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Kootz Gallery records

Title: Kootz Gallery records

The records of modernist New York City Kootz Gallery measure 7.1 linear feet and date from 1923-1966. They consist of scattered correspondence and exhibition files; photograph files of artists, including ones for Picasso, William Baziotes, and Hans Hofmann, among many others; 23 scrapbooks, photographs and slides of the gallery and exhibitions; and scattered personal papers of Samuel M. Kootz.There are two folders of scattered routine incoming letters. Three folders of exhibition files contain limited documentation of the 1952 Kootz Gallery exhibition "To South America," and printed material related to the 1951 exhibition "Art for a Synagogue" held at the Synagogue of Congregation B'nai Israel in Millburn, New Jersey.Artists' Photograph Files contain mostly photographs of 52 artists, their artwork, and their exhibitions. In addition to photographs, there is one folder of artists' autographs. Pablo Picasso and Hans Hofmann's close friendship with Kootz is reflected in this series, as numerous informal personal photos are found in their respective files. A few folders also contain documents, such as transcript notes for a lecture and other writings by Hans Hofmann and a brief review of the work of Georges Braque and David Hare.Printed Material consists of exhibition announcements and catalogs, advertisements, and newspaper and magazine clippings on the gallery and artists associated with the gallery. There are catalogs for Kootz Gallery exhibitions, including "The Intrasubjectives" show of 1949.Twenty-three scrapbooks date from 1931 through 1966 and include exhibition announcements, catalogs, photographs, clippings, and miscellaneous printed material. Scrapbook 1, 1947-1948, focuses on Pablo Picasso. Scrapbooks 2-21 document approximately one year of Kootz Gallery events and press coverage from 1945 to 1966, and Scrapbooks 22-23, 1950-1958, focus on architectural models and exhibitions.Photographic material includes photographs, transparencies, and slides of Kootz Gallery New York and Kootz Gallery Provincetown; interior design photographs showcasing Kootz Gallery artwork hanging in office and residential spaces; group and unidentified exhibitions; group and unidentified artists/artwork; and informal photographs of Samuel Kootz and of his wife, Jane.Samuel Kootz Personal Papers consist of a cocktail party invitation and a copy of the 1923 <emph render="italic">Phi Epsilon Pi Quarterly</emph>, Vol. 6, No. 1.

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Alice Trumbull Mason papers

Title: Alice Trumbull Mason papers

The papers of abstract artist Alice Trumbull Mason date from 1921 to 1977 and measure 1.3 linear feet. The collection documents her career as a painter, particularly her role as one of the founders of the American Abstract Artists group, through biographical materials; correspondence with family, friends, fellow artists, art galleries, museums, and organizations; writings and notes, including notebooks of poetry and other creative writings; a small amount of printed material; photographs of Mason, friends, and her artwork; and original artwork, including five sketchbooks. Biographical material consists of resumes, passports, exhibition files, as well as documentation of her membership and active participation in art organizations, including her work as an officer in the American Abstract Artists group. Also found here are scattered personal financial and legal records. Personal and professional correspondence is with family members, including many detailed letters between her and her husband Warwood, fellow artists, including Paul Kelpe, art organizations, curators, museums, galleries, and others. Professional correspondence generally discusses selection of exhibition and awards, sale of artwork, and art events. Writings and notes, mostly from the 1920s and 1930s, consist of Mason's notes on art history and her creative writings, including poetry and "abstract writing." Also found are a few writings about abstract art and various notes and lists. Printed material includes news clippings on topics of interest to Mason, and other miscellaneous items such as brochures, and exhibition announcements. Photographs include several portraits of Mason with her artwork, photographs of friends including artist Ibram Lassaw, photographs of an American Abstract Artists exhibition, and artwork by her and others. Original artwork found in this collection includes five sketchbooks belonging to Mason, including two that document her travels through Greece and Italy, and other loose drawings.

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Jane Teller papers

Title: Jane Teller papers

The papers of printmaker and sculptor Jane Teller measure 8.6 linear feet and date from 1911 to 1991. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, business records, notes, writings, three sketchbooks, sketches and prints, five scrapbooks, printed material, subject files, photographs, sound and video recordings, and motion picture film.Biographical material includes a birth certificate, school work, and passports. General correspondence includes letters from several artists including Rhys Caparn, Sue Fuller and Lee Gatch, and from art galleries, including the Museum of Modern Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Additional correspondence is found in the Subject Files.Business records include an account book, lists of expenses and prices of art works, and sales records. Notes and writings include Teller's notes about art and travel, artists' statements, autobiographical writings, and a compilation of many artists' statements regarding "The Nine Bean Question." Artwork includes three sketchbooks, 30 sketches and three prints primarily depicting nature and sculpture designs.Five scrapbooks contain clippings, exbition announcements and catalogs. Additional printed material includes magazines, exhibition announcements and catalogs, a booklet by Teller entitled <emph render="italic">Art, Age and the River</emph>, published posthumously by her husband, and a manuscript of <emph render="italic">Poems or Poetic Expressions of Sculptors</emph>, collected by L. Lamis.Subject files are arranged by name or subject and may contain letters, photographs, and printed material. Many of the files focus on galleries and museums, including the Montclair Art Museum, the Newark Museum, Noyes Museum, Parma Gallery, the Princeton Gallery of Fine Art and the Squibb Gallery. There are also subject files for associations, travel, projects, and colleagues including Margaret K. Johnson, Reuben Kadish, Ibram Lassaw, Aaron Siskind and Dorothy Dehner. Photographs and slides depict Teller, her friends, works, gallery installations, and travels. Also included are photographs of trees, bark, and other natural formations used by Teller in her work.The audio-visual materials include several sound recordings, videocassettes and 16 mm motion picture films. The videocassettes include television programs in which Teller, printmaker Judith Brodsky and actor Harry Hamlin are interviewed, a retrospective at Skidmore College and a film featuring Teller speaking for the National Council on Aging. Sound recordings include two interviews and a "Talk on Malta" by Teller and Joan Needham. The 16 mm films are black and white footage of Teller's first Parma Gallery show.

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Giorgio Cavallon papers

Title: Giorgio Cavallon papers

Biographical information; correspondence; photographs; exhibition catalogs and announcements; monograph; scrapbooks; sketchbook; clippings; three small palettes on linen.

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Waldorf panel on sculpture

Title: Waldorf panel on sculpture

A two part panel discussion on sculpture (6 7" tapes), partially transcribed on 141 pages. Participants are Peter Agostini, Will Barnet, Elaine De Kooning, Herbert Ferber, John Ferren, Donald Judd, Frederick Kiesler, Ibram Lassaw, Robert Mallary, Nicholas Marsicano, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg, Philip Pavia (organizer), Ad Reinhardt, Rachel Rosenthal, Sal Schwartz, George Segal, David Slivka, and James Wines.

ArchivalResource: 6 sound tapes

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Laurel Gallery records

Title: Laurel Gallery records

The Laurel Gallery records measure 0.6 linear feet and date from 1944 to 1951. The collection sheds light on the gallery's operations through scant correspondence, photographs, printed material, an exhibition inventory, and financial records.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 Linear feet

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Lassaw, Ibram, 1913- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: Lassaw, Ibram, 1913- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

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

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Arnold Newman photographs of artists

Title: Arnold Newman photographs of artists

The artist photographs collection of Arnold Newman measures 0.6 linear feet and dates from 1940 to 1961. The collection consists of photographs of various artists taken by Newman. Some of the represented artists include: Gertrude Abercrombie, Julius Bloch, Willem De Kooning, David Hare, Joseph Kaplan, Ibram Lassaw, and Joseph Stella. Folders consist of a large version photograph and both a duplicate small version and transparency of the photograph.

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Oral history interview with Ibram Lassaw

Title: Oral history interview with Ibram Lassaw

An interview of Ibram Lassaw conducted 1964 Nov. 1-2, by Dorothy Seckler, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recordings: 2 sound tapes (1 hour 20 min.) ; 5 in.Transcript: 39 p.

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Lassaw, Ibram, 1913-2003. Artist file.

Title: Artist file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Lenore Seroka photographs

Title: Lenore Seroka photographs

Photographs of artists taken by Seroka.

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Augustus Goertz papers

Title: Augustus Goertz papers

Papers mainly documenting Goertz's invlovement with the 1977 exhibition ew York City WPA Art: Then 1934-1943 and... Now 1966-1977" and the New York City WPA Artists, Inc. organization. Included are correspondence with Lee Krasner, Ibram Lassaw, Paul Cadmus, and William Meyerowitz; artist files; minutes of meetings and administrative files of the organization; installation photographs and photographs of works of art; guest books; and printed material including an exhibition catalog and poster pertaining to the exhibition. Also included are scattered personal papers including biographical information, photographs of Goertz and his family, and sketches by Goertz.

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[Ibram Lassaw in his studio] [graphic].

Title: [Ibram Lassaw in his studio] [graphic]. [ca. 1963]

Two photos of Lassaw in his studio. One shows him standing among his sculptures, facing the camera, a lighted blow torch in his hand. The other shows a closeup of him at work welding a sculpture, turned away from the camera.

ArchivalResource: 2 photographic prints : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.

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Ibram Lassaw papers

Title: Ibram Lassaw papers

The Ibram Lassaw papers measure 3.1 linear feet and date from 1928-2004. Included are biographical material, correspondence, writings, slides, a scrapbook and additional printed material and audio visual material documenting the career of sculptor Ibram Lassaw. Some of the material has been compiled by Lassaw's daughter, Denise Lassaw, by photocopying original documents and in some cases, compiling them into booklets for her "Lassaw Archives Project". There are also 29 VHS tapes, circa 1984-2004, of lectures, television appearances, interviews and other events regarding Ibram Lassaw and other artists.Correspondence includes letters from the Public Works of Art Project, the Whitney Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. A notebook labeled Alice Mason contains approximately 50 letters and postcards from Lassaw's friend and colleague Alice Trumbull Mason to Lassaw, 1932-1944, and a few letters from Lassaw to Mason.Writings include teaching notes, notebooks and student essays.Professional material includes resumes and interview certificates; Two booklets compiled by Denise Lassaw contain a variety of photocopied documentation; slides; records from Lassaw's involvement with the Springs Annual Art Exhibition; and mimeographed recipes from various artists, labeled "draft for artists' cookbook."Printed material includes clippings, exhibition announcements, exhibition catalogs, articles on Lassaw, published article by Lassaw, and three hand-made encyclopedias by Lassaw.Video recordings include lectures, television appearances, interviews and other events regarding Lassaw and other artists.

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Anne Bowen Parsons collection of interviews on art

Title: Anne Bowen Parsons collection of interviews on art

The interviews are of artists, educators, art administrators, and dealers. Topics covered include the Federal Art Project, the Artists' Union, the Club, the influence of French emigre artists, and political activism among artists. The transcripts range from 1 to 4 pages in length.

OralHistoryResource: 30 transcripts.

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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 Peter Agostini

Title: Oral history interview with Peter Agostini

An interview of Peter Agostini conducted in 1968, by Colette Roberts, for the Archives of American Art at 151 Avenue B, New York, New York.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recordings: 3 5 in. sound tape reels.Transcript: 99 p.

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Ludwig Sander papers

Title: Ludwig Sander papers

The papers of American New York School painter Ludwig Sander measure 2.8 linear feet and date from 1910 to 1975. Found are biographical materials primarily consisting of army records; correspondence with family and colleagues discussing exhibitions and other art-related activities; diaries; personal scattered business records; address books and art history typescripts; sketchbooks and illustrations for magazines; photographs of Sander, his colleagues, his travels, and exhibition openings; and miscellaneous printed material. The collection documents Sander's career and interactions with some of the most important modern artists of twentieth century.

ArchivalResource: 2.8 Linear feet

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American Abstract Artists records

Title: American Abstract Artists records

The records of the American Abstract Artists measure 1.6 linear feet and date from 1936 through 1983. The records document the founding of the organization in 1936, membership activities, general administration, and exhibitions via correspondence, member writings, financial and legal records, printed materials, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 Linear feet

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Oral history interview with Ibram Lassaw

Title: Oral history interview with Ibram Lassaw

An interview of Ibram Lassaw conducted 1968 Aug. 26, by Irving Sandler, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 3 sound tape reels (5 hr. 30 min.) ; 7 in.Transcript: 112 p.

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Joan Seeman papers

Title: Joan Seeman papers

The papers of art historian Joan Seeman measure 1.2 linear feet and date from 1973-1981. Included are sound recordings of interviews Seeman conducted with artists, transcripts of interviews, correspondence with artist Theodore Roszak, and notes from a visit with Hugo Robus. There is also a list of works in the Wallace Wilson Collection, which was curated by Seeman.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 Linear feet

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Lassaw, Ibram, 1913-. Ibram Lassaw : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1930?-1990 [graphic] [compiled by staff of The Museum of Modern Art, New York].

Title: Ibram Lassaw : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1930?-1990 [graphic] [compiled by staff of The Museum of Modern Art, New York]. 1930?-1990

File of color and black and white photographs of work of art, assembled by the staff of The Museum of Modern Art in New York from the museum's establishment until 1990. Items may include full views, details, installations, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 or more folders: ill. (some col.) ; 38 cm.

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Lassaw, Ibram : Biographical file.

Title: Lassaw, Ibram : Biographical file. [1900-9999]

May contain: Resumes, newspaper articles, magazine articles, invitations to exhibition openings, gallery hand-outs, check-lists of exhibitions, advertisements, obituaries, 35 mm. slides of the artist's work.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope : manila ; 13 x 10 in.

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Letters relating to Lee Hall's book, Elaine and Bill: Portrait of a Marriage

Title: Letters relating to Lee Hall's book, Elaine and Bill: Portrait of a Marriage

Letters solicited by dealer Joan Washburn in response to the publication of Lee Hall's controversial biography of painters Willem and Elaine De Kooning. Included are a copy of a letter from dealer André Emmerich to Lee Hall, commenting on and correcting her book; letters to Washburn from sculptor Ibram Lassaw and his wife Ernestine, and from Patia Rosenberg, the daughter of critic Harold Rosenberg; and a statement by Washburn.

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Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library audio archive collection, 1969-2004.

Title: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library audio archive collection, 1969-2004.

Searchable digital collection of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library Audio Collection. Digital collection contains 306 digital audio files reformatted from audio cassettes containing recorded symposiums, lectures, interviews and events ranging in date from 1969 to 2004. The content of the audio collection includes: event recordings and interviews dating back to the founding days of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, interviews of renowned modern and contemporary artists, lectures and symposium focusing on significant themes in 20th century art.

ArchivalResource: 306 audio files : digital.

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Robert Richenburg papers

Title: Robert Richenburg papers

The Robert Richenburg papers, circa 1910s-2008, measure 5.3 linear feet and 4.32 GB. Biographical material, correspondence, subject files, writings, audio/visual recordings, printed material, and photographs document the professional career and personal life of the educator and New York School painter and sculptor best known for his Abstract Expressionist paintings.Biographical material includes educational records from high school through his studies at the Ozenfant School of Fine Arts using G.I. benefits. Birth, marriage,and death certificates are also found, along with Richenburg family memorabilia. There is a digital video recording of Robert Richenburg's memorial service.Correspondence consists mostly of family letters, including some illustrated letters and many handmade cards featuring original artwork. Condolence letters addressed to Marggy Kerr are from friends, relatives, colleagues, neighbors, and acquaintances.Subject files contain various combinations of correspondence, printed material, photographs, writings and notes relating to Richenburg's professional career and personal life. They document exhibitions, gallery representation, gifts of art work to museums and individuals, memberships, teaching activities, former students, friendships, and other aspects of his life. Files of significant interest are: The Club, Tina Dicky and Madeline Amgott, Former Students (particularly Raphael Montanez Ortiz), Bonnie L. Grad and Lynne Moulton, Hans Hofmann, Ibram Lassaw, Philip Pavia, Pratt Institute, Hilla Rebay and the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, and Veterans Administration.Writings by Richenburg consist of notes, reviews, artist's statements, and the text of a speech. Also included are quotations compiled over the years by Marggy Kerr of Richenburg's comments on art and life. Among the writings by others are student papers, reviews, and poems.Sound and visual recordings include interviews with Robert Richenburg, often conducted as research for exhibitions. Videocassettes document events such as panel discussions, and artist gatherings; a few were produced in conjunction with museum exhibitions. Also found are videotapes by video artist Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Richenburg's friend and former student.Printed material includes items that are specifically about Robert Richenburg as well as items that incidentally mention him. The majority consist of exhibition catalogs and announcements.Photographs show art work by Richenburg, exhibition openings and other events, and a variety of people and places. Among the events recorded is the "Artists Roundtable on Art of the '50s." Moderated by Dore Ashton, the panel included Herman Cherry, Sidney Geist, Ibram Lassaw, Mercedes Matter, and David Slivka. There are photographs of Richenburg's boyhood home in Roslindale, MA, and his house in Ithaca, NY. He is pictured with others including family members, dealers, and curators. Of particular interest are photographs of Richenburg in Provincetown, MA, 1952-1953, with friends, including: Giorgio Cavallon, Franz Kline, Ibram and Ernestine Lassaw, and Philip and Marcia Pavia. World War II photographs consist of images of art work (not by Richenburg), Richenburg and other individuals taken in France and England; a number include views of Shrivenham American University.

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Oral history interview with Ibram Lassaw

Title: Oral history interview with Ibram Lassaw

An interview of Ibram Lassaw conducted 1964 Nov. 1-2, by Dorothy Seckler, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recordings: 2 sound tapes (1 hour 20 min.) ; 5 in.Transcript: 39 p.

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