa 1940-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
