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Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2018-11-30T21:36:15.000Z

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Education  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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cooperhewitt

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edanmdm:yt_howdsu31Z50

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

Lectures

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2022-09-19T16:52:13.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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cooperhewitt

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edanmdm:yt_qq_lMrQEYfY

Artist:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, active 1958  Search this

Christo, born Gabrovo, Bulgaria 1935-died New York City 2020  Search this

Jeanne-Claude, born Casablanca, Morocco 1935-died New York City 2009  Search this

Photographer:

Gianfranco Gorgoni, Italian, born Rome, Italy 1941  Search this

Medium:

black and white photograph

Dimensions:

15 3/4 x 23 1/4 in. (40 x 59.1 cm)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

Spring/Summer 1976

Topic:

Figure group  Search this

Occupation\industry\construction  Search this

Architecture Interior\industry\factory  Search this

Modern art movement\installation exterior\Running Fence  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Copyright:

Photograph © Gianfranco Gorgoni, 1978

Object number:

RF.3.117

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7981c0ee0-46e1-4be0-88c1-b3dbb3b45d24

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_RF.3.117

Artist:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, active 1958  Search this

Christo, born Gabrovo, Bulgaria 1935-died New York City 2020  Search this

Jeanne-Claude, born Casablanca, Morocco 1935-died New York City 2009  Search this

Photographer:

Gianfranco Gorgoni, Italian, born Rome, Italy 1941  Search this

Medium:

black and white photograph

Dimensions:

15 3/4 x 23 1/4 in. (40.0 x 59.1 cm)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

February 4, 1975

Topic:

Figure group  Search this

Occupation\political  Search this

Object\art object\drawing  Search this

Architecture Interior\civic  Search this

Modern art movement\installation exterior\Running Fence  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Copyright:

Photograph © Gianfranco Gorgoni, 1978

Object number:

RF.3.135

Restrictions & Rights:

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7220892b9-7029-4a4a-ab6b-6e63ecf06b9b

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_RF.3.135

Artist:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, active 1958  Search this

Christo, born Gabrovo, Bulgaria 1935-died New York City 2020  Search this

Jeanne-Claude, born Casablanca, Morocco 1935-died New York City 2009  Search this

Photographer:

Gianfranco Gorgoni, Italian, born Rome, Italy 1941  Search this

Medium:

black and white photograph

Dimensions:

15 3/4 x 23 1/4 in. (40.0 x 59.1 cm)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

1975

Topic:

Figure group  Search this

Architecture Interior\civic  Search this

Modern art movement\installation exterior\Running Fence  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Copyright:

Photograph © Gianfranco Gorgoni, 1978

Object number:

RF.3.140

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk752b61c8f-3f3a-4f26-b2e2-6048be39b524

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_RF.3.140

Artist:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, active 1958  Search this

Christo, born Gabrovo, Bulgaria 1935-died New York City 2020  Search this

Jeanne-Claude, born Casablanca, Morocco 1935-died New York City 2009  Search this

Photographer:

Gianfranco Gorgoni, Italian, born Rome, Italy 1941  Search this

Sitter:

Christo  Search this

Medium:

black and white photograph

Dimensions:

15 3/4 x 23 1/4 in. (40.0 x 59.1 cm)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

March 18, 1975

Topic:

Figure group  Search this

Architecture Interior\civic  Search this

Modern art movement\installation exterior\Running Fence  Search this

Portrait male\bust  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Copyright:

Photograph © Gianfranco Gorgoni, 1978

Object number:

RF.3.172

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk763726b7d-cb1e-4857-9195-fee5f2e29159

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_RF.3.172

Artist:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, active 1958  Search this

Christo, born Gabrovo, Bulgaria 1935-died New York City 2020  Search this

Jeanne-Claude, born Casablanca, Morocco 1935-died New York City 2009  Search this

Photographer:

Gianfranco Gorgoni, Italian, born Rome, Italy 1941  Search this

Medium:

black and white photograph

Dimensions:

23 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. (59.1 x 40.0 cm)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

April 29-August 20, 1976

Topic:

Occupation\industry\construction  Search this

Architecture\vehicle\truck  Search this

Modern art movement\installation exterior\Running Fence  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Copyright:

Photograph © Gianfranco Gorgoni, 1978

Object number:

RF.3.176

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk76bb7b6b0-403c-44fe-bc7c-64e5e558fa63

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_RF.3.176

Artist:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, active 1958  Search this

Christo, born Gabrovo, Bulgaria 1935-died New York City 2020  Search this

Jeanne-Claude, born Casablanca, Morocco 1935-died New York City 2009  Search this

Photographer:

Gianfranco Gorgoni, Italian, born Rome, Italy 1941  Search this

Sitter:

Robert E. Tresch  Search this

Medium:

black and white photograph

Dimensions:

23 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. (59.1 x 40.0 cm)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

1973-1976

Topic:

Architecture\vehicle\truck  Search this

Occupation\farm\dairy  Search this

Modern art movement\installation exterior\Running Fence  Search this

Portrait male\knee length  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Copyright:

Photograph © Gianfranco Gorgoni, 1978

Object number:

RF.3.179

Restrictions & Rights:

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk76a777af9-75ec-4bef-8617-2f22d4e859a2

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_RF.3.179

Artist:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, active 1958  Search this

Christo, born Gabrovo, Bulgaria 1935-died New York City 2020  Search this

Jeanne-Claude, born Casablanca, Morocco 1935-died New York City 2009  Search this

Photographer:

Gianfranco Gorgoni, Italian, born Rome, Italy 1941  Search this

Sitter:

Kenneth Williamsen  Search this

Medium:

black and white photograph

Dimensions:

15 3/4 x 23 1/4 in. (40.0 x 59.1 cm)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

1973-1976

Topic:

Architecture\vehicle\truck  Search this

Modern art movement\installation exterior\Running Fence  Search this

Occupation\farm\rancher  Search this

Portrait male\full length  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Copyright:

Photograph © Gianfranco Gorgoni, 1978

Object number:

RF.3.185

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk71ae02e98-5f0c-4140-9729-62a7be9b1f0c

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_RF.3.185

Artist:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, active 1958  Search this

Christo, born Gabrovo, Bulgaria 1935-died New York City 2020  Search this

Jeanne-Claude, born Casablanca, Morocco 1935-died New York City 2009  Search this

Photographer:

Gianfranco Gorgoni, Italian, born Rome, Italy 1941  Search this

Sitter:

Barbara Volkerts  Search this

Wilbur Volkerts  Search this

Medium:

black and white photograph

Dimensions:

15 3/4 x 23 1/4 in. (40.0 x 59.1 cm)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

1973-1976

Topic:

Architecture Exterior\other\swimming pool  Search this

Modern art movement\installation exterior\Running Fence  Search this

Occupation\farm\rancher  Search this

Portrait female\waist length  Search this

Portrait male\waist length  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Copyright:

Photograph © Gianfranco Gorgoni, 1978

Object number:

RF.3.189

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7e3c5e91f-5fa0-47a6-bda8-7abbf31a77e6

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_RF.3.189

Artist:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, active 1958  Search this

Christo, born Gabrovo, Bulgaria 1935-died New York City 2020  Search this

Jeanne-Claude, born Casablanca, Morocco 1935-died New York City 2009  Search this

Photographer:

Gianfranco Gorgoni, Italian, born Rome, Italy 1941  Search this

Medium:

black and white photograph

Dimensions:

14 x 17 7/8 in. (35.6 x 45.4 cm)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

1974-1976

Topic:

Architecture Exterior\civic\post office  Search this

Modern art movement\installation exterior\Running Fence  Search this

Landscape\California\Valley Ford  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Copyright:

Photograph © Gianfranco Gorgoni, 1978

Object number:

RF.3.279

Restrictions & Rights:

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7b8ec3ea3-fb43-4b80-9e5e-991287a033f1

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_RF.3.279

Artist:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, active 1958  Search this

Christo, born Gabrovo, Bulgaria 1935-died New York City 2020  Search this

Jeanne-Claude, born Casablanca, Morocco 1935-died New York City 2009  Search this

Photographer:

Gianfranco Gorgoni, Italian, born Rome, Italy 1941  Search this

Sitter:

Christo  Search this

Medium:

black and white photograph

Dimensions:

14 x 17 7/8 in. (35.6 x 45.4 cm)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

April 24, 1975

Topic:

Architecture Interior\civic  Search this

Modern art movement\installation exterior\Running Fence  Search this

Portrait male  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Copyright:

Photograph © Gianfranco Gorgoni, 1978

Object number:

RF.3.280

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7407d3bef-86f0-4431-9b37-a3fc2a7c5172

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_RF.3.280

Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Names:

New York Flower Show  Search this

Extent:

37,000 Slides (35mm slides)

33 Linear feet ((garden files))

3,000 Lantern slides

37,000 Slides (35mm slides)

33 Linear feet ((garden files))

3,000 Lantern slides

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Slides

Lantern slides

Plans (drawings)

Brochures

Articles

Correspondence

Clippings

Slides (photographs)

Date:

circa 1920-present

Summary:

This collection contains over 37,000 35mm slides, 3,000 glass lantern slides and garden files that may include descriptive information, photocopied articles (from journals, newspapers, or books), planting lists, correspondence, brochures, landscape plans and drawings. Garden files were compiled by Garden Club of America (GCA) members for most of the gardens included in the collection. Some gardens have been photographed over the course of several decades; others only have images from a single point in time. In addition to images of American gardens, there are glass lantern slides of the New York Flower Show (1941-1951) and trips that GCA members took to other countries, including Mexico (1937), Italy, Spain, Japan (1935), France (1936), England (1929), and Scotland.

A number of the slides are copies of historic images from outside repositories including horticultural and historical societies or from horticultural books and publications. The GCA made a concerted effort in the mid-1980s to acquire these images in order to increase its documentation of American garden history. Because of copyright considerations, use of these particular images may be restricted.

Biographical/Historical note:

The Garden Club of America was established in 1913 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when the Garden Club of Philadelphia and eleven other garden clubs met to create a national garden club. Its purpose is to foster the knowledge and love of gardening and to restore and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and gardening and conservation efforts. The GCA was incorporated in Delaware in 1923, with its headquarters established in New York City. Today, local clubs are organized under twelve regional zones. The GCA continues its tradition of hosting flower shows and publishing material related to gardening in the United States.

The GCA's glass lantern slides were used by The GCA for presentations and lectures about notable gardens throughout the United States dating back to colonial times. An effort was made in the late 1980s, in preparation of the 75th anniversary of the Garden Club of America's founding, to collect the disbursed slides. These slides were to eventually form the Slide Library of Notable American Parks and Gardens. The informational value of this collection is extensive since a number of images of the more than 4,500 gardens represented show garden designs that have changed over time or no longer exist. While the majority of images document a range of designed upper and upper-middle class gardens throughout the U.S., the scope of the collection is expanding as volunteers photograph and document contemporary gardens including community and vernacular gardens.

The gardens illustrate the design work of dozens of landscape architects including Marian Coffin, Beatrix Farrand, Lawrence Halprin, Hare & Hare, Umberto Innocenti, Gertrude Jekyll, Jens Jensen, Warren Manning, the Olmsted Brothers, Charles Platt, Ellen Biddle Shipman, and Fletcher Steele. Because of their proximity to the gardens, works of notable architects and sculptors may also be featured in the images.

Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- France  Search this

Gardens -- Italy  Search this

Gardens -- Japan  Search this

Gardens -- Mexico  Search this

Flower shows  Search this

Gardening -- United States -- societies, etc  Search this

Gardens -- England  Search this

Landscape architecture  Search this

Gardens -- United States  Search this

Gardens -- Spain  Search this

Gardens -- Scotland  Search this

Genre/Form:

Plans (drawings)

Brochures

Articles

Correspondence

Clippings

Lantern slides

Slides (photographs)

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb617385372-1028-4cb7-b07d-04fea2e51c47

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aag-gca

Creator:

National Museum of the American Indian  Search this

Type:

Symposia

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2013-11-19T16:21:34.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Native Americans;American Indians  Search this

See more by:

SmithsonianNMAI

Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

YouTube Channel:

SmithsonianNMAI

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_fLkAhs6FhmE

Creator:

Mason, Alice Trumbull, 1904-1971  Search this

Names:

American Abstract Artists  Search this

Kelpe, Paul, 1902-1985  Search this

Lassaw, Ibram, 1913-2003 -- Photographs  Search this

Extent:

1.3 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Sketchbooks

Poetry

Date:

1921-1977

Summary:

The papers of abstract artist Alice Trumbull Mason date from 1921 to 1977 and measure 1.3 linear feet. The collection documents her career as a painter, particularly her role as one of the founders of the American Abstract Artists group, through biographical materials; correspondence with family, friends, fellow artists, art galleries, museums, and organizations; writings and notes, including notebooks of poetry and other creative writings; a small amount of printed material; photographs of Mason, friends, and her artwork; and original artwork, including five sketchbooks.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of abstract artist Alice Trumbull Mason date from 1921 to 1977 and measure 1.3 linear feet. The collection documents her career as a painter, particularly her role as one of the founders of the American Abstract Artists group, through biographical materials; correspondence with family, friends, fellow artists, art galleries, museums, and organizations; writings and notes, including notebooks of poetry and other creative writings; a small amount of printed material; photographs of Mason, friends, and her artwork; and original artwork, including five sketchbooks.

Biographical material consists of resumes, passports, exhibition files, as well as documentation of her membership and active participation in art organizations, including her work as an officer in the American Abstract Artists group. Also found here are scattered personal financial and legal records. Personal and professional correspondence is with family members, including many detailed letters between her and her husband Warwood, fellow artists, including Paul Kelpe, art organizations, curators, museums, galleries, and others. Professional correspondence generally discusses selection of exhibition and awards, sale of artwork, and art events. Writings and notes, mostly from the 1920s and 1930s, consist of Mason's notes on art history and her creative writings, including poetry and "abstract writing." Also found are a few writings about abstract art and various notes and lists.

Printed material includes news clippings on topics of interest to Mason, and other miscellaneous items such as brochures, and exhibition announcements. Photographs include several portraits of Mason with her artwork, photographs of friends including artist Ibram Lassaw, photographs of an American Abstract Artists exhibition, and artwork by her and others. Original artwork found in this collection includes five sketchbooks belonging to Mason, including two that document her travels through Greece and Italy, and other loose drawings.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into 6 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1925-1968 (Box 1, OV 3; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1922-1977 (Box 1; 0.4 linear feet)

Series 3: Writings and Notes, 1921-1965 (Box 1; 6 folders)

Series 4: Printed Material, 1936-1974 (Box 1; 2 folders)

Series 5: Photographs, 1920s-1967 (Box 1, OV 3; 5 folders)

Series 6: Artwork, 1924-1963 (Box 1-2, OV 3; 0.4 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Alice Trumbull Mason was born in 1904 in Litchfield, Connecticut. Her mother, Anne Leavenworth Train, was an accomplished artist before she met Alice's father, William Trumbull, a descendent of the Revolutionary War era painter, John Trumbull. Alice spent much of her childhood in Europe with her family. From 1921 to 1922 they lived in Florence and Rome where she studied at the British Academy. In 1923 she continued her studies with painter Charles W. Hawthorne at the National Academy of Design in New York and from 1927 to 1928 attended courses at the Grand Central Art Galleries taught by Arshile Gorky. Gorky inspired her interest in abstract painting, and Mason painted her first non-objective works in 1929. In 1928 she returned to Italy and Greece and was greatly influenced by ancient art, Byzantium, and Italian primitives. She married Warwood Mason, a merchant seaman, in 1930 and her daughter Emily was born in 1932 and her son Jonathan in 1933. During this period she stopped painting and devoted her creative energy to writing poetry inspired by American avant-garde writers.

Mason began painting again in 1934 and was recognized as a key figure of American abstraction. In 1935 she met and became close friends with fellow artist Ibram Lassaw, and they, along with several other artists, began to meet on a regular basis which led to the first American Abstract Artists group exhibition in 1937. Mason remained very active in the group and served as treasurer in 1939, secretary from 1940 to 1945, and president from 1959 to 1963. She was also an activist for abstract art, protesting the decisions of the Museum of Modern Art several times for excluding abstract artists from exhibitions. During the 1940s her paintings and concept of "architectural abstraction" was influenced by the arrival of Piet Mondrian in New York. Also in the 1940s she had two one-woman shows, but throughout her career she felt there was a bias against women in the New York art world and most often she participated in AAA group shows. Her work would be viewed as an important bridge for future abstract and conceptualist artists. In 1958 her son died, and though she continued to paint and participate in exhibitions, she never recovered from this tragedy and in the late 1960s withdrew into seclusion until her death in 1971.

Related Material:

Also found in the Archives of American Art is a collection of interviews by Ruth Bowman of members of the American Abstract Artists group conducted between 1963-1965, that includes an interview with Alice Trumbull Mason. The Archives of American Art also houses 2.3 linear feet of the records of the American Abstract Artists group.

Separated Material:

A portion of the material donated by Alice Trumbull Mason in 1969 relating to her involvement with the American Abstract Artists was separated and filed with the American Abstract Artists records at the Archives of American Art. Files of news clippings and exhibition catalogs were transferred to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery Library after microfilming.

Provenance:

A portion of this collection was donated by Alice Trumbull Mason in 1969. Additional material was donated from 1972 to 1977 by Mason's daughter, Emily Mason Kahn.

Restrictions:

The collection is partially microfilmed. Use of material not microfilmed 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:

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

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Women authors  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Sketchbooks

Poetry

Citation:

Alice Trumbull Mason papers, 1921-1977. 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.masoalic

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Alice Trumbull Mason papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw95e72c55c-ce27-48d3-a5d7-2904106402d0

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-masoalic

Collection Creator:

Mason, Alice Trumbull, 1904-1971  Search this

Extent:

(Box 1-2, OV 3; 0.4 linear feet)

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1924-1963

Scope and Contents note:

Artwork by Alice Trumbull Mason includes loose drawings and five sketchbooks, most of which date from the 1920s when she was studying painting and traveling in Europe. Loose drawings are of her family, various abstract images, architecture, landscapes, and other studies. A sketchbook dating from circa 1925 to 1928 includes portraits, seated figures, and anatomy drawings. Two sketchbooks dating from 1928 to 1929 document her trips to Italy and Greece, and include descriptions and dates for each drawing. Other sketchbooks from the 1920s include various sketches similar to those found in the loose drawings. This series also includes a signed etching by Mason's friend Letterio Calapai and a small painting by her granddaughter, Cecily Kahn.

Arrangement note:

Microfilm reel and frame numbers are noted at folder headings.

Collection Restrictions:

The collection is partially microfilmed. Use of material not microfilmed 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:

Alice Trumbull Mason papers, 1921-1977. 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.masoalic, Series 6

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Alice Trumbull Mason papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9432e4e55-30cc-44b1-ae62-a818446da347

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-masoalic-ref63

Creator:

Meiere, M. Hildreth, d. 1961  Search this

Names:

Exposition internationale (1937 : Paris, France)  Search this

New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Peter A. Juley & Son  Search this

United States. Navy  Search this

Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991  Search this

Dunn, Louise Meière  Search this

Extent:

27.3 Linear feet

1.4 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Transcripts

Video recordings

Photographs

Diaries

Sketchbooks

Place:

Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939

Date:

1901-2011

bulk 1911-1960

Summary:

The papers of Hildreth Meière measure 27.3 linear feet and 1.40 GB and date from 1901 to 2011, with the bulk of material dating from 1911 to 1960. The collection documents Meière's life and travels, and her long and prolific career as an architectural muralist through biographical material, correspondence, writings, thirteen diaries, files regarding her war relief work during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, printed and digital materials, extensive photographs and slides, eight sketchbooks, and two videocassettes and 93 reels of motion picture film documenting her travels, her volunteer efforts in Spain following the civil war, artwork, and home movies.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of Hildreth Meière measure 27.3 linear feet and 1.40 GB and date from 1901 to 2011, with the bulk of material dating from 1911 to 1960. The collection documents Meière's life and travels, and her long and prolific career as an architectural muralist through biographical material, correspondence, writings, thirteen diaries, files regarding her war relief work during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, printed and digital materials, extensive photographs and slides, eight sketchbooks, and two videocassettes and 93 reels of motion picture film documenting her travels, her volunteer efforts in Spain following the civil war, artwork, and home movies.

Biographical material includes an autobiographical narrative written by Meière, her many awards and certificates, membership information, passports, her U.S. Navy service records from World War I, documentation of her brief marriage and family genealogy, obituaries, and memorial service documentation. Also found are extensive writings and research conducted by Meière's daughter, Louise Meière Dunn, which include a complete list of Meière's commissions, detailed biographical narratives, and records of Meière's works held elsewhere.

The papers contain Meière's personal and family correspondence, travel correspondence, and business correspondence regarding professional activities. Much of the correspondence with family and friends was written during Meière's extensive travels over the world. Both family and travel correspondence have extensive indexes, summaries, and in some cases, transcripts prepared by Meière's daughter, Louise Meière Dunn. Some of the indexes, summaries and transcripts are digital. Writings include poetry and diaries kept during childhood and school years, travel diaries, essays and talks written about Meière's work, writings Meière prepared for committees of the National Mural Painters Association, and detailed travelogues of her trips to Constantinople and the Balkans in 1933, to Russia in 1936, her "Grand Tour" to Australia, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and Europe in 1952-1953, and her "Holy Land" tour of the Middle East in 1954.

Civilian War Service Records document Meière's efforts at war relief organization during and after the Spanish Civil War and during World War II. The Spanish Civil War files include extensive photographs provided by the Spanish government as well as three motion picture films documenting refugees and damaged architecture and public artwork shot by Meière during a trip sponsored by Franco's government. World War II activities concern Meière's efforts to organize artists in the United States to design and execute murals and other works of public art at military facilities around the U.S.

Travel records include maps, ephemera, slides, and 83 motion picture films taken on trips abroad between 1933 and 1958. Trips include Eastern and Western Europe, the Mediterranean Region and the Middle East, South America, Mexico and Guatemala, India, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, and the UK. The motion picture films are mostly shot in Kodachrome color and many contain intertitles prepared by Meière to identify locations for travel lectures.

Printed materials consist primarily of clippings and publications that reference Meière's work, contain profiles of her, or contain published writings by her. A single published educational film is also found, given to her by an Australian filmmaker friend. Additional photographs, digital photographs and moving images include personal photographs of Meière, with portraits by Peter A. Juley and Sons and Berenice Abbott, photographs of many of her commissioned works, and a few photographs of artwork by others. Home movies show Meière with friends in 1926 and 1940. Among the photographic documentation of artworks by Meière and others are motion picture films of the 1939 New York World's Fair, the D.C. Municipal Building Frieze, and the 1937 Paris Fair; also found are 311 lantern slides and 201 glass copy negatives of her own completed works as well as murals she documented while traveling, notably murals in Norway and Oberammergau, Bavaria, taken in the 1930s.

Eight sketchbooks date to her early years as an art student and artist and include many figure studies, landscapes, and theatrical sketches made at home and abroad.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in 8 series. Indexes, summaries, and transcripts prepared by Louise Meière Dunn that relate directly to archival materials in the collection are found throughout the collection with the material they describe. These indices are particularly rich in Series 2, Correspondence.

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1915-2003 (0.6 linear feet; Boxes 1, 14, OV18)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1901-2011 (3 linear feet; Boxes 1-4, RD19, 0.038 GB; ER01-ER03)

Series 3: Writings, 1904-1960 (1.3 linear feet; Boxes 4-5)

Series 4: Civilian War Service Records, 1938-2006 (1.3 linear feet; Boxes 5-6, 15, FC 28-30, 1.33 GB; ER05)

Series 5: Travel Records, 1933-1958 (12.8 linear feet; Boxes 6-10, 15, OV18, FC 31-111)

Series 6: Printed Material, 1913-1998 (2.1 linear feet; Boxes 10-12, 15, FC 112)

Series 7: Photographs and Moving Images, 1915-1966 (5.8 linear feet; Boxes 12-13, 16, 20-27, FC 17, 113-127, 0.029 GB; ER04)

Series 8: Sketchbooks, 1911-1922 (0.4 linear feet; Box 13)

Biographical / Historical:

Hildreth Meière (1892-1961) was born in Flushing, New York, and had a prolific career from 1921-1961 as an architectural muralist working primarily in an Art Deco style. Meière painted murals and designed for various mediums including mosaic, metal, and stained glass. In 1956 the American Institute of Architects awarded Meière their Fine Arts Medal.

Meière was educated at New York's Convent of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville, the Art Students League in New York, the California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute), and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in addition to pursuing studies in Italy. Her major commissions include the Nebraska State Capitol at Lincoln, the National Academy of Sciences, the Resurrection Chapel of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. In New York, she designed the Art Deco plaques on the exterior wall of Radio City Music Hall; created mosaic interiors for the Irving Trust Building at 1 Wall Street; and provided ecclesiastical decorations for St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Temple Emanu-El, and elsewhere. She also created murals for the Chicago 1933 Century of Progress Fair, and the 1939 New York World's Fair.

She was also an active officer in the Art Students League and the National Society of Mural Painters. Some of her most inspired collaborations were with the architect Bertram Goodhue in the 1920s, and only his sudden death in 1924 put an end to them, although some projects were finished with the successor firm.

Meière died in 1961 at the age of 68. Her work is remembered in several major publications, including The Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meière by Catherine Coleman Brawer and Kathleen Murphy Skolnik, with photographs by Meière's granddaughter, Hildreth Meière Dunn, published in 2014; and the catalog of the 2009 exhibition at St. Bonaventure University, curated by Brawer and photographed by Dunn, entitled Walls Speak: the Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière.

Provenance:

A majority of the collection placed on deposit 2001 by Louise Meière Dunn, daughter of Hildreth Meière. The collection was donated incrementally by Dunn through 2012. Donations occurred 2001-2007, and again in 2010-2012.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

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

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

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

Topic:

War relief  Search this

Travel  Search this

World War, 1939-1945  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Motion pictures (visual works)  Search this

World War, 1914-1918  Search this

Women muralists  Search this

Function:

Art commissions

Genre/Form:

Transcripts

Video recordings

Photographs

Diaries

Sketchbooks

Citation:

Hildreth Meière papers, 1901-2011, bulk 1911-1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the digitization of 84 reels of motion picture film in the collection was provided by The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University through a generous grant from the Ruth Dayton Foundation. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

Identifier:

AAA.meiemari

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw91dab1643-4ed7-41c1-bd7a-196576d7d777

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ead_collection:sova-aaa-meiemari

Creator:

National Museum of the American Indian  Search this

Type:

Symposia

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2015-07-15T18:45:36.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Native Americans;American Indians  Search this

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Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

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edanmdm:yt_WlTLiEhvbXQ

Author:

Malik, Iftikhar Haider 1949-  Search this

Physical description:

xv, 368 pages 23 cm

Type:

Biography

Biographies

History

Place:

Pakistan

Date:

2020

Topic:

Historians  Search this

Muslims--Social life and customs  Search this

Muslims--History  Search this

Islam--Social aspects  Search this

Islam and culture  Search this

Musulmans--Mœurs et coutumes  Search this

Musulmans--Histoire  Search this

Islam--Aspect social  Search this

Islam et civilisation  Search this

Muslims  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

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edanmdm:siris_sil_1147700

Creator:

Langsner, Jules, 1911-1967  Search this

Names:

Art Institute of Chicago  Search this

Art in America  Search this

California Watercolor Society  Search this

Ford Foundation  Search this

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts  Search this

International Association of Art Critics  Search this

Los Angeles County Museum of Art  Search this

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

New York Times  Search this

Pasadena Art Museum  Search this

Santa Barbara Museum of Art  Search this

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum  Search this

University of Southern California -- Faculty  Search this

Adams, Clinton, 1918-2002  Search this

Brice, William, 1921-  Search this

Feitelson, Lorser, 1898-1978  Search this

Feldman, Eddy  Search this

Fogg, Adelaide  Search this

Guston, Musa  Search this

Guston, Philip, 1913-1980  Search this

Harwood, June  Search this

Kadish, Reuben, 1913-1992  Search this

Lebrun, Rico, 1900-1964  Search this

Lundeberg, Helen, 1918-  Search this

Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973  Search this

Perls, Frank, 1910-1975  Search this

Ray, Julie  Search this

Ray, Man, 1890-1976  Search this

Turnbull, William, 2002  Search this

Extent:

4.4 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Articles

Sound recordings

Essays

Lectures

Drafts (documents)

Manuscripts

Poems

Date:

circa 1910s-1998

bulk 1950-1967

Summary:

The papers of southern California contemporary art curator, critic, and historian Jules Langsner measure 4.4 linear feet and date from circa 1910s-1998, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1950-1967. Found within the papers are biographical material; correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues; writings normal="1941"> travel, and works of art; and audio recordings of Langsner's lectures and eulogies given at his funeral.

Scope and Contents note:

The papers of southern California contemporary art curator, critic, and historian Jules Langsner measure 4.4 linear feet and date from circa 1910s-1998, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1950-1967. Found within the papers are biographical material; correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues; writings by Langsner; exhibition files; printed materials; photographs of Langsner, others, travel, and works of art; and audio recordings of Langsner's lectures and eulogies given at his funeral.

Biographical materials consist of an address book and file, committee files, scattered financial statements, and documents related to the Ford Foundation and other foundations, teaching, and traveling.

The 0.9 linear feet of correspondence is of both a personal and professional nature. A significant portion of the correspondence is between Langsner and publications for which he wrote such as Art News, the New York Times, Meridian Books, Craft Horizons, Art International, and Art in America; galleries and museums where he lectured or curated exhibitions including the Art Institute of Chicago, California Water Color Society, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pasadena Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, and the Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor; colleges and organizations where he taught or was involved with such as the Graham Foundation, University of Southern California, International Association of Art Critics, and Ford Foundation; and artists that he worked with or knew personally including Rico Lebrun, William Turnbull, Man & Julie Ray, Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, Adelaide Fogg, and Clinton Adams.

Letters to June Harwood were written while Langsner was traveling in 1964 and 1965 and discuss his travels and their relationship which culminated in marriage in Italy in 1965.

Among the 2.8 linear feet of the writings of Jules Langsner are articles for Art News, Art in America, Art International, Arts & Architecture, Aware, Beverly Hills Times, Craft Horizons, Creative Crafts, Goya Revista De Arte, Yomiuri, and Zodiac. There are also essays, lectures, poems, drafts, notes, jottings of ideas, proposals and published and unpublished manuscripts. There are drafts and unpublished versions of "Painting in the Modern World", and numerous other essays on contemporary art. There are also extensive handwritten notes on his travels, Asian art, European art, and other subjects.

Exhibition files concern "Black and White" (1958), "California Hard-Edge Painting" (1964), the Man Ray Exhibition (1966), and the William Turnbull Exhibition (1966).

Printed materials include miscellaneous flyers, brochures, and news bulletins, and press releases.

Photographs are of people, places, works of art, and exhibitions. There are photographs of Jules Langsner, June Harwood, Philip Guston, Musa Guston, William Brice, Eddy Feldman, Rube Kadish, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Frank Perls, and unidentified individual people and groups. Photographs of Langsner's travels are of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and other locations. Photographs of exhibitions include California Art Club, "Black and White," "California Painters & Sculptors, 35 & Under," and unidentified exhibitions. Photographs of works of art are by William Turnbull, Jack Zajac, Walter Mix, Marion Aldrich, Roger Majorowicz, and Jasper Johns.

Audio recordings include four untranscribed 7" reel-to-reel audio recordings and one cassette tape. The reel-to-reel tapes are of two lectures by Langsner, You & Art/Berlin Party, and of eulogies given at Langsner's funeral by Clement Greenberg, Henry Seldis, Peter Selz, Richard Brown, Donald Brewer, Tom Leavitt, Lorser Feitelson, Sam Francis, June Wayne, Gifford Phillips, and others. The cassette tape is a copy of eulogies.

Arrangement note:

The collection is arranged as 7 series. Photographs are arranged by subject, otherwise each series is generally arranged chronologically.

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1957-circa 1960s (Box 1; 9 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1948-1998 (Boxes 1-2; 0.9 linear feet)

Series 3: Writings, 1934-circa 1960s (Boxes 2-4; 2.8 linear feet)

Series 4: Exhibition Files, 1919, circa 1958-1966 (Box 4; 4 folders)

Series 5: Printed Materials, circa 1960s (Box 5; 2 folders)

Series 6: Photographs, circa 1910s-1960s (Box 5; 0.25 linear feet)

Series 7: Audio Recordings, 1954-1967 (Box 5; 0.25 linear feet)

Biographical/Historical note:

Jules Langsner (1911-1967) worked primarily in the Los Angeles area as a contemporary art critic, historian, and curator. He curated several seminal exhibitions of contemporary art, including the 1959-1960 show "Four Abstract Classicists" featuring the work of Southern California artists Lorser Feitelson, Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley, and John McLaughlin.

Born Julius Harold Langsner in New York City on May 5, 1911, his family moved to Ontario, California in 1922. The family lived on a farm and opened the Paradise Health Resort which was run by Langsner's father, chiropractor Isadore Langsner, and was popular in Jewish and intellectual circles. In Ontario, Langsner became friends with three of the Pollack family sons, Jackson, Frank, and Sanford, as well as Philip Guston, Reuben Kadish, Leonard Stark, and Don Brown as a teenager. Guston, Kadish, and Jackson Pollock were later mentored by Lorser Feitelston which helped to foster in Langsner an interest in avant-garde painting.

Langsner went on to study philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. In the early 1940s, Langsner married and had a son, Drew Langsner. He divorced in 1946. In 1944, he enlisted in the United States Army and served as a psychiatric social worker and psychologist during World War II in the United States.

Art & Architecture magazine was the first to publish Langsner's art criticism in 1948. Throughout the 1950s and 60s his work was published widely in Art & Architecture as well as Art News, Art in America, Craft Horizons, Beverly Hills Times, Zodiac, and others. Langsner wrote extensively about art history in both published and unpublished manuscripts, including Painting in the Modern World which he worked on until his death. Additionally, he taught art history classes at the Chouinard Art Institute and University of Southern California and lectured for a variety of organizations and occasions.

Langsner curated several influential exhibitions in southern California, including the "Four Abstract Classicists" exhibition for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1959 and in whose catalog he and Peter Selz coined the term "Hard-Edge painting." He curated the first full-scale retrospective of Man Ray in the United States at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1966.

Langsner received a grant from the Ford Foundation in 1964 that allowed him to travel throughout Asia, the Middle East, and Europe for a year studying regional art and architecture. He wrote notes on his travels and corresponded frequently with June Harwood, a Hard-Edge painter, whom he married in Italy in 1965.

Jules Langsner died unexpectedly of a heart attack on September 29, 1967, in Los Angeles.

Related Archival Materials note:

The papers of Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg at the Archives of American Art contain a significant amount of writings by Jules Langsner, including exhibition catalog essays.

Papers of Jules Langsner, 1941-1967, are also located at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Provenance:

The Jules Langsner papers were donated to the Archives of American Art in several installments from 1973-1996, and in 2004 by June Harwood Langsner, widow of Jules Langsner. Notes for a lecture given at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1966 and 39 pieces of correspondence were donated in 1982 by the University of California Art Library, Los Angeles, via Librarian Virginia Steele.

Restrictions:

Use of 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.

Occupation:

Art critics -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Art historians -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Topic:

Works of art  Search this

Painting, Abstract -- California  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Art criticism  Search this

Curators -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Articles

Sound recordings

Essays

Lectures

Drafts (documents)

Manuscripts

Poems

Citation:

Jules Langsner papers, circa 1910s-1998, bulk 1950-1967. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.langjule

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EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-langjule