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Creator:

Feldman, Walter, 1925-2017  Search this

Citation:

Walter Feldman papers, 1947-1971. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art -- Study and teaching -- Rhode Island -- Providence  Search this

Painting, Modern -- United States  Search this

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8904

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211089

AAA_collcode_feldwalt

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211089

Creator:

Artists' Gallery (New York, N.Y)  Search this

Names:

Albers, Josef  Search this

Altoon, John, 1925-  Search this

Baizerman, Eugenie, 1899-1949  Search this

Baizerman, Saul, 1889-1957  Search this

Barrer-Russell, Gertrude  Search this

Beer-Monti, Federica, b. 1876  Search this

Bowden, Harry, 1907-1965  Search this

Chafetz, Sidney  Search this

Feldman, Walter, 1925-2017  Search this

Fromboluti, Sideo, 1921-  Search this

Giobbi, Edward  Search this

Golub, Leon, 1922-2004  Search this

Grillo, John, 1917-  Search this

Johnson, Lester, 1919-2010  Search this

Kaldis, Aristodimos, 1899-1979  Search this

Kruger, Louise, 1924-  Search this

Leepa, Allen, 1919-2009  Search this

Loberg, Robert Warren, 1927-1999  Search this

Margo, Boris, 1902-1995  Search this

Margules, De Hirsh, 1899-1965  Search this

Meert, Joseph, 1905-1989  Search this

Smithson, Robert  Search this

Stix, Hugh  Search this

Tofel, Jennings, 1891-1959  Search this

Weissauer, Rudolf, 1924-  Search this

Extent:

6.8 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1929-1967

Summary:

The Artists' Gallery records measure 6.6 linear feet and date from 1929 to 1967. The collection sheds light on the gallery's operations through adminstrative records, artist files, exhibition files, and printed material.

Scope and Contents:

The Artists' Gallery records measure 6.6 linear feet and date from 1929 to 1967. The collection sheds light on the gallery's operations through adminstrative records, artist files, exhibition files, and printed material.

Administrative records include correspondence, gallery daybooks, inventories, meeting minutes of the gallery's board of directors, and two essay drafts; financial records consist of accounting books, sales records, receipts, invoices, payments, and a ledger; and museum and gallery files include papers and correspondence related to exhibitions, loans of artwork, and shipments of artwork. Several photographs of staff, artists, and the gallery interior are found here as well.

Artist files include biographical information and correspondence between artists, Federica Beer-Monti, and Hugh Stix concerning exhibitions, artwork shipments, prices, and some personal matters. Some files also include photographs, exhibition catalogs and announcements, newspaper clippings, artist books, and price lists.

Exhibition files include price lists, correspondence, drafts of publicity material, visitor guestbooks, and lists of exhibitions and exhibiting artists. Printed material includes Artists' Gallery's brochures, flyers, and other mailings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, as well as gallery scrapbooks comprised of exhibition ephemera, newspaper clippings, and some photographs; an essay published by gallery founder Hugh Stix; exhibition material, newsletters, and miscellaneous publications from other museums and galleries; and books on artists Henri Gaudier and Beauford Delaney.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as four series.

Series 1: Administrative Records, 1936-1965 (Box 1-2, 7; 1.6 linear feet)

Series 2: Artist Files, 1929-1967, bulk 1936-1962 (Box 2-4, 7-8; 1.8 linear feet)

Series 3: Exhibition Files, 1936-1962 (Box 4, 7, OV 9; 1.1 linear feet)

Series 4: Printed Material, 1931-1967 (Box 5-7; 2.1 linear feet)

Biographical / Historical:

The Artists' Gallery was established by Hugh Stix in 1936 in New York City. The goal of this non-profit gallery was to provide unknown or little-known artists a space to exhibit their work to gain public notoriety or be taken up by a commercial gallery. Stix hired Federica Beer-Monti, an Austrian socialite who was friends and acquaintances with many European artists, as director of the gallery. The painters and sculptors exhibited by the Artists' Gallery were voted on and selected by a rotating committee. Exhibitions were given without charge to the artist, and artists received the entire sale price of their work if sold. Some notable artists who exhibited at the Artists' Gallery included Josef Albers, Saul and Eugenie Baizerman, Byron Browne, Louis Eilshemius, Ben-Zion, Aristodemos Kaldis, De Hirsh Margules, and Hans Boehler. The gallery discontinued operations in the summer of 1962.

Separated Materials:

The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming on reel N737. Included are six letters, 1938-1939, from artist Louis M. Eilshemius to gallery director Federica Beer-Monti. Loaned materials were returned to the donor and are not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:

The Artists' Gallery records were donated and lent for microfilming in several installments from 1967 to 1998. Material on reels D313 and 79 were donated from 1967 to 1968 by Federica Beer-Monti; and she lent the Louis M. Eilshemius letters on reel N737 in 1968. The unmicrofilmed portion was donated in 1974 by Beer-Monti's niece, Greta Shapiro, who also lent the logbooks on reel 1042 for microfilming in 1976. In 1998, Shapiro's widower, Aaron, donated the material lent on reel 1042.

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.

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:

Artists -- United States  Search this

Gallery directors  Search this

Topic:

Art -- United States -- Exhibitions  Search this

Function:

Art galleries -- New York (State) -- New York

Citation:

Artists' Gallery Records, 1929-1967. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.

Identifier:

AAA.artigall

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Artists' Gallery records

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw950d5668a-2076-4aaa-9769-3b5e9bbb7093

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-artigall

Interviewee:

Feldman, Walter, 1925-2017  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F  Search this

Subject:

Harper, Michael S.  Search this

Schevill, James Erwin  Search this

Brown University  Search this

Yale University. School of Fine Arts  Search this

Ziggurat Press  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Walter Feldman, 1998 Aug. 10. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Artists as teachers  Search this

Artists -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Interviews  Search this

Artists' books  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)11787

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)216394

AAA_collcode_feldma98

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_216394

Interviewee:

Feldman, Walter, 1925-2017  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Walter Feldman, 1972 Apr. 19-May 10. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Painters -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Interviews  Search this

Printmakers -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Interviews  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12746

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)216436

AAA_collcode_feldma72

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_216436

Interviewee:

Feldman, Walter, 1925-2017  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F.  Search this

Names:

Brown University -- Faculty  Search this

Yale University. School of Fine Arts -- Students  Search this

Ziggurat Press  Search this

Harper, Michael S., 1938-  Search this

Schevill, James Erwin, 1920-  Search this

Extent:

1 Sound cassette (Sound recording (90 min.), analog)

30 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound cassettes

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1998 Aug. 10

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Walter Feldman conducted 1998 Aug. 10, by Robert Brown, for the the Archives of American Art, in Feldman's home, Providence, R.I.

Feldman discusses attending classes as a youth, 1939-1942, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; attending Yale's School of Fine Arts, 1942; service in combat infantry in the U.S. Army, Europe, 1943-1946; completing his BFA at Yale, 1946-1950 and MFA, 1951; working as an instructor in painting at Yale until his appointment at Brown University (1953; professor 1961) where he continues to teach; exhibitions and commissions; working in painting, printmaking, mosaics, and in fine book making.

He discusses working as the sole studio art teacher at Brown University until mid-1960s; hiring of additional artist-teachers and the subsequent split of the art department between studio art and art history; bringing book arts to Brown with his establishment of the Brown/Ziggurat Press, which he directs and which mostly publishes poetry; the many visiting arists at Brown; frequent commissions which have kept him young in spirit; and working in widely divergent media: medals, mosaics, and a huge mural commission in 1976; discussion of leading examples of his handmade books, including James Schevill's poetry, "Lager Lieder" (1991), a book of concentration camp songs, and Michael Harper's "Family Sequences" (1998); broadsides he's designed, sculptural "reliqueries" to memorialize the Jewish Holocaust; the current prospering of his artists books; and his success as a teacher.

Biographical / Historical:

Walter Feldman (1925-2017) was an artist and art educator of Providence, R.I. Established Ziggurat Press in 1984 and, as teaching adjunct at Brown University, the Brown/Ziggurat Press in 1990.

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:

This transcript is open for research. Access to the entire audio recording is restricted. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Art teachers -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Artists as teachers  Search this

Artists -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Interviews  Search this

Artists' books  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.feldma98

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw976fac8f1-5f2f-4660-a83b-00059bbc6f44

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-feldma98

Creator:

Feldman, Walter, 1925-2017  Search this

Extent:

0.2 Linear feet ((partially filmed on 1 microfilm reel))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1947-1971

Scope and Contents:

Printed material; exhibition catalogs; biographical material; and designs for works of art.

REEL 147: Correspondence; plans for Temple Beth El mosaics and Temple Emmanuel stained glass windows; clippings; and exhibition catalogs.

UNMICROFILMED: Biographical information; exhibition catalogs; clippings; and announcements.

Biographical / Historical:

Painter and educator; Providence, R.I. Teaches at Brown University.

Provenance:

Lent and donated by Walter Feldman 1971-1972.

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:

Educators -- Rhode Island -- Providence  Search this

Painters -- Rhode Island -- Providence  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Study and teaching -- Rhode Island -- Providence  Search this

Painting, Modern -- United States  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.feldwalt

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9924af436-4e51-4fbb-be33-4e8d81a3f312

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-feldwalt

Interviewee:

Feldman, Walter, 1925-2017  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F.  Search this

Extent:

2 Sound tape reels (Sound recording, 5 in.)

52 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound tape reels

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1972 Apr. 19-May 10

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Walter Feldman conducted 1972 Apr. 19-May 10, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.

Biographical / Historical:

Walter Feldman (1925-) is a painter, printmaker, and educator from Providence, R.I.

General:

Parts 3 & 4 of Charles Childs interview conducted by R. Brown is also on tape 2.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives' 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.

Occupation:

Art teachers -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Painters -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Interviews  Search this

Printmakers -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.feldma72

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw999a54eac-9bc9-4ae3-b007-47d8b37cc455

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-feldma72