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Creator:

Wolff, Robert Jay, 1905-  Search this

Names:

Artists' Union (Chicago, Ill.)  Search this

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum  Search this

Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960  Search this

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976  Search this

Chermayeff, Serge, 1900-  Search this

Crawford, M. D. C. (Morris De Camp), 1882-1949  Search this

Ernst, Jimmy, 1920-1984  Search this

Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968  Search this

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969  Search this

Holty, Carl, 1900-1973  Search this

Holtzman, Harry  Search this

Hustvedt, Stephen R.  Search this

Kuh, Katharine  Search this

Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003  Search this

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946  Search this

Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl, 1905-  Search this

Osborn, Robert Chesley, 1904-1994  Search this

Pearlstein, Philip, 1924-  Search this

Rebay, Hilla, 1890-1967  Search this

Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967  Search this

Robinson, Increase, 1890-1981  Search this

Seligmann, Kurt, 1900-1962  Search this

Extent:

0.4 Linear feet ((on 4 microfilm reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1926-1969

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence; exhibition catalogs; notes; photographs; notebooks; scrapbook; clippings; and miscellany.

REELS N69-72-N69-74: Correspondence, 1929-1968 with Alexander Calder, Serge Chermayeff, Jimmy Ernst, Sigfried Giedion, Walter Gropius, Guggenheim Museum, Carl Holty, Katharine Kuh, L. and Sybil Moholy-Nagy, Museum of Non-Objective Painting and Hilla Rebay, Harry Holtzman, Stephen R. Hustvedt, Bob Osborn, Philip Pearlstein, Ad Reinhardt, and Kurt Seligmann; exhibition catalogs; price lists; clippings; articles; talks and notes; photographs of paintings and sculpture, 1929-1958; notebooks, 1929-1965; and a scrapbook, 1934-1938.

REEL N69-98: Nine letters from Morris D. C. Crawford and his wife, 1926-1932, and a carbon copy of a letter to Dorothy Miller Cahill, May 27, 1969, in which Wolff mentions his efforts, as president of the Artists' Union of Chicago, ca. 1936, to unseat Increase Robinson. Wolff also explains how he became Holger Cahill's "bitter enemy."

Biographical / Historical:

Designer and painter; New Preston, Connecticut. Died in 1978.

Provenance:

Lent for microfilming 1969 by Robert Jay Wolff.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

Designers -- Connecticut -- New Preston  Search this

Painters -- Connecticut -- New Preston  Search this

Topic:

Painting, American  Search this

Design  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.wolfrobe

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9a1dc8ca4-1cb4-4ce7-8263-d011339f3ddf

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-wolfrobe

Painter:

Pearlstein, Philip 1924-2022  Search this

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Type:

Paintings

Owner/Location:

National Gallery of Art Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W Washington District of Columbia 20565

Date:

1971

Topic:

Architecture interior  Search this

Figure female--Nude  Search this

Figure female--Full length  Search this

Object--Furniture--Couch  Search this

Control number:

IAP 08261167

Data Source:

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_ari_461215

Painter:

Pearlstein, Philip 1924-2022  Search this

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Type:

Paintings

Owner/Location:

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Sheldon Museum of Art and Sculpture Garden 12th & R Streets Lincoln Nebraska 68588 Accession Number: U-337

Date:

1975

Topic:

Figure female--Full length  Search this

Figure female--Nude  Search this

Occupation--Art--Model  Search this

Control number:

IAP 29830185

Data Source:

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_ari_465059

Painter:

Pearlstein, Philip 1924-2022  Search this

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Type:

Paintings

Owner/Location:

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Sheldon Museum of Art and Sculpture Garden 12th & R Streets Lincoln Nebraska 68588 Accession Number: N-552

Date:

1966

Topic:

Figure female--Full length  Search this

Figure female--Nude  Search this

Occupation--Art--Model  Search this

Control number:

IAP 29830186

Data Source:

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_ari_465060

Painter:

Pearlstein, Philip 1924-2022  Search this

Medium:

Watercolor

Type:

Paintings

Owner/Location:

University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery 500 University Avenue Rochester New York 14607 Accession Number: 98.64

Date:

1975

Topic:

Object--Furniture--Bed  Search this

Figure group--Female--Nude  Search this

Control number:

IAP 37390672

Data Source:

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_ari_471894

Creator:

Pearlstein, Philip, 1924-  Search this

Subject:

Barnet, Will  Search this

Blaine, Michael  Search this

Cantor, Dorothy  Search this

Close, Chuck  Search this

Downes, Rackstraw  Search this

Dückers, Alexander  Search this

Field, Richard  Search this

Haas, Richard  Search this

Hampleman, Jean  Search this

Levine, Jack  Search this

Kelly, W. J.  Search this

McCarthy, David  Search this

Shaman, Sanford Sivitz  Search this

Storr, Robert  Search this

Tamburini, Fernando  Search this

Tsao, Vivian  Search this

Updike, John  Search this

Viola, Jerome  Search this

Wallin, Leland  Search this

Ward, John  Search this

Warhol, Andy  Search this

Witkin, Jerome  Search this

Yezzi, David  Search this

WBAI Radio (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

WRFM (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Motion pictures (visual works)

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Sketches

Slides (photographs)

Sound recordings

Transcripts

Video recordings

Citation:

Philip Pearlstein papers, circa 1940-2008. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Architecture -- Egypt  Search this

Architecture, Roman  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

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

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

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8182

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210353

AAA_collcode_pearphil

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210353

Creator:

Nochlin, Linda  Search this

Names:

Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877  Search this

Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa  Search this

Mitchell, Joan, 1926-1992  Search this

Pearlstein, Philip, 1924-  Search this

Zuka  Search this

Extent:

31.2 Linear feet

3.9 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Interviews

Sketchbooks

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Diaries

Date:

circa 1876

1937-2017

Summary:

The papers of feminist art historian and educator Linda Nochlin measure 31.2 linear feet and 3.9 gigabytes and date from circa 1876, 1937 to 2017. The collection is comprised of biographical materials; date books and notebooks; correspondence; writing project files that include material on Gustave Courbet and realism, bathers and the body, essays and lectures on 19th century art among other topics, artists, and smaller writing projects; professional files containing material on conferences and fellowships; teaching files detailing courses taught by Nochlin at New York University Institute of Fine Arts and other institutions; printed materials; artwork; and photographic materials that document Nochlin and her relationships with family, colleagues and friends, and artists.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of feminist art historian and educator Linda Nochlin measure 31.2 linear feet and 3.9 gigabytes and date from circa 1876, 1937 to 2017. The collection is comprised of biographical materials; date books and notebooks; correspondence; writing project files that include material on Gustave Courbet and realism, bathers and the body, essays and lectures on 19th century art among other topics, artists, and smaller writing projects; professional files containing material on conferences and fellowships; teaching files detailing courses taught by Nochlin at New York University Institute of Fine Arts and other institutions; printed materials; artwork; and photographic materials that document Nochlin and her relationships with family, colleagues and friends, and artists.

Biographical materials include two address books; awards and prizes; certificates and diplomas; childhood writings and notes, assignments, and school newsletters; course work at Vassar College and NYU's Institute of Fine Arts; honors; and one sound recording and three transcripts of Nochlin interviews with Alain Veinstein, Dan Karlholm, Jon Weiner, and Moira Roth.

Over 150 date books and notebooks spanning nearly 60 years contain appointments, reminders, travel plans, thoughts on art, journal entries, daily activities, to-do lists, contact information, fiction writing, and other small notations. Correspondence is with family; close colleagues and artists Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Zuka Mitelberg, Joan Mitchell, and Philip Pearlstein; and professional contacts regarding speaking engagements, publishing projects, exhibitions, artists' work, conferences, and events.

The bulk of the collection documents Nochlin's prolific writing career that includes her lifelong research and work on Gustave Courbet, realism, bathers and the body, as well as numerous essays and lectures, research and writings on artists, and various other writing projects.

Files for professional activities contain material for conferences and symposiums that include 11 sound and video recordings, grants, fellowships, and travel arrangements and expenses. Teaching files consist of documentation for courses taught by Nochlin at New York University Institute of Fine Arts, Vassar College, Yale University, and other academic institutions.

Publications and other printed materials include annotated books, booklets, clippings, exhibition catalogs, journals and magazines, newsletters, offprints, five video recordings of broadcasts and documentary material, flyers, invitations, posters, and postcards. Artwork includes sketches in ink, charcoal, paint, and pencil created during Nochlin's childhood into her early 20s, along with artwork by children, and one video art recording by Zoulikha Bouabdellah.

Photographs and negatives are of Nochlin with artists Nancy Graves, Sebastian Horsley, and Shirley Jaffe; childhood classmates; friends and colleagues; students; and travels to Europe. Also included are photographs of works of art, personal photographs of family members, and portraits and snapshots of Nochlin.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as nine series.

Series 1: Biographical Materials, circa 1940-2012 (1.0 linear feet; Box 1, OV 35 / 0.003 GB; ER01-ER03)

Series 2: Datebooks and Notebooks, 1959-2017 (2.5 linear feet; Boxes 2-5, OV 35 / 0.001 GB; ER004)

Series 3: Correspondence, 1946-2014 (2.0 linear feet; Boxes 5-7, OV 35 / 0.158 GB; ER005-ER011)

Series 4: Writing Project Files, circa 1876, 1953-2016 (17.0 linear feet; Boxes 7-21, 30-31, 33-34, OVs 36-37 / 3.72 GB; ER012-ER102)

Series 5: Professional Files, 1957-2012 (1.0 linear feet; Boxes 22-23 / 0.001 GB; ER103)

Series 6: Teaching Files, 1953-2012 (2.5 linear feet; Boxes 23-25, OV 36 / 0.016 GB; ER104-ER119)

Series 7: Printed Materials, 1939-2017 (3.0 linear feet; Boxes 26-28, 32, 34, OVs 39-40)

Series 8: Artwork, circa 1940-2004 (1.0 linear feet; Boxes 28, 34, OV 38)

Series 9: Photographic Materials, circa 1935-circa 2010 (1.0 linear feet; Boxes 28-29, 34)

Biographical / Historical:

Linda Nochlin (1931-2017) was a feminist art historian and professor at New York University Institute of Fine Arts in New York, New York. She is widely known for her essay first published in 1971, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?," that explored the institutional systems in place for analyzing art history and their impacts on women artists. In 1976, Nochlin co-curated Women Artists: 1550-1950 alongside Ann Sutherland Harris at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and in 2007 she co-curated with Maura Reilly the Global Feminisms Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Both exhibitions are considered landmark exhibitions of women artists.

Nochlin was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School and Midwood High School before enrolling in Vassar College where she majored in philosophy with minors in Greek and art history. After graduating in 1951, she went on to earn a master's degree in English from Columbia University in 1952. In 1963, she earned her PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts. Nochlin's PhD dissertation, "Gustave Courbet: A Study of Style and Society," marked the beginning of her lifelong study of the 19th-Century French artist Gustave Courbet.

Nochlin taught at Yale University, the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, and Vassar College. She was also a visiting professor at Columbia University, Hunter College, Stanford University, Williams College, and Yale University, and later became the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts.

Nochlin authored numerous art history books including Realism (1971), The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society (1989), Representing Women (1999), The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity (1994), Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye (2006), Courbet (2007), and Misère: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century (2018).

Related Materials:

Also found at the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview of Linda Nochlin conducted on June 9-30, 2010 by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art's Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts project at Nochlin's home in New York, N.Y.

Provenance:

The collection was donated in 2018 by Daisy Pommer, Linda Nochlin's daughter.

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. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References 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:

Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

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

Topic:

Feminists  Search this

Women art historians  Search this

Realism  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sketchbooks

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Diaries

Citation:

Linda Nochlin papers, circa 1876, 1937-2017. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Collections Care Initiative Fund, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative and the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAA.nochlind

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Linda Nochlin papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw93d5d9e13-5820-4043-8b00-242e4f1e5e93

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-nochlind

Creator:

Seroka, Lenore  Search this

Names:

Andrews, Benny, 1930-2006  Search this

Artschwager, Richard, 1923-2013  Search this

Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988  Search this

Bishop, Isabel, 1902-1988  Search this

Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010  Search this

Cavallon, Giorgio, 1904-1989  Search this

Chamberlain, John, 1927-2011  Search this

Christo, 1935-  Search this

Close, Chuck, 1940-  Search this

De Creeft, José, 1884-1982  Search this

Estes, Richard, 1932-  Search this

Ferber, Herbert, 1906-1991  Search this

Flavin, Dan, 1933-  Search this

Freilicher, Jane, 1924-2014  Search this

Gikow, Ruth, 1915-1982  Search this

Golub, Leon, 1922-2004  Search this

Goodhough, Robert, 1917-  Search this

Goulet, Lorrie, 1925-  Search this

Graves, Nancy Stevenson, 1940-1995  Search this

Greene, Balcomb, 1904-1990  Search this

Gwathmey, Robert, 1903-1988  Search this

Hirsch, Joseph, 1910-1981  Search this

Hirschfeld, Al  Search this

Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995  Search this

Katz, Alex, 1927-  Search this

Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984  Search this

Lassaw, Ibram, 1913-2003  Search this

Levine, David, 1926-2009  Search this

Levine, Jack, 1915-2010  Search this

Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997  Search this

Lipton, Seymour, 1903-1986  Search this

Neel, Alice, 1900-1984  Search this

Nesbitt, Lowell, 1933-1993  Search this

Pearlstein, Philip, 1924-  Search this

Resika, Paul  Search this

Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002  Search this

Rockburne, Dorothea  Search this

Rosenquist, James, 1933-  Search this

Segal, George, 1924-2000  Search this

Snelson, Kenneth, 1927-2016  Search this

Solman, Joseph, 1909-2008  Search this

Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987  Search this

Wesselmann, Tom, 1931-2004  Search this

Youngerman, Jack, 1926-2020  Search this

Extent:

0.3 Linear feet ((51 items))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1977-1984

Scope and Contents:

Photographs of artists taken by Seroka.

Biographical / Historical:

Photographer; Great Neck, N.Y.

Provenance:

Donated 1984 by Lenore Seroka.

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.

Rights:

Authorizatin to publish, quote or reproduce requires written permission from Lenore Seroka. 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.

Occupation:

Photographers -- New York (State) -- Great Neck  Search this

Topic:

Photography, Artistic -- Photographs  Search this

Portrait photography -- Photographs  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women photographers  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.seroleno

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9858136e9-6ce3-4d39-89c7-2264e3bf284f

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-seroleno

Creator:

Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994  Search this

Names:

Art in America  Search this

Velvet Underground (Musical group)  Search this

Asher, Elise, 1914-  Search this

Avery, Sally  Search this

Beck, Margit, 1915-1997  Search this

Bellow, Saul  Search this

Bultman, Fritz, 1919-1985  Search this

Cale, John  Search this

Cavallon, Giorgio, 1904-1989  Search this

Cohen, Jean  Search this

Cunningham, Merce  Search this

De Diego, Julio, 1900-  Search this

Drexler, Rosalyn  Search this

Flexner, James Thomas, 1908-2003  Search this

Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011  Search this

Freed, William, 1904-  Search this

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-  Search this

Gelb, Jan, 1906-1978  Search this

Gorelick, Shirley, 1924-2000  Search this

Greenwood, Marion, 1909-1970  Search this

Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966  Search this

Jones, John  Search this

Kahn, Wolf, 1927-  Search this

Karolik, Maxim  Search this

Katz, Alex, 1927-  Search this

Marcus, Marcia, 1928-  Search this

Margo, Boris, 1902-1995  Search this

Martin, Fletcher, 1904-1979  Search this

McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980  Search this

Middleman, Raoul F., 1935-  Search this

Motherwell, Robert  Search this

Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970  Search this

Nico, 1938-1988  Search this

Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988  Search this

Orlowsky, Lillian, 1914-2004  Search this

Pearlstein, Philip, 1924-  Search this

Refregier, Anton, 1905-  Search this

Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002  Search this

Ross, Alvin, 1920-1975  Search this

Rothschild, Judith  Search this

Saint-Phalle, Niki de, 1930-  Search this

Segal, George, 1924-2000  Search this

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969  Search this

Tinguely, Jean, 1925-  Search this

Ustinov, Peter  Search this

Warhol, Andy, 1928-  Search this

Whyte, William Hollingsworth  Search this

Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009  Search this

Extent:

1.6 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1962-1976

Summary:

The Dorothy Gees Seckler collection of sound recordings relating to art and artists measures 1.6 linear feet and dates from 1962 to 1976. Recordings include 17 interviews conducted by Seckler, one interview by John Jones, and 17 additional recordings of mostly contemporary art-related programs and interviews taped from radio and television broadcasts. Recordings are on 26 sound cassettes and 25 sound tape reels.

Scope and Contents:

The Dorothy Gees Seckler collection of sound recordings relating to art and artists measures 1.6 linear feet and dates from 1962 to 1976. Recordings include 20 interviews conducted by Seckler, one interview by John Jones, and 17 additional recordings of mostly contemporary art-related programs and interviews taped from radio and television broadcasts. Recordings are on 26 sound cassettes and 25 sound tape reels.

Interviews with Artists consist of 17 interviews by Dorothy Seckler with artists including Elise Asher, Fritz Bultman, Judith Rothschild, Giorgio Cavallon, Marcia Marcus, Jean Cohen, William Freed, Lillian Orlowsky, Shirley Gorelick, Hans Hofmann, Wolf Kahn, Raoul Middleman, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Olin Orr, Larry Rivers, Alvin Ross, George Segal, Jean Tinguely, and Niki de Saint Phalle. Several interviews are with two subjects at once. Many of these interviews were conducted in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and are referenced in her introduction to the catalog for the exhibition Provincetown Painters, 1890's – 1970's held at the Everson Museum and the Provincetown Art Association in 1977, and several interviews were conducted as research for articles Seckler wrote and published in Art in America. Also found are group interviews on specific subjects, including an interview with Julio de Diego, Marion Greenwood, Fletcher Martin, and Anton Refregier on the Woodstock art colony, and with Sally Avery, Boris Margo, Jan Gelb, Margit Beck and others on Op Art. In September of 1966, Seckler recorded some of Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable in Provincetown, which includes a performance by Nico and the Velvet Underground, as well as an interview with one of the band's members, John Cale. A single interview conducted by John Jones of George Segal appears to have been copied by Seckler to prepare for her April 1966 interview of Segal.

Broadcast materials include sound recordings of television and radio broadcast programs taped off the air presumably by Seckler. Most programs are interviews, with subjects including Maxim Karolik, James Thomas Flexner, R. Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham, Alex Katz, Phillip Pearlstein, Roslyn Drexler, Barnet Newman, Saul Bellow, Ben Shahn, Marshall McLuhan, Isamu Noguchi, Andrew Wyeth, and William H Whyte. Other recordings include documentary programs related to contemporary art, book reviews, and a comedy performance with actor Peter Ustinov.

Photographs include 12 color slides from October of 1967 that appear to have been shot in Provincetown, Mass. Subjects include Dorothy Seckler and two other unidentified women.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in 3 series.

Series 1: Interviews with Artists, 1962-1976 (1 linear foot; Box 1)

Series 2: Broadcast Materials, 1962-1972 (0.8 linear feet; Boxes 2-3)

Series 3: Photographs, 1967 (1 folder; Box 3)

Biographical / Historical:

Dorothy Gees Seckler was an art historian, critic, journalist, and artist active in New York City and Provincetown, Mass. Born Dorothy Elizabeth Gees in Baltimore, MD in 1910, she completed the program in Advertising Design at Maryland Institute College of Art in 1931 and was awarded a traveling scholarship upon graduation, which she used to study in Europe. She later received a masters degree from Columbia University in Art History and Art Education, and worked during World War II as head of an illustration unit in the Army's Judge Advocate General's office.

After the war, she worked at the Museum of Modern Art as an art historian in the education office until 1950, when she began writing for ARTnews magazine, reviewing New York gallery shows for its "Gallery Notes" section, and exploring painters' processes in the "Paints a Picture" series. She later served as contributing editor for Art in America from the late 1950s through the late 1960s, where her published work included features on Robert Rauschenberg and Louise Nevelson, as well as broad surveys of contemporary art such as "A Folklore of the Banal" (Winter 1962) and "Audience is His Medium" (February 1963). She taught at New York University and City College of New York, and wrote a long essay on the history of the Provincetown's art colony, published in Art in America in 1959, and later updated for the catalog for the 1977 exhibition Provincetown Painters, 1890's - 1970's. Between 1962 and 1968, she conducted thirty oral history interviews for the Archives of American Art and served as one of its manuscript collectors.

Throughout her career as a writer and critic, Seckler painted and worked in collage, and her work was shown in several Provincetown galleries, and in the Provincetown Art Center and Museum. She married Jerome Seckler in 1937 and they had one son. Seckler received the American Federation of Arts Award for outstanding writing in the field of American Art in 1952. She died in 1994.

Related Materials:

Other related materials in the Archives' collections include several additional interviews conducted by Seckler for its oral history program, a full recording and transcript of the August 28, 1963 symposium on pop art, for which brief sound notes are found in this collection, and a transcript of the John Jones interview with George Segal in the John Jones interviews with artists collection, 1965 Oct. 5-1965 Nov. 12.

Separated Materials:

In 2012, several duplicates of recordings Seckler made for the Archives of American Art's oral history program were removed from the collection including: Peter and Riva Dechar (1965 and 1967), David von Schlegell (1967), Joan Mitchell (1965), Theresa Schwartz (1965), Paul Burlin (1962), Ibram Lassaw (1964), Jack Tworkov (1962), Allan Kaprow (1968), Edwin Dickinson (1962), Nathan Halper (1963), Louise Nevelson (1964-1965), Karl Knaths (1962), and Stephen Greene (1968). Joan Mitchell's 1965 oral history interview remains with the Seckler collection because reel 2 of this recording also contains a discussion of optical art that belongs in the Seckler collection. The oral history interview has been digitized and is available through the Archives' oral history program.

Provenance:

The bulk of the collection, including the interviews with the Provincetown artists, was donated 1995 by Don Seckler, son of Dorothy Seckler. The source of acquisition for the Seckler interviews with the Woodstock artists is unknown.

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.

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:

Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Optical art  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Dorothy Gees Seckler collection of sound recordings relating to art and artists, 1962-1976. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the transcription of Seckler's interviews with Provincetown artists was provided by the Shirley Gorelick Foundation in 2014.

Identifier:

AAA.seckdoro

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Dorothy Gees Seckler Collection of Sound Recordings Relating to Art and Artists

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9af226ceb-11fb-469d-ae6f-d35718934f26

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-seckdoro

Creator:

Tanager Gallery  Search this

Names:

Arnold, Anne, 1926-  Search this

Brooks, James, 1906-1992  Search this

Burkhardt, Rudy  Search this

Cajori, Charles, 1921-2013  Search this

Cherry, Herman  Search this

Dodd, Lois, 1927-  Search this

Fine, Perle, 1908-1988  Search this

Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011  Search this

Geist, Sidney  Search this

Guston, Philip, 1913-1980  Search this

Hazelet, Sally  Search this

Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966  Search this

Ippolito, Angelo  Search this

Katz, Alex, 1927-  Search this

King, William, 1925-2015  Search this

Pearlstein, Philip, 1924-  Search this

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008  Search this

Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002  Search this

Stamos, Theodoros, 1922-1997  Search this

Wesselmann, Tom, 1931-2004  Search this

Extent:

2.6 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Diaries

Scrapbooks

Photographs

Sketches

Date:

1952-1979

Summary:

The records of contemporary New York City Tanager Gallery measure 2.6 linear feet and date from 1952 to 1979. Found are administrative files, financial and legal records including detailed receipt books, scattered correspondence, artists' files for circa 70 artists that include price lists and biographies, two scrapbooks of printed materials, newsclippings, exhibition announcements and other printed materials, and five photographs of openings at the gallery and of the exterior of the building.

Scope and Content Note:

The records of contemporary New York City Tanager Gallery measure 2.6 linear feet and date from 1952 to 1979. Found are administrative files, financial and legal records including detailed receipt books, scattered correspondence, artists' files for circa 70 artists that include price lists and biographies, two scrapbooks of printed materials, newsclippings, exhibition announcements and other printed materials, and five photographs of openings at the gallery and of the exterior of the building.

Administrative files include four day books, lists of artists and exhibitions, historical sketches, and an address book. There are two ledger books of expenses for shows and four receipt books from 1959-1962 which are organized by date and list artist, and artwork, buyer, and price. Correspondence is arranged chronologically and comprised mainly of copies of letters sent by the Gallery to artists as invitations to exhibit. Also found are scattered letters from museums and artists.

There are artists' files for circa 70 artists that contain a variety of materials, including price lists and biographies or resumes. Artists files are found for Anne Arnold, James Brooks, Charles Cajori, Herman Cherry, Lois Dodd, Sally Hazelet Drummond, Perle Fine, Helen Frankenthaler, Sidney Geist, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Angelo Ippolito, Philip Pealstein, Alex Katz, William King, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Theordore Stamos, and Tom Wesselmann among many others.

The collection includes two scrapbooks containing mostly newsclippings and exhibition announcements, as well as additional loose newsclippings, numerous exhibition announcements and catalogs, and press releases. There are five photographs of gallery openings and the exterior of the building, the latter taken by Rudy Burkhardt.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 7 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Administrative Files, 1952-1979 (Boxes 1, 4; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 2: Financial and Legal Records, 1952-1962 (Box 1; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 3: Correspondence, 1952-1967 (Boxes 1-2; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 4: Artists Files, circa 1952- circa 1962 (Box 2; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 5: Scrapbooks, circa 1962 (Boxes 2-3; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 6: Printed Material, 1952-1971 (Boxes 2, 4; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 7: Photographs, circa 1952-circa 1959 (Box 2; 2 folders)

Historical Note:

The Tanager Gallery operated from 1952-1962 in New York City. The gallery was one of the first artist cooperative galleries formed on 10th Street in Manhattan to provide an alternative to the larger upscale galleries of Madison Avenue.

In 1952, the artist cooperative Tanager Gallery opened at 90 East 10th Street in Manhattan. Co-founders included Charles Cajori, Lois Dodd, Angelo Ippolito, William King, and Fred Mitchell. The Tanager offered open spaces for young artists to show their work and to sell art on their own terms. Membership at the Tanager included American Realists Alex Katz and Philip Pearlstein, and the Pop art/found-art collagist Tom Wesselmann. Later artists to join the cooperatiive included Mary Abbott, Perle Fine, Sidney Geist, Joseph Groell, Nanno de Groot, Sally Hazelet, Ben Isquith, Lester Johnson, Nicholas Marsicano, George Earl Ortman, Charlotte Park, Philip Pearlstein, Frank Stout, Raymond Rocklin, and Sal Sirugo. From 1952 to 1962, the Tanager Gallery exhibited works from about 250 artists.

The opening of Tanager and other 10th Street galleries was a radical change for the New York arts scene and for emerging New York artists who generally found representation with uptown gallery owners and/or art dealers on 57th Street or Madison Ave. In the 1950s, Manhattan's 10th Street was a gathering place for young artist-bohemians. The galleries were often the centers for anything avant-garde or new, such as art installations, happenings, poetry readings, jazz sessions, and performance art. For example, Tanager Gallery hosted a series of forums with local artists who would discuss their work and objectives.

Tanager Gallery received attention and respect from the more established art galleries and critics in New York, including Dore Ashton, Leo Castelli, Tom Hess, Martha Jackson, and Dorothy Miller. The Tanager Gallery closed in 1962.

Related Material:

Among the holdings of the Archives of American Art are the Lois Dodd papers, 1952-2001 and an oral history interview with Lois Dodd by Barbara Shikler from 1988.

Provenance:

Lois Dodd, co-founder of the Tanager Gallery, donated the Tanager Gallery records in several increments between 1972 and 1989.

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:

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

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

Function:

Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State)

Genre/Form:

Diaries

Scrapbooks

Photographs

Sketches

Citation:

Tanager Gallery records, 1952-1979. 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.tanagall

See more items in:

Tanager Gallery records

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9a7ad7a8a-89a2-4860-8b0c-15787f0f057f

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-tanagall

Creator:

Ribicoff, Belle Krasne, 1924-  Search this

Names:

Storm King Art Center  Search this

Wadsworth Atheneum  Search this

Albee, Edward, 1928-  Search this

Arp, Jean, 1887-1966  Search this

Ashton, Dore  Search this

Bailey, William, 1930-2020  Search this

Bazaine, Jean, 1904-2001  Search this

Benn, Ben, 1884-  Search this

Bloom, Claire, 1931-  Search this

Chelimsky, Oscar  Search this

Cornell, Joseph  Search this

D'Harnoncourt, Rene, 1901-1968  Search this

De Vries, Peter, 1910-1993  Search this

Dorazio, Piero, 1927-  Search this

Dorazio, Virginia Dortch  Search this

Ferren, John, 1905-1970  Search this

Fitzsimmons, James, 1919-1985  Search this

Foote, Horton  Search this

Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011  Search this

Geist, Sidney  Search this

Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974  Search this

Graham, John, 1887-1961  Search this

Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994  Search this

Greene, Balcomb, 1904-1990  Search this

Holty, Carl, 1900-1973  Search this

Kazan, Elia  Search this

Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923-  Search this

Krautheimer, Richard, 1897-  Search this

Lamos, Mark  Search this

Lebrun, Rico, 1900-1964  Search this

Matisse, Pierre, 1900-1989  Search this

Morris, George L. K., 1905-1975  Search this

Parsons, Estelle  Search this

Pearlstein, Philip, 1924-  Search this

Ribicoff, Abraham, 1910-1998  Search this

Richardson, Edgar Preston, 1902-1985  Search this

Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff  Search this

Rosenborg, Ralph M., 1913-1992  Search this

Roszak, Theodore, 1907-1981  Search this

Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961  Search this

Salpeter, Harry  Search this

Shapiro, Karl Jay, 1913-  Search this

Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1901-  Search this

Smith, David, 1906-1965  Search this

Soby, James Thrall, 1906-1979  Search this

Travers, P. L.(Pamela Lyndon), 1899-1996  Search this

Valentin, Curt, 1902-1954  Search this

Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972  Search this

Yunkers, Adja, 1900-1983  Search this

Extent:

1.6 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sketches

Drafts (documents)

Photographs

Prints

Illustrated letters

Postcards

Christmas cards

Date:

1942-circa 2010

bulk 1945-2004

Summary:

The papers of Belle Krasne Ribicoff measure 1.6 linear feet and date from 1942-circa 2010, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1945-2004. Papers include biographical materials; correspondence with artists, art historians, writers, museum directors, and others; individual files relating to Belle and Irving Ribicoff's art collection and the Friends of Abe Ribicoff's campaign for the United States Senate; artwork; printed material, e.g., clippings, announcements, exhibition catalogues, brochures; and photographs. The collection documents Ribicoff's career as an arts editor, critic, and her involvement in civic and arts organizations for the State of Connecticut.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of Belle Krasne Ribicoff measure 1.6 linear feet and date from 1942-circa 2010, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1945-2004. Papers include biographical materials; correspondence with artists, art historians, writers, museum directors, and others; individual files relating to Belle and Irving Ribicoff's art collection and the Friends of Abe Ribicoff's campaign for the United States Senate; artwork; printed material, e.g., clippings, announcements, exhibition catalogues, brochures; and photographs. The collection documents Ribicoff's career as an arts editor, critic, and her involvement in civic and arts organizations for the State of Connecticut.

Biographical materials include documentation of the Buttenweiser Prize awarded to Belle Krasne by the Art History Departmental Honors at Vassar College in 1945 and curriculum vitae.

Correspondence, primarily incoming letters consists of letters, postcards, draft versions, and copies of e-mails. Belle Krasne Ribicoff was friends with many artists; their letters focus on daily activities, work, and the art world. Among the correspondents are Oscar and Eleanor Chelminsky, Joseph Cornell, Piero and Virginia Dorazio, John and Rae Ferren, Helen Frankenthaler, James Fitzsimmons, Adolph Gottlieb, John Graham, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Modell, George L.K. Morris, Philip Pearlstein, Eero Saarinen, David Smith, and Adja Yunkers. There is substantial correspondence from Ben Benn, Sidney Geist, Leon Hartley, Ralph Rosenborg, and Theodore Roszak. Also found are love letters to Belle Krasne Ribicoff from Jean Bazaine. Many of the artists' letters are illustrated. Of note, are a letter from Carl Holty to J.B. Neumann and an artist's statement written by Adolph Gottlieb.

Ribicoff had a professional and personal relationship with a number of prominent writers, actors, and other individuals known for their work in the arts, such as Edward Albee, Claire Bloom, Peter DeVries, Horton Foote, Elia Kazan, Mark Lamos, Estelle Parsons, Karl Shapiro, Cornelia Otis Skinner, and P.L. Travers. There are letters from museum directors, art historians, and other well-known cultural figures, such as Dore Ashton, Clement Greenberg, Balcomb Greene, Rene d'Harnoncourt, Pierre Matisse, E. P. Richardson, Andrew C. Ritchie, Harry Salpeter, Curt Valentin, and Mark Van Doren. Also found are files of holiday cards, many original artwork; letters to Ribicoff upon her departure from Art Digest; letters from representatives at Storm King Art Center Museum and the Wadsworth Atheneum; and letters from unidentified correspondents.

The Ribicoff collection relates to the personal art collection of Belle and Irving Ribicoff; materials document the purchase and sale of artwork and the lending of artwork for exhibitions. There is a file of petition letters sponsored by the Friends of Abe Ribicoff campaign for the United States Senate.

Original artwork includes prints by Jean Arp and Adja Yunkers and pencil sketches of Sarai Ribicoff by William Bailey. Printed material consists of news clippings; a periodical; exhibition announcements; brochures; an offprint of an article by Cleve Gray; and miscellaneous printed material.

Photographs contain black and white photographs of Belle Krasne Ribicoff, Ben and Velida Benn, Richard Krautheimer, and of the jurors attending the Carnegie International exhibition (circa 1954), including Jean Bazaine, Rico Lebrun, Eric Newton, and James Thrall Soby.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into 7 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1945, circa 2010 (Box 1; 1 folder)

Series 2: Belle Krasne Ribicoff Correspondence, 1942-2007 (Boxes 1, 3; 1.0 linear feet)

Series 3: The Ribicoff Collection, 1949-1988 (Box 1; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 4: Friends of Abe Ribicoff Campaign, 1968 (Box 1; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 5: Artwork, circa 1950s-1978 (Box 1, OV 4; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 6: Printed Material, 1948-2000 (Box 1; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 7: Photographs, 1945-circa 2007 (Boxes 1-2; 0.1 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Belle Krasne Ribicoff (b. 1924) lives in Hartford, Connecticut and has served as an arts editor, critic, and university administrator.

Ribicoff was born and raised in New York City. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in art history from Vassar College in 1945. After a brief stint with an advertising agency in New York, Ribicoff became Assistant Editor at Magazine of Art (1946-1947), where she developed an interest in contemporary art. She served as editor for such publications as Art News (1948-1949), Art Digest (1949-1954), and Craft Horizons (1954-1955).

In 1955, she married Irving S. Ribicoff (1915-1994), an attorney and moved to Hartford, Connecticut. The Ribicoffs' had two daughters, Dara (b. 1956) and Sarai (1957-1980).

Ribicoff has held various positions at the University of Hartford: Development Director at the Hartford School of Art (1980-1981), Development Liaison to the Office of President (1982-1988), and Associate Vice President for Public Affairs (1980-1983). Belle Krasne Ribicoff has served as a professional volunteer for educational and cultural organizations in Connecticut; she has been involved in efforts to make the arts a part of the school curriculum. She was Vice-President of the Hartford Board of Education (1961-1967; 1965-1971) and was Chairman of the State of Connecticut's Commission on the Arts (1965-1971). Ribicoff is a Life Director at the Hartford Stage Company and a Life Regent at the University of Hartford. She is a Sterling Fellows at Yale University and sits on the President's Advisory Committee at Vassar College.

Belle Krasne Ribicoff has received recognition for her professional and public service contributions by a number of institutions. In 1954, she received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for critical writing from the College Art Association. Other honors have included: Charter Oak Leadership Medal for Distinguished Service (1968), the University of Hartford Medal for Distinguished Service (1995), and the Spirit of Vassar award for outstanding commitment and service to Vassar or another community (2005).

Related Material:

Also found at the Archives of American Art is Belle Krasne's letter to Philip Pavia, May 14, 1954 on microfilm reel 3470.

Provenance:

The collection was donated by Belle Krasne Ribicoff to the Archives of American Art in 2008.

Restrictions:

Use of original material requires an appointment.

Letters from Jean Bazaine to Belle Krasne Ribicoff and sketches of Sarai Ribicoff by William Bailey are access restricted. Their use requires written permission.

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:

Art critics -- Connecticut  Search this

Editors -- Connecticut  Search this

Women art critics  Search this

Administrators -- Connecticut  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sketches

Drafts (documents)

Photographs

Prints

Illustrated letters

Postcards

Christmas cards

Citation:

Belle Krasne Ribicoff papers, 1942-circa 2010 bulk 1945-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.krasbell2

See more items in:

Belle Krasne Ribicoff papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw91c413ec6-93d1-49eb-aefe-563ddcb130b4

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-krasbell2

Interviewee:

Adrian, Dennis, 1937-  Search this

Interviewer:

Silverman, Lanny  Search this

Names:

Akron Art Museum  Search this

Art Institute of Chicago  Search this

Chicago Art and Artists: Oral History Project  Search this

Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource  Search this

Madison Art Center  Search this

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)  Search this

New York University  Search this

Portland Art Museum (Or.)  Search this

University of Chicago -- Students  Search this

Acconci, Vito, 1940-  Search this

Achilles, Rolf  Search this

Alloway, Lawrence, 1926-1990  Search this

Anderson, Jeremy, 1921-1982  Search this

Artner, Alan G.  Search this

Barnes, Robert, 1934-  Search this

Baum, Don, 1922-  Search this

Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510  Search this

Brown, Roger, 1941-1997  Search this

Carlson, Victor I.  Search this

Castelli, Leo  Search this

Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008  Search this

Coplans, John  Search this

Cornell, Joseph  Search this

Dubuffet  Search this

Florsheim, Lillian H.  Search this

Frumkin, Allan  Search this

Garver, Thomas H.  Search this

Golub, Leon, 1922-2004  Search this

Guston, Philip, 1913-1980  Search this

Hanson, Philip, 1943-  Search this

Hoffman, Rhona, 1934-  Search this

Ito, Miyoko, 1918-1983  Search this

Kind, Phyllis, 1933-2018  Search this

Leaf, June, 1929-  Search this

Lee, Sherman E.  Search this

Maxon, John, 1916-  Search this

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969  Search this

Newman, Muriel Kallis Steinberg  Search this

Nicholson, Natasha, 1945-  Search this

Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967  Search this

Pearlstein, Philip, 1924-  Search this

Petlin, Irving, 1934-2018  Search this

Ramberg, Christina  Search this

Rossi, Barbara, 1940-  Search this

Schulze, Franz, 1927-2019  Search this

Sleigh, Sylvia  Search this

Spero, Nancy, 1926-2009  Search this

Swinton, Tilda  Search this

Voulkos, Peter, 1924-2002  Search this

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987  Search this

Westermann, H. C. (Horace Clifford), 1922-  Search this

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900  Search this

Wiles, Bertha Harris, 1896-  Search this

Extent:

4 Items (Sound recording: 4 sound files (4 hr., 18 min.), digital, wav)

173 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2015 October 8-9

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Dennis Adrian conducted 2015 October 8-9, by Lanny Silverman, for the Archives of American Art's Chicago Art and Artists: Oral History Project, at Adrian's home in Seaside, Oregon.

Adrian speaks of growing up in Astoria; traveling to Chicago and New York; Cannon Beach; aging and getting older; his origins; curators and curating; visual sensibilities; the Portland Public Library; opera; his parents, grandparents, and family; Finnish sensibility and humor; Portland Art Museum and classes for children; curator as voyeur; credit and accomplishments; hands on experiences; Artforum; art history; attending University of Chicago; homosexuality and coming out; looted European masterworks; Botticelli; exposure to real art; connoisseurship; collectors and collecting; a Robert Louis Stevenson letter; violin making; growing into yourself; Chicago; war; New York University; Frumkin Gallery; New York; the art world; Madison Art Center; Akron Art Museum; friendship and role models; Art Institute of Chicago; meeting Mies van der Rohe; meeting idols; education; Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Monster Roster; traveling; Chicago art politics; writing and critics; Eurocentric curators; Chicago as an undervalued city; Dog Day Afternoon; discovering art; New York sightings; and experiences running into artists. Adrian also recalls Roger Brown, Ruth Horwich, Gilda Buchbinder, Don Baum, Sherman Lee, Victor Carlson, Peter Voulkos, Lawrence Alloway, Rhona Hoffman, Allan Frumkin, June Leaf, Leon Golub, Jeremy Anderson, Robert Barnes, Tom Garver, Bruce Conner, Natasha Nicholson, H. C. Westermann, Franz Schulze, Bertha Harris Wiles, Muriel Newman, Aaron James Spire, Lillian Florsheim, John Maxon, Greg Knight, P.B. Maryan, Philip Pearlstein, Sylvia Sleigh, Nancy Spero, Irving Petlin, John Coplans, Alan Artner, Alice Shaddle, Phyllis Kind, Andy Warhol, Joseph Cornell, Tilda Swinton, Leo Castelli, Philip Guston, Dubuffet, Pussy Pepke, Bumpy Rogers, Barbara Rossi, Christina Ramberg, Philip Hanson, Miyoko Ito, Mark Jackson, Rolf Achilles, and Vito Acconci.

Biographical / Historical:

Dennis Adrian (1937- ) is an art critic, educator, and curator in Chicago, Illinois. Lanny Silverman (1947- ) is a curator at the Chicago Cultural Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Occupation:

Art critics -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Art, American -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art -- History  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Art thefts -- Europe  Search this

Curators -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews  Search this

Educators -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Identifier:

AAA.adrian15

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9a4b4e01e-5985-41e2-9eac-996bf9e8d51e

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-adrian15

Creator:

Pearlstein, Philip, 1924-  Search this

Cajori, Charles, 1921-2013  Search this

Type:

Correspondence

Date:

1964 July 4

Citation:

Philip Pearlstein. Philip Pearlstein letter to Charles Cajori, 1964 July 4. Charles Cajori papers, 1928-2018. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)14084

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Charles Cajori papers, 1928-2018

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_14084

Artist:

Pearlstein, Philip 1924-  Search this

Type:

Photograph

Image number:

JUL J0125459

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Photograph Study Collection

Data Source:

Photograph Study Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_jul_125460

Artist:

Pearlstein, Philip 1924-  Search this

Physical description:

1 folder

Type:

Photograph

Artist files

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Image number:

VFM VF002255

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Photograph Study Collection

Data Source:

Photograph Study Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_jul_140880

Artist:

Pearlstein, Philip 1924-  Search this

Type:

Photograph

Topic:

Figure male  Search this

Dress--Costume  Search this

Image number:

JUL J0071162

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Photograph Study Collection

Data Source:

Photograph Study Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_jul_71163

Author:

Andy Warhol Museum  Search this

Subject:

Warhol, Andy 1928-1987  Search this

Warhol, Andy 1928-1987 Friends and associates  Search this

Cantor, Dorothy 1928-  Search this

Pearlstein, Philip 1924-  Search this

Physical description:

62 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Type:

Books

Exhibitions

Date:

2015

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1062722

Photographer:

Pearlstein, Philip, 1924-  Search this

Subject:

Kessler, Corinne  Search this

Pearlstein, Dorothy  Search this

Warhol, Andy  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Date:

ca. 1949

Citation:

Philip Pearlstein. Andy Warhol, Corinne Kessler, Dorothy Cantor at Fire Island Beach, ca. 1949. Philip Pearlstein papers, circa 1940-2008. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)13009

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Philip Pearlstein papers, circa 1940-2008

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_13009

Photographer:

Pearlstein, Philip, 1924-  Search this

Subject:

Kessler, Corinne  Search this

Warhol, Andy  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Date:

circa 1949

Citation:

Philip Pearlstein. Andy Warhol and Corinne "Corky" Kessler at Fire Island Beach, circa 1949. Philip Pearlstein papers, circa 1940-2008. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)13092

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Philip Pearlstein papers, circa 1940-2008

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_13092

Photographer:

Pearlstein, Philip, 1924-  Search this

Subject:

Kessler, Corinne  Search this

Pearlstein, Dorothy  Search this

Warhol, Andy  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Date:

circa 1949

Citation:

Philip Pearlstein. Andy Warhol, Dorothy Cantor, Corinne Kessler and Leah Cantor on Fire Island Beach, circa 1949. Philip Pearlstein papers, circa 1940-2008. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)13093

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Philip Pearlstein papers, circa 1940-2008

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_13093