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War cries on horseback the story of the Indian wars of the Great Plains

Author:
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 335, [2] pages illustrations, maps, portraits 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Great Plains
Date:
1970
Topic:
Wars  Search this
Indians of North America--Wars  Search this
Call number:
E81 .L85
E81.L85
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_2922

Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg papers

Creator:
Feitelson, Lorser, 1898-1978  Search this
Names:
Federal Art Project (Calif.)  Search this
Benjamin, Karl  Search this
Butterfield, Jan  Search this
Hammersley, Frederick, 1919-2009  Search this
Kadish, Reuben, 1913-1992  Search this
Langsner, Jules, 1911-1967  Search this
Longstreet, Stephen, 1907-  Search this
Lundeberg, Helen, 1908-1999  Search this
McCoy, Esther  Search this
McLaughlin, John, 1898-  Search this
Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003  Search this
Moran, Diane De Gasis  Search this
Rattner, Abraham  Search this
Seldis, Henry  Search this
Sheets, Millard, 1907-1989  Search this
Extent:
15.6 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Sketches
Poetry
Writings
Drawings
Sound recordings
Photographs
Date:
circa 1890s-2002
Summary:
The papers of Los Angeles painters and art instructors Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg measure 15.6 linear feet and date from circa 1890s to 2002. The papers document the careers of the two artists, including their establishment of the Post-surrealism movement in southern California, their work for federal arts programs, and their later abstract artwork. Found are biographical materials, correspondence, personal business records, exhibition files, printed materials, photographs, and one sound recording.
Scope and Content Note:
The papers of Los Angeles painters and art instructors Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg measure 15.6 linear feet and date from circa 1890s to 2002. The papers document the careers of the two artists, including their establishment of the Post-surrealism movement in southern California, their work for federal arts programs, and their later abstract artwork. Found are biographical materials, correspondence, personal business records, exhibition files, printed materials, photographs, and one sound recording.

Biographical documentation is found for both artists. Lundeberg's early life is documented by school notebooks, yearbooks, diplomas, calendars, awards, and a "memory book." Feitelson's biographical materials include family certificates and documents compiled by Lundeberg regarding Feitelson's funeral. Also found are curriculum vitae and biographical sketches for both artists.

Correspondence is extensive and includes both personal and professional correspondence for both Feitelson and Lundeberg. Materials consist of letters with critics, museums, artists, and friends, including Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley, Reuben Kadish, John McLauglin, Diane Moran, and Abraham Rattner. Of special interest is Feitelson and Lundeberg's correspondence with Museum of Modern Art curator Dorothy Canning Miller.

A small amount of exhibition materials, mostly loan agreements and checklists, are found in the papers documenting exhibitions and loans of their artwork to exhibitions. Personal business records concern the management of their artwork and personal collections. Found here are lists of artwork, price lists, appraisal reports, sales invoices, purchase receipts, tax documents, and a set of index cards for their artwork. There are a few scattered legal documents as well. In addition to personal business records, there is a series of records of the Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Foundation, established by Lundeberg in 1978.

Scattered research and teaching files are mostly Feitelson's. They document his personal research, teaching activities, and television programs, particularly the program Feitelson on Art. Writings, however, are found for both artists and include artist statements, writings about art and art styles and movements, writings about each artist, and writings about the Federal Arts Program in southern California. Of interest are numerous writings by other contemporary writers and critics, including Jan Butterfield, Jules Langsner, Stephen Longstreet, Esther McCoy, Diane Moran, Henry Seldis, and Millard Sheets.

A small amount of artwork is found within the collection by Feitelson and Lundeberg, mostly sketches and drawings. There is one print by Hans Burkhardt.

Printed materials include newsclippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, lecture announcements, posters, press releases, and printed reproductions of Feitelson's and Lundeberg's artwork. There are also pamphlets produced by the Works Progress Administration Federal Arts Program and Lundeberg's poetry.

Photographs are extensive and include many of Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg, as well as of family, friends, and students. There are four photo albums and numerous photographs of Feitelson's and Lundeberg's artwork, including some exhibition installations.

There is one circa 1957 reel-to-reel sound recording of an episode of Feitelson on Art, focusing on Paul Gauguin.

An addition of 0.2 linear feet received in 2014 includes Feitelson's art history and teaching notes, writings by Feitelson, and photographs and contact sheets of Feitelson and works of art.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into 11 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1922-1995 (Boxes 1-2, 19; 1.5 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1932-1998 (Boxes 2-4; 2.5 linear feet)

Series 3: Exhibition Records, 1936-1989 (Boxes 4-5; 0.25 linear feet)

Series 4: Personal Business Records, 1943-1998 (Boxes 5-6; 1.0 linear feet)

Series 5: Feitelson and Lundeberg Foundation Records, 1978-1997 (Boxes 6-7, 19; 1.5 linear feet)

Series 6: Research and Teaching Materials, 1940s-1960s (Boxes 7-8; 0.75 linear feet)

Series 7: Writings, 1930-1989 (Boxes 8-9; 1.0 linear feet)

Series 8: Artwork, 1920s-1991 (Boxes 9, 19; 9 folders)

Series 9: Printed Materials, 1923-2002 (Boxes 9-11, 20; 2.0 linear feet)

Series 10: Photographs, circa 1890s-1993 (Boxes 11-14, 16-19, and OV 21-22; 4.3 linear feet)

Series 11: Audio Recording, circa 1957 (Box 15; 1 item)

Series 12: Unprocessed Addition, circa 1919-1978 (Box 23; 0.2 linear feet)
Biographical Note:
Art instructor and painter Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978) lived and worked in Los Angeles with his wife Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999), also one of southern California's leading painters. Together, Feitelson and Lundeberg founded the movement known as Subjective Classicism, or Post-surrealism. Their work had a great influence on southern California art and they formed many relationships with artists and critics of the area.

Lorser Feitelson was born in Savannah, Georgia on February 11, 1898, and grew up in New York City. By the age of twelve, he was painting in oils, and three years later he began to paint in earnest after attending the Armory Show. At the age of eighteen, Feitelson had his own studio in New York City. Over the next few years, he met other artists, including Arthur Davies, Walter Pach, and John Sloan. From 1919 to 1926, Feitelson lived in Paris and traveled to New York to exhibit; he also spent some time in Italy. In 1927, Feitelson moved to Los Angeles, the city that would remain his home for the rest of his life. There he met his wife and artist, Helen Lundeberg, and married in 1933.

Feitelson taught at the Chouinard Art Institute and the Stickney Memorial School of Art, became involved in the operations of the Centaur Gallery, and helped to found the Stanley Rose Gallery and the Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art. Beginning with the first Post-surrealist exhibition 1934, Feitelson and Lundeberg's work was exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and was included in the Museum of Modern Art's Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition of 1937. Feitelson continued to create Post-surrealist paintings until 1942. During this same time, Feitelson also served as the Supervisor of Murals, Painting, and Sculpture for the Southern California Works Progress Administration Federal Arts Project.

In 1944, Feitelson began to paint abstract shapes that he referred to as "magical forms." Feitelson continued working in an abstract manner throughout the fifties, and in 1959 was included by Jules Langsner in the exhibition Four Abstract Classicists along with Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley, and John McLaughlin. From this exhibition emerged the term "hard edge" painting, which referred to the presence of geometric shapes and flat pictorial space in the work of these artists. During the final two decades of his life, Feitelson continued to work regularly, and continued to explore abstraction.

Feitelson taught for many years at the Art Center School and was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana. He also hosted the television program Feitelson on Art from 1956-1963, as well as serving as a frequent guest on the program Cavalcade of Books to discuss art publications. Lorser Feitelson died in 1978.

Helen Lundeberg was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 24, 1908. At the age of four, her family moved to Pasadena, where she attended Pasadena High School and Junior College. In the spring of 1930, a family friend sponsored Lundeberg's tuition to attend classes at the Stickney Memorial School of Art. That summer Lundeberg met Lorser Feitelson, who had recently taken over the teaching of her construction and composition class. The following year, Lundeberg's work was included in an exhibition for the first time. By 1933, Lundeberg had a solo exhibition at the Stanley Rose Gallery. Throughout the 1930s, Lundeberg painted in a Post-surrealist manner and created some of her best known works including "Double Portrait of the Artist in Time" (1935). She also began working for the California Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project in 1936. Over the next six years, she designed murals for libraries, high schools, and parks. She and Feitelson married in 1933.

During the next five decades, Lundeberg created a distinctive and diverse body of work that included surreal images of floating mountains and falling skies, austere landscapes and architectural forms, and abstract works with brilliant colors. She remained from the 1930s to the time of her death in 1999 one of the leading and most respected figures in southern California art. Her work has been exhibited in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Related Material:
Found in the Archives of American Art are oral history interviews with Lorser Feitelson conducted by Betty Lochrie Hoag, May 12, 1964; with Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg conducted by Betty Lochrie Hoag, March 17, 1965; and with Helen Lundeberg conducted by Jan Butterfield, July 19 and August 29, 1980. Also found are Lorser Feitelson lectures recorded by Bonnie Trotter, 1973-1974.
Separated Material:
The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming (reel LA 1) including a scrapbook of clippings primarily concerning Lorser Feitelson's activities with the federal Works Progress Administration. Lent materials were returned to the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.
Provenance:
In 1964, Feitelson loaned for microfilming a scrapbook of clippings primarily concerning his activities with the federal Works Progress Administration. The scrapbook was microfilmed on Reel LA1 and returned to Feitelson. It is not included in the container inventory in this finding aid.
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:
Painters -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this
Topic:
Art -- Study and teaching  Search this
Genre/Form:
Sketches
Poetry
Writings
Drawings
Sound recordings
Photographs
Citation:
Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg papers, circa 1890s-2002. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.feitlors
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Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg papers
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b512ba00-6fa2-476e-a0d1-2012bb1179cd
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-feitlors
Online Media:

Interviews with Stephen Longstreet

Creator:
Longstreet, Stephen, 1907-  Search this
Saltman, Molly, 1915-2010  Search this
Subject:
KPAL (Radio station : Palm Springs, California)  Search this
Type:
Sound Recording
Date:
1966-1967
Citation:
Stephen Longstreet and Molly Saltman. Interviews with Stephen Longstreet, 1966-1967. Molly Saltman "Art and Artists" interviews, 1966-1967. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Topic:
Artists  Search this
Authors  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA)20873
See more items in:
Molly Saltman "Art and Artists" interviews, 1966-1967
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_item_20873

Self-portraits of great artists. Introduction by Stephen Longstreet

Author:
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Physical description:
[48] pages (chiefly illustrations) 31 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1973
[1973]
Topic:
Self-portraits  Search this
Portrait drawing  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1049646

The canvas falcons: the story of the men and the planes of World War I / Stephen Longstreet

Author:
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 365 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1995
Topic:
World War, 1914-1918--Aerial operations  Search this
Call number:
D600 .L66 1995
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_729115

Yoshiwara : the pleasure quarters of old Tokyo / by Stephen and Ethel Longstreet ; illustrated by masters of the Japanese print

Author:
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Longstreet, Ethel  Search this
Physical description:
xix, 225 p. : ill. ; 19 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Japan
Tokyo
Yoshiwara (Tokyo, Japan)
Date:
1988
Topic:
Prostitution--History  Search this
Sex customs--History  Search this
Geishas--History  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
HQ247.T6 L36 1988
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_875278

Jazz from A to Z : a graphic dictionary / drawings and text by Stephen Longstreet

Author:
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Subject:
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Physical description:
[270] p. : ill. ; 31 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1989
C1989
Topic:
Jazz--Dictionaries  Search this
Jazz musicians--Dictionaries  Search this
Call number:
N40.1.L8535x L8 1989
N40.1.L8535xL8 1989
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_388580

Sometimes I wonder : the story of Hoagy Carmichael / by Hoagy Carmichael with Stephen Longstreet

Author:
Carmichael, Hoagy 1899-1981  Search this
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Subject:
Carmichael, Hoagy 1899-1981  Search this
Physical description:
313 pages : illustrations, pls., portraits ; 22 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
1965
[1965]
Topic:
Composers  Search this
Musicians  Search this
Call number:
ML410.C327 A27X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_46613

Drawings on classic themes and others / edited by Stephen Longstreet

Title:
Lorser Feitelson drawings
Author:
Feitelson, Lorser 1898-1978  Search this
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Subject:
Feitelson, Lorser 1898-1978  Search this
Physical description:
[48] p. : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1979
C1979
Call number:
N40.1.F297x L8 1979
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_487540

The stardust road & Sometimes I wonder : the autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael / by Hoagy Carmichael ; new introduction and select discography by John Edward Hasse ; Sometimes I wonder cowritten with Stephen Longstreet

Title:
Stardust road
Author:
Carmichael, Hoagy 1899-1981  Search this
Hasse, John Edward 1948-  Search this
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Carmichael, Hoagy 1899-1981 Sometimes I wonder  Search this
Subject:
Carmichael, Hoagy 1899-1981  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 156, 313 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
1999
Topic:
Composers  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_774158

Chicago, 1860-1919

Author:
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Physical description:
xxiii, 547 p. illus., maps (on lining papers) 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Chicago (Ill.)
Date:
1973
[1973]
Topic:
History  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
F548.45 .L66X
F548.45.L66X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_35014

Storyville to Harlem : fifty years in the jazz scene / Stephen Longstreet

Author:
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Physical description:
211 p. : ill. ; 31 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1986
C1986
Topic:
Jazz--History and criticism  Search this
Jazz musicians  Search this
Call number:
ML3506.L66 1986X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_312640

A century on wheels, the story of Studebaker; a history, 1852-1952

Author:
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Subject:
Studebaker Corporation  Search this
Physical description:
121 pages illustrations 25 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
Indiana
South Bend (Ind.)
Date:
1952
[1952]
Topic:
Automobile industry and trade--History  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
HD9710.U54S85X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_206991

The drawings of Matisse. Introd. by Stephen Longstreet

Author:
Matisse, Henri 1869-1954  Search this
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Subject:
Matisse, Henri 1869-1954  Search this
Physical description:
[48] p. (chiefly illus.) 31 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1973
[1973]
Call number:
NC248.M4 L66
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_648627

The drawings of Rodin. Introd. by Stephen Longstreet

Author:
Rodin, Auguste 1840-1917  Search this
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Physical description:
1 v. (chiefly illus.) 31 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1965
[1965]
Call number:
NC1135.R6 L6
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_668951

City on two rivers : profiles of New York--yesterday and today / Stephen Longstreet ; illustrated with the author's drawings and with old photos

Author:
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 305 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Biography
Place:
New York (N.Y.)
Date:
1975
C1975
Topic:
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_540229

Sportin' house : a history of the New Orleans sinners and the birth of jazz / text and pictures by Stephen Longstreet

Author:
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 293 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Louisiana
New Orleans
Date:
1965
C1965
Topic:
Jazz--History and criticism  Search this
Prostitution  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_954133

A treasury of the world's great prints; a collection of the best-known woodcuts, etchings, engravings, and lithographs by twenty-three great artists, selected and presented by Stephen Longstreet

Author:
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Physical description:
333 p. : illus. (part col.) ; 31 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1961
[1961]
Topic:
Prints  Search this
Printmakers  Search this
Call number:
NE900 .L6X
NE900.L6X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_26066

Indian wars of the Great Plains / Stephen Logstreet

Title:
War cries on horseback
Author:
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 335, [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Great Plains
Date:
1993
Topic:
Wars  Search this
Call number:
E81 .L852 1993
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_980362

The real jazz, old and new / written and illustrated by Stephen Longstreet

Author:
Longstreet, Stephen 1907-2002  Search this
Physical description:
xv, 202 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1956
C1956
Topic:
Jazz--History and criticism  Search this
Jazz musicians  Search this
Call number:
ML3506 .L667 1956
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_599574

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