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Creator:

Bishop, Carl Whiting, 1881-1942  Search this

Names:

Bishop, Carl Whiting, 1881-1942  Search this

Tung, Kuang-zung.  Search this

Warner, Langdon (1881-1955)  Search this

Wenley, A. G. (Archibald Gibson), 1898-1962  Search this

Extent:

20 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Negatives

Photographic prints

Manuscript

Place:

China

Date:

1923-1934

Summary:

An associate curator and associate in archaeology at the Freer Gallery of Art from 1922 to 1942, the collection of Carl Whiting Bishop (1881-1942) document his Gallery-sponsored travels to China from 1923 to 1934 and include an unpublished manuscript describing his archaeological research in China; line drawings; rubbings; maps; note cards; and nearly 4,000 glass and film negatives with corresponding original silver prints. These document his expeditions in northern and central China, illustrating archaeological sites in Henan, Shanxi, and Hebei provinces. Specific digs include the large neolithic site at Wanquan, Shanxi, and sixth century C.E. tombs near Fenyin. Additional images show Chinese cityscapes, daily life and customs, topography, temples, pagodas, caves, and sculpture.

Scope and Contents:

The professional papers and official records of Carl Whiting Bishop include his unpublished two-volume manuscript, [not before 1940]; and photographs, nearly 4,000 images, 1915-1934; and undated. These materials document over a twenty-five year period in the course of Bishop's research and archaeological activities. They were retained at the Freer Gallery of Art after Bishop's death in 1942, and were supplemented with an addition received in 1956 from his widow Daisy Furscott Bishop.

The manuscript was prepared in a typescript format, over 421 pages of text, with photographic illustrations, and completed by Bishop sometime after 1939. Properly titled Archaeological Research in China 1923-1934, this unpublished manuscript constituted a field report that chronicled Bishop's Gallery-sponsored expeditions in northern and central China during the period 1923 to 1934. The reader is provided with a record of the day-to-day operations completed, of obstacles and opposition encountered, and the results obtained from their work. Key diplomatic and scientific representatives from the West and China are recorded who aided and contributed to the investigations. Moreover, there are descriptions of the academic, social and political climate in China during a period of civil war and economic strife. Against this background, Bishop also discussed their efforts in view of the history of China, with commentary on the country's geography, topography, climate, flora and fauna, mineral products, and ancient customs and legends.

The earliest still photographic prints in the Bishop Papers date from his employ at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, where he conducted archaeological reconnaissance from 1915 to 1918 in China, Korea, and Japan. All subsequent images were created or collected by Bishop and his assistant Kuang-zung Tung during the Freer Gallery-sponsored expeditions of 1923-1934. Further descriptions of these materials may be found under Series 2 and Series 3 in this finding aid.

In the transliteration into English of the names of Chinese characters, Bishop followed the Wade-Giles system, with a few exceptions to those rules for certain well known and commonly used place-names, especially those of cities, towns, territorial divisions, and bodies of water. We have retained Bishop's romanization except in certain areas where clarification was needed. The Chinese personal and place-names have been kept as they appeared in his captions.

Arrangement:

Series 1: Manuscript/Writings 1915-1934 and undated

Series 2: Photography Prints

Series 3: Negatives

Series 4: Drawings, Rubbings, and Maps

Biographical / Historical:

Carl Whiting Bishop (1881-1942) was an archaeologist, anthropologist, and specialist in the field of East Asian studies. Born in Tokyo, Japan, on July 12, 1881, he was the son of a Methodist missionary, the Reverend Charles Bishop. Except for a twelve-month residence in the United States during 1889-90, Bishop spent the first sixteen years of his life in Japan, before returning to this country in 1898 for college preparatory work at Northwestern Academy, Evanston, Illinois. He studied at Hampden-Sydney College and in 1912 received an A.B. degree from DePauw University. In 1913 he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts by the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, where he studied with the noted German anthropologist, Franz Boas (1858-1942). That same year he received his first scientific appointment as a member of the Peabody Museum Expedition to Central America.

From 1914-18 Bishop served as Assistant Curator in Oriental Art at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, where on an expedition for that museum he made his first trip to China. Under the auspices of the university, he conducted archaeological reconnaissance during 1915 and 1916 in China, Korea, and Japan, and again conducted archaeological surveys in 1917 and 1918, although no systematic excavations were carried out at that time. When the United States entered World War I on the side of the Allied Powers, Bishop enlisted in the United States Navy and was made assistant naval attaché, serving in China in the years 1918-20, with the rank of lieutenant, junior grade. He returned to Columbia University in 1921 to assume the position of Assistant in Anthropology, a post he held until the end of the academic season in 1922.

Effective 10 April 1922, Bishop was appointed as Associate Curator of the Freer Gallery of Art by then director John Ellerton Lodge (1878-1942). Asked to undertake important archaeological work, Bishop headed the gallery's first expedition to China, sponsored jointly by the FGA and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, lasting from 20 February 1923 to 6 August 1927. From 16 November 1929 to 11 April 1934, he headed another expedition, sent out this time by the Freer Gallery alone. When conditions in China made further efforts impractical, Bishop returned to Washington in 1934, where he remained at the gallery as Associate in Archaeology until the time of his death on 16 June 1942.

Carl Whiting Bishop was a member of a number of learned societies: the American Oriental Society, the American Archaeological Society, the Anthropological Society, the American Society for the Advancement of Science, the American Geographical Society, and he served on the advisory board of the American Council of Learned Societies until his death.

1881, July 12 -- Born in Tokyo, Japan

1898 -- Attends Northwestern Academy in Evanston, Illinois for college preparatory work Attends Hampden-Sydney College

1912 -- Receives A.B. degree from DePauw University

1913 -- Receives Master of Arts from Department of Anthropology from Columbia University, where he studied with Franz Boas

1914 -- Begins serving as Assistant Curator in Oriental Art at the University of Pennsylvania Museum

1915-1918 -- Makes several archaeological survey trips to China, Korea and Japan

1918-1920 -- Enlists in the U.S. Navy, serving as assistant naval attaché in China

1921 -- Serves as Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Columbia University

1922, April 10 -- Becomes Associate Curator of the Freer Gallery of Art

1923-1927 -- Heads the Freer Gallery's first expedition to China, co-sponsored by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

1929-1934 -- Heads the second Freer-sponsored expedition to China

1934 -- Returns to US and serves as Associate in Archaeology at the Freer Gallery of Art

1942, June 16 -- Dies.

Related Materials:

Additional Bishop material may be found in the following collections also found in the the Archives of the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery:

Li Chi Reports, 1926-1929, regarding Li's reconnaissance work at Shi-yin Ts'un, Shansi Province, and the excavation at Anyang.

Archibald Gibson Wenley Papers, 1924-1926, including field diaries, notes, and photographs documenting his participation in the FGA expedition work in China.

Charles Lang Freer Papers, including 1915 correspondence between Freer and Bishop; newspaper clippings related to Bishop, and documents dated 1912-1913, relating to Freer's support for a proposed American School of Archeology in China.

A number of objects from the FGA expeditions, including bronzes, ceramics, and stone sculpture, have been accessioned into the permanent art collection of the Freer Gallery of Art. Additionally, remnants of antiquities, potteries, and metalwork accumulated during the field work, have been placed in the Freer Gallery Study Collection. Records for these items are retained with the Galleries' Registrar's Office.

Additional Bishop material may be found in the Smithsonian Institutional Archives:

Expedition Records, including correspondence of Carl Whiting Bishop, 1914; 1923-1942, nearly 3,000 letters arranged alphabetically by correspondent name; a manuscript catalogue of expedition acquisitions, Peking, 1923-1925; financial records, 1923-1934, including expedition fund ledgers, account statements, and receipts; and newspaper clippings, 1924-1932, documenting the gallery's field work and general archaeological work being conducted around the world at that time.

Smithsonian Institutional Archives, Central Files, Bishop folders, 1923-1942, including expedition letters, field reports, and photographs sent to John E. Lodge.

Personnel and Special Events Photograph Collection, containing portrait photographs of Bishop.

Additional Bishop matieral may be found in the University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives, Philadelphia:

Documentation of University of Pennsylvania Museum-sponsored field work in East Asia may be found there that includes records of C.W. Bishop, dated 1914-1927 (measuring about .5 linear foot), much of it created during his tenure as the Museum's Assistant Curator of Oriental Art from 1914-1918. Included are Bishop's journals consisting of daily entries for two trips to China for the University of Pennsylvania Museum; letters to and from G.B. Gordon, C.W. Harrison, and Jane McHugh, written during Bishop's travel in China and subsequent to his return; and detailed financial accounts of expenditures during the China travels. Additionally, the repository houses a group of Bishop's negatives taken in China to visually record the expedition work.

Provenance:

Gift of Carl Whiting Bishop.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Permission to reproduce and publish an item from the Archives is coordinated through the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's Rights and Reproductions department. Please contact the Archives in order to initiate this process.

Topic:

Archaeology  Search this

Archaeological expeditions  Search this

Archaeology -- China  Search this

Photography -- China  Search this

Genre/Form:

Negatives

Photographic prints

Manuscript

Citation:

The Carl Whiting Bishop Collection. FSA.A.02. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

Identifier:

FSA.A.02

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Carl Whiting Bishop Collection

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc31125ea37-fbdf-4cd0-b413-1b022a34356b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-fsa-a-02

Creator:

Maury, Curt  Search this

Extent:

12.7 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Dye coupler transparencies

Place:

Gujarat (India)

Karnataka (India) -- Social life and customs

Kerala (India)

Maharashtra

Rajasthan (India)

India

Date:

1953-circa 1985

Summary:

The Curt Maury papers, dating from 1953 to circa 1985, measure 12.7 linear feet and include writings and notes for planned and published books; travel files and expense ledgers for trips to India; photograph ledgers; and extensive photographs and slides of India.

Scope and Contents:

The Curt Maury papers, dating from 1953 to circa 1985, measure 12.7 linear feet and consist of writings and notes for planned and published books; travel files and expense ledgers for trips to India; photograph ledgers; and extensive photographs and slides of India.

The collection was created by Maury primarily in preparation for an unpublished book to be titled, "India's Folk Tradition as the Mirror of Mankind's Religious History." Materials include manuscript and typescript drafts and notes for this book, as well as for published book, Folk Origins of Indian Art (1969). Travel files include printed maps of India, Maury's sketched map outlines of cities in India, and five travel expense ledgers. Photographic materials consist of black and white prints and slides depicting Indian folk art, including religious artifacts and structures, and Indian cultural activities and surroundings. Nine photograph ledgers describe images and locations of photographs and slides with roll and image number.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 3 series.

Series 1: Writings and Notes, circa 1960s-circa 1970s [3.7 linear feet; Boxes 1-5, 7-11]

Series 2: Travel Files, 1953-1975 [0.4 linear feet; Box 5, 1 OV Folder]

Series 3: Photographic Material, circa 1960-circa 1985 [8.5 linear feet; Boxes 6, 12-44]

Biographical note:

Curt Maury (1909-1989) was a writer, social services administrator, and scholar of Indian art. He was born in Germany, earned a PhD in German Literature from the University of Vienna in 1935, and immigrated to the United States in 1939. While pursuing a literary career through the publication of novels, plays, and poems, Maury developed an interest in India, which he visited many times from the 1950s through the 1970s. He conducted research on Indian folk art, and kept extensive photographic records.

Provenance:

The papers were donated to the Archives after Curt Maury's death in 1989 by his brother, Hans Tischler.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research. Due to cold storage requirements, digital surrogates are prefered for access. One week's notice is required prior to access originals.

Rights:

Permission to reproduce and publish an item from the Archives is coordinated through the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's Rights and Reproductions Department. Please contact the Archives in order to initiate this process.

Topic:

Art, Hindu  Search this

Indian art  Search this

Cave temples  Search this

Taj Mahal (Agra, India)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs -- 1950-1960 -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin

Dye coupler transparencies

Citation:

Curt Maury Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Mr. Hans Tischler.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.

Identifier:

FSA.A1989.05

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Curt Maury Papers

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3fab29f43-0ae6-4370-b3ff-be6afcd35342

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-fsa-a1989-05

Creator:

United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section  Search this

Names:

Collier, John, Jr., 1913-1992  Search this

Delano, Jack  Search this

Evans, Walker, 1903-1975  Search this

Lange, Dorothea  Search this

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986  Search this

Mydans, Carl  Search this

Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985  Search this

Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985  Search this

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969  Search this

Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975  Search this

Vachon, John, 1914-1975  Search this

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990  Search this

Extent:

2 Items (Textual records: 2 partial microfilm reels)

218 Items (Photographs)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1935-1942

Scope and Contents:

Scattered textual records selected from the Farm Security Administration, Historical Section records at the Library of Congress and the Farmers Home Administration records at the National Archives primarily revolving around activities of Roy Stryker. Included are personnel and travel records, typescripts of photograph captions, correspondence, memoranda, files on public relations and exhibits, and printed material.

218 copy prints of photographs of America taken for the FSA, including landscapes, people, homes and other architecture, rural scenes, urban scenes, workers, products of farm and industry, transportation, entertainment, and the Quarter Circle U Ranch, Birney, Montana. Photographers include: Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, John Collier, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, John Vachon, Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans, and Edwin Rosskam.

Biographical / Historical:

Established 1935 in the Resettlement Administration Historical Section's photographic project to document poverty stricken rural America under the direction of Roy E. Stryker. In 1937, Roosevelt established the FSA, and the Resettlement Administration and its programs fell under its auspices. The Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration remained intact under the FSA, and continued its photographic survey and historical documentation under Stryker's direction.

After 1942, the photographs project was transplanted to the Office War Information, and the emphasis of the project shifted from rural and urban conditions throughout Depression-era U.S. to the domestic impact of the war. In 1946, Congress created the Farmers Home Administration (FHA) which absorbed the FSA and its programs.

Related Materials:

Additional FSA-OWI records located at: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (microfilm available at LC)

Additional Stryker papers located at: Photographic Archives University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky. 40208

Provenance:

Microfilm and copy prints donated by the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, 1965.

Reel FSA/WDC2: Record Group 96, textual records of the Farmers Home Administration include the records of the FSA, predecessor to the FHA.

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.

Topic:

Photography -- United States -- Landscape -- Photographs  Search this

Photography -- United States -- Portraits -- Photographs  Search this

Architectural photography -- United States -- Photographs  Search this

Federal aid to the public welfare -- Photographs  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939  Search this

Function:

Agencies

Identifier:

AAA.unstfsad

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw93760d8ca-0e22-4f9b-8bfb-c9d6ba0078c4

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-unstfsad

Creator:

Weidner, Roswell, 1911-1999  Search this

Names:

Federal Art Project  Search this

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts  Search this

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969  Search this

Extent:

0.5 Linear feet ((on partial microfilm reel))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1930-1989

Scope and Contents:

Resumes, awards, and a typescript of an interview of Weidner conducted by a University of Pennsylvania student in 1986, regarding Weidner's years with the Federal Art Project. The interview includes a discussion of Dox Thrash and the carborundum print. Also included are statements on art; talks delivered by Weidner regarding the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; typescripts of writings by Ben Shahn, George Stout, and Francis Speight; correspondence regarding commissions, sales and exhibitions; letters from John Kucera, Francis Speight, Franklin Watkins and E.P. Richardson;

consignment lists; photographs of Weidner teaching and of exhibition installations; clippings; and exhibition catalogs.

Biographical / Historical:

Art instructor and painter; Philadelphia, Pa. Attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Worked on the Federal Art Project, 1937-1939, before joining the staff of the Academy in 1939.

Provenance:

Microfilmed in 1989 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

Art teachers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Pastelists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- History -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.weidrosw

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw95d6dd10f-1432-46fe-97e2-59f0d0edaccd

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-weidrosw

Creator:

Schnakenberg, H. E. (Henry Ernest), 1892-1970  Search this

Names:

American Academy of Arts and Letters  Search this

Artists Equity Association  Search this

Angel, John, 1881-1960  Search this

Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987  Search this

Barye, Antoine-Louis, 1796-1875  Search this

Beal, Gifford, 1879-1956  Search this

Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902  Search this

Billings, Henry, 1901-  Search this

Bishop, Isabel, 1902-1988  Search this

Blume, Peter, 1906-1992  Search this

Bouché, Louis, 1896-1969  Search this

Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963  Search this

Buller, Audrey, 1902-  Search this

Cadmus, Paul, 1904-1999  Search this

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976  Search this

Catherwood, Frederick, 1799-1854  Search this

Congdon, William, 1912-1998  Search this

Day, Horace Talmage, 1909-1984  Search this

Dows, Olin, 1904-1981  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968  Search this

Etting, Emlen, 1905-1993  Search this

Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973  Search this

Faulkner, Barry, 1881-1966  Search this

Fiene, Ernest, 1894-  Search this

Goff, Lloyd Lozés, 1919-  Search this

Guys, Constantin, 1805-1892  Search this

Hardy, Thomas, 1921-  Search this

Harnett, William Michael, 1848-1892  Search this

Hartl, Léon, 1889-  Search this

Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910  Search this

Hoyt, Whitney Ford, 1910-1980  Search this

Inness, George, 1825-1894  Search this

Ivins, William Mills, 1881-1961  Search this

Johnson, Eastman, 1824-1906  Search this

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-  Search this

Kroll, Leon, 1884-1974  Search this

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953  Search this

Laning, Edward, 1906-1981  Search this

Lasker, Joe  Search this

Leighton, Clare, 1899-  Search this

Locke, Charles, 1899-  Search this

Low, Sanford B. D. (Sanford Ballard Dole), 1905-1964  Search this

Lucioni, Luigi, 1900-1988  Search this

Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954  Search this

Miller, Kenneth Hayes, 1876-1952  Search this

Parsons, Betty  Search this

Robus, Hugo, 1885-1964  Search this

Saint-Gaudens, Homer, b. 1880  Search this

Savery, Rockland  Search this

Schmidt, Katherine, 1898-1978  Search this

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969  Search this

Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965  Search this

Speicher, Eugene Edward, 1883-1962  Search this

Stamos, Theodoros, 1922-1997  Search this

Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam, 1819-1905  Search this

Watkins, Franklin Chenault, 1894-1972  Search this

Watson, Forbes, 1880-1960  Search this

Watson, Nan, 1876-1966  Search this

Weisgard, Leonard, 1916-  Search this

Extent:

5.1 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 6 reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1905-1969

Scope and Contents:

Photographs, correspondence, appointment books, etchings, a scrapbook, printed materials, writings, and posters.

REEL D113: Primarily letters received from artists, 1940s-50s; background material for Ft.Lee and Amsterdam (N.Y.) murals; and miscellaneous printed material and photographs.

Correspondents include John Angel, Artists Equity, Peggy Bacon, Gifford Beal, Henry Billings, Isabel Bishop, Peter Blume, Louis Bouche, Van Wyck Brooks, Audrey Buller, Paul Cadmus, Alexander Calder, William Congdon, Horace T. Day, Olin Dows, Marcel Duchamp, Emlen P. Etting, Philip Evergood, Barry Faulkner, Ernest Fiene, Leon Hartl, Whitney F. Hoyt, William M. Ivins, Jr., Lincoln E. Kirstein, Leon Kroll, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Edward Laning, Joseph L. Lasker, Clare Leighton, Charles W. Locke, Sanford B.D. Low, Luigi Lucioni, Reginald Marsh, Kenneth H. Miller, Nat'l Institute of Arts and Letters, Betty Parsons, Hugo Robus, Homer Saint-Gaudens, Katherine Schmidt, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Eugene Speicher, Theodoros Stamos, Franklin C. Watkins, Forbes and Nan Watson, and Leonard Weisgard.

REEL 847: Photographs, including 67 of Schnakenberg and friends, 1 of a portrait of him by Lloyd Goff, 95 of his oil paintings, 33 of his watercolors, 25 of his works in unidentified media, 29 of works by other artists, and 46 of pre-Columbian art from Central and South America. Among artists whose works are included are Antoine Louis Barye, Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Catherwood, Constantin Guys, Thomas Hardy, William Harnett, Winslow Homer, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, Rockland Savery, Theodoros Stamos, and Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait.

REELS 850-853: Biographical information; personal and business correspondence; 17 diaries, mainly about Schnakenberg's travels, 1905-1960; appointment calendars, 1963-1969; 70 etchings by Schnakenberg; a scrapbook containing clippings, catalogs, and other printed material; a book published by G. Alan Chidsey on Schnakenberg; clippings, catalogs, and announcements; papers relating to gifts and acquisitions of works of art; receipts for Schnakenberg paintings from C.W. Kraushaar Galleries; a 650-page typescript for a book "The Background of Painting" by Schnakenberg; and drafts of speeches.

UNMICROFILMED: Six World War I posters designed by Schnakenberg; Christmas cards from artists and other friends; printed material; and a photograph of Lloyd Goff, inscribed to Schnakenberg, in front of one of his paintings, 1939.

Biographical / Historical:

Painter, etcher; Newton, Conn.

Provenance:

Material donated 1963-1971 by Schnakenberg and, after his death, by his estate.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

Etchers -- Connecticut -- Newton  Search this

Painters -- Connecticut -- Newton  Search this

Topic:

Art, Prehistoric  Search this

Painting, Modern -- 20th century  Search this

Etching  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.schnh

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9324de55d-c4b7-4bbe-9ff3-d60db8786f14

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-schnh

Creator:

Biddle, George, 1885-1973  Search this

Names:

Federal Art Project  Search this

Justice Dept. Building (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

National Library Building (Rio de Janerio, Brazil)  Search this

Supreme Court Building (Mexico City, Mexico)  Search this

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

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture  Search this

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959  Search this

Brewer, Bessie Marsh, d. 1952  Search this

Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963  Search this

Diederich, William Hunt, 1884-1953  Search this

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953  Search this

Pascin, Jules, 1885-1930  Search this

Poor, Anne, 1911-2011  Search this

Poor, Henry Varnum, 1887-1970  Search this

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972  Search this

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

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969  Search this

Sterne, Maurice, 1878-1957  Search this

Extent:

0.76 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Diaries

Place:

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945

Date:

circa 1910-1970

Summary:

The papers of New York painter and muralist George Biddle (1885-1973), measure 0.76 linear feet and date from circa 1910-1970. The collection includes a certificate signed by President Harry Truman, transcripts of Biddle's diaries, a manuscript of a memoir about meeting President Franklin Roosevelt, three letters from William Hunt Diederich's daughter, transcripts of letters from Bernard Berenson, sketches and mural studies, and two glass plate negatives.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of New York painter and muralist George Biddle (1885-1973), measure 0.76 linear feet and date from circa 1910-1970. The collection includes a certificate signed by President Harry Truman, transcripts of Biddle's diaries, a manuscript of a memoir about meeting President Franklin Roosevelt, three letters from William Hunt Diederich's daughter, transcripts of letters from Bernard Berenson, sketches and mural studies, and two glass plate negatives.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as one series.

Series 1: George Biddle Papers, circa 1910-1970 (0.7 linear feet; Box 1, OVs 2-4, MGP4)

Biographical / Historical:

New York painter and muralist George Biddle (1885-1973) proposed to President Franklin Roosevelt the establishment of a federal relief program for artists during the Depression, and subsequently painted a number of government murals under the auspices of the Federal Art Project, including murals for the Department of Justice in 1935.

Biddle was born to a prominent Philadelphia family and graduated from Harvard College. He studied at the Académie Julian and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and served in the United States Army in World War I, before returning to New York where he had his first series of one-man shows.

In 1933 Biddle wrote to long-time friend President Franklin Roosevelt, to suggest a work relief program that supported mural painters. Although the idea initially met with opposition, Biddle persisted and the resulting art projects of the Works Progress Administration went on to support the production of thousands of paintings in government buildings throughout the country during the Depression.

In 1940 Biddle was invited by the Mexican government to create a mural for the supreme court building in Mexico City. Biddle had visited Mexico in 1928 where he had traveled and sketched with Diego Rivera, and seen firsthand the value of government sponsored art programs.

In addition to his murals, Biddle was also known for his portraits, lithographs, and paintings. His work can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and others. His work has been shown throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico, Japan, and India in over a hundred one-man shows and group exhibitions.

Related Materials:

Originals of the edited diary transcripts in this collection are in the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. The unedited diary has many more entries than the edited version and includes more details about Biddle's daily life and work, versions of articles by Biddle, and lists of his works of art through 1934.

Separated Materials:

The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming, including one of Biddle's original diaries, 1933-1935 (reel D127), records from the Federal Art Project, personal correspondence, articles and talks relating to Artists Equity (reels P17-P18), and a photocopy of Biddle's inventory notebook listing artwork and exhibitions (reel 4909). While the inventory notebook was discarded after microfilming, all other loaned materials were returned to the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:

The papers on reels P12-P18 were loaned for microfilming in 1954 by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, PA. George Biddle lent the material on reel D127 in 1963 and donated the rest of the collection to the Archives of American Art between 1966-1970. In 1972, Michael Biddle, George Biddle's son, gifted a photocopy of an inventory notebook that was discarded after microfilming.

Restrictions:

Use of 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.

Topic:

New Deal, 1933-1939  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Mural painting and decoration, American  Search this

Art and state -- United States  Search this

Muralists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Diaries

Citation:

George Biddle papers, circa 1910-1970. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

Identifier:

AAA.biddgeor

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw914a8a397-8d17-42b1-8038-b8b6e3075445

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-biddgeor

Creator:

Levine, Jack, 1915-2010  Search this

Names:

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters  Search this

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Arms, John Taylor, 1887-1953  Search this

Barnet, Will, 1911-2012  Search this

Bloom, Hyman, 1913-  Search this

Bocour, Leonard, 1910-1993  Search this

Cadmus, Paul, 1904-1999  Search this

Close, Chuck, 1940-  Search this

Coen, Eleanor, 1916-  Search this

D'Harnoncourt, Rene, 1901-1968  Search this

Dobkin, Alexander, 1908-  Search this

Fleischman, Lawrence A. (Lawrence Arthur), 1925-1997  Search this

Friedan, Betty  Search this

Gikow, Ruth, 1915-1982  Search this

Goodrich, Lloyd, 1897-1987  Search this

Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970  Search this

Hirsch, Joseph, 1910-1981  Search this

Lasansky, Mauricio, 1914-  Search this

Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000  Search this

Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970  Search this

Levine, David, 1926-2009  Search this

Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978  Search this

Peterdi, Gabor  Search this

Probst, Joachim  Search this

Saint-Gaudens, Homer, b. 1880  Search this

Simon, Sidney, 1917-  Search this

Sorini, Emiliano  Search this

Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987  Search this

Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008  Search this

Tooker, George, 1920-2011  Search this

Updike, John  Search this

Weber, Max, 1881-1961  Search this

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich, 1933-  Search this

Extent:

3.2 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Student drawings

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Drawings

Date:

1923-1999

Summary:

The papers of New York social realist painter and printmaker Jack Levine date from 1923-1999, and measure 3.2 linear feet. Levine's career is documented through biographical material, scattered letters, notes and a speech, writings, student drawings, three scrapbooks, printed material and nearly one linear foot of photographs of Levine, his family, and his colleagues.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of New York social realist painter and printmaker Jack Levine date from 1923-1999, and measure 3.2 linear feet. Levine's career is documented through biographical material, scattered letters, notes and a speech, writings, student drawings, three scrapbooks, printed material and nearly one linear foot of photographs of Levine, his family, and his colleagues.

Found within the papers are two driver's licenses and several biographical accounts, and scattered letters from colleagues including one each from John Taylor Arms, Hyman Bloom, Leonard Bocour, René d'Harnoncourt, Lloyd Goodrich, Jacob Lawrence, and Homer Saint-Gaudens discussing various art-related events. There is only one carbon copy of a letter written by Levine. The correspondence includes oversized photographs of the members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Additional photographs of the members are found in the Photograph series.

Notes and writings are primarily typescripts about Jack Levine written by others. There is also a transcript of one speech, "Jack Levine Speaks Regarding the Donation of 108 of his Drawings to the Archives" delivered by Levine at the Fogg Art Museum.

Artwork consists entirely of Levine's student drawings including anatomical studies, neighborhood genre scenes, copies of Old Masters, and a series of images of symphony musicians. Some of the drawings display themes that are reflected in his later paintings.

Three scrapbooks contain clippings that document Levine's career and reflect his political interests. Additional printed material consists of a comprehensive collection of clippings and exhibition announcements and catalogs. There is also an announcement for a lecture by Levine, press releases, calendars of events, reproductions of artwork, programs, brochures including one for Facing East, a portfolio of Levine's prints, and three books.

Photographs include numerous photographs of Levine throughout his artistic career, including images of his wife, painter Ruth Gikow, their daughter Susanna, and colleagues including Hyman Bloom, Leonard Bocour, Alexander Dobkin, Joachim Probst, and Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Especially notable is a series of photographs of Levine printmaking with Emiliano Sorini and Ruth Gikow.

There are photographs of Levine serving on art juries and panels with Eleanor Coen, Joseph Hirsch, Gabor Peterdi, Studs Terkel, and Max Weber, and attending events with Lawrence Fleischman, Betty Friedan, Edith Halpert, Mauricio Lasansky, Gypsy Rose Lee, Pope Paul VI, and Raphael Soyer. A small album contains photographs of Levine and various buildings in Boston. There are also photographs of miscellaneous exhibition installations including Levine's retrospective at the Jewish Museum, and of artwork by Levine and others.

Group photographs of the members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters are found here, and include Will Barnet, Paul Cadmus, Chuck Close, David Levine, George Tooker, and John Updike. Additional group photographs of the members that were originally enclosed with letters are found in the correspondence series.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 7 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1953-1955 (Box 1; 1 folder)

Series 2: Letters, 1946-1996 (Boxes 1, 5; 12 folders)

Series 3: Notes and Writings, 1961-1974 (Box 1; 6 folders)

Series 4: Artwork, 1923-1931 (Boxes 1, 5, OV 6; 11 folders)

Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1936-1962 (Boxes 1, 5; 16 folders)

Series 6: Printed Material, 1938-1999 (Boxes 1-3, 5, OV 6; 1.9 linear feet)

Series 7: Photographs, 1940-1998 (Boxes 3-5, OV 6; 52 folders)

Biographical / Historical:

Jack Levine (1915-2010) was born in Boston, Massachusetts and worked as painter and printmaker primarily in New York City. Levine was one of the leading painters and advocates of the Social Realism School of the late 1930s.

Jack Levine was the youngest of the eight children of Lithuanian Jewish parents, Mary Grinker and Samuel Levine. After the family moved from the South End of Boston to Roxbury in 1923, Levine began to study drawing under Harold Zimmerman at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. By 1929, Levine was studying painting under Denman Ross of the Fogg Art Museum.

From 1935-1940, Levine received U.S. government support from the federal Works Progress Administration. His first exhibition of paintings in New York City was at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1937, he painted The Feast of Pure Reason, a satire of Boston political power. Together with Ben Shahn, Levine became a leading exponent of the Social Realism School of the late 1930s. His first one-man show was held at the Downtown Gallery in New York City in 1938.

After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Levine was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945, and a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters the following year. Also in 1946, Levine married painter Ruth Gikow and moved to New York City. Between 1950 and 1951, he was a Fulbright Fellow working in Rome where he was inspired by Old Master paintings. In the 1960s Levine's interest in printmaking intensified and he was instructed in creating intaglio prints by Emiliano Sorini, and was introduced to Abe Lublin who was associated with the New York Graphic Society.

Levine taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the American Art School in New York, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Fogg Art Museum. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters from 1956 on.

The D.C. Moore Gallery in New York City currently represents the Estate of Jack Levine.

Provenance:

Jack Levine donated his papers to the Archives in 1962, 1978, and 1999.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and limited to the Washington, D.C. Reference 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.

Topic:

Painting, American  Search this

Social realism  Search this

Painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston  Search this

Jewish artists  Search this

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

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

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

Genre/Form:

Student drawings

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Drawings

Citation:

Jack Levine papers, 1923-1999. 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.levijack

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Jack Levine papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ee98ce56-1333-40b7-8878-654a12f9024b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-levijack

Collection Creator:

Levine, Jack, 1915-2010  Search this

Container:

Box 1, Folder 14

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

undated

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and limited to the Washington, D.C. Reference Center.

Collection 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.

Collection Citation:

Jack Levine papers, 1923-1999. 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

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Jack Levine papers

Jack Levine papers / Series 3: Notes and Writings

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ec984593-00dc-4122-913a-aae1e073c8cc

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-levijack-ref34

Collection Creator:

Levine, Jack, 1915-2010  Search this

Container:

Box 1, Folder 15

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1967

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and limited to the Washington, D.C. Reference Center.

Collection 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.

Collection Citation:

Jack Levine papers, 1923-1999. 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

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Jack Levine papers

Jack Levine papers / Series 3: Notes and Writings

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c7800da0-d6d7-4c45-8345-cb7bf43655bb

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-levijack-ref35

Collection Creator:

Levine, Jack, 1915-2010  Search this

Container:

Box 1, Folder 16

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1967

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and limited to the Washington, D.C. Reference Center.

Collection 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.

Collection Citation:

Jack Levine papers, 1923-1999. 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

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Jack Levine papers

Jack Levine papers / Series 3: Notes and Writings

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw971178d93-1421-4ce5-a0ab-703886d9b17d

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-levijack-ref36

Collection Creator:

Levine, Jack, 1915-2010  Search this

Container:

Box 1, Folder 17

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1969

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and limited to the Washington, D.C. Reference Center.

Collection 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.

Collection Citation:

Jack Levine papers, 1923-1999. 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

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Jack Levine papers

Jack Levine papers / Series 3: Notes and Writings

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9a70ec185-180c-4972-b800-9a278977efde

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-levijack-ref37

Collection Creator:

Levine, Jack, 1915-2010  Search this

Container:

Box 1, Folder 18

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1974

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and limited to the Washington, D.C. Reference Center.

Collection 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.

Collection Citation:

Jack Levine papers, 1923-1999. 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

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Jack Levine papers

Jack Levine papers / Series 3: Notes and Writings

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f00faed7-82cf-4162-b4b9-a94a43661915

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-levijack-ref38

Creator:

Jett, Ruth M.  Search this

Names:

American Society of African Culture  Search this

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace  Search this

Cinque Gallery  Search this

Library of Congress. Center for the Book  Search this

Romare Bearden Foundation  Search this

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library  Search this

Branch, William B.  Search this

Crichlow, Ernest, 1914-2005  Search this

Davis, Ossie  Search this

Hewitt, John H., 1924-2000  Search this

Hewitt, Vivian D.  Search this

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967  Search this

White, Charles, 1918-1979  Search this

White, Frances Barrett  Search this

Extent:

7.8 Linear feet

0.242 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Video recordings

Date:

1914-2014

Summary:

The papers of African American arts administrator and director of Cinque Gallery, Ruth Jett, measure 7.8 linear feet and 0.242 gigabytes, and date from 1914 to 2014. The collection contains biographical material; correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues including William Branch, Vinie Burrows, John and Vivian Hewitt, Langston Hughes, and Charles and Frances White; and administrative and professional files which include material related to the American Society of African Culture, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cinque Gallery, the Cinque Artists Program at the Romare Bearden Foundation, the Library of Congress Center for the Book, and the Schomburg Corporation. The collection also includes writings, primarily typescript copies of literary works by others, including Langston Hughes and Ossie Davis, as well as notes; printed material such as clippings, exhibition and event announcements, books and magazines, and press releases; and photographic material including photographs, snapshots, negatives, and slides depicting Ruth Jett and other individuals, travel, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace fellows and events, and works of art. Also found is a small amount of artwork including a sketchbook, sketches, a painting, and a print.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of African American arts administrator and director of Cinque Gallery, Ruth Jett, measure 7.8 linear feet and date from 1914 to 2014. The collection contains biographical material; correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues including William Branch, Vinie Burrows, John and Vivian Hewitt, Langston Hughes, and Charles and Frances White; and administrative and professional files which include material related to the American Society of African Culture, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cinque Gallery, the Cinque Artists Program at the Romare Bearden Foundation, the Library of Congress Center for the Book, and the Schomburg Corporation. The collection also includes writings, primarily typescript copies of literary works by others, including Langston Hughes and Ossie Davis, as well as notes; printed material such as clippings, exhibition and event announcements, books and magazines, and press releases; and photographic material including photographs, snapshots, negatives, and slides depicting Ruth Jett and other individuals, travel, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace fellows and events, and works of art. Also found is a small amount of artwork including a sketchbook, sketches, a painting, and a print.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged in seven series.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1914-2014 (Box 1, OV 9; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1952-2014 (Boxes 1-2; 1.2 linear feet)

Series 3: Administrative and Professional Files, 1954-2009 (Boxes 2-5, OV 9; 3.2 linear feet)

Series 4: Writings, 1949-circa 1990s (Box 5; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 5: Printed Material, 1928, 1949-2014 (Boxes 5-7, OVs 9-13; 2.1 linear feet, ER01; 0.242 GB)

Series 6: Photographic Material, 1947-2010 (Boxes 7-8, OV 14; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 7: Artwork, undated (Box 8, OV 14; 3 folders)

Biographical / Historical:

Ruth Jett (1920-2014) was an art administrator and Director of the Cinque Gallery, New York, N.Y.

Born and raised in Alabama, Ruth Jett attended Miles College in Birmingham before moving with her mother and some siblings to Harlem, New York. In the early 1950s, Jett worked with the Committee for the Negro in the Arts, overseeing early productions by several Black playwrights including William Branch, Alice Childress, Ossie Davis, and Julian Mayfield. From the 1950s until her retirement in 1978, Jett held a variety of positions at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, notably managing the Fellowships in Diplomacy program for a number of years.

After she retired from the Carnegie Endowment, Ruth Jett worked with a number of cultural and arts organizations, including the Library of Congress Center for the Book, the Schomburg Corporation/ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Friends of the Symphony of the New World.

Ruth Jett served on the Cinque Gallery Board of Directors beginning in 1981. She was appointed Executive Director in 1989 and served in that position until the early 2000s. When the gallery closed in 2004, she then worked with the Romare Bearden Foundation on the Cinque Artists Program to continue the gallery's legacy and commitment to supporting artists.

Related Materials:

The Archives of American Art also holds the Cinque Gallery records, 1959-2010, bulk 1976-2004.

Provenance:

The Ruth Jett papers were donated to the Archives of American Art in 2018 by Juan Rodriguez, a friend of Jett.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research. Archival audiovisual recordings must be digitized for research access. Researchers may access digitized audiovisual materials in the Archives' Washington, D.C. or New York, N.Y. Research Centers by appointment. 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:

Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

African American artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Video recordings

Citation:

Ruth Jett papers, 1914-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Henry Luce Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.jettruth

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Ruth Jett papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw976467c79-2d7c-4e57-bfbb-4ab8cdc45287

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-jettruth

Creator:

Hemphill, Herbert Waide  Search this

Names:

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center  Search this

Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)  Search this

Exposition Universelle de Paris (1878 : Paris, France)  Search this

Folk Art Society of America  Search this

Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)  Search this

National Museum of American Art (U.S.)  Search this

Aiken, Gayleen  Search this

Bogun, Maceptaw, Rev.  Search this

Borkowski, Mary  Search this

Brice, Bruce  Search this

Carpenter, Miles B. (Miles Burkholder), 1889-  Search this

Coins, Raymond  Search this

Crittenden, Varick A.  Search this

Dinsmoor, Samuel Perry, 1843-1932  Search this

Donovan, Carrie  Search this

Fancher, John W.  Search this

Finster, Howard, 1916-2001  Search this

Flanagan, Thos. J. (Thomas Jefferson), b. 1890  Search this

Fowler, Tim  Search this

Gatto, Victor Joseph, 1893-1965  Search this

Ghostley, Alice, 1926-2007  Search this

Goins, Vernon  Search this

Hall, Michael D., 1941-  Search this

Hamblett, Theora, 1895-1977  Search this

Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe  Search this

Harvey, Bessie, 1929-  Search this

Hawkins, William Lawrence, 1895-1990  Search this

Hicks, Tiny  Search this

Holley, Lonnie  Search this

Hunter, Clementine  Search this

James, A. Everette (Alton Everette), 1938-  Search this

Jennings, James Harold  Search this

Jones, S. L. (Shields Landon), 1901-  Search this

Jordan, John  Search this

Josephson, Nancy, 1955-  Search this

Klumpp, Gustave, 1902-1974  Search this

Lisk, Charles  Search this

Little, Roy  Search this

Lopez, George  Search this

Maldonado, Alexander Aramburo, 1901-1989  Search this

McCarthy, Justin, 1891-1977  Search this

Merrill, James Ingram  Search this

Morgan, Gertrude  Search this

Mr. Imagination, 1948-  Search this

Nathaniel, Inez  Search this

O'Kelley, Mattie Lou  Search this

Orth, Kevin, 1961-  Search this

Patterson, Clayton  Search this

Prince, Daniel C.  Search this

Prince, Neal A.  Search this

Robertson, Royal  Search this

Rowe, Nellie Mae, 1900-1982  Search this

Smith, Fred, 1886-1975  Search this

Smith, Robert E., 1926-  Search this

Smither, John  Search this

Smither, Stephanie  Search this

Spies, Jim  Search this

St. EOM, 1908-1986  Search this

Terrillion, Veronica  Search this

Tolliver, Mose, 1920-  Search this

Tolson, Edgar, 1904-1984  Search this

Walters, Hubert  Search this

Weissman, Julia  Search this

Young, Purvis, 1943-  Search this

Zeldis, Malcah  Search this

Extent:

26.7 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Video recordings

Watercolors

Sketchbooks

Sound recordings

Photographs

Drawings

Poems

Reports

Prints

Interviews

Date:

1776-1998

bulk 1876-1998

Summary:

The papers of folk art collector and museum curator Herbert Waide Hemphill date from 1776-1998, bulk 1876-1998, and measure 26.7 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical materials, personal business records, files documenting his collecting, writings, art work, minutes of meetings, a scrapbook, printed material including exhibition and auction announcements and catalogs, and miscellaneous artifacts. The collection also contains numerous photographs of Hemphill, family members, his residences, friends and colleagues, exhibitions, travel, and art work. Sound and video recordings include interviews of Hemphill.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of folk art collector and museum curator Herbert Waide Hemphill date from 1776-1998, bulk 1876-1998, and measure 26.7 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical materials, personal business records, files documenting his collecting, writings, art work, minutes of meetings, a scrapbook, printed material including exhibition and auction announcements and catalogs, and miscellaneous artifacts. The collection also contains numerous photographs of Hemphill, family members, his residences, friends and colleagues, exhibitions, travel, and art work. Sound and video recordings include interviews of Hemphill.

Biographical material includes photocopies of Hemphill's birth certificate and passport, social security cards, and international health card, genealogical notes, an evaluation of his school work, membership cards, award certificates, address books, and an engagement calendar containing very brief annotations of his activities.

Correspondence documents Hemphill's affairs with miscellaneous museums and art institutions, discussing his presentation of lectures, exhibitions, and loans from his collection to organizations including the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, the Folk Art Society of America, the Museum of International Folk Art, and the Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum.

Hemphill's correspondence with friends and colleagues discuss collecting activities and pursuit of newly discovered folk art and artists. Many of the letters are from artists. Correspondents include Varick A. Crittenden, Michael D. Hall, A. Everette James, Daniel C. Prince, Neal A. Prince, and artists Rev. Maceptaw Bogun, Mary Borkowski, Tim Fowler, Joseph Victor Gatto, S. L. Jones, Gustav Klumpp, Roy Little, George Lopez, Kevin Orth, and Malcah Zeldis. There are also scattered letters from artists Miles Burkholder Carpenter, John W. Fancher, Rev. Howard Finster, William Hawkins, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Mr. Imagination, Mattie Lou O'Kelley, Clayton Patterson, St. EOM, and Mose Tolliver. One letter from Stephanie and John Smither is etched on a bone.

Personal business records include both legal and financial documents. There are wills for Hemphill, his mother, and for his friend Neal A. Prince. The records also include leases, insurance records, contracts, grant proposals, loan agreements, deeds of gift, price lists, consignment records, tax records, and miscellaneous receipts. Cancelled checks relate to Hemphill's collecting interests and activities, and include payments to artists for their work. There are court papers documenting a lawsuit by Hemphill's landlord who was attempting to evict him.

Art work consists of a sketchbook by Roy Little, a set of hand-cut Japanese mask designs, a collage of Polaroid photographs taped to glass created by Rev. Howard Finster, a hand-made book by Nancy Josephson, and miscellaneous drawings, watercolors, and prints by various artists including Justin McCarthy, Inez Nathaniel, and Nellie Mae Rowe.

Notes and writings include card files of artists, extensive bibliographic card files, and scattered notes on artists including Miles Carpenter, Raymond Coins, Rev. Howard Finster, Mattie Lou O'Kelley, Royal Robertson, Veronica Terrillion, Mose Tolliver, and Bill Traylor. Also found are lists of artists, patrons, and art work, miscellaneous notes, and minutes of meetings. Writings by Hemphill and others including Michael D. Hall, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, A. Everett James, and Julia Weissman, consist of reports, typescripts, and poems concerning a wide range of art-related topics and travel.

A scrapbook consists of unbound pages of clippings and newsletters about Hemphill, his collection, and exhibitions of folk art.

There is extensive additional printed material illustrating Hemphill's many interests. This series primarily consists of clippings and exhibition announcements and catalogs for mainstream artists as well as folk artists. Also included are auction announcements and catalogs, announcements for festivals, press releases, and calendars of events. Numerous booklets, brochures, programs, menus, business cards, and novelty postcards concern a variety of topics including worldwide travel, the sale of art work, miscellaneous galleries, museums, organizations, conferences, schools, lectures, antiques and craft shops, films, publications, restaurants, household items, historical topics, and miscellaneous artists including Miles Carpenter, S. P. Dinsmoor, Lonnie Holley, Clementine Hunter, and Veronica Terrillion. There are also autographed copies of booklets The Black Swan and Other Poems by James Merrill, and The Blood of Jesus by Thomas Jefferson Flanagan. Novelty postcards range from photographs of Elvis Presley to cards with amusing captions or cartoon jokes. There is also sheet music by Charles Trenet. Miscellaneous printed material includes several eighteenth-century newspapers and a 1776 thirty shilling note from New Jersey.

Photographs are of Hemphill, family members, his residences, friends and colleagues including style editor Carrie Donovan, artist Rev. Howard Finster dancing at an exhibition opening, actress Alice Ghostley, Michael D. Hall, circus performers Vernon Goins and Tiny Hicks, Smithsonian curator Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Neal A. Prince, and Jim Spies. Photographs of exhibitions include stereographic views of the International Exhibition in Philadelphia and the Exposition Universelle in Paris, and photographs of Hemphill's donation of his collection and its subsequent exhibition at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum. Travel photographs include views of South Dakota, Texas, the American West, Japan, Mexico, and The Netherlands.

Numerous photographs of art work sometimes include images of the artists with their work including Bruce Brice, Raymond Coins, John W. Fancher, Rev. Howard Finster, Theora Hamblett, Bessie Harvey, William Hawkins, James Harold Jennings, John Jordan, Charles Lisk, Alexander Maldonado, St. EOM, Fred Smith, Edgar Tolson, Hubert Walters, and Purvis Young. Some photographs of unattributed art work has been arranged by the state in which it is located and includes a Mardi Gras parade in Louisiana, a Mummer's parade in Pennsylvania, Lucy the Elephant-shaped building in New Jersey, and Holy Ghost Park in Wisconsin. Other photographs of unattributed art work include works on paper, paintings, sculpture, signs, collages, needlework, glass, ceramics, and architecture.

Sound and video recordings include a cassette from Hemphill's phone answering machine that contains only Hemphill's message to callers, cassette recordings of interviews with and concerning Hemphill, artist St. EOM, painter Robert E. Smith discussing his work, and the tour narration for a Smithsonian exhibition Made With Passion. There are videotapes about Hemphill and about artists Gayleen Aiken, Miller and Bryant, and Malcah Zeldis, and miscellaneous African American artists. There is also a videotape of an American Museum of Natural History tour group arriving in a succession of villages in Melanesia and Papua New Guinea where they are greeted by the native people and given the opportunity to purchase their art work.

Artifacts consist of a scattered assemblage of three-dimensional objects including three wooden "fringe" pieces from cigar store figures, ceramic fragments from a sword handle, a lock of horse hair, and a hand-painted View Master viewer souvenir from the opening of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. The View Master contains a disc of photographs of artists with their work including Vollis Simpson and Mary Frances Whitfield. Also included is a teacher's kit Little Adventures in Art containing four phonograph albums and four short film strips of slides showing art work in animal and bird forms.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 10 series; all series are arranged chronologically:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1916-1997 (Box 1, 28; 12 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1901-1998 (Boxes 1-5, 27- 28, OV 31; 4.0 linear feet)

Series 3: Personal Business Records, 1817-1997 (Box 5-7, 28; 2.0 linear feet)

Series 4: Art Work, 1911-1997 (Box 7, 32; 0.4 linear feet)

Series 5: Notes and Writings, 1938-1996 (Box 7-10, 28; 2.5 linear feet)

Series 6: Scrapbook, 1965-1976 (Box 10; 1 folder)

Series 7: Printed Material, 1776-1998 (Box 10-19, 28-29, OV 31; 9.5 linear feet)

Series 8: Photographs, 1876-1997 (Box 19-24, 29; 5.5 linear feet)

Series 9: Sound and Video Recordings, 1986-1991 (Box 25-26; 13 folders)

Series 10: Artifacts, 1968-1995 (Box 26, 30; 0.7 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr., (1929-1998) lived in New York city and was a prominent curator, historian, and collector of American folk art. Hemphill was one of the founding members of the Museum of American Folk Art, organized several large exhibitions of folk art, and co-authored Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artist.

Hemphill was born on January 21, 1929 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the son of businessman Herbert Waide Hemphill, Sr., and Emma Bryan Bradley Hemphill whose uncle, William Clark Bradley, was one of the owners of the Coca-Cola Company.

Hemphill was reared in his mother's home town of Columbus, Georgia, and attended Wynnton School. At the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and the Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania, Hemphill's principle interests were in art and theater. In 1948, he spent a year studying fine arts at Bard College under Stefan Hirsch, a painter and folk art collector.

Hemphill developed his interest in collecting while accompanying his mother on her shopping forays searching for Dresden china. His first acquisition was a wooden duck decoy purchased when he was seven years old. His early collections were of glass bottles, marbles, stamps, and puzzle jugs. In 1949, Hemphill moved to Manhattan and began to focus on modern European and American art and African sculpture, but after 1956 he concentrated exclusively on 19th and early 20th century American folk art. He often discovered artists during his extensive travels, especially in the American South.

In 1961, Hemphill became one of the six founding trustees of the Museum of Early American Folk Art, later named the Museum of American Folk Art, in New York City. Between 1964 and 1973, he was the museum's first curator and curated many exhibitions, helping to promote awareness of work created by self-taught or visionary artists. He later served as Trustee Emeritus for many years.

Between 1974 and 1988, Hemphill loaned portions of his extensive personal collection to 24 museums nationwide and in 1976, the American Bicentennial Commission selected works from his collection for a goodwill tour of Japan. He was named guest curator at the Brooklyn Museum in 1976 and at the Abby Aldrich Folk Art Collection in 1980, and often appeared as guest lecturer at various universities, the Smithsonian Institution, and at the Library of Congress. In 1986, Hemphill donated more than 400 folk art works to the Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum, resulting in a landmark exhibition Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection of the National Museum of American Art.

Hemphill's publications include books Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists, co-authored with Julia Weissman in 1974, Folk Sculpture USA for the Brooklyn Museum in 1976, and Found in New York's North Country: The Folk Art of a Region, co-authored with Varick A. Chittenden in 1982 for the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute.

Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. died on May 8, 1998 in New York City.

Provenance:

Herbert Waide Hemphill donated his papers in 5 installments between 1988 and 1996.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of audiovisual materials 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.

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Folk art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

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

Art -- Economic aspects  Search this

Genre/Form:

Video recordings

Watercolors

Sketchbooks

Sound recordings

Photographs

Drawings

Poems

Reports

Prints

Interviews

Citation:

Herbert Waide Hemphill papers, 1776-1998, bulk 1876-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.hempherb

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f69d462b-a5dc-45d7-bfd8-fcac50b7312b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-hempherb

Creator:

Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980  Search this

Subject:

Bacon, Peggy  Search this

Biddle, George  Search this

Brett, Catherine  Search this

Covarrubias, Miguel  Search this

Pollock, Jackson  Search this

Spencer, Niles  Search this

Knee, Gina  Search this

Bouché, Louis  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Watercolors

Sketches

Transcriptions

Scrapbooks

Sketchbooks

Interviews

Etchings

Illustrations

Citation:

Alexander Brook papers, 1900-1982. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Post-impressionism (Art)  Search this

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

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

Theme:

Diaries  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)6833

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)208960

AAA_collcode_brooalex

Theme:

Diaries

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_208960

Creator:

Schnakenberg, H. E. (Henry Ernest), 1892-1970  Search this

Subject:

Angel, John  Search this

Bacon, Peggy  Search this

Barye, Antoine-Louis  Search this

Beal, Gifford  Search this

Bierstadt, Albert  Search this

Billings, Henry  Search this

Bishop, Isabel  Search this

Blume, Peter  Search this

Bouché, Louis  Search this

Brooks, Van Wyck  Search this

Buller, Audrey  Search this

Cadmus, Paul  Search this

Calder, Alexander  Search this

Catherwood, Frederick  Search this

Congdon, William  Search this

Day, Horace Talmage  Search this

Dows, Olin  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel  Search this

Etting, Emlen  Search this

Evergood, Philip  Search this

Faulkner, Barry  Search this

Fiene, Ernest  Search this

Goff, Lloyd Lozés  Search this

Guys, Constantin  Search this

Hardy, Thomas  Search this

Harnett, William Michael  Search this

Hartl, Léon  Search this

Homer, Winslow  Search this

Hoyt, Whitney Ford  Search this

Inness, George  Search this

Ivins, William Mills  Search this

Johnson, Eastman  Search this

Kirstein, Lincoln  Search this

Kroll, Leon  Search this

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo  Search this

Laning, Edward  Search this

Lasker, Joe  Search this

Leighton, Clare  Search this

Locke, Charles  Search this

Low, Sanford B. D. (Sanford Ballard Dole)  Search this

Lucioni, Luigi  Search this

Marsh, Reginald  Search this

Miller, Kenneth Hayes  Search this

Parsons, Betty  Search this

Robus, Hugo  Search this

Saint-Gaudens, Homer  Search this

Savery, Rockland  Search this

Schmidt, Katherine  Search this

Shahn, Ben  Search this

Sheeler, Charles  Search this

Speicher, Eugene Edward  Search this

Stamos, Theodoros  Search this

Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam  Search this

Watkins, Franklin Chenault  Search this

Watson, Forbes  Search this

Watson, Nan  Search this

Weisgard, Leonard  Search this

Artists Equity Association  Search this

American Academy of Arts and Letters  Search this

Citation:

Henry Ernest Schnakenberg papers, 1905-1969. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art, Prehistoric  Search this

Painting, Modern -- 20th century  Search this

Etching  Search this

Theme:

Diaries  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9102

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211296

AAA_collcode_schnh

Theme:

Diaries

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211296

Creator:

Archives of American Art  Search this

Subject:

Savig, Mary  Search this

Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)  Search this

Citation:

What is Feminist Art? questionnaire responses, 2019. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Feminism and art  Search this

Theme:

Women  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)21690

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)398490

AAA_collcode_whatisfe

Theme:

Women

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_398490

Creator:

Archives of American Art  Search this

Names:

Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)  Search this

Savig, Mary, 1982-  Search this

Extent:

0.4 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

2019

Scope and Contents:

What is Feminist Art? questionnaire responses date from 2019 and measure 0.4 linear feet. The questionnaire asking "What is Feminist Art?" was sent by Mary Savig, Curator of Manuscripts at the Archives of American Art, to artists asking each to respond to the question on a single page of 8 1/2" x 11" paper, for inclusion in an exhibition "What is Feminist Art?" curated by Savig. Responses include collages, handwritten and typescript statements, drawings, photographs, and prints. The fifty-one artists responding include Tanya Aguiñiga, Marla Allison, Jerri Allyn, Helène Aylon, Siri Berg, Regina Bogat, Adrienne Maree Brown, Nanibah Chacon, Ann Chernow, Jesse Chun, Sheila de Bretteville, Judy Chicago, Mercedes Dorame, Kristen Dorsey, Anaïs Duplan, Eiko Fan, Audrey Flack, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Grace Graup-Pillard, Harmony Hammond, Maren Hassinger, Jodie Herrera, Everyl Ocean Hughes, Ginny Huo, Xandra Ibarra, E. Jane, Arlette Jassel, Laura Kina, Joyce Kozloff, Nina Kuo, Carole Frances Lung, Mia Mackrandilal, Amber McCrary, Susan Michod, Yong Soon Min, Linda Mary Montano, Nora Noranjo Morse, Annysa Ng, Patricia Olson, Howardena Pindell, Liz Whitney Quisgard, L.J. Roberts, Martha Rosler, Mimi Smith, Joan Snyder, Tina Takemoto, Mary Temple, Cynthia Tom, Faith Wilding, Martha Wilson and Terry Wolverton. The Archives' 2019 exhibition will include responses to the same question asked of artists for the 1977 exhibition of the same name organized by the Woman's Building, a feminist art organization in Los Angeles, California.

Biographical / Historical:

The Archives of American Art compiled these documents for the exhibition "What is Feminist Art?" at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery, 2019 where they will be presented along with responses to the same question posed to artists, 1976 and 1977, that were organized into an exhibition at the Woman's Building, Los Angeles, California, February 1977.

Related Materials:

The Archives of American Art also holds the Woman's Building Gallery records.

The Archives of American Art also holds the records of the Woman's Building which include responses and other documentation relating to the 1977 exhibition "What is Feminist Art?".

Provenance:

The responses were donated individually by each artist in 2019 and 2020.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.

Topic:

Feminism and art  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.whatisfe

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw93448ca06-38cb-4f40-8ad1-e2d3e7cb4a67

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-whatisfe

Collection Creator:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History  Search this

Container:

Box 50, Folder 1-5

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1932-1934

Scope and Contents:

Travel scrapbook with typescript entries starting in Rockford, Illinois and from locations in the western United States. Includes some photographs and postcards.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Collection Citation:

Archives Center Scrapbook Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

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Archives Center Scrapbook Collection

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep87888a9e9-4a42-4112-af0d-fcf6f81a488e

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0468-ref512

Creator:

Hockney, David  Search this

Interviewer:

Weschler, Lawrence  Search this

Names:

Archives of American Art  Search this

Extent:

10 Videocassettes (U-matic) (Master: 10 videocassettes (U-matic) (20 min. each) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. + typescript summary (15 p.))

4 Videocassettes (U-matic) (Duplicate (3 hrs. 20 min.), sd., col., 3/4 in.)

1 Videocassettes (U-matic) (Edited version:"Selections": 1 videocassette (60 min.) (U-Matic), sd., col., 3/4 in.)

2 Videocassettes (VHS) (Edited version: "Selections": 2 videocassettes (60 min.) (VHS), sd., col., 1/2 in.)

4 Sound cassettes (Audio only version , analog)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Videocassettes (u-matic)

Videocassettes (vhs)

Sound cassettes

Video recordings

Interviews

Date:

1984 September 3

Scope and Contents:

An interview with David Hockney conducted 1984 Sept. 3, by Lawrence Weschler, for the Archives of American Art at Hockney's home and studio, Los Angeles, Calif.

Hockney discusses his work with photography, and more recently, painting. Topics covered include perspective, the depiction of the passage of time in an art work, the disintegration of the canvas' edge, and Hockney's rediscovery of the objectives of cubism, and the combining of western theories of cubism with the eastern philosophy used in scroll painting.

Biographical / Historical:

Painter, photographer; b. 1937.

General:

Unedited master version filmed in ten twenty minute segments. Paul Karlstom, Archives of American Art's West Coast Regional Director, edited the master to a 60 minute version, labeled "Selections."

Topic:

Painters -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Photographers -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Video recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by Warner Communications, Inc.

Identifier:

AAA.hockne84

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ed38689e-ec1a-443f-83d4-aca2f5a2f739

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-hockne84