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Anni trenta

Physical description:
669 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Italy
Date:
1983
1983, c1982
20th century
Topic:
Arts, Italian  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History  Search this
Call number:
NX552.A1 A615 1983
NX552.A1A615 1983
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_310307

Italian art, 1900-1945 / organized by Pontus Hulten and Germano Celant

Author:
Hultén, Pontus 1924-2006  Search this
Celant, Germano  Search this
Palazzo Grassi  Search this
Physical description:
772 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Italy
Date:
1989
20th century
Topic:
Art, Italian  Search this
Arts, Italian  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History  Search this
Call number:
N6918.I755 1989X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_409542

Gli Annitrenta : arte e cultura in Italia

Title:
Anni trenta
Anni 30
Author:
Milan (Italy) Ripartizione Cultura, turismo, spettacolo  Search this
Physical description:
658 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Italy
Date:
1982
C1982
20th century
Topic:
Arts, Italian  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History  Search this
Call number:
NX552.A1 A56 1982
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_656775

Arte italiana, 1960-1982

Author:
Hayward Gallery  Search this
Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)  Search this
Milan (Italy)  Search this
Physical description:
285 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Italy
Date:
1982
C1982
20th century
Topic:
Arts, Italian  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History  Search this
Conceptual art  Search this
Call number:
NX552.A1 A73 1982
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_656776

Oral history interview with Harold Rosenberg

Interviewee:
Rosenberg, Harold, 1906-1978  Search this
Interviewer:
Cummings, Paul  Search this
Names:
Club (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Office of War Information. Washington, D.C.  Search this
United States. Work Projects Administration  Search this
Baumbach, Harold, 1903-  Search this
Blume, Peter, 1906-1992  Search this
Breton, André, 1896-1966  Search this
Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964  Search this
De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997  Search this
Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948  Search this
Inverarity, Robert Bruce, 1909-1999  Search this
Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984  Search this
Lundeberg, Helen, 1908-1999  Search this
Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955  Search this
Matta, 1912-2002  Search this
Miró, Joan, 1893-  Search this
Motherwell, Robert  Search this
Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970  Search this
Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956  Search this
Prestopino, Gregorio  Search this
Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970  Search this
Smith, David, 1906-1965  Search this
Tobey, Mark  Search this
Extent:
244 Pages (Transcript)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Sound recordings
Interviews
Date:
1970 December 17-1973 January 28
Scope and Contents:
An interview of Harold Rosenberg conducted 1970 December 17-1973 January 28, by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art over nine sessions.
Rosenberg speaks on a wide variety of topics including Marxism and Communism; art criticism; teaching and the philosopy of art; how his interest in art developed over the years; getting his writings published and starting a magazine; what intrigues him about the avant-garde; when and why he started painting; action painting; the inaccuracies in art history about Avant-gardism and Surrealism; working as a mural painter for the College Art Association; moving from the WPA's art project to the writer's project, and becoming an art editor; what happened to the works of art done under the WPA after it ended; and moving to the Hamptons.
He speaks in detail on the New York art scene during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s; The Club; writing about art; politics and art; Shakespeare and literature's influence on art and vice versa; the various economic aspects of art; how the Depression affected him and the people he knew; the projects he worked on in the WPA; and working for the OWI after the WPA disbanded.
He recalls Mark Rothko, Harold Baumbach, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Peter Blume, Helen Lundberg, André Breton, Arshile Gorky, Roberto Matta, Jackson Pollock, David Smith, Lee Krasner, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró, Jim Leshay, Stuart Davis, Bruce Inverarity, Barney Newman, Mark Tobey, Gregorio Prestopino, and many others.
Biographical / Historical:
Harold Rosenberg (1906-1978) was a writer and educator from New York, N.Y.
General:
Originally recorded on 5 sound tapes. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 10 hr., 4 min.
Interview transcript is not in chronological order; arrangement designated by the interviewer Paul Cummings.
Provenance:
These interviews are 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 others.
Restrictions:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
Educators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this
Art -- Economic aspects  Search this
Art -- Philosophy  Search this
Art -- Political aspects  Search this
Art and literature  Search this
Art criticism  Search this
Surrealism  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Genre/Form:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Identifier:
AAA.rosenb70
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw973c587b6-e4b1-453e-9790-0420db435320
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-rosenb70
Online Media:

Boundary trouble in American vanguard art, 1920-2020 edited by Lynne Cooke

Editor:
Cooke, Lynne  Search this
Author:
Boundary Trouble: The Self-Taught Artist and American Avant-Gardes (2018 : Washington, D.C.)  Search this
Physical description:
vii, 351 pages illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, facsimiles 29 cm
Type:
Congresses
Congrès
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Place:
United States
États-Unis
Etats-Unis
Date:
2022
20th century
21st century
20e siècle
21e siècle
Topic:
Outsider art  Search this
Art, American  Search this
Folk art--History  Search this
Art and society--History  Search this
Primitivism in art--History  Search this
Modernism (Art)  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History  Search this
Art brut  Search this
Art américain--Histoire  Search this
Art populaire--Histoire  Search this
Art et socíéte--Histoire  Search this
Primitivisme dans l'art--Histoire  Search this
Modernisme (Art)  Search this
Avant-garde (Esthètique)--Histoire  Search this
ART / American / General  Search this
Art and society  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)  Search this
Folk art  Search this
Primitivism in art  Search this
Restrictions & Rights:
British Library not licensed to copy 0. Uk
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1159994

Papers of and relating to John D. Graham

Creator:
Graham, John, 1887-1961  Search this
Names:
Graham, John, 1887-1961  Search this
Mayer, Jack  Search this
Extent:
Partial microfilm reel.
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Interviews
Date:
[ca. 1950-1960]
Scope and Contents:
Corrected and annotated mss. by Graham "Art History" with related notes (ca. 350 p. total); an autobiographical sketch, entitled "Autoportrait" (3 p. typescript); and an 8 p. summary by Angus Deming of an interview she conducted with Graham, Sept. 1960 in Paris.
Biographical / Historical:
Jack Mayer was an art dealer and owner of Gallery Mayer, New York, which handled the work of painter John Graham. Graham, born Ivan Gratsianovitch Dombrovski in Kiev, Russia in 1886 (baptised in 1881, hence the use of that year on many authoritative sources), came to N.Y. in 1920 and was a central figure among American avant-garde artists, especially from the late 1920s to 1940s. Graham was also a collector of African art which inspired an interest in primitivism in his work. Graham moved to Mexico in 1936. In 1937 he published Systems and Dialectics of Art, stimulating American artists interest in primitive art.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming by Jack Mayer, 1971.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Occupation:
Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Topic:
Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Cubism  Search this
Surrealism  Search this
Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Genre/Form:
Interviews
Identifier:
AAA.grahjohp
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b21cb789-1708-405c-ac96-cc8ba446dc43
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-grahjohp

Jean Crotti papers

Creator:
Crotti, Jean, 1878-1958  Search this
Names:
Blancpain, Paul  Search this
Braque, Georges, 1882-1963  Search this
Christian, 1895-1969  Search this
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963  Search this
Coudour, Henri  Search this
Crotti, Andre  Search this
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968  Search this
Duchamp, Suzanne, 1889-1963  Search this
Dufy, Raoul, 1877-1953  Search this
Everling, Germaine  Search this
Gleizes, Albert, 1881-1953  Search this
Guillaume, Paul, 1891-1934  Search this
Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954  Search this
Nokache, Armand  Search this
Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966  Search this
Pach, Walter, 1883-1958  Search this
Picabia, Francis, 1879-1953  Search this
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Photographs  Search this
Renoir, Pierre, 1885-1952  Search this
Reynolds, Mary, 1891-1950  Search this
Salmon, André, 1881-1969  Search this
Seuphor, Michel, 1901-1999  Search this
Severini, Gino, 1883-1966  Search this
Varese, Louise  Search this
Varèse, Edgard, 1883-1965  Search this
Villon, Jacques, 1875-1963  Search this
Waldemar George, 1893-  Search this
Extent:
1.7 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Scrapbooks
Drawings
Poems
Essays
Sound recordings
Photographs
Interviews
Date:
1913-1973
bulk 1913-1961
Summary:
The scattered papers of French Dada painter Jean Crotti measure 1.7 linear feet and date from 1913-1973, with the bulk of the material dated 1913-1961. Found within the papers are autobiographical notes and essays; correspondence with family and colleagues, among them Jean Cocteau, Andre Crotti, Suzanne Duchamp, Marcel Duchamp, Albert Gleizes, Christian a.k.a. Georges Herbiet, Henri Matisse, Francis Picabia, and Jacques Villon; notes and writings by Crotti and others; art work by Crotti and Paul Guillaume; a scrapbook; and additional printed material. Photographs are of Crotti, Suzanne Duchamp, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and other family and friends; and of Crotti's art work. There are audio recordings on phonograph records of three interviews with Crotti and one with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Blancpain.
Scope and Content Note:
The papers of French Dada painter Jean Crotti measure 1.7 linear feet and date from 1913 to 1973, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1913-1961. Among the papers are autobiographical essays, correspondence with friends and family, including many letters from Marcel Duchamp, notes and writings by and about Crotti, printed materials, one scrapbook, drawings by Crotti and others, photographs of Crotti and his family and friends, photographs of artwork, and three audio recordings of interviews with Crotti.

Biographical material consists of autobiographical notes and an autobiographical manuscript Ma Vie.

Correspondence is with family members and colleagues. Correspondents include his brother Andr?©, wife Suzanne Duchamp, and other family members. There are eleven folders of correspondence between Suzanne's brother Marcel Duchamp and the Crotti family. A 1918 letter from Duchamp to Crotti is illustrated by Duchamp. Additional letters to Jean Crotti are from Jean Cocteau, Albert Gleizes, Georges Herbiet a.k.a. "Christian", Henri Matisse, Francis Picabia, and Jacques Villon. Three folders of letters from Georges Herbiet a.k.a. "Christian" include references to Francis Picabia and Germaine Everling and discussions of art criticism and Picabia's role in avant-garde art movements. Herbiet also describes a new painting procedure that he claims to have invented using a product that is impervious to acids, water, oil, or alcohol. There is a single letter from Jean Crotti to Pablo Picasso following their meeting in Cannes in which Crotti discusses a design with spheres and includes a sketch of his idea. There are also single letters to Crotti from Raoul Dufy, Walter Pach, and actor Pierre Renoir.

Notes and writings include poems, a script, and miscellaneous writings by Crotti concerning his art theories including "Tabu" and gemmail. Writings about Crotti are by miscellaneous authors including writers Waldemar George, Andr?© Salmon, and artists Armand Nakache, Am?©d?© Ozenfant, and Michel Seuphor.

Art work includes seven folders of drawings and an etching plate by Crotti, 83 drawings by Paul Guillaume, and portrait drawings of Crotti by Henri Coudour and Francis Picabia.

A scrapbook contains clippings, a letter from Paul Guillaume and a letter to Elizabeth Crotti from a friend describing a 1932 Jean Crotti exhibition in the Balzac Galleries in New York City, and a typescript "Una Collezione a Parigi" by Gino Severini.

Additional printed material includes clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs for Crotti and others, reproductions of art work, and books Jean Crotti (1930) and Jean Crotti et la Primaut?© du Spirituel (1959) by Waldemar George.

Photographs are of Crotti, his family, friends, colleagues, and art work by Crotti and by Suzanne Duchamp. Of particular interest are photographs of composer Edgard Var?¨se and his wife Louise with Suzanne Duchamp, Jean Crotti, and art advocate Mary Reynolds in 1924, photographs of Crotti and Georges Braque examining a gemmail art work, and photographs of Crotti and Suzanne Duchamp talking with Pablo Picasso at Cannes and at the home of Bertrande Blancpain in 1957.

Sound recordings include two phonograph records of interviews with Jean Crotti, including topics "Assignment Switzerland" and "Assignment World." A third phonograph record contains an instantatneous disk recording of correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Paul Blancpain as well as an additional interview with Crotti.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as 8 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1954-1955 (Box 1; 3 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1916-1961 (Box 1; 43 folders)

Series 3: Notes and Writings, 1924-1958 (Box 1; 27 folders)

Series 4: Art Work, 1913-1925 (Box 1, 3; 12 folders)

Series 5: Scrapbook, 1931-1935 (Box 1; 1 folder)

Series 6: Printed Material, 1921-1973 (Box 1, 2, 3; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 7: Photographs, 1920-1957 (Box 2; 25 folders)

Series 8: Sound Recordings, 1955 (Box 3; 1 folder)
Biographical Note:
Jean Crotti (1870-1958) was a Dadist painter who worked primarily in Paris, France and New York. He was married to Suzanne Duchamp, Marcel Duchamp's sister, and friends with notable avant-garde and Dada European and American painters of the period. He is also known for creating the "Gemmail" technique of layering colored glass that produced unique color combinations when illuminated.

Jean Crotti was born April 24, 1878 in Bulle, near Fribourg, Switzerland, the son of a painting contractor. The family moved to Fribourg in 1887.

Beginning in 1898, Crotti struggled with questions of a religious and spiritual nature while at the School of Decorative Arts in Munich. Dissatisfied there, he moved to Paris in 1901, where he spent a year studying at the Acad?©mie Julian under Tony-Robert Fleury and Jules Lefebvre. Still dissatisfied in 1902, he established a small independent studio in the Rue Fontaine.

Crotti exhibited a canvas at the Salon des Ind?©pendants in 1907, and was accepted as a member of the Salon d'Automne in 1909. From 1910 to 1912, he was influenced by Cubism and its offshoot, Orphism.

To escape from wartime Paris in 1914, Crotti and his first wife, Yvonne Chastel, moved to New York City where Crotti had his first solo exhibition at the Bourgeois Gallery. In 1915, Crotti met Francis Picabia and also shared a studio with Marcel Duchamp who was a major influence. Crotti began his Dada period and was included in an exhibition of French paintings at the Montross Gallery in New York, with Duchamp, Albert Gleizes, and Jean Metzinger.

Crotti separated from his first wife, Yvonne Chastel, in 1916 and returned to Paris alone. By 1917, Crotti's marriage had dissolved and he married Suzanne Duchamp in 1919. Crotti met Suzanne Duchamp, also a painter, through his friendship with her brother Marcel Duchamp. During this time, Crotti completed and exhibited paintings associated with the Dada movement. One of his more notable works was entitled Explacatif, bearing the word "Tabu" that expressed Crotti's concepts of mystery and infinity with spiritual overtones.

In 1935 Crotti began to research a new technique using layers of colored glass, referred to as "gemmail." The term is a contraction of "gem" referring to the colored glass and "enamel" referring to the method of affixing the pieces of glass to each other. After much experimentation, an "enamel" fixative was found that would permanently hold the glass pieces in place while still allowing light to shine through all the layers. Several prominent artists including Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso became interested in using this medium. Crotti had the process patented, but in 1955 ceded the rights to Roger Malherbe who adapted it to commercial uses.

Jean Crotti died on January 30, 1958 in Paris, France.
Separated Material:
Two sketches and a print were also lent by Andr?© Buckles in 1981 for microfilming on reels 2394-2395 and returned. This material is not described in the container listing of this finding aid.
Provenance:
The Jean Crotti papers were donated in two installments in 1981 by Andr?© Buckles and Alice Buckles Brown, Crotti's great-nephew and great-niece.
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:
Painters -- France -- Paris -- Interviews  Search this
Topic:
Painting -- Technique  Search this
Art criticism  Search this
Dadaism  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)  Search this
Painters -- France -- Paris  Search this
Genre/Form:
Scrapbooks
Drawings
Poems
Essays
Sound recordings
Photographs
Interviews
Citation:
Jean Crotti papers, 1913-1973, bulk 1913-1961. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.crotjean
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Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9790c3ee5-acf6-44ec-b03f-8b3a8da017fb
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-crotjean
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William Innes Homer papers

Creator:
Homer, William Innes  Search this
University of Delaware. Dept. of Art History  Search this
Delaware Art Museum  Search this
Names:
Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984  Search this
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975  Search this
Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916  Search this
Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973  Search this
O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986  Search this
Seurat, Georges, 1859-1891  Search this
Smith, David, 1906-1965  Search this
Walters, Carl, 1883-1955  Search this
Extent:
6.6 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 1 reel))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1938-1980
Scope and Contents:
Correspondence, writings, notes, forms, printed material, exhibition records, research material and photographs.
REEL 2814: frames 561-576: Photocopies of letters from George Barker to Homer, 1961-1965, regarding Thomas Eakins.
UNMICROFILMED: Correspondence with dealers, patrons and museum curators concerning an exhibition of the sculpture of Carl Walters, 1956-1958, including some notes and a few photographs of Walter's sculpture; letters, mainly from artists; and a photocopy of Shinn's "Everett Shinn Treatment, #1 and #2, 1945-1978. Among the correspondents are: Ansel Adams, Peggy Bacon, Saul Baizerman, Maurice Becker, Thomas H. Benton, Charles Burchfield, Faber Birren, Mrs. Homer Boss, Imogen Cunningham, Nell Daniel, Andrew Dasburg, Randall Davey, Stuart Davis, Theodore Lux Feininger, Lyonel Feininger, Laura Gilpin, Edith Halpert, Jay Hambidge, Emil Holzhauer, Lotte Jacobi, Mrs. William Sargent Kendall, Leon Kroll, Julien Levy, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Lewis Mumford, Georgia O'Keeffe, John H. Rhoades, Margery Ryerson, David Smith, Carl Sprinchorn, Edward Steichen, Mrs. Allen Tucker, and Carl Zigrosser. Also included are writings, notes, and printed material concerning the "Index of Dissertations and Theses in American Art" section of the Arts in America: A Bibliography (1979), edited by Bernard Karpel, covering years ca. 1930-1975.
Records of the 1975 exhibition "Avant-garde Painting and Sculpture in America, 1910-1925," organized by the Department of Art History and Division of Museum Studies, University of Delaware, in cooperation with the Delaware Art Museum. Included are correspondence regarding research, loans to the exhibition, and publicity; a grant proposal; photographs of artists, works of art, and installations of the exhibition; and an outline for the catalog.
Notebooks, 9 v. containing citations to dissertations and theses relating to American art, 1980-1997, compiled under Homer's direction, as a follow up to his "Index of Dissertations and Theses in American Art" section of the Bibliography of the Arts in America From Colonial Times to Modern Times (1979).
Homer's research material on Georges Seurat, ca. 1956-1980, including correspondence; essays, notes and draft writings; photocopies and microfilms of rare printed material; responses to questionnaires regarding ownership of paintings; bibliographies; biographical material on scientists and others who influenced Seurat; photographs and color transparencies of works by Seurat and his colleagues; and miscellany. Also included are correspondence and research notes on other Neo-Impressionists.
Biographical / Historical:
Art historian, educator; Newark, Del.; b. 1929. William Innes Homer is an art historian whose areas of expertise include European and American painting from 1865 to 1925 and American art after World War II. He has taught at Princeton University and Cornell University, but is most closely associated with the University of Delaware, where he is Professor Emeritus. He taught there from 1966 until his retirement in 1999.
Related Materials:
William Inned Homer papers are located at Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Michael S. Engl Family Foundation Library and Archive.
Provenance:
Donated 1980-2004 by William Homer. Photocopies of letters from Barker to Homer were discarded after microfilming.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Occupation:
Art historians  Search this
Art historians -- Delaware  Search this
Educators -- Delaware  Search this
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
Art, American -- Exhibitions  Search this
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States -- Exhibitions  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)  Search this
Identifier:
AAA.homewill
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9290f992f-437e-46f1-8cd1-32602d24b7f6
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-homewill

John D. Graham notebook and sketchbook

Creator:
Graham, John, 1887-1961  Search this
Donor:
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (partial microfilm reel)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Sketchbooks
Date:
1944-1946
Scope and Contents:
Journal, ca. 1944-1946, containing notes and quotations on art, religion, love, some of it in French; and sketches, executed in an account book formerly kept by a William Hawkins, which has an entry as early as 1846. It was either purchased by or given to Graham and used as a sketchbook.
Biographical / Historical:
Painter, collector; New York and Mexico. Born Ivan Gratsianovitch Dombrovski in Kiev, Russia. His birthday is listed as 27 December, 1886 but after 1917 Russia adopted the Gregorian calendar changing the date to 7 January, 1887. He moved to New York in 1920, changing his name to John Dabrowsky Graham. He was a central figure among American avant-garde artists, especially from the late 1920's-1940's.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1970 by Mrs. Gertrude Stein, owner of the Gertrude Stein Gallery, 998 Madison Ave., NYC. Presumably Stein acquired the notebooks in her work as an art dealer. Additional notebooks in the John Graham papers on microfilm at the Archives of American Art.
Restrictions:
Patrons must use microfilm copy.
Occupation:
Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Painters -- Russia -- Kiev  Search this
Topic:
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Cubism  Search this
Expatriate painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Surrealism  Search this
Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this
Genre/Form:
Sketchbooks
Identifier:
AAA.grahjohd
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw963db8b23-79a1-4853-b3ee-ca57f837d229
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-grahjohd

Gekidōki no avangyarudo shururearisumu to Nihon no kaiga, 1928--1953 Ōtani Shōgo

Title:
激動期のアヴァンギャルド : シュルレアリスムと日本の絵画 1928-1953 / 大谷省吾
Shururearisumu to Nihon no kaiga 1928--1953
シュルレアリスムと日本の絵画 1928--1953
Shururearisumu kaiga no Nihon ni okeru juyō to tenkai ni tsuite no kenkyū
シュルレアリスム絵画の日本における受容と展開についての研究
Author:
Ōtani, Shōgo  Search this
Physical description:
664 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Japan
Date:
2016
20th century
Topic:
Painting, Japanese  Search this
Surrealism--History  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History  Search this
Painting, Modern  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1071141

Secession : it's a better world : Russischer Aktionismus und sein Kontext = Russian Actionism and its context / curated by Joseph Backstein & Johanna Kandl ; Alexander Brener ... [et al.]

Title:
It's a better world
Author:
Backstein, Joseph  Search this
Kandl, Johanna  Search this
Ryklin, Kikhail  Search this
Wiener Secession  Search this
Physical description:
71 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Russia (Federation)
Date:
1997
C1997
20th century
Topic:
Arts, Russian  Search this
Arts, Modern  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)  Search this
Call number:
NX556.A1 B33 1997
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_644685

What are you working on now? : a pictorial memoir of the 60's / by Billy Klüver

Author:
Klüver, Billy 1927-2004  Search this
Experiments in Art and Technology (Organization)  Search this
Physical description:
99 p. : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
United States
Date:
1983
C1983
20th century
Topic:
Arts, American  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History  Search this
Technology and the arts  Search this
Call number:
NX504 .K46 1983
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_651682

Wechsel Wirkungen : ungarische Avantgarde in der Weimarer Republik / [Herausgeber, Hubertus Gassner]

Author:
Gassner, Hubertus 1950-  Search this
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel Neue Galerie  Search this
Museum Bochum  Search this
Physical description:
589 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Germany
Hungary
Date:
1986
C1986
20th century
Topic:
Arts, Hungarian  Search this
Arts, Modern  Search this
Expatriate artists  Search this
Artists  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_503824

Hong Lei Ying shi lü fei shou hong Hong Lei she = Hong Lei : The red should languish and green must grow

Title:
洪磊, 1960-
Ying shi lü fei shou hong
洪磊 : 应是绿肥瘦红 / 洪磊摄 = Hong Lei : The red should languish and green must grow
Hong Lei : The red should languish and green must grow
Author:
Hong, Lei 1960-  Search this
Physical description:
213 pages illustrations (chiefly color) 36 cm
Type:
Biography
Interviews
Biographies
Entretiens
Place:
China
Chine
Date:
2006
Topic:
Photographers  Search this
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Art  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)  Search this
Photographes  Search this
Photographie artistique  Search this
art photography  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1155865

State Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923 edited by Lars Müller ; essay by Astrid Bähr ; with complete English translation

Title:
State Bauhaus in Weimar 1919 to 1923
Bauhaus
Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar, 1919-1923 / die Herausgabe dieses Werkes besorgte das Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar und Karl Nierendorf in Köln
Editor:
Müller, Lars 1955-  Search this
Nierendorf, Karl  Search this
Writer of introduction:
Bähr, Astrid  Search this
Contributor:
Reding, Christoph  Search this
Wild, Max  Search this
Gropius, Walter 1883-1969  Search this
Author:
Kandinsky, Wassily 1866-1944 Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923  Search this
Klee, Paul 1879-1940 Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923  Search this
Grunow, Gertrud 1870-1944 Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923  Search this
Subject:
Klee, Paul 1879-1940 Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923  Search this
Kandinsky, Wassily 1866-1944 Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923  Search this
Grunow, Gertrud 1870-1944 Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923  Search this
Bauhaus  Search this
Bauhaus  Search this
Physical description:
2 volumes (39 pages, 1 unnumbered page; 225 pages, 1 unnumbered page) illustrations (some color), plans 25 x 26 cm + 1 leaf (4 unnumbered pages ; 32 x 40 cm, folded to 16 x 20 cm)
Type:
Books
Facsimiles
History
Place:
Germany
Weimar (Thuringia)
Allemagne
Weimar (Thuringe)
20th century
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
Date:
2019
20th century
20e siècle
Germany
Topic:
Art, German  Search this
Art--Study and teaching (Higher)--History  Search this
Design--History  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History  Search this
Art allemand  Search this
Design--Histoire  Search this
Art--Study and teaching (Higher)  Search this
Intellectual life  Search this
Design  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)  Search this
Call number:
N332.B38 S72 2019
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1155059

Health and happiness in 20th-century avant-garde art / Donald Kuspit, Lynn Gamwell

Title:
Health and happiness in twentieth-century avant-garde art
Author:
Kuspit, Donald B (Donald Burton) 1935-  Search this
Gamwell, Lynn 1943-  Search this
State University of New York at Binghamton Art Museum  Search this
Physical description:
96 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Date:
1996
C1996
20th century
Topic:
Art, Modern  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History  Search this
Health in art  Search this
Happiness in art  Search this
Call number:
N6490 .K865 1996X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_492508

Experimental arts in postwar Japan moments of encounter, engagement, and imagined return Miryam Sas

Title:
Moments of encounter, engagement, and imagined return
Author:
Sas, Miryam  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 275 pages illustrations 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Japan
Date:
2011
20th century
20e siècle
Topic:
Arts, Japanese  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)  Search this
Arts japonais  Search this
Avantgarde  Search this
Kunst  Search this
Butô-Tanz  Search this
Theater  Search this
Fotografie  Search this
Japansk konst  Search this
Restrictions & Rights:
Current Copyright Fee: GBP6.15 0. Uk
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1145245

Apollinaire, catalyst for primitivism, Picabia, and Duchamp / by Katia Samaltanos

Author:
Samaltanos-Stenström, Katia  Search this
Subject:
Apollinaire, Guillaume 1880-1918 Influence  Search this
Picabia, Francis 1879-1953  Search this
Duchamp, Marcel 1887-1968  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1984
C1984
20th century
Topic:
Primitivism in art  Search this
Art  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History  Search this
Call number:
CT275.A64 S2 1984
CT275.A64S2 1984
N6494.P7S26 1984X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_199715

Lipchitz and the avant-garde from Paris to New York edited by Joseph Helferstein and Jordana Mendelson ; essays by Jonathan Fineberg ... and others

Author:
Helferstein, Josef  Search this
Mendelson, Jordana  Search this
Fineberg, Jonathan David  Search this
Krannert Art Museum  Search this
Physical description:
152 pages illustrations (some color) 28 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogues
Date:
2002
20th century
20e siècle
Topic:
Sculpture, Modern  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)  Search this
Sculpture  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History  Search this
Call number:
N40.1.L76 K73 2001
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_665704

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