A transcript of an interview with James Earle and Laura Gardin Fraser; biographical data; letters to Laura Fraser; general correspondence; lists of people and their addresses; unpublished manuscripts and notes, including James Fraser's INDIAN PRAIRIE, recording his childhood memories in the Dakota territory of 1880; financial material; printed material, including catalogs, brochures, announcements, scholarship data, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and reproductions; drawings and sketches; Mary Goff's undated sketchbook; and ca. 900 photographs of the Frasers and their works of art.
Biographical / Historical:
Sculptors; Westport, Connecticut.
Provenance:
Lent 1982 by Mrs. Erving Wolf. It is unclear how she acquired the papers.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Scrapbook containing photographs of the work of Herzl Emanuel.
Biographical / Historical:
Sculptor of cubist style; Rome, Italy and Westport, Connecticut. Born U.S. Studied in Paris, France, with Leger, among others; from age sixteen until twenty. Returned to the U.S. in 1936, worked under WPA, later considered part of abstract expressionist school. Moved to Rome, Italy in 1962. Eventually settled in Westport, Connecticut.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1964 by Herzl Emanuel.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
