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Grillo, John

Collection Creator:
Associated American Artists  Search this
Container:
Box 9, Folder 2
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C., facility.
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:
Associated American Artists records, circa 1934-1983. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Associated American Artists records
Associated American Artists records / Series 1: Artist Files
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw96564462a-b463-4d03-8c9b-e6325d9a89ed
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-assoamea-ref375

Grillo, John

Collection Creator:
B.C. Holland Gallery  Search this
Holland, B. C. (Bud C.), 1922-1994  Search this
Container:
Box 1, Folder 41
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1960-1961
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment.
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:
B. C. Holland Gallery records, 1942-1991, bulk 1959-1965. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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B. C. Holland Gallery records
B. C. Holland Gallery records / Series 1: Artist Files
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9975f73b1-8d89-4042-9002-361a20f15ab1
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-bcholl-ref43

Oral history interview with Charles Duback

Interviewee:
DuBack, Charles S., 1926-  Search this
Interviewer:
Larsen, Susan C.  Search this
Names:
Landmark Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts  Search this
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture  Search this
Dugmore, Edward, 1915-  Search this
Grillo, John, 1917-  Search this
Grooms, Red  Search this
Katz, Alex, 1927-  Search this
Langlais, Bernard, 1921-1977  Search this
McNeil, George, 1908-1995  Search this
Ortman, George, 1926-  Search this
Pinette, Dennis, 1951-  Search this
Poor, Henry Varnum, 1887-1970  Search this
Stout, Myron, 1908-1987  Search this
Extent:
36 Pages (Transcript)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Sound recordings
Interviews
Date:
2004 December 15-2005 May 18
Scope and Contents:
An interview of Charles Duback conducted 2004 December 15-2005 May 18, by Susan C. Larsen, for the Archives of American Art, in Tenants Harbor, Maine.
Mr. Duback discusses his childhood; his Czech lineage; working at his father's bakery and gaining artistic sensibilities there; the drive to become an artist, and the financial risks therein; joining the Navy during World War II; attending trade school in New Haven, Connecticut, and the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art in Newark, New Jersey; attending the Skowhegan School in Maine; his first wife Daphne Mumford; sustaining two homes, one in New York City and another in Maine, and the difficulties in maintaining them; the influence of collage on his paintings; his "strip" paintings; the opening and closing of the Landmark Gallery; making his "projections," wherein he adheres objects to a painting's canvas; and the friends he made during his time running Landmark. Duback also mentions moving from North Waldoboro, Maine to St. George, Maine; moving again to Germantown, New York; finding living in New York difficult; divorcing Mumford; his second wife Phyllis; rising tax and insurance costs and what they mean to artists; and painting as a career. Duback recalls Bernard Langlais, Helen Langlais, Edward Dugmore, Alex Katz, Wes LaFountain, Red Grooms, George Ortman, Myron Stout, George McNeil, Dennis Pinette, John Grillo, Henry Varnum Poor, and others.
Biographical / Historical:
Charles S. DuBack (1926-) is a painter of Tenants Harbor, Maine. Susan C. Larsen, interviewer, is an art historian in Tenants Harbor, Maine.
General:
Originally recorded on 2 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 11 min.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
Occupation:
Painters -- Maine -- Interviews  Search this
Topic:
World War, 1939-1945  Search this
Art -- Economic aspects  Search this
Collage  Search this
Genre/Form:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Identifier:
AAA.duback04
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw93a105f39-ad66-4770-887a-db5bf7bb4849
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-duback04
Online Media:

Grillo, John, Printed Material, Photographs

Collection Creator:
Howard Wise Gallery  Search this
Container:
Box 4, Folder 13
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1955-1964
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
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:
Howard Wise Gallery records, 1943-1969. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Howard Wise Gallery records
Howard Wise Gallery records / Series 2: Artist Files
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw97f59491e-7a73-4998-9463-cf6963a1bf64
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-howawisg-ref1155

Grillo, John

Collection Creator:
Howard Wise Gallery  Search this
Container:
Box 4, Folder 12
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
circa 1960-1964
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
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:
Howard Wise Gallery records, 1943-1969. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
See more items in:
Howard Wise Gallery records
Howard Wise Gallery records / Series 2: Artist Files
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw95a8123d3-5716-4e44-b08b-115e0fdc95e7
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-howawisg-ref215

Grillo, John

Collection Creator:
American Federation of Arts  Search this
Container:
Box 9, Folder 43
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1963-1964
Collection Restrictions:
Use requires an appointment.
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:
American Federation of Arts records, 1895-1993 (bulk 1909-1969). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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American Federation of Arts records
American Federation of Arts records / Series 3: Special Programs / 3.1: Artists in Residence (Ford Foundation) / Artists in Residence
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw952d3146c-893e-49a4-bb2b-bac30e7605b3
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-amerfeda-ref376

John Grillo : the San Francisco years : watercolors 1947, 1948 / essay by Peter Selz

Author:
Grillo, John 1917-  Search this
Selz, Peter 1919-  Search this
Robert Green Fine Arts  Search this
Subject:
Grillo, John 1917-  Search this
Physical description:
[19] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Date:
1998
[1998]
Call number:
ND1839.G75 A4 1998
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_622524

John Grillo : paintings 1946-1964

Author:
Grillo, John 1917-  Search this
Robert Green Fine Arts  Search this
Subject:
Grillo, John 1917-  Search this
Physical description:
[16] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Date:
2003
Call number:
ND1839.G62 A4 2003
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_917870

Alice Yamin papers, 1927-1998

Creator:
Yamin, Alice D., 1905-2002  Search this
Subject:
Aziz, Barbara Nimri  Search this
Aach, Herbert  Search this
Ginsberg, Henry  Search this
De Kooning, Elaine  Search this
Bultman, Fritz  Search this
Brody, Lily  Search this
Briggs, Ernest  Search this
Bolotowsky, Ilya  Search this
Bernard, Frank S.  Search this
Yamin, Leo  Search this
Schmid, Elsa  Search this
Teller, Jane  Search this
Siskind, Aaron  Search this
Katz, Alex  Search this
Fromboluti, Sideo  Search this
Lipkind, Bill  Search this
Rothko, Mark  Search this
Lipkind, Maria  Search this
Glarner, Fritz  Search this
Gottlieb, Adolph  Search this
Grillo, John  Search this
Johnson, Buffie  Search this
Oeri, Georgine  Search this
Oeri-Sarasin, Gertrude  Search this
Pavia, Philip  Search this
Littlefield, William Horace  Search this
Mason, Alice Trumbull  Search this
Newman, Barnett  Search this
McFadden, Elizabeth  Search this
Mumford, Daphne  Search this
Landmark Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Type:
Photographs
Citation:
Alice Yamin papers, 1927-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Topic:
Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Consultants -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Painting -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Draftsman -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Women artists  Search this
Women painters  Search this
Theme:
Women  Search this
Lives of artists  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)6897
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209026
AAA_collcode_yamialic
Theme:
Women
Lives of artists
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209026
Online Media:

Oral history interview with John Grillo

Interviewee:
Grillo, John, 1917-  Search this
Interviewer:
Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994  Search this
Names:
Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966  Search this
Extent:
3 Sound tape reels (Sound recordings (2 hours), 5 in.)
64 Pages (Transcript)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Sound tape reels
Pages
Sound recordings
Interviews
Date:
1964 Dec. 29
Scope and Contents:
An interview of John Grillo conducted by Dorothy Seckler on 1964 Dec. 29 for the Archives of American Art.
Biographical / Historical:
Painter; Amherst, Mass.
General:
Sound quality is poor.
The recording ends before the conclusion of the interview.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives' 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 others.
Restrictions:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
Painters -- Massachusetts -- Amherst -- Interviews  Search this
World War, 1939-1945  Search this
Art -- Philosophy  Search this
Painting -- Technique  Search this
Sculpture -- Technique  Search this
Genre/Form:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Identifier:
AAA.grillo64
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw916ce71bf-443f-41da-858e-132ff13fb9bb
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-grillo64
Online Media:

John Grillo, 1917-2014 [Folder]

Contents:
Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs.
Topic:
Artists  Search this
Location:
Art & Artist files at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library
Data source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:SILAF_29360

John Grillo : works on paper, 1946-1948 : [exhibition] December 7-January 3, 1990, the Carlson Gallery

Author:
Grillo, John 1917-  Search this
Carlson Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.)  Search this
Subject:
Grillo, John 1917- Exhibitions  Search this
Physical description:
20 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
California, Northern
Date:
1989
[1989?]
Topic:
Artists--Exhibitions  Search this
Call number:
N40.1.G8536 C2 1989
N40.1.G8536C2 1989
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_406402

Untitled, (painting)

Painter:
Grillo, John 1917-2014  Search this
Medium:
Oil on board
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Provincetown Art Association and Museum 460 Commercial Street Provincetown Massachusetts 02657 Accession Number: 667
Date:
1959
Topic:
Undetermined  Search this
Control number:
IAP 22490573
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_475783

Untitled, (painting)

Painter:
Grillo, John 1917-2014  Search this
Medium:
Watercolor on paper
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Provincetown Art Association and Museum 460 Commercial Street Provincetown Massachusetts 02657 Accession Number: 2057
Date:
1968
Topic:
Undetermined  Search this
Control number:
IAP 22490576
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_475786

John Grillo : abstract expressions of the fifties & sixties : paintings and collages, May 5 - June 5, 2004, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery

Title:
Abstract expressions of the fifties & sixties : paintings and collages
Author:
Grillo, John 1917-  Search this
Morgan, Robert C. 1943-  Search this
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery  Search this
Subject:
Grillo, John 1917-  Search this
Physical description:
[12] p. : col. ill., port. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Date:
2004
Call number:
ND237.G667 A4 2004
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1000553

Untitled, (painting)

Painter:
Grillo, John 1917-2014  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Bowdoin College Bowdoin College Museum of Art Walker Art Building Brunswick Maine 04011 Accession Number: 1965.35
Topic:
Undetermined  Search this
Control number:
IAP 17860374
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_448886

Untitled, (painting)

Painter:
Grillo, John 1917-2014  Search this
Medium:
Oil on Masonite
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Provincetown Art Association and Museum 460 Commercial Street Provincetown Massachusetts 02657 Accession Number: 176
Topic:
Undetermined  Search this
Control number:
IAP 22490571
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_475781

Citadel, (sculpture)

Sculptor:
Grillo, John 1917-2014  Search this
Medium:
Polychromed bronze
Type:
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 63.1682
Date:
Dec. 1962. Cast in 1963
Topic:
Undetermined  Search this
Control number:
IAS 76002425
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_1668

Untitled Mosaic, (painting)

Painter:
Grillo, John 1917-2014  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Date:
Ca. 1950
Topic:
Abstract--Geometric  Search this
Control number:
IAP 8F980025
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_474832

Untitled (abstraction), (painting)

Painter:
Grillo, John 1917-2014  Search this
Medium:
Acrylic paint, charcoal and pencil on paper
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
National Gallery of Art Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W Washington District of Columbia 20565
Date:
1974
Topic:
Abstract  Search this
Control number:
IAP 08261000
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_460294

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