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Naomi Savage Papers on Man Ray

Creator:
Savage, Naomi, 1927-2005  Search this
Names:
Galerie Anderson-Mayer  Search this
La Boetie, Inc.  Search this
Philadelphia Museum of Art  Search this
Prakapas Gallery  Search this
Ronny Van de Velde (Gallery : Antwerp, Belgium)  Search this
Serpentine Gallery  Search this
Vered Gallery  Search this
Zabriskie Gallery  Search this
Duchamp, Alexina, 1906-1995  Search this
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 -- Photographs  Search this
Greenbaum, Theodora S.  Search this
Hunter, Sam, 1923-  Search this
Kimmel, Roberta  Search this
Man Ray, Juliet, d. 1991  Search this
Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988  Search this
Ray, Man, 1890-1976  Search this
Savage, Naomi, 1927-2005  Search this
Serger, Helen  Search this
Extent:
1.6 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
1913-2005
Summary:
The Naomi Savage papers on Man Ray measure 1.6 linear feet and date from 1913-2005. The collection provides an overview of Man Ray's career as a photographer and painter through correspondence, exhibition files, writings, notes, artwork, printed material, and photographs.
Scope and Content Note:
The Naomi Savage papers on Man Ray measure 1.6 linear feet and date from 1913-2005. The collection provides an overview of Man Ray's career as a photographer and painter through correspondence, exhibition files, writings, notes, artwork, printed material, and photographs.

Correspondence primarily consists of incoming letters from art historians, students, publishers, museums, and galleries interested in obtaining biographical information, scheduling exhibitions, or seeking permission to reproduce artwork. Correspondents include Theodora Greenbaum, Sam Hunter, and Roberta Kimmel. Also found is a letter to Man Ray from Isamu Noguchi.

Exhibition files document some of Man Ray's solo and group exhibitions held at museums and galleries in the United States and abroad, including Galerie Anderson Mayer, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Prakapas Gallery, Helen Serger, La Boetie, Inc., Ronny Van De Velde Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Vered Gallery, and Zabriskie Gallery.

Writings and notes include typescripts of unpublished pieces on Man Ray and Surrealist photography and on Juliet Man Ray, miscellaneous writings, and Naomi Savage's list of Man Ray published work. Artwork consists of an artist's proof of a print by Paul Levitt.

Printed material houses news and periodical clippings on Man Ray and Juliet Man Ray, newsletters, reproductions of artwork, and miscellaneous printed material. Clippings provide documentation on Man Ray's early commercial photography for advertisements and fashion magazines as well as his experimental photographic work.

Photographs include portrait photographs of Man Ray and Juliet Man Ray. There are photographs of Man Ray and Juliet with family, friends, and colleagues, including photographs of Marcel Duchamp and Teeny Duchamp.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as 6 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Naomi Savage Correspondence, 1939-1995 (Box 1; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 2: Man Ray Exhibition Files, 1941-1997 (Box 1, OV 4; 0.8 linear feet)

Series 3: Writings and Notes, 1974-1998 (Box 1, OV 4; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 4: Artwork, circa 1963 (Box 1; 1 folder)

Series 5: Printed Material, circa 1913-1998 (Boxes 1, 3; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 6: Photographs, 1913-1991 (Boxes 1-3; 0.4 linear feet)
Biographical Note:
Photographer Naomi Siegler Savage (1927-2007) lived and worked in Princeton, New Jersey. While a teenager, Savage attended a photography class taught by Berenice Abbott and pursued this interest at Bennington College in Vermont. In California, Savage apprenticed with her uncle Man Ray, who was a close friend as well as mentor to his niece.

Influenced by Man Ray's experimental techniques with film, Naomi Savage pioneered the use of the photographic metal plate which produced a three dimensional form with a metallic surface. One of her best-known photographic engravings is a magnesium mural for the Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, depicting the national elective offices held by President Johnson and the various Presidents under which he served. In later years, Savage continued to experiment with the photographic process by using digital cameras, color photocopiers, and computer imaging.

In 1952, Savage had her first exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In addition to the Museum of Modern Art, Savage's work is also in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the International Center of Photography in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.

Naomi Savage was married to the painter, sculptor, and architect, David Savage. Naomi Savage died in Princeton, New Jersey in 2007.

Man Ray (1890-1976) lived and worked in New York and Paris, France and was best known for his painting and photography.

Man Ray was born Emmanuel Radnitsky in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1890. His family later moved to Brooklyn, New York. During this period, the family changed their name to Ray and Emmanuel shortened his first name to Man, gradually using Man Ray as his combined single name. Man Ray attended Boys High School from 1904-1908 where he developed an interest in painting. After high school, he worked as a commercial artist and technical illustrator in New York City while attending classes at the Art Students League, Ferrer School, and National Academy of Design.

Influenced by European artists, whose Modernist works were being shown at the 1913 Armory Show and Alfred Stieglitz's "292" Gallery, and other such venues, Man Ray began to incorporate elements of Cubism in his paintings and drawings. In 1915, Man Ray met Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) and they formed a lifelong friendship and professional partnership. That same year, the Dada group, founded by a Tristan Tzara and other artists in Zurich, Switzerland also took root in New York; Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia were credited for starting the New York Dada movement.

By 1921, Man Ray moved to Paris and became part of the circle that formed the Dada group. He photographed many of the Dada poets and writers, including Louis Aragon, André Breton, and Paul Eluard. Man Ray's work for André Breton established his reputation as a portrait photographer of artists, writers, and other prominent individuals, including George Antheil, Salvador Dalí, James Joyce, Sinclair Lewis, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf. In that same period, Man Ray pioneered the photographic process of rayographs (named after him) and he also participated in the first Surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Pierre.

Man Ray moved to Los Angeles, California in 1940. There he met New York City-born Juliet Browner (1910-1991), a trained dancer and professional artists' model. They married in 1946 in a double wedding ceremony with their friends Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning. In 1951, Man Ray and Juliet Man Ray returned to live in the Montparnasse section of Paris.

In addition to an autobiography, Self-Portrait, published in 1963, Man Ray wrote a number of monographs and articles on photography that included Electricité, a portfolio of ten gravure prints of rayographs commissioned by the Paris electric company, Compagnie Parisenne de Distribution d'Electricité, 1931.

Man Ray received an honorary Master of Fine Arts degree from Freemont University, Los Angeles, 1948 and the gold medal for photography at the Venice Photo Biennale, 1962. In 1967, Man Ray received an award from the Philadelphia Arts Festival honoring its native son for his accomplishments.

Man Ray died in Paris in 1976. Juliet Man Ray survived her husband and continued to live in Paris until her death in 1991.
Provenance:
The Naomi Savage papers were donated in 2007 by Lourie Savage Bates, Naomi Savage's daughter. Naomi Savage was Man Ray's niece.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
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 -- France -- Paris  Search this
Photography  Search this
Surrealism  Search this
Photographers -- France -- Paris  Search this
Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Naomi Savage papers on Man Ray, 1913-2005. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.savanaom
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Naomi Savage Papers on Man Ray
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9179c4f2b-7058-4af9-a236-bf99e296dccf
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-savanaom

Ronny Van de Velde Gallery - "Man Ray, 1890-1976" (1994 September 18-December 18)

Collection Creator:
Savage, Naomi, 1927-2005  Search this
Extent:
3 Folders
Container:
Box 1, Folder 29-31
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1994-1996
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Naomi Savage papers on Man Ray, 1913-2005. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
See more items in:
Naomi Savage Papers on Man Ray
Naomi Savage Papers on Man Ray / Series 2: Man Ray Exhibition Files
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9805525da-6eb0-4d04-8640-40fda7804fa9
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-savanaom-ref39

Serpentine Gallery - "Man Ray, 1890-1976" (1995 January 18-March)

Collection Creator:
Savage, Naomi, 1927-2005  Search this
Extent:
6 Folders
Container:
Box 1, Folder 32-37
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1994-1995
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Naomi Savage papers on Man Ray, 1913-2005. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
See more items in:
Naomi Savage Papers on Man Ray
Naomi Savage Papers on Man Ray / Series 2: Man Ray Exhibition Files
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw903de123a-1b8c-4ca2-ba4b-48d9c1a6b088
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-savanaom-ref40

Man Ray the artist and his shadows Arthur Lubow

Author:
Lubow, Arthur  Search this
Physical description:
1 online resource (viii, 184 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrations (some color)
Type:
Biography
Biographies
Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Place:
United States
États-Unis
Date:
2021
Topic:
Artists  Search this
Jewish artists  Search this
Surrealist artists  Search this
Artistes  Search this
Artistes juifs  Search this
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1157035

Man Ray: artist file, [photographs]

Artist:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Physical description:
1 folder
Type:
Photograph
Artist files
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
Image number:
VFM VF001887
See more items in:
Photograph Study Collection
Data Source:
Photograph Study Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_jul_140457

The Kjersmeier-May Ray vision of African art : the Copenhagen portfolio / Professor Christer Lindberg and curator Jesper Kurt-Nielsen

Title:
Copenhagen portfolio
Photographer expression:
Lindberg, Christer 1956-  Search this
Curator:
Kurt-Nielsen, Jesper  Search this
Collector:
Kjersmeier, Carl 1889-1961  Search this
Current owner:
Nationalmuseet (Denmark)  Search this
Subject:
Kjersmeier, Carl 1889-1961 Art collections  Search this
Man Ray 1890-1976 Knowledge Sculpture, African  Search this
Nationalmuseet (Denmark)  Search this
Physical description:
36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Catalogs
Place:
Denmark
Copenhagen
Date:
2017
Topic:
Sculpture, African  Search this
Sculpture  Search this
Photography of sculpture  Search this
Art and anthropology  Search this
Photography in anthropology  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1090940

Enigma & desire Man Ray paintings curated in collaboration with Andrew Strauss ; with texts by Paul Branca, Ara H. Merjian, Francis Naumann, Erin O'Neill, Edouard Sebline, Andrew Strauss

Title:
Enigma and desire
Man Ray paintings
Artist:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Curator:
Strauss, Andrew 1962-  Search this
Host institution:
Di Donna (Gallery),)  Search this
Physical description:
202 pages illustrations (chiefly color) 31 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Date:
2019
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1114620

Man Ray, 1890-1976 [Folder]

Additional name:
Radenski, Emmanuel  Search this
Man Rei  Search this
Radenski, Emmanuel  Search this
Rudnitzky, Emmanuel  Search this
Contents:
Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs.
Topic:
Artists  Search this
Location:
Art & Artist files at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library
Data source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:SILAF_93938

Man Ray : objets de mon affection / préface de Jean-Hubert Martin ; avec sept textes de Man Ray ; [textes traduits de l'anglais par Marie-Hélene Dufour]

Title:
Objets de mon affection
Man Ray, sculptures et objets, catalogue raisonné
Author:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Subject:
Man Ray 1890-1976 Catalogues raisonnés  Search this
Physical description:
191 p. : ill. ; 31 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1983
Call number:
N40.1.R26 R2 1983
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_389879

Man Ray photographe / introduction par Jean-Hubert Martin

Author:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Musée national d'art moderne (France)  Search this
Subject:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Physical description:
256 p. : ill., ports. ; 30 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Portraits
Date:
1985
1985, c1981
Topic:
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Portrait photography  Search this
Artists  Search this
Call number:
TR647.R26 C3 1985
TR647.R26C3 1985
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_387362

Man Ray & Sherrie Levine : a dialogue through objects, images & ideas / introduction by Marion Meyer ; essay by Larry List

Title:
Man Ray and Sherrie Levine : a dialogue through objects, images and ideas
Dialogue through objects, images & ideas
Dialogue through objects, images and ideas
Artist:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Levine, Sherrie  Search this
Writer of added commentary:
List, Larry  Search this
Writer of supplementary textual content:
Meyer, Marion  Search this
Publisher:
Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery  Search this
Subject:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Levine, Sherrie  Search this
Physical description:
56 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Date:
2015
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1060148

Man Ray's Paris portraits, 1921-39 / Timothy Baum

Author:
Baum, Timothy  Search this
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Middendorf Gallery  Search this
Subject:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Physical description:
[85] leaves : ill. ; 29 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Date:
1989
C1989
Topic:
Portrait photography  Search this
Call number:
TR647.R26 B34 1989
TR647.R26B34 1989
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_381185

Man Ray : Photographien, Filme, frühe Objekte : Kunsthaus Zürich, Schweizerische Stiftung für die Photographie : 12. März-23. Mai 1988 / [Herausgeber, Kunsthaus Zürich, Schweizerische Stiftung für die Photographie ; Konzept und Realisation von Ausstellung und Katalog, Walter Binder ... et al.]

Author:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Binder, Walter 1931-  Search this
Subject:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Physical description:
68 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Date:
1988
[1988?]
Call number:
N40.1.R26 B61 1988
N40.1.R26B61 1988
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_381204

Man Ray : photographies, tableaux, dessins, objets, jeux d'́checs, bijoux, films, provenant du Man Ray Trust = Man Ray, photographs, paintings, drawings, objects, chess, jewellery, film, property from the Man Ray Trust

Author:
Sotheby's France SA  Search this
Subject:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Man Ray Trust  Search this
Physical description:
212 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Type:
Catalogs
Auction catalogs
Place:
United States
Date:
2014
Topic:
Artists  Search this
Man Ray Trust  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1058355

Man Ray / [curators, Judy Annear & Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais]

Author:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Annear, Judy  Search this
L'Ecotais, Emmanuelle de  Search this
Art Gallery of New South Wales  Search this
Queensland Art Gallery  Search this
National Gallery of Victoria  Search this
Subject:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Physical description:
122, [1] p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Date:
2003
C2003
Topic:
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_746151

Non-Western art and revolution in Surrealist photography / Valentine Plisnier

Author:
Plisnier, Valentine  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Ubac, Raoul  Search this
Breton, André 1896-1966  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
2014
Topic:
Primitivism in art  Search this
Surrealist photography  Search this
Call number:
N6494.S8 S87 2014
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1049268

ManRay : despreocupado pero no indiferente = Unconcerned but not indifferent / [comisarios, John Jacob, Noriko Fuku ; edición de textos, Antonia Castaño]

Title:
Man Ray : despreocupado pero no indiferente
Author:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Jacob, John P  Search this
Fuku, Noriko  Search this
Castaño, Antonia  Search this
Museo Colecciones I.C.O  Search this
Subject:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Physical description:
391 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Date:
2007
[2007]
20th century
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Call number:
TR647 .R38 2007
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_902483

Man Ray / introduction by Merry A. Foresta

Author:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Foresta, Merry A  Search this
Centre national de la photographie (France)  Search this
Subject:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Physical description:
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 19 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1989
C1989
Topic:
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Call number:
TR654.R384 1989X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_387238

Man Ray / [Redaktör, Leif Wigh = editor, Leif Wigh]

Title:
Emmanuel Radnitsky
Author:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Wigh, Leif  Search this
Moderna museet (Stockholm, Sweden)  Search this
Subject:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Physical description:
55 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Date:
2004
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_905949

Man Ray : the New York years 1913-1921

Author:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Naumann, Francis M  Search this
Zabriskie Gallery  Search this
Subject:
Man Ray 1890-1976  Search this
Physical description:
29 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Date:
1988
Call number:
N40.1.R26 Z12n 1988
N40.1.R26Z12n 1988
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_384875

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