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Interviewer:

Moon, Virginia  Search this

Contributor:

Kang, Min-gi 1964-  Search this

Kee, Joan  Search this

Kim, In-hye (Curator)  Search this

Kim, I-sun  Search this

Kwŏn, Haeng-ga  Search this

Mok, Su-hyŏn  Search this

Bae, Wonjung  Search this

Han, Julia H  Search this

Joo, Ellen  Search this

Kim, Yejin  Search this

Kim, Youngin Arial  Search this

Park, Hyesung  Search this

Interviewee:

No, Nora 1928-  Search this

Host institution:

Los Angeles County Museum of Art  Search this

Sponsoring body:

Kungnip Hyŏndae Misulgwan  Search this

Physical description:

327 pages illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) 30 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Exhibition catalogs

Place:

Korea

Date:

2022

20th century

21st century

Topic:

Art, Korean  Search this

ART / General  Search this

Artists  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1161239

Medium:

Silver and gold

Dimensions:

H x W: 27.8 x 10.5 cm (10 15/16 x 4 1/8 in)

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

India

Date:

ca. 1775 -- 1800

Period:

Mughal dynasty

Topic:

peacock  Search this

Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1858)  Search this

India  Search this

South Asian and Himalayan Art  Search this

Credit Line:

Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

Accession Number:

F1990.1

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Related Online Resources:

Google Cultural Institute

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

On View:

Freer Gallery 01: Body Image: Arts of the Indian Subcontinent

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye36401c458-d8ad-4e93-9e2a-20a5fd94be89

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:fsg_F1990.1

Artist:

Albert Jenks, 1830? - 1901  Search this

Former attribution:

C. J. Jenks, 1830 - 1901  Search this

Sitter:

Guilford Wiley Wells, 14 Feb 1840 - 21 Mar 1909  Search this

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

55 15/16 x 38 1/8 in. (142.08 x 96.84 cm)

Type:

Painting

Date:

c. 1886

Topic:

Printed Material\Book  Search this

Home Furnishings\Furniture\Table  Search this

Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair\Armchair  Search this

Home Furnishings\Furniture\Bookcase  Search this

Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache  Search this

Costume\Jewelry\Chain  Search this

Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Beard  Search this

Costume\Jewelry\Cufflinks  Search this

Guilford Wiley Wells: Male  Search this

Guilford Wiley Wells: Law and Crime\Lawyer  Search this

Guilford Wiley Wells: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Colonel  Search this

Guilford Wiley Wells: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Mississippi  Search this

Guilford Wiley Wells: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War army officer  Search this

Guilford Wiley Wells: Politics and Government\Diplomat  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Object number:

28.18.1 LACMA

Restrictions & Rights:

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Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4bebf1f5d-226d-4236-bed4-5453d097e451

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_28.18.1_LACMA

Artist:

Unidentified Artist  Search this

Other attribution:

Gilbert Stuart, 3 Dec 1755 - 9 Jul 1828  Search this

Sitter:

Martin Kinsley, 1754 - 1835  Search this

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

74cm x 62cm (29 1/8" x 24 7/16"), Sight

Type:

Painting

Date:

1795?

Topic:

Martin Kinsley: Male  Search this

Martin Kinsley: Politics and Government\Congressman  Search this

Martin Kinsley: Law and Crime\Judge  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Object number:

40.12.28

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm44ecb2b5e-8891-43d0-94d1-3e25829fe4dd

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_40.12.28

Artist:

Charles Loring Elliott, 12 Oct 1812 - 25 Aug 1868  Search this

Possibly:

William Kellogg, 1814 - 1872  Search this

Medium:

Oil on board

Dimensions:

84.5cm x 67cm (33 1/4" x 26 3/8"), Sight

Type:

Painting

Date:

c. 1850

Topic:

William Kellogg: Male  Search this

William Kellogg: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Illinois  Search this

William Kellogg: Law and Crime\Judge\Justice\State Supreme Court Justice\Chief Justice of State Supreme Court\Nebraska Territory  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Object number:

43.2

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4ed907725-9c4b-4ac0-a931-efbb1cc03295

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_43.2

Artist:

William Morris Hunt, 31 Mar 1824 - 8 Sep 1879  Search this

Sitter:

Edward Wheelwright, 1824 - 1900  Search this

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

54.5cm x 44cm (21 7/16" x 17 5/16"), Sight

Type:

Painting

Date:

1857

Topic:

Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache  Search this

Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Beard  Search this

Edward Wheelwright: Visual Arts\Artist  Search this

Edward Wheelwright: Male  Search this

Edward Wheelwright: Law and Crime\Lawyer  Search this

Edward Wheelwright: Literature\Writer\Art  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Object number:

51.5 LACMA

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Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4bbba3bca-766d-41b2-8b0d-4c9b9c5ca787

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_51.5_LACMA

Artist:

Thomas Ball, 3 Jun 1819 - 11 Dec 1911  Search this

Sitter:

Henry Clay, 12 Apr 1777 - 29 Jun 1852  Search this

Medium:

Bronze

Dimensions:

76.2cm (30") high

Type:

Sculpture

Date:

modeled 1858

Topic:

Printed Material\Document  Search this

Architecture\Column  Search this

Henry Clay: Male  Search this

Henry Clay: Law and Crime\Lawyer  Search this

Henry Clay: Politics and Government\Presidential candidate  Search this

Henry Clay: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Speaker of the House  Search this

Henry Clay: Politics and Government\Cabinet member\Secretary of State  Search this

Henry Clay: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Kentucky  Search this

Henry Clay: Politics and Government\State Legislator\Kentucky  Search this

Henry Clay: Politics and Government\US Senator\Kentucky  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Object number:

M.86.117.1 LACMA

Restrictions & Rights:

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GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm49fb94386-c912-4b98-b070-658efcf0ee78

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_M.86.117.1_LACMA

Artist:

Thomas Ball, 3 Jun 1819 - 11 Dec 1911  Search this

Sitter:

Daniel Webster, 18 Jan 1782 - 24 Oct 1852  Search this

Medium:

Bronze

Dimensions:

75.6cm (29 3/4") high

Type:

Sculpture

Date:

modeled 1853

Topic:

Printed Material\Book  Search this

Daniel Webster: Male  Search this

Daniel Webster: Law and Crime\Lawyer  Search this

Daniel Webster: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Massachusetts  Search this

Daniel Webster: Politics and Government\Cabinet member\Secretary of State  Search this

Daniel Webster: Politics and Government\US Senator\Massachusetts  Search this

Daniel Webster: Politics and Government\US Congressman\New Hampshire  Search this

Daniel Webster: Education and Scholarship\Orator  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Object number:

M.86.117.2 LACMA

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm49dbe5645-6bcd-4b7e-aed0-7263883eead3

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_M.86.117.2_LACMA

Artist:

William Page, Jan 1811 - 30 Sep 1885  Search this

Sitter:

Charles Sumner, 6 Jan 1811 - 11 Mar 1874  Search this

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

30 1/8 x 25 in. (76.5 x 63.5 cm)

Type:

Painting

Date:

1874

Topic:

Charles Sumner: Male  Search this

Charles Sumner: Law and Crime\Lawyer  Search this

Charles Sumner: Politics and Government\Statesman  Search this

Charles Sumner: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Lecturer  Search this

Charles Sumner: Politics and Government\US Senator\Massachusetts  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Object number:

M.90.124 LACMA

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GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4ea0dabec-a617-497f-a692-65802a20ad85

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_M.90.124_LACMA

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2009-11-19T07:01:26.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

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Data Source:

Smithsonian Institution

YouTube Channel:

SmithsonianVideos

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_PYRnH-DmO7E

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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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_qq_lMrQEYfY

Creator:

Davis, Gene, 1920-1985  Search this

Names:

White House (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Baro, Gene  Search this

Colby, Carl  Search this

Davis, Douglas  Search this

Davis, Florence  Search this

Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994  Search this

McGowin, Ed, 1938-  Search this

Naifeh, Steven, 1952-  Search this

Nordland, Gerald  Search this

North, Percy, 1945-  Search this

Seitz, William C. (William Chapin)  Search this

Thomas, Alma  Search this

Wall, Donald  Search this

Extent:

17.7 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound recordings

Transcripts

Photographs

Interviews

Video recordings

Date:

1920-2000

bulk 1942-1990

Summary:

The papers of the artist Gene Davis measure 17.7 linear feet and date from 1920-2000, with the bulk of materials dating from 1942-1990. Papers document Davis's personal life and his career as an artist and educator, as well as his career as a journalist in the 1940s and 1950s, through biographical materials, correspondence, interviews, business records, estate records, writings by and about Gene Davis, printed materials concerning Davis's art career, personal and art-related photographs, and artwork by Davis and others.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of the artist Gene Davis measure 17.7 linear feet and date from 1920-2000, with the bulk of materials dating from 1942-1990. Papers document Davis's personal life and his career as an artist and educator, and to a lesser degree his early career as a journalist in the 1940s and 1950s, through biographical materials, correspondence, interviews, business records, estate records, writings by and about Gene Davis, printed materials concerning Davis's art career, personal and art-related photographs, and artwork by Davis and others.

Biographical materials include birth and death certificates, awards, biographical narratives by Gene Davis and others, CVs, résumés, personal documents from Davis's family and childhood, documents related to his work as a White House correspondent, documentation related to his death and memorial service, and papers for the family pets. A video documentary about Davis by Carl Colby is found on one videocassette.

Correspondence is mainly of a professional nature, and correspondents include gallery and museum curators, private art collectors, publishers, fellow artists, art educators, academics, and students. Letters document exhibitions, sales, book projects, teaching jobs, visits to studios, local art community events in the Washington, D.C. area, and other projects. Significant correspondents include Gene Baro, Douglas Davis, Clement Greenberg, Gerald Nordland, William Seitz, Alma Thomas, and Donald Wall. Interviews and lectures include sound recordings and transcripts. Many of the interviews were broadcast or published. Also found is a single lecture by Davis given in 1969 at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, entitled "Contemporary Painting." Sound recordings are found for three of the interviews and for the lecture, on 4 sound reels and 1 sound cassette.

Business records include artwork documentation, price lists, sales records, contracts, financial and legal records, gallery and museum files documenting sales and exhibitions, records related to the construction of Davis's home studio in 1970, and a few teaching records. Estate records mainly reflect Florence Davis's efforts to document the works of her husband, and to manage their exhibition, promotion, and sale after his death in April 1985. Estate records include an inventory of artworks, documentation of gifts to museums, correspondence, legal, and financial records. Writings include notes, drafts of essays, artist statements, and articles by Davis, and many articles by others about Davis. Several of Davis's articles reflect specifically on the Washington, D.C. art scene. Also found are drafts of monographs on Davis including one by Donald Wall (1975) and one by Steven Naifeh (1982). Records of Naifeh's book also include photographs of all black and white and color plates from the published book. Among the writings are also notes and research files of Percy North, who worked on an update to Naifeh's 1982 bibliography after Davis's death.

Printed materials include annual reports of museums, published arts-related calendars, auction catalogs, brochures from organizations with which Davis had some affiliation, exhibition announcements and invitations, exhibition catalogs, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, newsletters, posters, press releases, and other published material. Photographs include personal photographs of Gene and Florence Davis and their families, portraits of Gene Davis, photographs of Gene Davis with artworks and working in the studio, Davis' art classes and students, installations of site-specific works, conceptual and video works, exhibition openings, and photographs of artwork, both installed in exhibitions and individually photographed. Found among the photographs are also four videocassettes documenting the Gene Davis retrospective as installed at the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art in 1987.

Artwork includes photographs, drawings, moving images, and documentation of conceptual art. Works by Davis include documentation of the 1969 "Giveaway" with Douglas Davis and Ed McGowin, "The Artist's Fingerprints Except for One which belongs to someone else," documentation of his "Air Displacement" happening, a short film entitled "Patricia," and a video entitled "Video Puzzle." Other moving images include four reels of film of Davis's stripe paintings, and other experiments with motion picture film and photographs.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 8 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1930-1987 (0.6 linear feet; Boxes 1, 17)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1943-1990 (1.7 linear feet; Boxes 1-3)

Series 3: Interviews and Lectures, 1964-1983 (0.3 linear feet; Box 3)

Series 4: Business and Estate Records, 1942-1990 (1.6 linear feet; Boxes 3-5, 17, OV 20)

Series 5: Writings, 1944-1990 (2 linear feet; Boxes 5-6, 17, OV 19)

Series 6: Printed Material, 1942-1990 (5.5 linear feet; Boxes 7-11, 17-18, OV 20, FC 35-37)

Series 7: Photographs, 1920-2000 (3.8 linear feet; Boxes 11-15, 17, OV 19)

Series 8: Artwork, 1930-1985 (2.2 linear feet; Boxes 15-16, 18, FC 21-34)

Biographical / Historical:

Gene Davis (1920-1985) was a Washington, D.C.-based artist and educator who worked in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, collage, video, light sculpture, and conceptual art. Davis is best known for his vertical stripe paintings and his association with the Washington Color School.

Davis was born in 1920 in Washington, D.C. and began his career as a writer. In his twenties he wrote pulp stories and worked as a journalist, reporting for United Press International and serving as a White House correspondent for Transradio Press Service during the Truman administration. Later, he worked in public relations for the Automobile Association of America. A self-taught artist, Davis began painting while still working full-time as a writer, influenced by the prevailing abstract expressionist artists of the time, his frequent visits to the Corcoran Gallery and Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and by his friend and mentor, Jacob Kainen. His first one-man show was held in the lobby of the Dupont Theater in Washington in 1952. He had a drawing accepted in the Corcoran Area Show in 1953, and won several local art prizes in the 1950s. He began showing work regularly in galleries around Washington, such as the Watkins Gallery at American University, the Gres Gallery, and the Henri Gallery, and had solo exhibitions at Jefferson Place Gallery in 1959 and 1961. Many of the painters who made up what became known as the Washington Color School also showed there, including Kenneth Noland, Howard Mehring, and Sam Gilliam. In 1965, the Washington Gallery of Modern Art held a seminal exhibition entitled Washington Color Painters, which included Davis, Noland, Mehring, Morris Louis, Thomas Downing, and Paul Reed.

Davis began showing outside of Washington regularly in the 1960s, including the Poindexter and Fischbach galleries in New York City, and in several important group shows at museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He had three works shown in the 1964 exhibition Post-Painterly Abstraction, organized by the influential art critic Clement Greenberg at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In the late 1960s, he began teaching art classes at the Corcoran School, and spent the summer of 1969 as artist in residence at Skidmore College's "Summer in Experiment" program.

Davis experimented with form continuously throughout his career, including a period of conceptual work in the late 1960s. In 1969 he participated in the "Giveaway," organized by Douglas Davis and Ed McGowin, in which multiple copies of a Davis painting were given away to invited guests in a gesture intended to subvert the art market. Davis also began experimenting with scale, creating a series of tiny paintings he called "Micro-paintings," which were exhibited at Fischbach Gallery in 1968. Around this time he also began working with film and video, recruiting models from his art classes to enact tightly choreographed movement pieces that played with rhythm and interval. Convinced by a lawyer that his videos were a liability without having obtained releases from the models, Davis destroyed all but one of his video works. The surviving video, "Video Puzzle," shows a foreshortened view of a model on the floor of a gallery spelling out a statement by Clement Greenberg at predetermined intervals.

Davis made several large-scale site-specific works using the stripe motif in public places. The first of these was created in the Bal Harbour, Florida, Neiman Marcus department store in 1970. Later works included Franklin's Footpath, executed in the road leading to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1972, and Niagara (1979) at ArtPark in Lewistown, NY, promoted at the time as the largest painting in the world. Interior large-scale works were created twice at the Corcoran Gallery, with Magic Circle (1975) and Ferris Wheel (1982), both executed in the museum's rotunda. Black Yo-Yo was created for the Cranbrook Academy in 1980, and Sun Sonata (1983), an illuminated wall of colored liquid-filled tubes, was created as an architectural feature of the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia. Plans for an unexecuted work called "Grass Painting," for a site near the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., were exhibited in the 1974 "Art Now" festival.

In the late 1970s and 1980s Davis consistently exhibited his work in several solo gallery shows a year, and also had numerous solo exhibitions in major museums. A major exhibition, Recent Paintings, was organized by the Walker Art Center in 1978, and traveled to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1979. A drawing retrospective was held at the Brooklyn Museum of art in 1983, and the same year the Washington Project for the Arts organized an exhibition entitled Child and Man: A Collaboration, featuring drawings Davis made in response to childrens' drawings. Davis died suddenly in April 1985 at the age of 65, and a major retrospective of his work was held at the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art in 1987.

Related Materials:

Also found in the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Gene Davis conducted by Estill Curtis Pennington on April 23, 1981. A transcript is available on the Archives of American Art website.

Provenance:

Donated 1981 by Gene Davis and 1986 by his wife, Florence. Additional material donated 1991 and 1993 from Smithsonian American Art Museum via a bequest to them from the Gene and Florence Davis estate. Much of the 1993 addition was assembled by art historian Percy North at the request of Florence Davis. An additional folder of photographs of Davis taken in 1969 but printed in 2000 was later added to the 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 with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice. 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:

Reporters and reporting -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Video artists -- Washington, D.C.  Search this

Conceptual artists -- Washington, D.C  Search this

Painters -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Collagists -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Topic:

Color-field painting  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Artists' studios -- Photographs  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Transcripts

Photographs

Interviews

Video recordings

Citation:

Gene Davis papers, 1920-2000, bulk 1942-1990. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' Hidden Collections grant program.

Identifier:

AAA.davigene

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw90a230f67-650f-483a-acdf-50b6ca91fe59

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-davigene

Artist:

Thomas Campbell, 1790 - 1858  Search this

Sitter:

Eliza Croghan Griffin Johnston, 1821 - 25 Sep 1896  Search this

Medium:

Watercolor on ivory

Dimensions:

2 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. (7 x 5.4 cm)

Type:

Painting

Date:

c. 1839-43

Topic:

Costume\Jewelry\Necklace  Search this

Miniature  Search this

Eliza Croghan Griffin Johnston: Female  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Object number:

26.1.151 LACMA

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GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm48578148a-261d-4aa9-b730-f234e52be490

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_26.1.151_LACMA

Sculptor:

Rogers, Randolph 1825-1892  Search this

Medium:

Marble

Type:

Sculptures

Owner/Location:

Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles California 90036 Accession Number: 78.4

Date:

Modeled 1855. Carved ca. 1888

Topic:

Literature--Character--Nydia  Search this

Literature--Bulwer-Lytton--Last Days of Pompeii  Search this

State of Being--Disabled--Blind  Search this

Control number:

IAS 02960003

Data Source:

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_ari_352780

Creator:

National Museum of African Art  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2016-03-14T19:40:15.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Art, African  Search this

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Data Source:

National Museum of African Art

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EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_aIckvkkJAws

Creator:

Fine, Jud  Search this

McCarren, Barbara  Search this

Extent:

16.7 Linear feet

0.345 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Interviews

Date:

circa 1968-2009

Summary:

The papers of sculptors Jud Fine and Barbara McCarren measure 16.7 linear feet and 0.345 Gigabytes, and date from circa 1968-2009. The majority of the collection falls into project files, with other series including correspondence, writings, personal business, printed material, photographic material, and artwork.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of sculptors Jud Fine and Barbara McCarren measure 16.7 linear feet and 0.345 Gigabytes, and date from circa 1968-2009. The majority of the collection falls into project files, with other series including correspondence, writings, personal business, printed material, photographic material, and artwork.

Correspondence is mostly professional in nature and is largely from Jud Fine's early career in the late sixties through the 1970s. There is also come McCarren/Fine correspondence starting in the 1990s as well as some correspondence regarding Barbara McCarren's solo career.

The writings series is comprised primarily of Jud Fine's writing practice associated with his earlier career, including notes and journal entries, lectures by Fine, as well as manuscripts for catalog essays and artist publications, an interview from 1984, and writings on Fine by others.

The personal business series includes exhibition files as well as gallery files containing sale and consignment paperwork, as well as daily business of the studio, primarily pertaining to Jud Fine's earlier career, with some documents pertaining to Barbara McCarren's solo career from the 1990s on.

Project files document various public art works and commissions taken on or applied for by McCarren/Fine, as well as solo projects that date before and after their formal collaboration in 1996. These documents include correspondence, contracts, reports, meeting minutes, renderings and other plans, notes, photographic material and research material, some of which is in digital formats.

Printed material includes various promotional materials for McCarren/Fine and solo projects for Barbara McCarren and Jud Fine, as well as a graphic design magazine publication, and a monographic catalog for a Jud Fine exhibition from 1974. Photographic material includes miscellaneous snapshots and snapshot albums, some of Fine and McCarren, in the studio and with artist friends, as well as an untitled album with study images of a strelitzia plant.

Artwork includes a single, unsigned painted work on canvas that has been cut awat from the frame or support.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as seven series:

Series 1: Correspondence, circa 1970-2001 (0.5 Linear feet: Box 1)

Series 2: Writings, circa 1968-2003 (0.5 Linear feet: Box 1)

Series 3: Personal Business, circa 1969-2001 (1 Linear foot: Box 2)

Series 4: Project Files, circa 1988-2009 (14.4 Linear feet: Boxes 2-20; Oversize 21; 0.345 Gigabytes: ER0001-ER0005)

Series 5: Printed Material, circa 1974-1992 (0.2 Linear feet: Box 16)

Series 6: Photographic Material, circa 1970s-2000 (0.1 Linear feet: Box 16)

Series 7: Artwork, circa 1980s (1 Folder: Box 16)

Biographical / Historical:

Jud Fine (1944- ) is a sculptor and educator in Venice, California, as well as former director of the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts. Jud Fine is married to fellow artist, sculptor and installation artist Barbara McCarren (1958-), born in Washington, D.C., and they maintain a studio where they work on projects and commissions both individually and collaboratively.

Born in Los Angeles, Fine received a BA in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara. With a limited artwork portfolio he was lucky enough to be accepted into the Masters of Fine Arts program at Cornell University. Fine's reputation as an artist took hold firmly in the late 1960s and early 1970s, becoming particularly well known for sculpture and mixed media drawings, which established a recognizable style and conceptual framework. He has been represented by Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York City since 1972. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions internationally at institutions including Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Chicago Art Institute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Yale University Art Museum, Museum Stuki, Poland, University of Sidney, Power Art Institute, Australia and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art, Moscow. McCarren received her bachelors of arts degree at UCLA in1980 and would meet Fine during work towards her masters of fine arts at USC in 1986. After nearly a decade of pursuing solo career opportunities including public art commissions, they decided to join forces making collaborative project proposals as McCarren Fine.

As Mccarren/Fine they have executed several works including Waterline a two square block mixed use development in Huntington Beach, CA, Split Mound for the San Francisco Zoo, Mais a 23-acre interactive park in Long beach, CA, Modestopo, the civic center plaza for the City of Modesto and Stanislaus County, CA and both the Central Library and Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles. Beyond public art commissions, their collaboration has extended to their studio practice, with collaborative exhibitions including a 2002 show in Bangkok, Thailand, that was later expanded with new work for the 2005 show, Currency, at Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York. Together McCarren/Fine have completed around thirty public work projects, and numerous studio projects.

Provenance:

Donated in 2022 by Jud Fine and Barbara McCarren.

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:

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Occupation:

Sculptors -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Educators -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Installation artists -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Topic:

Public art -- United States  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Citation:

Jud Fine and Barbara McCarren papers, circa 1968-2009. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.finejud

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c608732e-9329-442c-a514-56242b3018e9

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-finejud

Interviewee:

Hopkins, Henry, 1928-2009  Search this

Interviewer:

Chamberlin, Wesley  Search this

Names:

Art Institute of Chicago -- Student  Search this

Fort Worth Art Museum  Search this

Los Angeles County Museum of Art  Search this

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  Search this

Bell, Larry, 1939-  Search this

Bengston, Billy Al  Search this

Bereal, Edmund, 1937-  Search this

Blum, Shirley Neilsen.  Search this

Copley, William Nelson, 1919-1996  Search this

Cornell, Joseph  Search this

Goode, Joe, 1937-  Search this

Hopps, Walter  Search this

Irwin, Robert, 1928-  Search this

Kline, Franz, 1910-1962  Search this

Miyashiro, Ron  Search this

Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956  Search this

Price, Kenneth, 1935-2012  Search this

Ruscha, Edward  Search this

Extent:

7 Sound cassettes (Sound recording)

90 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound cassettes

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1980 Oct. 24-Dec. 17

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Henry Tyler Hopkins conducted 1980 Oct. 24-1980 Dec. 17, by Wesley Chamberlin, for the Archives of American Art.

Hopkins speaks of his childhood and family background in Idaho; his education in Idaho and at the Art Institute of Chicago; his U.S. Army service as a photographer; the influence upon him of the early abstract expressionists; moving to California and getting involved in the museum community; working as a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and developing its collection of modern works; becoming the director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the value of art appreciation over art entertainment; problems with corporate and federal support; the psychological aspects of Jackson Pollack's work; pop art; the Bay area art scene; and the role of art museums. He recalls Shirley and Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Joe Goode, Larry Bell, Ed Bereal, Ron Miyashiro, Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Billy Al Bengston, Kenny Price, Robert Irwin, William Copley, Franz Kline, and many others.

Biographical / Historical:

Henry Hopkins (1928-2009) was a director of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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:

Abstract expressionism  Search this

Art -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Pop art  Search this

Museum directors -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews  Search this

Function:

Art museums -- California -- San Francisco

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.hopkin80

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw983476ca0-9ab6-40e2-a3bd-d89df10a71ce

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-hopkin80

Creator:

Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this

Type:

Symposia

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2013-07-10T16:23:26.000Z

YouTube Category:

Science & Technology  Search this

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

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Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

YouTube Channel:

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EDAN-URL:

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Container:

Box 31 of 87

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 11-001, Warren M. Robbins Papers

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Warren M. Robbins Papers

Warren M. Robbins Papers / Series 5: Subject and Information Files, 1927-2005 / Box 31

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-sia-fa11-001-refidd1e14629

Container:

Box 47 of 87

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 11-001, Warren M. Robbins Papers

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Warren M. Robbins Papers

Warren M. Robbins Papers / Series 7: Museum of African Art, 1961-1981 / Box 47

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-sia-fa11-001-refidd1e20446