Ira Spanierman is a gallery owner from New York, New York. James McElhinney (1952- ) is a painter and educator from New York, New York.
General:
Originally recorded on 2 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 21 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.
An interview with Barbara Novak conducted 2013 October 8-17, by James McElhinney, for the Archvies of American Art, at Novak's home in Manhattan, New York.
Novak speaks of her early art training; learning to draw at the age of eight with help from her uncle William Kaufman and later taking art classes with Belle Icahn; Edward Melkoff; Joseph Presser; and classes at the Art Students League; becoming Expressionist in her painting; her year in Europe as a Fulbright student from Harvard University; the powerful lectures of Julius Held at Barnard College that launched her career; feeling that she devised a system by which works of art can be understood through looking closely at their physical properties and how she tries to develop the individual in her students; her time as a docent at the Brooklyn Museum in the American art collection; which led her to becoming an Americanist; her book, "Alice's Neck" and the inspiring Utah landscape; the importance of Fitz Henry Lane's work; the embodiment in American art of Pragmatism and Transcendentalism; and being led to Luminism; her books showing how to understand American culture through art, covering formal, contextual, and spiritual elements; hosting the first television show on art, "Vision of Art"; her husband Brian O'Doherty's background in art; the importance of nature for Cole and Durand; that common sense should be used in describing works of art, rather than assuming current events influenced the artist; her education at Harvard; Margaret Fuller and writing "The Margaret-Ghost"; Marcel Duchamp; Andrew Wyeth; Edward Hopper; Robert Rauschenberg; Mark Rothko; and Lee Krasner; and that the most exhilarating time intellectually for her was the 1960s with a group that included Robert Smithson, Sol LeWitt, Eva Hesse, Peter Hutchinson, Morton Feldman, Mel Bochner, and others. Barbara also recalls Mrs. Nevins, William Scharf, Paul Cormans [ph], Marion Lawrence, Marge Shapiro, Maxim Karolick, William Goetzmann, Ann McCoy, Ben Rowland, Bart Hayes, Ted Reff, Dan Aaron, Louis Bosa, Linda Ferber, Meredith Davis, Marissa Watts, and others.
Biographical / Historical:
Barbara Novak (1929- ) is an art historian in New York, New York. James McElhinney (1952- ) is a painter and educator in New York, New York.
General:
Originally recorded as 4 sound files. Duration is 4 hr., 26 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.
Restrictions:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
Occupation:
Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York Search this
Baur, John I. H. (John Ireland Howe), 1909-1987 Search this
Extent:
1 Item (sound cassette (1 hr., 2 min.))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Sound recordings
Date:
1980 Nov. 18
Scope and Contents:
A panel discussion held 1980 Nov. 18, at the National Academy of Design, New York, N.Y.
Panel members are John I. H. Baur, Linda Ferber, and John Wilmerding, with Barbara Novak as moderator. John Howard Dobkin and William McNaught introduce the speakers.
General:
Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 2 min.
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.
Lee Krasner's correspondence spans over forty years, but the bulk of it ranges from 1970 to her death in 1984. Found here is correspondence with galleries and gallery owners that represented her, exhibited her work, or requested her work for potential exhibitions. Krasner was friends with many artists and art professionals and her personal correspondence includes many letters from artists such as Philip Johnson, Ray Eames, Cleve Gray, and Hans Namuth. She also corresponded with art historians and critics, curators, collectors, arts and social organizations, admirers, and family members. Additionally, this series includes fan mail, student inquiries, correspondence with journalists and publishers, requests for her to lecture, and business correspondence on the sale of her work. There are numerous letters and telegrams congratulating Krasner on exhibitions, such as the 1965 Whitechapel retrospective and extensive documentation of her 1958 commission to create a mural for Uris Brothers, Inc.
See Index for List of Notable Correspondents from Series 2.2
Arrangement note:
Letters are arranged chronologically and include both letters received by Krasner and handwritten or typed drafts sent by Krasner. Later in her life many of the drafts were written by her secretary.
Index: List of Notable Correspondents from Series 2.2:
List represents only a selection of correspondents.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
American Federation of Arts
Appelhof, Ruth Ann
Asher, Elise
Australian National Gallery
Barron, Maida
Berkson, Bill
Collier, Oscar
Cooper Union
County of Nassau Office of Cultural Development
Diamonstein, Barbaralee
Dickler, Gerald
Eames, Ray
Englesmith, Tejas
Erskine, Halley
Forge, Andrew (Yale University)
Franklin Siden Gallery
Friedman, B. H.
Friedman, Sanford
Glaser, Bruce
Goodman, Naomi
Gray, Cleve
Gregory-Hood, Alex (Rowan Gallery)
Guggenheim Museum
Guild Hall
Holladay, Billie
Howard, Richard
Howell, Douglas Morse
Hubbard, E. W.
Janie C. Lee Gallery
Johnson, Philip
Landau, Ellen
Lauck, Anthony
Lloyd, Frank
Marlborogh Fine Art, Ltd.
Martha Jackson Gallery
Matter, Mercedes
McHenry, Barnabas (Barney)
Michael, Marjorie
Museum of Modern Art
Myers, John Bernard
Namuth, Hans
Nemser, Cindy
New York WPA Artists, Inc.
Nochlin, Linda
Novak, Barbara
O'Connor, Francis
Oppler, Ellen
Ossorio, Alfonso
Pace Gallery
Parrish Art Museum
Pavia, Philip
Pollock, Jay
Rago, Louise Elliott
Robert Miller Gallery
Robertson, Bryan
Rose, Barbara
Russell, Bertrand
Schilling, Marge
School of Visual Arts
Sidney Janis Gallery
Siegel, Adele
Smithsonian Institution
Spaeth, Elaine
Stasik, Andrew
Still, Clyfford
Stony Brook Foundation
Tate Gallery
Thaw, Eugene V.
Thayer, Jeanne
Valliere, James
Van Fossen, Ted
Whitechapel Art Gallery
Whitney, David
Whitney Museum of American Art
Wise, Howard
Collection Restrictions:
The collection has been digitized and is available online via AAA's website.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers, circa 1914-1984. 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.
