Correspondence; files on 42 artists, containing clippings, photos, exhibition catalogs and letters; exhibition files for her gallery, Gallery of Wonderful Things, Fort Worth, Texas, and Tall Timbers, Houston, Texas; a scrapbook containing clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, photos, and letters about the Gallery of Wonderful Things; printed material and loan records for her private collections of ceramics, paintings and sculpture; photographs; and printed miscellany.
Artist files include David Adickes, Ludwig Bemelmans, James Blake, Bill Bomar, Cynthia Brants, David Brownlow, Max Butler, John Chumley, Charles Cobelle, Dorothy Crowley, Montague Dawson, Adolph Dehn, Joseph Domjan, Kelly Fearing, Robert Fowler, Frank Freed, An Furuta, Henry and Leila Gadbois, R.C. Gorman, George Grammer, John Guerin, Dorothy Hood, William A. Kolliker, Richard M. Lincoln, Anthony Martin, Blanche McVeigh, Marc Moldawer, Martha Mood, Charles Pebworth, Margaret Putnam, Dickson Reeder, Andrew Rush, Porfirio Salinas, E.M. (Buck) Schiwetz, Charles Schorre, Mary Ellen Shipnes, Agnes Sims, Emily Guthrie Smith, Trudy Sween, Charles Umlauf, Bror Utter, and Charles T. Williams.
Biographical / Historical:
Hershey founded Gallery of Wonderful Things, Fort Worth, Texas in 1956 and turned it over to Electra Carlin in 1958. Carlin moved the gallery and changed the name to Carlin Gallery. Hershey moved to Houston and organized four art shows at the Tall Timbers apartment complex owned by her husband.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1981 by Terese Tarlton Hershey.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Occupation:
Gallery directors -- Texas -- Fort Worth Search this
Photographs made as part of Joseph C. Farber's project to document modern NAtive American everyday life. Represented tribes include the Acoma, Apache, Blackfoot, Chehalis, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Cocopa, Dakota, Eskimo, Haida, Kiowa, Kutenai, Lummi, Mohave, Mohawk, Navaho, Northern Athabascan, Onandaga, Pima, Pueblo, Quinalt, Seminole, Taos, Tlingit, and Zuni. Subject coverage is broad and varies from tribe to tribe. Included are portraits, as well as totem poles, carving, weaving, pottery, painitng, landscapes, boats and canoes, ceremonial regalia, camps, classes and vocational training, homes and traditional dwellings, construction projects, rodeos and powwows, dances, industries (including lumber), herding and ranching, agriculture, stores and storefronts, cliff dwellings, parades, crab cleaning, fishing, games, health care, legal processes, music, office work, sewing, vending, and a funeral. There are also photographs of R. C. Gorman (and a letter from Gorman to Farber) and Fritz Shoulder (some in color).
Farber's travels included Alaska (Point Barrow, Dead Horse, Glacier Bay, Haines, Hoona, Hydaberg, Ketchikan, Mount McKinley, Prudhoe Bay, Saxman, and Sitka); Alberta (Blackfeet Reservation); Arizona (Canyon de Chelly, Cocopa Reservation, Flagstaff, Kayenta, Monument Valley, Pima Reservation, Quechan Reservation, Mojave Reservation, and Yuma); California (Alcatraz, Oakland, and San Francisco); Florida (Big Cypress Reservation; Miccosukee Reservation); Minnesota (Minneapolis and Nett Lake); Montana (Northern Cheyenne Reservation); New Mexico (Acoma, Gallup, Navajo Forest, Picuris, Puye, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Santa Fe, Taos, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, and Tesuque); New York (New York City and Onandaga Reservation); North Carolina (Cherokee Reservation); Oklahoma (Anadarko, Apache, Lawton, Stilwell, and Tahlequah); South Dakota (Rosebud and Wounded Knee); and Washington (Lummi Reservation, Nisqually River, Puyallup River, and Quinalt Reservation).
Biographical/Historical note:
Joseph C. Farber (1903-1994) was a successful New York businessman and professional photographer. He studied with Edward Steichen at the New York Camera Club in the 1920s. The prints in this collection resulted from a five-year project that involved travelling to Native communities throughout the United States to document modern Native American life. The project resulted in a book, Native Americans: 500 Years After (1975), as well as exhibits, including one in the National Museum of Natural History in 1976-1977.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 78-1, NAA ACC 95-3
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Farber's photographs, previously located in Photo Lot 95-3 have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 78-1. These photographs were also made by Joseph C. Farber and form part of this collection.
The National Museum of American History Archives Center holds the Joseph Farber Papers and Photographs, circa 1962-1990.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Photographs published in Farber's books still under copyright. Reproduction permission from artist's estate.
This collection contains 3 photographs depicting Diné (Navajo) artist R.C. Gorman and one poster depicting his artwork.
Scope and Contents:
This collection contains 3 photographs depicting artist R.C. Gorman [Diné (Navajo)] and 1 poster advertisting an exhibit of his work in 1993.
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged in 1 oversize box.
Biographical / Historical:
Diné (Navajo) artist R.C. (Rudolph Carl) Gorman was born in Chinle, Arizona in 1931. His father Carl Gorman was also an artist and as well as a Navajo code talker in World War II.
After serving in the U.S. Navy and studying art and literature at Northern Arizona University, R.C. received a Navajo Tribal Council scholarship to study art at Mexico City College in 1958. It was there that Gorman was introduced to the works of Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, which would later influence own artwork. Later Gorman moved to Taos, New Mexico and opened the first Native-owned fine art gallery in 1968.
Best known for his imagery depicting Navajo women, Gorman's work is held in the collections of many national museums including the National Museum of the American Indian, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Ariz.
Gorman died in 2005 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Separated Materials:
This collection also includes R.C. Gorman 13 artworks held in NMAI's object collection, catalog numbers 270169-270181.
Provenance:
Gift of Mrs. Tracy Fontaine Evans.
Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Rights:
Permission to publish the Yousuf Karsh photographs must be directed to his estate directly.
Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); R.C. Gorman collection, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Gelatin silver print depicting a portrait of artist R.C. Gorman [Diné (Navajo)], photographed by Yousuf Karsh circa 1981. The photograph is signed by Karsh and has a note written by Gorman that reads, "To Tracy and Cam Evans- Love, R.C. Gorman."
The back of the print has a stamp that reads, "No. 3 [handwritten] Karsh, Ottawa." Another note reads, "WO# 7639"
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Rights:
This photograph is copyrighted by the Estate of Yousuf Karsh. Please contact the Estate for permission to use this image.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); R.C. Gorman collection, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Gelatin silver print depicting a portrait of artist R.C. Gorman [Diné (Navajo)], photographed by Yousuf Karsh circa 1981. The photograph is signed by Karsh and has a note written by Gorman that reads, "To Tracy and Cam Evans- Love, R.C. Gorman, 1981."
The back of the print has a stamp that reads, "No. 21 [handwritten] Karsh, Ottawa." Another note reads, "WO# 7642"
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Rights:
This photograph is copyrighted by the Estate of Yousuf Karsh. Please contact the Estate for permission to use this image.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); R.C. Gorman collection, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
One poster depicting an R.C. Gorman artwork. The bottom of the poster reads, "R.C. Gorman / Taos Art Association / Stables Art Center 1993"
There is a handwritten note by Gorman that reads, "To Tracy and Cam- love, R.C. Gorman"
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish the Yousuf Karsh photographs must be directed to his estate directly.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); R.C. Gorman collection, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Color photograph depicting a portrait of artist R.C. Gorman [Diné (Navajo)], photographed by Yousuf Karsh circa 1981. The photograph is signed by Karsh and has a note written by Gorman that reads, "To Tracy and Cam Evans- With Love, R.C. Gorman."
The back of the print has a stamp that reads, "No. K [handwritten] Karsh, Ottawa." Another note reads, "WO# 7641"
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Rights:
This photograph is copyrighted by the Estate of Yousuf Karsh. Please contact the Estate for permission to use this image.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); R.C. Gorman collection, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
The man to send rain clouds : contemporary stories by American Indians / edited and with an introduction by Kenneth Rosen ; Illustrated by R.C. Gorman & Aaron Yava
