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Creator:

Ryan, Anne, 1889-1954  Search this

Subject:

McFadden, Elizabeth  Search this

Type:

Travel diaries

Diaries

Drawings

Citation:

Anne Ryan papers, circa 1905-1970. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Printmakers -- Spain  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Women printmakers  Search this

Women authors  Search this

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Diaries  Search this

Women  Search this

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Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8385

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210559

AAA_collcode_ryananne

Theme:

Diaries

Women

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

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edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210559

Creator:

Sawyer, Esther Hoyt  Search this

Subject:

Vasilieff, Nicholas  Search this

Dickinson, Edwin Walter  Search this

Milles, Carl  Search this

Citation:

Esther Hoyt Sawyer papers, 1916-1965. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Theme:

Women  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8689

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210869

AAA_collcode_sawyesth

Theme:

Women

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210869

Graphic artist:

Bianchi, Mose di Giosue  Search this

Physical Description:

paper (overall material)

ink (overall material)

Measurements:

image: 27.5 cm x 37 cm; 10 13/16 in x 14 9/16 in

plate: 30 cm x 38.5 cm; 11 13/16 in x 15 5/32 in

overall: 33.5 cm x 48 cm; 13 3/16 in x 18 29/32 in

Object Name:

Etching

Print

Place made:

Italy: Lombardy, Milan

Date made:

1884?

Date made:

1884

ID Number:

GA.14593

Catalog number:

14593

Accession number:

94830

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Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-be0d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1002096

Creator:

Ryan, Anne, 1889-1954  Search this

Names:

McFadden, Elizabeth  Search this

Extent:

3.8 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Travel diaries

Diaries

Drawings

Date:

circa 1905-1970

Summary:

The papers of New York-based painter, printmaker, collagist and writer Anne Ryan measure 3.8 linear feet and date from circa 1905 to 1970. The papers document her career as an artist and writer in New York, New Jersey and Spain through biographical material, correspondence, diaries and journals, writings, printed material, photographic material and artwork.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of New York-based painter, printmaker, collagist and writer Anne Ryan measure 3.8 linear feet and date from circa 1905 to 1970. The papers document her career as an artist and writer in New York, New Jersey and Spain through biographical material, correspondence, diaries and journals, writings, printed material, photographic material and artwork.

Biographical material includes a mixture of legal and financial records as well as other personal documents. There are account books, art inventories, biographical statements, estate papers, exhibition lists, price lists, loan and consignments records, bills and receipts, banking and tax records, assorted travel documents, and other miscellaneous items.

Correspondence is with editors, museums, galleries, family and friends. Many of the letters have typed transcriptions that go along with the original handwritten correspondence. There is also correspondence with Anne Ryan's daughter, Elizabeth McFadden.

There are six diaries, journals, and travel diaries. The diaries and journals describe progress on artwork and writing, as well as daily appointments and activities.

Writings consists of notes, notebooks, poetry and manuscripts. The bulk of the series consists of handwritten and typescript drafts of books, short stories and essays. There are a few items written by others.

Printed material includes exhibition announcements, catalogs, clippings and magazines. Most of the periodicals include essays and stories written by Ryan. There are some printed materials such as postcards, travel brochures and clippings from Ryan's time in Spain.

Two family albums and photographs depict Anne Ryan, family, friends, colleagues, artwork, exhibition installations and houses.

Also found are materials Ann Ryan used to make artwork, such as engraved metal plates for prints, engraved woodcuts for woodblock prints, and handmade stencils. Some drawings are also included.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as seven series.

Series 1: Biographical Material, circa 1920-circa 1970 (Box 1; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1922-1968 (Box 1; 0.6 linear feet)

Series 3: Diaries and Journals, 1924-1942 (Boxes 1-2; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 4: Writings, circa 1923-circa 1954 (Boxes 2-3; 1.4 linear feet)

Series 5: Printed Material, 1925-1970 (Boxes 3-4; 0.6 linear feet)

Series 6: Photographic Material, circa 1905-circa 1954 (Boxes 4-5; 0.4 linear feet)

Series 7: Artwork, circa 1930-circa 1954 (Box 5; 0.3 linear feet)

Biographical / Historical:

Anne Ryan (1889-1954) was a painter, printmaker, collagist, graphic artist and author who primarily worked in New York City, but also in New Jersey and Spain.

Anne Ryan was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1889. She attended St. Elizabeth's Academy and College. She married lawyer William J. McFadden and had three children – William, Elizabeth and Thomas. They lived in Newark, New Jersey and divorced in 1923. Ryan often went to Greenwich Village in New York City and was something of a fixture in the arts and literary community. In 1925 she published a book of poetry, Lost Hills, and her novel Raquel was also published around this time.

Around 1931, Ryan moved to Spain and lived there for roughly four years, mostly in Mallorca and Ibiza, though she traveled to Paris as well. She then returned to New York City and moved into 124 West Fourth Street, which was occupied by many artists and writers. She opened a restaurant called The Hearthstone in the building's basement.

Ryan began painting around 1938. Artist Hans Hofmann lived nearby and visited her studio to provide encouragement, telling her to pursue her own course artistically and not to seek formal instruction. Ryan's first exhibition was in 1941. During this time she joined the printmaking studio Atelier 17 run by British artist William Stanley Hayter who had fled from Paris, France due to World War II. Thanks to the studio, Ryan befriended many European expatriate artists and started making woodblock prints and engravings.

In 1948, Ryan saw an exhibition of collages by Kurt Schwitters that inspired her to begin creating collages herself. During her late career, she made hundreds of collages and had multiple exhibitions at Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City. Ryan was also a prolific writer and many of her short stories and travel essays were published in magazines and periodicals. She died in 1954 in Morristown, New Jersey.

Provenance:

The Anne Ryan papers were donated to the Archives of American Art in 1971 by Elizabeth McFadden, Anne Ryan's daughter.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.

Occupation:

Authors -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Painters -- Spain  Search this

Printmakers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Collagists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Collagists -- Spain  Search this

Topic:

Printmakers -- Spain  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Women printmakers  Search this

Women authors  Search this

Genre/Form:

Travel diaries

Diaries

Drawings

Citation:

Anne Ryan papers, circa 1905-1970. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.ryananne

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9338d8d6c-21ed-442d-ba7b-52ac24daef94

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-ryananne

Creator:

Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this

Type:

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Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this

Type:

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edanmdm:yt_HyxaRB0qETM

Creator:

Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2020-11-20T21:44:19.000Z

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EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_boRC36_NgKI

Container:

Box 1 of 2

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 97-091, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, Records, with related papers of Joseph H. Hirshhorn

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Records, with related papers of Joseph H. Hirshhorn

Records, with related papers of Joseph H. Hirshhorn / Box 1

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-sia-fa97-091-refidd1e489

Graphic artist:

Cardinell-Vincent Co.  Search this

Object Name:

Print

Object Type:

Halftone

Other Terms:

Print; Halftone

Place made:

United States: California, San Francisco

Associated place:

United States: California

Date made:

ca 1915

ID Number:

1986.0639.0357

Accession number:

1986.0639

Catalog number:

86.639.0357

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Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-643b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_826643

Creator:

Gellert, Hugo, 1892-1985  Search this

Names:

American Artists' Congress  Search this

Art of Today Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Artist's Committee of Action (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Artists Coordination Committee (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Artists Council  Search this

Artists for Victory, Inc.  Search this

Committee to Defend V.J. Jerome  Search this

Hungarian Word, Inc.  Search this

National Society of Mural Painters (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Derkovits, Gyula, 1894-1934  Search this

Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973  Search this

Fast, Howard, 1914-2003  Search this

Fiene, Ernest, 1894-  Search this

Gellert, Ernest  Search this

Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979  Search this

Gottlieb, Harry, 1895-  Search this

Gropper, William, 1897-1977  Search this

Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971  Search this

Lie, Jonas, 1880-1940  Search this

Refregier, Anton, 1905-  Search this

Reisman, Philip, 1904-  Search this

Sequenzia, Sofia  Search this

Extent:

6.9 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Interviews

Photographs

Date:

1916-1986

Summary:

The papers of graphic artist, muralist, and activist Hugo Gellert measure 6.9 linear feet and date from 1916 to 1986. They document his career as an artist and organizer for the radical political left through an interview, legal papers, financial records, family papers, artifacts, correspondence, writings, organizational records, extensive printed materials (many of them illustrated by Gellert), photographs, and artwork.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of graphic artist, muralist, and activist Hugo Gellert measure 6.9 linear feet and date from 1916 to 1986. They document his career as an artist and organizer for the radical left through an oral interview conducted by Sofia Sequenzia, legal papers, financial records, family papers, artifacts, correspondence, writings, organizational records, clippings, exhibition catalogs, various printed materials illustrated by Gellert, pamphlets, periodicals, mass mailings, photographs, and artwork.

Biographical Material includes an audio interview with Gellert; official documents related to memberships, property, and legal matters; financial documents that include bills, receipts, and contracts related to professional activities; papers of Gellert's brothers, Lawrence and Ernest; and artifacts. Correspondence is with other artists, writers, publishers, activists, friends, and family, including Ernest Fiene, Rockwell Kent, Harry Gottlieb, William Gropper, Philip Evergood, Howard Fast, and Jonas Lie. Writings include essays, book projects, notes, and notebooks written by Gellert; and stories and articles by other authors, including typescripts of early twentieth-century Hungarian short stories collected by Gellert.

Organizational Records are related to political and art organizations in which Gellert was an active organizer, officer, and in some cases, a founder. Because of his central role in many of these organizations, records often contain unique documentation of their activities. Records are found for the American Artists Congress, the Art of Today Gallery, the Artists Committee of Action, the Artists Coordination Committee, the Artists Council, Artists for Victory, Inc., the Committee to Defend V.J. Jerome, Hungarian Word, Inc., the National Society of Mural Painters, and other organizations.

Printed materials include a variety of political publications and periodicals with illustrations by Gellert, including New Masses, Art Front, Magyar Szo, and American Dialog; clippings related to his career, exhibition catalogs, political pamphlets, Hungarian literature, and mass mailings received from political organizations. Photographs contain a few personal photographs but are mostly news and publicity photographs, many of which depict prominent Communists and other newsmakers. Artwork includes sketches, drawings, designs, prints, and production elements for Gellert's artwork, as well as prints and drawings by Philip Reisman, Gyula Derkovits, and Anton Refregier.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into 7 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1917-1982 (Box 1 and OV 9; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1920-1986 (Boxes 1-2, 8; 0.8 linear feet)

Series 3: Writings, circa 1916-1970 (Boxes 2 and 8; 0.7 linear feet)

Series 4: Organizational Records, circa 1920-1977 (Boxes 3, 8, and OV 9; 1 linear foot)

Series 5: Printed Materials, circa 1920-1986 (Boxes 4-6, 8, and OV 9; 3 linear feet)

Series 6: Photographs, circa 1920-1959 (Boxes 6-7; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 7: Artwork, 1927-1981 (Box 7, OV 10; 0.4 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Graphic artist, muralist, and activist Hugo Gellert was born Hugo Grünbaum in Budapest, Hungary in 1892, the oldest of six children. His family immigrated to New York City in 1906, eventually changing their family name to Gellert.

Gellert attended art school at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design. As a student, he designed posters for movies and theater, and also worked for Tiffany Studios. A number of student art prizes with cash awards enabled him to travel to Europe in the summer of 1914, where he witnessed the outbreak of World War I, an experience which helped shape his political beliefs. Aesthetically, he was also influenced by a folk revival among Hungarian artists at the time of his trip, and was more impressed, he later said, with the street advertising in Paris than he was with the cubism he saw in the Louvre.

Returning to the United States, Gellert became involved in the Hungarian-American workers' movement, and contributed drawings to its newspaper, Elöre (Forward). He remained involved in Hungarian-American art and activism throughout his life, including membership in the anti-fascist group, the Anti-Horthy League. When members of the fascist Horthy government unveiled a statue of a Hungarian hero in New York in 1928, Gellert hired a pilot and dropped leaflets on the group, a stunt for which he was arrested. In the 1950s, Gellert served as director of Hungarian Word, Inc., a Hungarian-language publisher in New York.

Gellert's political commitment and art remained deeply intertwined throughout his life, as he continually sought to integrate his commitment to Communism, his hatred of fascism, and his dedication to civil liberties. Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, he contributed artwork to several magazines of the radical left, including Masses and its successors Liberator and New Masses, both of which featured Gellert's artwork on their inaugural issue. Through Masses, he came to know other radicals such as Mike Gold, John Reed, Louise Bryant, Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, Anton Refregier, William Gropper, Harry Gottlieb, Bob Minor, and Art Young, and with them he followed the events of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia with sympathy and growing political fervor.

His brother, Ernest Gellert, also a socialist and activist, was drafted into the military but refused to serve. He died of a gunshot wound under suspicious circumstances while imprisoned at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, as a conscientious objector. Traumatized by this event, Gellert fled to Mexico to avoid conscription. In 1920 to 1922, he taught art at the Stelton School in New Jersey, a radical, utopian community school. He participated in the cultural scene of Greenwich Village, working on set designs, publications, and graphic art for political productions. He founded the first John Reed Club in 1929 with a group of Communist artists and writers including Anton Refregier, Louis Lozowick, and William Gropper. Initially, the group held classes and exhibitions, and provided services for strikes and other working-class activism. Later, John Reed Clubs formed around the country and became a formal arm of the United States Communist Party (CPUSA).

In the late 1920s, Gellert became a member of the National Society of Mural Painters (which, partly due to Gellert's activism in the group, became the Mural Artists' Guild local 829 of the United Scenic Artists Union of the AFL-CIO in 1937. Other members included Rockwell Kent, Anton Refregier, Arshile Gorky, and Marion Greenwood). In 1928, he created a mural for the Worker's Cafeteria in Union Square, NY. Later murals include the Center Theater in Rockefeller Center, the National Maritime Union Headquarters, the Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union Building, NYC, the interior of the Communications Building at the 1939 World's Fair, and the Seward Park Housing Project in 1961.

In 1932, Gellert was invited to participate in a mural exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and submitted a political mural about the robber barons of contemporary American politics and industry called Us Fellas Gotta Stick Together - Al Capone. The museum attempted to censor the mural, along with the murals of William Gropper and Ben Shahn. Other artists threatened to boycott the exhibition over the censorship and were successful in restoring them to the show.

The cooperation of artists in this controversy foreshadowed a larger protest in 1934, organized by Gellert, Saul Belman, Stuart Davis, and Zoltan Hecht, when Diego Rivera's pro-labor mural was destroyed at Rockefeller Center. After the incident, the group formed the Artists' Committee of Action and continued to fight censorship and advocate for artists' interests and welfare. They also co-published the magazine Art Front with the Artists' Union, a labor organization. Gellert served for a time as editor of Art Front, and chairman of the Artists' Committee of Action.

Gellert was active in producing both art and strategic policy for the cultural arm of the CPUSA, and he worked to mobilize the non-communist left, often referred to as the Popular Front. In 1933 he illustrated Karl Marx's Capital in Lithographs, and in 1935, he wrote a Marxist, illustrated satire called Comrade Gulliver, An Illustrated Account of Travel into that Strange Country the United States of America. Other published graphic works include Aesop Said So (1936) and a portfolio of silkscreen prints entitled Century of the Common Man (1943).

Other artist groups he helped to found and/or run include the American Artist's Congress, a Communist organization founded with Max Weber, Margaret Bourke-White, Stuart Davis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Harry Sternberg, and others, which held symposia and exhibitions between 1936 and 1942; the Artists' Coordination Committee, an umbrella group of national organizations which sought protections for federally-employed and unionized artists; Artists for Victory, Inc., which formed in 1942 to mobilize artists in support of the war effort; and the Artists' Council, formed after the war to advocate for artists' welfare and employment.

Gellert maintained his loyalty to the Communist party throughout the post-war period despite growing disillusionment in the Popular Front over the actions of Josef Stalin, and despite the intense anti-communist crusades in the late 1940s and 1950s. He was investigated by the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and was nearly deported. He spent a number of years during this period in his wife's native Australia. Returning to the United States in the early 1950s, he threw his efforts into the defense of others who faced prison, deportation, and the blacklist following the HUAC hearings. He established The Committee to Defend V.J. Jerome in 1951 when Jerome, the cultural commissioner of CPUSA, was convicted under the Smith Act. The writer Dorothy Parker was the group's treasurer.

In 1954, Gellert established the Art of Today Gallery in New York City with Rockwell Kent and Charles White to provide an exhibition venue for blacklisted artists. Exhibitions included Maurice Becker, Henry Glintenkamp, Harry Gottlieb, Kay Harris, and Rockwell Kent. Gellert served as the gallery's secretary until it closed in 1957.

In the 1960s until his death in 1985, Gellert continued his activism through involvement in grassroots political organizations. Unlike many of his radical contemporaries, Gellert lived to see the revival of some of the ideas of the progressive era of the thirties in the countercultural years of the late 1960s and early 1970s. There were retrospectives of his work in Moscow in 1967 and in his native Budapest in 1968, and he appeared in Warren Beatty's film Reds in 1981.

Sources used for this essay include James Wechsler's 2003 dissertation "The Art and Activism of Hugo Gellert: Embracing the Spectre of Communism," his essay "From World War I to the Popular Front: The Art and Activism of Hugo Gellert," ( Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts number 24, Spring 2002), and Jeff Kisseloff's biographical essay for the 1986 Hugo Gellert exhibition at the Mary Ryan Gallery.

Related Material:

Among the holdings of the Archives of American Art are an oral history with Hugo Gellert from 1984, a recording of a lecture Gellert gave at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1985, and additional records of Artists for Victory, Inc., 1942-1946.

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University holds additional papers of Hugo Gellert.

Provenance:

A portion of the papers were donated in 1970 by Hugo Gellert. Additional papers were donated by Gellert and his wife, Livia Cinquegrana, in 1983 and 1986.

Restrictions:

The collection has been digitized and is available online via AAA's website.

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.

Topic:

Artists' writings  Search this

Politics in art  Search this

Works of art  Search this

Muralists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Graphic artists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Illustrators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Photographs

Citation:

Hugo Gellert papers, 1916-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art

Identifier:

AAA.gellhugo

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9eb96ed42-b751-47f6-a0ca-038014c8800e

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-gellhugo

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Type:

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Type:

Conversations and talks

YouTube Videos

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Creator:

Martino, Giovanni, 1908-1998  Search this

Subject:

Martino, Ernest  Search this

Martino, Eva Marinelli  Search this

Martino, Frank  Search this

Martino, Nina F.  Search this

Martino, William  Search this

Martino, Edmond  Search this

Martino, Babette  Search this

Martino, Antonio  Search this

Martino, Albert  Search this

Type:

Scrapbooks

Photographs

Citation:

Giovanni Martino and Martino family papers, 1913-2022. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Theme:

Women  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)11169

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)255123

AAA_collcode_martgiov

Theme:

Women

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_255123

Associated Name:

Wilkes, Charles  Search this

Original artist:

Agate, A. T.  Search this

Graphic artist:

Halbert, A.  Search this

Printer:

Sherman, C.  Search this

Maker:

Lea & Blanchard  Search this

Measurements:

overall: 10 in x 13 1/16 in; 25.4 cm x 33.10001 cm

Object Name:

Plate

plate, printing

Object Type:

Engraving

Place made:

United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Date made:

1845

Related event:

U.S. Exploring Expedition  Search this

ID Number:

1999.0145.323

Accession number:

1999.0145

Catalog number:

1999.0145.323

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Work and Industry: Graphic Arts

Wilkes Blocks

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-2f54-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_600561

Associated Name:

Wilkes, Charles  Search this

Original artist:

Agate, A. T.  Search this

Graphic artist:

Wright, W. F.  Search this

Rawdon  Search this

Hatch  Search this

Printer:

Sherman, C.  Search this

Physical Description:

copper (overall material)

steel (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 28.1 cm x 33 cm; 11 1/16 in x 13 in

Object Name:

Plate

plate, printing

Object Type:

Engraving

Place made:

United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Date made:

1845

Related event:

U.S. Exploring Expedition  Search this

ID Number:

1999.0145.325

Accession number:

1999.0145

Catalog number:

1999.0145.325

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Wilkes Blocks

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-13ce-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_600563

Associated Name:

Wilkes, Charles  Search this

Original artist:

Agate, A. T.  Search this

Graphic artist:

Jewett, C.A.  Search this

Printer:

Sherman, C.  Search this

Maker:

Lea & Blanchard  Search this

Physical Description:

copper (overall material)

steel (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 25.5 cm x 33.3 cm; 10 1/16 in x 13 1/8 in

Object Name:

Plate

plate, printing

Object Type:

Engraving

Place made:

United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Date made:

1845

Related event:

U.S. Exploring Expedition  Search this

ID Number:

1999.0145.350

Accession number:

1999.0145

Catalog number:

1999.0145.350

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Work and Industry: Graphic Arts

Wilkes Blocks

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-3a00-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_600588

Creator:

Martino, Giovanni, 1908-1998  Search this

Names:

Martino, Albert  Search this

Martino, Antonio  Search this

Martino, Babette  Search this

Martino, Edmond  Search this

Martino, Ernest  Search this

Martino, Eva Marinelli  Search this

Martino, Frank  Search this

Martino, Nina F.  Search this

Martino, William  Search this

Extent:

2.8 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Scrapbooks

Photographs

Date:

1913-2022

Summary:

The papers of Giovanni Martino and Martino family measure 2.8 linear feet and date from 1913 to 2022. Giovanni Martino's career as a painter, and to a lesser extent, his work with his brothers at Martino Studios, is documented though biographical material, correspondence, printed material, photographs, artwork, and one scrapbook. Also found are papers documenting the painting careers of his wife, Eva, and daughters, Nina and Babette.

There is a 0.3 linear foot unprocessed addition to this collection donated in 2022 that includes printed material, drawings, poetry and personal correspondence regarding Nina Martino. Materials date from circa 1963-2022.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of Giovanni Martino and Martino family measure 2.8 linear feet and date from 1913 to 2022. Giovanni Martino's career as a painter, and to a lesser extent, his work with his brothers at Martino Studios, is documented though biographical material, correspondence, printed material, photographs, artwork, and one scrapbook. Also found are papers documenting the painting careers of his wife, Eva, and daughters, Nina and Babette.

There is a 0.3 linear foot unprocessed addition to this collection donated in 2022 that includes printed material, drawings, poetry and personal correspondence regarding Nina Martino. Materials date from circa 1963-2022.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 5 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Giovanni Martino Papers, 1913-2010 (Boxes 1-2, 4; 1.4 linear feet)

Series 2: Eva Martino Papers, circa 1930s-2013 (Box 2; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 3: Nina Martino Papers, 1942-2013 (Box 2; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 4: Babette Martino Papers, 1945-2013 (Boxes 2-3; 0.4 linear feet)

Series 5: Unprocessed Addition, 1963-2022 (Box 5, OV 6; 0.3 linear feet)

Biographical / Historical:

Giovanni Martino (1908-1998) was a painter in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Martino and his six brothers formed Martino Studios in Philadelphia, where Giovanni worked as a graphic artist. Martino's wife, Eva (1916-2012), and daughters Babette (1945-2011) and Nina F. (1942- ) are also artists. Martino studied at the Philadelphia Graphic Sketch Club, Le France Art Institute, Spring Garden Institute, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He specialized in urban landscape painting and regularly exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions. In the 1960s, the family moved from Philadelphia to a house in Blue Bell, where each member could have their own painting studio.

Provenance:

The collection was donated in 2005 by Eva, Nina and Babette Martino, Giovanni Martino's wife and daughters and in 2014 and 2022 by Nina F. Martino.

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:

Painters -- Pennsylvania  Search this

Genre/Form:

Scrapbooks

Photographs

Citation:

Giovanni Martino and Martino family papers, 1913-2022. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.martgiov

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Giovanni Martino and Martino family papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b8120270-123e-48dc-bf35-d672f66e9a62

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-martgiov

Collection Creator:

Architectural League of New York  Search this

Container:

Box 82, Folder 50

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1957

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment.

Collection 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.

Collection Citation:

Architectural League of New York records, 1880s-1974, bulk 1927-1968. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund

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Architectural League of New York records

Architectural League of New York records / Series 5: Exhibitions / 5.6: Administrative and Miscellaneous / Correspondence

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw908f8ff7f-d2cc-4780-9fd5-ceb663bba8ee

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-archleag-ref2478

Author:

Shields, David (Graphic artist)  Search this

Collector:

Kelly, Rob Roy 1925-2004  Search this

Physical description:

406 pages illustrations (some color) 31 x 25 cm

Type:

Catalogs

Catalogues

Collection catalogs

History

Place:

United States

États-Unis

Date:

2022

19th century

19e siècle

Topic:

Wood types (Printing)  Search this

Wood types (Printing)--Collectors and collecting  Search this

Wood types (Printing)--History  Search this

Caractères de bois  Search this

Caractères de bois--Histoire  Search this

Caractères de bois--Collectionneurs et collections  Search this

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1160306

Creator:

Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2020-12-03T20:28:08.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

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americanartmuseum

Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

YouTube Channel:

americanartmuseum

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_H7B9s_-Od7M