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Interviewee:

Bruno, Phillip A.  Search this

Creator:

McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-  Search this

Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation  Search this

Names:

Barnes Foundation  Search this

Columbia University -- Students  Search this

Exposition universelle et internationale (1958 : Brussels, Belgium)  Search this

Grace Borgenicht Gallery  Search this

La Napoule Art Foundation, Henry Clews Memorial  Search this

Marlborough Gallery  Search this

Weyhe Gallery  Search this

Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation  Search this

World House Galleries  Search this

Avery, Milton, 1885-1965  Search this

Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992  Search this

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000  Search this

Bertoia, Harry  Search this

Bravo, Claudio, 1936-2011  Search this

Brown, Joan, 1938-1990  Search this

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976  Search this

Clews, Henry, 1876-1937  Search this

Crawford, Ralston, 1906-1978  Search this

Cuevas, José Luis, 1934-  Search this

Ernst, Max, 1891-1976  Search this

Estes, Richard, 1932-  Search this

Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966  Search this

Hefner, Hugh M. (Hugh Marston), 1926-  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Katz, Alex, 1927-  Search this

Koenig, Fritz, 1924-  Search this

Kubach, Wolfgang, 1936-  Search this

Kubach-Wilmsen, Anna Maria, 1937-  Search this

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954  Search this

Morgan, Randall, 1920-  Search this

Nagare, Masayuki, 1923-  Search this

Neuberger, Roy R.  Search this

Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988  Search this

Park, David, 1911-1960  Search this

Peterdi, Gabor  Search this

Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970  Search this

Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-  Search this

Staempfli, George W.  Search this

Willard, Charlotte  Search this

Extent:

46 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2009 January 13-21

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Phillip A. Bruno conducted 2009 January 13-21, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art, at the Archives of American Art, in New York, New York.

Bruno speaks of some his earliest impressions of art while growing up in New York and Paris; attending Columbia University, where he majored in the history of painting and architecture and studied under Meyer Schapiro; his first job at the Weyhe Gallery as a gallery assistant; helping create the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, where he served as director for five years; traveling to Mexico, meeting Jose Cuevas and exhibiting his work at the Edward Loeb Gallery in Paris; traveling to Brazil and meeting a family of naturalist painters who emphasized the importance of painting outdoors, unlike many painters from the New York school; working with Henry Clews and the La Napoule Art Foundation; selling a piece of Salvador Dali jewelry made by Carlos Alamanni to Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy Magazine; working as director of The World House Gallery and selling works by Fancis Bacon and Max Ernst to clients such as Joseph Hirshhorn and Roy Neuberger; organizing a exhibition of artists shown at the Brussels World Fair in 1958 at World House and meeting George Staempfli through the artist Joan Brown; moving from World House to the Staempfli Gallery in 1960 to work as co-director; the Staempfli Gallery's role in the international art world; an original drawing by Leonard Baskin inscribed to Phillip in 1954; selling the work of artists such as Harry Bertoia, Fritz Koening, and David Park; meeting Henri Matisse in Paris at the age of 21; visiting the studios of Alexander Calder and Mark Rothko; the difference between galleries that can spot new talent and galleries that sell certain artists well; the art market becoming less idealistic and more commercial; the rising importance of auction houses and the possibility of their taking the place of traditional art galleries; the move of the Staempfli Gallery to the SoHo neighborhood and soon after, leaving Staempfli for Marlborough, where he was one of the New York directors for 18 years; his appreciation for the creativity of others, retirement and current plans to write his memoirs. Bruno also recalls Milton Avery, Gabor Peterdi, Hans Muller, Ralston Crawford, Randall Morgan, Charlotte Willard, Dorthy Satterlee, Masayuki Nagare, Claude Bemardin, Kubach-Wilmsen, Louise Nevelson, Cladio Bravo, Lopez Garcia, Alberto Giacometti, The Barnes Foundation, Richard Estes, Alex Katz, and Neil Wlliver.

Biographical / Historical:

Phillip A. Bruno (1930- ) is an art collector and director of Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York.

General:

Originally recorded on 2 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 45 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.

Occupation:

Gallery directors -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation.

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.bruno09

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-bruno09

Interviewee:

Ankrum, Joan  Search this

Interviewer:

Karlstrom, Paul J.  Search this

Names:

Ankrum Gallery  Search this

Pasadena Playhouse  Search this

Ankrum, Morris, d. 1964  Search this

Broderson, Morris, 1928-2011  Search this

Feitelson, Lorser, 1898-1978  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Jackson, Martha Kellogg  Search this

Lundeberg, Helen, 1908-1999  Search this

Zeitlin, Jake, 1902-1987  Search this

Extent:

195 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1997 November 5-1998 February 4

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Joan Ankrum conducted 1997 November 5-1998 February 4, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, in Pasadena, California.

Ankrum discusses her status as a role model for women due to her independence in leaving a difficult marriage and establishing a new career; her theater and film career and association with the Pasadena Playhouse; her discovery of Morris Broderson, the hearing-impaired nephew of her husband Morris Ankrum; encouraging Broderson's artistic talent and efforts to help him learn to speak and interact socially; her career as director of the Ankrum Gallery in Los Angeles and the artists, collectors and dealers she became involved with, among them Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg, Joseph Hirshhorn, Martha Jackson and Jake Zeitlin.

Biographical / Historical:

Joan Ankrum (1913-2001) was a gallery owner from Los Angeles, California.

General:

Originally recorded on 6 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 24 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hrs., 50 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.

Topic:

Art dealers -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Women art dealers -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Deaf artists  Search this

Hearing impaired  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.ankrum97

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-ankrum97

Creator:

Nathan, Emily  Search this

De Creeft, José, 1884-1982  Search this

Lerner, Abram  Search this

Goldberg, Rube, 1883-1970  Search this

Names:

Archives of American Art  Search this

Smithsonian Institution -- Public relations.  Search this

Towle Mfg. Company -- Public relations  Search this

De Creeft, José, 1884-1982  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Johns, Jasper, 1930-  Search this

McLanathan, Richard B. K.  Search this

Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970  Search this

Smith, Tony, 1912-1980  Search this

Spyropoulous, Jannis, 1912-  Search this

Woolfenden, William E. (William Edward), 1918-1995  Search this

Photographer:

Namuth, Hans  Search this

Extent:

6 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

circa 1943-1985

Scope and Contents:

The papers of public relations consultant and journalist Emily Nathan measure 5.0 linear feet and date from circa 1943-1985. Included are files on clients, among them Towle Manufacturing and its gallery; the Smithsonian Institution, including the Archives of American Art, Radio Smithsonian and the National Portrait Gallery.

Interviews conducted by Nathan for Radio Smithsonian include New York, N.Y. cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg (1883-1970), 1970; art historian and writer Richard B. K. McLanathan, 1970; Director of the Archives of American Art William E. Woolfenden, 1970, Abram Lerner, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, and art collector Joseph Hirshhorn, 1969. Also found is an interview of William Woolfenden May 6, 1983 upon his retirement as Director of the Archives of American Art.

Among the correspondence are letters to Georgia O'Keeffe regarding a pending oral history with the sculptors Dorothy Dehner and David Smith and a letter from museum administrator and lecturer Daniel Catton Rich expressing his pleasure at having met Jannis and Zoe Spyropoulous in Athens, Greece and describes the painting by Jannis that he purchased for the Worcester Art Museum. The majority of the photographs are of personalities long associated with the Archives of American Art. There are two photographs of Jasper Johns, and one each of Mark Rothko and Tony Smith, all taken by Hans Namuth, 1960.

Also found is a folder of material assembled by Nathan regarding Jose de Creeft's story, as told to Nathan, of his pet rooster, intended by Nathan to be submitted for publication under the title "Roosty Was My Friend." Included are an introduction by Nathan, providing biographical information on de Creeft; sample text for the story (2 pages) and an outline for the remainder (3 pages), 24 drawings by de Creeft illustrating the story; and a photograph of de Creeft with a wire sculpture of Roosty, 1957, taken by Budd studio.

Biographical / Historical:

Emily Nathan (1907-1999) was a journalist and public relations consultant specializing in arts and cultural heritage institutions.

Provenance:

Donated 1973-1988 by Emily Nathan and in 2000 by the Emily Nathan estate, via Edgar S. Nathan, III, executor. The letter to Nathan from Daniel Catton Rich was donated by Rich, 1977.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Cartoonists -- Interviews  Search this

Public relations consultants  Search this

Topic:

Roosters -- Pictorial works  Search this

Roosters -- Anecdotes  Search this

Caricatures and cartoons  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Inventors -- Interviews  Search this

Archives -- Public relations  Search this

Museums -- Public relations  Search this

Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Art and industry  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.nathemil2

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-nathemil2

Interviewee:

Lerner, Abram, first director and curator  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Creator:

Diller, Burgoyne, 1906-1965  Search this

Names:

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden  Search this

Dlugoszewski, Lucia, 1931-2000  Search this

Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

MacAgy, Douglas, 1913-  Search this

Weber, Max, 1881-1961  Search this

Extent:

179 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1975 Dec. 9-1976 Jan. 27

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Abram Lerner conducted 1975 Dec. 9-1976 Jan. 27, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.

Lerner speaks of his childhood and youth in New York City; his education; going to museums and developing an interest in art; his painting career; getting on the WPA mural project; artists' unions and their importance; the gallery scene in New York City in the 1930s; going to work at the A.C.A. Gallery; meeting Joseph Hirshhorn, becoming friends and going to work for him; Hirshhorn's style of collecting; vainly trying to keep track of Hirshhorn's acquisitions; early exhibitions of Hirshhorn's collection, and their effect on the art market; Hirshhorn's involvement with the Smithsonian Institution and the beginning of the Hirshhorn Museum; the development of the Museum and its interaction with the Smithsonian; early exhibitions there; problems of museum administration and security; public response to the Hirshhorn Museum.

Lerner recalls Philip Evergood, Burgoyne Diller, Max Weber, and Douglas MacAgy.

Biographical / Historical:

Abram Lerner (1913-2007) was a museum director in Washington, D.C.

General:

Originally recorded on 3 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hrs., 36 min.

Provenance:

These interviews are 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.

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Museum directors -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews  Search this

Function:

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

Art museums -- Washington (D.C.)

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.lerner75

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-lerner75

Creator:

Kuh, Katharine  Search this

Names:

Albright-Knox Art Gallery  Search this

Art Institute of Chicago -- Faculty  Search this

Biennale di Venezia  Search this

Katharine Kuh Gallery (Chicago, Ill.)  Search this

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984  Search this

Albers, Josef  Search this

Albright, Ivan, 1897-1983  Search this

Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964  Search this

Arensberg, Louise S. (Louise Stevenson), 1879-1953  Search this

Arensberg, Walter, 1878-1954  Search this

Arp, Jean, 1887-1966  Search this

Barnet, Will, 1911-  Search this

Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981  Search this

Biddle, George, 1885-1973  Search this

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-  Search this

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976  Search this

Campoli, Cosmo  Search this

Chagall, Marc, 1887-  Search this

Chavez Morado, José, 1909-2002  Search this

Chermayeff, Serge, 1900-  Search this

Cornell, Joseph  Search this

Cox, Richard  Search this

Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964  Search this

Day, Worden, 1916-1986  Search this

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997  Search this

Dickinson, Edwin Walter, 1891-  Search this

Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968  Search this

Elizabeth, Queen of Great Britain, II, 1926-  Search this

Ernst, Jimmy, 1920-1984  Search this

Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997  Search this

Feitelson, Lorser, 1898-1978  Search this

Friendly, Fred W.  Search this

Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966  Search this

Golub, Leon, 1922-2004  Search this

Goto, Joseph, 1920-  Search this

Grabe, Klaus  Search this

Graves, Robert, 1895-1985  Search this

Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-  Search this

Guston, Philip, 1913-1980  Search this

Hare, David, 1917-  Search this

Hare, Denise Browne  Search this

Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph  Search this

Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966  Search this

Hélion, Jean, 1904-1987  Search this

Inverarity, Robert Bruce, 1909-1999  Search this

Johns, Jasper, 1930-  Search this

Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005  Search this

Johnson, Ray, 1927-  Search this

Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944  Search this

Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001  Search this

Kepes, Juliet  Search this

Klee, Paul, 1879-1940  Search this

Kline, Franz, 1910-1962  Search this

Knox, Seymour H., 1898-1990  Search this

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965  Search this

Lundeberg, Helen, 1908-1999  Search this

Lye, Len, 1901-1980  Search this

Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955  Search this

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969  Search this

Millier, Arthur, 1893-  Search this

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946  Search this

Motherwell, Robert  Search this

Mérida, Carlos, 1891-1984  Search this

Nutting, Muriel Leone Tyler, b. 1892  Search this

Nutting, Myron Chester, 1890-1972  Search this

O'Higgins, Pablo, 1904-  Search this

Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949  Search this

Ozbekhan, Hasan, 1921-2007  Search this

Perkins, Frances  Search this

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973  Search this

Putnam, Wallace, 1899-1989  Search this

Ray, Man, 1890-1976  Search this

Rich, Daniel Catton, 1904-1976  Search this

Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970  Search this

Sandberg, Carl  Search this

Seligmann, Kurt, 1900-1962  Search this

Shackelford, Shelby  Search this

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969  Search this

Spaeth, Otto, d. 1966  Search this

Sterne, Hedda, 1916-  Search this

Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965  Search this

Still, Clyfford, 1904-  Search this

Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-2012  Search this

Tobey, Mark  Search this

Winston, Harry Lewis  Search this

Woolf, Olga  Search this

Young, Victor  Search this

Photographer:

Pollack, Peter, 1909-1978  Search this

Extent:

12 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Illustrated letters

Resumes

Travel diaries

Minutes

Calendars

Visitors' books

Photographs

Paintings

Awards

Drawings

Sound recordings

Collages

Scrapbooks

Lithographs

Prints

Wills

Watercolors

Poetry

Lecture notes

Lectures

Sales records

Date:

1875-1994

bulk 1930-1994

Summary:

The papers of art historian, dealer, critic, and curator Katharine Kuh measure 12 linear feet and date from 1875-1994, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930-1994. The collection documents Kuh's career as a pioneer modernist art historian and as the first woman curator of European Art and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. Found within the papers are biographical material; correspondence with family, friends and colleagues; personal business records; artwork by various artists; a travel journal; writings by Kuh and others; scrapbooks; printed material; photographs of Kuh and others; and audio recordings of Kuh's lectures and of Daniel Catton Rich reading poetry.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of art historian, dealer, critic, and curator Katharine Kuh measure 12 linear feet and date from 1875-1994, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930-1994. Found within the papers are biographical material; correspondence with family, friends and colleagues; personal business records; artwork by various artists; a travel journal; writings by Kuh and others; scrapbooks; printed material; photographs of Kuh and others; and audio recordings of Kuh's lectures and of Daniel Catton Rich reading poetry.

Biographical material consists of copies of Kuh's birth certificate, resumés, passports, award certificates, honorary diplomas, and address books listing information about several prominent artists and colleagues.

Four linear feet of correspondence offers excellent documentation of Kuh's interest in art history, her travels, her career at the Art Institute of Chicago, her work as a corporate art advisor, and as an author. There are letters from her mother Olga Woolf, friends, and colleagues. There is extensive correspondence with various staff members of the Art Institute of Chicago, the First National Bank of Chicago, and The Saturday Review. Also of interest are letters from artists and collectors, several of whom became life-long friends including Walter and Louise Arensberg, Cosmo Campoli, Serge Chermayeff, Richard Cox, Worden Day, Claire Falkenstein, Fred Friendly, Leon Golub, Joseph Goto, David Hare, Denise Brown Hare, Jean Hélion, Ray Johnson, Gyorgy and Juliet Kepes, Len Lye, Wallace Putnam, Kurt Seligmann, Shelby Shackelford, Hedda Sterne, and Clyfford Still. Many letters are illustrated with original artwork in various media.

There are also scattered letters from various artists and other prominent individuals including Josef Albers, George Biddle, Marcel Breuer, Joseph Cornell, Stuart Davis, Edwin Dickinson, Joseph Hirshhorn, Daniel Catton Rich, and Dorothea Tanning.

Personal business records include a list of artwork, Olga Woolf's will, inventories of Kuh's personal art collection, miscellaneous contracts and deeds of gift, receipts for the sale of artwork, files concerning business-related travel, and miscellaneous receipts.

Artwork in the collection represents a wide range of artist friends and media, such as drawings, watercolors, paintings, collages, and prints. Included are works by various artists including lithographs by David Hare and a watercolor set, Technics and Creativity, designed and autographed by Jasper Johns for the Museum of Modern Art, 1970.

Notes and writings include annotated engagement calendars, travel journals for Germany, a guest book for the Kuh Memorial gathering, and many writings and notes by Kuh for lectures and articles concerning art history topics. Of interest are minutes/notes from meetings for art festivals, conferences, and the "Conversations with Artists Program (1961). Also found are writings by others about Kuh and other art history topics.

Six scrapbooks contain clippings that document the height of Kuh's career as a gallery director and museum curator. Scrapbook 6 contains clippings about Fernand Léger, the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1953.

Additional printed material includes clippings about Kuh and her interests, a comprehensive collection of clippings of Kuh's articles for The Saturday Review, exhibition announcements and catalogs, calendars of events, programs, brochures, books including Poems by Kuh as a child, and reproductions of artwork. Of particular interest are the early and exhibition catalogs from the Katharine Kuh Gallery, and rare catalogs for artists including Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Stanley William Hayter, Hans Hofmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Kline, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Pablo Picasso.

Photographs provide important documentation of the life and career of Katharine Kuh and are of Kuh, family members, friends, colleagues, events, residences, and artwork. Several of the photographs of Kuh were taken by Will Barnet and Marcel Breuer and there is a notable pair of photo booth portraits of Kuh and a young Ansel Adams. There are also group photographs showing Angelica Archipenko with Kuh; designer Klaus Grabe; painters José Chavez Morado and Pablo O'Higgins in San Miguel, Mexico; Kuh at the Venice Biennale with friends and colleagues including Peggy Guggenheim, Frances Perkins, Daniel Catton Rich, and Harry Winston; and "The Pre-Depressionists" including Lorser Feitelson, Robert Inverarity, Helen Lundeberg, Arthur Millier, Myron Chester Nutting, and Muriel Tyler Nutting.

Photographs of exhibition installations and openings include views of the Katharine Kuh Gallery; Fernand Léger, Man Ray, and László Moholy-Nagy at the Art Institute of Chicago; and Philip Guston, Jimmy Ernst, Seymour H. Knox, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. There are also photographs depicting three men posing as Léger's "Three Musicians" and the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the Art Institute of Chicago. There is a photograph by Peter Pollack of an elk skull used as a model by Georgia O'Keeffe.

Additional photographs of friends and colleagues include Ivan Albright, Alfred Barr, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Willem De Kooning, Edwin Dickinson, Marcel Duchamp, Claire Falkenstein, Alberto Giacometti, poet Robert Graves with Len Lye, Philip Johnson, Gyorgy and Juliet Kepes, Carlos Mérida, José Orozco, Hasan Ozbekhan, Pablo Picasso, Carl Sandberg, Ben Shahn, Otto Spaeth, Hedda Sterne, Adlai Stevenson, Clyfford Still, Mark Tobey, and composer Victor Young.

Photographs of artwork include totem poles in Alaska; work by various artists including Claire Falkenstein, Paul Klee, and Hedda Sterne; and work donated to the Guggenheim Museum.

Four audio recordings on cassette are of Katharine Kuh's lectures, including one about assembling corporate collections, and of Daniel Catton Rich reading his own poetry. There is also a recording of the Second Annual Dialogue between Broadcasters and Museum Educators.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 9 series. Undated correspondence, artwork, and photographs of individual artists are arranged alphabetically. Otherwise, each series is arranged chronologically.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1945-1992 (Box 1; 16 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1908-1994 (Boxes 1-5, 13-14, OV 15; 4.0 linear feet)

Series 3: Personal Business Records, 1941-1989 (Box 5; 19 folders)

Series 4: Artwork, 1931-1986 (Boxes 5, 13-14, OVs 15-23; 1.7 linear feet)

Series 5: Notes and Writings, 1914-1994 (Boxes 5-7; 1.7 linear feet)

Series 6: Scrapbooks, 1935-1953 (Box 7; 8 folders)

Series 7: Printed Material, 1916-1992 (Boxes 7-10, 13, OV 22; 3.0 linear feet)

Series 8: Photographs, 1875-1993 (Boxes 10-13; 1.2 linear feet)

Series 9: Audio Recordings, 1977 (Box 12; 1 folder)

Biographical Note:

Katharine Kuh (1904-1994) worked primarily in the Chicago area as an modern art historian, dealer, critic, curator, writer, and consultant. She operated the Katharine Kuh Gallery from 1935-1943 and was the first woman curator of European and Art and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Katharine Kuh (née Woolf) was born on July 15, 1904 in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of the three daughters of Olga Weiner and Morris Woolf, a silk importer. In 1909, the family moved to Chicago, Illinois. While traveling with her family in Europe in 1914, Katharine contracted polio, causing her to spend the next decade in a body brace. During this time of restricted movement, she developed an interest in art history through the collecting of old master prints.

After her recovery, Katharine Woolf attended Vassar College where one of her professors, Alfred Barr, encouraged her to study modern art. She graduated from Vassar in 1925 and received a master's degree in art history from the University of Chicago in 1929. Later that year, she moved to New York to pursue a Ph.D. in Renaissance and medieval art at New York University.

In 1930, Katharine Woolf returned to Chicago and married businessman George Kuh and began to teach art history courses in the suburbs of Chicago. After divorcing George Kuh in 1935, she opened the Katharine Kuh Gallery, the first gallery devoted to avant-garde art in Chicago. It was also the first gallery to exhibit photography and typographical design as art forms, and featured the work of Ansel Adams, Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, and Man Ray, among others. From 1938 to1940, Kuh was the Visiting Professor of Art at the University School of Fine Arts, San Miguel, Mexico.

After the Katharine Kuh Gallery closed in 1943, Kuh was hired by museum director Daniel Catton Rich to fill a position in public relations at the Art Institute of Chicago. During the following years, Kuh edited the museum's Quarterly publication, took charge of the museum's Gallery of Interpretive Art, and began a long term relationship with Rich. In 1946, Kuh was sent on a special mission for the U. S. Office of Indian Affairs to make a detailed study of Native American totemic carvings in Alaska.

In 1949, Kuh persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Walter Arensberg of Los Angeles to exhibit their collection of modern art, creating the first post-war exhibition of modern art in Chicago. She published her first book Art Has Many Faces in 1951, and in the following year, she began writing art criticism for The Saturday Review. In 1954, Kuh was appointed the first woman curator of European Art and Sculpture at the Art Institute. She assembled the American contribution for the Venice Biennale in 1956 and during these years, Kuh helped acquire many of the works of modern art currently in the museum's collection.

A year following Daniel Catton Rich's 1958 resignation from the Art Institute of Chicago, Kuh also resigned and pursued a career in New York as an art collection advisor, most notably for the First National Bank of Chicago. In 1959, Kuh was made art critic for The Saturday Review, and she continued to publish books, including The Artist's Voice in 1962, Break-Up: The Core of Modern Art in 1965, and The Open Eye: In Pursuit of Art in 1971.

Katharine Kuh died on January 10, 1994 in New York City.

Provenance:

The Katharine Kuh papers were donated in several installments from 1971 to 1989 by Katharine Kuh and in 1994 by her estate. Artwork was donated in 1995 by Kuh's former employer, the Art Institute of Chicago.

Restrictions:

Authorization to quote, publish or reproduce requires written permission until 2019. Contact the Archives of American Art Reference Services department for additional information.

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:

Art, Abstract -- United States  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Art festivals  Search this

Women museum curators -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Women art critics -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Authors -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States  Search this

Art galleries, Commercial -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Women art historians -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Women art dealers -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Women art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Women art critics -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Genre/Form:

Illustrated letters

Resumes

Travel diaries

Minutes

Calendars

Visitors' books

Photographs

Paintings

Awards

Drawings

Sound recordings

Collages

Scrapbooks

Lithographs

Prints

Wills

Watercolors

Poetry

Lecture notes

Lectures

Sales records

Citation:

Katharine Kuh papers, 1875-1994, bulk 1930-1994. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

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

Identifier:

AAA.kuhkath

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-kuhkath

Interviewee:

Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973  Search this

Interviewer:

Selvig, Forrest  Search this

Names:

Baron, Herman, 1892-1961  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Luks, George Benjamin, 1867-1933  Search this

Tonks, Henry, 1862-1937  Search this

Extent:

1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings, 7 in.)

51 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound tape reels

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1968 Dec. 3

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Philip Evergood conducted 1968 Dec. 3, by Forrest Selvig, for the Archives of American Art, in the artist's home, in Bridgewater, Conn.

Evergood speaks of his childhood and his parents; his education at the Slade School with Henry Tonks and at the Art Students League with George Luks and William Von Schlegell; life in Paris in the 1920s at the Academie Julian; his marriage; life in New York City in the 1930s; the Depression and the WPA; and his exhibitions at the Dudensing, ACA, and other galleries and museums. Evergood comments on his paintings, "The Dance Marathon," "Lily and the Sparrows," and others. He discusses his philosophy of art, the meaning of "social painting," and artists of the 1930s as compared with the artists of the 1960s. He recalls Joseph Hirshhorn, Herman Baron, Stuart Davis, Reginald Marsh, Peter Blume, and others. Also present during the interview is Evergood's wife, Julia.

Biographical / Historical:

Philip Evergood (1901-1973) was a painter from New York, N.Y.

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 others.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Topic:

Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews  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.evergo68

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-evergo68

Interviewee:

Alan, Charles, 1908?-1975  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Names:

Downtown Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Yale School of Drama -- Students  Search this

Allen, Lawrence  Search this

Askew, R. Kirk (Ralph Kirk), 1903-1974  Search this

Baker, Richard Brown  Search this

Breinin, Raymond, 1910-  Search this

Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008  Search this

Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964  Search this

Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958  Search this

Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970  Search this

Harnett, William Michael, 1848-1892  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953  Search this

Landau, Felix, 1924-2003  Search this

Levi, Julian E. (Julian Edwin), 1900-1982  Search this

Levine, Jack, 1915-2010  Search this

Levy, Julien  Search this

Marin, John, 1870-1953  Search this

Marin, John, Jr., 1915?-1988  Search this

O'Keeffe, Georgia , 1887-1986  Search this

Root, Edward Wales, d. 1956  Search this

Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965  Search this

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969  Search this

Washburn, George  Search this

Zerbe, Karl, 1903-1972  Search this

Extent:

37 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1970 August 20-25

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Charles Alan conducted 1970 August 20-25, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.

Alan speaks of studying scene and stage design; attending Yale School of Drama; doing illustrations for various publications; traveling and studying in Europe; working as a set designer for MGM and Warner Brothers; his experiences working at the Downtown Gallery; his thoughts and recollections about Edith Halpert; leaving Downtown Gallery and starting his own gallery; his opinions on the future of small galleries in New York; museum purchases; Edith Halpert's art collection; selling his gallery to Felix Landau; and various thoughts concerning the art world. He recalls Norman Bell Geddes, Edith Halpert, Stuart Davis, Julien Levy, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Kirk Askew, Raymond Breinin, Ben Shahn, George Washburn, Edward Root, Joe Hirshhorn, John Marin, John Marin Jr., Lawrence Allen, Georgia O'Keeffe, William Harnett, Julian Levi, Jack Levine, Karl Zerbe, Bruce Conner, Richard Baker, Paul Sachs, and many others.

Biographical / Historical:

Charles Alan (1908?-1975) was an art dealer from New York, New York. Alan attended Horace Mann School, graduating in 1924. Attended Yale School of Drama in 1925, then worked as a set designer for MGM and Warner Brothers. In 1930, Alan became a theatrical set designer and director. After serving in the Army in World War II, he worked for Edith Halpert at the Downtown Gallery. In 1952, he opened the Charles Alan Gallery, specializing in contemporary art. Alan closed the gallery in 1970 to become a private dealer.

General:

Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 58 min.

Provenance:

These interviews are 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.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Topic:

Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Set Designers -- United States -- Interviews  Search this

Function:

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

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.alan70

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-alan70

Collection Creator:

Marcus, Marcia, 1928-  Search this

Container:

Box 2, Folder 44

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1968-1990

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Use of archival audiovisual recordings and born-digital records with no duplicate copy requires advance notice.

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:

Marcia Marcus papers, 1928-2016, bulk 1950-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the family of Marcia Marcus, and the Lily and Earle M. Pilgrim Art Foundation.

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Marcia Marcus papers

Marcia Marcus papers / Series 2: Correspondence

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-marcmarc-ref718

Creator:

Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987  Search this

Names:

Ahlas, Lambro  Search this

Baranik, Rudolf  Search this

Biddle, George, 1885-1973  Search this

Bratby, John, 1928-  Search this

Burliuk, David, 1882-1967  Search this

De Francia, Peter  Search this

Goodrich, Lloyd, 1897-1987  Search this

Hirsch, Joseph, 1910-1981  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967  Search this

Lasker, Joe  Search this

Poor, Henry Varnum, 1887-1970  Search this

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-  Search this

Extent:

3.9 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Interviews

Writings

Photographs

Sketchbooks

Date:

1933-1989

Summary:

The papers of realist painter Raphael Soyer date from 1933 to 1989 and measure 3.9 linear feet. They document Soyer's career as a painter, printmaker, and writer. Found within the papers are scattered biographical materials, including several transcripts of interviews with Soyer; extensive personal and professional correspondence; writings and notes by Soyer and others; scattered legal and financial records; exhibition materials, clippings and other printed material; and photographs of Soyer in his studio, with artists and friends, and at art events. Also found are one sketch and a facsimile of Soyer's 1968 sketchbook produced by Forum Gallery.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of realist painter Raphael Soyer date from 1933 to 1989 and measure 3.9 linear feet. They document Soyer's career as a painter, printmaker, and writer. Found within the papers are scattered biographical materials, including several transcripts of interviews with Soyer; extensive personal and professional correspondence; writings and notes by Soyer and others; scattered legal and financial records; exhibition materials, clippings and other printed material; and photographs of Soyer in his studio, with artists and friends, and at art events. Also found are one sketch and a facsimile of Soyer's 1968 sketchbook produced by Forum Gallery.

Biographical materials include award certificates, including a 1975 certificate from the National Academy of Design, lists of artwork by Soyer, and several transcripts of interviews with Raphael Soyer in which he discusses topics such as his career as an artist, artists in New York City, and the inspiration for his artwork.

Personal and professional correspondence is with numerous artists, writers, art historians, curators, gallery owners, arts organizations, museums, and universities. Correspondents include Lambro Ahlas, Rudolf Baranik, George Biddle, John Bratby, David Burliuk, Peter De Francia, Lloyd Goodrich, Joseph Hirsch, Joseph Hirshhorn, Edward Hopper, Joe Lasker, Henry Varnum Poor, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and many others. Additional correspondence is addressed to Reality magazine, for which Soyer was an editor.

Writings and notes by Soyer include several drafts and notes for his four published books A Painter's Pilgrimage (1962), Homage to Thomas Eakins (1966), Self-Revealment: a Memoir (1969), and Diary of an Artist (1977). Also by Soyer are draft essays, lectures, and articles - many about social realism. Writings by others include essays and articles by artists and art scholars sent to Soyer for review.

Scattered legal and financial records include bank statements, receipts, leases, and documents related to the publishing of his books. Printed material consists of exhibition catalogs and announcements, clippings, and other published items.

Photographs depict Soyer in his studio, with other artists and friends such as Chaim Gross, Edward Hopper, and Jose De Creeft, and at art events, and include a few photographs of his artwork. Also found are one pencil sketch and a facsimile of Soyer's 1968 sketchbook produced by Forum Gallery.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into 7 series:

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1939-1986 (Box 1, OV 6; 12 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1940-1988 (Box 1-2; 1.0 linear foot)

Series 3: Writings & Notes, circa 1946-1987 (Box 2-3; 1.5 linear feet)

Series 4: Legal & Financial Records, 1959-1988 (Box 3; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 5: Printed Material, 1933-1989 (Box 3-4; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 6: Photographs, circa 1953-1987 (Box 5, OV 6; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 7: Artwork, 1968, undated (Box 5; 2 folders)

Biographical Note:

Raphael Soyer (1899-1987) and his twin brother Moses (1899-1974) were born on December 25, 1899, in the Russian town Borisoglebsk. Their father Abraham was a scholar and Hebrew teacher who encouraged all of his children to sketch and paint. After the family was deported from Russia, they settled in the Bronx, New York, in 1912. Raphael and Moses briefly attended school, but at 16 they began working various jobs to help support their family. They also began taking free art classes at Cooper Union and later Raphael attended the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League where he studied with Guy Pene du Bois. He began to show his paintings in 1926 and in 1929 gallery owner Charles Daniel gave him his first one man show. Soyer became one of the leading realist painters and printmakers, often depicting Depression-era transients, Manhattan streetscapes, shoppers, and women at work. He also painted and sketched numerous self-portraits and portraits of fellow artists and cultural figures, many of whom were also his friends, including Allen Ginsberg, Chaim Gross, Edward Hopper, and Arshile Gorky.

Beginning in the 1930s Soyer showed his work frequently at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Associated American Artists Galleries, National Collection of Fine Arts, and other national and international exhibitions. During the 1940s and 1950s he was a leading advocate of realism and spoke out against the abstract style that was dominating the New York art scene. In 1953 he co-founded Reality magazine.

Soyer joined the Forum Gallery in New York in the early 1960s and became good friends with his dealer Bella Fishko. Also during the 1960s he published three books, A Painter's Pilgrimage (1962), Homage to Thomas Eakins (1966), and Self-Revealment: a Memoir (1969), and had his first retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1967.

Throughout his career Soyer also occasionally taught at art schools including the Art Students League and the New School. He also collaborated with his friend, writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, by illustrating several of Singer's books. Soyer and his wife Rebecca, whom he married in 1931, lived the rest of their lives in New York City, but often traveled to Europe. They had one daughter, Mary. Soyer's final book, Diary of an Artist, was published in 1977 and in 1979 he received the Gold Medal from the National Arts Club. He continued painting realist subjects until his death in 1987.

Related Material:

Also found at the Archives of American Art are several collections related to Raphael Soyer: Esther Reier letter from Raphael Soyer, 1978 May 29; Raphael Soyer's Artist Statement from 1947; a Raphael Soyer lecture from 1960; the papers of his twin brother, Moses Soyer; Brooklyn Museum interviews of artists, circa 1965-1968 (includes an interview of Soyer); and the Karl E. Fortess taped interviews with artists, 1963-1985, which also includes an interview with Raphael Soyer. The Archives of American Art's Oral History collection has an interview of Raphael Soyer dated May 13-June 1, 1981 conducted by Milton Brown.

Additional Raphael Soyer papers, 1949-1954, are available at Cornell University.

Separated Material:

The Archives of American Art also holds material lent for microfilming (N68-1) including a small amount of correspondence and three sketchbooks. Lent materials were returned to the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:

Raphael Soyer donated portions of the collection between 1961 and 1980. He also loaned materials for microfilming in 1968. His widow, Rebecca, and his grandson, Joseph Leiber, on behalf of the entire Soyer family, donated additional materials in 1991 and 1993.

Restrictions:

Use of the original papers 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.

Topic:

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

Social realism  Search this

Realism  Search this

Painting, American  Search this

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

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

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Writings

Photographs

Sketchbooks

Citation:

Raphael Soyer papers, 1933-1989. 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.soyeraph

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-soyeraph

Creator:

Herder, Addie  Search this

Names:

Herder, Milton  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph  Search this

Jacobson, Marjory, 1936-  Search this

Neuberger, Roy R.  Search this

Extent:

4.3 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Video recordings

Writings

Appointment books

Notes

Date:

1942-1999

Summary:

The papers of collage artist Adeline Herder measure 4.3 linear feet and date from 1942-1999. The collection presents an overview of Herder's personal life and career as a collage artist. Her personal life is reflected through biographical material, correspondence including letters between Adeline and her husband Milton Herder, and writings and notes including appointment books. The collection offers a rich resource on Herder's artistic activity with correspondence that includes documentation of her relationship with Marjorie Jacobson and the purchase of her work by Roy Neuberger and Joseph Hirshhorn. Herder's career is further represented through exhibition files, printed material, writings and notes, and video recordings.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of collage artist Adeline Herder measure 4.3 linear feet and date from 1942-1999. The collection presents an overview of Herder's personal life and career as a collage artist. Her personal life is reflected through biographical material, correspondence including letters between Adeline and her husband Milton Herder, and writings and notes including appointment books. The collection offers a rich resource on Herder's artistic activity with correspondence that includes documentation of her relationship with Marjorie Jacobson and the purchase of her work by Roy Neuberger and Joseph Hirshhorn. Herder's career is further represented through exhibition files, printed material, writings and notes, and video recordings.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 7 series:

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1944-1999 (Boxes 1, 5; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1942-1996 (Boxes 1, 5; 0.8 linear feet)

Series 3: Exhibition Files, 1961-1999 (Boxes 1-2, 5; 0.8 linear feet)

Series 4: Printed Material, 1947-1999 (Boxes 2-3, 5; 0.6 linear feet)

Series 5: Writings and Notes, 1956-1996 (Boxes 3-4; 1.2 linear feet)

Series 6: Artwork, 1950-circa 1966 (Boxes 4-5; 4 folders)

Series 7: Video Recordings, 1993, 1996 (Boxes 4-5; 5 items)

Biographical Note:

Adeline Herder (1920-) is a collagist from New York, N.Y. and Paris.

Adeline Herder (neé Olkes) was born on August 30, 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Olney High School, Philadelphia, in 1939. In high school, Herder supplemented her studies with summer art classes at Crouse College, Syracuse University, in 1936 and 1938. After completing high school, she enrolled in the Tyler School of Fine Art, Temple University, where she attended classes from 1939-1941. In 1941 she married Milton Herder.

Herder resumed her studies in 1945 when she enrolled at the Philadelphia Museum School. There she made the acquaintance of Roy Davis who would later represent her, first in his gallery Davis & Long Company, and then at Davis & Langdale Company. In 1950, Herder moved to New York City and enrolled in the New School for Social Research. She held her first public show of collages and constructions in 1961 at the Bodley Gallery. Herder remained in New York City until 1962.

In 1963 Herder relocated to Paris, where she resided until 1973, and continued to work on collage constructions. She also worked with the Paris Theatre Workshop and the Studio Theatre of Paris and made masks and costumes for productions including J.B. and The Skin of Our Teeth!. Herder was acquainted with other artists and writers in Paris at the time including Beauford Delaney, James Jones, and Paul Jenkins. In 1972, Joseph Hirshhorn purchased four of Herder's works, Klosters '64, Beckoning Night City, Pink Circus, and Paris (French Box) through the intermediary Marjorie Jacobson, Herder's personal friend. In 1973, Herder moved back to New York City and through Marjorie Jacobson met Joseph Hirshhorn. At this meeting Hirshhorn purchased two more of her works, Return to Paris and Gray-Green Machine. That same year, Roy Neuberger purchased three collages from Herder, First Black City, Indian Hat Trip, and Big Black City. In 1975, the works were shown in a new acquisitions exhibition at the Neuberger Museum. Herder also participated in the Color Light & Image exhibition in 1975, which was part of the United Nations celebration of International Women's Year. In 1977, Herder was awarded visiting artist status at Clayworks Studio in New York City.

Herder, under the name of Addie Herder, has been represented by many galleries including Bodley Gallery, New York City, 1961; Savage Gallery, London, 1968 to 1970; Gruenebaum Gallery, New York City, 1976 to 1980; Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, 1981; Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York City, 1985; and Davis & Langdale Company, New York City.

Provenance:

The papers were donated to the Archives of American Art in 2001 by Adeline Herder.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research. Use 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:

Collagists  Search this

Topic:

Collage  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Video recordings

Writings

Appointment books

Notes

Citation:

Adeline Herder papers, 1942-1999. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.herdadel

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-herdadel

Interviewee:

Drexler, Rosalyn  Search this

Interviewer:

Lyon, Christopher  Search this

Names:

Garth Greenan Gallery  Search this

Hunter College -- Students  Search this

Kornblee Gallery  Search this

Reuben Gallery  Search this

Alloway, Lawrence, 1926-1990  Search this

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014  Search this

Barthelme, Donald  Search this

Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988  Search this

Bruce, Lenny  Search this

Carmines, Al  Search this

Cornell, Joseph  Search this

De Kooning, Elaine  Search this

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997  Search this

Dine, Jim, 1935-  Search this

Doyle, Tom, 1928-  Search this

Drexler, Sherman  Search this

Geldzahler, Henry  Search this

Gilman, Richard, 1923-2006  Search this

Hess, Thomas B.  Search this

Hesse, Eva, 1936-1970  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Katz, Alex, 1927-  Search this

Kent, Allegra  Search this

Klein, William  Search this

Kline, Franz, 1910-1962  Search this

Kroll, Jack  Search this

Marx, Chico, 1887-1961  Search this

Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962  Search this

Neel, Alice, 1900-1984  Search this

Newman, Barry  Search this

Perelman, S. J. (Sidney Joseph), 1904-1979  Search this

Rosenberg, Harold, 1906-1978  Search this

Samaras, Lucas, 1936-  Search this

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004  Search this

Teer, Barbara Ann, 1937-2008  Search this

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987  Search this

Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994  Search this

Extent:

82 Pages (Transcript)

5 Items (Sound recording: 5 sound files (3 hr., 26 min.), digital, wav)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2017 May 17-June 2

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Rosalyn Drexler conducted 2017 May 17 and June 2 by Christopher Lyon, for the Archives of American Art, at Garth Greenan Gallery in New York, New York.

Drexler discusses her childhood in the Bronx; her experiences studying dance and music; her higher education at Hunter College; attending films and the Yiddish Theater; meeting her husband Sherman Drexler; her time as a professional wrestler; her memories of traveling to the South and encountering Jim Crow segregation; she describes learning about art from Sherman Drexler and her joint exhibition with Sherman; her early work in sculpture; participating in Happenings with Jim Dine; joining Anita Reuben's gallery; her debut as a playwright; her experience writing "I am the Beautiful Stranger;" the changing public perception of her and being classified as an artist; her decision to become a painter and appropriating images for her work; the influence of S. J. Perelman on her plays; her play about Joseph Cornell and ballerina Allegra Kent, and interviewing Allegra Kent; her recent artwork and preparing for her 2017 show at Garth Greenan Gallery; her artwork from the 1980s and 1990s; her comedy writing and sense of humor. Drexler also recalls Chico Marx, Jack Newfield, Igor Youskevitch, Ivan Karp, Anita Reuben, Lucas Samaras, Richard Gilman, Al Carmines, Amiri Baraka, Barbara Ann Teer, Franz Kline, Elaine De Kooning, Bill de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Jack Kroll, Lawrence Alloway, Tom Hess, Barney Newman, Harold Rosenberg, Susan Sontag, Joe Hirshhorn, Henry Geldzahler, Donald Barthelme, Kornblee Gallery, Eva Hesse, Tom Doyle, William Klein, Marilyn Monroe, Alex Katz, Alice Neel, Basquiat, Saturday Night Live, and Lenny Bruce, among others.

Biographical / Historical:

Rosalyn Drexler (1926- ) is a sculptor, playwright, and novelist in New York, New York. Christopher Lyon (1949- ) is a writer in Brooklyn, New York.

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.

Occupation:

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

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

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

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

Topic:

Women wrestlers  Search this

Wrestling  Search this

Segregation -- United States  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women sculptors  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Happenings (Art)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.drexle17

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-drexle17

Interviewee:

Ankrum, Joan, 1913-2001  Search this

Interviewer:

Karlstrom, Paul J  Search this

Subject:

Ankrum, Morris  Search this

Broderson, Morris  Search this

Feitelson, Lorser  Search this

Lundeberg, Helen  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Jackson, Martha Kellogg  Search this

Zeitlin, Jake  Search this

Ankrum Gallery  Search this

Pasadena Playhouse  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Topic:

Art dealers -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Women art dealers -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Deaf artists  Search this

Hearing impaired  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12691

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)216355

AAA_collcode_ankrum97

Theme:

Women

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_216355

Interviewee:

Evergood, Philip Howard, 1901-1973  Search this

Interviewer:

Selvig, Forrest  Search this

Subject:

Baron, Herman  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Luks, George Benjamin  Search this

Tonks, Henry  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Topic:

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

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12410

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212048

AAA_collcode_evergo68

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_212048

Interviewee:

Horowitz, Raymond J., 1916-2005  Search this

Interviewer:

Berman, Avis  Search this

Names:

Columbia University -- Students  Search this

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)  Search this

Adler, A. M. (Abraham M), 1902-1985  Search this

Canaday, John, 1907-1985  Search this

Cikovsky, Nicolai, 1894-  Search this

Fraad, Daniel  Search this

Fraad, Rita  Search this

Gerdts, William H.  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Levine, Jack, 1915-2010  Search this

Magriel, Paul David, 1906-  Search this

McGoldrick, Joseph D. (Joseph Daniel), 1901-  Search this

Mellon, Paul  Search this

Mount, Charles Merrill  Search this

Spanierman, Ira  Search this

Spark, Victor D. (Victor David), 1898-1991  Search this

Stebbins, Theodore E.  Search this

Terra, Daniel J., 1911-1996  Search this

Extent:

3 Sound cassettes (Sound recording (4 hrs. 30 min.), analog)

56 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound cassettes

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2004 Oct. 20-Nov. 5

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Raymond Horowitz conducted 2004 Oct.20-Nov. 5, by Avis Berman, for the Archives of American Art, in New York, N.Y.

Horowitz speaks of his privileged childhood in New York; the effects of the Depression on his family's finances; attending Columbia University for Law and the anti-Semitism he faced there; his ingratiation into art appreciation through Meyer Shapiro; employment under then-New York City comptroller Joseph McGoldrick; the formation of his law practice; and his marriage to his wife, Margaret Goldenberg. Horowitz also mentions his involvement in left-wing political movements; how he managed relationships with different dealers; his experiences with misattributed artworks and forgeries, particularly his luck in avoiding them; the hobbies of himself and his wife; how he avoids relationships with the artists of his works; sharing information with other collectors; the economics of donating artworks and the subsequent tax breaks; the importance of credit in art purchasing; how he and Margaret conferred on purchases; their affinity for Chase; his habits on lending to exhibitions; the differences between the management of the Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery; his summer homes in East Hampton and Provincetown; the problems with contemporary art scholarship; and the importance of dealers in affirming the interest in American art. Horowitz spends most of the interview reflecting upon others in the art world whom he has met. He recalls Ira Spanierman, Dan and Rita Fraad, Charles Merill Mount, Victor Spark, Abraham Adler, Nicolai Cikovsky, Phillipe de Montebello, Theodore Stebbins, Jack Levine, Daniel Terra, Joseph Hirshhorn, Norman Hirschl, John Canaday, Doris and Harry Rubin, Paul Mellon, Bill Gerdts, Paul Magriel, Bernard Meyers, and many others.

Biographical / Historical:

Interviewee Raymond Horowitz (1916-2005) was a collector from New York, N.Y. Avis Berman is an art historian from New York, N.Y.

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.

Occupation:

Lawyers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Art dealers  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Art -- Economic aspects  Search this

Depressions -- 1929  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview provided by the New Land Foundation.

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.horowi04

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-horowi04

Interviewee:

Hale, Robert Beverly, 1901-1985  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F.  Search this

Names:

Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Columbia University -- Students  Search this

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981  Search this

Bridgman, George Brant, 1864-1943  Search this

Coyle, Terence  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968  Search this

Geldzahler, Henry  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975  Search this

Klonis, Stewart, 1901-1989  Search this

McNulty, William Charles, 1884-1963  Search this

Peirce, Waldo, 1884-1970  Search this

Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956  Search this

Priest, Alan Reed  Search this

Rockefeller, David, 1915-  Search this

Root, Edward Wales, d. 1956  Search this

Rorimer, James J. (James Joseph), 1905-1966  Search this

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970  Search this

Extent:

23 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1984 Mar. 7

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Robert Beverly Hale conducted 1984 Mar. 7, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.

Hale speaks of his childhood years living a bohemian life; personal and family friend Marcel Duchamp; his time as a student at the Columbia School of Architecture; being a biology student at Columbia University; studying painting in Paris at Fontainebleau; assisting Waldo Pierce as a secretary; the gold medal from the American Poetry Society; running the publicity department of the Arts Students League; connection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Art News magazine critic in 1930s; tenure in the American wing of the Met; friend Jackson Pollack and the art scene at East Hampton; discussion of drawing the planes of the human body; and writing a book on figure drawing. Hale also recalls Bertrand Russell, Julian Huxley, Henry Oliver Walker, Phil Wiley, George Bridgman, William McNulty, Stuart Klonis, Sam Lewis, Edward Root, Walter Baker, Joseph Hirshhorn, Alan Priest, Albert Gardner, Henry Geldzahler, James Rorimer; David Rockefeller, Alfred Barr, and Terrance Coyle.

Biographical / Historical:

Robert Beverly Hale (1901-1985) was an administrator, instructor, and art historian from New York, N.Y.

General:

Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 7 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 others.

Occupation:

Art teachers -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Drawing -- Technique  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.hale84

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-hale84

Interviewee:

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Avery, Milton, 1885-1965  Search this

Burliuk, David, 1882-1967  Search this

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997  Search this

Eilshemius, Louis M. (Louis Michel), 1864-1941  Search this

Lerner, Abram, first director and curator  Search this

Extent:

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

48 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound tape reels

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1976 Dec. 16

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Joseph H. Hirshhorn conducted 1976 Dec. 16, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.

Hirshhorn discusses his childhood; working as a stockbroker; his first art acquisition of two Durer engravings; buying Barbizon paintings; his relationship with the A.C.A. Gallery, Milton Avery, David Burliuk, the Collectors Club, Willem de Kooning, Louis M. Eilshemius, Lloyd Goodrich, Edith Gregor Halpert, Abram Lerner, Louise Nevelson, and others. Hirshhorn also describes the alternative plans he considered before giving his collection to the Smithsonian Institution.

Biographical / Historical:

Joseph H. Hirshhorn (1889-1981) was an art collector from New York, N.Y. Hirshhorn agreed to donate his collection of modern and contemporary art to the Smithsonian in 1966. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden opened in 1974.

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.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- Interviews  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century  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.hirshh76

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-hirshh76

Artist:

Larry Rivers, 17 Aug 1923 - 14 Aug 2002  Search this

Sitter:

Joseph Herman Hirshhorn, 1899 - 31 Aug 1981  Search this

Medium:

Oil and charcoal on canvas

Dimensions:

Stretcher: 183.2 x 122.6cm (72 1/8 x 48 1/4")

Frame: 184.9 × 124.1 × 6cm (72 13/16 × 48 7/8 × 2 3/8")

Type:

Painting

Date:

1963

Topic:

Joseph Herman Hirshhorn: Male  Search this

Joseph Herman Hirshhorn: Humanities and Social Sciences\Antiquary  Search this

Joseph Herman Hirshhorn: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Financier  Search this

Joseph Herman Hirshhorn: Visual Arts\Founder\Art Museum  Search this

Joseph Herman Hirshhorn: Visual Arts\Art Collector  Search this

Joseph Herman Hirshhorn: Visual Arts\Art Patron  Search this

Joseph Herman Hirshhorn: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Mining  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

66.4286

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

Art © Estate of Larry Rivers/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Photography by Cathy Carver

See more items in:

Catalog of American Portraits

Data Source:

Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4d315ee3d-549a-4ce3-8715-9040360cdcfe

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_66.4286

Creator:

Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987  Search this

Subject:

De Francia, Peter  Search this

Burliuk, David  Search this

Bratby, John  Search this

Baranik, Rudolf  Search this

Ahlas, Lambro  Search this

Biddle, George  Search this

Singer, Isaac Bashevis  Search this

Poor, Henry Varnum  Search this

Lasker, Joe  Search this

Hirsch, Joseph  Search this

Hopper, Edward  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Goodrich, Lloyd  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Writings

Photographs

Sketchbooks

Topic:

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

Social realism  Search this

Realism  Search this

Painting, American  Search this

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

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

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9465

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211663

AAA_collcode_soyeraph

Theme:

Lives of American Artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211663

Interviewee:

Drexler, Rosalyn, 1926-  Search this

Interviewer:

Lyon, Christopher, 1949-  Search this

Subject:

Alloway, Lawrence  Search this

Baraka, Amiri  Search this

Barthelme, Donald  Search this

Basquiat, Jean-Michel  Search this

Bruce, Lenny  Search this

Carmines, Al  Search this

Cornell, Joseph  Search this

De Kooning, Elaine  Search this

De Kooning, Willem  Search this

Dine, Jim  Search this

Doyle, Tom  Search this

Drexler, Sherman  Search this

Geldzahler, Henry  Search this

Gilman, Richard  Search this

Hess, Thomas B.  Search this

Hesse, Eva  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Karp, Ivan C.  Search this

Katz, Alex  Search this

Kent, Allegra  Search this

Klein, William  Search this

Kline, Franz  Search this

Kroll, Jack  Search this

Marx, Chico  Search this

Monroe, Marilyn  Search this

Neel, Alice  Search this

Newman, Barry  Search this

Perelman, S. J. (Sidney Joseph)  Search this

Rosenberg, Harold  Search this

Samaras, Lucas  Search this

Sontag, Susan  Search this

Teer, Barbara Ann  Search this

Warhol, Andy  Search this

Youskevitch, Igor  Search this

Garth Greenan Gallery  Search this

Hunter College  Search this

Kornblee Gallery  Search this

Reuben Gallery  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Topic:

Women wrestlers  Search this

Wrestling  Search this

Segregation -- United States  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women sculptors  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Happenings (Art)  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17499

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)389604

AAA_collcode_drexle17

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_389604

Collection Creator:

Tibor de Nagy Gallery  Search this

Container:

Box 3, Folder 55

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1962-1965

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. research facility.

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:

Tibor de Nagy Gallery records, 1941-1993. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

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

See more items in:

Tibor de Nagy Gallery records

Tibor de Nagy Gallery records / Series 1: Business Records and Correspondence / 1.2: Clients and Colleagues

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-tibode-ref176