Correspondence, with letters and etchings from Bernhardt Wall; correspondence, constitution, by-laws, and minutes of the Painter's Club of Fort Worth; meeting notes for the Fort Worth Art Association; lists of works; clippings; catalogs; writings; memoirs of his childhood and student years at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; lecture notes and illustrations of lecture topics; photographs; church bulletins illustrated by Ziegler; and etchings, sketches, and sketchbooks.
Biographical / Historical:
Painter, etcher, lithographer, musician; Texas.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming May 1980 by Samye Ziegler Hunt, daughter of Ziegler. Microfilmed as part of the Archives of American Art's Texas project.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Correspondence with W. King Ambler, John Taylor Arms, Jerry Bywaters, Doel Reed, James Swann, Maynard Walker, and print and art societies; a career resume and other biographical material; price lists of prints; a scrapbook containing clippings; exhibition catalogs and invitations.
Biographical / Historical:
Etcher, printmaker, and art instructor, Fort Worth, Tex.; b. 1895; d. 1970 Attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago Art Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Art Students League. Works reproduced in newspapers and magazines. Founded Fort Worth School of Fine Arts.
Provenance:
Loaned by Judy McVeigh Cordell, McVeigh's niece.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Letters, photographs, sketches and drawings, business records and printed matter.
Reel 1598: Business and personal correspondence; exhibition invitations and announcements; clippings; a brief biographical sketch; financial receipts and statements of sales; and photographs of Dickson Reeder's paintings and exhibition installations.
Reel 1682: 110 sketches of costumes and scenery by Dickson Reeder, 48 photographs of productions, and 5 magazine articles about the Reeder School.
Biographical / Historical:
Painter, etcher, engraver, designer, teacher; Fort Worth, Texas. Reeder and his wife, Flora Blanc Reeder, founded the Reeder School, a performing arts school for children in Fort Worth.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1979 by Flora Blanc Reeder.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
An interview of Celia Alvarez Muñoz conducted 2004 Feb. 7-28, by Cary Cordova, for the Archives of American Art, in Arlington, Tex.
Muñoz speaks of her early childhood and close relationship to her maternal grandmother Damiana Esparza Limón; travels to California in high school; Father Rahm, the youth center, and the opportunity to go to college; Dr. Robert Massey who was an etcher and took Muñoz under his wing; her zeal graduating from Texas Western University; teaching art to school children; her marriage; experimenting with photography; the theory of deconstruction; being a writer; the "Enlightenment" series, which began in graduate school; spirituality and philosophy; Dolores Hayden and the University of California at Los Angeles program in architecture and urban planning; her consciousness of feminism; meeting Lucy Lippard and discussing her evolution; language and the multiple meanings of words; the significance of architecture within her work; the Dallas/Fort Worth airport project; the importance of her family and their support throughout her life; Xeroxing and use of transparencies; and the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas. Muñoz also recalls Al Souza, Ashley Walker, Rupert Garcia, Vicky Ruiz, Benito Huerta, and others.
Biographical / Historical:
Celia Alvarez Muñoz (1937- ) is an artist from Arlington, Tex. Cary Cordova (1970- ) is an art historian from Austin, Tex.
General:
Originally recorded on 7 sound discs and 1 compact disc. Reformatted in 2010 as 14 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hrs., 22 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.
Restrictions:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
This interview is part of the series "Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas," supported by Federal funds for Latino programming, administered by the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives.
The digital preservation of this interview received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
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Type:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Celia Alvarez Muñoz, 2004 Feb. 7-28. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
