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Winifred L. Stoelting material on Hale Woodruff

Title: Winifred L. Stoelting material on Hale Woodruff

An abstract of Stoelting's PhD. dissertation at Emory Univesity, "Hale Woodruff, Artist and Teacher: Through the Atlanta Years."

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9aeecf22e-b526-4bd4-a5bb-6957d664c368 View

Panel discussion, "Return to Subject Matter"

Title: Panel discussion, "Return to Subject Matter"

A panel discussion "The Return to Subject Matter," held at an annual meeting of the College Art Association in New York City, and taped by an unidentified member of the Archives of American Art staff. Participants are Thomas McKey Folds, Stephen Greene, Boris Margo, and Ad Reinhardt, with Hale Woodruff as moderator. Portions of the discussion, particularly the question and answer segment, are inaudible.

ArchivalResource: 4 Items (sound cassettes)

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ae3eb066-e65f-4168-85ca-e05ccff7079e View

Oral history interview with Hale Woodruff

Title: Oral history interview with Hale Woodruff

Interview of Hale Woodruff conducted 1968 November 18, by Al Murray, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Transcript: 26 p.

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b7d540d4-fbab-44b8-a5bd-99b30cf3a9f5 View

Woodruff, Hale, 1900-1980. Hale Woodruff : artist file.

Title: Hale Woodruff : artist file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/519907292 View

Hale Woodruff papers

Title: Hale Woodruff papers

The papers of African American painter, muralist, and arts educator Hale Woodruff measure 0.6 linear feet and date from 1920 to 1977 with the bulk of the collection dating from the 1960s to the 1970s. The papers contain biographical material, professional files, writings, printed material, photographs, and photocopies of a scrapbook, and of artwork.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 Linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f059b531-1f1c-4601-92c9-6bd34272a6cd View

Charles Henry Alston papers

Title: Charles Henry Alston papers

The scattered papers of African-American and Harlem Renaissance painter, muralist, illustrator, sculptor, and educator Charles Henry Alston measure 0.9 linear feet and date from 1924-1980. Included are biographical materials, correspondence, commission and teaching files, writings and notes, printed materials, and photographs. Notable correspondents include Romare Bearden, Byron Browne, Jacob Lawrence, and Hale Woodruff.

ArchivalResource: 0.9 Linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9659f264f-7afb-4e05-bf28-ed3872b7cfea View

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. Carl Van Vechten collection, ca. 1920-ca. 1955; (bulk 1940-1949).

Title: Carl Van Vechten collection, ca. 1920-ca. 1955; (bulk 1940-1949).

Catalogs, programs, announcements, and invitations documenting African American participation in the visual arts, dance, drama, music, and literature.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

https://dh.howard.edu/finaid_manu/202/ View

Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Papers. 1921-1979.

Title: Papers. 1921-1979.

Among these papers are correspondence (1921-1969); accounts, records, documents, legal papers, and certificates; a fragmentary diary (1928); teaching plan books and other teaching records; writings--an autobiography, articles, a book review, letters-to-the-editor, juvenile novels, plays, poems, a radio serial, a short story, and theses; sheet music; notes and lists; scrapbooks and clippings; biographical sketches and obituaries; photographs; programs, invitations, and announcements; pamphlets, leaflets, and a few periodicals; musical scores of Cullen's poems set to music and phonograph records. The greater part of the collection consists of the correspondence of Countee Cullen (1921-1945) and his writings.

ArchivalResource: 7.8 linear ft. 50 oversize items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19503223 View

Pratt, Helen, d. 1965. Miscellaneous papers of Helen Pratt, 1939-1968, (bulk 1939-1940).

Title: Miscellaneous papers of Helen Pratt, 1939-1968, (bulk 1939-1940).

This small group consists of a letter from Hale Woodruff (b. 1900) to Helen Pratt in regards to a mural he painted which included a depiction of her grandfather, James Steele; a signed typewritten note; a xerographic copy of a typewritten biography of Helen Pratt; a photograph; and ephemera related to the Amistad affair.

ArchivalResource: 4 pieces.1 tan envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228737772 View

Jewell, Ruth Lucile Allison, 1905-1996. Scrapbook, 1926-1933.

Title: Scrapbook, 1926-1933.

The collection consists of one scrapbook compiled by Ruth Lucile Allison Jewell between circa 1926 and 1933. Items in the scrapbook include postcards, photographs, clippings, and printed items pertaining to social activities at African American colleges, particularly Kentucky State Industrial College. Included is a Christmas card made by Hale Woodruff (1900-1980) sent to the Lionel Artis family of Indianapolis.

ArchivalResource: 3 document cases, 1 OVA graphics box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50601550 View

Davis, Griffith J. Griffith J. Davis Photographs and Films, 1947-1991 and undated.

Title: Griffith J. Davis Photographs and Films, 1947-1991 and undated.

Collection dates from 1949-1991 and comprises photographs, negatives, and contact prints and related materials assembled by African American photojournalist Griff Davis, concerning Langston Hughes, Hale Woodruff, and Charles Alston, all prominent African American writers, poets, or artists, and the Palmer Memorial Institute, a private junior and senior high school for African Americans in Sedalia, N.C. The audiovisual components include home movies and nine color and black and white 16mm films dating from the fifties, taken in Liberia by Davis during part of William V.S. Tubman's presidency. Films depict a wide range of subjects, activities and events, including the country's people, industry, leaders, and rural life. Other Griff Davis images in the collection are found in an album entitled "Progress in Liberia, November 1949 - February 1950," containing twenty large black and white gelatin silver prints with typed captions; the album was assembled to promote a partnership between the government of Liberia and Liberia Mining Company. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

ArchivalResource: 476 items (6.1 lin. ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41150190 View

Bertha Schaefer papers and gallery records

Title: Bertha Schaefer papers and gallery records

The Bertha Schaefer papers and gallery records measure 4.6 linear feet and date from 1909-1975, with the bulk of the material dating from 1940-1965. The collection documents the Bertha Schaefer Gallery as well as Bertha Schaefer, the interior designer, through correspondence with artists and galleries, artist files, client files, exhibition material, printed material, financial material, biographical material, photographs, and six scrapbooks.

ArchivalResource: 4.6 Linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9837e3fbe-5623-4258-9014-b2d8c0ac6857 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50039764 View

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

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c7dd55d7-d3cb-43e7-8f4e-cd346add3d2e View

Woodruff, Hale, 1900- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: Woodruff, Hale, 1900- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

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

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/198940575 View

Gallery 256 records

Title: Gallery 256 records

The scattered records of the Provincetown, Massachusetts cooperative Gallery 256 measure 0.2 linear feet and cover the gallery's brief period of existence from 1953 to 1955. Administrative records include a list of member addresses, a statement of the gallery's legal status, financial records, and an attendance book. Also found are printed material and a several photos of artwork.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 Linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw984f52daf-3cea-4ee6-872f-310b004b1c06 View

Hewitt, John H., 1924-. John H. Hewitt Writings, 1982-1997.

Title: John H. Hewitt Writings, 1982-1997.

The collection contains Hewitt's writings on black artists including Hale Woodruff, Ernest Crichlow, Alvin C. Hollingsworth and Haitian artist Luce Turnier. Also included are Hewitt's historical pieces on the lives of largely unknown, but accomplished 19th century African-American New Yorkers such as Thomas Downing and Elizabeth Jennings, along with writings on African-American Episcopalians and St. Philip's Church in New York City.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear. ft. (5 boxes.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122608392 View

Woodruff, Hale, 1900-1980. Artist file.

Title: Artist file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122396342 View

Robert P. Johnston papers

Title: Robert P. Johnston papers

The papers of Robert P. Johnson measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1947 to 1971. The papers consist of material compiled by Johnston relating to ceramicist and sculptor William Ellisworth Artis and painter Hale Woodruff. Also included is one letter to Johnston from Karl Knaths.Artis material includes copies of letters to Artis, 1947-1970, from museums, universities, foundations and others regarding lending his work, awarding of prizes or fellowships and other topics; Johnston's correspondence with Artis regarding Johnston's research on Artis; writings by Johnston on Artis; and printed material. Woodruff material includes copies of letters from Woodruff to Johnston, 1971; a copy of Woodruff's diagram of panel no. 6 of his mural for the Atlanta University Library, and "identifying individual famous negro artists portrayed in the mural panel; an issue of Raven New York, June 1, 1971, with an article on Woodruff; an exhibition catalog of an exhibit of Woodruff's work held at NYU, May 15-June 8, 1967; and Woodruff's vitae, 1971.

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f7402825-9cf2-40d8-bd9d-223a2839b061 View

Jones, Lois Mailou. Lois Mailou Jones papers, 1920-1998.

Title: Lois Mailou Jones papers, 1920-1998.

Bulk of the materials document the professional life of Jones in the role of artistic mentor and Howard University faculty member.

ArchivalResource: ca. 80 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/738544276 View

Newark Museum. Curatorial records of Against the Odds: African American Artists and the Harmon foundation, exhibition, 1926-1990 and undated.

Title: Curatorial records of Against the Odds: African American Artists and the Harmon foundation, exhibition, 1926-1990 and undated.

Research files and curatorial notes assembled for the 1990 exhibition titled, "Against the Odds: African American Artists and the Harmon foundation."

ArchivalResource: 6.24 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71058205 View

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.

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw996b317da-502d-42d0-a01e-ee00fc5235a4 View

Esther G. Rolick papers

Title: Esther G. Rolick papers

Letters, printed material, scrapbooks, sketches, financial material, photographs, and sound recordings.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 linear feet (partially microfilmed on 3 reels)

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw90d83b0fb-7b48-4edf-b01f-969bfa325aed View

Stoelting, Winifred L. (Winifred Louise). Hale Woodruff Collection.

Title: Hale Woodruff Collection. 1973-1977

This small collection about Hale Woodruff consists primarily of materials accumulated by Winifred Stoelting in doing research for her dissertation, "Hale Woodruff, Artist and Teacher: Through the Atlanta Years" (Emory University, 1978). Upon completion of the dissertation, Stoelting donated her research materials to the Woodruff Library at Atlanta University Center. These materials consist of audiocassette tapes of interviews with Woodruff's students and colleagues, correspondence from Woodruff and others, and slides of his work. Among these are photocopies of letters from Hale Woodruff to Millicent Dobbs Jordan in reference to a commissioned work, "Cinque Exhorts his Captives". The collection also includes copies of brochures for the mural "The Art of the Negro", and programs from In Memory of Hale Aspacio Woodruff (1900-1980) and the accompanying exhibit "Homage to Hale Woodruff", held at Atlanta University in 1981.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51865468 View

Harmon Foundation, Inc., Records, 1913-1967, (bulk 1925-1933)

Title: Harmon Foundation, Inc., Records 1913-1967 (bulk 1925-1933)

Correspondence, biographical notes, catalogs, scrapbooks, and other material relating to the organization and its founder, William Elmer Harmon. Included are records of the foundation's award programs, biographical notes on African and African-American artists, and correspondence with African art centers.

ArchivalResource: 37,800 items; 121 containers; 48.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010300 View