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Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-1991. Prentiss Taylor Papers undated.

Title: Prentiss Taylor Papers undated.

Collection contains two black and white lithographs and three poems with colored decorations.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/432980558 View

Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-1991. Artist file.

Title: Artist file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/316062863 View

Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1932.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1932.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155894316 View

Prentiss Taylor papers

Title: Prentiss Taylor papers

The collection measures 20.8 linear feet, dates from 1885 to 1991 (bulk dates 1908-1986) and documents the career of Harlem Renaissance lithographer, teacher, and painter Prentiss Taylor. The collection consists primarily of subject/correspondence files (circa 16 ft.), reflecting Prentiss' career as a lithographer and painter, his association with figures prominent in the Harlem Renaissance, notably Carl Van Vechten and Langston Hughes, his activities as president of the Society of Washington Printmakers and other art organizations, his work in art therapy treating mental illness, and his teaching position at American University. The subject files contain mostly correspondence, but many include photographs and printed material. Also included are biographical, financial, legal and printed material; several hundred photographs; notes and writings; sketchbooks, drawings and a few prints by Taylor; and scrapbooks dating from 1885-1956.The Langston Hughes files contain photocopies of letters from Hughes, greeting cards, ten original photographs of Hughes, and an autographed card printed with Hughes' poem, <emph render="italic">The Negro Speaks of Rivers</emph>. In addition, there is a contract between Hughes and Taylor, witnessed by Carl Van Vechten, forming the Golden Stair Press, through which many of Hughes' poems were printed with illustrations by Taylor. A rare edition of their first publication, <emph render="italic">The Negro Mother</emph>, is found here. Also found in this file is a 1932 final copy of <emph render="italic">Scottsboro Limited</emph>, another collaborative effort between Taylor and Hughes that focused on a case where nine black youths were falsely accused of raping two white women. The collection contains extensive correspondence about Taylor's lithograph of the same title and the printing of the publication. Other rare Harlem Renaissance publications found within Taylor's papers include <emph render="italic">Golden Stair Broadsides</emph>, <emph render="italic">Opportunity Journal of Negro Life</emph>, <emph render="italic">The Rebel Poet</emph>, and <emph render="italic">Eight Who Lie in the Death House</emph>, several of which were also illustrated by Taylor.Prentiss Taylor's long association with Langston Hughes and other figures of the Harlem Renaissance stemmed from his early friendship with Carl Van Vechten. Taylor's papers contain correspondence with Van Vechten, autographed copies of Van Vechten's booklets, and numerous photographs of notable Harlem Renaissance figures, many taken by Van Vechten, including Zora Neale Hurston, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Eugene O'Neill, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Paul Robeson, and many others. Also found are period photographs of Charleston, South Carolina and Harlem street scenes.95 letters from Rachel Field, 75 letters from Langston Hughes, 3 letters from Armin Landeck, 46 letters from Josephine Pinckney, 1 letter from Gertrude Stein, 7 letters from Alice B. Toklas, 1 postcard from Mark Van Doren, and 25 letters from Carl Van Vechten are photocopies. Originals of the Hughes and Toklas letters are located at the Yale University Library. Location of the remaining original letters are unknown.The Prentiss Taylor papers offer researchers insight into the rich cultural documentation of the Harlem Renaissance and the development of twentieth-century printmaking as an American fine art.

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Toklas, Alice B. Correspondence between Alice B. Toklas and Prentiss Taylor, 1947-1955.

Title: Correspondence between Alice B. Toklas and Prentiss Taylor, 1947-1955.

Contains 6 letters, 1 postcard, and 4 envelopes from Alice B. Toklas to Prentiss Taylor, and 4 carbon copies of letters from Prentiss to Alice.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34883822 View

Lynd Ward papers

Title: Lynd Ward papers

Letters, notes, business records, art works, printed material, and photographs relating to Ward's involvement in the American Artists' Congress (1936-1945), the Artists League of America (1934-1949), the Independent Citizens Committee for the Arts, Sciences, and Professions (1944-1948), the Limited Editions Club competition (1932-1957), and the Society of American Graphic Artists (1940-1964). Artists represented in the files include Grace Albee, John Taylor Arms, Fritz Eichenberg, Antonio Frasconi, Jacob Kainen, Clare Leighton, Prentiss Taylor, Max Weber, Stow Wengenroth, Art Young, Adja Yunkers, William Zorach.

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Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966. Papers, 1681-1966 (bulk 1900-1960)

Title: Lewis Gannett papers, 1681-1966 (inclusive) 1900-1960 (bulk).

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, journals, notebooks, legal and business papers, memorabilia, photos, and other papers, together with Gannett family papers. Includes correspondence of Gannett's grandfather and father, Unitarian clergymen Ezra Stiles Gannett of Boston and William Channing Gannett; 91 letters, 1796-1817, from Gannett's great-grandfather Caleb Gannett to John Mico Gannett, and journals of his grandmother Anna Tilden Gannett.

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00670/catalog View

United States. Office of War Information. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1943-1944.

Title: Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1943-1944.

The correspondence from the Office of War Information comes from F. A. Whiting, Jr., chief of the Exhibit Section. Zigrosser chose the artists and approached them for 4 copies of one of their American themed prints. Letters from artists and their dealers make up the bulk of this correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 141 items (206 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/192003658 View

Robert Franklin Gates papers

Title: Robert Franklin Gates papers

The papers of Washington, D.C. area painter and art instructor Robert Franklin Gates date from 1910-1988, bulk 1928-1988, and measure 2.3 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical materials; letters from government agencies, museums, galleries, and colleagues; business records primarily concerning transactions with the Jack Rasmussen Gallery; artwork including scattered drawings by Gates and block prints by Joe Goethe and D. Neufeld; two scrapbooks; printed materials; and photographs of Gates, family members, models, artwork, and exhibition installations. There are also photograph albums and miscellaneous photographs documenting a 1936 voyage to the Virgin Islands commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Department. Biographical material includes resumes, biographical accounts, award certificates, records for employment through a State Department Specialists Grant, address lists, teaching notes, writings about Gates, and a guest book signed by colleagues celebrating Gates' forty years at American University. There is a also a group of Navy Department records documenting Gates' employment designing three-dimensional photo-surfaced topography models for use by troops during World War II.Letters are primarily from the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Works Agency discussing commissions, including the painting of post office murals in Maryland and West Virginia, and from various museums and galleries discussing exhibitions and other art-related activities. There are one or two letters each from colleagues Alice Acheson, Adelyn Breeskin, Charles Burchfield, Alida Conover, John Gernand, Duncan Phillips, Henry Varnum Poor, and Prentiss Taylor. Some letters are Christmas cards decorated with original block prints.Business records primarily document Gates' interaction with the Jack Rasmussen Gallery in Washington, D.C., but also include miscellaneous sales records and pay stubs from American University.Artwork consists of scattered drawings of modern houses by Gates and abstract sketches by others, and small block prints by Joe Goethe and D. Neufeld. Two Scrapbooks contain clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and scattered letters. Additional printed material includes clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs for Gates and others, prospectuses for art exhibitions, press releases, calendars of events, booklets about color and lenses, brochures for art schools and books, and an unannotated calendar containing a reproduction of one of Gates' paintings.Photographs are of Robert Gates, various family members including Gates with his first wife photographed by Prentiss Taylor, models, artwork, and exhibition installations. There are two photograph albums and unbound photographs documenting a 1936 voyage to the Virgin Islands commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Department. Images of this trip are of Gates and colleagues including Mitchell Jamieson, the ship Doris Hamlin, the crew, markets, a cock fight, miscellaneous buildings, town squares, and the countryside of the Virgin Islands.

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Oral history interview with Adele S. Brown and William H. Calfee

Title: Oral history interview with Adele S. Brown and William H. Calfee

An interview of Adele S. Brown and William H. Calfee conducted 1995 January 11, by Liza Kirwin, at Calfee's home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (93 min.) : analog.Transcript: 33 p.

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Claribel and Etta Cone letters

Title: Claribel and Etta Cone letters

Correspondence between Claribel and Etta Cone and Cone family members; forty letters from Henri Matisse, 1929-1949, and letters from Marguerit Matisse Duthuit, Leon Kroll, Walter Pach, L. R. Pissaro, Ben Silbert, Gertrude Stein, John Rewald, Jack Tworkov, Vincent van Gogh, William and Marguerite Zorach, and others. Enclosed with the letters are typescripts of essays by Ben Silbert, "Landscape-My First Watercolor" and "Concerning Some of My Drawings"; a draft typescript of a talk by Gertrude Stein, "The Value of College Education for Women"; and clippings.

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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1942(?).

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1942(?).

Comprises a typed poem (56 lines) by Hughes: "GREETINGS for Mr. Canada Lee to deliver to Mr. Carl Van Vechten by Langston Hughes." Inscribed:"To Prentiss -- Sincerely -- Langston." This poems appears to be unpublished and may have been composed for the occasion of a tribute to Van Vechten at Yale University Library in 1942.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122490185 View

TAYLOR, PRENTISS. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83339299 View

Lynd Ward and May McNeer papers

Title: Lynd Ward and May McNeer papers

Correspondence and subject files relate to the activities of Ward, including his membership in the Society of American Graphic Artists, and his collaborative work with his wife, May McNeer Ward.

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Taylor, Prentiss, 1907- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: Taylor, Prentiss, 1907- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

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

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/198988033 View

Yaddo records, 1870-1980

Title: Yaddo records 1870-1980

Yaddo is an artists' community located in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Yaddo Records contain the administrative records of The Corporation of Yaddo since its establishment in 1900, as well as the institutional records of Yaddo from 1926, the year Yaddo began accepting guests. Notable guests have included Newton Arvin, John Cheever, Aaron Copland, Malcom Cowley, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, and Clyfford Still. The Yaddo Records also include the personal papers of Yaddo's principal founders, Spencer and Katrina Trask, and George Foster Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 190 linear feet; 550 boxes, 51 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4795 View

Margaret Casey Gates papers

Title: Margaret Casey Gates papers

The papers of Washington, D.C. painter Margaret Casey Gates date from 1934-1988, and measure 1.0 linear foot. Gates' papers document her work as a painter, her projects for the New Deal federal arts programs, the Phillips Memorial Gallery and its art school, where she attended school and later worked as secretary and where her husband Robert Franklin Gates was a teacher, and the Washington, D.C. arts scene. Found are scattered correspondence, seven sketchbooks by Gates and two sketchbooks of her divorced husband Robert Franklin Gates. Miscellaneous notes and writings, a scrapbook, printed material, and photographs of Gates, her husband, friends, artwork, and views of the Virgin Islands are also included in the papers.Twelve folders of scattered correspondence include letters from the Federal Works Agency and one or two letters each from friends and individuals that reflect Gates' wide range of interests and activities. Correspondents include Betty Jean Clark, Arthur G. Dove, D. R. Fitzpatrick, Alice Garrett, John Gernand, Karl Knaths, John L. Lewis, a Brazilian artist named Portinari, Julian Lee Rayford, Alfred Stieglitz, and Prentiss Taylor.Artwork consists of seven of Margaret Casey Gates' sketchbooks and two of Robert Franklin Gates' sketchbooks of both abstract and figural sketches. Margaret's sketchbooks contain landscapes that illustrate her travels to Colorado, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and the Virgin Islands. Sketchbook #2 contains pencil, ink, and pastel drawings of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands and an intimate drawing of Robert Franklin Gates, Mitchell Jamieson, and Prentiss Taylor asleep on a ship. Artwork also includes a fine caricature of Robert Franklin Gates by Karl Knaths. Notes and writings primarily consist of scattered notes and brief descriptive accounts of Gates's experiences at the Phillips Gallery, and at the Colorado Springs Art Center. Her extensive descriptions of her travels to the Virgin Islands are also illustrated. A scrapbook primarily contains clippings, but also includes an award certificate, letters concerning various topics including Pepsi-Cola's annual art competition and Federal Works Agency projects, brochures for the Phillips Gallery Art School and for the McLean Art Club, and a photograph of the mural at the Mebane, North Carolina post office.Printed material consists of clippings including copies of the rare magazines <emph render="italic">The Washington Spectator</emph> and the American University publication <emph render="italic">Right Angle</emph>, announcements and catalogs for exhibitions of Gates's work, and miscellaneous booklets and brochures. There is also printed material concerning the Armory Show including a copy of the booklet <emph render="italic">The Story of the Armory Show</emph> by Walt Kuhn.Photographs are of Margaret Casey Gates, Robert Franklin Gates, friends including Prentiss Taylor, her home, and her artwork. Photographs of Margaret and Robert Gates and their artist friends during their visits to the Virgin Islands in the 1930s are of primary interest, offering unique glimpses of that culture during the 1930s. These photographs include aerial photographs of St. Thomas and photographs by Prentiss Taylor.

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Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1928-1971, n.d.

Title: Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1928-1971, n.d.

Letters from Prentiss Taylor mention the progress of his work, Anne Goldthwite, lithographs sent to George C. Miller for printing, the American Artist's Group, gifts to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, exhibitions, speaking engagements, compliments on Carl Zigrosser's books and articles, artist Ruth Starr Rose, a brief biography of Taylor by Zirgosser, and exhibition catalogs. Prentiss Taylor also took photographs under the name of Baxter Snark. Included in the file is a photograph of Anne Goldthwaite by Snark.

ArchivalResource: 58 items (68 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155899481 View

Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-1991. Letter to "Bet" [manuscript], 1941, March 14.

Title: Letter to "Bet" [manuscript], 1941, March 14.

Taylor sends personal news and mentions "Scottsboro limited" by Langston Hughes which he illustrated.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647881187 View

Rachel Field collection, 1917-1942

Title: Rachel Field collection 1917-1942

The collection consists of letters from Rachel Field to Ruth Stanley-Brown Feis and from Field to Prentiss Taylor. Also included in the collection are writings by Field, many with illustrations by Taylor, and original writings and drawings by Taylor.

ArchivalResource: 1.17 linear feet (3 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.fieldr View