Elizabeth King, American, b. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1950 Search this
Medium:
Porcelain, glass eyes, carved wood, steel, and brass
Dimensions:
27 1/2 × 7 3/8 × 10 1/4 in. (69.9 × 18.7 × 26 cm) part (pedestal): 45 × 20 × 20 in. (114.3 × 50.8 × 50.8 cm) part (vitrine): 40 × 18 × 18 in. (101.6 × 45.7 × 45.7 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
Children of Mercury : the education of artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries : [exhibition] Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, March 2 through March 30, 1984
Author:
David Winton Bell Gallery (Brown University) Search this
Alternative supports : contemporary sculpture on the wall : David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, [exhibition] April 25 through May 25, 1987
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
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
Over here : modernism, the first exile, 1914-1919 : [exhibition] David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, April 15-May 29, 1989 / [catalogue conceived and developed by Kermit S. Champa]
Callahan in New England : [exhibition] David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, August 27 through October 9, 1994
The Rome studio : Cindy Sherman, Michel Auder, Richard Prince, Meyer Vaisman, Gary Hume, On Kawara, Thomas Struth, Franz West, Christopher Wool, Lawrence Weiner, Julian Lethbridge, Reinhard Mucha
Author:
David Winton Bell Gallery (Brown University) Search this
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:
Missing Title
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:
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 -- 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
