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Author:

Huggins, Nathan Irvin 1927-1989  Search this

Physical description:

xi, 343 p illustrations, ports 22 cm

Type:

Books

Criticism, interpretation, etc

Place:

New York (State)

New York

Harlem, New York (City)

New York (État)

Harlem (New York)

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Harlem

Date:

1971

20th century

20e siècle

Topic:

African American arts  Search this

Arts, Black  Search this

Arts, Modern  Search this

Harlem Renaissance  Search this

Art noir américain  Search this

Art  Search this

Arts noirs américains  Search this

Intellectual life  Search this

Call number:

NX512.3.N5 H89

NX512.3.N5H89

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_10309

Author:

Arts Council of Great Britain  Search this

Hayward Gallery  Search this

Physical description:

36 p 4 illus 26 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Expositions

Catalogues d'exposition

Exhibition catalogs

Place:

Russia

Soviet Union

URSS

Date:

1971

20th century

Topic:

Art, Russian  Search this

Art, Soviet  Search this

Constructivism (Art)  Search this

Art soviétique  Search this

Constructivisme (Art)  Search this

Art moderne--Catalogues d'exposition  Search this

Constructivisme (art)--Catalogues d'exposition  Search this

Call number:

N6988.5.C6 A79

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_10372

Author:

Isaac Delgado Museum of Art  Search this

Physical description:

1 volume (chiefly illustrations) 24 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Expositions

Catalogues d'exposition

Exhibition catalogs

Place:

Louisiana

New Orleans

France

Louisiane

La Nouvelle-Orléans

Date:

1959

19th century

20th century

19e siècle

20e siècle

Topic:

Art, Modern  Search this

Art--Private collections  Search this

Human figure in art  Search this

Impressionism (Art)  Search this

Painting, European  Search this

Art--Collections privées  Search this

Art  Search this

Corps humain dans l'art--Technique  Search this

Impressionnisme (Art)  Search this

Peinture européenne  Search this

Call number:

N6450 .I8X

N6450.I8X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_10611

Author:

Arts Council of Great Britain  Search this

Gray, Nicolete 1911-1997  Search this

Subject:

Sutherland, Helen Art collections  Search this

Physical description:

31 pages, 10 plates illustrations (some color) 18 x 23 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Expositions

Exhibition catalogs

Date:

1970

20th century

20e siècle

Topic:

Art, Modern  Search this

Art  Search this

Art--Private collections  Search this

Call number:

N6488.G7 L63X

N6488.G7L63X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_10714

Author:

Joslyn Art Museum  Search this

Physical description:

80 p illus 26 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Expositions

Catalog

Exhibition

catalogs (documents)

Catalogs

Catalogues d'exposition

Catalogues

Exhibition catalogs

Date:

1971

20th century

20e siècle

Topic:

Art, Modern  Search this

Art  Search this

Call number:

N6512 .J83

N6493 1930 .J6X

N6512.J83 N6493 1930.J6X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_11261

Author:

Tate Gallery  Search this

Subject:

London Tate Gallery  Search this

Physical description:

[5], 226 p 21 cm

Type:

Catalogs

Exhibitions

Catalogues

Date:

1971

20th century

20e siècle

Topic:

Art, Modern  Search this

Painting, British  Search this

Sculpture, British  Search this

Art  Search this

Peinture britannique  Search this

Sculpture britannique  Search this

Katalog  Search this

Call number:

N1080 .A6153 1971X

N1080.A6153 1971X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_11300

Author:

University of St. Thomas Art Department  Search this

Subject:

De Kooning, Willem 1904-1997  Search this

Guston, Philip 1913-1980  Search this

Kline, Franz 1910-1962  Search this

Mondrian, Piet 1872-1944  Search this

Pollock, Jackson 1912-1956  Search this

Rothko, Mark 1903-1970  Search this

Physical description:

67 pages illustrations, part col 23 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Expositions

Exhibition catalogues

Catalogues d'exposition

Exhibition catalogs

Date:

1968

20th century

20e siècle

Topic:

Art, Modern  Search this

Art  Search this

Call number:

ND196.A2 H84

ND196.A2H84

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_10071

Author:

Art Gallery of Ontario  Search this

Amaya, Mario  Search this

National Gallery of Canada  Search this

Subject:

Abramov, Ayala Zacks Art collections  Search this

Zacks, Samuel J Art collections  Search this

Physical description:

1 volume (unpaged) illustrations (part color) 23 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Expositions

Catalogues d'exposition

Exhibition catalogs

Place:

Ontário (Canada)

CanadÁ

Date:

1971

20th century

20e siècle

Topic:

Art, Canadian  Search this

Art, Modern  Search this

Art  Search this

Art--Private collections  Search this

Artes plásticas  Search this

Galerias de arte  Search this

Call number:

N6488.C2 T6738X

N6488.C2T6738X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_10188

Author:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Seitz, William Chapin  Search this

Physical description:

51 pages illustrations (part color) 24 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Expositions

Ausstellung

Ausstellungskatalog

Catalogues d'exposition

Exhibition catalogs

Place:

North America

Amérique du Nord

New York (NY)

New York, NY

Date:

1965

20th century

20e siècle

Topic:

Art, Modern  Search this

Indian art--Collectors and collecting  Search this

Indians--Material culture  Search this

Optical art  Search this

Painting, Abstract  Search this

Painting, Modern  Search this

Painting  Search this

Art des Peuples autochtones--Collectionneurs et collections  Search this

Op art  Search this

Peinture abstraite  Search this

Peinture  Search this

Peuples autochtones--Culture matérielle  Search this

Ausstellung  Search this

Kunst  Search this

Call number:

N5020 .N44 1965X

N6494.O6 N53

N5020.N44 1965X N6494.O6N53

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_9220

Author:

Coplans, John  Search this

Author:

Henry Art Gallery  Search this

Pasadena Art Alliance  Search this

Santa Barbara Museum of Art  Search this

Physical description:

144 pages illustrations (part color), ports 24 x 23 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Expositions

Exhibition catalogues

Catalogues d'exposition

Exhibition catalogs

History

Date:

1968

20th century

20e siècle

Topic:

Art, Modern--History  Search this

Art  Search this

Composition (Art)  Search this

Art--Histoire  Search this

Art, Modern  Search this

composition (artistic arrangement)  Search this

Call number:

N6494.M5 C78

N6494.M5C78

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_9267

Author:

Schug, Albert  Search this

Physical description:

264 pages illustrations (part color) 23 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1969

20th century

20e siècle

Topic:

Art, Modern  Search this

Art  Search this

Call number:

N6490 .S32513X

N6490.S32513X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_9398

Author:

Haftmann, Werner 1912-1999  Search this

Physical description:

2 v illustrations (part color) 28 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1971

20th century

20e siècle

Topic:

Art, Abstract  Search this

Art, Modern  Search this

Figurative art  Search this

Art  Search this

Abstracionismo  Search this

Arte moderna  Search this

Call number:

N6490 .A78

N6490.A78

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_9529

Author:

Pellegrini, Aldo  Search this

Physical description:

320 pages illustrations (part color) 24 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1966

20th century

20e siècle

Topic:

Art, Modern  Search this

Art--Technique  Search this

Art  Search this

Call number:

N6490 .P38 E1966

N6490.P38 E1966

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_9689

Creator:

Fendrick Gallery  Search this

Subject:

Cottingham, Robert  Search this

Castle, Wendell  Search this

Dusenbery, Walter  Search this

Brush, Daniel  Search this

Dreyfuss, John  Search this

Benes, Barton Lidic  Search this

Drake, James  Search this

KaskeyRaymond J.  Search this

Johns, Jasper  Search this

Bailey, William  Search this

Arneson, Robert  Search this

Maria da Conceição  Search this

Lalanne, François Xavier  Search this

Lalanne, Claude  Search this

Tenneson, Joyce  Search this

Summer, Carol  Search this

Raffael, Joseph  Search this

Paley, Albert  Search this

Woodyard, William  Search this

Gilliam, Sam  Search this

Frankenthaler, Helen  Search this

Barbara Fendrick Gallery  Search this

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

Type:

Account books

Photographs

Citation:

Fendrick Gallery records, 1952-2001. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Furniture designers  Search this

Artists -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Sculptors  Search this

Artists' books  Search this

Printmakers  Search this

Metal-workers  Search this

Theme:

Art Gallery Records  Search this

Craft  Search this

Art Market  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)6271

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)216614

AAA_collcode_fendgall

Theme:

Art Gallery Records

Craft

Art Market

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_216614

Creator:

McCoy, Esther  Search this

Names:

Historic American Buildings Survey  Search this

Society of Architectural Historians  Search this

University of California, Los Angeles. School of Architecture and Urban Planning  Search this

Ain, Gregory, 1908-1988  Search this

Barragán, Luis, 1902-  Search this

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012  Search this

Davidson, Julius Ralph, b. 1889  Search this

Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945  Search this

Ellwood, Craig  Search this

Gill, Irving, 1870-1936  Search this

Grotz, Dorothy  Search this

Hollein, Hans, 1934-2014  Search this

Jones, A. Quincy (Archie Quincy), 1913-1979  Search this

Maybeck, Bernard R.  Search this

Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970  Search this

O'Gorman, Juan, 1905-  Search this

Rand, Marvin  Search this

Schindler, R. M. (Rudolph M.), 1887-1953  Search this

Shulman, Julius  Search this

Soriano, Rafael, 1920-  Search this

Watanabe, Makoto  Search this

Worlidge, T. (Thomas), 1700-1766  Search this

Extent:

44 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Diaries

Etchings

Photographs

Sound recordings

Interviews

Video recordings

Slides (photographs)

Transcripts

Drawings

Memoirs

Date:

circa 1876-1990

bulk 1938-1989

Summary:

The papers of Southern California architectural historian, critic, and writer Esther McCoy measure 44.0 linear feet and date from 1876 to 1990 (bulk 1938-1989). McCoy was interested in both Italian and Mexican architecture as well as the folk art and crafts of Mexico and South America. The collection documents McCoy's career, as well as her family and personal life through biographical material, extensive correspondence, personal and professional writings, project files, Southern California architects' files, clippings and other printed material, a large collection of photographs and slides, and taped interviews of Southern California modern architects.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of Southern California architectural historian, critic, and writer Esther McCoy measure 44.0 linear feet and date from 1876 to 1990 (bulk 1938-1989). McCoy was interested in both Italian and Mexican architecture as well as the folk art and crafts of Mexico and South America. The collection documents McCoy's career, as well as her family and personal life through biographical material, extensive correspondence, personal and professional writings, project files, Southern California architects' files, clippings and other printed material, a large collection of photographs and slides, and taped interviews of Southern California modern architects.

Biographical and family material consists of awards, resumes, identification documents, and other documentation of McCoy's personal life. Included are a transcript of a 1984 interview of McCoy by Makoto Watanabe and material relating to her friend, Theodore Dreiser.

Correspondence focuses on her personal relationships with family, friends, and lovers, and general correspondence relating primarily to her work as a writer. McCoy's personal correspondence is valuable to researchers who are interested in her personal life, her struggles as a young writer, and the way in which her family, friends, lovers, mentors, and colleagues helped to shape her work and career. As documented in this correspondence, her life offers a glimpse into twentieth-century American social and political history, especially the radical leftist movements of the 1920s and 1930s. Researchers interested in the roots of feminism in the United States should also find these papers useful in documenting the life of a creative and productive woman who was successful in a field then almost entirely dominated by men. Correspondents of note include her husband Berkeley Tobey, lovers Geoffrey Eaton and Albert Robert, writers Ray Bradbury and Theodore Dreiser, and artists and architects, such as Dorothy Grotz, Craig Ellwood, A. Quincy Jones, Hans Hollein, and J. R. Davidson. General correspondence is primarily with researchers, professors, architects, publishers, and professional organizations.

Personal writings include McCoy's diaries, notebooks, and memoirs, and writings by others including friends, lovers, and colleagues. Also included are drafts of McCoy's fictional works, both published and unpublished, including short stories, teleplays, and novels.

The collection contains in-depth documentation of McCoy's pioneering study of the modernist work of twentieth-century architects in Southern California. The bulk of her papers consist of her writing files for books, exhibition catalogs, articles, and lectures on architecture. Because many of the architects about whom McCoy wrote were her contemporaries, she developed personal relationships with several of them through her research and writing. Her writing files include drafts, notes, research material, photographs, and correspondence. McCoy also traveled extensively, particularly in Italy and Mexico, and wrote about architecture, craft, and culture in those countries. Project files document McCoy's other activities related to architectural history, such preservation projects, juries, grants, the Dodge House Preservation Campaign and related film project, her work for the Society of Architectural Historians and the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), and her work at the UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Planning, compiling a slide library and cataloging the Richard Neutra's papers. McCoy also maintained architect files which may contain correspondence, notes, photographs, research material, interview transcripts, about architects and their works. Among these extensive records, the files documenting the careers of R. M. Schindler, Irving Gill, Richard Neutra, and Juan O'Gorman are particularly rich.

Printed material in this collection documents McCoy's career as well as her personal interests. Included are books, clippings, magazines, newsletters, press releases, as well as publications arranged by subject such as architecture, art, Italy, and Mexico. McCoy also collected literary and leftist publications. The small amount of artwork in this collection consists of artwork sent to her by friends, including a drawing of her by Esther Rollo and etchings by various artists including Thomas Worlidge.

There are personal photographs of family and friends and of McCoy at different times in her life, as well as photographs gathered during the course of her research on architecture. Found here are photographs of architects and their works, including a large number depicting the work of Gregory Ain, Luis Barragan, J. R. Davidson, Irving Gill, Bernard Maybeck, Juan O'Gorman, R. M. Schindler, and Raphael Soriano. Many of these photographs were taken by notable architectural photographers Julius Shulman and Marvin Rand. Also found are photographs of architecture designed for the Case Study House program of Arts & Architecture magazine; exhibition photographs, primarily for the exhibition "Ten Italian Architects" in 1967; and other research photographs primarily documenting architecture and craft in other countries and the history of architecture in California. This series also includes approximately 3,600 slides of architecture.

Audio and video recordings include a videocassette of McCoy's 80th birthday party and 55 taped interviews with architects, people associated with architectural projects, and artists.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into 10 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical and Family Material, 1881-1989 (boxes 1, 48; 0.6 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1896-1989 (boxes 1-6, 4.9 linear feet)

Series 3: Personal Writings, 1919-1989 (boxes 6-14; 8.1 linear feet)

Series 4: Architectural Writings, 1908-1990 (boxes 14-24, 42, 49, 50; 10.2 linear feet)

Series 5: Projects, circa 1953-1988 (boxes 24-26, 47, FC 53-56; 2.5 linear feet)

Series 6: Architect Files, 1912-1990 (boxes 26-28, 42; 2.2 linear feet)

Series 7: Printed Material, circa 1885-1990 (boxes 28-31, 42; 2.9 linear feet)

Series 8: Artwork, 1924-1967, undated (box 31; 0.4 linear feet)

Series 9: Photographs and Slides, circa 1876-1989 (boxes 31-38, 41-46, 51; 8.3 linear feet)

Series 10: Audio and Video Recordings, 1930-1984 (boxes 38-40, 47; 2.5 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Esther McCoy (1904-1989) is remembered best for her pioneering work as an architectural historian, critic, and proponent of Southern California modern architecture of the early to mid-twentieth century. McCoy was interested in both Italian and Mexican architecture as well as the folk art and crafts of Mexico and South America. Although her professional interests ranged from writing fiction to studying the folk architecture and crafts of Mexico, McCoy achieved her most notable success for her numerous articles, books, and exhibitions about Southern California architecture and the architects associated with the modernist movement.

Born in Arkansas in 1904, Esther McCoy grew up in Kansas and attended various schools in the Midwest. In 1926 she left the University of Michigan to launch a writing career in New York, where she moved in avant-garde literary circles and conducted research for Theodore Dreiser. She began writing fiction in New York and continued to write after moving to Los Angeles in 1932, working on short stories, novels, and screenplays. She published numerous short stories between 1929 and 1962, with works appearing in the New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, and university quarterlies. Her short story, "The Cape," was reprinted in Best Short Stories of 1950. Many of the novels that she wrote from the mid-1960s through the 1980s were related thematically to architects and architecture.

During the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s, McCoy participated in the politically radical movements of the period and wrote for leftist publications. Her interest in the lowcost housing projects of modern architects was prompted by one of her articles about slums for Epic News. During World War II she entered a training program for engineering draftsmen at Douglas Aircraft and in 1944 was hired as an architectural draftsman for the architect R.M. Schindler. As she became increasingly interested in modern architecture and design, she combined her two major career interests and began to focus her energies on architectural research, writing, and criticism. Her first article on architecture, "Schindler: Space Architect," was published in 1945 in the journal Direction.

McCoy began writing about architecture in earnest in 1950 as a free-lance contributor to the Los Angeles Times. From then until her death in 1989, she wrote prolifically for Arts & Architecture magazine, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Architectural Record, L'Architectura, Zodiac (Italy), Progressive Architecture, Lotus (Italy), and Architectural Forum. In addition to her numerous articles, McCoy wrote several books on Southern California modern architecture and architects. Her first major work, Five California Architects, published in 1960, is now recognized as a classic work in modern architectural history. It promoted a serious study of modern architecture in Southern California and introduced to the world several leading California architects and their work: Bernard Maybeck, Irving Gill, Charles and Henry Greene, and R.M. Schindler. That same year, she published another important book focusing on the work of the California architect Richard Neutra. Other books by McCoy include Modern California Houses: Case Study Houses (1962), Craig Ellwood (1968), Vienna to Los Angeles: Two Journeys (1979), and The Second Generation (1984).

In addition to these books, McCoy organized and wrote catalogs for several significant exhibitions focusing on contemporary architects. Her first was the R.M. Schindler Retrospective, a 1954 exhibition at the Landau Art Gallery in Los Angeles. Her other exhibitions and accompanying catalogs include Roots of California Contemporary Architecture, 1956, Los Angeles Municipal Art Department; Felix Candela, 1957, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Irving Gill, 1958, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Juan O'Gorman, 1964, San Fernando Valley State College; and Ten Italian Architects, 1967, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Moreover, McCoy contributed numerous essays to other exhibition catalogs and publications, lectured at the University of Southern California, participated in preservation projects, organized tours for the Society of Architectural Historians, and contributed to a number of documentary films. Her energy and interests also led her to catalog and transcribe Richard Neutra's papers at the University of California Los Angeles Archives.

McCoy received national recognition from the American Institute of Architects for her seminal and prolific work in the field of Southern California modern architectural history and criticism. Her interests, however, were not exclusively bound to California. She traveled the world and was interested in both Italian and Mexican architecture as well as the folk art and crafts of Mexico and South America. She made five extended trips to Italy during the 1950s and 1960s, publishing regularly about the architecture there and curating the exhibition Ten Italian Architects. She was a contributing editor to two Italian journals, Zodiac and Lotus, and was awarded the Star of Order of Solidarity in 1960 by the Republic of Italy for her research and writing.

Esther McCoy died of emphysema on December 30, 1989, at the age of eighty-five. Her last contribution was an essay for the exhibition catalog Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study House. The show opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles one month before her death.

Missing Title

1904 -- Born November 18 in Horatio, Arkansas. Raised in Kansas.

1920 -- Attended preparatory school at Central College for Women, Lexington, Missouri.

1922-1925 -- College education: Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas; University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; University of Michigan.

1924 -- Visited Theodore Dreiser in Michigan.

1926-1938 -- Began writing in New York City.

1926-1938 -- Researched and read for Theodore Dreiser.

1926-1938 -- Worked for editorial offices and publishers.

1926-1938 -- Traveled to write in Paris (1928), Key West, Florida (1930), and Los Angeles, California (1932-1935).

1938 -- Moved to Santa Monica, California.

1941 -- Married Berkeley Greene Tobey.

1942-1944 -- Employed as engineering draftsman at Douglas Aircraft.

1944-1947 -- Worked as architectural draftsman for R.M. Schindler.

1945 -- Began architectural writing career.

1950 -- Wrote script for film Architecture West.

1950 -- Joined editorial board of Arts & Architecture.

1950-1968 -- Worked as free-lance writer for the Los Angeles Times.

1951-1955 -- Traveled to, researched, and wrote about Mexico and Mexican art and architecture.

1954 -- R.M. Schindler Retrospective exhibition at the Landau Art Gallery, Los Angeles.

1956 -- Roots of California Contemporary Architecture exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Department.

1957 -- Felix Candela exhibition, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

1958 -- Irving Gill exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Traveled to Italy.

1959-1968 -- Contributing editor to Italian periodicals Zodiac and Lotus.

1960 -- Five California Architects (New York: Reinhold).

1960 -- Richard Neutra (New York: G. Braziller).

1960 -- Awarded Star of Order of Solidarity by the Republic of Italy for reporting on arts and crafts in Italy.

1962 -- Death of Berkeley Greene Tobey.

1962 -- Modern California Houses: Case Study Houses (New York: Reinhold) (reprinted as Case Study Houses, Los Angeles: Hennessey and Ingalls, 1978).

1963 -- Resident Fellow at Huntington Hartford Foundation.

1964 -- Juan O'Gorman exhibition, San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, Calif.

1965 -- Consultant for the California Arts Commission.

1965-1966 -- Wrote and produced the film Dodge House.

1965-1968 -- Lecturer at University of California at Los Angeles, School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

1966 -- Resident Fellow at MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire.

1967 -- Ten Italian Architects exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

1967 -- Honorary Associate of the Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

1967 -- Regents' Lecturer at University of California, Santa Barbara.

1968 -- Craig Ellwood (New York: Walker).

1968 -- Distinguished Service Citation from the California Council of AIA.

1969-1970 -- Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

1969-1989 -- Contributing editor of Progressive Architecture.

1971-1978 -- Graham Foundation Grants.

1974 -- Regents' Lecturer at the University of California,Santa Cruz.

1979 -- Vienna to Los Angeles: Two Journeys (Santa Monica, Calif.: Arts & Architecture Press).

1979 -- Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

1981 -- Los Angeles Chapter Women's Architectural League Honorary Member.

1982 -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Modern and Contemporary Art Council Award for Distinguished Achievement.

1983 -- Home Sweet Home: The California Ranch House exhibition at California State University.

1984 -- The Second Generation (Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books).

1985 -- American Institute of Architects, Institute Honor.

1986 -- High Styles exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

1987 -- Vesta Award for outstanding scholarship.

1989 -- Award from the Historical Society of Southern California.

1989 -- Award from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

1989 -- Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study House exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Died in Santa Monica, California, December 30.

Related Material:

Also in the Archives of American Art are eight sound cassettes of a transcribed interview with Esther McCoy conducted by Joseph Giovannini, June 8-November 14, 1987.

Provenance:

The collection was given to the Archives of American Art by Esther McCoy in 1986. Before her death in 1989, McCoy assisted in the organization and identification of the papers. Original pre-print film elements for Dodge House 1916 were donated to the Archives of American Art by the Academy Film Archive in 2018.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of audiovisual recordings without access copies 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:

Architectural historians -- California  Search this

Art critics -- California  Search this

Topic:

Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Mexico  Search this

Architects -- Italy  Search this

Architecture, Domestic -- California  Search this

Authors -- California  Search this

Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- California  Search this

Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Europe  Search this

Architects -- California  Search this

Feminism and art  Search this

Latino and Latin American artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Diaries

Etchings

Photographs

Sound recordings

Interviews

Video recordings

Slides (photographs)

Transcripts

Drawings

Memoirs

Citation:

Esther McCoy papers, circa 1876-1990, bulk 1938-1989. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Identifier:

AAA.mccoesth

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Esther McCoy papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw93ee58e3b-f2fc-4d98-acf9-de6f76bfed63

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-mccoesth

Creator:

Cipriano, Michael, 1960-1993  Search this

Names:

Barneys New York  Search this

Bergdorf Goodman (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Bloomingdale's (Firm)  Search this

Cooper-Hewitt Design Archive  Search this

Ercole (Store)  Search this

Etoile (Store)  Search this

Kosta Boda (Firm)  Search this

Macy, R.H., & Co., New York  Search this

Puiforcat (Firm)  Search this

Extent:

0.6 Cubic feet (4 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Advertising cards

Clippings

Color prints (photographs)

Color slides

Color xerographic copies

Correspondence

Drawings

Invoices

Obituaries

Purchase orders

Proposals

Receipts

Sketches

Swatches

Date:

1979-1993, undated

Summary:

Collection documents the work of display and window designer Michael Cipriano for Connecticut and New York stores including sketches, business records, correspondence, and photographic materials.

Scope and Contents:

The collection documents Cipriano's short professional career as a table setter and window designer for retailers in Connecticut and New York City. It consists of business records, correspondence, photographs, and colored pencil sketches for Barney's Christmas windows dating from 1988-1989. In addition, there are approximately five hundred color 35mm slides documenting window displays for Macy's Incorporated, Bloomingdale's Incorporated, Bergdorf Goodman Incorporated, and Barneys New York. The collection covers the full range of Cipriano's design career from 1983 to 1993.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into two series:

Series 1: Photographic Materials, 1979-1991, undated

Series 2: Client Files, 1982-1993, undated

Biographical / Historical:

Michael Louis Cipriano (August 10, 1960-October 8, 1993) was born in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut to Michael Cipriano (1940-) and Evelyn M. Piperas (1941-2013). He studied fine art and art history at the University of Connecticut. His professional interests included costume, set, and theater design of the Art Deco, Art Moderne, and Art Nouveau styles. Prior to 1983, he did freelance displays for small shops in Connecticut. Cipriano began his professional career as a display trimmer for Macy's department store in New York in 1983. He designed for Bloomingdale's Incorporated from 1984-85, and for Bergdorf Goodman Incorporated Home Department from 1985 to 1986. Cipriano died of complications from AIDS in 1993 in New York City at the age of thirty-three.

Related Materials:

Materials at the Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated Records, NMAH.AC.0395

Estelle Ellis Papers, NMAH.AC.0423

Beverly Partridge Shopping Bag Collection, NMAH.AC.0493

Edward J. Orth Memorial Archives of the New York World's Fair, NMAH.AC.0560

Archives Center Shopping Bag Collection, NMAH.AC.0570

Dorothy Shaver Papers, NMAH.AC.0631

Landy R. Hales Papers, NMAH.AC.0906

Gene Moore, Tiffany & Company Photographs, NMAH.AC.1280

William L. Bird Holidays on Display Collection, NMAH.AC.1288

Provenance:

This collection was donated in 1993 by D. Thomas Shoemaker.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Occupation:

Window display designers  Search this

Topic:

Chelsea Passage  Search this

Display of merchandise -- United States  Search this

Show windows  Search this

Table setting and decoration  Search this

Genre/Form:

Advertising cards

Clippings

Color prints (photographs) -- 20th century

Color slides

Color xerographic copies

Correspondence

Drawings

Invoices

Obituaries

Purchase orders

Proposals

Receipts

Sketches

Swatches

Citation:

Michael Cipriano Papers, 1979-1993, undated, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.1274

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Michael Cipriano Papers

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8c67973c4-e320-4c08-ad14-b7185974a728

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-1274

Creator:

Wieghardt, Paul, 1897-1969  Search this

Wieghardt, Nelli Bar, 1904-2001  Search this

Names:

Art Institute of Chicago. School  Search this

Bosworth, Francis  Search this

Extent:

1.5 Linear feet ((on 2 microfilm reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1925-1987

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence, mostly from Nelli Bar Wieghardt to Francis Bosworth relating to the Wieghardt's years as refugees and their attempt to settle in the United States; notebooks on art history and class materials compiled by Paul Wieghardt; biographical records; clippings which include early reviews from German and French papers; photographs of Paul Wieghardt teaching, installation views and of Paul and Nelli Bar Wieghardt's art work.

Biographical / Historical:

Paul Wieghardt (1897-1969) was a painter and sculptor in Chicago, Ill. and Philadelphia, Pa. Paul was a painter and his wife Nelli Bar was a sculptor. They taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Evanston Art Center.

Provenance:

Microfilmed in 1987 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. Lent for microfilming by Nelli Bar Wieghardt.

Restrictions:

The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Occupation:

Sculptors -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Painters -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Sculptors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Topic:

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Refugees  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.wiegpaul

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw91aa09036-a518-4bb8-bcd4-f5eed10a9fc7

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-wiegpaul

Creator:

Levy, Beatrice S., 1892-1974,  Search this

Subject:

Chicago Society of Artists  Search this

Chicago Society of Etchers  Search this

Citation:

Beatrice S. Levy papers, 1890-1994. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women educators  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- California  Search this

Theme:

Women  Search this

Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9632

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211840

AAA_collcode_levybeat

Theme:

Women

Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211840

Creator:

Levy, Beatrice S. (Beatrice Sophia), 1892-1974  Search this

Names:

Chicago Society of Artists  Search this

Chicago Society of Etchers  Search this

Extent:

4.2 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1890-1994

Summary:

The Beatrice S. Levy papers measure 4.2 linear feet and date from 1890-1994. The collection comprises biographical material that includes family and personal letters, awards and certificates, donation records, and biographical statements; 45 diaries and notes detailing Levy's daily life in and out of the studio; professional files consists of correspondence, business records, and files for the Chicago Society of Artists and Chicago Society of Etchers; printed materials include clippings relating to Art News and Levy's work, exhibition catalogs and announcements; photographs of Levy and friends, family and travel in 4 albums, as well as photographs used as source material; and artwork including portraits of friends, prints and sketches, and sketchbooks.

Scope and Contents:

The Beatrice S. Levy papers measure 4.2 linear feet and date from 1890-1994. The collection comprises biographical material that includes family and personal letters, awards and certificates, donation records, and biographical statements; 45 diaries and notes detailing Levy's daily life in and out of the studio; professional files consists of correspondence, business records, and files for the Chicago Society of Artists and Chicago Society of Etchers; printed materials include clippings relating to Art News and Levy's work, exhibition catalogs and announcements; photographs of Levy and friends, family and travel in 4 albums, as well as photographs used as source material; and artwork including portraits of friends, prints and sketches, and sketchbooks.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 6 series.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1910s-circa 1974 (0.4 linear feet; Box 1, OV 7)

Series 2: Diaries and Notes, circa 1906-1972 (0.6 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 3: Professional Files, 1910s-1994 (0.6 linear feet; Boxes 1-2)

Series 4: Printed Material, 1890-1985 (0.4 linear feet; Box 2)

Series 5: Photographic Material, 1894-circa 1950s (1.1 linear feet; Boxes 3, 6)

Series 6: Artwork, 1900s-1960s (1.1 linear feet; Boxes 4-6, OVs 8-9)

Biographical / Historical:

Beatrice S. Levy (1892-1974) was an etcher in Chicago, Ill. and La Jolla, Calif. Levy studied at the Art Institute of Chicago under Ralph Clarkson and with Charles W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She had a studio in Chicago's 57th Street Art Colony. Her work was exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition (1915), the Century of Progress in Chicago (1933-1934), and the New York's World's Fair (1939). Levy was President of the Chicago Society of Artists, Supervisor of the Works Progress Administration Art Project Gallery, and Supervisor of the Easel Painting Division in 1936 for the Federal Art Project. In 1950 she moved to California, where she taught at the La Jolla Museum School of Arts and Crafts (1961-1962) and continued to exhibit her work.

Provenance:

The Beatrice S. Levy papers were donated in 2018 and 2023 by Heather Peck, granddaughter of Dorothy Stratton, a friend of Beatrice Levy. Material microfilmed on reel 4190 (frames 773-1023) was originally part of a larger collection of material given to the University of Louisville (Kentucky) by Samuel Steinfeld, a cousin of Beatrice Levy. The University of Louisville transferred this group of papers to the Art Institute of Chicago, who in turn donated them to the Archives of American Art in 1986. Samuel Steinfeld donated additional material on reel 4190 (frames 1024-1311) in 1986.

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.

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:

Etchers -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Art teachers -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Engravers -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women educators  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- California  Search this

Citation:

Beatrice S. Levy papers, 1890-1994. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.levybeat

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Beatrice S. Levy papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f8abb4e5-348f-43e9-b677-abc37752bfea

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-levybeat

Creator:

Stendahl Art Galleries  Search this

Subject:

Siqueiros, David Alfaro  Search this

Picasso, Pablo  Search this

Kent, Rockwell  Search this

Gilbert, Arthur Hill  Search this

Rose, Ethel Boardman  Search this

Rivera, Diego  Search this

Pearson, Ralph M.  Search this

Rose, Guy  Search this

Montenegro, Roberto  Search this

Pach, Walter  Search this

De Creeft, José  Search this

Noguchi, Isamu  Search this

Loeffler, Gisella  Search this

Stendahl, Earl L.  Search this

Laurence, Sydney  Search this

Kandinsky, Wassily  Search this

Calder, Alexander  Search this

Cantú, Federico  Search this

Guthrie, George B.  Search this

Archipenko, Alexander  Search this

Beltrán-Masses, Federico  Search this

Genth, Lillian Mathilde  Search this

Wendt, William  Search this

Ritschel, William  Search this

Hansen, Armin C. (Armin-Carl)  Search this

Payne, Edgar A. (Edgar Alwin)  Search this

Knight, Aston  Search this

Kronberg, Louis  Search this

Gelhaar, Emil  Search this

Feshin, Nikola? Ivanovich  Search this

Szecsi, Ladislas  Search this

Schofield, Walter Elmer  Search this

Charlot, Jean  Search this

Kleitsch, Joseph  Search this

Zuloaga, Ignacio  Search this

Orozco, José Clemente  Search this

Mérida, Carlos  Search this

Eddy, Jerome  Search this

Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art  Search this

Demotte, inc. (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Couvoisier Galleries  Search this

Wildenstein and Company (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Type:

Gallery records

Scrapbooks

Citation:

Stendahl Art Galleries records, 1907-1971. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art -- New Guinea  Search this

Latino and Latin American artists  Search this

Landscape painting  Search this

Prints  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Theme:

Latino and Latin American  Search this

Art Gallery Records  Search this

Art Market  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)5550

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210940

AAA_collcode_stenartg

Theme:

Latino and Latin American

Art Gallery Records

Art Market

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210940