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Photographer:

Constable, William  Search this

Maker:

Constable, William  Search this

Physical Description:

metal, copper (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 8 cm x 10 cm x .5 cm; 3 5/32 in x 3 15/16 in x 3/16 in

Object Name:

daguerreotype

Other Terms:

Photograph; Photograph; Daguerreotype

Date made:

1841-1861

ID Number:

PG.71.22.115

Accession number:

299134

Catalog number:

71.22.115

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Work and Industry: Photographic History

Art

Photography

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-bd57-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_554956

Creator:

Nick  Search this

Collection Creator:

Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (leaf , 016 in x 011 in)

Culture:

A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1872

Local Numbers:

NAA INV 08631001

NAA MS 2037

Local Note:

Colored pencil Watercolor painting

Place:

New Mexico Zuni Pueblo

Provenance:

Stevenson, Matilda Coxe

Topic:

Works of art  Search this

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 2037, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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MS 2037 Drawings of ceremonial dry paintings

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms2037-ref1

Creator:

Nick  Search this

Collection Creator:

Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (leaf , 016 in x 011 in)

Culture:

A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1872

Local Numbers:

NAA INV 08631002

NAA MS 2037

Copy Neg. 93-71

Local Note:

Colored pencil Watercolor painting

Place:

New Mexico Zuni Pueblo

Provenance:

Stevenson, Matilda Coxe

Topic:

Works of art  Search this

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 2037, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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MS 2037 Drawings of ceremonial dry paintings

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms2037-ref2

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

Symposia

Lectures

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2021-05-19T05:21:52.000Z

YouTube Category:

Entertainment  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

See more by:

cooperhewitt

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_OTteyHSB2D0

Creator:

Kraushaar Galleries  Search this

Kraushaar Galleries  Search this

Subject:

Wilson, Ralph L.  Search this

Fausett, Dean  Search this

Lasker, Joe  Search this

Murdock, Roland P.  Search this

Phillips, Duncan  Search this

Kuhn, Walt  Search this

Smith, Vernon  Search this

Robinson, Boardman  Search this

Lechay, James  Search this

Laurent, Robert  Search this

Hartell, John  Search this

Cantene, David  Search this

Schnakenberg, H. E. (Henry Ernest)  Search this

Kraushaar, Antoinette M.  Search this

Harrison, Preston  Search this

Heliker, John  Search this

Williams, Esther  Search this

Luks, George Benjamin  Search this

Glackens, Edith  Search this

Navas, Elizabeth S.  Search this

DeLonga, Leonard  Search this

Evett, Kenneth Warnock  Search this

Halberstadt, Ernst  Search this

Prendergast, Maurice Brazil  Search this

Morris, Carl  Search this

Ruellan, Andrée  Search this

Smalley, David  Search this

Flannery, Vaughn  Search this

Cowles, Russell  Search this

Penney, James  Search this

Beal, Gifford  Search this

Bacon, Peggy  Search this

Beal, Reynolds  Search this

Hardy, Thomas  Search this

Glackens, William J.  Search this

Prendergast, Charles  Search this

Demuth, Charles  Search this

Albrizio, Humbert  Search this

Lachaise, Gaston  Search this

Bignou, Etienne  Search this

Kirsch, Frederick D. (Frederick Dwight)  Search this

Sloan, John  Search this

Allard, J.  Search this

Bouché, Louis  Search this

Juley, Peter A.  Search this

Stanley, Alix W.  Search this

Arnest, Bernard  Search this

Brueming, Karen  Search this

Miller, Harriette  Search this

Kraushaar, John F.  Search this

Guillaume, Paul  Search this

Art Institute of Chicago  Search this

Toledo Museum of Art  Search this

Cleveland Museum of Art  Search this

Wichita Art Museum  Search this

Whitney Museum of American Art  Search this

New Britain Institute. Art Museum  Search this

Ernest Brown and Co.  Search this

Carnegie Institute  Search this

University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Department of Art  Search this

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Sketches

Drawings

Exhibition catalogs

Financial records

Notes

Sketchbooks

Topic:

Works of art  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Artists -- United States  Search this

Depressions -- 1929  Search this

Theme:

Art Market  Search this

Art Gallery Records  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7781

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209946

AAA_collcode_kraugall

Theme:

Art Market

Art Gallery Records

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209946

Creator:

Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980  Search this

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

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 American Artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)6833

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)208960

AAA_collcode_brooalex

Theme:

Diaries

Lives of American Artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_208960

Creator:

McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965  Search this

McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965  Search this

Subject:

Hartley, Marsden  Search this

Abbott, Berenice  Search this

Hawthorne, Charles Webster  Search this

Henri, Robert  Search this

Henry, Edward Lamson  Search this

Dove, Arthur Garfield  Search this

Kleinholz, Frank  Search this

Morgan, Barbara Brooks  Search this

Stieglitz, Alfred  Search this

Weegee  Search this

Hine, Lewis Wickes  Search this

Inness, George  Search this

Lawrence, Jacob  Search this

Maurer, Alfred Henry  Search this

Weston, Edward  Search this

American Art Research Council  Search this

Federal Art Project (U.S.)  Search this

United States. Farm Security Administration  Search this

Barnard College  Search this

Type:

Scrapbooks

Prints

Drawings

Photographs

Watercolors

Place:

New York N.Y. -- Pictorial works -- photographs

Topic:

Springfield Republican  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Art criticism -- United States  Search this

Documentary photography -- United States  Search this

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

Art -- Exhibitions -- United States  Search this

Art -- History -- Study and teaching  Search this

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

Modernism (Art)  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Theme:

Diaries  Search this

Art Theory and Historiography  Search this

Photography  Search this

Women  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7839

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210006

AAA_collcode_mccaeliz

Theme:

Diaries

Art Theory and Historiography

Photography

Women

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210006

Creator:

National Watercolor Society (U.S.)  Search this

National Watercolor Society (U.S.)  Search this

Subject:

Sheets, Millard  Search this

California Watercolor Society  Search this

Type:

Scrapbooks

Topic:

Watercolor painting -- United States  Search this

Watercolor painting -- California  Search this

Theme:

Communities, Organizations, Museums  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)6588

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)215890

AAA_collcode_natiwate

Theme:

Communities, Organizations, Museums

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_215890

Creator:

National Watercolor Society (U.S.)  Search this

Names:

California Watercolor Society  Search this

Sheets, Millard, 1907-1989  Search this

Extent:

3.6 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Scrapbooks

Date:

1920-1995

Scope and Contents:

Articles of incorporation, newsletters, artist's biographies, slides for exhibitions (1980-1990) and rental slides (1990-1995), pamphlets and programs (1954-1995), six scrapbooks (1921-1994) containing printed materials and some with photographs and artists' resumes, three Presidents' books (1922-1995), a guidebook, group portraits from 1949 and 1951, and NWS newsletters documenting the history and members of the National Watercolor Society (formerly the California Watercolor Society).

Biographical / Historical:

Art society; Los Angeles, Calif. The California Watercolor Society was founded in Los Angeles in 1920. The organization continued for fifty-five years as the CWS. In 1975 the name was changed to the National Watercolor Society (NWS). In the early years the organization was dominated by members of the California School, the group of West Coast painters whose most prominent representative was Millard Sheets. These artists developed a regionalist style that focused on California landscape and, less frequently, the urban scene. The approach and aesthetic represented by Millard Sheets and others greatly influenced the members of the Society for years, and as a result the organization became increasingly viewed as conservative and even decorative.

Provenance:

Donated 1995 by the Society's club historian and secretary Rosemary MacBird. Three additional scrapbooks were donated in 1997 by Society historian Ed Gill.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

Watercolorists -- United States  Search this

Watercolorists -- California  Search this

Topic:

Watercolor painting -- United States  Search this

Watercolor painting -- California  Search this

Function:

Arts organizations

Genre/Form:

Scrapbooks

Identifier:

AAA.natiwate

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-natiwate

Creator:

Jacobson, Oscar Brousse, 1882-1966  Search this

Asah, Spencer, approximately 1908-1954  Search this

Hokeah, Jack, 1902-1969  Search this

Mopope, Stephen, 1898-1974  Search this

Smoky, Lois, 1907-1981  Search this

Tsatoke, Monroe, 1904-1937  Search this

Extent:

30 Leaves (silk screened plates, 38 x 28 cm.)

1 Item (in leatherette portfolio )

Culture:

Kiowa  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Leaves

Ledger drawings

Date:

Santa Fe, New Mexico :, Bell Editions,, 1979

Scope and Contents:

A portfolio of 30 drawings by Spencer Asah, Jack Hokeah, Stephen Mopope, Monroe Tsatoke, and Lois Smoky--members of the Kiowa Five. This is a facsimile of the 1929 limited edition portfolio of pochoir prints published in France by C. Szwedzicki with introductory text by Oscar Brousse Jacobson. An introduction by Jamake Highwater was written for the 1979 reprinting of the portfolio. Both introductions are missing from this copy.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 2008-15

Other Archival Materials:

The Smithsonian's John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology also has a copy of the 1979 portfolio. The library copy is missing 3 prints but contains the introductory texts by Oscar Brousse Jacobson and Jamake Highwater.

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Genre/Form:

Ledger drawings

Citation:

Manuscript 2008-15 Kiowa Indian Art: Watercolor Paintings in Color by the Indians of Oklahoma, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

Donated to the National Anthropological Archives by J. Daniel Rogers.

Identifier:

NAA.MS2008-15

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2008-15

Artist:

Asah, Spencer, approximately 1908-1954  Search this

Auchiah, James, 1906-1974  Search this

Mopope, Stephen, 1898-1974  Search this

Hokeah, Jack, 1902-1969  Search this

Smoky, Lois, 1907-1981  Search this

Tsatoke, Monroe, 1904-1937  Search this

Collector:

Jacobson, Oscar Brousse, 1882-1966  Search this

Extent:

24 Paintings (watercolor applied by pochoir, 89 x 72 cm.)

Culture:

Kiowa  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Paintings

Ledger drawings

Date:

1929

Scope and Contents:

Includes twenty-four prints illustrating dancers, figures in traditional attire, and ceremonial events. Each sheet is numbered in the upper right corner, with numbers 1 through 30, complete except for 3, 5, 7, 22, 26, and 29. The prints are from a portfolio containing 30 plates and an accompanying text by Jacobson published by C. Szwedizicki, Nice, France. There are related prints in the Acee Blue Eagle collection, including the original painting on which Plate 27 is based. The painters are the so-called Kiowa Five, renamed the Kiowa Six: Jack Hokeah, Spencer Asah, Bougetah (Lois) Smoky, Stephen Mopope, and Monroe Tsatoke. For this set of drawings, an electrostatic copy of the text as published in 1979 with an essay by Jamake Highwater and the Jacobson text in French with an added translation in English has been added (Oscar Brousse Jacobson, Kiowa Indian Art: Watercolor Paintings in Color by the Indians of Oklahoma) with an introductory essay by Jamake Highwater, Bell Editions, Santa Fe, ca. 1979). The locations of the missing art and the original 1929 text and covers are not known.

Biographical / Historical:

The Kiowa Five were a group of painters who earned national and international acclaim during the early twentieth century. The group actually consisted of six individuals, Spencer Asah, Jack Hokeah, Stephen Mopope, Monroe Tsatoke, Lois Smoky, and James Auchiah. A number of the artists attended St. Patrick's Mission School in Anadarko, Oklahoma, where they received art instruction from Sister Olivia Taylor. Susan Peters, a government field matron, also took an interest in the young artists' work. She arranged for an artist from Chickasha, Mrs. Willie Baze Lane, to provide art lessons. Eventually Ms. Peters persuaded Dr. Oscar Jacobson, head of the school of art at the University of Oklahoma, to provide additional training for the artists. In 1926, Asah, Hokeah, Tsatoke, and Mopope arrived at the University. The artists were not officially enrolled, but they received special instruction from Jacobson and Dr. Edith Mahier, another professor in the school of art. In January 1927, Lois Smoky, a young Kiowa woman, arrived to study with the other artists. In spring, the artists were compelled to return home to attend to agricultural pursuits. They returned in the fall, accompanied by James Auchiah, the sixth and final student. Shortly thereafter, Lois Smoky withdrew from the program and returned home. Dr. Oscar Jacobson arranged for the Kiowa artists' paintings to be exhibited in 1928 at the First International Art Exposition - formally titled the 1928 International Art Congress (of the International Federation for Art Education, Drawing and Art Applied to Industries)- in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 1929, Kiowa Art, a portfolio of the artists' paintings was published in France. For additional information on these artists, see: Jeanne O. Snodgrass, American Indian Painters - A Biographical Directory, Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation, 1968, and John Anson Warner, "Native American Painting in Oklahoma: Continuity and Change." The Journal of Intercultural Studies, 23: 14-129, 1996.

Stephen Mopope also known as Qued Koi (Painted Robe) was born on August 27, 1898 near Red Stone Baptist Church on the Kiowa Reservation. He attended St. Patrick's Mission School in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He died on February 3, 1974.

Spencer Asah also known as Lallo (Little Boy) was born between 1905 and 1910 near Carnegie, Oklahoma. He attended various government Indian schools and St. Patrick's Mission School, Anadarko, Oklahoma. He died in 1954.

James Auchiah was born in 1906 near Medicine Park, Oklahoma. He attended St. Patrick's Mission School in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He died on December 28, 1974.

Jack Hokeah was born in 1902 in western Oklahoma. He attended St. Patrick's Mission School in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He died on December 14, 1969.

Monroe Tsatoke also known as Tsa To Kee (Hunting Horse) was born September 29, 1904 at Saddle Mountain, Oklahoma. He attended Rainy Mountain Indian School near Carnegie, Oklahoma and Bacone College. He died on February 3, 1937.

Lois Smokey also known as Bougetah (Of the Dawn) was born in 1907, near Anadarko, Oklahoma. She died on February 1, 1981.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 7536

NAA INV 09064600-09066900

Local Note:

Information for the collection level record was drawn from Oscar Brousse Jacobson, Kiowa Indian Art: Watercolor Paintings in Color by the Indians of Oklahoma (with an introductory essay by Jamake Highwater), Bell Editions, 1979.

Album Information:

MS 7536 000

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Genre/Form:

Ledger drawings

Citation:

Manuscript 7536, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS7536

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MS 7536 Pochoir prints of ledger drawings by the Kiowa Five

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms7536

Artist:

Jacquez, Albert, 1895-1962  Search this

Extent:

4 Chromolithographs

Culture:

Siksika Blackfoot  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Assiniboine (Stoney)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Chromolithographs

Photographs

Date:

circa 1945

Scope and Contents note:

Reproductions of Albert Jacquez watercolor paintings relating to Stoney and Blackfoot people, painted in 1945. They depict a Sun dance camp and the process of erecting a Sun dance tree, a Stoney man named Dog Tail in winter dress, and a Blackfoot man named Tom Turn Up Nose.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 4561

Location of Other Archival Materials:

The National Museum of the American Indian holds Albert Jacquez paintings.

Contained in:

Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Camps  Search this

Sun Dance  Search this

Watercolor painting  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot 4561, Color reproductions of paintings by Albert Jacquez,National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.4561

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-4561

Creator:

Southwestern Watercolor Society  Search this

Southwestern Watercolor Society  Search this

Subject:

North Texas Watercolor Society  Search this

Topic:

Watercolor painting -- Southwestern States  Search this

Theme:

Communities, Organizations, Museums  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9879

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212381

AAA_collcode_soutwate

Theme:

Communities, Organizations, Museums

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_212381

Author:

Ridgway, Robert 1850-1929  Search this

Former owner:

Goode, G. Brown (George Brown),) 1851-1896 DSI  Search this

Mearns, Edgar Alexander 1856-1916 DSI  Search this

Miller, Gerrit S (Gerrit Smith),) 1869-1956 DSI  Search this

Wetmore, Alexander 1886-1978 DSI  Search this

Inscriber:

Ridgway, Robert 1850-1929 DSI  Search this

Physical description:

129 pages, XVII leaves of plates illustrations (some color) 22 cm

Type:

Terminology

Date:

1886

Topic:

Birds--Anatomy  Search this

Birds--Color  Search this

Color in nature  Search this

Color  Search this

Colors  Search this

Ornithology--Terminology  Search this

Watercolor painting--Technique  Search this

Zoological specimens  Search this

Ornithology  Search this

Call number:

QL45 .R54 1886

QL767 .R54 1886

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_272608

Creator:

Southwestern Watercolor Society  Search this

Names:

North Texas Watercolor Society  Search this

Extent:

0.2 Linear feet ((on partial microfilm reel))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1964-1982

Scope and Contents:

Consitution and by-laws; clippings; intermittent issues of the newsletter THE SCENE, 1969-1982; form letters; invitations; bulletins; a membership list, 1964; and exhibition catalogs.

Biographical / Historical:

Art society; Dallas, Texas. Founded 1964 as the North Texas Watercolor Society. Name changed in 1967.

Provenance:

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

Donated 1982 by Anitia Meynig, president of Southwestern Watercolor Society, 1981-1982.

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.

Topic:

Watercolor painting -- Southwestern States  Search this

Function:

Arts organizations -- Texas

Identifier:

AAA.soutwate

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-soutwate

Collection Creator:

Tam, Reuben  Search this

Container:

Box 5, Folder 8

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1962-1974

Collection 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.

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:

Reuben Tam papers, 1931-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

The processing and digitization of the Reuben Tam papers received Federal support from the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.

See more items in:

Reuben Tam papers

Reuben Tam papers / Series 3: Diaries

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-tamreub-ref160

Creator:

Lamb, Rose  Search this

Names:

Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945  Search this

Fiske, John  Search this

Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943  Search this

Hunt, William Morris, 1824-1879  Search this

Lamb, Aimée, 1893-1989  Search this

Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958  Search this

Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911  Search this

Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919  Search this

Sterner, Albert, 1863-1946  Search this

Turner, Ross, 1847-1915  Search this

Woodbury, Charles H. (Charles Herbert), 1864-1940  Search this

Extent:

0.8 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Oil paintings

Sketchbooks

Watercolor paintings

Photographs

Charcoal drawings

Date:

circa 1870-1961

bulk 1870-1900

Summary:

The papers of Boston area portrait painter Rose Lamb date from circa 1870 to 1961, with the bulk of the material dating from circa 1870 to 1900, and measure 0.8 linear feet. The collection contains a diploma; letters from artists, writers, historians, and others, including nine letters from former teacher and friend William Morris Hunt; photographs of unidentified people and artwork by Lamb; and original artwork, including a sketchbook, charcoal drawings, watercolors, and two oil paintings.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of Boston area portrait painter and drawing instructor Rose Lamb date from circa 1870 to 1961, with the bulk of the material dating from circa 1870 to 1900, and measure 0.8 linear feet. The collection contains a diploma; letters from artists, writers, historians, and others, including nine letters from former teacher and friend William Morris Hunt; photographs of unidentified people and artwork by Lamb; and original artwork, including a sketchbook from circa 1870, charcoal drawings, two watercolors, and two oil paintings. Artwork depicts landscapes, children, and other figure studies.

Correspondence within the the collection includes 19 letters from artists, such as Albert Sterner, Ross Turner, Howard Pyle, and Charles H. Woodbury; writers Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Margaret Deland, and Alfred Noyes; and historians John Fiske and Albert Bushnell Hart. Also found are nine letters from former teacher and friend William Morris Hunt. Eight of his letters describe in detail his work on the painting of murals in the Capitol building in Albany, New York, and one letter discusses his painting of portraits in North Easton, Massachusetts. Also among the correspondence are four letters to Aimée Lamb, Rose's niece.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into 4 series:

Series 1: Diploma, 1881 (Box 1, OV 3; 1 folder)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1878-1914, 1952-1961 (Box 1; 5 folders)

Series 3: Photographs, circa late 1800s (Boxes 1-2; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 4: Artwork, circa 1870-late 1800s (Box 1-2, OV 3; 0.3 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Rose Lamb (1843-1927) was a portrait painter and drawing instructor of Boston, Massachusetts. Lamb was born in Boston to a prominent family and was a student of William Morris Hunt and Helen Knowlton during the 1870s. Though she did not exhibit often during her lifetime, she was a successful portraitist specializing in portraits of children. Lamb was an active member of Boston society, befriending many artists, writers, and other cultural figures, and her portraits were in great demand among prominent Boston families. She traveled to Europe in 1881, 1890, and 1914, perhaps taking art classes while there in 1881. In 1884, and possibly later, she assisted George Bartlett as a drawing instructor at the South Boston School of Art. In 1900 she suffered a severe illness and stopped painting. For the remainder of her life she instead pursued travel and social activities. Rose Lamb died in 1927.

Related Material:

Also available at the Archives of American Art are the Aimée Lamb (niece of Rose Lamb) papers, 1888-1991. Original letters to Rose Lamb from Mary Cassatt and Childe Hassam are available at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Provenance:

This collection was donated by Aimée and Rosamond Lamb, nieces of Rose Lamb in installments, primarily from 1980 to 1985. They donated the nine letters to Lamb from William Morris Hunt in 1976.

Restrictions:

Use of the original papers requires an appointment.

Rights:

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

Occupation:

Portrait painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston  Search this

Art teachers -- Massachusetts -- Boston  Search this

Genre/Form:

Oil paintings

Sketchbooks

Watercolor paintings

Photographs

Charcoal drawings

Citation:

Rose Lamb papers, circa 1870-1961, bulk circa 1870-1900. 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.lambrose

See more items in:

Rose Lamb papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-lambrose

Creator:

Kuh, Katharine  Search this

Names:

Albright-Knox Art Gallery  Search this

Art Institute of Chicago -- Faculty  Search this

Biennale di Venezia  Search this

Katharine Kuh Gallery (Chicago, Ill.)  Search this

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984  Search this

Albers, Josef  Search this

Albright, Ivan, 1897-1983  Search this

Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964  Search this

Arensberg, Louise S. (Louise Stevenson), 1879-1953  Search this

Arensberg, Walter, 1878-1954  Search this

Arp, Jean, 1887-1966  Search this

Barnet, Will, 1911-  Search this

Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981  Search this

Biddle, George, 1885-1973  Search this

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-  Search this

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976  Search this

Campoli, Cosmo  Search this

Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985  Search this

Chavez Morado, José, 1909-2002  Search this

Chermayeff, Serge, 1900-  Search this

Cornell, Joseph  Search this

Cox, Richard  Search this

Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964  Search this

Day, Worden, 1916-1986  Search this

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997  Search this

Dickinson, Edwin Walter, 1891-1978  Search this

Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968  Search this

Elizabeth, Queen of Great Britain, II, 1926-  Search this

Ernst, Jimmy, 1920-1984  Search this

Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997  Search this

Feitelson, Lorser, 1898-1978  Search this

Friendly, Fred W.  Search this

Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966  Search this

Golub, Leon, 1922-2004  Search this

Goto, Joseph, 1920-  Search this

Grabe, Klaus  Search this

Graves, Robert, 1895-1985  Search this

Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-  Search this

Guston, Philip, 1913-1980  Search this

Hare, David, 1917-  Search this

Hare, Denise Browne  Search this

Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph  Search this

Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966  Search this

Hélion, Jean, 1904-1987  Search this

Inverarity, Robert Bruce, 1909-1999  Search this

Johns, Jasper, 1930-  Search this

Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005  Search this

Johnson, Ray, 1927-  Search this

Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944  Search this

Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001  Search this

Kepes, Juliet  Search this

Klee, Paul, 1879-1940  Search this

Kline, Franz, 1910-1962  Search this

Knox, Seymour H., 1898-1990  Search this

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965  Search this

Lundeberg, Helen, 1908-1999  Search this

Lye, Len, 1901-1980  Search this

Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955  Search this

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

Millier, Arthur, 1893-  Search this

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946  Search this

Motherwell, Robert  Search this

Mérida, Carlos, 1891-1984  Search this

Nutting, Muriel Leone Tyler, b. 1892  Search this

Nutting, Myron Chester, 1890-1972  Search this

O'Higgins, Pablo, 1904-  Search this

Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949  Search this

Ozbekhan, Hasan, 1921-2007  Search this

Perkins, Frances  Search this

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973  Search this

Putnam, Wallace, 1899-1989  Search this

Ray, Man, 1890-1976  Search this

Rich, Daniel Catton, 1904-1976  Search this

Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970  Search this

Sandberg, Carl  Search this

Seligmann, Kurt, 1900-1962  Search this

Shackelford, Shelby  Search this

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969  Search this

Spaeth, Otto, d. 1966  Search this

Sterne, Hedda, 1916-  Search this

Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965  Search this

Still, Clyfford, 1904-  Search this

Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-2012  Search this

Tobey, Mark  Search this

Winston, Harry Lewis  Search this

Woolf, Olga  Search this

Young, Victor  Search this

Photographer:

Pollack, Peter, 1909-1978  Search this

Extent:

12 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Illustrated letters

Resumes

Travel diaries

Minutes

Calendars

Visitors' books

Photographs

Paintings

Awards

Drawings

Sound recordings

Collages

Scrapbooks

Lithographs

Prints

Wills

Watercolors

Poetry

Lecture notes

Lectures

Sales records

Date:

1875-1994

bulk 1930-1994

Summary:

The papers of art historian, dealer, critic, and curator Katharine Kuh measure 12 linear feet and date from 1875-1994, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930-1994. The collection documents Kuh's career as a pioneer modernist art historian and as the first woman curator of European Art and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. Found within the papers are biographical material; correspondence with family, friends and colleagues; personal business records; artwork by various artists; a travel journal; writings by Kuh and others; scrapbooks; printed material; photographs of Kuh and others; and audio recordings of Kuh's lectures and of Daniel Catton Rich reading poetry.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of art historian, dealer, critic, and curator Katharine Kuh measure 12 linear feet and date from 1875-1994, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930-1994. Found within the papers are biographical material; correspondence with family, friends and colleagues; personal business records; artwork by various artists; a travel journal; writings by Kuh and others; scrapbooks; printed material; photographs of Kuh and others; and audio recordings of Kuh's lectures and of Daniel Catton Rich reading poetry.

Biographical material consists of copies of Kuh's birth certificate, resumés, passports, award certificates, honorary diplomas, and address books listing information about several prominent artists and colleagues.

Four linear feet of correspondence offers excellent documentation of Kuh's interest in art history, her travels, her career at the Art Institute of Chicago, her work as a corporate art advisor, and as an author. There are letters from her mother Olga Woolf, friends, and colleagues. There is extensive correspondence with various staff members of the Art Institute of Chicago, the First National Bank of Chicago, and The Saturday Review. Also of interest are letters from artists and collectors, several of whom became life-long friends including Walter and Louise Arensberg, Cosmo Campoli, Serge Chermayeff, Richard Cox, Worden Day, Claire Falkenstein, Fred Friendly, Leon Golub, Joseph Goto, David Hare, Denise Brown Hare, Jean Hélion, Ray Johnson, Gyorgy and Juliet Kepes, Len Lye, Wallace Putnam, Kurt Seligmann, Shelby Shackelford, Hedda Sterne, and Clyfford Still. Many letters are illustrated with original artwork in various media.

There are also scattered letters from various artists and other prominent individuals including Josef Albers, George Biddle, Marcel Breuer, Joseph Cornell, Stuart Davis, Edwin Dickinson, Joseph Hirshhorn, Daniel Catton Rich, and Dorothea Tanning.

Personal business records include a list of artwork, Olga Woolf's will, inventories of Kuh's personal art collection, miscellaneous contracts and deeds of gift, receipts for the sale of artwork, files concerning business-related travel, and miscellaneous receipts.

Artwork in the collection represents a wide range of artist friends and media, such as drawings, watercolors, paintings, collages, and prints. Included are works by various artists including lithographs by David Hare and a watercolor set, Technics and Creativity, designed and autographed by Jasper Johns for the Museum of Modern Art, 1970.

Notes and writings include annotated engagement calendars, travel journals for Germany, a guest book for the Kuh Memorial gathering, and many writings and notes by Kuh for lectures and articles concerning art history topics. Of interest are minutes/notes from meetings for art festivals, conferences, and the "Conversations with Artists Program (1961). Also found are writings by others about Kuh and other art history topics.

Six scrapbooks contain clippings that document the height of Kuh's career as a gallery director and museum curator. Scrapbook 6 contains clippings about Fernand Léger, the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1953.

Additional printed material includes clippings about Kuh and her interests, a comprehensive collection of clippings of Kuh's articles for The Saturday Review, exhibition announcements and catalogs, calendars of events, programs, brochures, books including Poems by Kuh as a child, and reproductions of artwork. Of particular interest are the early and exhibition catalogs from the Katharine Kuh Gallery, and rare catalogs for artists including Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Stanley William Hayter, Hans Hofmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Kline, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Pablo Picasso.

Photographs provide important documentation of the life and career of Katharine Kuh and are of Kuh, family members, friends, colleagues, events, residences, and artwork. Several of the photographs of Kuh were taken by Will Barnet and Marcel Breuer and there is a notable pair of photo booth portraits of Kuh and a young Ansel Adams. There are also group photographs showing Angelica Archipenko with Kuh; designer Klaus Grabe; painters José Chavez Morado and Pablo O'Higgins in San Miguel, Mexico; Kuh at the Venice Biennale with friends and colleagues including Peggy Guggenheim, Frances Perkins, Daniel Catton Rich, and Harry Winston; and "The Pre-Depressionists" including Lorser Feitelson, Robert Inverarity, Helen Lundeberg, Arthur Millier, Myron Chester Nutting, and Muriel Tyler Nutting.

Photographs of exhibition installations and openings include views of the Katharine Kuh Gallery; Fernand Léger, Man Ray, and László Moholy-Nagy at the Art Institute of Chicago; and Philip Guston, Jimmy Ernst, Seymour H. Knox, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. There are also photographs depicting three men posing as Léger's "Three Musicians" and the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the Art Institute of Chicago. There is a photograph by Peter Pollack of an elk skull used as a model by Georgia O'Keeffe.

Additional photographs of friends and colleagues include Ivan Albright, Alfred Barr, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Willem De Kooning, Edwin Dickinson, Marcel Duchamp, Claire Falkenstein, Alberto Giacometti, poet Robert Graves with Len Lye, Philip Johnson, Gyorgy and Juliet Kepes, Carlos Mérida, José Orozco, Hasan Ozbekhan, Pablo Picasso, Carl Sandberg, Ben Shahn, Otto Spaeth, Hedda Sterne, Adlai Stevenson, Clyfford Still, Mark Tobey, and composer Victor Young.

Photographs of artwork include totem poles in Alaska; work by various artists including Claire Falkenstein, Paul Klee, and Hedda Sterne; and work donated to the Guggenheim Museum.

Four audio recordings on cassette are of Katharine Kuh's lectures, including one about assembling corporate collections, and of Daniel Catton Rich reading his own poetry. There is also a recording of the Second Annual Dialogue between Broadcasters and Museum Educators.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 9 series. Undated correspondence, artwork, and photographs of individual artists are arranged alphabetically. Otherwise, each series is arranged chronologically.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1945-1992 (Box 1; 16 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1908-1994 (Boxes 1-5, 13-14, OV 15; 4.0 linear feet)

Series 3: Personal Business Records, 1941-1989 (Box 5; 19 folders)

Series 4: Artwork, 1931-1986 (Boxes 5, 13-14, OVs 15-23; 1.7 linear feet)

Series 5: Notes and Writings, 1914-1994 (Boxes 5-7; 1.7 linear feet)

Series 6: Scrapbooks, 1935-1953 (Box 7; 8 folders)

Series 7: Printed Material, 1916-1992 (Boxes 7-10, 13, OV 22; 3.0 linear feet)

Series 8: Photographs, 1875-1993 (Boxes 10-13; 1.2 linear feet)

Series 9: Audio Recordings, 1977 (Box 12; 1 folder)

Biographical Note:

Katharine Kuh (1904-1994) worked primarily in the Chicago area as an modern art historian, dealer, critic, curator, writer, and consultant. She operated the Katharine Kuh Gallery from 1935-1943 and was the first woman curator of European and Art and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Katharine Kuh (née Woolf) was born on July 15, 1904 in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of the three daughters of Olga Weiner and Morris Woolf, a silk importer. In 1909, the family moved to Chicago, Illinois. While traveling with her family in Europe in 1914, Katharine contracted polio, causing her to spend the next decade in a body brace. During this time of restricted movement, she developed an interest in art history through the collecting of old master prints.

After her recovery, Katharine Woolf attended Vassar College where one of her professors, Alfred Barr, encouraged her to study modern art. She graduated from Vassar in 1925 and received a master's degree in art history from the University of Chicago in 1929. Later that year, she moved to New York to pursue a Ph.D. in Renaissance and medieval art at New York University.

In 1930, Katharine Woolf returned to Chicago and married businessman George Kuh and began to teach art history courses in the suburbs of Chicago. After divorcing George Kuh in 1935, she opened the Katharine Kuh Gallery, the first gallery devoted to avant-garde art in Chicago. It was also the first gallery to exhibit photography and typographical design as art forms, and featured the work of Ansel Adams, Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, and Man Ray, among others. From 1938 to1940, Kuh was the Visiting Professor of Art at the University School of Fine Arts, San Miguel, Mexico.

After the Katharine Kuh Gallery closed in 1943, Kuh was hired by museum director Daniel Catton Rich to fill a position in public relations at the Art Institute of Chicago. During the following years, Kuh edited the museum's Quarterly publication, took charge of the museum's Gallery of Interpretive Art, and began a long term relationship with Rich. In 1946, Kuh was sent on a special mission for the U. S. Office of Indian Affairs to make a detailed study of Native American totemic carvings in Alaska.

In 1949, Kuh persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Walter Arensberg of Los Angeles to exhibit their collection of modern art, creating the first post-war exhibition of modern art in Chicago. She published her first book Art Has Many Faces in 1951, and in the following year, she began writing art criticism for The Saturday Review. In 1954, Kuh was appointed the first woman curator of European Art and Sculpture at the Art Institute. She assembled the American contribution for the Venice Biennale in 1956 and during these years, Kuh helped acquire many of the works of modern art currently in the museum's collection.

A year following Daniel Catton Rich's 1958 resignation from the Art Institute of Chicago, Kuh also resigned and pursued a career in New York as an art collection advisor, most notably for the First National Bank of Chicago. In 1959, Kuh was made art critic for The Saturday Review, and she continued to publish books, including The Artist's Voice in 1962, Break-Up: The Core of Modern Art in 1965, and The Open Eye: In Pursuit of Art in 1971.

Katharine Kuh died on January 10, 1994 in New York City.

Provenance:

The Katharine Kuh papers were donated in several installments from 1971 to 1989 by Katharine Kuh and in 1994 by her estate. Artwork was donated in 1995 by Kuh's former employer, the Art Institute of Chicago.

Restrictions:

Authorization to quote, publish or reproduce requires written permission until 2019. Contact the Archives of American Art Reference Services department for additional 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:

Authors -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Art historians -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Art dealers -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Topic:

Art, Abstract -- United States  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Women art critics -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

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

Women art dealers  Search this

Women art historians  Search this

Women museum curators  Search this

Women authors  Search this

Women art critics  Search this

Function:

Art festivals

Genre/Form:

Illustrated letters

Resumes

Travel diaries

Minutes

Calendars

Visitors' books

Photographs

Paintings

Awards

Drawings

Sound recordings

Collages

Scrapbooks

Lithographs

Prints

Wills

Watercolors

Poetry

Lecture notes

Lectures

Sales records

Citation:

Katharine Kuh papers, 1875-1994, bulk 1930-1994. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

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

Identifier:

AAA.kuhkath

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

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Collection Creator:

Kuh, Katharine  Search this

Extent:

(Boxes 5, 13-14, OVs 15-23; 1.7 linear feet)

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1931-1986

Scope and Contents note:

Artwork consists of drawings, watercolors, paintings, and prints by various artists including Josef Albers, Angelica Archipenko, Saradell Ard, Lee Atwood, Serge Chermayeff, Julio De Diego, William Fett, Leon Golub, David Hare, Anne Humenfeld, Boris Margo, Carlos Mérida, Wallace Putnam, Jesse Reichek, Jeff Schlanger, Shelby Shackelford, Hedda Sterne, Hugo Weber, Cady Wells, Bill Westheimer, Emerson Woelffer, and Robert Jay Wolff. There are also drawings by Eskimo children and a watercolor set, Technics and Creativity, designed and autographed by Jasper Johns for the Museum of Modern Art, 1970.

Collection Restrictions:

Authorization to quote, publish or reproduce requires written permission until 2019. Contact the Archives of American Art Reference Services department for additional information.

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:

Katharine Kuh papers, 1875-1994, bulk 1930-1994. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

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

Identifier:

AAA.kuhkath, Series 4

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

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Collection Creator:

Kuh, Katharine  Search this

Extent:

(see also Box 13 and OV 15)

Container:

Box 5, Folder 39

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

undated

Collection Restrictions:

Authorization to quote, publish or reproduce requires written permission until 2019. Contact the Archives of American Art Reference Services department for additional information.

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:

Katharine Kuh papers, 1875-1994, bulk 1930-1994. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

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

See more items in:

Katharine Kuh papers

Katharine Kuh papers / Series 4: Artwork

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-kuhkath-ref134