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Bror Julius Olsson (B.J.O.) Nordfeldt papers

Title: Bror Julius Olsson (B.J.O.) Nordfeldt papers

Biographical material, correspondence, business records, writings and notes, printed material, scrapbooks, and photographs document Nordfeldt's career as a painter and instructor, and his widow's involvement after his death in exhibitions, biographies, and sales of his work.

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Harry Sternberg papers

Title: Harry Sternberg papers

The papers of New York City and California painter, printmaker, and teacher Harry Sternberg date from 1927 to 2000 and measure 3.4 linear feet and 0.553 GB. The collection documents Sternberg's career as an artist and art instructor through scattered biographical material, correspondence with friends, artists, collectors, curators, art organizations, universities, and galleries, writings by Sternberg and others, exhibition catalogs and announcements, news clippings, and other printed and digital material. Also found are photographs of Sternberg and his artwork, two sketchbooks and three loose drawings by Sternberg, audio visual recordings, and one scrapbook.Biographical material includes an interview of Sternberg conducted by art curator Malcolm Warner, two ledgers documenting business activities, scattered financial and legal documents, and files regarding a few of his projects, including the film "Many Worlds of Art". Sternberg's personal and professional correspondence is with friends, artists, including Harry Wickey, Rockwell Kent, Philip Evergood, and Peter Blume, collectors and curators such as Hudson Walker and Carl Zigrosser, and art organizations, universities, and galleries. The small number of writings by Sternberg in this collection includes drafts of articles and lectures, a manuscript for a book on etching, and notes. Writings by others consists of draft writings about Sternberg, draft exhibition catalogs, and writings by the artists Arthur Secunda and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Over one-third of this collection is printed material, including exhibition catalogs and announcements, news clippings, books written by Sternberg, school publications, and material regarding art events. Also found are photographs of Sternberg in his studio, with students, with his wife Mary, and at the Idyllwild School. Other photographs include group photographs of Art Students League faculty as well as photographs of exhibitions, murals, and artwork. The collection also contains original artwork including two sketchbooks and three loose drawings by Sternberg and one scrapbook of news clippings and exhibition materials. Audio and video materials include several interviews of Sternberg and a video copy of his film "Many Worlds of Art".

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New York Artists Equity Association records

Title: New York Artists Equity Association records

The records of the New York Artists Equity Association (NYAEA) measure 26.8 linear feet and 2.99 Gb and date from 1920-2012. The records include history and founding documents, presidents' files, board of directors' files that include monthly board meeting minutes, committee files and annual membership meeting minutes, general administrative and correspondence files, financial and legal files, event and program files, artists and subject files, extensive individual membership files, art project and exhibition files, Broome Street Gallery files, NYAEA publications that include issues of The Artists Proof, printed and digital materials, four scrapbooks, sketches created by artists attending a party in honor of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and photographs of member artists and events.

ArchivalResource: 26.8 Linear feet; 2.99 Gigabytes

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Elizabeth McCausland papers

Title: Elizabeth McCausland papers

The papers of art critic, writer, and historian Elizabeth McCausland measure approximately 45 linear feet and date from 1838 to 1995, with the bulk of the material dating from 1920 to 1995. The collection provides a vast accumulation of data on various artists and aspects of American art, especially the early American modernists and the Federal Arts Projects. Papers include McCausland's extensive research and writing files, particularly on Marsden Hartley, E. L. Henry, Lewis Hine, George Inness, and Alfred H. Maurer. McCausland's correspondence with artists includes a substantial amount with Arthur Dove and Alfred Stieglitz. Her collaborative work with Berenice Abbott on the <emph render="italic">Changing New York</emph> book and series of photographs is well-documented within the collection. Also found are general writings, subject files, files relating to exhibitions, teaching, and committees, photographs, art work, personal papers, and printed material. Additional McCausland material from the estate of Berenice Abbott include biographical materials, project files, writings, and printed materials.McCausland's personal papers consist of appointment books and engagement calendars, scrapbooks, student papers, works printed on her private press, financial records, biographical material, and scattered memorabilia, which together document other aspects of her life apart from her work. Correspondence includes incoming and outgoing letters along with enclosures, dating from McCausland's time as a journalist for <emph render="italic">The Springfield Republican</emph> in the 1920s and 1930s to her time as a freelance writer, art critic, and historian (1940s-1960s) and mostly concerning professional matters. Also included is a substantial amount of correspondence with artists, particularly Arthur Dove and Alfred Stieglitz, and some personal correspondence with her mother. General writings consists primarily of copies of McCausland's speeches and lectures on various art topics in addition to her early poems (dating from the 1930s) and scattered essays and articles.The most extensive part of the collection is comprised of McCausland's research and writing files pertaining to large research and curatorial projects, such as ones on the artists Alfred H. Maurer and Marsden Hartley (which was begun by the American Art Research Council and subsequently taken over by McCausland), and one for the American Processional exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery in 1950. A wide variety of smaller projects are also well-documented in the series Other Research and Writing Files, including ones on E. L. Henry, Lewis Hine, George Inness, her collaborative work with Berenice Abbott on the <emph render="italic">Changing New York</emph> book and series of photographs. Numerous other artists and art topics are covered as well, such as Arthur Dove, Robert Henri, Jacob Lawrence, Charles Hawthorne, film, and photography. Files for her book <emph render="italic">Careers in Art </emph>(1950), her many speaking and lecture engagements, and editing work are also found in this series. Files consist primarily of correspondence, notes, research material, manuscripts, bibliographies, photographs of works of art, completed research forms for works of art, card index files, and printed material.Also found are subject files containing printed material, scattered notes and correspondence, and photographs, which may have been used for reference and/or collected in the course of McCausland's research activities; files relating to various exhibitions organized by McCausland from 1939 to 1944, including ones of silk screen prints and modern photography; files relating to courses on art history taught by McCausland, especially the one she taught at Barnard College in 1956; and files stemming from her participation in various art organizations and committees, especially during the time period just before and during the Second World War.Printed material consists primarily of clippings and tear sheets of McCausland's newspaper articles and columns, which document her contributions to <emph render="italic">The Springfield Republican</emph> from 1923 to 1946, in addition to scattered exhibition catalogs, announcements, books, and miscellaneous publications. Photographs include ones of various artists and works of art, ones from the Farm Security Administration, and ones by photographers, such as Berenice Abbott (including ones from the Federal Art Project book, <emph render="italic">Changing New York</emph>), Barbara Morgan, Weegee, and Edward Weston, among others. Photographs, sometimes annotated or including notes, are scattered throughout her research files. Also included are photographs of McCausland, dating from her childhood. Art work found in the collection includes drawings, prints, and watercolors that were either given to McCausland by the artist or collected by her in the course of her work as an art critic and historian.Additional material belonging to Elizabeth McCausland and donated by the estate of Berenice Abbott includes biographical material; business and personal correspondence; professional project files and writings, including drafts and research materials related to the book projects <emph render="italic">Art in America</emph>, <emph render="italic">Conversations with March</emph>, and <emph render="italic">Frank Kleinholz</emph>; and printed materials, including reprints of critical essays and articles by McCausland.

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George Constant papers

Title: George Constant papers

The papers of modernist painter and printmaker George Constant measure 4.6 linear feet and date from 1912-2007, with the bulk of the material dating from 1932-1978. They consist of biographical material, inventories of artwork, audio interviews and recorded statements on art, personal and business related correspondence, holiday cards, printed material, an exhibition related video recording, and photographs of Constant, his family and friends, and his work. A small portion of the correspondence and printed materials are written in Greek.Biographical material includes artist statements written and recorded by Constant, two audio interview recordings discussing his philosophies on art and his work, inventories of artwork, personal property deeds and legal correspondence, and other miscellaneous material.Correspondence is predominantly in the form of business and personal letters, postcards, and holiday cards received from family and friends. These include correspondence from Constant's daughter, Georgette Preston, and extended family members. Other frequent personal correspondents include Milton and Sally Avery, Lewis Balamuth, Margaret Brunning, David Burliuk, Nathaniel Burwash, Rhys Caparn, Julia Shaw Patterson Carnell, Phillip Cavanaugh, Morris Davidson, Charles Eaton, Vilko Gecan, Marchal Landgren, Roy Neuberger, Walter Pach, Nell Perret, Constantine Pougialis, Wallace Putnam and Consuelo Kanaga, Hi Simons, and Helen Slosberg. Business related correspondents include Audubon Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Institute, Dayton Art Institute, Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Ferargil Galleries, Guild Hall, Heckscher Museum, Lyman Allyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Spanish Refugee Appeal, and the Whitney Museum. Other business correspondence related to Constant's work with the WPA are also included in the series.Printed material includes books and booklets on American and Greek art, including a limited print edition of <emph render="italic">George Constant</emph> by George Constant, clippings and articles reviewing Constant's work, exhibition announcements and catalogs of Constant's shows, periodicals profiling his artwork, and dance and theater related programs that Constant consulted on.Photographs include black and white prints of Constant and his family and friends in St. Louis, Missouri, Dayton, Ohio, and in and around his studio in Shinnecock Hills, New York. The collection also includes photo stills from his 1965 exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum and a comprehensive set of black and white prints, a handful of color prints, and several color slide sheets of Constant's artwork from the 1920s to 1978.

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Richard A. Florsheim Papers, 1927-1997

Title: Richard A. Florsheim Papers 1927-1997

Primarily correspondence (1927-1979). Also, artwork reproductions; manuscript and printed articles, book reviews, and essays; lecture notes and manuscripts; photographs and memorabilia, including clippings (1951-1979), exhibition catalogs and invitations from the 1940s through the 1980s; and financial material relating to artwork prices and studio construction. Correspondence of greatest depth and duration with Rose H. Alschuler, the Artists Equity Association, Artists League of the Midwest, Illinois Arts Council, Norman MacLeish, José Pijoán, Peter Pollack, Daniel Catton Rich, Rose Valland, and Hudson Walker. Other correspondents include Edgar Britton, Clayton Charles, Leon Kroll, Martyl, Arthur Rissman, and Ladislas Segy.

ArchivalResource: 17 linear ft.

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Selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Archives of American Art collection

Title: Selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Archives of American Art collection

Correspondence, printed material, writings, and other personal papers collected by Carl Zigrosser and Leila Mechlin and later added to by others, all relating to American art.

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Oral history interview with Hudson Dean Walker

Title: Oral history interview with Hudson Dean Walker

An interview of Hudson D. Walker conducted by Dorothy Seckler on 1965 August 21 for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recordings: 1 sound tape ; 5 in.Transcript: 8 p.

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ce6e3b25-1116-4bf3-b63f-9f08ddb86408 View

Arnason, H. Harvard. Papers, 1951-1961 (bulk 1951-1960).

Title: Papers, 1951-1961 (bulk 1951-1960).

Correspondence, memoranda, board minutes, policy statements, telegrams, and printed materials, chiefly relating to Arnason's activities as director of Walker Art Center and the center's acquisition and exhibition of contemporary art, and also his role as head of the University of Minnesota, Art Dept.

ArchivalResource: 20.5 linear ft.

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Samuel Adler papers

Title: Samuel Adler papers

Correspondence, writings, art works, scrapbooks, phtoographs, sound records, and printed material reflect Adler's career as a painter and teacher.

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Hudson D. Walker papers

Title: Hudson D. Walker papers

Correspondence; biographical material; artists files; files on organizations; business and financial records; photographs; writings and notes; diaries; scrapbooks; appointment calendars; exhibition catalogs and announcements; printed material; and miscellany.

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Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965. Papers, 1903-2005.

Title: Papers, 1903-2005.

These papers of Fogg Art Museum associate director Paul J. Sachs document his administration of the museum, his teaching career at Harvard, and related professional activities. The papers consist primarily of correspondence and also include photographs, printed material, clippings, architectural drawings, reports, financial records, letters of introduction, insurance records, maps, funding appeals, minutes, memoranda, exhibition brochures, page proofs and press releases.

ArchivalResource: 99 files boxes + oversize materials.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/424592354 View

Walker, Hudson : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: Walker, Hudson : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

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

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/199081669 View

Oral history interview with Stuyvesant Van Veen

Title: Oral history interview with Stuyvesant Van Veen

An interview of Stuyvesant Van Veen conducted 1981 May 5-14, by Emily Nathan, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 3 sound cassettes.Transcript 51 p.

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Harry Sternberg papers

Title: Harry Sternberg papers

The papers of New York City and California painter, printmaker, and teacher Harry Sternberg date from 1927 to 2000 and measure 3.4 linear feet and 0.553 GB. The collection documents Sternberg's career as an artist and art instructor through scattered biographical material, correspondence with friends, artists, collectors, curators, art organizations, universities, and galleries, writings by Sternberg and others, exhibition catalogs and announcements, news clippings, and other printed and digital material. Also found are photographs of Sternberg and his artwork, two sketchbooks and three loose drawings by Sternberg, audio visual recordings, and one scrapbook.Biographical material includes an interview of Sternberg conducted by art curator Malcolm Warner, two ledgers documenting business activities, scattered financial and legal documents, and files regarding a few of his projects, including the film "Many Worlds of Art". Sternberg's personal and professional correspondence is with friends, artists, including Harry Wickey, Rockwell Kent, Philip Evergood, and Peter Blume, collectors and curators such as Hudson Walker and Carl Zigrosser, and art organizations, universities, and galleries. The small number of writings by Sternberg in this collection includes drafts of articles and lectures, a manuscript for a book on etching, and notes. Writings by others consists of draft writings about Sternberg, draft exhibition catalogs, and writings by the artists Arthur Secunda and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Over one-third of this collection is printed material, including exhibition catalogs and announcements, news clippings, books written by Sternberg, school publications, and material regarding art events. Also found are photographs of Sternberg in his studio, with students, with his wife Mary, and at the Idyllwild School. Other photographs include group photographs of Art Students League faculty as well as photographs of exhibitions, murals, and artwork. The collection also contains original artwork including two sketchbooks and three loose drawings by Sternberg and one scrapbook of news clippings and exhibition materials. Audio and video materials include several interviews of Sternberg and a video copy of his film "Many Worlds of Art".

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw904413d6d-fce2-4bc8-9eef-9641dce75f12 View

Adolf Dehn papers

Title: Adolf Dehn papers

The papers of printmaker and painter Adolf Dehn measure 6.6 linear feet and date from 1912-1987. The collection contains extensive correspondence, as well as writings, exhibition announcements, catalogs, clippings, invoices, receipts, legal documents, scrapbooks, artwork, and photographs. There is also scattered correspondence of Virginia Dehn, mostly concerning her husband Adolf Dehn.

ArchivalResource: 6.6 Linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw92c8a7afd-8bd9-4c4c-935d-90de370a645e View

Oral history interview with Hudson Dean Walker

Title: Oral history interview with Hudson Dean Walker

An interview of Hudson Dean Walker conducted 1969 October 22-28, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 1 sound tape reel.Transcript: 109 p.

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw942c980ca-3d76-4003-a91f-b499c234e7fe View

Walker, Hudson D. (Hudson Dean), 1907-1976. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1941-1964, n.d.

Title: Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1941-1964, n.d.

Hudson Walker was an art collector. He wrote to Carl Zigrosser regarding the work of Alfred Maurer and Käthe Kollwitz.

ArchivalResource: 5 items (5 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155899740 View

Marsden Hartley symposium : sound recording

Title: Marsden Hartley symposium : sound recording

A symposium on Marsden Hartley sponsored by the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon. Participants are W. Joseph Fulton, Elizabeth McCausland, Hudson Dean Walker, and Henry Wells, with Donelson F. Hoopes as moderator.

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Oral history interview with Joshua Binion Cahn, Richard A. Florsheim, and John Kearney

Title: Oral history interview with Joshua Binion Cahn, Richard A. Florsheim, and John Kearney

An interview of Joshua Binion Cahn, Richard A. Florsheim, and John Kearney conducted 1971 July 20, by Robert Brown and Hudson Walker, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 1 sound tape reel ; 5 in.

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f204c11d-48ca-4c91-a922-8f85b7860467 View

Oral history interview with Hudson Dean Walker

Title: Oral history interview with Hudson Dean Walker

Interview of Hudson D. Walker conducted 1971 September 1-1972 August 2, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 1 sound tape reel ; 5 in.Transcript: 37 p.

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Defenbacher, D. S. (Daniel S.), 1906-1986. Papers, 1935-1951 (bulk 1940-1950).

Title: Papers, 1935-1951 (bulk 1940-1950).

Correspondence, memoranda, board minutes, policy statements, telegrams, and printed materials, chiefly relating to Defenbacher's activities as director of the Walker Art Center and his creation of an exhibits program in contemporary fine and applied arts with an emphasis on modern architecture and design.

ArchivalResource: 13.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70958324 View

National Council of American-Soviet Friendship (U.S.). Correspondence with Wanda Gág, 1943-1944.

Title: Correspondence with Wanda Gág, 1943-1944.

ArchivalResource: 13 items (13 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63644275 View

Oral history interview with Joshua Binion Cahn, Richard A. Florsheim, and John Kearney

Title: Oral history interview with Joshua Binion Cahn, Richard A. Florsheim, and John Kearney

An interview of Joshua Binion Cahn, Richard A. Florsheim, and John Kearney conducted 1971 July 20, by Robert Brown and Hudson Walker, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 1 sound tape reel ; 5 in.

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Philip Evergood papers

Title: Philip Evergood papers

The papers of painter Philip Evergood measure 11.61 linear feet and date from 1890 to 1971. Found within the papers are biographical materials; personal and business correspondence; writings, including essays, lectures, speeches, and sound recordings of radio appearances; subject files; personal business records; printed material; scrapbooks; artwork, including oil paintings, sketches, and childhood drawings; and photographs of Evergood, his family and friends, and his work.

ArchivalResource: 11.61 Linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw90fd247d3-1a9d-4af8-a185-38e866a5b436 View

Roy R. Neuberger papers

Title: Roy R. Neuberger papers

Correspondence, printed material, photographs; and "birthday books" containing drawings and writings by artists sent to Neuberger on his 50th and 75th birthdays.

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