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Creator:

Olinsky, Ivan G. (Ivan Gregorewitch), 1878-1962  Search this

Subject:

La Farge, John  Search this

Sterne, Maurice  Search this

Waern, Cecilia.  Search this

Blashfield, Edwin Howland  Search this

Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart)  Search this

Karfiol, Bernard  Search this

Kroll, Leon  Search this

Clancy, Francis Scott  Search this

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

Citation:

Ivan Olinsky papers, 1900-1962. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Painting, American  Search this

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9224

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211419

AAA_collcode_olinivan

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211419

Interviewer:

Lockman, DeWitt McClellan, 1870-1957  Search this

Names:

National Academy of Design (U.S.)  Search this

Harding, Chester, 1792-1866  Search this

Jewett, William S. (Smith), 1812-1873  Search this

Loeb, Louis, 1866-1909  Search this

Sartain, William, 1843-1924  Search this

Interviewee:

Abbey, Mary Gertrude, d. 1931  Search this

Adams, Wayman, 1883-1959  Search this

Aitken, Robert, 1878-1949  Search this

Albert, Ernest, 1857-1946  Search this

Beal, Reynolds, 1866-1951  Search this

Bell, Edward August, 1862-1953  Search this

Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936  Search this

Brown, Roy H., 1879-1956  Search this

Browne, George Elmer, 1871-1946  Search this

Brunner, Arnold W. (Arnold William), 1857-1925  Search this

Calder, Alexander Stirling, 1870-1945  Search this

Chapman, Carlton T. (Carlton Theodore), 1860-1925  Search this

Clinedinst, B. West (Benjamin West), 1860-1931  Search this

Cole, Alphaeus Philemon, 1876-1988  Search this

Cole, Timothy, 1852-1931  Search this

Couse, E. Irving (Eanger Irving), 1866-1936  Search this

Crane, Bruce, 1857-1937  Search this

Curran, Charles C. (Charles Courtney), 1861-1942  Search this

De Haven, Franklin, 1856-1934  Search this

Derrick, William Rowell, 1857-1941  Search this

Dessar, Louis Paul, 1867-1952  Search this

Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, 1851-1938  Search this

Dielman, Frederick, 1847-1935  Search this

Dufner, Edward, 1872-1957  Search this

Dunsmore, John Ward, 1856-1945  Search this

Flagg, Jared B. (Jared Bradley), 1820-1899  Search this

Flannagan, John Bernard, 1895?-1942  Search this

Franzen, August, 1863-1938  Search this

French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931  Search this

Fry, Sherry Edmundson, 1879-  Search this

Gay, Edward, 1837-1928  Search this

Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934  Search this

Granville-Smith, Walter, 1870-1938  Search this

Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935  Search this

Hawthorne, Charles Webster, 1872-1930  Search this

Howe, William Henry, 1846-1929  Search this

Hubbell, Henry Salem, 1870-1938  Search this

Hyde, William H. (William Henry), 1858-1943  Search this

Jones, Francis Coates, 1857-1932  Search this

Kieth, Dora Wheeler  Search this

Kline, William Fair, 1870-1931  Search this

Lie, Jonas, 1880-1940  Search this

Low, Will Hicok, 1853-1932  Search this

MacMonnies, Frederick William, 1863-1937  Search this

MacNeil, Hermon Atkins, 1866-1947  Search this

McCartan, Edward, 1879-1947  Search this

Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932  Search this

Mora, F. Luis (Francis Luis), 1874-1940  Search this

Mowbray, H. Siddons (Harry Siddons), 1858-1928  Search this

Neilson, Raymond P. R. (Raymond Perry Rodgers), 1881-1964  Search this

Newell, G. Glenn (George Glenn), 1870-1947  Search this

Nisbet, Robert H., 1879-1961  Search this

Olinsky, Ivan G. (Ivan Gregorewitch), 1878-1962  Search this

Paddock, Willard Dryden, 1873-1956  Search this

Palmer, Walter Launt, 1854-1932  Search this

Parton, Arthur, 1842-1914  Search this

Paxton, William McGregor, 1869-1941  Search this

Peixotto, Ernest, b. 1869  Search this

Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926  Search this

Potthast, Edward, 1857-1927  Search this

Prellwitz, Henry, 1865-1940  Search this

Ritschel, William, 1864-1949  Search this

Rittenberg, Henry R., b. 1879  Search this

Roth, Frederick George Richard, 1872-1944  Search this

Rungius, Carl, 1869-1959  Search this

Sartain, Emily, 1841-1927  Search this

Sartain, John, 1808-1897  Search this

Snell, Henry B. (Henry Bayley), 1858-1943  Search this

Spencer, Robert, 1879-1931  Search this

Swartwout, R. E. (Robert Egerton)  Search this

Volk, Douglas , 1856-1935  Search this

Vonnoh, Bessie Potter, 1872-1955  Search this

Vonnoh, Robert William, 1858-1933  Search this

Walker, Horatio, 1858-1938  Search this

Watrous, Harry W. (Harry Willson), 1857-1940  Search this

Weinman, Adolph A. (Adolph Alexander), 1870-1952  Search this

Weldon, Charles D., 1855-1935  Search this

Whittemore, William J., 1860-1955  Search this

Wiles, Irving Ramsay, 1861-1948  Search this

Williams, Frederick Ballard, 1871-1956  Search this

Yates, Cullen, 1866-1945  Search this

Extent:

3 Microfilm reels

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Microfilm reels

Date:

1926-1927

Scope and Contents:

Transcripts and handwritten drafts of interviews of 86 artists and architects associated with the National Academy of Design, conducted by Lockman. Also included are a few biographical sketches.

Interviewees include: Mrs. Edwin Austin Abbey, Wayman Adams, Robert I. Aiken, Ernest Albert, Alonzo R. Beal, Edward A. Bell, Edwin H. Blashfield, Roy H. Brown, George E. Browne, Arnold Brunner, Alexander S. Calder, Carleton T. Chapman, Benjamin West Clinedinst, Alphaeus Cole, Timothy Cole, Irving E. Couse, Robert B. Crane, Charles C. Curran, B. Franklin De Haven, William R. Derrick, Louis P. Dessar, Thomas W. Dewing, Frederick I. Dielman, Edward Dufner, John W. Dunsmore, Jared B. Flagg, John G. Flanagan, August R. Franzen, Daniel C. French, Sherry E. Fry, Edward Gay, Cass Gilbert, Walter Granville-Smith, Chester Harding, Childe Hassam, Charles W. Hawthorne, William H. Howe, Henry S. Hubbell, William H. Hyde, William S. Jewett, Francis C. Jones, Dora Wheeler Kieth, William Fair Kline, Jonas Lie, Louis Loeb, Will H. Low, Edward McCartan, Frederick MacMonnies, Herman A. MacNeil, Gari Melchers, Francis Luis Mora, H. Siddons Mowbray, Raymond P. R. Neilson, George G. Newell,Robert H. Nisbet,

Ivan G. Olinsky, Willard Dryden Paddock, Walter L. Palmer, Arthur Parton, William McGregor Paxton, Ernest C. Peixotto, Joseph Pennell, Edward H. Potthast, Henry Prellwitz, Wilhelm F. Ritschel, Henry Rittenberg, Frederick Roth, Carl Rungius, Emily Sartain, John Sartain, William Sartain, Henry B. Snell, Robert Spencer, Egerton Swartwout, Douglas Volk, Bessie & Robert Vonnoh, Horatio Walker, Harry Watrous, Adolph Weinman, Charles D. Weldon, William Whittemore, Irving Wiles, Frederick B. Williams, and Cullen Yates.

Biographical / Historical:

DeWitt Lockman was a portrait painter, New York, N.Y. He studied in Europe, 1891-1892 and 1901-1902; a pupil of James H. Beard, Nelson N. Bickford and William Sartain; and was president of the National Academy of Design and records secretary of the New York Historical Society.

Provenance:

Lent 1973 by the New York Historical Society.

Restrictions:

The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Topic:

Artists -- United States -- Interviews  Search this

Architects -- United States -- Interviews  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.lockdewi

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw97774a547-8214-4bbd-b71b-7b7b317c6eb4

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-lockdewi

Creator:

Olinsky, Ivan G. (Ivan Gregorewitch), 1878-1962  Search this

Names:

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

Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936  Search this

Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924  Search this

Karfiol, Bernard, 1886-1952  Search this

Kroll, Leon, 1884-1974  Search this

La Farge, John, 1835-1910  Search this

Sterne, Maurice, 1878-1957  Search this

Waern, Cecilia.  Search this

Photographer:

Clancy, Francis Scott  Search this

Extent:

1.8 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 2 reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1900-1962

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence; photographs; sketches; writings; and printed material.

REEL D116: Business correspondence; photographs; catalogs and clippings. Included are personal notes from Edwin H. Blashfield, Frederick S. Church, Leon Kroll, and Maurice Sterne and a long early series of letters from John La Farge concerning the work Olinsky did with La Farge in Boston prior to 1910.

REEL 1007: 309 photographs, including 254 of Olinsky's works, and 55 personal photos, some of Art Students League group and a few photos of other artists. Included is one of Olinsky taken by Francis Scott Clancy, 1915.

UNMICROFILMED: Five sketches of Olinsky by artist friends, including Bernard Karfiol, 1900; 11 letters, 1962-1963, to Olinsky's daughter, Leonore Miller, mostly letters of condolence; an undated list of his works; a recipe for egg colors; a page of anatomy notes; a copy of JOHN LA FARGE; ARTIST AND WRITER by Cecilia Waern (New York: Macmillan and Co.) 1896; and miscellaneous exhibition catalogs and articles on Olinsky.

Biographical / Historical:

Painter; Old Lyme, Connecticut. Born in Russia.

Provenance:

Material on reel D116 lent for microfilming 1963, and donated in part in 1974, along with unfilmed material, by Leonore O. Miller, daughter of Olinsky.

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 -- Connecticut  Search this

Topic:

Painting, American  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.olinivan

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9e8e2640d-986d-4dc6-b88a-9407ff82dd1b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-olinivan

Creator:

Artists' Fellowship  Search this

Names:

Artists' Aid Society  Search this

Artists' Mutual Aid Society  Search this

Helpful Society  Search this

Barse, George R., 1861-1938  Search this

Bittinger, Charles, 1879-1970  Search this

Blackmore, A. E. (Arthur E), 1854-1921  Search this

Bloodgood, Robert Fanshawe, 1848-1930  Search this

Brown, John George, 1831-1913  Search this

Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924  Search this

De Luce, Percival, 1847-1914  Search this

Drake, W. H.  Search this

Ebert, Charles H., 1873-1959  Search this

Emens, Homer F.  Search this

Faxon, William Bailey, 1849-1941  Search this

Fitler, William Crothers, b. 1857  Search this

Freedlander, Arthur R., d. 1940  Search this

Guy, J. C.  Search this

Guy, Seymour J., 1824-1910  Search this

Harper, William St. John, 1851-1910  Search this

Hirschberg, Carl, 1854-1923  Search this

Howe, William Henry, 1846-1929  Search this

Jones, Francis Coates, 1857-1932  Search this

Kinsella, James, 1857-1923  Search this

Kleiser, Lorentz, 1879-1963  Search this

Lauber, Joseph, b. 1855  Search this

Lee, Homer, 1855-1923  Search this

Lippincott, William H. (William Henry), 1849-1920  Search this

Low, Will Hicok, 1853-1932  Search this

Maynard, George W. (George Willoughby), 1843-1923  Search this

Mielatz, Charles Frederick William, 1860-  Search this

Nicoll, James Craig, 1846-1918  Search this

O'Sullivan, John F.  Search this

Olinsky, Ivan G. (Ivan Gregorewitch), 1878-1962  Search this

Phelps, W. P. (William Preston), 1848-1923  Search this

Post, William Merritt, 1856-1935  Search this

Richardson, Frederick, 1862-1937  Search this

Shurtleff, Roswell Morse, 1838-1915  Search this

Smedley, W. T. (William Thomas), 1858-1920  Search this

Turner, Charles Yardley, 1850-1918  Search this

Volk, Douglas , 1856-1935  Search this

Whiting, Giles, 1873-1937  Search this

Extent:

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

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1872-1980

Scope and Contents:

UNMICROFILMED: Correspondence, membership files, minutes, historian's records, financial material, subject files, and miscellany.

REEL 2029: 41 group photographs of artists' outings. Appearing in one or more photos are: George R. Barse, Charles Bittinger, A.E. Blackmore, Robert F. Bloodgood, J.G. Brown, Frederick S. Church, Percival De Luce, William H. Drake, Charles H. Ebert, Homer F. Emens, L. Farragut, William B. Faxon, William C. Fitler, Arthur R. Freedlander, J.C. Guy, Seymour J. Guy, William St. John Harper, Carl Hirschberg, William H. Howe, Francis C. Jones, James Kinsella, L. Kleiser, Homer Lee, Joseph Lauber, William H. Lippincott, Will H. Low, George W. Maynard, Charles F. W. Mielatz, B. Mitchell, James C. Nicoll, Ivan G. Olinsky, John F. O'Sullivan, W. P. Phelps, William M. Post, Frederick Richardson, Roswell M. Shurtleff, William T. Smedley, Charles Y. Turner, Douglas Volk, and Giles Whiting.

Biographical / Historical:

Artists' Fellowship's purpose is to assist artists and their families in case of sickness, bereavement or distress. It grew out of the Helpful Society, founded 1868, and housed in the Tenth Street Studio Building. It became the Artists' Mutual Aid Society, whose name was changed in 1889 to the Artists' Aid Society. In 1925 the Society was incorporated as Artists' Fellowhip, Inc.

Provenance:

Donated 1980 by Artists' Fellowship, via Michael Engel II, President. The original negatives and album of vintage prints on reel 2029 were found in the offices of the National Academy of Design, where the Fellowship at one time maintained offices.

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.

Rights:

Identities of recipients of awards: Authorization to quote or reproduce for purposes of publication requires written permission from Artists' Fellowship, Inc. Contact Reference Services for more information.

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

Topic:

Art -- Scholarships, fellowships, etc  Search this

Function:

Arts organizations -- New York (State)

Identifier:

AAA.artifell

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw973bec7f3-920a-4e1d-a1c3-d226d319e6a9

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-artifell

Interviewee:

Bolotowsky, Ilya, 1907-1981  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Creator:

Diller, Burgoyne, 1906-1965  Search this

Names:

American Abstract Artists  Search this

American Artists' Congress  Search this

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

Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)  Search this

Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors  Search this

G.R.D. Studio (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

National Academy of Design (U.S.)  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

United States. Works Progress Administration  Search this

Yaddo (Artist's colony)  Search this

Albers, Josef  Search this

Browne, Byron, 1907-1961  Search this

Dlugoszewski, Lucia, 1931-2000  Search this

Drewes, Werner, 1899-1985  Search this

Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948  Search this

Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994  Search this

Greene, Balcomb, 1904-1990  Search this

Greene, Gertrude, 1904-1956  Search this

Hawthorne, Charles Webster, 1872-1930  Search this

Holtzman, Harry  Search this

Johnson, William H., 1901-1970  Search this

Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955  Search this

Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944  Search this

Neilson, Raymond P. R. (Raymond Perry Rodgers), 1881-1964  Search this

Neumann, J. B. (Jsrael Ber)  Search this

Olinsky, Ivan G. (Ivan Gregorewitch), 1878-1962  Search this

Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966  Search this

Spivak, Max, 1906-1981  Search this

Vogel, Joseph, b. 1911  Search this

Extent:

197 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Place:

Wyoming

Date:

1968 March 24-April 7

Scope and Contents:

Interview of Ilya Bolotowsky conducted 1968 March 24-April 7, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.

Bolotowsky, a lively raconteur, recalls a host of episodes from his personal and professional life. He speaks of his childhood in Russia and Azerbaijan; the effects of war and communism; the family's flight as refugees into Georgia and then to present-day Istanbul; and his early education with a private tutor and at a Jesuit school in Istanbul. Bolotowsky recalls his family's emigration to the United States by ship in 1923; his first impressions of New York City; and early visits to the city's museums. He relates numerous anecdotes about faculty and fellow students at the National Academy of Design, including Ivan Olinsky, Raymond Neilson, Charles Hawthorne, Amedee Ozenfant, and William Henry Johnson.

He speaks of various early exhibitions of his work, including those with the Art Students League, G.R.D. Studio, and the J.B. Neumann Gallery. He also describes a stay at Yaddo in 1934.

Bolotowsky recounts his participation in the Public Works of Art Project as a teacher of art to delinquent children; later work on the mural project of the Works Progress Administration; the picketing of WPA offices, providing anecdotes about Max Spivak and Joseph Vogel; military service during World War II, first working on a Russian dictionary of technical terms and then as a liason officer with the Soviet Air Force in Nome, Alaska.

Upon his return from the military, Bolotowsky immediately resumed his painting career, and describes his involvement with artists' organizations such as the American Abstract Artists, the American Artists' Congress, the Concretionists, the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, and the Ten; he mentions in these contexts such personalities as Byron Browne, Burgoyne Diller, Werner Drewes, Arshile Gorky, Clement Greenberg, Balcomb and Gertrude Greene, Harry Holtzman, Fernand Leger, Piet Mondrian, and Meyer Schapiro.

Bolotowsky gives an extensive description of his experiences filling in for Joseph Albers for a year at Black Mountain College, and goes on to discuss his subsequent teaching positions at the University of Wyoming (including a discussion of the impact of the Wyoming landscape on his painting), Brooklyn College, Southampton College, and SUNY New Paltz. He devotes great attention to the development of his painting, his understanding of neo-plasticism and abstraction, and his efforts in filmmaking and playwriting.

Biographical / Historical:

Ilya Bolotowsky (1907-1981) was a Russian-American abstract painter in New York, New York.

General:

Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 12 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hr., 37 min.

Provenance:

These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others. Funding for the interview was provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.

Restrictions:

ACCESS RESTRICTED; written permission required.

Occupation:

Filmmakers  Search this

Playwrights  Search this

Topic:

Art and state  Search this

Concretionists (Group of artists)  Search this

Emigration and immigration  Search this

Experimental films  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- United States  Search this

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

Playwriting  Search this

Philadelphia Ten (Group of artists)  Search this

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

World War, 1939-1945  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.boloto68

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ad928b0a-0396-445d-959c-d696af2c54e8

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-boloto68

Creator:

Walkowitz, Abraham, 1880-1965  Search this

Names:

Arms, John Taylor, 1887-1953  Search this

Biddle, George, 1885-1973  Search this

Dunaif, George M.  Search this

Duncan, Elizabeth, 1871-1948  Search this

Eliasoph, Paula  Search this

Haldeman-Julius, E. (Emanuel), 1888-1951  Search this

Kleinholz, Frank, 1901-  Search this

Maria-Theresa, 1896-1987  Search this

Olinsky, Ivan G. (Ivan Gregorewitch), 1878-1962  Search this

Pach, Walter, 1883-1958  Search this

Schapiro, Louis  Search this

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946  Search this

Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919  Search this

Weber, Max, 1881-1961  Search this

Photographer:

Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942  Search this

Jacobi, Lotte, 1896-  Search this

Newman, Arnold, 1918-2006  Search this

Valente, Alfredo  Search this

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964  Search this

White, Clarence H., 1871-1925  Search this

Extent:

2.9 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Transcripts

Interviews

Date:

1904-1969

Summary:

The papers of painter Abraham Walkowitz date from 1904-1969, and measure 2.9 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical material; letters from artists, friends, and art collectors; business records; four interview transcripts; notes and writings; exhibition announcements, cataloges, and other printed material; and photographs of Walkowitz, friends, colleagues, and artworks.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of painter Abraham Walkowitz date from 1904-1969, and measure 2.9 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical material; letters from artists, friends, and art collectors; business records; four interview transcripts; notes and writings; exhibition announcements, catalogs, and other printed material; and photographs of Walkowitz, friends, colleagues, and artworks.

Biographical material consists of autobiographical notes, a citizenship certificate, membership and registration cards, medical records, and address books.

Letters, with scattered responses from Walkowitz, are primarily from colleagues including artists John Taylor Arms, George Biddle, Paula Eliasoph, Ivan G. Olinsky, Walter Pach, Alfred Stieglitz, Carl Van Vechten, and Max Weber, Boston art collector Louis Schapiro, publisher E. Haldeman-Julius, writer Horace Traubel, and dancers Elizabeth Duncan and Maria-Theresa Duncan, the sister and adopted daughter of Isadora Duncan respectively. Individual letters are primarily from the diverse group of notable people to whom Walkowitz had sent copies of his books. Also found are letters from art organizations and museums.

Business records consist of documents concerning the will of art collector George M. Dunaif, letters of acknowledgement of gifts of art work donated by Walkowitz to various museums, and miscellaneous financial material. Transcripts are of three interviews with Walkowitz and an interview with Walkowitz and Frank Kleinholz. Notes and writings include lists of names, addresses, and art work, miscellaneous lecture notes, and writings by Walkowitz and by others. Printed material consists of clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, reproductions of art work, and books by Walkowitz, and by Walkowitz and E. Haldeman-Julius.

The photographs series contains the most significant material in the collection. The majority of photographs are of Abraham Walkowitz, taken by many notable photographers including Arnold Genthe, Lotte Jacobi, Arnold Newman, Alfredo Valente, Carl Van Vechten, and Clarence White. Also found are photographs of friends and colleagues, as well as photographs of art work by Walkowitz and others.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 7 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material 1906-1944 (Box 1, 5; 8 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1906-1966 (Box 1; 0.8 linear feet)

Series 3: Business Records, 1930-1956 (Box 1; 5 folders)

Series 4: Interview Transcripts, 1944-1958 (Box 1; 5 folders)

Series 5: Notes and Writings, 1904-1949 (Box 1-2; 26 folders)

Series 6: Printed Material, 1910-1969 (Box 2, 5; 0.8 linear feet)

Series 7: Photographs, 1904-1958 (Box 2-5; 0.9 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Abraham Walkowitz (1878-1965) was a painter in Brooklyn, New York. Walkowitz was born in Tumen in Siberian Russia, the son of Jacob and Rita Schulman Walkowitz. Following the death of his father, a lay rabbi and cantor, in the late 1880s, Walkowitz immigrated to the United States with his mother and siblings and settled in the Lower East Side of New York City.

Walkowitz began his study of art at the Educational Alliance, at Cooper Union, and at the National Academy of Design. In early adulthood he worked as a sign painter and taught at the Educational Alliance from 1900 to 1906. He managed to save enough for passage to Paris where he continued his studies at the Académie Julian under Academic painter Jean-Paul Laurens. During this time, Walkowitz met Max Weber who introduced him to Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude and Leo Stein. They exerted a considerable influence on Walkowitz's artistic development toward abstraction. Weber also introduced him to Isadora Duncan, whose style of improvisational dance inspired Walkowitz to create over 5,000 drawings and watercolors of her dancing form over the next four decades.

Walkowitz returned to New York in 1907 and laid claim to being the first to exhibit truly Modernist paintings in the United States with his exhibition at the Haas Gallery in 1908. After 1909, he became an intimate of Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery where he became a regular exhibitor along with Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and John Marin, among others. Walkowitz's work appeared in landmark avant-garde exhibitions including the 1913 Armory Show, the Forum Exhibition of 1916, the People's Art Guild showings of contemporary art from 1915-1917, and the inaugural show of the Société Anonyme in 1920.

When interest in the Modernist movement diminished during the 1930s, Walkowitz's career also diminished, but he continued as an avid member and officer in the Society of Independent Artists. In the mid-1940s, he explored the varieties of the modernist vision in the form of an exhibition of 100 portraits of Walkowitz by 100 artist colleagues. The result was widely discussed and was featured in Life magazine in 1944. In 1945, Walkowitz travelled to Kansas to reunite with his colleague, E. Haldeman-Julius, to publish in a series of books concerning Walkowitz's art work. He also executed a series of drawings of the barns and strip mines in the area. But by 1946, glaucoma had begun to impair Walkowitz's vision, leading to his eventual blindness. Also in the mid-1940s, Walkowitz lost the contents of his studio to fire.

In 1963, Walkowitz received the Marjory Peabody Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His work is represented in the collections of the Newark Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Abraham Walkowitz died on January 26, 1965 in Brooklyn, New York.

Related Material:

Also found at the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview of Abraham Walkowitz conducted by Abram Lerner and Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, December 8 and 22, 1958.

Provenance:

Portions of the papers were donated in 1959 by Abraham Walkowitz; in 1966 by Dr. Rosa E. Prigosen, the artist's niece; in 1981 through a transfer of material from the National Museum of American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library; and in 1996 by Howard and Lila Schulman.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment.

Rights:

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

Topic:

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

Painting, American  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Transcripts

Interviews

Citation:

Abraham Walkowitz papers, 1904-1969. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

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

Identifier:

AAA.walkabra

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Abraham Walkowitz papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9e295f1e9-26d2-4039-9bcd-1c3249cbcb00

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-walkabra

Creator:

La Gambina, Vincent, 1909-1994  Search this

Names:

Federal Art Project  Search this

Olinsky, Ivan G. (Ivan Gregorewitch), 1878-1962  Search this

Extent:

0.4 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1925-1973

Scope and Contents:

Two letters from Ivan Olinsky; photographs of La Gambina and his paintings, one of a mural executed in 1937 for the W.P.A.; awards; two notes from Sedrig Dickinson; catalogs, clippings, and a copy of the Annual Magazine of the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School, 1925 which flourished during the 1920's and 1930's.

Biographical / Historical:

Painter, mural painter; Brooklyn, N.Y.

Provenance:

Donated 1976 by Vincent La Gambina.

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:

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

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

Topic:

Painting, American  Search this

Mural painting and decoration  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.lagavinc

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw97e41c2d7-4637-4ef9-9e5c-6281d51ba1a7

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-lagavinc

Creator:

Burroughs, Clyde H. (Clyde Huntley), 1882-1973  Search this

Names:

Benson, Frank Weston, 1862-1951  Search this

Fournier, Alexis Jean, 1865-1948  Search this

Kendall, William Sergeant, 1869-1938  Search this

Lopez, Carlos, 1908-1953  Search this

Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932  Search this

Morgan, Arthur C., 1904-  Search this

Olinsky, Ivan G. (Ivan Gregorewitch), 1878-1962  Search this

Pancoast, Henry Boller, b. 1876  Search this

Parshall, DeWitt, 1864-1956  Search this

Rader, Isaac, 1906-  Search this

Reyneau, Betsy Graves  Search this

Ritschel, William, 1864-1949  Search this

Rolshoven, Julius, 1858-1930  Search this

Troubetzkoy, Pierre, 1864-1936  Search this

Photographer:

Clark, Frank Scott, 1865-1937  Search this

Extent:

23 Items

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1915-1937

Scope and Contents:

Photographs of and letters from artists, and a sales catalog.

REEL D10: A letter from Ann Arbor, Michigan painter Carlos Lopez answering Burroughs's request for information about a painting.

REEL 1817: Six toned silver gelatin photographs taken by Frank Scott Clark, 1915, of artists Alexis Jean Fournier, Gari Melchers, Ivan Olinsky, William Ritschel, Julius Rolshoven and Paul Troubetzkoy, each inscribed to Burroughs by the artist, 1915 and 1916. [Arranged alphabetically on microfilm with other unrelated photographs in Photographs of Artists Collection Two.]

REEL 2787: Letters from artist friends and acquaintances, including a letter from sculptor, Arthur C. Morgan, about a bust he is working on; a letter from Henry Boller Pancoast, 1925, "in receipt of your kind invitation to send my picture to Detroit for your annual exhibition," written on a card with a reproduction of a painting by Pancoast; photocopies of 11 letters received by Burroughs from Frank W. Benson, DeWitt Parshall, and William Sergeant Kendall, all regarding the exhibition of their works at the Detroit Museum of Art; and an annotated catalog of the sale of oil paintings, etchings, watercolors, and drawings belonging to Clyde Burroughs.

REEL 3482: A letter to Burroughs from Betsy Graves Reyneau, undated and one from Isaac Rader, 1927, each giving biographical information.

Biographical / Historical:

Clyde Burroughs (1882-1973) was an art administrator, director, and historian from Detroit, Mich. Director of the Detroit Museum of Art which became the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Provenance:

Donated possibly by Burroughs.

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:

Art museum directors -- Michigan -- Detroit  Search this

Topic:

Painting, American  Search this

Function:

Art museums -- Michigan -- Detroit

Identifier:

AAA.burrclyd

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9d386a5cc-885c-4095-b7e8-ad982eea5c80

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-burrclyd

Creator:

Lawson, Ernest, 1873-1939  Search this

Names:

Salmagundi Club  Search this

Anderson, Victor C. (Victor Coleman), 1882-1937  Search this

Bensco, Margaret Lawson, 1895  Search this

Brown, George E.  Search this

Grant, Gordon, 1875-1962  Search this

Higgens, Eugene  Search this

Lawson, Ella  Search this

Olinsky, Ivan G. (Ivan Gregorewitch), 1878-1962  Search this

Speicher, Eugene Edward, 1883-1962  Search this

Wiggens, Guy  Search this

Williams, Keith Shaw, 1905-1951  Search this

Extent:

0.5 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Date:

1907-1967

Summary:

The scattered papers of painter Ernest Lawson measure 0.6 linear feet and date from 1907 to 1967. The papers consist of family correspondence with daughter Margaret, and between Margaret and her mother Ella Lawson; a dismantled scrapbook containing exhibition announcements, catalogs, and clippings; and a 1937 photograph of a group of artists at a dinner at the Salmagundi Club honoring Lawson along with a photograph of a work of art by Lawson signed by the numerous artists attending the dinner, including Victor C. Anderson, George Elmer Browne, Gordon Grant, Eugene Higgens, Ivan G. Olinsky, Eugene Speicher, Guy Wiggens, and Keith Shaw Williams, among others.

Scope and Contents:

The scattered papers of painter Ernest Lawson measure 0.6 linear feet and date from 1907 to 1967. The papers consist of family correspondence with daughter Margaret, and between Margaret and her mother Ella Lawson; a dismantled scrapbook containing exhibition announcements, catalogs, and clippings; and a 1937 photograph of a group of artists at a dinner at the Salmagundi Club honoring Lawson along with a photograph of a work of art by Lawson signed by the numerous artists attending the dinner, including Victor C. Anderson, George Elmer Browne, Gordon Grant, Eugene Higgens, Ivan G. Olinsky, Eugene Speicher, Guy Wiggens, and Keith Shaw Williams, among others.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 1 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Ernest Lawson papers, 1907-1967 (0.5 linear feet; Box 1, OVs 2-4)

Biographical / Historical:

Ernest Lawson (1873-1939) was painter active in New York City and member of the group of American early modernist painters known as "The Eight."

Born in Nova Scotia, Canada and raised in Kansas, Ernest Lawson moved to New York City in the 1880s. There, he studied at the Art Students League and studied under John Twachtman. He also studied at the Cos Cob Connecticut summer art school before moving to Paris in 1893 to study at the Académie Julian. While in Paris he also shared a studio with W. Somerset Maugham, who is believed to have used Lawson as the inspiration for the character "Frederick Lawson" in his 1915 novel Of Human Bondage .

Lawson returned to the United States in 1896 and transitioned from his Impressionist style to a Realist style, painting primarily cityscapes. Lawson had his first solo exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1907 and won a prize for a winter landscape. Lawson joined the group painters that would become known as "The Eight," whose members included Robert Henri, William Glackens, John Sloan, George Luks, Everett Shinn, Arthur B. Davies, and William Prendergast. These painters protested that the exhibition system in New York was a closed system that did not welcome change and modern style. In 1908, Macbeth Galleries staged the seminal show of the "The Eight."

Lawson married Ella Holman and they had two daughters Margaret and Dorothy. Lawson tragically drowned in Florida in 1939.

Provenance:

Margaret Lawson Bensco donated her father's papers in 1976. In 1985, Lawson's granddaughter Alice Simon donated the 1937 photograph of artists at the Salmagundi Club and the photograph of a work of art by Lawson signed by numerous artists.

Restrictions:

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

Rights:

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

Occupation:

Painters  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Citation:

Ernest Lawson papers, 1907-1967. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

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

Identifier:

AAA.lawserne

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Ernest Lawson papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f68d5450-09e9-437f-ac87-773aae6d648f

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-lawserne

Author:

Cummings, Hildegard  Search this

Andersen, Jeffrey W  Search this

William Benton Museum of Art  Search this

Florence Griswold Museum  Search this

Subject:

Olinsky, Ivan G (Ivan Gregorewitch) 1878-1962 Exhibitions  Search this

Physical description:

32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1995

C1995

Call number:

N40.1.O461 C8 1995

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_561333