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Author:

Meredith, Henry  Search this

Subject:

Royal African Company History  Search this

Physical description:

[8], viii, 264 pages plate (map) 23 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

Ghana

Date:

1967

1812

Topic:

Ghana  Search this

trading companies  Search this

history  Search this

1700-1799  Search this

1800-1899  Search this

Travel  Search this

Handelscompagnieën  Search this

Description and travel  Search this

Ghana--Description and travel  Search this

Royal African Company  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1145844

Author:

Jones, Rebecca (Research Fellow)  Search this

Physical description:

x, 298 pages illustrations 25 cm

Type:

Books

Literary criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc

Critiques littéraires

Place:

Nigeria

Date:

2019

20th century

20e siècle

Topic:

Yoruba literature--History and criticism  Search this

Travelers' writings, Nigerian--History and criticism  Search this

African literature (English)--History and criticism  Search this

Littérature yoruba--Histoire et critique  Search this

Littérature africaine (anglaise)--Histoire et critique  Search this

African literature (English)  Search this

Travel  Search this

Travelers' writings, Nigerian  Search this

Yoruba literature  Search this

Description and travel  Search this

Descriptions et voyages  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1154563

Interviewee:

Harris, Lyle Ashton, 1965-  Search this

Interviewer:

Fialho, Alex, 1989-  Search this

Names:

American Academy in Rome -- Students  Search this

California Institute of the Arts -- Students  Search this

Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project  Search this

Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) -- Students  Search this

Whitney Museum of American Art  Search this

Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943-  Search this

Barton, Nancy, (Artist)  Search this

Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988  Search this

Butler, Cornelia H.  Search this

Carby, Hazel V.  Search this

Collier, Jim  Search this

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.  Search this

Geer, Tommy  Search this

Goldin, Nan, 1953-  Search this

Gonzalez-Torres, Felix, 1957-1996  Search this

Gray, Todd, 1954-  Search this

Grayson, John, 1943-  Search this

Hemphill, Essex  Search this

Julien, Isaac  Search this

Lord, Catherine, 1949-  Search this

Mapplethorpe, Robert  Search this

Mays, Vickie M.  Search this

O'Dench, Ellen  Search this

O'Meally, Jackie  Search this

O'Meally, Robert G., 1948-  Search this

Riggs, Marlon T.  Search this

Seeley, J.  Search this

Sekula, Allan  Search this

Tate, Greg  Search this

Tilton, Jack  Search this

Watson, Simon  Search this

Wilson, Millie  Search this

Woodman, Francesca, 1958-1981  Search this

Extent:

6 Items (Sound recording: 6 sound files (8 hr., 6 min.), digital, wav)

95 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

England -- London -- Description and Travel

Ghana -- Description and Travel

Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Description and Travel

New York (N.Y.) -- Description and Travel

Tanzania -- Description and Travel

Date:

2017 March 27-29

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Lyle Ashton Harris, conducted 2017 March 27 and 29, by Alex Fialho, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Harris's studio and home in New York, New York.

Harris speaks of his childhood in the Bronx; his family's influence on his race-consciousness; living in Tanzania for two years as a child and the effects on his understanding of race and sexuality; his grandfather's extensive photographic archive; contact with the South African diaspora through his step-father; attending Wesleyan University; formative experiences in London, Amsterdam, and New York in the mid-1980s; his education and development as a photographer; attending CalArts and encountering West Coast AIDS activism; encountering systemic racism in Los Angeles; close friendships with Marlon Riggs and Essex Hemphill; exhibitions of his work in New York in the early 1990s; the production of his Ektachrome Archive and his impulse to photograph daily life; his work on the Black Community AIDS Research and Education (Black C.A.R.E.) project in Los Angeles; participating in the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program; being diagnosed with HIV and remaining asymptomatic; attending the Dia Black Popular Culture Conference in 1992; photographing and mounting "The Good Life" in 1994 and "The Watering Hole" in 1996; issues of blackness and queerness in his photographic work; his residency at the American Academy in Rome in 2000; moving to Accra, Ghana for seven years in 2005; his pedagogy as an art professor; his thoughts on the lack of voices of color in the Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic Oral History Project and in the larger power structures of the art world; and his hope that his artistic legacy will be evaluated in its proper context. Harris also recalls Jackie and Robert O'Meally, Jay Seeley, Ellen O'Dench, Francesca Woodman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jim Collier, Robert Mapplethorpe, Allan Sekula, Hazel Carby, Isaac Julien, Catherine Lord, Millie Wilson, Todd Gray, John Grayson, Tommy Gear, Marlon Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nancy Barton, Vickie Mays, Connie Butler, Greg Tate, Henry Louis Gates, Houston Baker, Nan Goldin, Jack Tilton, Simon Watson, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Lyle Ashton Harris (1965- ) is an artist who works in video, photography, and performance in New York, New York. Alex Fialho (1989- ) is a curator and arts writer and works as Programs Director for Visual AIDS in New York, New York.

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:

Performance artists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Video artists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

AIDS activists  Search this

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Racism  Search this

African American artists  Search this

Artists (LGBTQ)  Search this

Gay artists  Search this

African American art -- African influences  Search this

African American educators  Search this

African American photographers  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.harris17

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9559d7597-04b4-4644-b6ae-bca2bdb27f88

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-harris17

Author:

Jack, Alex D (Alexander Duncan)  Search this

Author:

Bolzq, Louis W. 1919-  Search this

Physical description:

vi, 158 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates illustrations (some color) 29 x 39 cm

Type:

Books

History

Place:

Zimbabwe

Bulawayo

Bulawayo (Zimbabwe)

Date:

1979

Topic:

Historic buildings  Search this

Travel  Search this

History  Search this

Description and travel  Search this

Zimbabwe--Bulawayo--to date  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1145914

Photographer:

House, Steven 1952-  Search this

House, Cathi 1953-  Search this

Physical description:

304 pages illustrations (chiefly color), color maps 27 cm

Type:

Pictorial works

Ouvrages illustrés

Place:

Africa, West

Afrique occidentale

West Africa

Date:

2018

Africa, West

Topic:

Vernacular architecture  Search this

Villages  Search this

Architecture vernaculaire  Search this

Travel  Search this

Manners and customs  Search this

Social life and customs  Search this

Description and travel  Search this

Mœurs et coutumes  Search this

Descriptions et voyages  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1160426

Author:

Amin, Mohamed 1943-1996  Search this

Physical description:

191 pages

Type:

Books

Pictorial works

Place:

Seychelles

Date:

1994

Topic:

Description and travel  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1155019

Author:

MacDonell, Bror Urme 1921-1998  Search this

Physical description:

219 pages illustrations, maps, portraits 21 cm

Type:

Biography

Biographies

History

Biographie

Place:

Africa, East

Tanzania

Tanzanie

Ostafrika

Date:

2006

1890-1918

Topic:

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns  Search this

Slave traders  Search this

Scouts (Reconnaissance)  Search this

Soldiers  Search this

Military campaigns  Search this

Travel  Search this

Askari  Search this

Sklavenhandel  Search this

History  Search this

Description and travel  Search this

Histoire  Search this

Descriptions et voyages  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1146881

Author:

Henry, P. W. T  Search this

Author:

Henry, P. W. T  Search this

Physical description:

vii, 208 pages illustrations (some colour) 21 cm

Type:

Texts

History

Place:

Africa

Nigeria

Great Britain

Grande-Bretagne

Afrique

Date:

2010

1900-1960

Topic:

Forests and forestry  Search this

British colonies  Search this

Manners and customs  Search this

Travel  Search this

History  Search this

Colonies  Search this

Description and travel  Search this

Social life and customs  Search this

Histoire  Search this

Descriptions et voyages  Search this

Mœurs et coutumes  Search this

Nigeria--Social life, 1907-1960 - Personal observations  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1145989

Author:

Coquelle, Aline  Search this

Physical description:

307 pages

Type:

Books

Pictoral works

Place:

Tanzania

Zanzibar

Topic:

Photography  Search this

Description and travel  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1158190

Co-author:

Lamazou, Titouan  Search this

Physical description:

263 pages

Type:

Books

Place:

Morocco

High Atlas Mountains

High Atlas Mountains (Morocco)

Date:

2014

20th century

Topic:

Art, Moroccan  Search this

Decoration and ornament, Architectural  Search this

Description and travel  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1157985

Creator:

Longcope, Janet, ca. 1886-1974  Search this

Extent:

600 Gelatin silver prints (circa, mounted)

4,000 Color slides (circa)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gelatin silver prints

Color slides

Photographs

Place:

Pakistan -- Description and Travel

Fiji -- Description and Travel

Ethiopia -- Description and Travel

Easter Island -- Description and Travel

Yemen -- Description and Travel

Honduras -- Description and Travel

Peru -- Description and Travel

Guatemala -- Description and Travel

Israel -- Description and Travel

Vietnam -- Description and Travel

Solomon Islands -- Description and Travel

Colombia -- Description and Travel

Thailand -- description and travel

Taiwan -- description and travel

Jordan -- Description and Travel

Uzbekistan -- Description and Travel

Singapore -- Description and Travel

Bhutan -- Description and Travel

Afghanistan -- Description and Travel

Burma -- Description and Travel

Brazil -- Description and Travel

Australia -- Description and Travel

Lebanon -- Description and Travel

Iraq -- Description and Travel

Iran -- Description and Travel

India -- description and travel

New Guinea -- Description and Travel

Syria -- Description and Travel

Nepal -- Description and Travel

Hong Kong -- Description and Travel

Cambodia -- Description and Travel

Sri Lanka -- Description and Travel

Chile -- description and travel

Mexico -- description and travel

Japan -- Description and Travel

Italy -- description and travel

Morocco -- description and travel

Spain -- description and travel

Mongolia -- Description and Travel

New Zealand -- Description and Travel

Russia -- Description and Travel

Kenya -- Description and Travel

Macau (China) -- Description and Travel

Malaysia -- Description and Travel

Yucatan -- Description and Travel

Indonesia -- Description and Travel

Date:

1954-1971

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs made by Janet Longcope during trips to countries around the world. They depict landscapes, buildings, markets, dances, agriculture, arts and crafts, ceremonies, children, cooking, musicians, and transportation. Locations depicted include Afghanistan, Australia, Bhutan, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Easter Island, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fiji, Greece, Guatemala, Hawaii, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, New Guinea, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Russia, Siberia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, and Yucatan. Longcope used many of these photographs in lectures.

Biographical/Historical note:

Janet Longcope (1886-1974) was a bookbinder and world traveler who gave informal lectures about her travels. Ater the death of her husband Dr. Warfield T. Longcope in 1953, she visited countries all over the world, returning to some, such as India, as many as nine times.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 75-26

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Markets  Search this

Dance  Search this

Transportation  Search this

Agriculture  Search this

Cooking  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 75-26, Janet Longcope photographs of world travels, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.75-26

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw31062ae88-54fe-4e84-8a03-5a1d99a5a8e2

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-75-26

Author:

Petit, Gabriel 1870-1945  Search this

Illustrator:

Mourlan, R  Search this

Author:

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France)  Search this

Physical description:

118 pages illustrations (map) plates, tables 24 cm

Type:

Books

Pictorial works

Ouvrages illustrés

Place:

Madagascar

Date:

1933

Topic:

Travel  Search this

Description and travel  Search this

Descriptions et voyages  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1156197

Author:

Smyth, C. Piazzi (Charles Piazzi) 1819-1900  Search this

Physical description:

p. 465-577, [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm

Type:

Observations

Place:

Tenerife (Canary Islands)

Teide, Pico de (Canary Islands)

Date:

1858

Topic:

Astronomy  Search this

Description and travel  Search this

Call number:

QC976.T7 S66

QC976.T7S66

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_134899

Author:

Hartman, Saidiya V.,  Search this

Subject:

Hartman, Saidiya V Travel  Search this

Physical description:

xi, 270 pages illustrations 24 cm

Type:

Books

History

Local history

Place:

Ghana

Date:

2007

Topic:

Slave trade--History  Search this

Historic sites  Search this

Slave trade  Search this

Travel  Search this

Sklavenhandel  Search this

Description and travel  Search this

History, Local  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1157368

Cartographer:

Flacourt, Etienne de 1607-1660  Search this

Bookseller:

Bienfait, Pierre -1690  Search this

Clousier, François -approximately 1674  Search this

Former owner:

Ford, James B. DSI  Search this

Explorers Club DSI  Search this

Printer:

Oudot, Nicolas 1616-1692  Search this

Physical description:

2 volumes in 1 ([24], 202, [12], 203-471, [1] pages, [15] leaves of plates (14 folded)) illustrations, 6 maps 24 cm (4to)

Type:

Pre-Linnean works

Ouvrages prélinnéens

Early works to 1800

Ouvrages avant 1800

Early works

History

Place:

Madagascar

Date:

1661

To 1810

Jusqu'à 1810

Topic:

Natural history  Search this

Sciences naturelles  Search this

Travel  Search this

Description and travel  Search this

History  Search this

Histoire  Search this

Descriptions et voyages  Search this

Call number:

DT469.M31 F49 1661

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1078167

Creator:

Train, Russell E., 1920-2012  Search this

Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)  Search this

Names:

Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1887-1889)  Search this

Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926  Search this

Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875  Search this

Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893  Search this

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890  Search this

Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903  Search this

Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-1955  Search this

Glave, E. J. (Edward James)  Search this

Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939  Search this

Livingstone, David, 1813-1873.  Search this

Nelson, Robert Henry, 1853-1892  Search this

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919  Search this

Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917  Search this

Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904.  Search this

Train, Russell E., 1920-2012  Search this

Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972  Search this

Extent:

6,500 Items (estimated)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Place:

Africa -- Maps

Africa -- description and travel

Africa -- Discovery and exploration

Africa -- In art

Date:

1663-2004

Summary:

Manuscript and printed textual material, photographic prints and negatives, slides, audio tapes, film, original and reproduction artwork, maps, scrapbooks, and historical and natural artifacts related to the history of African exploration and natural history, dating primarily from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes correspondence, drafts of publications, diaries, account books, ephemera, posters, newsclippings, biographies, memoirs, portraits, and the former personal property of selected explorers, big game hunters, missionaries, pioneers, and naturalists in Africa.

Scope and Contents note:

Manuscript and printed textual material, photographic prints and negatives, slides, audio tapes, film, original and reproduction artwork, maps, scrapbooks, and historical and natural artifacts related to the history of African exploration and natural history, dating primarily from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes correspondence, drafts of publications, diaries, account books, ephemera, posters, newsclippings, biographies, memoirs, portraits, and the former personal property of selected explorers, big game hunters, missionaries, pioneers, and naturalists in Africa. The Train Collection is particularly strong in archival materials on the following topics: the search for the source of the Nile and the progress of other exploring expeditions in Africa; the collecting of specimens of African animals, plants, and ethnological materials for zoos and museums (including a significant body of correspondence and photographs from the Smithsonian African Expedition in 1909-1910, led by President Theodore Roosevelt); and the growth of the African wildlife conservation movement. Besides Roosevelt, the major persons represented in the Collection include the journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley and members of his Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (Thomas Heazle Parke, Robert H. Nelson, James S. Jameson, John Rose Troup, William Bonny, William G. Stairs, Edmund Barttelot, and Arthur J. M. Jephson); the medical missionary Dr. David Livingstone and his father-in-law Robert Moffat; taxidermist Carl Akeley; zoologist Edmund Heller; hunter Frederick Courtenay Selous; artist and adventure writer A. Radclyffe Dugmore; explorers Samuel White Baker, Thomas Baines, Richard Francis Burton and E.J. Glave; anthropologist Paul Belloni du Chaillu; and royal traveler Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor). Consult the finding aid for more specific information on materials relating to these persons and other people and organizations represented in the Collection.

Arrangement note:

Organized into ten series, primarily based on format or creator: I. Artifacts, 1663-1999; II. Works of Art, 1663-1999; III. Books, 1900-1986; IV. Edmund Heller personal papers, 1875-1939; V. Manuscripts, 1663-1992; VI. Maps, 1878; VII. Newspapers, 1888-1987; VIII. Robert Henry Nelson personal papers, 1795-1912; VIII. Photographs, 1874-1963; IX. Posters and broadsides, 1814-1955; X. Russell E. Train personal papers, 1956-2004.

Separated Materials note:

In addition to these archival and non-book materials, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries acquired more than 1500 printed books as part of the Russell E. Train Collection; these books are listed individually in the SIRIS (Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) online catalog.

Provenance:

Originally assembled by the Honorable Russell E. Train, a former judge, top administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and a past president of the World Wildlife Fund, this collection was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries in 2004.

Rights:

The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.

Topic:

Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Africa  Search this

Wildlife conservation -- Africa  Search this

Natural history -- Technique  Search this

Natural history -- Africa  Search this

Hunting -- Africa  Search this

Explorers -- Africa  Search this

Identifier:

SIL-CL.XXXX-0014

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Russell E. Train Africana collection

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Libraries

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sc2dbdcfacc-0c10-4faa-80a5-7fdcab16da9c

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-sil-cl-xxxx-0014

Creator:

Clark, Eliot Candee, 1883-  Search this

Names:

Clark, Margaret W. Fowler  Search this

Clark, Walter, 1848-1917  Search this

Sparks, Leon  Search this

Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009  Search this

Extent:

6.14 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sketchbooks

Scrapbooks

Travel diaries

Diaries

Sketches

Photographs

Place:

India -- description and travel

Europe -- description and travel

United States -- description and travel

Morocco -- description and travel

Date:

1839-1983

Summary:

The papers of Virginia painter Eliot Candee Clark measure 6.14 linear feet and date from 1839 to 1984. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, 21 diaries and notebooks, writings and notes, personal business records, photographs, 9 sketchbooks, and artwork and artifacts. Many of the materials relate to Clark's travels in Europe, India, and throughout the United States.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of Virginia painter Eliot Candee Clark measure 6.14 linear feet and date from 1839 to 1984. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, 21 diaries and notebooks, writings and notes, personal business records, photographs, 9 sketchbooks, and artwork and artifacts. Many of the materials relate to Clark's travels in Europe, India, and throughout the United States.

Scattered biographical materials include awards, an address book, printed material relating to various memberships, and resumes. Records of the Fowler family are also found. Clark's correspondence is with family including Walter Clark, friends, colleagues, and galleries and institutions. Notable correspondents include Leon Sparks and Andrew Wyeth.

Twenty-one volumes of diaries and notebooks are written by Clark and his wife, Margaret Fowler Clark. The diaries contain traditional dated diary entries; others document travels. The notebooks include drafts of writings, lists of artists, financial notes, sketches, and school assignments.

Writings include drafts of articles, book manuscripts, plays, and essays by Clark. A small amount of personal business records consist of legal records, price lists, receipts for personal purchases, and sales and consignment records for Clark's works of art.

Printed materials include books containing works of art by Clark, clippings, a dismantled clippings scrapbook, exhibition announcements and catalogs, magazines, and blank postcards. Photographs are of Clark, the Clark family, friends, colleagues, events, homes, and of works of art. Travel photographs are from Clark's trips to Europe, India, Morocco, and the United States.

Nine sketchbooks depict Nova Scotia, Canada, Albemarle County, Virginia, and India. Artwork and artifacts consist of scattered sketches by Clark, and prints by others.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 9 series

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1839-1980 (5 folders; Box 1, OV7)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1874-1984 (1 linear foot; Box 1-2)

Series 3: Diaries and Notebooks, circa 1900-1977 (0.8 linear feet; Box 2)

Series 4: Writings and Notes, circa 1940-1978 (1.6 linear feet; Box 2-4)

Series 5: Personal Business Records, 1917-1983 (0.2 linear feet: Box 4)

Series 6: Printed Material, 1878-1975 (1.0 linear feet; Box 4-5)

Series 7: Photographs, 1880s-1980 (0.5 linear feet; Box 5-6, OV7, MGP2)

Series 8: Sketchbooks, 1916-1940s (0.5 linear feet; Box 6)

Series 9: Artwork and Artifacts, circa 1900-circa 1940s (0.5 linear feet; Box 6, OV7)

Biographical / Historical:

Eliot Candee Clark (1883-1980) was a landscape painter, writer, and art historian who worked primarily in Virginia.

Eliot Clark was born in 1883 in New York City to artist Walter Clark and Jennie Woodruff Clark. As a child with his father's encouragement and guidance, Eliot Clark began exhibiting as early as the age of nine. submitted works to be exhibited at various New York City clubs as a child. By 1896, at the age of thirteen, he began exhibiting regularly at the National Academy of Design. In 1900, at the age of seventeen, Clark exhibited at the Society of American Artists' Annaul. At one point he even shared a studio with his father. From 1904 to 1906, he traveled throughout Europe and painted en plein air. Clark returned to the New York City area and summered in Kent, Connecticut where he continued to paint and exhibit his work. His first one-man show was at Doll & Richards Gallery in New York City.

Eliot Clark was also an art historian, critic, and educator. In 1916 Clark published his first monograph on Alexander H. Wyant. His other works included a book on John Henry Twachtman, published in 1924 and History of the National Academy of Design (1954). Clark also served as president of the American Watercolor Society between 1920 and 1923. He taught at the Art Students League in New York City but ultimately settled in Charlottesville, Virginia where he taught summer painting classes.

Throughout his life, Clark travelled throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, India, and to Africa. A lengthy trip to India from 1937 to 1938 inspired his study of the religion, mysticism, and art of the country.

Eliot Clark served as president of the National Academy of Design in the 1950s and exhibited until his death in 1980 at the age of ninety-seven. He was survived by his second wife, Margaret Fowler Clark.

Separated Materials:

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Libraries also holds Eliot Candee Clark papers.

Provenance:

The Eliot Candee Clark papers were donated by his widow Margaret Fowler Clark between 1980 and 1984.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.

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 -- Virginia  Search this

Topic:

Painting, American -- Virginia  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sketchbooks

Scrapbooks

Travel diaries

Diaries

Sketches

Photographs

Citation:

Eliot Candee Clark papers, 1839-1984. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

Identifier:

AAA.clarelio

See more items in:

Eliot Candee Clark papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ba0dbe98-7be8-4f66-8866-72065dc81858

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-clarelio

Interviewee:

Holzapfel, David, 1950-  Search this

Interviewer:

Shea, Josephine, 1958-  Search this

Creator:

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Names:

Marietta College -- Students  Search this

Marlboro College -- Students  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Pritam & Eames  Search this

Ancell, Nathan  Search this

Brelsford, Edmond  Search this

De Libero, Libero  Search this

Giuliani, Alfredo, 1924-2007  Search this

Holzapfel, Michelle, 1951-  Search this

Joseph, Peter T. (Peter Thomas), 1950-1998  Search this

O'Grady, Desmond  Search this

Sheldon, Roy  Search this

Extent:

4 Items (Sound recording: 4 sound files (2 hr., 36 min.), digital, wav)

33 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

Africa -- description and travel

Europe -- description and travel

Italy -- description and travel

Date:

2008 January 26-March 2

Scope and Contents:

An interview of David Holzapfel conducted 2008 January 26-March 2, by Josephine Shea, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Holzapfel's home and studio, Applewoods Studio and Gallery, in Marlboro, Vermont.

Holzapfel speaks of his childhood; attending high school in Rome, Italy; university experiences at Marietta College and Marlboro College; studying Italian poetry; his favorite poets including Libero de Libero and Alfredo Giuliani; time spent traveling in Italy with wife Michelle; the births of their children; going to work for Roy Sheldon at Fabulous Tables; being self-taught in woodworking; starting his own furniture making workshop with Michelle; materials he prefers to work with, including maple, beech, and oak; his hollow furniture forms; travels throughout Europe and in Africa; his experience with craft shows and galleries, including Pritam & Eames and Peter Joseph; and his creative process. Holzapfel recalls Desmond O'Grady, Edmond Brelsford, Peter Joseph, Nathan Ancell, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

David Hozapfel (1950- ) is a self-taught woodworker in Marlboro, Vermont.

General:

Originally recorded on 3 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 36 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:

Woodworkers -- Vermont  Search this

Topic:

Poetry  Search this

Woodworking -- Study and teaching  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.holzad08

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ef153952-15be-4ba1-9aa7-2e1a7cebc711

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-holzad08

Interviewee:

Higby, Wayne  Search this

Interviewer:

McInnes, Mary, 1956-  Search this

Creator:

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Names:

Alfred University -- Faculty  Search this

Archie Bray Foundation  Search this

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts -- Faculty  Search this

Helen Drutt Gallery  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Rhode Island School of Design -- Faculty  Search this

University of Colorado (Boulder campus) -- Students  Search this

University of Michigan -- Students  Search this

University of Nebraska -- Faculty  Search this

Bauer, Fred  Search this

Cushing, Val M.  Search this

Ferguson, Ken, 1928-2004  Search this

McKinnell, James  Search this

McKinnell, Nan  Search this

Merritt, Francis Sumner, 1913-2000  Search this

Motherwell, Robert  Search this

Neri, Manuel, 1930-  Search this

Randall, Theodore, 1914-1985  Search this

Shaner, David, 1934-  Search this

Soldner, Paul  Search this

Turner, Robert Chapman, 1913-2005  Search this

Voulkos, Peter, 1924-2002  Search this

Woodman, Betty, 1930-2018  Search this

Extent:

9 Items (Sound recording: 9 sound files (4 hr., 55 min.), digital, wav)

66 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

Africa -- description and travel

Asia -- Description and Travel

China -- Description and Travel

Colorado -- description and travel

Europe -- description and travel

Date:

2005 April 12-14

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Wayne Higby conducted 2005 April 12-14, by Mary McInnes, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in Alfred Station, New York. Higby speaks of growing up in Colorado Springs, Colorado; choosing to go to University of Colorado, Boulder; traveling to Europe, Asia, and Africa; being influenced by Minoan pottery; working for ceramicist Betty Woodman; deciding to become a teacher; getting a graduate degree at the University of Michigan; working at Archie Bray Foundation; teaching at the University of Nebraska and Rhode Island School of Design; having his first one person art show and exhibiting nationally; teaching at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts; the influence of landscape on his work; how the craft market has changed during his career; working with the Helen Drutt Gallery; writing about craft and the need for critical dialogue in craft publications; being inspired by Asian art; learning ceramics from Jim and Nan McKinnell, and the influence of other teachers on his career; getting hired at Alfred University; the challenges and benefits of teaching at Alfred; his colleagues at Alfred; making functional art and using the vessel form; his teaching philosophy; putting ceramics in a larger art context; his current project; his studio practice; themes in his artwork; choosing to work in porcelain; lecturing and touring in China; being interested in landscape painting; the public response to his work; and recently being awarded several honors. Higby also recalls Manuel Neri, Peter Voulkos, Paul Soldner, Fred Bauer, David Shaner, Francis Merritt, Ted Randall, Bob Turner, Val Cushing, Kenneth Ferguson, Robert Motherwell, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Wayne Higby (1943- ) is a ceramicist from Alfred Station, New York. Mary McInnes is a professor from Alfred, New York.

General:

Originally recorded on 4 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 55 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:

Use requires an appointment.

Topic:

Ceramicists -- New York (State) -- Interviews  Search this

Ceramics -- Study and teaching  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Educators -- New York (State) -- Interviews  Search this

Pottery, Minoan  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.higby05

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9bf162d01-21b8-45c0-a721-3b28272fd72c

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-higby05

Creator:

Clements, Gabrielle de Veaux, 1858-1948  Search this

Names:

Cornell University -- Students  Search this

Hale, Ellen Day, 1855-1940  Search this

Extent:

1 Linear foot

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Photographs

Diaries

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Place:

Egypt -- description and travel

Date:

1860-1948

Summary:

The papers of painter, etcher, printer, muralist, and art teacher Gabrielle de Veaux Clements measure 1 linear foot and date from 1860 to 1948. Found within the papers are biographical material; personal and professional correspondence, including extensive correspondence from Clements to her mother; writings, including notes and essays on art history and etching techniques; printed material; artwork; eight sketchbooks; and photographs of Clements, her family and friends, and her work.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of painter, etcher, printer, muralist, and art teacher Gabrielle de Veaux Clements measure 1 linear foot and date from 1860 to 1948. Found within the papers are biographical material; personal and professional correspondence, including extensive correspondence from Clements to her mother; writings, including notes and essays on art history and etching techniques; printed material; artwork; 8 sketchbooks; and photographs of Clements, her family and friends, and her work.

Biographical material consists of an address book, artwork sales and price lists, and autobiographical notes.

Correspondence is primarily with Clements' family, friends, and business associates. The series includes significant correspondence from Clements to her mother during her college years at Cornell University.

Writings include notes and essays on art history and etching techniques, 2 notebooks of poetry, and a travel diary chronicling a trip to Egypt with Ellen Day Hale.

Printed material includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, a map of the artists' colony at Rockport, Folly Cove in Massachusetts, and a copy of the book Suggestions for Illuminating by W. Randle Harrison.

Artwork consists of sketches and original etchings by Clements and artwork by others.

There are 8 sketchbooks consisting primarily of cityscapes, landscapes, and figure and portrait studies.

Photographs are of Clements, her family and friends, artists models, and work by Clements and others.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 7 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical materials, circa 1920-1944 (3 folders; Box 1)

Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1875-1945 (0.3 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 3: Writings, circa 1885-1940 (8 folders; Box 1)

Series 4: Printed material, circa 1860-1948 (5 folders; Box 1)

Series 5: Artwork, circa 1895-1940 (3 folders; Box 1)

Series 6: Sketchbooks, circa 1884-1940 (0.3 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 7: Photographs, circa 1875-1940 (0.2 linear feet; Box 1)

Biographical / Historical:

Painter, printer, and art teacher Gabrielle de Veaux Clements (1858-1948) lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; and Folly Cove near Gloucester, Massachusetts. She was known for her etchings and her commissioned murals for the cities of Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

Clements was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to physician Richard Clements and his wife, Gabrielle De Vaux. Her interest in art was supported by her family and, at the age of seventeen, she began studying lithography with the designer Charles Page at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. After graduating in 1880 from Cornell University, where she had produced a number of scientific drawings and lithographs, Clements studied with painter Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and won the school's Toppan Prize. In 1883, Clements was introduced to etching techniques by the artist Stephen Parrish and began exhibiting and printing her works professionally.

In 1884, Clements traveled abroad to Paris to study at the Academie Julian where she was joined in 1885 by fellow painter and future lifelong companion Ellen Day Hale. Upon returning to her Philadelphia studio in 1885, Clements taught other female artists, including Margaret Bush-Brown, and exhibited in numerous institutions, including the National Academy of Design and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 1895, Clements moved to Baltimore to teach art at the newly established Bryn Mawr School, where she remained until 1908. During her tenure in Baltimore, she was commissioned by the Bendann Galleries to etch nine views of Baltimore and also painted five church murals in Washington, D.C., which led to subsequent murals in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

Clements and Hale frequently traveled abroad, visiting France, Italy, Egypt, Syria, and Palestine, and spent summers at "The Thickets," the house they purchased in the artists' colony at Folly Cove. During World War I, they wintered in Charleston, South Carolina where they opened their studios to young female artists and taught innovative etching, painting, and color printmaking techniques. After the war, they again opened their studios in Folly Cove to young artists and continued to teach and experiment with soft-ground etching and aquatints in color. This work was highlighted in special exhibitions at the J.B. Speed Art Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. Clements died in Rockport, Massachusetts in 1948.

Provenance:

The Gabrielle de Veaux Clements papers were donated by Mrs. Harlan Starr, Jr. in 1983.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment.

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:

Muralists -- Massachusetts  Search this

Printmakers -- Massachusetts  Search this

Etchers -- Massachusetts  Search this

Art teachers -- Massachusetts  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Women printmakers  Search this

Women educators  Search this

Etching -- Technique  Search this

Art -- History  Search this

Genre/Form:

Prints

Photographs

Diaries

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Citation:

Gabrielle de Veaux Clements papers, 1860-1948. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Processing of this collection was funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art

Identifier:

AAA.clemgabr

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Gabrielle de Veaux Clements papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw953de79c7-7bd3-41f1-832a-e2e9b1c03b9f

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-clemgabr