Elizabeth King, American, b. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1950 Search this
Medium:
Porcelain, glass eyes, carved wood, steel, and brass
Dimensions:
27 1/2 x 7 3/8 x 10 1/4 in. (as posed) (69.8 x 18.5 x 26 cm)
Type:
Sculpture
Date:
(1987-1990)
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Jerome L. Greene, Sydney and Frances Lewis, Robert Lehrman, and Leonard C. Yaseen Purchase Fund and Anonymous Gift, 1993
Curator, and gallery director Thomas S. Holman's research materials on Reginald Marsh, 1970-1989, measure 1.8 linear feet. Research materials consist of correspondence, notes, printed material, writings, and images accrued during the course of exhibition research that Holman pursued while he was curator of collections at the Minnesota Museum of American Art and director of the Bell Gallery, Brown University. Reginald Marsh research, mainly conducted from 1982-1983, comprises the vast majority of the collection. In addition, there are research files for proposed Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler exhibitions. Grant research compiled in 1989 concerns a mural exhibition.
Scope and Contents:
Curator, and gallery director Thomas S. Holman's research materials on Reginald Marsh, 1970-1989, measure 1.8 linear feet. Research materials consist of correspondence, notes, printed material, writings, and images accrued during the course of exhibition research that Holman pursued while he was curator of collections at the Minnesota Museum of American Art and director of the Bell Gallery, Brown University. Reginald Marsh research, mainly conducted from 1982-1983, comprises the vast majority of the collection. In addition, there are research files for proposed Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler exhibitions. Grant research compiled in 1989 concerns a mural exhibition.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as 1 series:
Series 1: Research Files, 1970-1989 (Boxes 1-3; 1.8 linear feet)
Biographical / Historical:
Art historian Thomas S. Holman has been a curator at the Norton Museum of Art and Minnesota Museum of American Art, and served as executive director of The Hudson River Museum and Marietta/Cobb Museum. He is now an art advisor and lives in New York City.
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) was best known for his paintings of life in New York City during the Great Depression. Subjects included crowds on city streets and at Coney Island, women, hobos on the Bowery, vaudeville and other popular entertainments.
Provenance:
Donated by Thomas S. Holman in 2013.
Restrictions:
Use of original material requires an appointment.
Rights:
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Occupation:
Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- New York Search this
Topic:
Gallery directors -- New York (State) -- New York Search this
Curators -- New York (State) -- New York Search this
Ornament and architecture : Renaissance drawings, prints, and books : an exhibition / by the Department of Art, Brown University [and] Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, March 8 through April 6, 1980
Philip II and the Escorial : technology and the representation of architecture : an exhibition by the Department of Art, Brown University, January 27 through March 4, 1990, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Color in space : pictorialism in contemporary sculpture : April 22 through June 4, 1995, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island / Jennifer Bartlett ... [et al.]
Joel Shapiro / [text by William H. Jordy ; exhibition] Fall 1980, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence ; Winter 1981, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta ; Fall 1981, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Jana Sterbak : metamorphosis : August 23 through October 5, 1997, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University / curated by Jo-Ann Conklin ; essay by Irena Žantovská Murray
The Crawford bequest : Chinese objects in the collection of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design : an exhibition by the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, February 6 through March 14, 1993, at the David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Author:
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art Search this
David Winton Bell Gallery (Brown University) Search this
Brown University Department of History of Art and Architecture Search this
Love for antiquity : selections from the Joukowsky collection : an exhibition organized on behalf of the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art, with the cooperation of the Department of Art, Brown University and presented at the Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, October 12 through November 8, 1985 / by Rolf Winkes ; catalogue edited by Tony Hackens and Rolf Winkes
