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Ben Shahn papers

Title: Ben Shahn papers

The papers of social realist painter, photographer, illustrator, printmaker, and teacher Ben Shahn (1898-1969) measure 25.1 linear feet and date from 1879-1990, with the bulk of the material dating from 1933-1970. The bulk of the collection consists of over 14 linear feet of incoming letters from artists, writers, colleagues, publishers, art organizations, galleries, and universities and colleges. Also found are biographical materials, project and source files, printed material, artwork by Shahn and others, photographs taken of and by Shahn, interview transcripts, sound recordings of interviews and a motion picture film.Biographical material and family records include a 1924 passport for Shahn and his first wife, Tillie, biographical sketches of Shahn, and award certificates received by him.Letters are primarily written to Shahn from family members, artists, writers, colleagues, publishers, art organizations, galleries, and universities and colleges. Notable correspondents include Leonard Baskin, Alexander Calder, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Joseph Hirsch, Leo Lionni, John Bartlow Martin, George and Marian Nakashima, Clifford Odets, Charles Olson, Robert Osborn, Diego Rivera, Jerome Robbins, Selden Rodman, James Thrall Soby, Raphael Soyer, and William Carlos Williams. A small number of scattered letters from Shahn can also be found throughout the series.Project files document approximately twenty-one of Shahn's commissions, including murals for the community center at Jersey Homesteads, the Bronx Central Annex Post Office, the Social Security Building in Washington D.C. , and the William E. Grady Vocational High School. The files also document his involvement in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Roosevelt, in addition to projects for schools, temples and private homes.Financial and legal records include consignment records, loan agreements, royalty statements and receipts for artwork sold.Notes and writings are by Shahn and others including Alan Dugan, W. H. Ferry, Theodore Gusten, and John Bartlow Martin. They include lists of artwork, many of which are annotated.Artwork includes a sketchbook and several unbound sketches and lettering by Shahn, in addition to drawings and prints by others including Shahn's children, Mario Casetta and Stefan Martin.Source files contain printed material and photographs relating to topics depicted by Shahn in his artwork such as children, dams, farming, houses, industry, mines and miners, slums, war and workers. These files also contain scattered photographic prints by FSA and OWI photographers including Shahn, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, and John Vachon.Printed material includes news clippings covering Shahn and his career as well as subjects of interest to Shahn. Also found are exhibition catalogs and announcements for exhibitions for Shahn and others, and reproductions of Shahn's artwork including publications illustrated by him.Photographs are of Shahn, his family and friends and colleagues including Alexander Calder, Jerome Robbins, Charles Sheeler, David Smith and William Zorach. Also included are photographs taken by Shahn of New York City and for the FSA in the 1930s, as well as photographs of artwork by Shahn. Photographs by others include one photo each by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee and Arthur Rothstein.The collection also contains transcripts of eight radio, television and motion picture interviews of Shahn and a reel of 16mm motion picture film from the BBC-TV program "Monitor," in addition to sound recordings of interviews of Shahn by Tony Schwartz and Arlene Francis. Artifacts include a Christmas greeting in the form of a sock.

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Fogg Art Museum 20th-century history of photography collection, 1900-1984 (inclusive).

Title: Fogg Art Museum 20th-century history of photography collection, 1900-1984 (inclusive).

Collection contains photographs by 20th-century photographers, including Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Lewis Balz, Margaret Bourke-White, Anne Brigman, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward S. Curtis, Judy Dater, Imogen Cunningham, Walker Evans, Andreas Feininger, Bea Nettles, Wallace Nutting, Man Ray, Edward Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, and Weegee.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1,600 images.

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Arnold Crane interviews of photographers

Title: Arnold Crane interviews of photographers

Transcripts of interviews conducted by Arnold Crane. Interviewees include Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Gyula Brassai, Imogen Cunningham, Walker Evans, Andre Jammes, Andre Kertesz, Man Ray, Arthur Rothstein, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Paul Strand and Minor White.

OralHistoryResource: 0.2 linear ft.

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Heiting, Manfred. Manfred Heiting papers, 1965-2008.

Title: Manfred Heiting papers, 1965-2008.

The papers document the research of Manfred Heiting, renowned photography collector, over a period of thirty years. The Heiting collection includes photographs from every major photographer as well as a record of the development of the art of photography. The papers include information on Heiting's professional life as well as correspondence with artists and galleries.

ArchivalResource: 45 linear ft.

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Arnold Crane portfolio of photographs, "Portraits of the Photographers,"

Title: Arnold Crane portfolio of photographs, "Portraits of the Photographers,"

Fifty silver gelatin print photographs which Arnold Crane took of other photographers. Among the subjects are Berenice Abbott, Bill Brandt, Gyula Halász Brassei, Harry Callahan, Imogen Cunningham, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Man Ray, Arthur Rothstein, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Minor White.

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Vol. XVII. (ff.) Elwin-Fielding.James Stern, writer: Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Fielding, writer and translator: Letters to James Stern from Lieut.-Col. Alexander Fielding: 1955-1978.James Stern, writer: Daphne Fielding, writer: Letters to James ...

Title: Vol. XVII. (ff.) Elwin-Fielding.James Stern, writer: Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Fielding, writer and translator: Letters to James Stern from Lieut.-Col. Alexander Fielding: 1955-1978.James Stern, writer: Daphne Fielding, writer: Letters to James ... Unspecified

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Records of Brown Brothers Harriman, 1696-1973, 1995 (bulk, 1820-1968)

Title: Records of Brown Brothers Harriman 1696-1973, 1995 (bulk, 1820-1968)

The Records consist of original and secondary research materials amassed to support the writing of for the 150th anniversary of Brown Brothers Harriman and its predecessor businesses; original records from these entities, including correspondence, ledgers, account books, business transaction records, diaries, daybooks, clippings, scrapbooks, prints, photographs, audio tapes, artifacts; and a research library of printed material. Partners in Banking

ArchivalResource: 109.0 Linear feet; (148 boxes, 212 volumes)

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Eisner, Dorothy. Dorothy Eisner papers, 1925-2008.

Title: Dorothy Eisner papers, 1925-2008.

The Dorothy Eisner Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and ephemera that document periods of her personal life and artwork. Eisner's correspondence files contain letters from fellow painters: nearly thirty from her friend Dorothy Andrews (1918-2008), who wrote mostly from her home in Khania, Crete; three from William Kienbusch (1914-1980); and one each from Sarah Freedman McPherson (1894-1978) and Emil Holzhauer (1887-1986); there are also letters from her stepdaughter, the painter Joan McDonald Miller. However, the bulk of the correspondence is between Eisner and her parents, and includes letters in which she describes her interactions with Leon Trotsky during the Dewey Commission's hearing in Mexico City. Additional items related to that experience are the nearly fifty informal snapshot photographs taken in and around the hearing, Eisner's admission card, and one letter from Trotsky. Other friends in the correspondence files include the writers Tess Slesinger (1905-1945) and Diana Trilling (1906-1996). A folder of miscellaneous personal papers holds some childhood letters and drawings, a bank book from the early 1930s, and a few Social Security papers from the late 1970s-early 1980s. A scrapbook of clippings, photographs, and ephemera, supplemented by folders of announcements, brochures, and installation photographs, document exhibitions of Eisner's paintings and collages mounted during her lifetime. The collection also includes two published books of Walker Evans's photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 linear feet (4 boxes)

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Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988. Jay and Si Lan Chen Leyda papers, 1913-1987 (bulk 1930-1980).

Title: Jay and Si Lan Chen Leyda papers, 1913-1987 (bulk 1930-1980).

Series I includes family and childhood materials, early writings, autobiographical notes and clippings, and professional memorabilia. Series II includes correspondence including James Agee, Alfred Barr, Walter Benjamin, Paul Bowles, Luis Buñuel, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aaron Copland, Joseph Cornell, Mina Curtiss, Walker Evans, Joseph and Charmian Freeman, Helga Greene, Langston Hughes, Joris Ivens, Paul Jarrico, Romana Javitz, Elia Kazan, Carol King, Lincoln Kirstein, Naum Kleiman, Fritz Lang, Julian Levy, Joseph Losey, Albert Maltz, Ivor Montagu, Jack Rau, Man Ray, Satyajit Ray, Abby Rockefeller, Muriel Rukeyser, Georges Sadoul, Josephine Schwarz, Gilbert Seldes, Marie Seton, Ralph Steiner, Lee Strasberg, Thornton Wilder, and Edmund Wilson. There is also a thick MOMA correspondence file, as well as Leyda's correspondence with his family. Series III contains Leyda's clippings, correspondence, film scripts, research notes, and a typescript relating to his book Dianying; an account of films and the film audience in China (1972). Series IV contains writings, research notes, clippings, reviews, and some correspondence relating ot Soviet cinema. There are articles written under his pseudonym James Lincoln for the Moscow News, 1932-36, letters to Eisenstein, notes for his reconstruction of Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico, film festival and exhibition catalogs, an editing proposal for Potemkin, and an unpublished typescript "Letters from Russia." Series V mainly documents the balance of Leyda's cinema career, and includes correspondence with the Guggenheim Foundation, 1931-42, regarding his fellowship application, scripts for unproduced movies, including World Unity (1940s) and Conquistador (1943), a partial list of film shots for A Bronx Morning, several files of "Germinations," (project proposals), and several typescripts by novelist and poet Ben Maddow. The Dickinson and Melville material in this series includes Leyda's libretto for the opera Bartelby. The Si Lan Chen Leyda papers document her dancing career and personal activities. Series VI contains her FBI file and documents related to her travels. Series VII is Chen's correspondence principally with her family and Jay Leyda. There is also correspondence with Pearl S. Buck and Langston Hughes, and a file relating to immigration issues. Series VIII documents her dance career with programs, flyers, dance notations and drawings, a scrapbook, and radio interview transcripts. Series IX includes the typsecript of her autobiography, Footnote to History (1984), a diary, autobiographical notebooks and unpublished writings.

ArchivalResource: 15.25 linear ft. (31 boxes)

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Oral history interview with Ben Shahn

Title: Oral history interview with Ben Shahn

An interview of Ben Shahn conducted 1964 Apr. 14, by Richard K. Doud, for the Archives of American Art New Deal and the Arts Project. Shahn speaks of his travels and work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA); the American image as portrayed by FSA photographs; techniques and materials; exhibitions and publications of his work; and the effectiveness of the FSA project overall. He recalls Roy Stryker, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, Edwin Rosskam and Dorothea Lange.

OralHistoryResource: 1 sound tape reel ; 7 in.; Transcript: 29 p.

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Dorothy Eisner papers, 1923-2008

Title: Dorothy Eisner papers 1923-2008

The Dorothy Eisner Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and ephemera that document periods of her personal life and artwork. Eisner's correspondence files contain letters from fellow painters: nearly thirty from her friend Dorothy Andrews (1918-2008), who wrote mostly from her home in Khania, Crete; three from William Kienbusch (1914-1980); and one each from Sarah Freedman McPherson (1894-1978) and Emil Holzhauer (1887-1986); there are also letters from her stepdaughter, the painter Joan McDonald Miller. However, the bulk of the correspondence is between Eisner and her parents William and Florine Eisner, and includes letters in which she describes her interactions with Leon Trotsky during the Dewey Commission's hearing in Mexico City. Additional items related to that experience are the nearly fifty informal snapshot photographs taken in and around the hearing, Eisner's admission card, and one letter from Trotsky. Other friends in the correspondence files include the writers Tess Slesinger (1905-1945) and Diana Trilling (1906-1996). Other papers include copies of the constitution of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, and an autobiographical memoir written by her grandfather Moritz Eisner, who had emigrated from Vienna to the United States. A folder of miscellaneous personal papers holds some childhood letters and drawings, a bank book from the early 1930s, and a few financial papers from the late 1970s-early 1980s. A binder of photographs and a scrapbook of clippings, photographs, and ephemera, supplemented by folders of announcements, brochures, and installation photographs, document Eisner's paintings and collages, and exhibitions of her work. The collection also includes two published books of photographs by Walker Evans.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear feet (2 boxes)

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Crane, Hart, 1899-1932. Collection, 1920-1932.

Title: Collection, 1920-1932.

The Sherwood Anderson collection contains 2 letters from Crane to B. W. (Benjamin W.) Huebsch, 1922 Aug 7 and 1922 May 18, regarding translation of, Winesburg, Ohio; 2 letters from Huebsch to Crane, 1922; 3 letters from Crane to Anderson, 1922; and 3 letters from Anderson to Crane, 1920-1922. The Malcolm Cowley collection contains typescripts of Part IV of, Cutty Sark, The Mango Tree, The Broken Tower and The Mermen; various typescripts of Cowley's, Death and the Poet, a Memoir of Hart Crane; other critical works by Cowley in typescript form; 5 letters (1928) and 1 postcard (1928 Feb 4) from Crane to Cowley; 17 letters from Crane to Peggy and Malcolm Cowley, 1923-1932; 1 letter from Yvor Winters to Crane, n.d.; 1 telegram from Peggy Cowley to Malcolm Cowley, 1932 Apr 27, announcing Crane's suicide; letters from other correspondents about Crane; 1 photograph of Crane and Peggy Cowley, 1932; and 1 photograph of Crane taken by Walker Evans.

ArchivalResource: 6 folders.

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Oral history interview with Russell and Jean Lee

Title: Oral history interview with Russell and Jean Lee

An interview of Russell and Jean Lee conducted 1964 June 2, by Richard Doud, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recordings: 1 sound tape reel (1 hour 45 min.) ; 7 in.Transcript: 36 p. (on partial microfilm reel)

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Devany, Edward H. Let us now praise famous men : typescript, [1966].

Title: Let us now praise famous men : typescript, [1966].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (ca. 100 p.)

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Evans, Walker, 1903-1975. African Negro art [picture] : a corpus of photographs by Walker Evans.

Title: African Negro art [picture] : a corpus of photographs by Walker Evans. [ca. 1935]

ArchivalResource: 100 photographs (3 boxes) : b&w ; 18 x 10 cm. and larger.

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James R. Mellow papers, 1940-1999

Title: James R. Mellow papers 1940-1999

The collection consistsof research material, writings, correspondence, audiocassettes, printedmaterial, personal papers, financial papers, photographs, and other papers,documenting the work of James R. Mellow as an art critic, a book reviewer, anda literary biographer, shedding particular light on his biographies of GertrudeStein, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway,and Walker Evans.

ArchivalResource: 40.87 linear feet (53boxes)

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Walker Evans & Company. 2000- : Archives pamphlet file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: Walker Evans & Company. 2000- : Archives pamphlet file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

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Ferris, William R. William R. Ferris collection, 1919s-2003 (names A-G).

Title: William R. Ferris collection, 1919s-2003 (names A-G).

Names A-G significant that are in the collection.

ArchivalResource: About 118,000 items (about 300.0 linear ft.).

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