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Creator:

Taos Society of Artists  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Societies, etc. -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10570

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214046

AAA_collcode_taossoci

Theme:

Communities, Organizations, Museums

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_214046

Creator:

Young-Hunter, John, 1874-1955  Search this

Topic:

Artists as authors -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10596

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214072

AAA_collcode_younjohn

Theme:

American Art and Artists in a Global Context

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_214072

Creator:

Solomon, Hyde, 1911-1982  Search this

Poindexter Gallery  Search this

Topic:

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

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7172

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209309

AAA_collcode_solohyde

Theme:

Lives of American Artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209309

Creator:

Hennings, E. Martin, 1886-1956  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)5661

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)208495

AAA_collcode_henne

Theme:

Lives of American Artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_208495

Creator:

Gaspard, Leon, 1882-1964  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8192

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210363

AAA_collcode_gaspleon

Theme:

Lives of American Artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210363

Creator:

Higgins, Victor, 1884-1949  Search this

Topic:

Painting, American -- New Mexico  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10528

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214000

AAA_collcode_higgvict

Theme:

Lives of American Artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_214000

Creator:

Mandelman, Beatrice, 1912-1998  Search this

Topic:

Women painters -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Painting, American  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10542

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214014

AAA_collcode_mandbeat

Theme:

Women

Lives of American Artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_214014

Creator:

Adams, Kenneth M., 1897-1966  Search this

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this

Subject:

Rowan, Edward Beatty  Search this

Jones, Cecil H.  Search this

Federal Art Project  Search this

Place:

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945

Topic:

Mural painting and decoration -- Kansas  Search this

Mural painting and decoration -- New Mexico  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Kansas  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- New Mexico  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- Kansas  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- New Mexico  Search this

Art and state -- Kansas  Search this

Art and state -- New Mexico  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)5613

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)208447

AAA_collcode_adamkenn

Theme:

Lives of American Artists

Government Sponsorship of the Arts

New Deal

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_208447

Creator:

Dunton, W. Herbert, 1878-1936  Search this

Type:

Scrapbooks

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7607

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209769

AAA_collcode_duntw

Theme:

Lives of American Artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209769

Creator:

Feshin, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich, 1881-1955  Search this

Topic:

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Portrait painting -- 20th century -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9645

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211853

AAA_collcode_feshniko

Theme:

Lives of American Artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211853

Creator:

Egri, Ted, 1913-2010  Search this

Topic:

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10515

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213945

AAA_collcode_egrited

Theme:

Lives of American Artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_213945

Creator:

Fleck, Joseph A., 1892-1977  Search this

Topic:

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Prints -- 20th century -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10521

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213991

AAA_collcode_flecjose

Theme:

Lives of American Artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_213991

Creator:

Benrimo, Tom, 1887-1958  Search this

Benrimo, Dorothy S., 1903-1977  Search this

Topic:

Painting, American  Search this

Women painters -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10499

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213923

AAA_collcode_benrtom

Theme:

Diaries

Lives of American Artists

American Art and Artists in a Global Context

Audio - Visual

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_213923

Creator:

Young-Hunter, John, 1874-1955  Search this

Extent:

1 Microfilm reel

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Microfilm reels

Date:

1907-1984

Scope and Contents:

Young-Hunter's autobiography REVIEWING THE YEARS, (1963); 1 clipping, exhibition announcements and catalogs; photocopies of illustrations by Mary Y. and Young-Hunter from THE CLYDE, London, 1907; and a copy of ARTISTS OF THE ROCKIES AND THE GOLDEN WEST, Summer 1984.

Biographical / Historical:

Painter, portrait painter; Taos, New Mexico. Born in Glasgow, Scotland. Studied at the Royal Academy with Alma-Tadema and Sargent. Came to the U.S. in 1913.

Provenance:

Lent for microfilming by Woodrow Wilson Fine Arts, Inc., 1984, as part of the Archives of American Art's Texas project.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

Painters -- New Mexico -- Texas  Search this

Portrait painters -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Topic:

Artists as authors -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.younjohn

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-younjohn

Photographer:

Moon, Carl, 1878-1948  Search this

Publisher:

Fred Harvey (Firm)  Search this

Extent:

434 Photographs

Container:

Box 1

Culture:

Havasupai (Coconino)  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this

Acoma Pueblo  Search this

Diné (Navajo)  Search this

Tesuque Pueblo  Search this

White Mountain Apache  Search this

Isleta Pueblo  Search this

Hopi [Sipaulovi]  Search this

Kewa (Santo Domingo Pueblo)  Search this

K'apovi (Santa Clara Pueblo)  Search this

Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo)  Search this

Laguna Pueblo  Search this

Taos Pueblo  Search this

San Ildefonso Pueblo  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Photographs

Place:

San Felipe Pueblo (N.M.)

Arizona

New Mexico

Date:

1907-1914

Summary:

This collection contains photographs that were commissioned by Fred Harvey Co. and shot by Carl Moon circa 1907-1914. The photographs depict American Indian communities in the southwest including A:shiwi (Zuni), Acoma Pueblo, Diné (Navajo), Hopi, Laguna Pueblo, and Taos Pueblo among many others.

Scope and Contents:

This collection contains 203 glass transparencies, 2 nitrate negatives, and 1 autochrome (plus 228 copy negatives and copy transparencies) that were commissioned by Fred Harvey Co. and shot by Carl moon circa 1905-1914. The photographs depict the southwest American Indian communities of A:shiwi (Zuni), Acoma Pueblo, Dine (Navajo), Havasupai (Coconino), Hopi Pueblo, Isleta Pueblo, K'apovi (Santa Clara Pueblo), Kewa (Santo Domingo Pueblo), Laguna Pueblo, Nambe Pueblo, Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo), San Felipe Pueblo, San Ildefonso Pueblo, Taos Pueblo, Tesuque Pueblo, and White Mountain Apache. Some images were also shot in Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The photographs are a mix of portraits, posed action shots, and architecture shots. Some of the photographs appear to have been staged by the photographer. There are a few photographs in this collection that may have been shot by Moon prior to his employment with the Fred Harvey Company.

The copy negatives and transparencies were created by the Museum of the American Indian (NMAI's predecessor museum). There are sometimes multiple copy negatives and copy transparencies per glass plate transparency.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into 17 series by culture group or location. Series 1: A:shiwi (Zuni), Series 2: Acoma Pueblo, Series 3: Diné (Navajo), Series 4: Havasupai (Coconino), Series 5: Hopi, Series 6: Isleta Pueblo, Series 7: K'apovi (Santa Clara Pueblo), Series 8: Kewa (Santa Domingo Pueblo), Series 9: Laguna Pueblo, Series 10: Nambe Pueblo, Series 11: Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo), Series 12: San Felipe Pueblo, Series 13: San Ildefonso Pueblo, Series 14: Taos Pueblo, Series 15: Tesuque Pueblo, Series 16: White Mountain Apache, Series 17: Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

The collection is physically arranged first by collection type (transparencies and negatives) and then in photo numeric order.

Biographical / Historical:

Born in 1878 in Wilmington, Ohio, Carl E. Moon (originally spelled Karl) took up photography after serving with the Ohio National Guard. He moved to Albuquerque, N.M. in 1903 and opened a photograph studio where he began photographing American Indians in the U.S. southwest region. After publishing and exhibiting many of his photographs nationally, he was commissioned by the Fred Harvey Company in 1907 to take photographs of American Indian communities in the southwest. The Fred Harvey Company was founded by Frederick Henry Harvey and consisted of a chain of successful gift shops, restaurants, and hotels know as Harvey Houses. Moon photographed individuals in his El Tovar Studio in the Grand Canyon, Ariz. and also traveled to communities in the region including A:shiwi (Zuni), Diné (Navajo), Hopi, and Laguna Pueblo, among many others. The Fred Harvey Company used these photographs in their postcards, brochures, and publications for the tourist industry. The Fred Harvey Company also partnered with the Sante Fe Railroad to help generate tourism to the southwest region and Moon became the official photographer for the railroad. Moon also took up drawing and painting and studied with American painter Thomas Moran. Moon stayed with the Fred Harvey Company until 1914.

After Moon left the Fred Harvey Company, he opened a studio in Pasadena, California and continued his career as a photographer and painter. During this period, Moon painted and donated 26 works depicting Southwest American Indians to the Smithsonian Institution (now in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection). He also sold 24 oil paintings and 293 photographic prints to Henry E. Huntington that are now part of the Huntington Library in San Marino California. With his wife Grace Purdie Moon, he also produced and illustrated children's books of collected Native American stories and legends. Moon died in San Francisco, Calif. in 1948.

Related Materials:

The Huntington Library in San Marino California holds a large collection of Carl Moon works, including oil paintings and photographic prints. The University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections also holds photographs shot by Carl Moon and the Smithsonian American Art Museum holds 26 Carl Moon paintings.

Separated Materials:

Two nitrate negatives are stored at an offsite storage facility.

Provenance:

Donated to the Museum of the American Indian by the Fred Harvey Company in 1963.

Restrictions:

Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).

Rights:

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadcast materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.

Some images restricted: Cultural Sensitivity.

Topic:

Indians of North America -- Arizona  Search this

Indians of North America -- New Mexico  Search this

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Fred Harvey Company collection of Carl Moon Southwest photographs, Box and Photo Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.090

See more items in:

Fred Harvey Company collection of Carl Moon Southwest photographs

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-090

Creator:

Feshin, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich, 1881-1955  Search this

Extent:

22 Items ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1923-1984

Scope and Contents:

Printed material and photographs.

REEL 323: Photographs of Fechin, his family, his paintings, and of Lillian Gish with Feshin and his portrait of her; exhibition catalogs, clippings and two Russian magazines containing articles about him.

REEL 3254: Magazine articles about Fechin from Persimmon Hill, American West and House Beautiful; two exhibition catalogs, Nicolai Fechin Centennial Exhibition, 1981, and Fechin: The Builder by Eya Fechin, 1982; and a membership brochure and a newsletter from the Fechin Institute.

Biographical / Historical:

Painter; Taos, N.M. Born in Kazan, Russia. He came to the United States in 1923. He lived in Taos from 1927 to 1938.

Provenance:

Material on reel 323 lent for microfilming, 1972, by Mrs. Alexandra Fechin, who subsequently donated 4 photographs and an exhibition catalog. Material on reel 3254 donated by Eya Fechin, Nikolai's daughter, 1984. This material was transferred to the NMAA/NPG Library.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

Painters -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Portrait painters -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Topic:

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Portrait painting -- 20th century -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.feshniko

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-feshniko

Creator:

Solomon, Hyde, 1911-  Search this

Poindexter Gallery  Search this

Extent:

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

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1911-1983

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence, records, catalogs, biographical material, photographs, and printed materials.

UNMICROFILMED: Biographical material, 1911-1983; correspondence; notes; writings; business records; magazines; clippings; exhibition announcements and catalogs; and photographs of Solomon, his works of art.

REEL N69-33: Correspondence, including correspondence with the Poindexter Gallery; financial records; exhibition catalogs; clippings; photographs; and two scrapbooks.

Biographical / Historical:

Painter; Taos, New Mexico and New York, N.Y.

Provenance:

Material on reel N69-33 was lent for filming 1969 by Hyde Solomon and his gallery, Poindexter Gallery. All other material donated 1984 by Solomon's brother, Harry.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

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

Topic:

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

Identifier:

AAA.solohyde

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-solohyde

Interviewee:

Dasburg, Andrew, 1887-1979  Search this

Interviewer:

Loomis, Sylvia Glidden  Search this

Creator:

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Names:

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Extent:

20 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1964 July 2

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Andrew M. Dasburg conducted 1964 July 2, by Sylvia Loomis, for the Archives of American Art.

Speaks of his studies at Art Students League with Kenyon Cox and Frank Du Mond; Paris and various artists; his interest in Cubism and his return to figurative painting; teaching at ASL, Woodstock, and Taos, New Mexico; and contemporary art. He also recalls Mabel Dodge Stern, Kenneth Adams, John Marin, and Marsden Hartley.

Biographical / Historical:

Andrew M. Dasburg (1887-1979) was a painter in Taos, New Mexico.

General:

Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 6 min.

Provenance:

Conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Taos School of Art  Search this

Painters -- New Mexico -- Taos -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.dasbur64

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-dasbur64

Creator:

Dasburg, Andrew, 1887-1979  Search this

Names:

Carlson, John F., 1874-1945  Search this

Cramer, Florence Ballin, 1884-1962  Search this

Davidson, Florence Lucius, d. 1962  Search this

Davidson, Jo, 1883-1952  Search this

Frankl, Walter  Search this

Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943  Search this

Howard, Lila  Search this

Johnson, Grace Mott, 1882-1967  Search this

Kuhn, Vera, d. 1961  Search this

Lockwood, Ward  Search this

Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962  Search this

McFee, Henry Lee, 1886-1953  Search this

Riley, Mary G., 1883-1939  Search this

Simonson, Lee, 1888-  Search this

Sterling, Lindsey, 1876-1931  Search this

Wright, Alice Morgan, 1881-1975  Search this

Extent:

8.8 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Poetry

Diaries

Sketchbooks

Photographs

Date:

1833-1980

bulk 1900-1980

Summary:

The papers of painter Andrew Dasburg and his wife and sculptor Grace Mott Johnson date from 1833 to 1980 (bulk 1900 to 1980), and measure 8.8 linear feet. The collection documents each artist's career and personal lives, including their brief marriage and their friendships with many notable artists in the New Mexico and New York art colonies during the early twentieth century. The papers of Dasburg (6 linear feet) and Johnson (2.8 linear feet) include biographical materials; extensive correspondence with family, friends, and fellow artists, such as John F. Carlson, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Marsden Hartley, Henry Lee McFee, and Ward Lockwood; writings by Dasburg, Johnson, and others; scattered legal, financial, and business records; clippings; exhibition materials; numerous photographs of Johnson and Dasburg, friends, family, and artwork; and original artwork, including two sketchbooks by Johnson.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of painter Andrew Dasburg and sculptor Grace Mott Johnson date from 1833 to 1980, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1900 to 1980, and measure 8.8 linear feet. The collection is divided into the papers of Andrew Dasburg (6 linear feet) and the papers of Grace Mott Johnson (2.8 linear feet), and documents each artist's career and personal lives, including their brief marriage, and friendships with many notable artists in New Mexico and New York art colonies during the early twentieth century. Found are scattered biographical, legal, and financial materials. Extensive correspondence (particularly in Dasburg's papers) is with family, friends, and fellow artists, such as John F. Carlson, Florence Ballin Cramer, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Marsden Hartley, Henry Lee McFee, Vera Spier Kuhn, and Ward Lockwood. Dasburg's papers also include letters to Johnson and his two later wives.

Johnson's correspondence is also with numerous artist friends and others, including John F. and Margaret Carlson, Florence Ballin Cramer, Jo Davidson, Florence Lucius, Walter Frankl, Lila Wheelock Howard, Henry Lee McFee, Mary Riley, Lee Simonson, Lindsey Morris Sterling, Alice Morgan Wright, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Vera Spier Kuhn. Letters to her son Alfred are quite detailed and revealing. Writings are by Dasburg, Johnson, and others. Johnson's writings include a very brief diary and her poetry. Writings by others are about the Taos and New Mexico art communities. Printed materials about both artists include clippings and exhibition catalogs. There are numerous photographs of Dasburg and Johnson, individually and together, and with friends and family. Of note are a group photograph of Birge Harrison's art class in Woodstock, New York, which includes Johnson and Dasburg, and a photograph of Dasburg with friends Konrad Cramer and John Reed. Dasburg's papers also include snapshots of Florence Lucius, Konrad and Florence Ballin Cramer, Frieda and D. H. Lawrence, and Mabel Dodge Luhan. Original artwork by the two artists include two sketchbooks by Johnson and three prints and two drawings by Dasburg.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into 2 series of each artist's papers:

Series 1: Andrew Dasburg Papers, circa 1900-1980 (Box 1-7; 6.0 linear feet)

Series 2: Grace Mott Johnson Papers, 1833-1963 (Box 7-10; 2.8 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Andrew Michael Dasburg (1887-1979) was born in Paris, France, to German parents. After his father died and when he was five, Dasburg and his mother moved to New York City. In 1902 Dasburg started attending classes at the Art Students' League and studied with Kenyon Cox and Frank Du Mond. He also took night classes with Robert Henri. In 1907 he received a scholarship to the Art Students' League summer school in Woodstock, New York and spent three summers studying there in Birge Harrison's painting class. While in school he became friends with many young artists, including Morgan Russell and his future wife, Grace Mott Johnson.

Grace Mott Johnson (1882-1967) was born in New York City. She began drawing when she was four years old, and when the family moved to a farm in 1900 she enjoyed sketching horses and other farm animals. At the age of 22 she left home to study at the Art Students' League with sculptors Gutzon Borglum and James Earle Fraser, and also attended Birge Harrison's painting class in Woodstock. Throughout her career she would sculpt animals from memory, and would often attend circuses and farms for inspiration.

In 1909 Johnson and Dasburg went to Paris and joined the modernist circle of artists living there, including Morgan Russell, Jo Davidson, and Arthur Lee. During a trip to London that same year they were married. Johnson returned to the United States early the next year, but Dasburg stayed in Paris where he met Henri Matisse, Gertrude and Leo Stein, and became influenced by the paintings of Cezanne and Cubism. He returned to Woodstock, New York in August and he and Johnson became active members of the artist community. In 1911 their son Alfred was born. Both Dasburg and Johnson showed several works at the legendary Armory Show in 1913, and Dasburg also showed at the MacDowell Club in New York City, where he met the journalist and activist John Reed who later introduced him to Mabel Dodge (Luhan), a wealthy art patron and lifelong friend. In 1914 Dasburg met Alfred Stieglitz and became part of his avant-garde circle. Using what he had seen in Paris, Dasburg became one of the earliest American cubist artists, and also experimented with abstraction in his paintings.

Dasburg and Johnson lived apart for most of their marriage. By 1917 they had separated and Dasburg began teaching painting in Woodstock and in New York City. In 1918 he was invited to Taos, New Mexico by Mabel Dodge, and returning in 1919, Johnson joined him there for a period of time. Also in 1919, Dasburg was one of the founding members of the Woodstock Artists Association with John F. Carlson, Frank Swift Chase, Carl Eric Lindin, and Henry Lee McFee. In 1922 Dasburg and Johnson divorced, and also at that time he began living most of the year in Santa Fe with Ida Rauh, spending the rest of the year in Woodstock and New York City. Dasburg became an active member of the Santa Fe and the Taos art colonies, befriending many artists and writers living in these communities, and remaining close friends with Mabel Dodge Luhan. Here he moved away from abstraction, and used the southwestern landscape as the inspiration for his paintings.

In 1928 he married Nancy Lane. When that marriage ended in 1932, he moved permanently to Taos, and with his third wife, Marina Wister, built a home and studio there. Dasburg periodically taught art privately and at the University of New Mexico. In 1937 he was diagnosed with Addison's disease, which left him unable to paint again until 1946. In 1945 he and his wife Marina separated. Dasburg was recognized for his career as an artist in a circulating retrospective organized by the American Federation of Arts in 1959. He also had retrospectives in Taos in 1966 and 1978. His artwork influence several generations of artists, especially in the southwest, and he continued creating art until his death in 1979 at the age of 92.

Grace Mott Johnson lived in the Johnson family home in Yonkers, New York during the 1920s and later moved to Pleasantville, New York. In 1924 she went to Egypt to study ancient Egyptian sculpture. During the 1930s she became a civil rights activist. She produced very little art during the last twenty years of her life.

Related Material:

Also found in the Archives of American Art are two oral history interviews with Andrew Dasburg, July 2, 1964 and March 6, 1974. Additional related collections at other repositories include the Andrew and Marina Wister Dasburg Papers at the New Mexico State Archives, the Andrew Dasburg Papers at Syracuse University Library, and the Grace Mott Johnson Papers at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Separated Material:

The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming. Reel 2803 contains photocopies of ten Morgan Russell letters to Dasburg. Reels 4276-4278 include biographical material, subject files, photographs, correspondence, writings, and exhibition material. The photocopies on reel 2803 were discarded after microfilming, and the items on 4276-4278 were returned to the lender. This material is not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:

The Andrew Dasburg and Grace Mott Johnson papers were donated by their son, Alfred Dasburg, in 1980. Syracuse Univresity lent materials for microfilming in 1978 and 1989.

Restrictions:

The collection has been digitized and is available online via AAA's website.

Rights:

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

Occupation:

Painters -- New Mexico  Search this

Painters -- New York (State)  Search this

Topic:

Artist colonies -- New York (State)  Search this

Artist colonies -- New Mexico  Search this

Works of art  Search this

Sculptors -- New York (State)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Poetry

Diaries

Sketchbooks

Photographs

Citation:

Andrew Dasburg and Grace Mott Johnson papers, 1833-1980 (bulk 1900-1980). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

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

Identifier:

AAA.dasbandr

See more items in:

Andrew Dasburg and Grace Mott Johnson papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-dasbandr

Creator:

Mandelman, Beatrice  Search this

Extent:

1 Microfilm reel

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Microfilm reels

Date:

1949-1984

Scope and Contents:

Exhibition announcements and catalogs, clippings, magazine articles; and photographs of Mandelman and her work.

Biographical / Historical:

Beatrice Mandelma (1912-1998) was a painter in Taos, N.M.

Provenance:

Microfilmed as part of the Archives of American Art's Texas project.

Lent for microfilming 1984 by Beatrice Mandelman.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

Painters -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Topic:

Women painters -- New Mexico -- Taos  Search this

Painting, American  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.mandbeat

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-mandbeat