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Creator:

Littlefield, William Horace, 1902-1969  Search this

Subject:

Hofmann, Hans  Search this

Kirstein, Lincoln  Search this

Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph)  Search this

Busa, Peter  Search this

Grimaldi, Vincent  Search this

Phillips, Duncan  Search this

Hayter, Stanley William  Search this

Draper, Muriel  Search this

Mayor, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)  Search this

MacLeish, Archibald  Search this

Wheeler, Monroe  Search this

Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts (Provincetown, Mass.)  Search this

New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Club (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Type:

Scrapbooks

Citation:

William Horace Littlefield papers, 1920-1969. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Painting, American  Search this

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

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

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7086

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209219

AAA_collcode_littwill

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209219

Creator:

Cummings, Paul, 1933-1997  Search this

Littlefield, William Horace, 1902-1969  Search this

Subject:

Pavia, Philip  Search this

Club (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Citation:

William Horace Littlefield letters and photographs to Paul Cummings, 1951-1969. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Painting, American  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10334

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213543

AAA_collcode_littwmhp

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_213543

Creator:

Yamin, Alice  Search this

Names:

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

Aach, Herbert, 1923-1985  Search this

Aziz, Barbara Nimri  Search this

Bernard, Frank S.  Search this

Bolotowsky, Ilya, 1907-  Search this

Briggs, Ernest, 1923-  Search this

Brody, Lily  Search this

Bultman, Fritz, 1919-1985  Search this

De Kooning, Elaine  Search this

Fromboluti, Sideo, 1921-  Search this

Ginsberg, Henry  Search this

Glarner, Fritz, 1899-1972  Search this

Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974  Search this

Grillo, John, 1917-  Search this

Johnson, Buffie  Search this

Katz, Alex, 1927-  Search this

Lipkind, Bill  Search this

Lipkind, Maria  Search this

Littlefield, William Horace, 1902-1969  Search this

Mason, Alice Trumbull, 1904-1971  Search this

McFadden, Elizabeth  Search this

Mumford, Daphne, 1934  Search this

Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970  Search this

Oeri, Georgine  Search this

Oeri-Sarasin, Gertrude  Search this

Pavia, Philip, 1915-2005  Search this

Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970  Search this

Schmid, Elsa, 1897-  Search this

Siskind, Aaron  Search this

Teller, Jane  Search this

Yamin, Leo  Search this

Extent:

2 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Date:

1927-1998

Summary:

The papers of painter, draftsperson, and art consultant Alice Yamin date from 1927-1998, and measure 2.0 linear feet. Found within the papers are letters from artists, writers, galleries, and CIGY-GEIGY Corporation for whom Yamin worked as an art consultant. The collection also contains exhibition files, printed material, and photographs of Yamin, family members, and colleagues.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of painter, draftsperson, and art consultant Alice Yamin date from 1927-1998, and measure 2.0 linear feet. Found within the papers are letters from artists, writers, galleries, and CIGY-GEIGY Corporation for whom Yamin worked as an art consultant. The collection also contains exhibition files, printed material, and photographs of Yamin, family members, and colleagues.

The most significant series consists of letter files, which also contain scattered printed material and photographs collected by Yamin, concerning specific individuals and organizations. Represented within the files are artists Herb Aach, Ilya Bolotowsky, Ernest Briggs, Lily Brody, Fritz Bultman, Elaine DeKooning, Sideo Fromboluti, Fritz Glarner, Adolph Gottlieb, John Grillo, Buffie Johnson, Alex Katz, William H. Littlefield, Alice Trumbull Mason, Elizabeth McFadden, Daphne Mumford, Barnett Newman, Philip Pavia, Mark Rothko, Elsa Schmid, and Jane Teller; curator Henry Ginsburg; writers Barbara Nimri Aziz, Georgine Oeri, Gertrud Oeri-Sarasin, and Leo Yamin; and galleries including the Ingber Gallery and the Landmark Gallery. There are also letter files concerning the CIGY-GEIGY Corporation; for Alice Yamin's brother, businessman Frank S. Bernard, and the town of Chilmark, Massachusetts, where the Yamins spent their summers. Even though Yamin's responses to the letters are not included in the collection, this series illustrates the wide range of her friendships and associates in the art business.

Also found are exhibition files containing letters, prospectuses, business records such as loan agreements, clippings, and exhibition announcements and catalogs concerning the inclusion of Yamin's art work primarily in group exhibitions. Printed material consists of miscellaneous clippings, and exhibition announcements and catalogs that do not relate to the exhibition files, as well as miscellaneous booklets, brochures, and a copy of the book American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages published by the Corcoran Gallery of Art which contains a reproduction of Yamin's work. Photographs are of Yamin, family members, and colleagues including Bill and Maria Lipkind, and Aaron Siskind.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into 4 series. Letter files pertaining to specific individuals and organizations are arranged alphabetically; miscellaneous letters, exhibition files, printed material, and photographs are arranged chronologically.

Series 1: Letter Files, 1927-1998 (Boxes 1-2; 1.5 linear feet)

Series 2: Exhibition Files, 1956-1982 (Box 2; 18 folders)

Series 3: Printed Material, 1949-1992 (Box 2; 22 folders)

Series 4: Photographs, 1923-1978 (Box 2; 2 folders)

Biographical Note:

Alice Bernard was born on April 8, 1905 in Paris, France. She was brought to the United States as a child and spent most of her life in New York City. She married writer Leo Yamin who died on January 20, 1999.

Alice Yamin was a painter and draftsperson influenced by Abstract Expressionism. Beginning in 1950, she worked with a carbon medium, primarily producing dramatic black and white works on paper. She was also an art consultant for the international chemical firm CIBA-GEIGY Corporation that began collecting contemporary art in 1959 when it moved its headquarters from Manhattan to Ardsley, New York, a suburb of New York City.

Alice Yamin died on April 4, 2002.

Provenance:

The Alice Yamin papers were donated in 1981 by the artist and in 2002 by Harry Smith, her nephew.

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.

Topic:

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

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

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

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

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Alice Yamin papers, 1927-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.yamialic

See more items in:

Alice Yamin papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9450adfab-29f0-4402-900d-5c3676da8b95

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-yamialic

Creator:

Littlefield, William Horace, 1902-1969  Search this

Names:

Club (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts (Provincetown, Mass.)  Search this

New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Busa, Peter, 1914-1985  Search this

Draper, Muriel, b. 1886  Search this

Grimaldi, Vincent  Search this

Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988  Search this

Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966  Search this

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-  Search this

MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982  Search this

Mayor, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt), 1901-1980  Search this

Phillips, Duncan, 1886-1966  Search this

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

Wheeler, Monroe, 1899-  Search this

Extent:

6.2 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Scrapbooks

Date:

1920-1969

Scope and Contents:

Biographical information, correspondence, photographs, writings, works of art, scrapbooks, artists' and organization files, and inventories documenting William Littlefield's career and a painter, writer, and art collector.

Biographical material includes resumes and awards. Correspondence is with family, friends, galleries, and others, including letters from Littlefirld written while studying in Paris and other European cities. Correspondents include Jean Paul Slusser, Vincent Grimaldi, Stanley William Hayter, Monroe Wheeler, Paul Sachs, Mary Rockwell, Lincoln Kirstein, Duncan Phillips, Muriel Draper, A. Hyatt Mayor, Peter Busa, Archibald MacLeish, among others. Photographs are of Littlefield, his work, friends, and works of art by others. Writings include poetry, articles, essays, notes, a draft for "The Son," a ballet by Littlefield, 1934, and a transcript of a speech by Hans Hofmann given at the Riverside Museum, New York City, Feb. 16, 1941. Works of art include sketches by Littlefield and Stanley Hayter.

Scrapbooks and artists' files contain printed material, correspondence and photographs pertaining to Frank and Isabel Moser, and Mary Peixotto, Herman Heilborn and Alexis Arapoff and others. Organization files include the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, the New School for Social Research, and The Club, of which he was a member. Inventories include works of art by Littlfield and in his estate.

Biographical / Historical:

William Horace Littlefield (1902-1969) was a painter, writer, and art collector in New York, N.Y.

Provenance:

Donated 1971 by Nancy Stiner, an antique dealer who bought the papers, in 1992, by Fred J. Stone who purchased the estate, in 2007 by Peggy Stone, Fred Stone's daughter, and in 2011 by Arthur Hughes, who purchased the additional material from Nancy Stiner.

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:

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

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

Topic:

Painting, American  Search this

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

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

Genre/Form:

Scrapbooks

Identifier:

AAA.littwill

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw94717618d-e843-4ade-8991-d17771a69041

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-littwill

Interviewee:

Thayer, Polly, 1904-2006  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F.  Search this

Names:

Cox, Gardner, 1906-1988  Search this

Hale, Philip Leslie, 1865-1931  Search this

Hawthorne, Charles Webster, 1872-1930  Search this

Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966  Search this

Hopkinson, Charles, 1869-1962  Search this

Littlefield, William Horace, 1902-1969  Search this

Saltonstall, Nathaniel, 1903-1968  Search this

Sarton, May, 1912-  Search this

Van Ness, Beatrice Whitney, 1888-1981  Search this

Wickey, Harry  Search this

Extent:

89 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1995 May 12-1996 February 1

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Polly Thayer (Starr) conducted 1995 May 12-1996 February 1, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.

Thayer talks about her childhood in an upper class Boston family, thriving on drawing in charcoal from casts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, under tutelage of Beatrice Van Ness; her social debut, 1921-1922; a trip in the summer of 1922 to the Orient with her mother and brother where she was caught in the Tokyo earthquake; Philip Hale's method of teaching drawing at the Museum School in Boston, 1923-1924, and, later, privately; Eugene Speicher's urging her to free herself from Hale's teaching; the difficulty of making the transition to painting; and winning of the Hallgarten Prize of National Academy of Design, 1929.

Studying with Charles W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts in the summer of 1923-1924, which countered the rigidity of her training at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston School; travels in Spain and Morocco in early 1929, at the time her large painting of a nude, "Circles," won the Hallgarten Prize; the importance to her of a letter in 1929 from the critic, Royal Cortissoz, urging her to not fall into the trap of the Boston School and become formulaic in her work; her first one-person show at Doll and Richards, Boston, which resulted in 18 portrait commissions; her ease with which she did self-portraits early in her career, but not so later; and her difficulty in holding the attention of portrait sitters.

Studying with Harry Wickey at the Art Students League, who taught her by boldly re-working her drawings for "plastic" values, which Starr quickly achieved; sketching medical operations and back-stage at theatres, which gave her the dramatic subject matter she sought in the early 1930s; her portraits; getting married in 1933 and the affect on her work; and her work at the Painter's Workshop in Boston with Gardner Cox and William Littlefield. She recalls May Sarton whose portrait she painted in 1936, Charles Hopkinson, and Hans Hofmann.

The distractions from painting brought about by marriage, children, acting, an active social life and much travel; her increased involvement in social concerns through her conversion to Quakerism; the simplification of her paintings beginning in the late 1930s and her steady execution of portrait commissions, which took less time; her exhibitions in Boston and New York through the 1940s and the rarity of them after that; being a board member of the Institute of Modern Art, Boston, and its co-founder, Nathaniel Saltonstall; her approach to painting which amounts to seeking the invisible in the visual world; and the onset of glaucoma which has ended her painting career.

Biographical / Historical:

Polly E. Thayer (1904-2006) was a painter from Boston, Massachusetts.

General:

Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 44 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.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Occupation:

Painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  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.thayer95

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9e451ce01-5e1d-4d09-8905-0c0e0d574398

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-thayer95

Creator:

Walinska, Anna  Search this

Names:

Guild Art Gallery  Search this

Avery, Milton, 1885-1965  Search this

Beata, Welsing  Search this

Hacohen, Bracha  Search this

Littlefield, William Horace, 1902-1969  Search this

Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988  Search this

Walinsky, Louis Joseph, 1908-2001  Search this

Extent:

2.1 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Drawings

Interviews

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Transcripts

Travel diaries

Place:

Europe -- description and travel

Israel -- Description and Travel

Date:

1927-2002

bulk 1935-1980

Summary:

The papers of New York-based painter, teacher and art director Anna Walinska measure 2.1 linear feet and date from 1927 to 2002, with the bulk of material from 1935 to 1980. The papers include biographical material, correspondence, writings, travel diaries, printed material, scrapbooks, artwork, sketchbooks, and photographs.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of New York-based painter, teacher and art director Anna Walinska measure 2.1 linear feet and date from 1927 to 2002, with the bulk of material from 1935 to 1980. The papers include biographical material, correspondence, writings, travel diaries, printed material, scrapbooks, artwork, sketchbooks, and photographs.

Biographical material consists of awards, certificates, curriculum vitae, biographical outlines, exhibition lists, passports and other material. There is a partial transcript from a radio interview of Anna Walinska. Also included are limited financial records.

Correspondence includes Anna Walinska's letters to her family from her 1954-1955 trip abroad to multiple countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. There is personal and professional correspondence with friends, artists and art institutions. Notable correspondents include Milton Avery, Louise Nevelson, Beata Welsing, Bracha Hacohen, William Littlefield, and Walinska's brother Louis Walinsky.

Writings consist of Walinska's notes, notebooks, lectures, essays, and a handwritten prospectus for Guild Art Gallery. There is one folder of writings by others about Walinska at the end of the series. There are four travel diaries that describe Walinska's trip around the world from 1954-1955, during which she traveled to many countries, and later trips to locations such as Israel and Trinidad.

Printed Material include clippings about Anna Walinska, group and solo exhibition catalogs, announcements, event invitations, and course catalogs for the Master Institute of United Art in New York City, where Walinska taught painting and drawing classes.

There are three scrapbooks: one scrapbook is about Guild Art Gallery, the second scrapbook is about the Holocaust exhibition, the third oversized scrapbook documents Walinska's career and activities overall.

Artwork consists of two bound sketchbooks as well as drawings and sketches in a variety of mediums from pencil and ink to watercolors and oils.

Photographs are of Walinska, friends, family, artists, artwork, exhibition installations, and other subjects. One album includes photos of Anna Walinska and her travels, along with images of friends and colleagues. The second album includes photographs of Walinska's solo exhibition at Sunken Meadow Gallery (1959). There is also one folder of photocopies of photos of assorted artwork by Walinska.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 8 series.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1927-2002 (Box 1; 11 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1949-1995 (Box 1; 0.4 linear feet)

Series 3: Writings, circa 1935-circa 1983 (Box 1; 8 folders)

Series 4: Travel Diaries, 1954-1973 (Box 1; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 5: Printed Material, 1942-2002 (Boxes 1-2; 0.4 linear feet)

Series 6: Scrapbooks, circa 1929-1980 (Boxes 2, 4; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 7: Artwork, circa 1929-1963 (Box 3; 5 folders)

Series 8: Photographs, circa 1932-1980 (Box 3; 0.3 linear feet)

Biographical / Historical:

Anna Walinska (1906-1997) was a New York artist, teacher and gallery director who traveled widely and is most well known for her paintings related to the subject of the Holocaust.

Anna Walinska was born in London, England in 1906 to labor organization leader Ossip Walinsky and poet Rosa Newman Walinska. She had two siblings, Emily and Louis. The family immigrated to New York City in 1914, and Anna Walinska began studying at the Art Students League in 1918. In 1926, she travelled to Paris and studied art at the Academie de Grande Chaumier with Andre L'Hote. France was her primary residence until 1930.

In 1935, Walinska and artist Margaret Lefranc co-founded the Guild Art Gallery at West 57th Street in New York and gave Arshile Gorky his first solo exhibition in the city. The gallery closed its doors in 1937. In 1939, Walinska was the Assistant Creative Director of the Contemporary Art Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. During this time, Walinska also pursued her own art and exhibited work in numerous group shows.

From 1954 to 1955, Walinska traveled around the world, visiting the capitals and major cities of many countries in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Places she went included Japan, Burma (now known as Myanmar), Pakistan, Greece, Italy, France and Spain. During her four month stay in Burma, she painted a portrait of Prime Minister U Nu and she later became a highly respected portrait artist who painted numerous illustrious subjects such as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, artists Louise Nevelson and Mark Rothko, and many others.

In 1957, Walinska became the artist-in-residence at the Riverside Museum where she also taught and exhibited with other artists. That same year, she had her first retrospective at the Jewish Museum in New York City.

Walinska exhibited widely and often. Holocaust: Paintings and Drawings, 1953-1978, which opened at the Museum of Religious Art at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, is probably the most well-known of her exhibitions and it traveled across the country to several other sites such as the War Memorial Building in Baltimore and Mercy College of Detroit. Works from this exhibition were acquired by multiple museums to become part of their permanent collections.

Walinkska died on December 19, 1997 at the age of 91 in New York City. In 1999, there was a retrospective of her work titled Echoes of the Holocaust: Paintings, Drawings, and Collage, 1940-1989 held at Clark University's Center for Holocaust Studies. The Onisaburo Gallery at New York's Interfaith Center also held a solo exhibition titled Portraits of Faith (2000). Her art is part of the collections at the Denver Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Rose Art Museum, and other museums.

Related Materials:

The Archives of American Art also has the Guild Art Gallery records, which consists of material related to the gallery that was co-founded by Anna Walinska.

Provenance:

The papers were donated by Anna Walinska in two installations in 1976 and 1981. Rosina Rubin, Anna Walinska's niece, made a third donation of material in 2017.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

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

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

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

Topic:

Drawing--Study and teaching  Search this

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art  Search this

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

Asia--Description and travel  Search this

Middle East--Description and travel  Search this

Trinidad and Tobago--Description and travel  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women educators  Search this

Genre/Form:

Drawings

Interviews

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Transcripts

Travel diaries

Citation:

Anna Walinska papers, 1927-2002, bulk 1935-1980. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by Rosina Rubin.

Identifier:

AAA.walianna

See more items in:

Anna Walinska papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9995d1f6a-668f-4e1e-8abe-bb24edfb016b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-walianna

Interviewee:

McDarrah, Fred W., 1926-2007  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Names:

Club (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Littlefield, William Horace, 1902-1969  Search this

Nelson, Cyril I.  Search this

Pavia, Philip, 1915-2005  Search this

Extent:

75 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1971 June 15-July 15

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Fred McDarrah conducted 1971 June 15-July 15, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.

McDarrah speaks of his early family life and extreme poverty during the Depression period in Brooklyn; family influence; his first photographic efforts in the 1930s; his U.S. Army service; going to photography school at New York University; life in Greenwich Village in the 1940s and 1950s; his involvement with rock and roll music; getting his work into publications; the comparison between the "hippie" and the "beat" cultures; working as a photojournalist for Village Voice; his techniques and equipment; experiences covering public events; his philosophy on photography and its uses. He recalls Bill Littlefield, Philip Pavia, Cyril Nelson, and The Club.

Biographical / Historical:

Fred McDarrah (1926-2007) was a photographer from New York, N.Y.

General:

Originally recorded on 3 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hrs., 25 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:

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

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

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.mcdarr71

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ed60be62-eb6b-493b-979d-a7a6781e3289

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-mcdarr71

Creator:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Littlefield, William Horace, 1902-1969  Search this

Names:

Club (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Pavia, Philip, 1915-2005  Search this

Extent:

0.2 Linear feet ((on 1 microfilm reel))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1951-1969

Scope and Contents:

Letters to Paul Cummings, 1964-1969; and photographs of paintings by Littlefield, 1951-1962. Letters discuss Littlefield's efforts to sell his collection of paintings by Leslie Powell, Howard Gibbs, David (Emery Abraham) Forbes, and others; Littlefield's connection with The Club, the organization of artists and writers formed by Philip Pavia in the early 1950's; and his own painting and criticism.

Biographical / Historical:

Littlefield was a painter, writer and art collector; New York, N.Y. Died 1969. Cummings, an art historian, was an expert on drawings and prints

Other Title:

William Littlefield papers (microfilm title)

Provenance:

Donated 1969 by Paul Cummings.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

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

Topic:

Painting, American  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.littwmhp

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f136fced-28f6-4b36-a270-5a96f81f653a

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-littwmhp

Creator:

Tobias, Julius, 1915-1999  Search this

Names:

Littlefield, William Horace, 1902-1969  Search this

Extent:

1 Linear foot

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1945-1977

Scope and Contents:

Ca. 360 letters; photographs of Tobias's work and of him; four sketches; biographical material; exhibition catalogs and press releases; teaching contracts; clippings; and a small watercolor by William Littlefield with a personal greeting. Included are materials relating to New York's East Tenth Street cooperative galleries of the 1950s.

Biographical / Historical:

Sculptor, instructor; New York, N.Y. Studied in Paris with Fernand Leger. Died June 16, 1999.

Provenance:

Donated 1977 by Julius Tobias.

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:

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

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

Topic:

Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- History -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.tobijuli

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw96dc04e99-1971-4467-9416-351133985cc3

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-tobijuli

Creator:

Weinstein, Florence, b. 1895  Search this

Names:

Borduas, Paul-Emile, 1905-1960  Search this

Golbin, Andrée, 1923-2006  Search this

Littlefield, William Horace, 1902-1969  Search this

Motherwell, Robert  Search this

Weinstein, Sylvie L., 1906-1945  Search this

Extent:

0.2 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Drawings

Date:

1929-1983

Summary:

The papers of New York painter and ceramicist Florence Weinstein measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1929 to 1983. The collection provides scattered documentation of Weinstein's career through records including correspondence, biographical notes, printed materials, photographs of Weinstein and her work, and a drawing by Sylvie Weinstein.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of New York painter and ceramicist Florence Weinstein measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1929 to 1983. The collection provides scattered documentation of Weinstein's career and comprises correspondence from Robert Motherwell, William Littlefield, Paul Borduas, Andrée Golbin, and others; biographical notes by Weinstein; printed materials consisting of announcements and catalogs for Weinstein's exhibitions, press releases, and clippings; photographs of Weinstein, her home, and works of art; and artwork by Littlefield and Weinstein's sister, Sylvie.

Arrangement:

Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.

Biographical / Historical:

Florence Weinstein (1895-1989) was a painter and ceramicist in New York, New York.

Weinstein was born to Gregory and Eugenie, immigrants from Lithuania and Russia, who married in 1890 in New York City; her two sisters, Eleanore and Sylvie, were also accomplished artists. After graduating from Adelphi College with a bachelor's degree in English, Weinstein taught high school, held held various other jobs during World War I, and visited France to travel and study French. She attended the Alliance Française from 1922 to 1923 and the École des Arts de la Sorbonne from 1931 to 1932.

In college, Weinstein studied classical and Renaissance art, but was impressed by Georgia O'Keefe's "non-classical" approach after viewing O'Keefe's exhibition at the 231 Gallery. While she spent summers in Provincetown during the late 1930s and early 1940s where she was surrounded by artists, she only dabbled in painting and sculpture and lacked confidence in her artistic abilities.

After the death of her sister Sylvie in 1945, Weinstein took a leave of absence from teaching and spent time in New Mexico. Upon her return to New York she sought to capture the beauty of the New Mexico landscape in her painting. Her sister Eleanor suggested she take a free class led by Barnett Newman. In 1948, she took courses at the Subjects of the Artist School founded by Newman, William Baziotes, David Hare, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko. The school was short-lived, but the experience helped propel Weinstein to retire from teaching in 1951 and focus solely on being an artist. She was initially a painter, but she began exploring ceramics and sculpture in 1969.

Weinstein died in 1989.

Provenance:

The collection was donated in 1977 and 1983 by Florence Weinstein.

Restrictions:

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

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

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

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

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

American studio craft movement  Search this

Genre/Form:

Drawings

Citation:

Florence Weinstein papers, 1929-1983. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.weinflor

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Florence Weinstein papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f9c76310-1e24-4bb6-9c81-903ca8a7489a

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-weinflor

Creator:

Gibbs, Howard Manning, 1904-1970  Search this

Names:

Provincetown Art Association  Search this

Barrie, Erwin S., 1886-1983  Search this

Brouillette, Gilbert, 1906-1970  Search this

Littlefield, William Horace, 1902-1969  Search this

Messer, Thomas M.  Search this

Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003  Search this

Pezzati, Pietro, 1902-1993  Search this

Price, Vincent, 1911-1993  Search this

Extent:

2.2 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 1 reel))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sketchbooks

Date:

1904-1975

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence, sketchbooks, photographs, a scrapbook, and printed material.

REEL 1255: A 27 page scrapbook, ca.1930-1969, containing letters and clippings.

UNMICROFILMED: Correspondence, 1923-1975, with Erwin S. Barrie, Pietro Pezzati, Vincent L. Price, Thomas Messer, Dorothy Miller, T. Gilbert Brouillette, and others; 27 sketchbooks; 26 sketches; 1 photograph album and ca. 80 photographs of Gibbs, his family and friends, including William Littlefield and the Provincetown Art Association; exhibition announcements, catalogs, press releases, and clippings, ca. 1929-1964.

Biographical / Historical:

Painter; Boston, Massachusetts.

Provenance:

Material on reel 1255 lent for microfilming 1975 by Margaret Gibbs, wife of Howard. Unmicrofilmed material was donated by Margaret Gibbs, 1975, and by their daughter, Katherine Gibbs Tubman La Fleur, 1976-1978.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston  Search this

Topic:

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Massachusetts -- Boston  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sketchbooks

Identifier:

AAA.gibbhowa

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c8f6fba6-63a0-4908-bf2c-6e870ce7d097

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-gibbhowa