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Heritage Gallery records

Title: Heritage Gallery records

The records of Los Angeles Heritage Gallery measure 13.8 linear feet and date from 1944-2000 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1960-1998. The majority of the collection consists of artists' files containing a wide variety of materials documenting the gallery's representation of its contemporary artists and gallery exhibitions, including biographical information, correspondence, and printed materials. About half of the artists' files are related to artist Charles White. Gallery records also include business correspondence, business records and additional printed materials.

ArchivalResource: 13.8 Linear feet

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Lowenfeld, Viktor. Viktor Lowenfeld papers, 1880-1985 (bulk 1930-1955).

Title: Viktor Lowenfeld papers, 1880-1985 (bulk 1930-1955).

The Viktor Lowenfeld Papers date from 1880-1985 with the bulk of the collection dating from 1930 to 1955. Materials consist of artwork including photographs of sculptures from Austrian children--blind and sighted, visual and haptic, as well as children's artwork from American psychiatric hospitals, schools for the blind, public schools, and Penn State Saturday art classes. Adult student artwork, including works by Charles White, John Biggers, and Samella Lewis, comes from the Hampton Institute and Penn State. In addition, there are two clay sculptures, manuscripts for Creative and Mental Growth and other notes and writings, lectures, correspondence, photographs, digital audio recordings of lectures from 1958 (transcribed and published by John Michaels in 1982, as The Lowenfeld Lectures), biographical material, and personal items.

ArchivalResource: 10.6 cubic feet.

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White, Charles, 1918-1979 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: White, Charles, 1918-1979 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

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

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Molly Saltman "Art and Artists" interviews

Title: Molly Saltman "Art and Artists" interviews

The Molly Saltman "Art and Artists" interviews measure 2.4 linear feet and contain 62 sound recording interviews and lectures with art collectors, teachers, actors, and artists. The interviews were conducted by Molly Saltman from 1966-1967 as part of the “Art and Artists” radio series broadcast on the KPAL radio station in Palm Springs, California. Additional recordings of KPAL content and nonbroadcast content were discovered upon digitization, including a Los Angeles Art Association anniversary event and a Charles White slide lecture.

OralHistoryResource: 94 sound tape reels (ca. 20 min. each) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 3-5 in.

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WHITE, CHARLES, 1918-1979. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

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Charles W. White papers

Title: Charles W. White papers

The papers of Los Angeles painter, printmaker, and educator, Charles W. White, measure 12.9 linear feet and date from 1933 to 1987, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1960s to the 1970s. The collection contains biographical material, including a sound recording of an interview with White; personal and professional correspondence; writings by White and others about his philosophy of art, his life, and career; professional files documenting White's participation in a variety of boards, committees, juries, symposiums, professional projects, and commissions; teaching files documenting White's tenure at Otis Art Institute; extensive printed material charting White's career from the 1930s until his death; scrapbooks primarily documenting his early career; and a small series of photographs.

ArchivalResource: 12.9 Linear feet

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American Federation of Arts records

Title: American Federation of Arts records

The records of the American Federation of Arts (AFA) provide researchers with a complete set of documentation focusing on the founding and history of the organization from its inception through the 1960s. The collection measures 79.8 linear feet, and dates from 1895 through 1993, although the bulk of the material falls between 1909 and 1969. Valuable for its coverage of twentieth-century American art history, the collection also provides researchers with fairly comprehensive documentation of the many exhibitions and programs supported and implemented by the AFA to promote and study contemporary American art, both nationally and abroad.

ArchivalResource: 79.8 Linear feet

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White, Charles, 1918-1979. Charles White : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1920-2000 [graphic].

Title: Charles White : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1920-2000 [graphic]. 1920-

Assembled artist file includes b&w photographs, reproductions from books and auction catalogs, and in some cases, negatives. Items may include full views, details, before and after restoration views, etc. Documentation may include artist name, title of work, medium, dimensions, provenance, exhibition history, related works, previous attributions, and bibliography.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder [as of 1999] : ill. (some col.) ; 34 cm.

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The Workshop of Graphic Art (New York, N.Y.). Yes, the people! : workshop prints number one : portfolio of graphic prints.

Title: Yes, the people! : workshop prints number one : portfolio of graphic prints.

Each print portrays sympathetic examples of human beings and their problems. Artists include Irving Amen, Antonio Frasconi, Eugene Karlin, Helen Maris, Phyllis Skolnick, Charles White and Milton Wynne. The cover design is by Louis Glassman and Jacob Landau.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio (10 woodblocks, engravings and etchings) ; portfolio 36 x 23.5 cm., sheets 35.5 x 23 cm.

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Charles Keller papers

Title: Charles Keller papers

Biographical material, correspondence, writings, sketches, teaching files, files on organizations to which Keller belonged, printed material, photographs, and a video on Keller.

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Lucinda H. Gedeon research material on Charles W. White

Title: Lucinda H. Gedeon research material on Charles W. White

The Lucinda H. Gedeon research materials on Charles W. White measure 1.4 linear feet and date from 1940 to 1997, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1980 to 1981. This research material was compiled for a catalogue raisonné at UCLA and includes correspondence with collectors and institutions; a card file catalogue of works by Charles White; photographs and negatives; printed material; transcripts of interviews; bibliographic information; and writings.

ArchivalResource: 1.4 Linear feet

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Edward Biberman papers

Title: Edward Biberman papers

The papers of painter and educator Edward Biberman measure 2.1 linear feet and date from 1939 to 1985. The papers document Biberman's career in Los Angeles through correspondence with friends and colleagues; writings such as speeches and articles; sound recordings and related documents for his "Dialogues in Art" television program, including recordings featuring Henry Hopkins, Howard Warshaw, June Wayne, Charles White, and others; and lectures and interviews with other educators or for television programs.

ArchivalResource: 2.1 Linear feet

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Carrington, C. Glenn, 1904-1975,. African American artists exhibit announcements, 1927-1982.

Title: African American artists exhibit announcements, 1927-1982.

The collection consists of exhibit announcements for John Biggers, Eugene H. Bischoff, Frank Bowling, Robert M. Jackson (signed), William H. Johnson, Richard Mayhew, Joe Overstreet, Gordon Parks, Horace Pippin, Henry O. Tanner, Charles White, Hale Woodruff, and in honor of Alain Locke. Also, includes an exhibition catalog, 7 Feb.-5 Mar. 1927, for Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection of Primitive African Art, signed by Alain Locke to Glenn Carrington, 9 Feb. 1927.

ArchivalResource: 23 items.

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Harmon Foundation Collection. 1922 - 1967. Artworks by Negro Artists. 1922 - 1967. quot;There Were No Crops This Yearquot;

Title: Harmon Foundation Collection. 1922 - 1967. Artworks by Negro Artists. 1922 - 1967. quot;There Were No Crops This Yearquot;

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Karl E. Fortess interviews with artists

Title: Karl E. Fortess interviews with artists

The taped interviews with artists by Karl Fortress measure 5.6 linear feet and date from circa 1963 to 1985. The interviews consist of 205 cassettes containing 268 interviews, averaging 35 minutes, of painters, sculptors, and printmakers. Fortess conducted seventy-nine of the interviews as a pilot for and as part of a grant from Office of Education, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare at Boston University's School of Applied Arts. Included in the collection is the final report for the grant, June 1968, summarizing the objective was "to develop a library of taped interviews with contemporary American painters, sculptors, and graphic artists, such interviews to be concerned with questions of technical, professional and personal interest" and the evaluation process and outcomes of the value of the interviews as a teaching resource for faculty and students. The interviews followed guidelines to include background, training, work patterns, interests, teachers, influences, teaching experiences, attitudes toward teaching, and opinions on art trends. Fortess continued interviewing artists upon completion of the grant, including many with with artists associated with the Woodstock, N.Y. art community.

OralHistoryResource: 268 interviews recorded on 205 audio cassettes.

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Oral history interview with Charles W. White

Title: Oral history interview with Charles W. White

An interview of Charles Wilbert White conducted 1965 March 9, by Betty Hoag, for the Archives of American Art. White speaks of his youth in Chicago and early interest in art; early encounters with racism; his early training in art; working on the Federal Art Project; his U.S. Army service; going to Mexico; his ventures in graphic arts; subject matter which inspires him; coming to California; the politics of government subsidy of the arts; and mural projects he worked on. He recalls Harry Sternberg.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 3 sound tape reels ; 3 in.Transcript: 27 p.

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