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Creator:

Adams, Kenneth M.  Search this

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this

Subject:

Rowan, Edward Beatty  Search this

Jones, Cecil H.  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

Treasury Relief Art Project  Search this

Federal Art Project  Search this

Place:

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945

Citation:

Kenneth Miller Adams papers, 1933-1938. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Mural painting and decoration -- Kansas  Search this

Mural painting and decoration -- New Mexico  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Kansas  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- New Mexico  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- Kansas  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- New Mexico  Search this

Art and state -- Kansas  Search this

Art and state -- New Mexico  Search this

Theme:

New Deal  Search this

Patronage  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)5613

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)208447

AAA_collcode_adamkenn

Theme:

New Deal

Patronage

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_208447

Creator:

Hunter, Russell Vernon, 1900-1955  Search this

Subject:

Mozley, Loren  Search this

O'Keeffe, Georgia  Search this

Blumenschein, Ernest Leonard  Search this

Dehn, Adolf  Search this

Mozley, Loren  Search this

O'Keeffe, Georgia  Search this

Federal Art Project (N.M.)  Search this

Place:

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 -- New Mexico

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- New Mexico

Citation:

Russell Vernon Hunter papers, 1923-1979. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- New Mexico  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- New Mexico  Search this

Art and state -- New Mexico  Search this

Federal aid to the public welfare -- New Mexico  Search this

Theme:

Architecture & Design  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7822

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209989

AAA_collcode_huntruss

Theme:

Architecture & Design

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209989

Creator:

Hurd, Peter, 1904-1984  Search this

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this

Subject:

Watson, Forbes  Search this

Rowan, Edward Beatty  Search this

Place:

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 -- New Mexico

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- New Mexico

Citation:

Peter Hurd papers relating to the Section of Fine Arts, 1936-1951. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- New Mexico  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Texas  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- New Mexico  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- Texas  Search this

Art and state -- New Mexico  Search this

Art and state -- Texas  Search this

Mural painting and decoration, American  Search this

Muralists  Search this

Theme:

New Deal  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7826

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209993

AAA_collcode_hurdpetp

Theme:

New Deal

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209993

Creator:

Nusbaum, Jesse L. (Jesse Logan), 1887-1975  Search this

United States.Department of the Treasury  Search this

Subject:

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

Citation:

Jesse L. Nusbaum Public Works of Art records, 1934-1935. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- New Mexico  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- New Mexico  Search this

Art and state -- New Mexico  Search this

Federal aid to public welfare -- New Mexico  Search this

Theme:

New Deal  Search this

Patronage  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8149

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210320

AAA_collcode_nusbjess

Theme:

New Deal

Patronage

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210320

Creator:

Bisttram, Emil, 1895-1976  Search this

Subject:

Berninghaus, Oscar E. (Oscar Edmund)  Search this

Dows, Olin  Search this

Macdonald-Wright, Stanton  Search this

Ufer, Walter, Mrs  Search this

Saarinen, Eero  Search this

Higgins, Victor  Search this

Phillips, Bert Geer  Search this

Jonson, Raymond  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

Treasury Relief Art Project  Search this

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this

Citation:

Emil J. Bisttram papers, 1902-1982. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts -- Arizona  Search this

Art and state -- Arizona  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- New Mexico  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939  Search this

Art and state -- New Mexico  Search this

Painting, Abstract  Search this

Taos School of Art  Search this

Design  Search this

Symmetry  Search this

Proportion (Art)  Search this

Theme:

New Deal  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9018

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211207

AAA_collcode_bistemil

Theme:

New Deal

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211207

Creator:

Rush, Olive, 1873-1966  Search this

Subject:

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this

Type:

Sketches

Diaries

Photographs

Citation:

Olive Rush papers, 1879-1967. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Painters -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe  Search this

American Indians in art  Search this

Art and state  Search this

Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe  Search this

Muralists -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe  Search this

Illustrators -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Theme:

Diaries  Search this

Sketches & Sketchbooks  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9223

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211418

AAA_collcode_rusholiv

Theme:

Diaries

Sketches & Sketchbooks

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211418

Creator:

Jonson, Raymond, 1891-1982  Search this

Subject:

Albers, Josef  Search this

Bisttram, Emil  Search this

Bloch, Albert  Search this

Cheney, Sheldon  Search this

Dasburg, Andrew  Search this

De Kooning, Elaine  Search this

Hiler, Hilaire  Search this

Levy, Beatrice S. (Beatrice Sophia)  Search this

Nordfeldt, Bror Julius Olsson  Search this

O'Hara, Eliot  Search this

O'Keeffe, Georgia  Search this

Pelton, Agnes  Search this

Wells, Cady  Search this

Xceron, Jean  Search this

Federal Art Project (N.M.)  Search this

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this

Jonson Gallery  Search this

Type:

Scrapbooks

Citation:

Raymond Jonson papers, 1910-1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque  Search this

Art and state -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque  Search this

Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque  Search this

Theme:

Diaries  Search this

New Deal  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9289

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211484

AAA_collcode_jonsraym

Theme:

Diaries

New Deal

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211484

Creator:

Shuster, Will, 1893-1969  Search this

Subject:

Henri, Robert  Search this

La Farge, Oliver  Search this

Scott, Winfield Townley  Search this

Sheridan, John E.  Search this

Wheelock, Warren  Search this

Nash, Willard Ayer  Search this

Karig, Walter  Search this

Sloan, John  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

Place:

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- New Mexico

Citation:

Will Shuster papers, [undated] and 1914-1970. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art, American -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- New Mexico  Search this

Art and state -- New Mexico  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- New Mexico  Search this

Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century -- New Mexico  Search this

Theme:

Diaries  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)13458

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211861

AAA_collcode_shuswill

Theme:

Diaries

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211861

Creator:

Public Works of Art Project (N.M.)  Search this

Subject:

Bisttram, Emil  Search this

Lea, Tom  Search this

Lockwood, Ward  Search this

Rush, Olive  Search this

Shuster, Will  Search this

Baumann, Gustave  Search this

Citation:

PWAP reports by Gustave Baumann, 1934. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Federal aid to public welfare  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Art and state -- United States  Search this

Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century -- New Mexico  Search this

Theme:

Patronage  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9784

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212211

AAA_collcode_publwonm

Theme:

Patronage

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_212211

Creator:

Morris, James Stovall, 1898-1973  Search this

Subject:

Federal Art Project (N.M.)  Search this

Place:

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 -- New Mexico

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- New Mexico

Citation:

James Stovall Morris papers, 1935-1961. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- New Mexico  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- New Mexico  Search this

Federal aid to the public welfare -- New Mexico  Search this

Art and state -- New Mexico  Search this

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9824

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212284

AAA_collcode_morrjame

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_212284

Creator:

Meem, John Gaw, 1894-1983  Search this

Subject:

Nusbaum, Jesse L. (Jesse Logan)  Search this

Bisttram, Emil  Search this

Bruce, Edward  Search this

Watson, Forbes  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

Place:

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945

Citation:

John Gaw Meem correspondence, 1933-1934. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- New Mexico  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- New Mexico  Search this

Federal aid to the public welfare -- New Mexico  Search this

Art and state -- Arizona  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- Arizona  Search this

Art and state -- New Mexico  Search this

Theme:

Patronage  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9851

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212346

AAA_collcode_meemjohn

Theme:

Patronage

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_212346

Subject:

Barela, Patrociño  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Place:

N.M.

Date:

ca. 1936

Citation:

Patrociño Barela, ca. 1936. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art and state  Search this

Artists at or with their work  Search this

Families  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)3264

See more items in:

Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965, bulk 1935-1942

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_3264

Subject:

Barela, Patrociño  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Place:

N.M.

Date:

ca. 1936

Citation:

Patrociño Barela, ca. 1936. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art and state  Search this

Artists at or with their work  Search this

Families  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)3265

See more items in:

Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965, bulk 1935-1942

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_3265

Subject:

Barela, Patrociño  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Place:

N.M.

Date:

ca. 1936

Citation:

Patrociño Barela, ca. 1936. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art and state  Search this

Artists at or with their work  Search this

Families  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)3266

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Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965, bulk 1935-1942

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_3266

Subject:

Emery, Irene  Search this

Carrie Tingley Crippled Children's Hospital  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Place:

Hot Springs, N.M.

Date:

ca. 1937

Citation:

Irene Emery, ca. 1937. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art and state  Search this

Artists at or with their work  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Sculpture  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)3269

See more items in:

Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965, bulk 1935-1942

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_3269

Interviewee:

Gilbertson, Boris, 1907-1982  Search this

Interviewer:

Loomis, Sylvia Glidden  Search this

Subject:

Treasury Relief Art Project  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Boris Gilbertson, 1964 June 25. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art and state  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Animal sculptors -- Interviews  Search this

Sculptors -- Wisconsin -- Interviews  Search this

Sculptors -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe -- Interviews  Search this

Theme:

New Deal  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12485

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213486

AAA_collcode_gilber64

Theme:

New Deal

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_213486

Creator:

Inverarity, Robert Bruce, 1909-1999  Search this

Names:

Federal Art Project (Calif.)  Search this

Federal Art Project (Ill.)  Search this

Federal Art Project (Iowa)  Search this

Federal Art Project (N.Y.)  Search this

Federal Art Project (Or.)  Search this

Federal Art Project (Utah)  Search this

Federal Art Project (Wash.)  Search this

Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)  Search this

Deutsch, Hilda, 1911-  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 -- Photographs  Search this

Graves, Morris, 1910- -- Photographs  Search this

Morris, Carl, 1911-1993  Search this

Ray, Man, 1890-1976 -- Photographs  Search this

Tobey, Mark  Search this

Extent:

13.8 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Scrapbooks

Sound recordings

Sketchbooks

Interviews

Photographs

Drawings

Place:

United States -- Economic conditions, 1918-1945 -- Washington (State)

Date:

circa 1840s-1997

Summary:

The papers of artist, photographer, museum director, anthropologist, and writer Robert Bruce Inverarity are dated circa 1840s-1997 and measure 12.7 linear feet. Biographical information, correspondence, writings and notes, subject files, art work, scrapbooks, sound recordings, printed material and photographs are found within the papers. They document Inverarity's work as Director of the Federal Art Project in Seattle and Director of the Art and Craft Project for the State of Washington, as well as his other professional work. Nineteenth century material consists of a Japanese print, printed material, and photographs.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of artist, photographer, museum director, anthropologist, and writer Robert Bruce Inverarity are dated circa 1840s-1997 and measure 13.8 linear feet. Biographical information, correspondence, writings and notes, subject files, art work, scrapbooks, sound recordings, printed material and photographs are found within the papers. They document Inverarity's work as Director of the Federal Art Project in Seattle and Director of the Art and Craft Project for the State of Washington, as well as his other professional work. Nineteenth century material consists of a Japanese print, printed material, and photographs.

Among the biographical information are awards and certificates, biographical and genealogical notes, and educational records. Correspondence concerns Inverarity's activities as Director of the WPA Federal Arts Project in Washington State, 1936-1941. Additional personal and professional correspondence, 1929-1993, documents his activities as a museum director, consultant, collector, and writer. Among the friends and colleagues with whom he corresponded are: Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, Rockwell and Sally Kent, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Wolfgang Palen, Juliet and Man Ray, Mark Tobey, Edward Weston, and various individuals associated with the WPA.

Manuscripts of a few of Inverarity's many articles on topics such as anthropology, museology, and information storage and retrieval are among his writings and notes. Also included are the manuscript of an unpublished book, Tobey Remembered, along with drafts, notes, correspondence, research materials, and photocopies of Tobey's letters to him and others. Other writings consist of book reviews, children's books, a catalog of the Inverarity Collection, and a copy of his 1946 master's thesis, "The Social-Economic Position of the American Artist." Several journals, 1928-1966, survive, including one that records his 1932 trip to study the Haida Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands.

Subject files include general subjects such as "Folk Art" and "Preservation." Files on the museums where Inverarity was the director contain some official records as well as general information. Art work by Inverarity includes eight volumes of sketch books, 1928-1942, commercial work for Boeing, notes and drawings for book designs. Among the work by other artists are drawings, paintings and prints by friends. Of particular interest are display panels for a small exhibit on airbrush stencil prints produced by the Washington State WPA Federal Art Project. Other noteworthy items are pencil sketches and a watercolor by Mark Tobey, and prints by Hiroshige and Jan Matulka.

Five scrapbooks, 1928-1979, contain newspaper clippings, miscellaneous printed items, and a small number of photographs and letters. Three volumes document his career as an artist and museum director. One consists of biographical information and items designed by Inverarity, and another concerns publication and marketing of his monograph Art of the Northwest Coast Indians.

Sound recordings consist of interviews and conversations. An extensive interview with Inverarity about his life and career was conducted by Craig Gilborn in 1990. Bruce and Jane Inverarity in conversation with former colleague Ernie Johnson and his wife Helen about his departure from the Museum of International Folk Art were recorded in 1980. Also included is a 1981 conversation with Grace T. Stevenson containing references to Mark Tobey and Morris Graves.

Printed material includes many items about or produced by the WPA Federal Art Project. Among the items written by Inverarity are many articles on a wide variety of topics, his book Art of the Northwest Coast Indians, and two published portfolios. Printed material by other authors includes articles, books and reports about or mentioning Inverarity, and books designed or illustrated by him. Among the miscellaneous printed items are catalogs and brochures of the schools where Inverarity taught and studied, and a few ephemeral items designed by him.

Photographs are of art work, people, places, the Washington State WPA Federal Art Project, and miscellaneous subjects. All photographs known to be by Inverarity are clearly marked. Art work includes views of Inverarity's collection of his own work and that of other artists hanging in his home. Photographs of people include artists, friends, colleagues, and various groups. Of special interest are Inverarity's portraits of artists, among them Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Morris Graves, Hilaire Hiler, Rico Le Brun, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning, and Mark Tobey. Photographs of places include the museums where Inverarity was director, places in which he lived, and travel pictures. Of note are a large group of photographs (copy prints) taken in 1932 while studying the Haida Indians in British Columbia. Nineteenth century photographs of family homes, Europe, and South America may have been taken by his father. Photographs of the Washington State WPA Federal Arts Project are of individual works of art, exhibition installations, mosaic procedures and local art centers. Many, probably intended for display, are mounted in groups on large cardboard panels. Miscellaneous subjects include art photographs by Inverarity and the microreader he invented.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as nine series. Correspondence is in chronological order, Biographical Information and Subject Files are arranged alphabetically by folder title. Other series have been organized into subseries and arrangement is as described in the Series Descriptions/Container List below. Unless noted otherwise, material within folders is arranged chronologically.

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Information, 1934-1997, undated (Box 1, OV 18; 0.25 linear ft.)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1928-1993, undated (Box 1; 0.75 linear ft.)

Series 3: Writings and Notes, 1928-1993, undated, (Boxes 2-3; 1.5 linear ft.)

Series 4: Subject Files, 1938-1990, undated (Boxes 3-6, OV 19-20; 2.5 linear ft.)

Series 5: Art Work, circa 1840s-1969, undated (Boxes 6, 12, 16, OV 21; 1.3 linear ft.)

Series 6: Scrapbooks, 1928-1991, undated (Boxes 7-8; 1.1 linear ft.)

Series 7: Sound Recordings, 1980-1990 (Box 8; 3 folders)

Series 8: Printed Material, 1902-1995, undated (Boxes 8-13, OV 22; 3.4 linear ft.)

Series 9: Photographs, circa 1870s-1990, undated (Boxes 11, 14-17, OV 23; 3.0 linear ft.)

Biographical Note:

Robert Bruce Inverarity (1909-1999) showed artistic leanings as a boy, and from an early age was fascinated by puppetry and Northwest Coast native culture. During much of his youth, Inverarity's family lived in Canada, but returned to their native Seattle when he was a teenager. After graduating from high school, he made a 500 mile journey on foot along the coasts of the Vancouver Islands, collecting Indian artifacts and studying the area's tribal legends.

He studied briefly with Mark Tobey in Seattle, where the two shared a studio; when Tobey departed for Chicago, Inverarity succeeded him as an art teacher at the Cornish School. He spent the next few years in California working as an artist, exhibiting, and occasionally teaching. From there, he moved to Vancouver where he was Director of the School of Creative Art. In 1932, Inverarity made a three month trip to the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, for the purpose of studying the Haida Indians.

Upon his return to the United States in 1933, Inverarity joined the University of Washington Drama School as a puppetry instructor; in 1938 he published a highly regarded Manual of Puppetry. During 1936-37, he took a leave of absence from the university to assume the position of State Director of the Federal Art Project, where he remained until 1939. He then became State Director of the Art and Crafts Project (1939-1941). The U.S. Navy appointed Inverarity Chief of Design for Camouflage (1941-1943) and he later served as an Official Navy War Artist (1943-1945).

During his early years as a teacher and administrator, Inverarity continued making art and participated in a wide variety of exhibitions. He published a portfolio, 12 Photographs by R. B. Inverarity (1940). In the following year, Movable Masks and Figures of the North Pacific Coast Indians, a portfolio of his watercolors reproduced as silkscreen prints, appeared. Although Inverarity stopped exhibiting in 1941, he continued to produce art; notable work of this period includes photographic portraits of a number of artist friends (Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray).

After World War II, Inverarity completed his formal education. He earned a Bachelor's degree in art and anthropology from the University of Washington (1946), and then studied with Hilaire Hiler at Freemont University in Los Angeles, where he was awarded a Master's degree in fine arts (1947) and a Ph.D. (1948).

Inverarity began his museum career in 1949 when he was appointed the first director of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a position that combined his interest in, and knowledge of, anthropology and art. While in Santa Fe, he published Art of the North West Coast Indians (1950). During his five year tenure as director, the museum participated in a pilot study for coding visual files, a project of the anthropological group, Human Resources Area Files, Inc. When Inverarity was dismissed from the Museum of International Folk Art in 1954, most of the staff resigned in protest, and the American Association of Museums investigated the situation.

Inverarity then became the first director of the Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, where he remained for eleven years. In addition to planning the museum's building, and developing collections and programs, Inverarity continued his involvement with the visual files project of the Human Resources Area Files, Inc., studying information storage and retrieval, developing a "microreader," and publishing Visual Files Coding Index (1960). In addition, he published many articles on a variety of topics and was active in organizations for anthropologists and museum professionals.

After his 1965 departure from the Adirondack Museum, Inverarity went to California and worked as an illustrator and book designer at the University of California Press. He returned to the east coast in 1969 to assume the directorship of the Philadelphia Maritime Museum. During this period, he remained active in professional associations and traveled to study museums abroad. He retired in 1976 and moved to La Jolla, California.

Robert Bruce Inverarity died in 1999.

Separated Material:

Originals of most of the drawings and sketches loaned by Mr. Inverarity were returned to him after filming and were not subsequently donated. This material is available on 35 mm microfilm reel D/NDA/I, frames 392-409.

Provenance:

Robert Bruce Inverarity donated his papers to the Archives in several installments between 1965 and 1993. Additional papers were received from his estate in 1999. He also loaned a small number of additional drawings and sketches for microfilming which were returned to him. A few of these drawings were included with the papers he subsequently donated to the Archives of American Art.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research. Use 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:

Arts administrators  Search this

Painters  Search this

Topic:

Puppet theater  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Washington (State)  Search this

Works of art  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- Washington (State)  Search this

Art and state -- Washington (State)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Scrapbooks

Sound recordings

Sketchbooks

Interviews

Photographs

Drawings

Citation:

Robert Bruce Inverarity papers, circa 1840s-1997. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.inverobe

See more items in:

Robert Bruce Inverarity papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9460b503e-0657-430a-9244-ead53bd5066f

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-inverobe

Creator:

Rush, Olive, 1873-1966  Search this

Names:

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this

Extent:

6.3 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sketches

Diaries

Photographs

Date:

1879-1967

Summary:

The papers of Olive Rush measure 6.3 linear feet and date from 1879 to 1967. They contain correspondence, artwork, photographs, writings, and other personal papers documenting Rush's education and career as an illustrator, portraitist, muralist, painter, teacher, and promoter of Native American art.

Scope and Contents note:

The records of Olive Rush measure 6.3 linear feet and date from 1879 to 1967. They contain correspondence, artwork, photographs, writings, and other records that document her education and career as an illustrator, portraitist, muralist, painter, and promoter of Native American art.

Biographical materials include several narratives written by Rush and others, as well as a few items related to Delaware artist Ethel Pennewill Brown Leach, Rush's close friend and colleague. Correspondence spans Rush's education and career, and documents her early career in illustration, purchases and exhibitions of her work, her efforts to secure exhibitions for Native American artists, and her dealings with administrators of Federal Art Projects of the 1930s.

Writings include diaries from Rush's early years, including an especially detailed diary from her Santa Fe Indian School mural project in 1932. Also found are lectures, talks, essays, notebooks with technical experiments and aesthetic ideas, and loose notes for her FAP project at the New Mexico College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts.

Records of Rush's artwork include two record books, receipts for supplies and shipments, price lists, inventories, records of submissions, and a small number of similar records of artwork by Native American artists. Sketchbooks, loose sketches, and drawings by Rush span her entire career and include many studies and proposed designs for murals and frescoes.

Printed Materials consist of exhibition catalogs, clippings, and reproductions of artwork, especially illustration work from Rush's early career. Photographs include a class photograph from the Corcoran School of Art circa 1890 and many of Rush and her fellow artists in Wilmington, Delaware from around 1904 to 1910. Photographs of works of art document Rush's murals and frescoes in private homes, businesses, and public buildings.

Arrangement note:

The collection is arranged into seven series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1886-1966 (Box 1; 7 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1889-1964 (Boxes 1-2, 8; 1.4 linear feet)

Series 3: Writings, 1886-1962 (Box 2; 0.6 linear feet)

Series 4: Records of Artwork, 1904-1956 (Box 3; 8 folders)

Series 5: Artwork, 1896-1957 (Boxes 3-4, 7, OV 8-12; 1 linear foot)

Series 6: Printed Materials, 1879-1967 (Boxes 4-5, 7, OV 13; 1.6 linear feet)

Series 7: Photographs, circa 1890-1966 (Box 6; 0.4 linear feet)

Biographical/Historical note:

Olive Rush was born in Fairmount, Indiana in 1875 to a Quaker farm family of six children, and attended nearby Earlham College, a Quaker school with a studio art program. Encouraged by her teacher, Rush enrolled in the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1890, where she stayed for two years and achieved early recognition for her work. In 1893, Rush joined the Indiana delegation of artists to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

In 1894, she moved to New York City and continued her studies at the Art Students League with Henry Siddons Mowbray, John Twachtman, and Augustus St. Gaudens. She secured her first job as an illustrator with Harper and Brothers and quickly started doing additional illustration work for Good Housekeeping, Scribner's, The Delineator, Woman's Home Companion, Sunday Magazine and St. Nicholas Magazine. Rush also became a staff artist at the New York Tribune and illustrated several books.

In 1904, Rush sent an inquiry with samples of her work to master illustrator Howard Pyle, who had established what was then the only school of illustration in the country in Wilmington, Delaware. There he provided free instruction to a small number hand-picked artists culled from hundreds of applicants. Although Pyle did not admit women to his studio, he encouranged her to come and join the class for lectures and criticisms. Rush moved to Delaware later that year, joining a growing number of female illustrators there including Ethel Pennewill Brown (later Leach), Blanche Chloe Grant, Sarah Katherine Smith, and Harriet Roosevelt Richards, among others. Rush and her female colleagues lived together in a boarding house known as Tusculum, which became well-known as a gathering place for women artists.

Rush traveled to Europe in 1910, embarking on a period of intense study and travel which would mark a steady transition from illustration to painting. She studied at Newlyn in Cornwall, England and then in France with the American impressionist Richard E. Miller. She returned to Wilmington in 1911, where she moved into Pyle's studio with Ethel Pennewill Brown. Rush bounced to New York, Boston, and back to France, where she lived for a time with fellow artists Alice Schille, Ethel Pennewill Brown, and Orville Houghton Peets. Her reputation grew, and she began to exhibit regularly in major national and regional juried exhibitions including the Carnegie, Pennsylvania Academy, and Corcoran annual exhibitions, as well as the Hoosier Salon.

In 1914, Rush made her first trip to Arizona and New Mexico. Passing through Santa Fe on her return trip, Rush made contact with the artists community at the Museum of New Mexico, where she secured an impromptu solo exhibition after showing her new work, inspired by the landscape of the Southwest. She made Santa Fe her permanent home in 1920 in an adobe cottage on Canyon Road, which became a main thoroughfare of the Santa Fe artists' community.

Rush began to experiment with fresco painting, and developed her own techniques suitable to the local climate. She became a sought-after muralist and was asked to create frescoes for many private homes and businesses. In her painting, she often depicted the Native American dances and ceremonies she attended. She exhibited these paintings around the country, including with the Society of Independent Artists in New York, and in the Corcoran Annual Juried exhibition, where Mrs. Herbert Hoover and Duncan Phillips both purchased her work.

In 1932, Rush was hired to teach at the Santa Fe Indian School. Rush's enthusiastic work in the 1930s with the young pueblo artists is credited with helping to bring about a flourishing of Native American visual art in New Mexico. Rush continued to work with native artists throughout her life, and many of her associates went on to gain national reputations, including Harrison Begay, Awa-Tsireh, Pop Chalee, Pablita Valerde, and Ha-So-De (Narciso Abeyta).

From 1934 to 1939, Rush executed murals for the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) and the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Rush's federal art projects included murals for the Santa Fe Public Library (1934), the Biology Building of the New Mexico Agricultural College (1935), the Pawhuska, Oklahoma Post Office (1938), and the Florence, Colorado Post Office (1939). Rush was also asked to join the Advisory Committee on Indian Art created by the PWAP in 1934, to help administer a segment of the program aimed at employing Native American artists.

In her later years, Rush's artwork became increasingly experimental, incorporating the ideas of Chinese painting, Native American art, and her contemporaries, the modernists, especially Wassily Kandinsky. She continued painting and exhibiting until 1964, when illness prohibited her from working. She died in 1966, leaving her home and studio to the Santa Fe Society of Friends.

Sources consulted for this biography include Olive Rush: A Hoosier Artist in New Mexico (1992) by Stanley L. Cuba, and Almost Forgotten: Delaware Women Artists and Arts Patrons 1900-1950 (2002) by Janice Haynes Gilmore.

Related Archival Materials note:

The Archives of American Art holds a brief oral history interview with Olive Rush concerning her involvement with Federal Art Projects.

Separated Materials note:

The Archives of American Art also holds material lent for microfilming (reel SW4) including scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, and exhibition catalogs. Most of this material was later donated, but some items remain with the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:

Olive Rush donated the bulk of her papers to the Archives of American Art in 1963 and 1964. Additional exhibition catalogs and photographs were added to the collection upon her death in 1966. An anonymous donation of diaries, sketchbooks, and a photograph was received by the Archives in 1970. Also in 1970, the Olive Rush Memorial Studio lent papers for microfilming. Many, but not all, of the loaned materials were later donated.

Restrictions:

The bulk of the collection has been digitized and is available online via AAA's website. Use of material not digitized 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.

Topic:

Painters -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe  Search this

American Indians in art  Search this

Art and state  Search this

Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe  Search this

Muralists -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe  Search this

Illustrators -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sketches

Diaries

Photographs

Citation:

Olive Rush papers, 1879-1967. 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.

Identifier:

AAA.rusholiv

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Olive Rush papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9658989d9-2bae-49ac-8468-a447e744a90e

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-rusholiv

Interviewee:

Armitage, Merle, 1893-1975  Search this

Interviewer:

Loomis, Sylvia Glidden  Search this

Subject:

Bruce, Edward  Search this

Hatfield, Dalzell  Search this

Zornes, James Milford  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

Public Works of Art Project (Calif.)  Search this

American Institute of Graphic Arts  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Merle Armitage, 1964 February 6. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art and state  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- California  Search this

Art -- Censorship  Search this

Arts administrators -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Graphic artists -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Theme:

New Deal  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)13189

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213231

AAA_collcode_armita64

Theme:

New Deal

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_213231

Creator:

Adams, Kenneth M.  Search this

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this

Treasury Relief Art Project  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

Names:

Federal Art Project  Search this

Jones, Cecil H.  Search this

Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946  Search this

Extent:

1 Microfilm reel (21 items on partial microfilm reel)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Microfilm reels

Place:

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945

Date:

1933-1938

Scope and Contents:

This microfilm collection of the Kenneth Miller Adams papers consists of a letter, dated December 1933, from a Public Works of Art Project official on a routine matter, and a letter, dated May 1933, from Cecil H. Jones of the Treasury Relief Art Project in which Jones tells Adams he is trying to have him transferred to the WPA Federal Arts Project. Also included is correspondence, 1936-1937, with Edward Rowan and others of the Section of Fine Arts regarding Section mural competitions. This correspondence includes contracts for two murals painted by Adams – one in Goodland, Kansas (1936) depicting a scene with a figure and a buggy, and one in Deming, New Mexico (1937) entitled Mountains and Yucca. A photograph of each of the murals is also included.

Biographical / Historical:

Kenneth Miller Adams (1897-1966) was a painter, muralist, and lithographer in New Mexico. Born in Topeka, Kansas, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League before serving in World War I. In 1924 he moved to Taos, New Mexico and joined the Taos Society of Artists. In 1933 he worked for the Treasury Relief Art Project and the Public Works of Art Project. He moved to Albuquerque in 1938 and later taught at the University of New Mexico until he retired in 1963. Adams was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1961.

Related Materials:

The Archives of American Art also holds the oral history interview with Kenneth M. Adams, 1964 April 23 conducted by Sylvia Glidden Loomis.

Provenance:

Lent for microfilming 1964 by Kenneth Miller Adams.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

Painters -- Kansas  Search this

Painters -- New Mexico  Search this

Muralists -- New Mexico  Search this

Muralists -- Kansas  Search this

Topic:

Mural painting and decoration -- Kansas  Search this

Mural painting and decoration -- New Mexico  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Kansas  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- New Mexico  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- Kansas  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- New Mexico  Search this

Art and state -- Kansas  Search this

Art and state -- New Mexico  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.adamkenn

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Kenneth Miller Adams papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw98248d620-9b2f-4658-93d8-b6283dbc5621

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-adamkenn