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Weber, Marcia. Marcia Weber : Alabama Folk Artists Collection, 1949-1993.

Title: Marcia Weber : Alabama Folk Artists Collection, 1949-1993.

Includes correspondence, clippings, exhibit catalogs, research notes, photographs, publications and a thesis draft all relating to southern "folk" or "outsider" artists.

ArchivalResource: 2 cartons (2 cu. ft.)

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Herbert Waide Hemphill papers

Title: Herbert Waide Hemphill papers

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 <emph render="italic">The Black Swan and Other Poems</emph> by James Merrill, and <emph render="italic">The Blood of Jesus</emph> 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, <emph render="italic">Lucy</emph> the Elephant-shaped building in New Jersey, and <emph render="italic">Holy Ghost Park</emph> 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 <emph render="italic">Made With Passion</emph>. 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 <emph render="italic">Little Adventures in Art</emph> containing four phonograph albums and four short film strips of slides showing art work in animal and bird forms.

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Nasisse, Andy S., 1946-. Research material concerning untrained artists, 1984-1986.

Title: Research material concerning untrained artists, 1984-1986.

Research material on untrained artists, including photographs, an interview with Mike Carpenter, a documentary about J.B. Murray, and a letter from Nasisse to Howard Finster. Included are twenty-one artists' files containing photographs of untrained artists and their works of art. The artists include: E.M. Bailey, Brother Joseph Zoetl in Alabama, Tessie Carroll, Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder (Frank van Zant), Emanuel "Litto" Damonte, S.P. Dinsmoor, Sam Doyle, John Ehn, Howard Finster, Laura Pope Forrester, Dilmus Hall, Irene Hall, Bessie Harvey, J.B. Murray, Grandma Tressa Prisbrey, Dow Pugh, R. Rice, Royal Robertson, St. EOM (Eddie Owens Martin), James "Son Ford" Thomas, and Mose Tolliver. Also included are a copy of a letter from Nasisse to Howard Finster, 1985, discussing Finster's first dealer, Jeffrey Camp, and offering his advice to limit production of his work; four photographs of the "Desert View Tower," Jeff McKissack's "The Orange Show," the "Milkovitch Beer Can House," and miscellaneous works; an untranscribed audio cassette interview of Mike Carpenter conducted by Nasisse; and a videocassette, J.B. Murry: A Video Documentary of an Artist and His Work (1985) produced by Nasisse, containing many of Murray's paintings and drawings, as well as his comments on his art and visions. [Murray was known also as J.B. Murry; Nasisse titled the video accordingly.].

ArchivalResource: 0.6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80271386 View

Finster, Howard, 1916-2000. Howard Finster : vertical file.

Title: Howard Finster : vertical file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/712141886 View

Florence and Julius Laffal papers

Title: Florence and Julius Laffal papers

Correspondence of Florence Laffal regarding the quarterly newsletter the "Folk Art Finder" (1980-2000); photographs (photocopies); correspondence with John Turner concerning his book manuscript on Finster; photographs of self-taught artists; and printed material concerning exhibitions of the Flo and Jules Laffal collection; and miscellany. Correspondents include Barbara Archer, Julie Ardery, Didi Barrett, Robert Bishop, Russell Bowman, Barbara Brackman, Roger Cardinal, Robert Cargo, Richard Edson, Richard Gasperi, Anton Haardt, John Maizels, Roger McKay, Randall Morris, Marcia Muth Ann F. Oppenhimer, Tom Patterson, Chuck Rosenak, Allie Light and Irving Saraf, John Turner (regarding his manuscript on Howerd Finster), Willem Volkersz, Maude Wahlman, and others. Also included are letters from Howard and Pauline Finster, writings, and color copies of photographs concerning a surprise party honoring Howard Finster on his 67th birthday, November 12, 1983, in Trion, Georgia, organized by Florence and Jules Laffal; a typescript of a talk delivered by Florence Laffal at the symposium "The Cutting Edge, 20th Century American Fok Art Panel: Age of Discovery, 1960-1990"; photographs (mounted on foamcore) are of John Vivolo, Minnie Black, Jack Savitsky, Edgar Tolson, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Carl McKenzie, William Dawson, and Felicien Levesque that were included in the exhibition 20th Century Folk Art from the Collection of Flo and Jules Laffal at the Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Conn, 1997.

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Finster, Howard, 1916-2001. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78563147 View

Oral history interview with C. Jane and Jeffrey Camp

Title: Oral history interview with C. Jane and Jeffrey Camp

An interview of C. Jane and Jeffrey Camp conducted 1987 Dec. 2-1988 Jan. 15, by Liza Kirwin, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 4 sound cassettes.Transcript: 149 p.

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Art Rosenbaum Georgia Folklore Collection, 1955-1983, 1976-1983

Title: Art Rosenbaum Georgia Folklore Collection 1955-1983 1976-1983

Copies of audio tape recordings made by Art Rosenbaum in north and coastal Georgia and South Carolina principally in the 1970s and early 1980s. These field recordings encompass many genres of acoustic folk music, including gospel, shout, blues, ballads, and some interviews with the performers, recorded in homes, churches, and festivals.

ArchivalResource: 236 audiocassette tapes; 1 box of manuscripts and electronic media

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Oral history interview with James and Beth Arient

Title: Oral history interview with James and Beth Arient

An interview of James and Beth Arient conducted 1988 April 27-29, by Betty Blum, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 3 sound cassettes.Transcript: 213 p.

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw968c3fe7c-62d8-4d33-98fd-dac6182baffa View

Eleanor Dickinson papers

Title: Eleanor Dickinson papers

The papers of painter, graphic and video artist, and educator Eleanor Dickinson measure 29.8 linear feet and 0.002 gigabytes, and date from 1947 to 2014. The collection comprises biographical materials; professional and personal correspondence; video and sound recordings of interviews for Dickinson's television program Art of the Matter; exhibition files; teaching files for the California College of Arts and Crafts and other professional and project files; research and subject files; membership records, including born-digital material, and sound and video recordings, for various organizations; personal financial and legal records; printed materials featuring Dickinson and her artwork; and photographic materials of Dickinson in her studio and with friends, colleagues, and family, as well as exhibitions and other art events, and works of art.

ArchivalResource: 29.8 Linear feet; 0.002 Gigabytes

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Herbert Waide Hemphill papers

Title: Herbert Waide Hemphill papers

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 <emph render="italic">The Black Swan and Other Poems</emph> by James Merrill, and <emph render="italic">The Blood of Jesus</emph> 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, <emph render="italic">Lucy</emph> the Elephant-shaped building in New Jersey, and <emph render="italic">Holy Ghost Park</emph> 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 <emph render="italic">Made With Passion</emph>. 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 <emph render="italic">Little Adventures in Art</emph> containing four phonograph albums and four short film strips of slides showing art work in animal and bird forms.

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Folkstreams.net. Folkstreams.net collection, 1963-2010.

Title: Folkstreams.net collection, 1963-2010.

The Folkstreams.net Collection consists of materials that were made and transferred between 1963 and 2010. There are about 265 film prints, videotapes, digital video discs (DVDs), data digital video discs (data DVDs), and papers that are in various media formats (such as 16mm print film, 16mm workprints, Betacam SP, U-Matic, Digital Betacam, MiniDV, DVDs, and Data DVDs). They were transferred at Colorlab in Maryland and New York to be used for streaming on the website Folkstreams.net. Included among the filmmakers are Bill and Josette Ferris; Barry Dornfield, Tom Rankin and Jeff Titon; Mike Seeger; Pete Seeger and Toshi Seeger; John Winninger, Elaine Lawless and Betsy Peterson; Alan Lomax; Light-Saraf Films; Frank DeCola; Alan Governor; Les Blank; Kim Shelton; Paul Wagner and Steve Zeitlin; Michael Goldman; City Lore: the New York Center for Urban Culture; Elaine Valazquez; John M. Bishop; Stan Woodward; Bess Lomax Hawes; Ferrero Films; Allen Tullos; Joyce Middlebrook, and Tom Davenport. Materials cover a wide range of subjects and locations, including folk life, music, stories, songs, and art; jazz, blues, hip-hop, gospel, country, Irish, Klezmer, Zydeco, and old time music; medicine and minstrel shows, some in the Adirondack Mountains; carnivals; hunting; fishing; crafts; cowboy poetry; Amish culture; African American culture, art, dancing, and singing; mills; ballads; Cajuns; Mississippi Delta; churches; American food and cooking; Gandy dancers; religion; Hispanic culture; Latino and Asian immigrants; dulcimers; Gullah culture; Finnish Americans; shoemakers; rodeos; pottery; singing games; quilting; rattlesnakes; homeless youth; Islenos; motion picture and videotape preservation; the Adironback Mountains; New York City food, styles, culture, immigrants, and festivals; ghost stories; New Orleans, La.; Deep Ellum in Dallas, Tex.; Spivey's Corner, N.C.; factory workers; and Native American folk art. The films are about people such as Alex Moore; Sarah Ogan Gunning; Bill Monroe; Fannie Bell Chapman; Sonny Terry; Mike Seeger; Hamper McBee; Ott Blair; Son Thomas; Prince Albert Hunt; Morgan Sexton; Ray Lum; the Popovich Brothers; Emanuel "Manny" Sayles; Tommie Bass; the Patoka Valley Boys; Howard Finster; Minnie Evans; Lawrence Older; Almeda Riddle; and Skip Armstrong.

ArchivalResource: ca. 265 items (20.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64183955 View

Oral history interview with Howard Finster

Title: Oral history interview with Howard Finster

An interview of Howard Finster conducted 1984 June 11, by Liza Kirwin, for the Archives of American Art at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 3 hr.) : analog.Transcript: 60 p.

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Willem Volkersz interviews

Title: Willem Volkersz interviews

The Willem Voklersz interviews measure 2.6 linear feet and date from 1975-1985. The collection consists of twenty-nine sound cassettes containing thirty-one interviews of folk artists conducted by Volkersz for a personal research project, a monologue, and readings by Volkersz of notes on individual artists. Subjects include folk artists such as Howard Finster, Jesse Howard, and St. EOM (Eddie Owens Martin). Also found are thirty-seven transcripts of the recordings.

OralHistoryResource: 37 transcripts.

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Howard Finster interview and recordings

Title: Howard Finster interview and recordings

An interview of Howard Finster conducted by James Arient and Howard Finster's own recordings of himself.

OralHistoryResource: 4 sound cassettes.

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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection. Georgia folklore collection [sound recording], 1977-1983.

Title: Georgia folklore collection [sound recording], 1977-1983. 1977-1983.

The Georgia Folklore Collection contains field recordings of Georgia folk musicians made by George Mitchell, Art Rosenbaum, and other volunteers that were part of the Georgia Folklore Society. Over one thousand hours of music, interviews, and storytelling includes rare and lively performances by the Tanners, the Rev. Howard Finster, and the McIntosh County Shouters, a group from the Georgia coast whose members continue the musical traditions of their slave ancestors.

ArchivalResource: 325 sound cassettes : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/568715993 View

Ann F. Oppenhimer slides

Title: Ann F. Oppenhimer slides

194 slides of the Reverend Howard Finster and his paintings, sculpture, and his garden environment taken by Oppenhimer and others. Included are a copy of Finster's slide set for his lecture on his art and slides of Finster exhibitions: "Sermons in Paint," at the University of Richmond, 1984; "Horse of a Different Drummer," at the Carriage House Gallery, Richmond Arts and Humanities Center, 1982; and an exhibition at Wake Forest University, 1980.

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Finster, Howard, 1916-. Howard Finster collection, 1900s.

Title: Howard Finster collection, 1900s.

The collection consists of the paper records of Howard Finster, including correspondence, postcards, notebooks and various writings. The collection also contains the art related materials the High Museum did not imagine would be used in exhibits of his art. This includes unfinished works as well as such items as: paper on wood in many different shapes; plate with Gerald Ford on it; painted yellow gourd; 1 container of Minwax; an empty Kodak Camera box; various paint containers; brushes, knives and other art related items.

ArchivalResource: 106 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/460167806 View

Beth and James Arient papers

Title: Beth and James Arient papers

The microfilmed Beth and James Arient papers contain 23 letters from self-taught painter Howard Finster and Pauline Finster to the Arients (1979-1987); and photographs of folk artists, some with the Arients, and their work (1980-1988). Among the artists photographed are Elijah Pierce, Mary Borkowski, Jesse Howard, Joe "The Welder" Janosik, Eunice McCloskey, Dow Pugh, Howard Finster, Minnie Black, Nellie Mae Rowe, Lanier Meaders, B.C. Craig, William Dawson, Carl McKenzie, Denzil Goodpaster, S.L. Jones, Carlton Garrett, Frank Pickle, Sam Doyle, David Butler, Luster Willis, "Daddy Boy" Williams, Kid Mertz, Dilmus Hall, James "Son" Thomas, Derek Webster, Raymond Coins, James Harold Jennings, Sarah Mary Taylor, Mary T. Smith, and Clyde "Jungle Boy" Jones.

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Finster, Howard, 1916- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: Finster, Howard, 1916- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

The folder may include clippings, announcements, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral items.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/199336026 View

Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection. Allan MacLeod collection [sound recording], 1976-1987.

Title: Allan MacLeod collection [sound recording], 1976-1987. 1976-1987.

The collection consists of audio of "Reflections on Georgia" that were produced for broadcast on WUGA on old farm ways, saints and spirits, etc. Also included is audio of "Folklore in Georgia" featuring performances of local folk musicians including Howard Finster. "Bicentennial Minutes" features information about Georgia and UGA.

ArchivalResource: 114 sound tape reels : analog ; 5-7 in.80 sound cassettes : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/500900087 View

Finster, Howard, 1916-2001. Howard Finster tapes, circa 1980.

Title: Howard Finster tapes, circa 1980.

The collection consists of two tapes of Howard Finster preaching. One was recorded by Finster himself and given to David Mitchell, the other was recorded by Mitchell at a church.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/502303606 View

Jeffrey and C. Jane Camp papers

Title: Jeffrey and C. Jane Camp papers

Correspondence, photographs, slides, files, and printed material concerning the Camp's interest and business in American folk art. Correspondence with dealers, artists, and others, including Miles B. Carpenter, S.L. Jones, Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr., Randall and Shari (Cavin) Morris, Phyllis Kind, Carl Hammer, Robert Bishop, Susan Hankla, Victor Musgrave, Roger Cardinal, Gregg Blasdel, Edwin Shelton, Elsa Weiner, and John Beardsley; files on artists Howard Finster, S.L. Jones, Carpenter, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Nellie Mae Rowe, Uncle Jack Dey, Lanier Meaders, Leslie J. Payne, Patsy Billups, and others; photographs of Miles Carpenter, his wood sculpture, and his family, and autobiographical writings by Carpenter; printed material on the American Folk Art Company; clippings, articles, exhibition catalogs, and other printed material about American folk art; and ca. 2,000 photographs of folk art. Ca. 50 letters from Howard Finster to Jeffrey Camp; writings by Finster; Camp's notes on Finster; price lists of works by Finster; receipts; and a letter from Camp's lawyer concerning Finster. Slides, 1973-1983, of works of art and artists including Patsy Billups, Miles B. Carpenter, Howard Finster, Russell Gillespie, Charles T. Gleason, S.L. Jones, Sister Gertrude Morgan and Leslie J. Payne taken by Camp. Papers, received in 1999, are primarily a donation of the material previously lent and microfilmed on reels 4067-4070, although some additional material was also donated. The addition most likely does not include material on reel 4080 relating to Howard Finster.

ArchivalResource: 8 Linear feet (partially microfilmed on 5 reels); 5.4 Linear feet (Addition)

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Finster, Howard, 1916-2001. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78563147 View

Finster, Howard, 1916-2001. Howard Finster : [vertical file].

Title: Howard Finster : [vertical file]. [1989- ]

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio ; 25 x 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42634393 View

Barbara Shissler Nosanow materials relating to Howard Finster

Title: Barbara Shissler Nosanow materials relating to Howard Finster

A letter from Finster to Barbara Shissler Nosanow at the National Museum of American Art, discussing his upcoming visit to Washington, D.C. The letter is illustrated in pencil with sketches of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson and William Shakespeare. Finster writes: "I am excited to be coming to Washington where these great men once had our future responsibility upon them I feel so unworthy to live in a world of luxery (sic) and these great men paved our way..." Also included are several handmade cards and leaflets, enclosed in a note to Nosanow: "I was going to demastrat (sic) how I make these card in the show but we ran out of time."

ArchivalResource: 18 items (on partial microfilm reel)

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