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Creator:

Knaths, Karl, 1891-  Search this

Subject:

Einstein, Carl  Search this

Hofmann, Hans  Search this

Phillips, Marjorie  Search this

Mondrian, Piet  Search this

Mocsanyi, Paul  Search this

Meierhans, Joseph  Search this

Mehler, F. A.  Search this

Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich  Search this

Knaths, Karl  Search this

Phillips, Duncan  Search this

Roseberg, Paul and Company  Search this

Type:

Diaries

Sketchbooks

Paintings

Manuscripts

Prints

Sketches

Transcripts

Citation:

Karl Knaths papers, 1890-1973, bulk 1922-1971. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Painting -- Study and teaching  Search this

Painting -- Technique  Search this

Cubism  Search this

Art -- Technique  Search this

Color in art  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Theme:

Diaries  Search this

Sketches & Sketchbooks  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7754

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209919

AAA_collcode_knatkarp

Theme:

Diaries

Sketches & Sketchbooks

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209919

Creator:

Mazur, Michael, 1935-2009  Search this

Subject:

Mazur, Gail  Search this

Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center  Search this

Type:

Drawings

Sketchbooks

Diaries

Interviews

Citation:

Michael Mazur papers, circa 1936-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7863

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210030

AAA_collcode_mazumich

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210030

Creator:

Moffett, Ross E., 1888-1971  Search this

Moffett, Dorothy Lake Gregory, 1893-1975  Search this

Subject:

Moffett, Dorothy Lake Gregory  Search this

Del Deo, Josephine Couch  Search this

Rehn, Frank Knox Morton  Search this

Burchfield, Charles Ephraim  Search this

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)  Search this

Moffett, Ross (Art in narrow streets)  Search this

Provincetown Art Association  Search this

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

Federal Art Project (U.S.)  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Sketches

Sketchbooks

Slides (photographs)

Place:

Cape Cod National Seashore (Mass.)

Florida -- Pictorial works

Provincetown (Mass.)

Citation:

Ross and Dorothy Lake Gregory Moffett papers, circa 1870-1992. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Illustrators  Search this

Muralists -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Works of art  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Art students -- New York N.Y. -- Photographs  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Theme:

Diaries  Search this

Sketches & Sketchbooks  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8010

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210179

AAA_collcode_moffross

Theme:

Diaries

Sketches & Sketchbooks

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210179

Creator:

Gurr, Lena, 1897-1992  Search this

Subject:

Model, Elisabeth D. (Elisabeth Dittmann)  Search this

Lozowick, Louis  Search this

Lawrence, Jacob  Search this

Kent, Rockwell  Search this

Jones, Joe  Search this

Ward, Lynd  Search this

Von Wicht, John  Search this

Soyer, Raphael  Search this

Norman, Maria  Search this

Ehrenreich, Emma  Search this

Block, Dorothy  Search this

Biel, Joseph  Search this

Baron, Herman  Search this

Harkavy, Minna  Search this

Grosz, George  Search this

Force, Juliana  Search this

Fabri, Ralph  Search this

Ascher, Mary G. (Mary Goldman)  Search this

Allen, Mary Cecil  Search this

Knaths, Karl  Search this

John Reed Club  Search this

New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)  Search this

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

ACA Galleries  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Prints

Interviews

Christmas cards

Sketchbooks

Phonograph records

Place:

New York (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works

Citation:

Lena Gurr papers, 1908-1979. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Works of art  Search this

Painting, American -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  Search this

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

Women artists  Search this

Women photographers  Search this

Women printmakers  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Theme:

Sketches & Sketchbooks  Search this

Women  Search this

Photography  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8997

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211186

AAA_collcode_gurrlena

Theme:

Sketches & Sketchbooks

Women

Photography

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211186

Creator:

Camins, Jacques Joseph, 1904-1988  Search this

Subject:

Greenwood, Marion  Search this

Refregier, Anton  Search this

Teichman, Sabina  Search this

Brigadier, Anne  Search this

Moy, Seong  Search this

Botkin, Henry  Search this

Kaplan, Joseph  Search this

Marantz, Irving  Search this

Wilson, Sol  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Motion pictures

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Citation:

Jacques Joseph Camins films and posters, circa 1965. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- History -- United States  Search this

Art, American -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  Search this

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10054

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212915

AAA_collcode_camijacq

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_212915

Interviewee:

Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Names:

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

Bellows, George, 1882-1925  Search this

Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980  Search this

Dasburg, Andrew, 1887-1979  Search this

Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970  Search this

Hawthorne, Charles Webster, 1872-1930  Search this

Lie, Jonas, 1880-1940  Search this

Miller, Kenneth Hayes, 1876-1952  Search this

Extent:

2 Sound tape reels (Sound recording, analog, 5 in.)

39 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound tape reels

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1973 May 8

Scope and Contents:

Interview of Peggy Bacon conducted 1973 May 8, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art, in Cape Porpoise, Maine. Bacon speaks of her family and educational background; summer art classes in Provincetown, Massachusetts and Woodstock, New York; the Art Students League; the Provincetown Players; working in black and white; her drawings, drypoints, etchings, and caricatures; her illustrated books including, "Off With Their Heards"; cats as subjects; and her husband Alexander Brook. She recalls George Bellows, Andrew Dasburg, Edith Gregor Halpert, Charles Webster Hawthorne, Jonas Lie, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Peggy Bacon (1895-1987) was a printmaker from Cape Porpoise, Maine.

General:

Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 9 min.

Provenance:

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

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Occupation:

Printmakers -- New York (State) -- Woodstock  Search this

Illustrators -- New York (State) -- Woodstock  Search this

Caricaturists -- New York (State) -- Woodstock  Search this

Authors -- New York (State) -- Woodstock  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women authors  Search this

Women printmakers  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.bacon73

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw92e25c184-dfa9-43ef-b2b6-00ad02457bcc

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-bacon73

Interviewee:

Maril, Herman  Search this

Interviewer:

Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994  Search this

Names:

Cummington School of the Arts -- Faculty  Search this

King-Smith Playhouse and School of Theatre Arts (Washington, D.C.) -- Faculty  Search this

Maryland Institute, College of Art -- Students  Search this

Philadelphia Museum of Art -- Faculty  Search this

Washington Workshop Center for the Arts -- Faculty  Search this

Argento, Mino, 1927-  Search this

Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-  Search this

Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906  Search this

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997  Search this

Dows, Olin, 1904-1981  Search this

Giotto, 1266?-1337  Search this

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944  Search this

Kline, Franz, 1910-1962  Search this

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954  Search this

O'Hara, Eliot, 1890-1969  Search this

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962  Search this

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945  Search this

Extent:

39 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1965 September 5

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Herman Maril conducted 1965 September 5, by Dorothy Seckler, for the Archives of American Art.

Maril speaks of growing up in Baltimore, Maryland.; attending the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts; visiting museums in the Washington, D.C. area; exhibiting his paintings in Washington, D.C. galleries and New York City galleries; working for the Treasury Art Project; surviving the Great Depression; teaching at the Cummington School of Art in Cummington, Massachusetts; serving in the Army Air Corps during WWII; painting murals with the Public Buildings Administration; teaching at the King-Smith School, the Washington Workshop of the Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the University of Maryland; living in Provincetown; painting and his influences; being interviewed for books and a short film. Maril also recalls Roger Frye, Paul Cézanne, Henry Roben, Charles Walther, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Edward Rowan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chaim Gross, Henri Matisse, Piero della Francesca, Mino Argento, Olin Dows, Giotto di Bondone, Georges Henri Rouault, Wassily Kandinksy, Charles Walthrop, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Eliot O'Hara, Sheldon Cheney, Florence Watson, Jacques Lipchitz, Mason F. Lord, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Herman Maril (1908-1986) was a painter and printmaker from Baltimore, Maryland.

General:

Originally recorded on 1 sound tape. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr.

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.

Occupation:

Painters -- Maryland -- Baltimore  Search this

Printmakers -- Maryland -- Baltimore  Search this

Topic:

Depressions -- 1929  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.

Identifier:

AAA.maril65

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9647c5ac2-0507-4014-9bb0-163cd7730a2a

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-maril65

Interviewee:

Mazur, Michael, 1935-2009  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F  Search this

Subject:

Harvard University  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Michael Mazur, 1993 Jan. 12-1995 Feb. 3. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Painters -- Massachusetts -- Interviews  Search this

Prints -- Technique -- Study and teaching  Search this

Prints -- 20th century  Search this

Prints, American  Search this

Painting, American  Search this

Graphic artists -- Massachusetts -- Interviews  Search this

Printmakers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12731

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)215791

AAA_collcode_mazur93

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_215791

Interviewee:

Mazur, Michael, 1935-2009  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F.  Search this

Names:

Harvard University -- Faculty  Search this

Extent:

49 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1993 Jan. 12-1995 Feb. 3

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Michael Mazur conducted 1993 Jan. 12-1995 Feb. 3, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.

Mazur remembers growing up as the only child in a well-to-do Jewish family in Manhattan; his demanding education at the Horace Mann School where he worked on a literary magazine with Edward Koren, the cartoonist; studying with an artist in Greenwich Village; and his early determination to be an artist. Academic challenges and social conservatism at Amherst College (B.A. 1958), where he studied printmaking and drawing with Leonard Baskin, an arrogant and limited artist, and working to his advantage with the gifted young printer, George Lockwood, in Baskin's studio. The year of self-directed study in Florence, Italy, and the lasting effect on him of the great European art tradition; his marriage to the poet, Gail Mazur; being a student at the Yale School of Art (BFA 1959, MFA 1961) and the contrast of the teaching methods of the autocratic Josef Albers and the congenial Gabor Peterdi; and his valuable experience as a volunteer assistant to Naum Gabo, who introduced him to monoprints. Teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design (1961-64) and the faculty there; and the development of his first well-known work, the "Locked Ward" series of prints, based on observation at mental hospitals. Teaching at Brandeis University (1965-75) and his involvement in Vietnam War era politics; and the various genres of his paintings and prints in the 1970s and 1980s and what he feels to be the essence of his work. The speed with which the "Branching" series of paintings and drawings was done and which was perhaps based on his observations of his vascular system as he underwent angioplasty in January 1993; the ambiguity of their space; being titled only post-facto; the equal importance of every part of a composition and the use of a very limited palette; and his affinity to artists Brice Marden and Richard Diebenkorn. Recent paintings which are a continuation of his "Branching" series, but influenced by a 13th century Chinese painting at Princeton University and which has led him to cease making preliminary studies and into greater abstraction; his illustrations in monotype for Robert Pinsky's translation of Dante's INFERNO, 1992-3 and his long interest in the INFERNO; development of the New Provincetown Print Project beginning in 1988 (a two-week workshop for artists who work on monoprints with master printer Robert Townsend and Mazur at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Mass.); and his improvisational method of teaching at Harvard University.

Biographical / Historical:

Michael Mazur (1935-2009) was a painter, graphic artist, and art instructor of Cambridge, Mass.

General:

Originally recorded on 6 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 12 digital wav files. Duration is 9 hrs., 14 min.

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.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Occupation:

Art teachers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Painters -- Massachusetts -- Interviews  Search this

Prints -- Technique -- Study and teaching  Search this

Prints -- 20th century  Search this

Prints, American  Search this

Painting, American  Search this

Graphic artists -- Massachusetts -- Interviews  Search this

Printmakers -- Massachusetts -- 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.

Identifier:

AAA.mazur93

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw952afeb76-def6-45fc-a0e1-27a512e59d13

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-mazur93

Interviewee:

Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul, 1933-1997  Search this

Subject:

Bellows, George  Search this

Brook, Alexander  Search this

Dasburg, Andrew  Search this

Halpert, Edith Gregor  Search this

Hawthorne, Charles Webster  Search this

Lie, Jonas  Search this

Miller, Kenneth Hayes  Search this

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

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Peggy Bacon, 1973 May 8. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women authors  Search this

Women printmakers  Search this

Theme:

Women  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12376

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211938

AAA_collcode_bacon73

Theme:

Women

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_211938

Interviewee:

Moy, Seong, 1921-  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul, 1933-1997  Search this

Subject:

Booth, Cameron  Search this

Hayter, Stanley William  Search this

Hofmann, Hans  Search this

Vytlacil, Vaclav  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Seong Moy, 1971 Jan. 18-28. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Asian American art  Search this

Asian American artists  Search this

Chinese American art  Search this

Chinese American artists  Search this

Asian American painters  Search this

Asian American printmakers  Search this

Printmakers -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  Search this

Theme:

Asian American  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12341

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212912

AAA_collcode_moy71

Theme:

Asian American

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_212912

Interviewee:

Moy, Seong  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Names:

Booth, Cameron, 1892-1980  Search this

Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988  Search this

Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966  Search this

Vytlacil, Vaclav, 1892-1984  Search this

Extent:

69 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1971 Jan. 18-28

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Seong Moy conducted 1971 Jan. 18-28, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.

Moy speaks of his childhood in Canton, China; his immigration to Minnesota; the art scene in Minneapolis and Saint Paul in the 1930s; his education; the influence of his teachers, including Cameron Booth, Hans Hofmann, and Vaclav Vytlacil; the influence of Stanley William Hayter; being introduced to printmaking by the WPA art project in Minnesota; his service as a photographer in World War II; his teaching philosophy; and the art scene in Provincetown in the 1970s.

Biographical / Historical:

Seong Moy (1921-2013) was a Chinese American painter and printmaker based in New York City, New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. Moy was born in Canton, China. He studied at the St. Paul School of Art, Hans Hofmann School of Art and the Art Students League. He was also the director of the Seong Moy School of Painting and Graphics, Provincetown, Massachusetts in the summer.

General:

Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 19 min.

Provenance:

These interviews are part of the Archives' 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.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Occupation:

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

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

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Asian American art  Search this

Asian American artists  Search this

Chinese American art  Search this

Chinese American artists  Search this

Asian American painters  Search this

Asian American printmakers  Search this

Printmakers -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  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.

Identifier:

AAA.moy71

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b8ddcaa2-93d4-4aa3-a1b6-c54c4e7532c8

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-moy71

Interviewee:

Maril, Herman, 1908-1986  Search this

Interviewer:

Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994  Search this

Subject:

Argento, Mino  Search this

Cézanne, Paul  Search this

Cheney, Sheldon  Search this

De Kooning, Willem  Search this

Dows, Olin  Search this

Giotto  Search this

Gross, Chaim  Search this

Kandinsky, Wassily  Search this

Kline, Franz  Search this

Matisse, Henri  Search this

O'Hara, Eliot  Search this

Roosevelt, Eleanor  Search this

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)  Search this

Cummington School of the Arts  Search this

King-Smith Playhouse and School of Theatre Arts (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Maryland Institute, College of Art  Search this

Philadelphia Museum of Art  Search this

Washington Workshop Center for the Arts  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Herman Maril, 1965 September 5. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Depressions -- 1929  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)11701

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214124

AAA_collcode_maril65

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_214124

Creator:

Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987  Search this

Names:

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

Kraushaar Galleries  Search this

Alder, Jules  Search this

Bacon, Charles Roswell, 1868-1913  Search this

Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980  Search this

Bunner, Rudolph Francis  Search this

Lay, Charles Downing, 1877-1956  Search this

Remsen, Ira, 1846-1927  Search this

Schmidt, Katherine, 1898-1978  Search this

Varian, Dorothy, 1895-1985  Search this

Extent:

4 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Drawings

Date:

1893-1973

bulk 1900-1936

Summary:

The papers of printmaker, illustrator, caricaturist, and writer Peggy Bacon measure 3.6 linear feet and date from 1893 to 1973, with the bulk of materials dating from 1900 to 1936. Much of the collection consists of family correspondence, although writings, photographs, artwork, and personal business records from Bacon's late career are also found.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of printmaker, illustrator, caricaturist, and writer Peggy Bacon measure 3.6 linear feet and date from 1893 to 1973, with the bulk of materials dating from 1900 to 1936. Much of the collection consists of family correspondence, although writings, photographs, artwork, and personal business records from Bacon's late career are also found.

Correspondence is found between Peggy Bacon and her parents, Elizabeth and Charles Roswell Bacon. Letters to her mother describe in detail her life as an art student and artist at the Art Students League; summer schools in Port Jefferson, Long Island and Provincetown, Massachusetts; the Woodstock artists' colony; and her early years in New York City. Letters from her husband, Alexander Brook, to her mother are also present. Letters to Bacon include letters from her early teacher Jonas Lie, and from friends and fellow artists Catherine Wiley, Dorothy Varian, Katherine Schmidt, Anne Rector Duffy, and others. Her parents' extensive correspondence includes letters to her father from the artists Jules Adler, Rudolph Bunner, Ira Remsen, and Charles Downing Lay.

The collection also contains Peggy Bacon's school reports and writing assignments, a marriage certificate, scattered poetry manuscripts and notes by Peggy Bacon, and fiction manuscripts by Charles Roswell Bacon. Personal business records date from the 1960s and 1970s and include publisher's royalty statements, gallery sales statements, and scattered business correspondence with Antoinette Kraushaar and other staff at the Kraushaar Galleries. Photographs depict Bacon and her family, friends, homes, and works of art. Artwork includes several original drawings and sketches by Bacon, as well as artwork by Alexander Brook, Charles Roswell Bacon, and others.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into 7 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1893-1913 (Box 1; 2 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1893-1939, 1969-1972 (Boxes 1-3; 3 linear feet)

Series 3: Personal Business Records, 1897-1934, 1963-1972 (Box 4; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 4: Writings, 1905-1920 (Boxes 4-5; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 5: Printed Material, 1905-1935, 1973 (Box 5; 3 folders)

Series 6: Photographs, circa 1900-1963 (Box 5, OV 6; 4 folders)

Series 7: Artwork, undated (Box 5, OVs 6-8; 9 folders)

Biographical Note:

Peggy Bacon was born in 1895 in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and grew up an only child after the death of two younger brothers in infancy. Her parents, Charles Roswell Bacon and Elizabeth Chase Bacon, had met at the Art Students League, where her father had studied with Robert Henri. Her father pursued a career in painting and writing until his suicide in 1913, and her mother painted miniatures.

A child of artists, Bacon began to draw at a very early age, and by age ten she was already earning money for her illustrations, drawings of literary characters made for dinner place cards. She did not attend school until 1909, when her parents sent her to a boarding school in Summit, New Jersey. She began her formal art training shortly after her father's death, enrolling in the School of Applied Arts for Women at the end of 1913. In the summer of 1914, she attended Jonas Lie's landscape class in Port Jefferson, Long Island, and continued private studies with him in New York City. Lie gave Bacon her first solo exhibition in 1915. From 1915 until 1920, she studied at the Art Students League under John Sloan, Kenneth Hayes Miller, George Bellows, Mahroni Young, and others. In the summers, she took classes first in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and then in Woodstock, New York, where she studied with Andrew Dasburg.

Bacon's circle was formed at the Art Students League, and the League's summer school in Woodstock. She met her husband, Alexander Brook, in Woodstock, and they were married in 1920. Both were active in the Woodstock Artists Association. Other artists in their close-knit group included Dorothea Schwarz (Greenbaum), Anne Rector (Duffy), Betty Burroughs (Woodhouse), Katherine Schmidt (Kuniyoshi Shubert), Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Molly Luce, Dorothy Varian, Edmund Duffy, Dick Dyer, David Morrison, and Andrew Dasburg. Many from this group were involved in the short-lived satirical magazine at the League called Bad News, published in 1918 with several of Bacon's earliest satirical drawings. Her first book, The True Philosopher and Other Cat Tales, was published in 1919. Brook and Bacon traveled to England in 1920, where their daughter Belinda was born. A son, Sandy, was born in Woodstock in 1922. In the early 1920s, Brook worked with Juliana Force at the Whitney Studio Club, and they were involved in the cultural life that sprang up around the gallery, which featured up-and-coming artists. For many years, Bacon and her family split their time between New York and Woodstock, and later summered in Cross River, NY. After divorcing Brook in 1940, Bacon spent summers in Ogunquit, Maine.

Though she initially thought of herself as a painter, she built her reputation on her drawings and prints, which often satirized the people around her in their natural habitats - artists in life classes, at dances, and in social situations, or a throng of people in a museum, on a city sidewalk, or a ship's deck. She became sought after for her illustrations and witty, topical verse in magazines such as Dial, Delineator, The New Yorker, New Republic, Fortune, and Vanity Fair. She helped to establish the American Print Makers, an artists' organization based in the Downtown Gallery which sought greater exhibition opportunities for printmakers. Bacon illustrated over sixty books, nineteen of which she also wrote, between 1919 and 1966, including many children's books and a successful mystery novel called The Inward Eye (1952). In 1933 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and used it to complete a collection of caricatures of art world figures called Off With Their Heads (1934), the success of which prompted a spate of commissions for caricatures. Bacon stopped making caricatures in 1935, but they include some of her best-known work.

Bacon exhibited frequently, in New York and in major museum exhibitions nationally, showing her prints, drawings, pastels, and watercolors. She had over thirty solo exhibitions at such venues as Montross Gallery, Alfred Stieglitz's Intimate Gallery, and the Downtown Gallery, and was represented by Rehn Galleries and later Kraushaar Galleries. Bacon also taught extensively in the 1930s and 1940s, at the Fieldston School, Art Students League, Hunter College, Temple University, the Corcoran Gallery, and other places. In the 1950s, she returned to painting. She made her last prints in 1955. In the early 1970s, Bacon's eyesight failed, and she eventually went to live with her son in Cape Porpoise, Maine. She died in 1987.

Related Material:

Among the other resources relating to Peggy Bacon in the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Bacon, May 8, 1973; and letters to Bernice and Harry Lurie from Peggy Bacon, 1969-1977. Additional Peggy Bacon papers are available at Syracuse University.

Provenance:

The collection was donated by Peggy Bacon in 1973 and Kraushaar Galleries in 2008.

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.

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:

Printmakers -- New York (State) -- Woodstock  Search this

Illustrators -- New York (State) -- Woodstock  Search this

Caricaturists -- New York (State) -- Woodstock  Search this

Authors -- New York (State) -- Woodstock  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Works of art  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women authors  Search this

Women printmakers  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Drawings

Citation:

Peggy Bacon papers, 1893-1972. 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.bacopegg

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw90c2a3bfc-4dd1-4ec7-8a53-a42044f90398

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-bacopegg

Interviewee:

Warthen, Ferol Sibley, 1890-1986  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Ferol Sibley Warthen, 1981 September 3. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Printmakers -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown -- Interviews  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12725

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213181

AAA_collcode_warthe81

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_213181

Creator:

Day, Worden, 1916-1986  Search this

Names:

Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts  Search this

Montclair Art Museum  Search this

State University of Iowa  Search this

Barnet, Will, 1911-2012  Search this

Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010  Search this

Dehner, Dorothy, 1901-1994  Search this

Fish, Alice  Search this

Foster, Betty  Search this

Fuller, Sue (1914-2006)  Search this

Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966  Search this

Lasansky, Mauricio, 1914-  Search this

Minewski, Alex, 1917-1979  Search this

Moy, Seong  Search this

Peterdi, Gabor  Search this

Rupprecht, Edgar A.  Search this

Rupprecht, Isabell  Search this

Sarton, May, 1912-  Search this

Schrag, Karl  Search this

Thurn, Ernest  Search this

Vytlacil, Vaclav, 1892-1984  Search this

Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-  Search this

Extent:

3.5 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Interviews

Motion pictures (visual works)

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Sketchbooks

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Woodcuts

Date:

circa 1935-1992

Summary:

The papers of sculptor, painter and printmaker Worden Day (1916-1986) measure 3.5 linear feet and date from circa 1935-1992. The collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, writings, printed material, scrapbooks, photographic material, sketchbooks, and audiovisual material.

There is a 1.0 linear foot additon, circa 1951-1992, donated in 2020 containing further papers of Worden Day.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of sculptor, painter and printmaker Worden Day (1916-1986) measure 3.5 linear feet and date from circa 1935-1992. The collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, writings, printed material, scrapbooks, photographic material, sketchbooks, and audiovisual material.

Included are biographical material consisting of resumes and an address book. Correspondence is with colleagues, curators, and museum directors including Will Barnet, Carl Zigrosser, May Sarton, Dorothy Dehner, Louise Bourgeois, Sue Fuller, among others. Writings by Day are about sculpture and painting, among them four unpublished manuscripts "Pop Art as an American Cultural Phenomenon," "What is a Print," "The Found Dimension- Aspects in the Development of Modern American Sculpture," and "New Expressions of Woodcut," and reviews for exhibitions written by Day for Art News. Also found in the collection are printed materials; scrapbooks; photographs of Day, her works and photograph albums; and three sketchbooks. Audiovisual material is arranged with biographical material and includes a taped interview on audio cassette with Day and one reel of motion picture film (also available as digital files), "Printmakers," presented by United States Information Service, 1961, showing American printmakers Mauricio Lasansky, Day, Karl Schrag, Seong Moy and Gabor Petredi at work and students in the School of Graphic Arts at the State University of Iowa, founded by Lasansky. Also arranged with biographical material is a file relating to an exhibition on the work of painter Vaclav Vytlacil organized by Day in 1975 at the Montclair Art Museum containing correspondence; letter fragments from Alex Minewski; writings by Vytlacil regarding his career and work with Hans Hofmann; an audio cassette; photographs of Vytlacil, Hofmann teaching in Munich, Ed and Isabell Rupprecht, Ernest Thurn, Betty Foster, and Alice Fish at the Hofmann School of Fine Arts, Munich; and the exhibition catalog.

There is a 1.0 linear foot additon, circa 1951-1992, donated in 2020 containing further papers of Worden Day.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as eight series

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1960-1986 (Box 1, FC6; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1953-1977 (Box 1; 1 folder)

Series 3: Writings, 1955-1985 (Box 1; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 4: Printed Material, 1949-1983 (Box 1; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1940-1984 (Boxes 1, 4; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 6: Photographic Material, 1935-1986 (Boxes 2-3; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 7: Sketchbooks, 1960-1986 (Boxes 3, 5; 0.4 linear feet)

Series 8: Unprocessed Addition, circa 1951-1992 (Box 7; 1.0 linear feet)

Biographical / Historical:

Worden Day (1916-1986) was a sculptor, painter, printmaker and curator in Montclair, New Jersey. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Day graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1934. She then moved to New York City, and over the next few decades, studied drawing with Maurice Sterne and George Grosz; drawing, painting, and printmaking with William Von Schlegell, Harry Sternberg, Hans Hofmann, Will Barnet, and Vaclav Vytlacil at the Art Students League; and etching with Stanley William Hayter at the New School for Social Research. After earning her M.A. from New York University in 1966, Day taught as an instructor and lecturer in color theory, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, design, collage, American art history, modern art theory, and women artists. Her written reviews and essays were featured in publications such as Art News, Art Voices, and Impressions, and she had solo exhibitions throughout the United States, including at the Smithsonian Institution, Baltimore Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, and Montclair Art Museum.

Provenance:

The papers were donated to the Archives of American Art from 1972-1983 by Worden Day. Additional material was donated in 2017 by Constance Duhamel, Day's friend. Additional material was donated in 2020 by the Maier Museum of Art at Randoph College via Constance Duhamel.

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. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.

Rights:

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

Occupation:

Landscape painters -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  Search this

Art museum curators  Search this

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Prints -- Technique  Search this

Painters -- New Jersey  Search this

Printmakers -- New Jersey  Search this

Sculptors--New Jersey  Search this

Sculpture  Search this

Art, Modern  Search this

Painting  Search this

Pop art  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Motion pictures (visual works)

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Sketchbooks

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Woodcuts

Citation:

Worden Day papers, 1935-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.dayword

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Worden Day papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9a6c6f8cb-63d3-4da6-ba8e-3b86ac3fb343

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-dayword

Creator:

Mazur, Michael, 1935-2009  Search this

Names:

Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center  Search this

Mazur, Gail  Search this

Extent:

22.2 Linear feet

22.83 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Drawings

Sketchbooks

Diaries

Interviews

Date:

circa 1936-2016

Summary:

The papers of artist Michael Mazur measure 22.2 linear feet and 22.83 gigabytes, and date from circa 1936 to 2016, documenting a studio and exhibition practice in addition to teaching and activism activities in both paper and digital formats in the following series: biographical materials, correspondence, studio records, gallery records, project records, affiliations, exhibition records, writings, printed materials, photographic materials, and artwork.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of artist Michael Mazur measure 22.2 linear feet and 22.83 gigabytes, and date from circa 1936 to 2016, documenting a studio and exhibition practice in addition to teaching and activism activities.

Biographical materials include documents related to Mazur's early education, trips to Europe, and development as an artist, as well as biographies, degrees and awards, with some materials in digital formats.

Correspondence is primarily professional in nature with institutions and fellow artists, including letters requesting Mazur's participation in exhibitions and other projects. Also included are extensive correspondence advocating for ecological preservation of the Massachusetts Cape Cod where Mazur had a home in Provincetown. Earlier correspondence includes letters with family members and friends. Some correspondence is digital.

Studio records include artwork inventories and documents regarding donations, appraisal and tax deduction information, as well as the artist's website. Gallery records contain correspondence and business documents with various commercial art galleries, including artwork images, mailing lists, price lists and guest books. Project records document various commissions and collaborations including perhaps Mazur's longest ongoing project, artwork, publications and exhibitions engaging with Dante's Inferno. Many of Mazur's professional records are in digital format.

The Affiliations series includes faculty appointments as well as ongoing board service for Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and other professional advising and project participation, including a Tamarind Lithography Workshop Fellowship in 1968. Many of the Fine Arts Work Center documents are digital.

Exhibition records document select exhibitions including Mazur's traveling print retrospective. In addition to correspondence and documents and agreements, select digital installation images and documents are also included.

The Writings series includes various essays, letters to the editor, and lectures by Mazur including student work, as well as essays and films discussing the artist's career and contributions, many in digital form. Also included are Mazur's journals kept for the entirety of his career.

Printed materials include exhibition announcements, catalogs and press, select published journals (some of which include contributions by Mazur), and publications for which Mazur has provided the cover artwork.

Photographic materials are both print and digital in nature and capture the breadth of Mazur's art production, organized by medium, genre, artwork series, subject and time period. The arrangement of digital photographs reflects the categories represented on the artist's website archive.

Artwork includes drawings, sketchbooks and watercolor pads, as well as artwork by others including a photographic portrait portfolio of Mazur by Brigitte Durer. Computer study images and source material in digital formats, are also included.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 11 series.

Series 1: Biographical Material, circa 1953-2006 (0.5 Linear Feet: Boxes 1, 21; 0.014 Gigabytes: ER001-ER002)

Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1940-2011 (3.8 Linear Feet: Boxes 1-4, 21, OV23; 0.008 Gigabytes: ER003)

Series 3 : Studio Records, circa 1962-2009 (1 Linear Feet: Box 5; 0.082 Gigabytes: ER004-ER006)

Series 4: Gallery Records, circa 1967-2009 (2 Linear Feet: Boxes 6-7; 0.028 Gigabytes: ER007-ER009)

Series 5: Project Records, circa 1983-2008 (1.3 Linear Feet: Boxes 8-9; 0.3 Gigabytes: ER010-ER015)

Series 6: Affiliations, circa 1966-2008 (0.7 Linear Feet: Box 9; 0.101 Gigabytes: ER016-ER019)

Series 7: Exhibition Records, circa 1958-2008 (0.7 Linear Feet: Box 10; 1.07 Gigabytes: ER020-ER032)

Series 8: Writings, circa 1952-2009 (2.7 Linear Feet: Boxes 10-13; 4.75 Gigabytes: ER033-ER052)

Series 9: Printed Material, circa 1945-2016 (2.1 Linear Feet: Boxes 13-15; 0.114 Gigabytes: ER053-ER054)

Series 10: Photographic Material, circa 1936-2016 (5.9 Linear Feet: Boxes 15-22, OV25-28; 14.26 Gigabytes: ER055-ER114)

Series 11: Artwork, circa 1941-2009 (0.4 Linear Feet: Boxes 20, 22; 2.1 Gigabytes: ER115-ER116)

Biographical / Historical:

Michael Mazur (1935-2009) was a prolific printmaker, painter, draughtsman, sculptor, and educator in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who beyond working across media, treated an equally diverse set of subjects in abstract and figurative traditions.

As a child in New York City's Upper East Side Mazur received an early art education at the Bronx's Horace Mann School. He received a bachelor's degree from Amherst College, as well as a bachelor's and master's degrees at the Yale School of Art. Mazur has held teaching positions at Rhode Island School of Design and Brandeis University, as well as a recurring visiting artist position at Harvard University's Carpenter Center. While attending Yale Mazur met his wife, poet Gail Mazur.

Mazur's work is held in museums and private collections throughout the world and has been exhibited widely at institutions including MoMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2000 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston launched a retrospective of Michael Mazur's prints traveling to various institutions including the the Minneapolis Art Institute and Stanford's Cantor Center. On the occasion of the show Hudson Hills Press published The Prints of Michael Mazur including a catalogue raisonné. A notable collaboration in Mazur's career drew from his career-long fascination with Dante. In 1993, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published The Inferno of Dante, translated by Robert Pinsky and illustrated with reproductions of monotypes by Michael Mazur. Later Mazur published an editioned suite of forty-one etchings, which was shown in various locations in Italy and throughout the United States.

In addition to their home in Cambridge, Michael and Gail maintained a home in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where they were deeply involved in the artistic community including the Fine Arts Work Center, as well as environmental issues impacting the region of Cape Cod. He is survived by his wife and his two children Kathe and Dan.

Provenance:

Papers were lent for microfilming 1977 and 1998 by Michael Mazur. Material on microfilm and additional papers donated 2018 by Gail Mazur, Michael Mazur's widow.

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:

Printmakers -- Massachusetts  Search this

Painters -- Massachusetts  Search this

Educators -- Massachusetts  Search this

Genre/Form:

Drawings

Sketchbooks

Diaries

Interviews

Citation:

Michael Mazur Papers, circa 1936-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.mazumich

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw956eb3553-0c70-493e-8d1a-52a377138f53

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-mazumich

Creator:

Moffett, Ross  Search this

Names:

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

Federal Art Project (U.S.)  Search this

Provincetown Art Association  Search this

Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967  Search this

Del Deo, Josephine Couch  Search this

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 -- Portraits  Search this

Moffett, Dorothy Lake Gregory, 1893-1975  Search this

Moffett, Ross (Art in narrow streets)  Search this

Rehn, Frank Knox Morton, 1848-1914  Search this

Extent:

7.7 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Sketches

Sketchbooks

Slides (photographs)

Place:

Cape Cod National Seashore (Mass.)

Florida -- Pictorial works

Provincetown (Mass.)

Date:

circa 1870-1992

Summary:

This collection measures 7.7 linear feet, dates from circa 1870 to 1992, and documents the life and career of painter Ross Moffett and, to a lesser extent, the life and career of his wife, painter, lithographer, etcher, and illustrator, Dorothy Lake Gregory Moffett. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, artwork including sketchbooks, and printed material including published writings, newspaper clippings, press releases, and exhibition catalogs.

Scope and Content Note:

The Ross and Dorothy Lake Gregory Moffett papers measure 7.7 linear feet and date from circa 1870 to 1992. Because Dorothy Moffett's papers were received separately they are filed together in Series 13. Series 1-12 deal primarily with the life and career of Ross Moffett. The collection documents Ross Moffett's participation in the Provincetown community as an artist and resident through correspondence, photographs, sketchbooks and printed material, including published writings, news clippings, press releases, and exhibition catalogs. The papers of Dorothy Moffett include family letters, photographs, a journal and original artwork providing scattered documentation of her life and career as an a printmaker and illustrator.

General correspondence primarily focuses on news and financial affairs of the Moffett family farm in Iowa. Also included are letters from Provincetown artist, Edwin Dickinson, and a small amount of correspondence with other artists, collectors and dealers.

Files documenting specific projects that Ross Moffett was involved with are arranged separately and include correspondence, printed material and photographs. Project files have been established for the following projects: the publication of Art in Narrow Streets, the Eisenhower mural, the Cape Cod National Seashore Park and the renovation of the Center Methodist Church.

The series of printed material, 1918-1992, relates to Ross Moffett's career as an artist and his general interest in art. Photographs primarily focus on scenes of Provincetown and include photographs of works of art by Provincetown artists. Also included are photographs of artwork by Moffett arranged chronologically, Moffett's studio in Provincetown, and installations at the Provincetown Art Association Galleries.

Artwork found in Series 10 and 11 includes drawings by Ross Moffett and 85 annotated sketchbooks, including four by Dorothy Moffett.

The collection also houses research notes and files written by Josephine Couch Del Deo in preparation of a biography of Ross Moffett. These annotations provide useful additional information about Moffett's life.

Papers of Dorothy Lake Gregory Moffett include Gregory family letters, Dorothy's correspondence with her father, and letters from other family and friends. Also found are drawings, lithographs and etchings by Dorothy and photographs of her family and friends.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into thirteen series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, circa 1888-1965 (box 1; 1 folder)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1915-1972 (box 1; 0.6 linear ft)

Series 3: Financial Material, 1933-1971 (box 1; 2 folders)

Series 4: Notebook/Notes, undated (box 1; 2 folders)

Series 5: Projects, 1880-1969, undated (boxes 1-2; 1.2 linear ft.)

Series 6: Subject File, 1960-1968 (box 2; 1 folder)

Series 7: Printed Material, 1916-1992, undated (boxes 2-4, 7; 1.5 linear ft.)

Series 8: Photographs, circa 1900-1975, undated (box 4; 15 folders)

Series 9: Slides of Art Association, Iowa Farmland and the Chrysler Museum, circa 1960, undated (box 4; 1 folder)

Series 10: Drawings, circa 1929-1934 (box 5; 1 folder)

Series 11: Sketchbooks, 1913-1969 (boxes 5-8; 2.5 linear ft.)

Series 12: Annotations/Item Descriptions by Josephine Couch Del Deo, undated (box 6; 2 folders)

Series 13: Dorothy Lake Gregory Moffett Papers, circa 1870-1975 (boxes 9-11; 0.7 linear ft.)

Biographical Note:

Ross Moffett (1888-1971) was an important figure in the development of modernism in American Art after World War I. His paintings primarily depict the life and landscapes of the Provincetown, Massachusetts area. Dorothy Lake Gregory Moffett is perhaps best known as a printmaker and illustrator of children's books and magazines.

Born in Iowa in 1888, Moffett trained at the Art Institute in Chicago and studied with Charles Hawthorne during the summer of 1913, in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Moffett then studied at the Art Students League and returned to Provincetown in 1915, to establish himself as an artist. He was one of the founders of the Provincetown Art Association and a leading figure in the art colony for many years. In 1920, Moffett married artist Dorothy Lake Gregory in Brooklyn, New York. Dorothy studied at the Pratt Institute and with Robert Henri and George Bellows in New York, and then went to Provincetown to study with Hawthorne as well.

During the 1920's and 1930's, Ross Moffett's success increased steadily and he had his first one-man show at the Frank Rehn Gallery in New York and also at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1928. He served on several exhibition juries around the country during this time. Between 1936 and 1938, Moffett painted four murals in two Massachusetts post offices for the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). Moffett received full membership to the National Academy of Design in 1942.

While Moffett's painting slowed somewhat during World War II he continued his involvement in the arts by maintaining the Provincetown Art Association. He taught briefly at the University of Miami in Ohio from 1932 to 1933, and returned to Provincetown to pursue painting full-time. In the 1950's, Moffett became interested in archaeology and even delivered a few lectures on the subject. During this time he continued to paint and his art reflected his preoccupation with the science of archaeology. In 1954, Moffett was one of two artists selected by the National Academy of Design to paint murals depicting President Dwight D. Eisenhower's life for the Eisenhower Memorial Museum in Abilene, Kansas. Moffett was chosen to portray Eisenhower's civilian life.

In 1960, Moffett became active in the movement to establish the 1400 acres known as the Province Lands as part of the Cape Cod National Seashore Park. After the park was established Moffett wrote and published a history of the first thirty-three years of the Provincetown Art Association in a book titled Art in Narrow Streets, 1964. He continued to serve as a juror for the Provincetown Art Association and was artist-in-residence for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center in 1970.

Dorothy Moffett also pursued a successful career in art, and publishers such as Rand McNally used her illustrations for youth magazines and childrens books, such as the classic Green Fairy Book. Her work was exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum, the National Academy, and the Brooklyn Museum, and her Alice in Wonderland series of lithographs was purchased for the permanent collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Though best known as a printmaker, Moffett also worked in oil.

Ross Moffett died of cancer on March 13, 1971.

Related Material:

Related resources in the Archives of American Art include a sound recording of a transcribed interview with Ross Moffett by Dorothy Seckler, August 27, 1962; and a sound recording of an untranscribed interview with Dorothy Lake Gregory Moffett by Robert F. Brown, September 22, 1972.

Separated Material:

The Archives of American Art also holds material lent for microfilming (reel D80) including 150 letters relating to art organizations, museums, and government art projects, news clippings, records of the Provincetown Art Association, and the Emergency Committee for the Protection of Province Lands, and miscellaneous publications. Lent materials were returned to Ross Moffett and are now housed at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. This material is not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:

Ross Moffett initally lent the Archives of American Art material for microfilming in 1962. The remainder of the collection was donated in 1974 by his widow, Dorothy Lake Gregory Moffett (died 1975), via Ross Moffett's biographer, Josephine Del Deo, who turned the papers over in installments. Archaeological material and artifacts received with the papers were donated to the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research. Patrons must use microfilm copy.

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 -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  Search this

Landscape painters -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  Search this

Topic:

Illustrators  Search this

Muralists -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Works of art  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Art students -- New York N.Y. -- Photographs  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Sketches

Sketchbooks

Slides (photographs)

Citation:

Ross and Dorothy Lake Gregory Moffett papers, circa 1870-1992. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.moffross

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Ross and Dorothy Lake Gregory Moffett papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ac321bdb-9882-4e93-bc33-19a933d21823

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-moffross

Interviewee:

Moffett, Dorothy Lake Gregory, 1893-1975  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F.  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (wav file (18 min.), digital)

11 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1972 Sept. 22

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Dorothy Lake Gregory Moffett conducted 1972 Sept. 22, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.

Biographical / Historical:

Dorothy Lake Gregory Moffett (1893-1975) was a painter, printmaker, and educator from Provincetown, Mass. Moffet was married to Ross Moffett.

General:

Originally recorded on 1 tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 18 min.

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 others.

Occupation:

Educators -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  Search this

Painters -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  Search this

Printmakers -- Massachusettes -- Provincetown  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women printmakers  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Women educators  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.moffet72

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw958391d40-99b7-41da-ba47-0c644e73ed08

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-moffet72

Creator:

Camins, Jacques Joseph, 1904-1988  Search this

Names:

Botkin, Henry, 1896-1983  Search this

Brigadier, Anne, 1908-1998  Search this

Greenwood, Marion, 1909-1970  Search this

Kaplan, Joseph, 1900-1980  Search this

Marantz, Irving, 1912-1972  Search this

Moy, Seong  Search this

Refregier, Anton, 1905-  Search this

Teichman, Sabina  Search this

Wilson, Sol  Search this

Extent:

0.5 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Interviews

Motion pictures

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Date:

circa 1965

Summary:

The Jacques Joseph Camins films and posters measure 0.5 linear feet and date to circa 1965. The collection is comprised of ten 16 mm motion picture films by Camins, including artists and scenes from Provincetown, Rockport, and Gloucester, Massachusetts, and other unidentified locations. Nine of the reels were compiled into a single reel to transfer to video, including eight color, silent reels containing footage of the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock, N.Y., Arnold Blanch and his students, Anton Refregier, Marion Greenwood, Howard Mandel, Julio de Diego, N. Dirk, Hans Hofmann, Morris Davidson, George Yeter, Seong Moy, and Karl Knaths. The ninth reel transferred to video contains black and white, silent home movies with family and beach scenes. A tenth reel, not transferred, is an edited film of Provincetown artists with music and narration, with footage of artists Seong Moy, Karl Knaths, Lily Harmon, Anne Brigadier, Sabina Teichman, Umberto Romano, Yeffe Kimball, Bruce McKain, Philip Malcoat, and others. Although it is an edited work, the film lacks a formal title. Also included are two original posters by Seong Moy and Anne Brigadier done for a screening of Camins's film on Provincetown; a sound tape reel (7") of an interview with Henry Botkin, Umberto Romano, Joseph Kaplan, Irving Marantz, Sol Wilson, Anne Brigadier, and Sabina Teichman, and a sound tape reel (7") of an interview of Karl Knaths, both conducted by Camins and untranscribed.

Scope and Contents:

The Jacques Joseph Camins films and posters measure 0.5 linear feet and date to circa 1965. The collection is comprised of ten 16 mm motion picture films by Camins, including artists and scenes from Provincetown, Rockport, Gloucester, Mass, and other unidentified locations. Nine of the reels were compiled into a single reel to transfer to video, including eight color, silent reels containing footage of the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock, N.Y., Arnold Blanch and his students, Anton Refregier, Marion Greenwood, Howard Mandel, Julio de Diego, N. Dirk, Hans Hofmann, Morris Davidson, George Yeter, Seong Moy, and Karl Knaths. The ninth reel transferred to video contains black and white, silent home movies with family and beach scenes. A tenth reel, not transferred, is an edited film of Provincetown artists with music and narration, with footage of artists Seong Moy, Karl Knaths, Lily Harmon, Anne Brigadier, Sabina Teichman, Umberto Romano, Yeffe Kimball, Bruce McKain, Philip Malcoat, and others. Although it is an edited work, the film lacks a formal title. Also included are two original posters by Seong Moy and Anne Brigadier done for a screening of Camins's film on Provincetown, Mass; a sound tape reel (7") of an interview with Henry Botkin, Umberto Romano, Joseph Kaplan, Irving Marantz, Sol Wilson, Anne Brigadier, and Sabina Teichman, and a sound tape reel (7") of an interview of Karl Knaths, both conducted by Camins and untranscribed.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as one series.

Biographical / Historical:

Jacques Joseph Camins (1904-1988) was a Russian-born american painter and printmaker who primarily lived and worked in the New York, New York area. He studied art in Paris and at the Art Students League.

Provenance:

The collection was donated to the archives in installments between 1975 and 1980 by Joseph Camins.

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 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:

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

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

Topic:

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- History -- United States  Search this

Art, American -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Motion pictures

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Citation:

Jacques Joseph Camins films and posters, circa 1965. 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.

Identifier:

AAA.camijacq

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Jacques Joseph Camins films and posters

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9900f0b7f-fbe3-472b-a9f1-d18cd4d3a0a2

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-camijacq