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Authorization to publish, quote, or reproduce the typescript of Russell Lynes's lecture, "Saint-Gaudens-His Time, His Place" (1986), requires permission from George P. Lynes Platt II, College of Saint Elizabeth.
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Collection Citation:
Russell Lynes papers, 1930-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.
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Collection Citation:
Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers, 1906-2016, bulk 1920-1990. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by Stephen Diamond, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
An interview of Red Grooms conducted 1974 Mar. 4-18, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
Grooms speaks of his family background and growing up in Nashville; the development of his artistic ability; going briefly to the Chicago Art Institute; his New York period; the development of his artistic philosophy of rebelliousness; his Provincetown period; inspirations for some of his work; his European experiences; his hobbies and interests; filmmaking projects; the relationship between politics and art; art as communication, and responses to his work; dealers he has worked with; and future developments in his work. He recalls the painter Gregorio Prestopino.
Biographical / Historical:
Red Grooms (1937-) is a painter from New York, N.Y. Born Charles Grooms.
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.
Topic:
Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews Search this
Genre/Form:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Sponsor:
Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.
Federal Art Project. Photographic Division Search this
Container:
Box 18, Folder 38
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
circa 1937-circa 1941
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Collection Citation:
Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965, bulk 1935-1942. 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 and The Walton Family Foundation
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The Artists' Questionanaires require permission from each artist before publishing, quoting, or reproducing. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Collection Rights:
Items created by Francis V. O'Connor: copyright held by Avis Berman. Artists' questionnaires: Authorization to publish, quote, or reproduce requires written permission from the individual artist. Contact Reference Services for more information.
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Collection Citation:
Francis V. O'Connor papers, 1920-2009. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Approximately 60 letters Levi wrote to his family from Paris circa 1927, survive. They comment on the activities of Franklin Watkins, Marc Blitzstein, and Hilaire Hiler; his own paintings and commissions, particularly for the nightclub, Chez Mister Finney; and his associations with other artists and writers including Ludwig Lewisohn, Roy Sheldon, Maruice Speiser, collector Otto Kahn, and Ford Madox Ford.
Additional correspondence, 1938-1939, concerning the Estate of Rosa Gomprecht (Julian Levi was a beneficiary) is filed with Financial Records (Series 5).
See Appendix for a list of selected correspondents from Series 2.1.
Appendix: Selected Correspondents from Series 2.1:
Included among Julian Levi's correspondence with museums and galleries, art schools, art organizations, artists, and friends and colleagues are the following correspondents.
Abbott, Berenice (1929-1930)
Alan Gallery (1955)
American Academy in Rome (1948-1949, 1958-1960, 1962-1963, 1967-1971)
American Artists' Congress (1937, 1940-1941, undated)
American Federation of Arts (1940, 1942-1944, 1953)
An American Group, Inc. (1933-1934, 1937, 1939-1941, 1947, 1950-1951, undated)
Arms, John Taylor (1946, 1949)
Art Institute of Chicago (1934, 1937-1938, 1940-1941, 1943)
Art Students' League (1948-1949, 1954, 1957-1958, 1960, 1962, 1964-1966, 1968-1970, 1972, 1977-1978, 1981, undated)
Associated American Artists (1941, 1943-1945, 1966, 1972)
Baskin, Leonard (1952, 1962)
Bearden, Romare (1974)
Biddle, George (1969, undated)
Blitzstein, Marc (1928, 1930, 1934)
Blume, Peter and Ebie (1935-1938, 1940, 1949, 1958-1960, 1962, 1967, 1971, undated)
Borie, Adolphe (1927)
Boulevard (see: Moss, Arthur)
Calder, Alexander (1941, 1943, 1945, 1962)
Carnegie Institute (1940-1941, 1943-1950)
Century Association (1963-1967, 1970-1973, 1978-1981)
Speight, Francis (1936, 1966, 1969, 1976, undated)
Telemaque, Herve (1960-1961, 1966, 1971, undated)
Treasury Department, Section of Fine Arts (1943)
United American Artists (1940-1941)
Watkins, Franklin C. and Ida (1926, 1937, 1941, 1964-1965, 1969, undated)
Weber, Max (1939, 1942, 1949)
Whitney Museum of American Art/Juliana Force (1935, 1937-1938, 1940-1942, 1944-1945, 1953, 1974)
Works Progress Administration (1936-1937, 1939-1940)
Wright, Russell (1940-1941)
Zorach, William (1943)
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. office.
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Collection Citation:
Julian E. Levi papers, 1846-1981. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz research material on New Deal art, circa 1974-1999. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
