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Creator:

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Subject:

Marcel Breuer Associates/Architects and Planners  Search this

Bauhaus  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Architecture, German  Search this

Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- United States  Search this

Architectural drawing -- 20th century -- Germany  Search this

Architectural drawing -- 20th century -- United States  Search this

Architects -- United States  Search this

Architectural design  Search this

Architects -- Germany  Search this

Design -- Germany -- Munich  Search this

Theme:

Architecture & Design  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)5596

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211839

AAA_collcode_breumarc

Theme:

Architecture & Design

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211839

Creator:

Kuh, Katharine  Search this

Names:

Albright-Knox Art Gallery  Search this

Art Institute of Chicago -- Faculty  Search this

Biennale di Venezia  Search this

Katharine Kuh Gallery (Chicago, Ill.)  Search this

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984  Search this

Albers, Josef  Search this

Albright, Ivan, 1897-1983  Search this

Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964  Search this

Arensberg, Louise S. (Louise Stevenson), 1879-1953  Search this

Arensberg, Walter, 1878-1954  Search this

Arp, Jean, 1887-1966  Search this

Barnet, Will, 1911-  Search this

Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981  Search this

Biddle, George, 1885-1973  Search this

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-  Search this

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976  Search this

Campoli, Cosmo  Search this

Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985  Search this

Chavez Morado, José, 1909-2002  Search this

Chermayeff, Serge, 1900-  Search this

Cornell, Joseph  Search this

Cox, Richard  Search this

Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964  Search this

Day, Worden, 1916-1986  Search this

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997  Search this

Dickinson, Edwin Walter, 1891-1978  Search this

Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968  Search this

Elizabeth, Queen of Great Britain, II, 1926-  Search this

Ernst, Jimmy, 1920-1984  Search this

Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997  Search this

Feitelson, Lorser, 1898-1978  Search this

Friendly, Fred W.  Search this

Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966  Search this

Golub, Leon, 1922-2004  Search this

Goto, Joseph, 1920-  Search this

Grabe, Klaus  Search this

Graves, Robert, 1895-1985  Search this

Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979  Search this

Guston, Philip, 1913-1980  Search this

Hare, David, 1917-  Search this

Hare, Denise Browne  Search this

Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph  Search this

Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966  Search this

Hélion, Jean, 1904-1987  Search this

Inverarity, Robert Bruce, 1909-1999  Search this

Johns, Jasper, 1930-  Search this

Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005  Search this

Johnson, Ray, 1927-  Search this

Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944  Search this

Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001  Search this

Kepes, Juliet  Search this

Klee, Paul, 1879-1940  Search this

Kline, Franz, 1910-1962  Search this

Knox, Seymour H., 1898-1990  Search this

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965  Search this

Lundeberg, Helen, 1908-1999  Search this

Lye, Len, 1901-1980  Search this

Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955  Search this

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969  Search this

Millier, Arthur, 1893-  Search this

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946  Search this

Motherwell, Robert  Search this

Mérida, Carlos, 1891-1984  Search this

Nutting, Muriel Leone Tyler, b. 1892  Search this

Nutting, Myron Chester, 1890-1972  Search this

O'Higgins, Pablo, 1904-  Search this

Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949  Search this

Ozbekhan, Hasan, 1921-2007  Search this

Perkins, Frances  Search this

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973  Search this

Putnam, Wallace, 1899-1989  Search this

Ray, Man, 1890-1976  Search this

Rich, Daniel Catton, 1904-1976  Search this

Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970  Search this

Sandberg, Carl  Search this

Seligmann, Kurt, 1900-1962  Search this

Shackelford, Shelby  Search this

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969  Search this

Spaeth, Otto, d. 1966  Search this

Sterne, Hedda, 1916-  Search this

Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965  Search this

Still, Clyfford, 1904-  Search this

Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-2012  Search this

Tobey, Mark  Search this

Winston, Harry Lewis  Search this

Woolf, Olga  Search this

Young, Victor  Search this

Photographer:

Pollack, Peter, 1909-1978  Search this

Extent:

12 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Illustrated letters

Resumes

Travel diaries

Minutes

Calendars

Visitors' books

Photographs

Paintings

Awards

Drawings

Sound recordings

Collages

Scrapbooks

Lithographs

Prints

Wills

Watercolors

Poetry

Lecture notes

Lectures

Sales records

Date:

1875-1994

bulk 1930-1994

Summary:

The papers of art historian, dealer, critic, and curator Katharine Kuh measure 12 linear feet and date from 1875-1994, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930-1994. The collection documents Kuh's career as a pioneer modernist art historian and as the first woman curator of European Art and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. Found within the papers are biographical material; correspondence with family, friends and colleagues; personal business records; artwork by various artists; a travel journal; writings by Kuh and others; scrapbooks; printed material; photographs of Kuh and others; and audio recordings of Kuh's lectures and of Daniel Catton Rich reading poetry.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of art historian, dealer, critic, and curator Katharine Kuh measure 12 linear feet and date from 1875-1994, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930-1994. Found within the papers are biographical material; correspondence with family, friends and colleagues; personal business records; artwork by various artists; a travel journal; writings by Kuh and others; scrapbooks; printed material; photographs of Kuh and others; and audio recordings of Kuh's lectures and of Daniel Catton Rich reading poetry.

Biographical material consists of copies of Kuh's birth certificate, resumés, passports, award certificates, honorary diplomas, and address books listing information about several prominent artists and colleagues.

Four linear feet of correspondence offers excellent documentation of Kuh's interest in art history, her travels, her career at the Art Institute of Chicago, her work as a corporate art advisor, and as an author. There are letters from her mother Olga Woolf, friends, and colleagues. There is extensive correspondence with various staff members of the Art Institute of Chicago, the First National Bank of Chicago, and The Saturday Review. Also of interest are letters from artists and collectors, several of whom became life-long friends including Walter and Louise Arensberg, Cosmo Campoli, Serge Chermayeff, Richard Cox, Worden Day, Claire Falkenstein, Fred Friendly, Leon Golub, Joseph Goto, David Hare, Denise Brown Hare, Jean Hélion, Ray Johnson, Gyorgy and Juliet Kepes, Len Lye, Wallace Putnam, Kurt Seligmann, Shelby Shackelford, Hedda Sterne, and Clyfford Still. Many letters are illustrated with original artwork in various media.

There are also scattered letters from various artists and other prominent individuals including Josef Albers, George Biddle, Marcel Breuer, Joseph Cornell, Stuart Davis, Edwin Dickinson, Joseph Hirshhorn, Daniel Catton Rich, and Dorothea Tanning.

Personal business records include a list of artwork, Olga Woolf's will, inventories of Kuh's personal art collection, miscellaneous contracts and deeds of gift, receipts for the sale of artwork, files concerning business-related travel, and miscellaneous receipts.

Artwork in the collection represents a wide range of artist friends and media, such as drawings, watercolors, paintings, collages, and prints. Included are works by various artists including lithographs by David Hare and a watercolor set, Technics and Creativity, designed and autographed by Jasper Johns for the Museum of Modern Art, 1970.

Notes and writings include annotated engagement calendars, travel journals for Germany, a guest book for the Kuh Memorial gathering, and many writings and notes by Kuh for lectures and articles concerning art history topics. Of interest are minutes/notes from meetings for art festivals, conferences, and the "Conversations with Artists Program (1961). Also found are writings by others about Kuh and other art history topics.

Six scrapbooks contain clippings that document the height of Kuh's career as a gallery director and museum curator. Scrapbook 6 contains clippings about Fernand Léger, the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1953.

Additional printed material includes clippings about Kuh and her interests, a comprehensive collection of clippings of Kuh's articles for The Saturday Review, exhibition announcements and catalogs, calendars of events, programs, brochures, books including Poems by Kuh as a child, and reproductions of artwork. Of particular interest are the early and exhibition catalogs from the Katharine Kuh Gallery, and rare catalogs for artists including Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Stanley William Hayter, Hans Hofmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Kline, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Pablo Picasso.

Photographs provide important documentation of the life and career of Katharine Kuh and are of Kuh, family members, friends, colleagues, events, residences, and artwork. Several of the photographs of Kuh were taken by Will Barnet and Marcel Breuer and there is a notable pair of photo booth portraits of Kuh and a young Ansel Adams. There are also group photographs showing Angelica Archipenko with Kuh; designer Klaus Grabe; painters José Chavez Morado and Pablo O'Higgins in San Miguel, Mexico; Kuh at the Venice Biennale with friends and colleagues including Peggy Guggenheim, Frances Perkins, Daniel Catton Rich, and Harry Winston; and "The Pre-Depressionists" including Lorser Feitelson, Robert Inverarity, Helen Lundeberg, Arthur Millier, Myron Chester Nutting, and Muriel Tyler Nutting.

Photographs of exhibition installations and openings include views of the Katharine Kuh Gallery; Fernand Léger, Man Ray, and László Moholy-Nagy at the Art Institute of Chicago; and Philip Guston, Jimmy Ernst, Seymour H. Knox, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. There are also photographs depicting three men posing as Léger's "Three Musicians" and the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the Art Institute of Chicago. There is a photograph by Peter Pollack of an elk skull used as a model by Georgia O'Keeffe.

Additional photographs of friends and colleagues include Ivan Albright, Alfred Barr, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Willem De Kooning, Edwin Dickinson, Marcel Duchamp, Claire Falkenstein, Alberto Giacometti, poet Robert Graves with Len Lye, Philip Johnson, Gyorgy and Juliet Kepes, Carlos Mérida, José Orozco, Hasan Ozbekhan, Pablo Picasso, Carl Sandberg, Ben Shahn, Otto Spaeth, Hedda Sterne, Adlai Stevenson, Clyfford Still, Mark Tobey, and composer Victor Young.

Photographs of artwork include totem poles in Alaska; work by various artists including Claire Falkenstein, Paul Klee, and Hedda Sterne; and work donated to the Guggenheim Museum.

Four audio recordings on cassette are of Katharine Kuh's lectures, including one about assembling corporate collections, and of Daniel Catton Rich reading his own poetry. There is also a recording of the Second Annual Dialogue between Broadcasters and Museum Educators.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 9 series. Undated correspondence, artwork, and photographs of individual artists are arranged alphabetically. Otherwise, each series is arranged chronologically.

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1945-1992 (Box 1; 16 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1908-1994 (Boxes 1-5, 13-14, OV 15; 4.0 linear feet)

Series 3: Personal Business Records, 1941-1989 (Box 5; 19 folders)

Series 4: Artwork, 1931-1986 (Boxes 5, 13-14, OVs 15-23; 1.7 linear feet)

Series 5: Notes and Writings, 1914-1994 (Boxes 5-7; 1.7 linear feet)

Series 6: Scrapbooks, 1935-1953 (Box 7; 8 folders)

Series 7: Printed Material, 1916-1992 (Boxes 7-10, 13, OV 22; 3.0 linear feet)

Series 8: Photographs, 1875-1993 (Boxes 10-13; 1.2 linear feet)

Series 9: Audio Recordings, 1977 (Box 12; 1 folder)

Biographical Note:

Katharine Kuh (1904-1994) worked primarily in the Chicago area as an modern art historian, dealer, critic, curator, writer, and consultant. She operated the Katharine Kuh Gallery from 1935-1943 and was the first woman curator of European and Art and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Katharine Kuh (née Woolf) was born on July 15, 1904 in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of the three daughters of Olga Weiner and Morris Woolf, a silk importer. In 1909, the family moved to Chicago, Illinois. While traveling with her family in Europe in 1914, Katharine contracted polio, causing her to spend the next decade in a body brace. During this time of restricted movement, she developed an interest in art history through the collecting of old master prints.

After her recovery, Katharine Woolf attended Vassar College where one of her professors, Alfred Barr, encouraged her to study modern art. She graduated from Vassar in 1925 and received a master's degree in art history from the University of Chicago in 1929. Later that year, she moved to New York to pursue a Ph.D. in Renaissance and medieval art at New York University.

In 1930, Katharine Woolf returned to Chicago and married businessman George Kuh and began to teach art history courses in the suburbs of Chicago. After divorcing George Kuh in 1935, she opened the Katharine Kuh Gallery, the first gallery devoted to avant-garde art in Chicago. It was also the first gallery to exhibit photography and typographical design as art forms, and featured the work of Ansel Adams, Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, and Man Ray, among others. From 1938 to1940, Kuh was the Visiting Professor of Art at the University School of Fine Arts, San Miguel, Mexico.

After the Katharine Kuh Gallery closed in 1943, Kuh was hired by museum director Daniel Catton Rich to fill a position in public relations at the Art Institute of Chicago. During the following years, Kuh edited the museum's Quarterly publication, took charge of the museum's Gallery of Interpretive Art, and began a long term relationship with Rich. In 1946, Kuh was sent on a special mission for the U. S. Office of Indian Affairs to make a detailed study of Native American totemic carvings in Alaska.

In 1949, Kuh persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Walter Arensberg of Los Angeles to exhibit their collection of modern art, creating the first post-war exhibition of modern art in Chicago. She published her first book Art Has Many Faces in 1951, and in the following year, she began writing art criticism for The Saturday Review. In 1954, Kuh was appointed the first woman curator of European Art and Sculpture at the Art Institute. She assembled the American contribution for the Venice Biennale in 1956 and during these years, Kuh helped acquire many of the works of modern art currently in the museum's collection.

A year following Daniel Catton Rich's 1958 resignation from the Art Institute of Chicago, Kuh also resigned and pursued a career in New York as an art collection advisor, most notably for the First National Bank of Chicago. In 1959, Kuh was made art critic for The Saturday Review, and she continued to publish books, including The Artist's Voice in 1962, Break-Up: The Core of Modern Art in 1965, and The Open Eye: In Pursuit of Art in 1971.

Katharine Kuh died on January 10, 1994 in New York City.

Provenance:

The Katharine Kuh papers were donated in several installments from 1971 to 1989 by Katharine Kuh and in 1994 by her estate. Artwork was donated in 1995 by Kuh's former employer, the Art Institute of Chicago.

Restrictions:

Authorization to quote, publish or reproduce requires written permission until 2019. Contact the Archives of American Art Reference Services department for additional information.

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:

Authors -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Art historians -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Art dealers -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Art critics -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Curators -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Art consultants -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Topic:

Art, Abstract -- United States  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States  Search this

Women art dealers  Search this

Women art historians  Search this

Women museum curators  Search this

Women authors  Search this

Women art critics  Search this

Function:

Art festivals

Genre/Form:

Illustrated letters

Resumes

Travel diaries

Minutes

Calendars

Visitors' books

Photographs

Paintings

Awards

Drawings

Sound recordings

Collages

Scrapbooks

Lithographs

Prints

Wills

Watercolors

Poetry

Lecture notes

Lectures

Sales records

Citation:

Katharine Kuh papers, 1875-1994, bulk 1930-1994. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art

Identifier:

AAA.kuhkath

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Katharine Kuh papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw987a0763e-de6c-4f9e-b143-4875b3a2244a

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-kuhkath

Creator:

Namuth, Hans  Search this

Names:

Exposition universelle et internationale (1958 : Brussels, Belgium)  Search this

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

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

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts  Search this

Yale University. School of Art and Architecture  Search this

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984  Search this

Boynton, Jack, 1928-2010  Search this

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-  Search this

Cage, John, 1912-1992  Search this

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 -- Photographs  Search this

Castelli, Leo  Search this

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990  Search this

Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964  Search this

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997  Search this

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-  Search this

Hartigan, Grace  Search this

Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967  Search this

Johns, Jasper, 1930- -- Photographs  Search this

Karpel, Bernard, 1911-1986  Search this

Koch, Kenneth, 1925-  Search this

Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984 -- Photographs  Search this

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969  Search this

Navaretta, Cynthia  Search this

Newman, Arnold, 1918-2006  Search this

Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988 -- Photographs  Search this

Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997  Search this

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973  Search this

Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956 -- Photographs  Search this

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008 -- Photographs  Search this

Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970 -- Photographs  Search this

Shaw, Elizabeth Roberts, 1921-  Search this

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946  Search this

Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 -- Photographs  Search this

Extent:

4.5 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Interviews

Photographs

Transcripts

Place:

Massachusetts -- Boston

Date:

1945-1985

Summary:

The papers of New York photographer and filmmaker Hans Namuth measure 4.5 linear feet and date from 1945 to 1985. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs taken by Namuth of New York artists. Also included are papers regarding Namuth's film about Alfred Stieglitz and other professional files.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of New York photographer and filmmaker Hans Namuth measure 4.5 linear feet and date from 1945 to 1985. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs taken by Namuth of New York artists. Also included are papers regarding Namuth's film about Alfred Stieglitz and other professional files.

The first series contains materials related to the planning and production of Namuth's film Alfred Stieglitz, Photographer. Documentation includes articles, correspondence, exhibition materials, grant program request sheets, magazines and catalogs, photo requests, photographs and photographic materials, notes and research, shot lists, script drafts and fragments, interview transcripts, and correspondence. Interviewees include Ansel Adams, Arnold Newman, Aaron Copland, Dorothy Norman, and others.

The second series contains various writings and papers relating to Namuth's professional activities, including Namuth's exhibition at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, business and financial records, papers on The Construction of Boston by Kennth Koch, correspondence, a notebook, and various printed materials. Namuth's correspondence is with James Boynton, Bernard Karpel, the Museum of Modern Art, Cynthia Navaretta, Elizabeth Shaw, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Yale University School of Art and Architecture.

Photographs taken by Hans Namuth depict prominent American (primarily New York-based) artists, architects, writers, musicians, and art critics. Artists are shown in their studios or homes, either at work or posing for the camera, and include Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, Willem de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Lee Krasner, Isamu Noguchi, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, and Andrew Wyeth, among many others. Photographs of other individuals include Marcel Breuer, John Cage, Leo Castelli, Buckminster Fuller, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and others. Also found are photographs of exhibitions, openings, and art-related events from the 1950s and 1960s, such as a traveling Picasso exhibit and a Robert Rauschenberg opening at the Jewish Museum. Most photographs are black and white, but a few color prints are included.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged as 3 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Alfred Stieglitz Film Project, 1945-circa 1981 (Box 1, OV 11; 0.8 linear feet)

Series 2: Professional Files, 1953-1985 (Box 1; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 3: Photographs, 1945-1984 (Box 2-10; 3.4 linear feet)

Biographical / Historical:

Hans Namuth (1915-1990) was a German-American photographer and filmmaker who lived and worked in New York. He was primarily known for his work photographing prominent American artists in the 1950s and 1960s.

Namuth was born in Germany but left for France in 1933 after the rise of the Nazi Party. While in France, he struck up a friendship with fellow German Georg Reisner. From 1935 to 1939, Namuth and Reisner worked together as photographers primarily in Paris. His first works to catch the public's attention came from an assignment in Barcelona that accidentally coincided with the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Following a short internment in Nazi-occupied France, Namuth left for the United States.

After taking photography classes with Alexey Brodovitch, art director of Harper's Bazaar, Namuth met Jackson Pollock at an exhibition in 1950 and asked to photograph the artist at work. His subsequent photographs of Pollock raised both artists' profiles. Namuth would spend the next three decades photographing major New York artists, architects, and art-related events for commission and for his own studio. He directed a number of films in collaboration with Paul Falkenberg and published several books of photographs. Namuth died in Long Island in 1990.

Related Materials:

Also at the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Hans Namuth, Aug. 12-Sept. 8, 1971. Additional Hans Namuth papers are located at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.

Provenance:

The collection was donated 1972-1985 by Hans Namuth.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Rights:

All Photographs by Hans Namuth: All requests for image reproductions are to be sent to: Assistant Registrar for Rights & Reproductions; Center for Creative Photography. Contact Reference Services for more information.

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:

Art critics -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

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

Topic:

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

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

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

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Photographs

Transcripts

Citation:

Hans Namuth photographs and papers, 1945-1985. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.namuhans

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Hans Namuth photographs and papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw98657f618-8639-4278-8569-19240b164357

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-namuhans

Interviewee:

Aldrich, Nelson W.  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F.  Search this

Names:

Boston Architectural Center  Search this

Boston Arts Festival  Search this

Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.)  Search this

Radcliffe College  Search this

Rhode Island School of Design  Search this

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-  Search this

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969  Search this

Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich  Search this

Extent:

93 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1982 January 22-1985 April 4

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Nelson Aldrich conducted 1982 January 22-1985 April 4 at Marablehead, Massachusetts, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.

Nelson Aldrich discusses his childhood as the son of an architect and nephew of the great collectors Lucy Aldrich and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller; his education in architecture at Harvard University with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer (1934-38); his architectural practice with Wallace Harrison in New York City and his own practice in Boston; his position as a Trustee of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1947-1960), the Boston Arts Festival (1955-62), the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center (1959-1963), the Rhode Island School of Design (1955-1962), Radcliffe College (1957-1972) and the Boston Architectural Center (1968-1973).

Biographical / Historical:

Nelson W. Aldrich (1911-1986) was an architect from Marblehead, Massachusetts.

General:

Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 10 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hrs., 30 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Topic:

Architects -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

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

Identifier:

AAA.aldric82

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9138259d6-ee33-4a40-b197-892006391b2b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-aldric82

Creator:

Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961  Search this

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Type:

Correspondence

Date:

between 1954 and 1959

Citation:

Eero Saarinen. Eero Saarinen, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. letter to Marcel Breuer, New York, N.Y., between 1954 and 1959. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)1007

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Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_1007

Creator:

Miró, Joan, 1893-1983  Search this

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Subject:

Breuer, Marcel  Search this

Miró, Joan  Search this

Type:

Correspondence

Date:

1963 Aug. 26

Citation:

Joan Miró. Joan Miró to Marcel Breuer, 1963 Aug. 26. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)1008

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Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_1008

Creator:

Moore, Henry, 1898-1986  Search this

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Subject:

Breuer, Marcel  Search this

Type:

Correspondence

Date:

1959 Mar. 16

Citation:

Henry Moore. Henry Moore, Much Hadham, England letter to Marcel Breuer, New York, N.Y., 1959 Mar. 16. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)1009

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Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_1009

Creator:

Stillman, Rufus  Search this

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Subject:

Breuer, Marcel  Search this

Type:

Correspondence

Date:

ca. 1950

Citation:

Rufus Stillman. Rufus Stillman, Litchfield, Conn. letter to Marcel Breuer, New York, N.Y., ca. 1950. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)1010

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Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

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edanmdm:AAADCD_item_1010

Creator:

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Type:

Albums

Date:

1947-1956

Citation:

Marcel Breuer. Photographs of architectural projects: Album I, 1947-1956. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Architectures  Search this

Buildings  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)10525

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Photographer:

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Beckhard, Herbert, 1926-2003  Search this

Subject:

Beckhard, Herbert  Search this

Breuer, Marcel  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Place:

Washington, D.C.

Date:

ca. 1965

Citation:

Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard. Architectural drawing of the first basement floor plan of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Headquarters, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, ca. 1965. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)10607

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Archives of American Art

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Photographer:

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Beckhard, Herbert, 1926-2003  Search this

Subject:

Beckhard, Herbert  Search this

Breuer, Marcel  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Place:

Washington, D.C.

Date:

1975

Citation:

Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard. Architectural drawing of the street level floor plan of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Headquarters, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 1975. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)10608

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Archives of American Art

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Photographer:

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Beckhard, Herbert, 1926-2003  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Place:

Washington, D.C.

Date:

ca. 1975

Citation:

Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard. Architectural drawing of section AA and section BB for the Air Rights Building at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Headquarters, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, ca. 1975. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)10611

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Creator:

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Type:

Writings

Date:

1953-1981

Citation:

Marcel Breuer. St. John's Abbey comprehensive plan project book, 1953-1981. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)11761

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Archives of American Art

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edanmdm:AAADCD_item_11761

Photographer:

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1973

Citation:

Marcel Breuer. Plans for the Stillman House III, 1973. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Architecture, Domestic  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)13386

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Photographer:

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1980

Citation:

Marcel Breuer. Rendered drawing of the Connecticut Junior Republic Association Dormitory, 1980. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)13389

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Photographer:

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1953?

Citation:

Marcel Breuer. Plans for Litchfield High School, 1953?. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)13390

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Creator:

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Wise, Howard, 1903-1989  Search this

Type:

Videorecording

Date:

1973 August 30

Citation:

Marcel Breuer and Howard Wise. Interview with Marcel Breuer at his Wellfleet, Mass. cottage, 1973 August 30. Howard Wise Gallery records, 1943-1989. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)14335

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Howard Wise Gallery records, 1943-1989

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Archives of American Art

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Creator:

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Wise, Howard, 1903-1989  Search this

Type:

Videorecording

Date:

1974 August 14

Citation:

Marcel Breuer and Howard Wise. Interview with Marcel Breuer, 1974 August 14. Howard Wise Gallery records, 1943-1989. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)14338

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Archives of American Art

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Creator:

Stillman, Rufus  Search this

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Type:

Correspondence

Date:

between 1950 and 1957

Citation:

Rufus Stillman. Rufus Stillman to Marcel Breuer, between 1950 and 1957. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)1854

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Archives of American Art

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Creator:

Stillman, Rufus  Search this

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981  Search this

Type:

Correspondence

Date:

1957 Jan

Citation:

Rufus Stillman. Rufus Stillman to Marcel Breuer, 1957 Jan. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)1855

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