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Aldan, Daisy. Papers, 1946-1966.

Title: Papers, 1946-1966.

The Daisy Aldan Papers, 1946-1966, include correspondence, drafts, manuscripts, notes, layout dummies, paste-ups, galleys, page proofs, and photographs, as well as materials collected for publicity or publication. Aldan's editorial files for Folder Magazine of Literature and Art (1954-1955) and A New Folder: Americans--Poems and Drawings (1959) dominate the collection. Folder artists represented in this collection include John Ashbery, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Edward Field, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Willem and Elaine De Kooning, Denise Levertov, James Merrill, Frank O'Hara, Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, Ned Rorem, and Eve Triem. Manuscripts by Aldan and others are also present in the collection, including manuscripts for two of Aldan's published books of poetry, The Destruction of Cathedrals (1963) and Seven:Seven (1965). Also found here are materials for Aldan's translation of Stephane Mallarmé's A Throw of the Dice (1956, 1961). Aldan's correspondence, 1946-1966, mainly reflects editorial duties and requests to a wide variety of people in the musical, literary, and art worlds. Correspondence from such writers as Gregory Corso, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, Ned Rorem, James Schuyler, Eve Triem, and Eugene Walter is of a more personal nature and often discusses details of their work in a more informal context. Other significant correspondents include Donald Allen, John Ashbery, Dore Ashton, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Julian Beck, William Rose Benét, Paul Blackburn, Marguerite Caetani, Robert Creeley, Richard Eberhart, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Edward Field, Charles Henri Ford, Allen Ginsberg, Erick Hawkins, George Hitchcock, Denise Levertov, Michael McClure, James Merrill, Henry Miller, Harold Norse, Charles Olson, Elliott Stein, May Swenson, Alice B. Toklas, Tristan Tzara, William Weaver, and others.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1 linear foot)

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Crosscurrents U.S.A. artists' statement : sound recording

Title: Crosscurrents U.S.A. artists' statement : sound recording

Statements from artists participating in the "Crosscurrents U.S.A." exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts, including Romare Bearden, Leland Bell, Benjamin F. Cunningham, Elaine De Kooning, Balcomb Greene, Joseph Hirsch, Lester F. Johnson, Alex Katz, Robert Kaupelis, John Koch, Jacob Lawrence, Alice Neel and John Wilson.

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Matter, Herbert, 1907-1984. Herbert Matter papers, circa 1937-1984.

Title: Herbert Matter papers, circa 1937-1984.

The collection represents the photography and graphic design career of Herbert Matter, his commercial and personal work. This includes original artwork (collages, sketches), photographs (predominately black and white prints, contact prints, working prints), manuscripts, process materials (paste-ups, proof sheets), memorabilia, negatives, transparencies, slides, 16mm motion picture film, printed material, and working equipment. There is considerable correspondence with particularly noteworthy letters from Gregory Ain, John Cage, John Entenza, Walter Gropius, Gyorgy Kepes, Isamu Noguchi, Irving Penn, and Brett Weston among others.

ArchivalResource: circa 350 linear feet (467 containers)

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Burden, Carter,. Statement in behalf of a poet : copy of a typed statement in support of Tennessee Williams's play Camino Real, [1957].

Title: Statement in behalf of a poet : copy of a typed statement in support of Tennessee Williams's play Camino Real, [1957].

The statement begins: "The undersigned group of artists, on their own volition and with no vested interest, are making this appeal to urge support for a beautiful play, CAMINO REAL by Tennessee Williams ... like Alice in Wonderland or Ubu Roi, it is a work of the imagination--romantic, intensely poetic and modern." The typed names that appear below are: Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, George Davis, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Lotta Lenya, John Latouche, Herbert Machiz, John Myers, Betty Parsons, I. Rice Pereira, and Gore Vidal.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270932669 View

Michael Loew papers

Title: Michael Loew papers

Biographical material, correspondence, notes, writings, photographs, business and financial records, works of art, and printed material document the career of painter and educator Michael Loew.

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Israel and Idee Levitan papers

Title: Israel and Idee Levitan papers

Correspondence, a photograph, and printed material documenting Israel and Idee Levitan's involvement in the New York art community after WWII. Correspondence includes letters from Elaine de Kooning, Katherine Dreier, Noah Koff, Merle Armitage, Howard Dearstyne, James Aronson, and others and one letter from the Levitans to Howard Dearstyne. The photographs are of Carl Milles, Svea Kline, and Lillian Helm. Among the printed material are exhibition announcements, including one for a faculty exhibition at the Parsons School of Design featuring Elaine de Kooning in 1976 and various newspaper clippings, including an obituary for Amedee Ozenfant.

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Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979. Beauford Delaney collection, 1964-1977.

Title: Beauford Delaney collection, 1964-1977.

The Beauford Delaney Collection consists of correspondence with colleagues, friends, gallery owners, and family members as well a printed material documenting Delaney's life in Paris. Biographical information is provided in statements Delaney authored, articles prepared by others for catalogs, and his obituary. Among the many friends, colleagues and art collectors with whom he maintained an active correspondence are James Baldwin (included with an essay he wrote for an introduction to a catalog for an exhibition of Delaney's art at Paris' Galerie Lambert in 1964). Other correspondents include artists Charles Boggs, Al Hirschfeld, John Franklin Koenig, and Ellis Wilson, authors James Jones and Henry Miller (who was also a water colorist), art historian Richard A. Long, and his friend Lynn Stone. Additional artists, painters, writers, gallery owners and musicians who corresponded with Delaney include Lawrence Calcagno, Cab Calloway, Elaine DeKooning, Palmer C. Hayden, and Darthea Speyer.

ArchivalResource: 2 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144652037 View

William Theo Brown papers

Title: William Theo Brown papers

Scrapbooks, photograph albums, sketchbooks, correspondence, manuscripts, and printed material reflect Brown's work as a painter, and his ties with contemporary musical and literary figures.

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Elaine and Willem de Kooning financial records

Title: Elaine and Willem de Kooning financial records

Joint federal income tax returns, 1951, 1953, and 1954, cancelled checks, cash receipts, bills, and bank statements.

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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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Workshop Gallery records

Title: Workshop Gallery records

The records of the Workshop Gallery measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1957 to 1959. The records document the history of the gallery through 17 letters; a guest book; price lists and other financial papers; exhibition catalogs and announcements; clippings and press releases; mailing lists; and 15 photographs of the work of Beate Hulbrook, Henry Pearson, Ann Truxell, Macdonald Stewart, Alice Baber, Elaine de Kooning, and Edith Schloss.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 Linear feet

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Nell Blaine papers

Title: Nell Blaine papers

Diaries, correspondence, and professional papers of the American artist, Nell Blaine.

ArchivalResource: 22 boxes (11 linear ft.)

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Leon Berkowitz and Ida Fox Berkowitz papers

Title: Leon Berkowitz and Ida Fox Berkowitz papers

The collection measures 3.02 linear feet and dates from circa 1900 to 1986. In addition to documenting the artistic development of Leon Berkkowitz and, to a lesser extent, Ida Fox, the collection provides insight into the cultural and artistic climate in Washington D.C. during the 1940s and 1950s.The collection includes correspondence, primarily between Leon and Ida Fox Berkowitz, notes, sketches, personal photographs, printed material, and a cassette tape. There are notes on Leon Berkowitz's philosophy of painting, reports from a 1940s U.S. Army art therapy project in which he participated, and scattered correspondence, financial records, and promotional materials from the Washington Workshop Center for the Arts and WCFM radio. Also found here are lecture notes and administrative materials relating to Leon's Berkowitz's teaching career, papers he wrote for several education courses, his master's thesis, sporadic business records concerning shipments and sales of paintings and gallery exhibitions, and drafts of catalogs.

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Stable Gallery records

Title: Stable Gallery records

The Stable Gallery records measure 2.9 linear feet and are dated 1916-1999 (bulk 1953-1970). The gallery was known for its representation of the New York School. Records consist mainly of artist files containing biographical notes, correspondence, price lists, sales and payment information, printed matter, and photographs. A small number of gallery administrative and financial records are included, along with printed matter, photographs, personal papers, and estate records of gallery founder and owner Eleanor Ward. There are also reminiscences by gallery owner Eleanor Ward and her assistant Alan Groh, a sound cassette recording of Eleanor Ward, and a videoreel (1/2 inch) documentary of a 1973 Sotheby auction of works from the Robert C. Scull collection.The Stable Gallery's administrative records includes both general correspondence and copious letters from Eleanor Ward to Alan Groh, her assitant regarding gallery business, lists, floor plans, financial records, printed matter, and photographs of unidentified artwork and exhibition installations. There are also reminiscences by gallery owner Eleanor Ward and Alan Groh, a cassette recording of Eleanor Ward, and a film recording of a 1973 Sotheby auction of works from the Robert C. Scull collection. Additional Stable Gallery administrative and financial information, as well as related printed matter is included with the artist files.Artist files contain biographical notes, correspondence, price lists, printed matter, and photographs of artists and artwork. The correspondence includes memoranda regarding payments to artists and sales information. Among the printed matter is documentation of the Stable Gallery and other exhibitions, reviews, and miscellaneous articles. Unfortunately, no records about the famous Stable Annuals held between 1953 and 1957 survive.Artwork consists of 4 sketchbooks and loose sheets with charcoal drawings by unidentified artist(s). The Eleanor Ward papers include miscellaneous personal papers and records concerning her estate. Photographs in the series are of Eleanor Ward, friends and family, parties, and the interior and exterior of Ward's Connecticut house.

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Clemens Kalischer papers

Title: Clemens Kalischer papers

276 photographs, ca. 1946-1966, taken by Kalisher of artists teaching at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, Black Mountain College, North Carolina, and the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire.

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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 Esteban Vicente

Title: Oral history interview with Esteban Vicente

Interview of Esteban Vicente conducted 1968 August 26, by Irving Sandler, for the Archives of American Art. Vicente speaks of the gallery activity of the 1940s and 1950s; The Club and the exhibition on 9th Street arranged by many of those artists; remembering Mark Rothko as a casual acquaintance and the society of artists living in the Hamptons; coming to the United States, acting as vice-consul in Philadelphia for the Loyalist camp during the Spanish Civil War; and his own work and his feelings about the work of his contemporaries. He recalls Bill de Kooning, Franz Kline, John Ferrin, Marca-Relli, Milton Resnick, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Walter Pach, Elaine de Kooning, Milton Avery, Jackson Pollock, Salvador Dali, and many others.

OralHistoryResource: Transcript 17 p.

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Alice Yamin papers

Title: Alice Yamin papers

The papers of painter, draftsperson, and art consultant Alice Yamin date from 1927-1998, and measure 2.0 linear feet. Found within the papers are letters from artists, writers, galleries, and CIGY-GEIGY Corporation for whom Yamin worked as an art consultant. The collection also contains exhibition files, printed material, and photographs of Yamin, family members, and colleagues.The most significant series consists of letter files, which also contain scattered printed material and photographs collected by Yamin, concerning specific individuals and organizations. Represented within the files are artists Herb Aach, Ilya Bolotowsky, Ernest Briggs, Lily Brody, Fritz Bultman, Elaine DeKooning, Sideo Fromboluti, Fritz Glarner, Adolph Gottlieb, John Grillo, Buffie Johnson, Alex Katz, William H. Littlefield, Alice Trumbull Mason, Elizabeth McFadden, Daphne Mumford, Barnett Newman, Philip Pavia, Mark Rothko, Elsa Schmid, and Jane Teller; curator Henry Ginsburg; writers Barbara Nimri Aziz, Georgine Oeri, Gertrud Oeri-Sarasin, and Leo Yamin; and galleries including the Ingber Gallery and the Landmark Gallery. There are also letter files concerning the CIGY-GEIGY Corporation; for Alice Yamin's brother, businessman Frank S. Bernard, and the town of Chilmark, Massachusetts, where the Yamins spent their summers. Even though Yamin's responses to the letters are not included in the collection, this series illustrates the wide range of her friendships and associates in the art business.Also found are exhibition files containing letters, prospectuses, business records such as loan agreements, clippings, and exhibition announcements and catalogs concerning the inclusion of Yamin's art work primarily in group exhibitions. Printed material consists of miscellaneous clippings, and exhibition announcements and catalogs that do not relate to the exhibition files, as well as miscellaneous booklets, brochures, and a copy of the book <emph render="italic">American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages</emph> published by the Corcoran Gallery of Art which contains a reproduction of Yamin's work. Photographs are of Yamin, family members, and colleagues including Bill and Maria Lipkind, and Aaron Siskind.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet

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De Kooning, Elaine. Elaine Marie Catherine de Kooning : 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: Elaine Marie Catherine de Kooning : 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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James Mitchell papers

Title: James Mitchell papers

Six letters to Mitchell from Elaine De Kooning, 1981-1988; Mitchell's resume and slides of his works of art.

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Blaine, Nell, 1922-1996. Nell Blaine diaries and correspondence, ca. 1947-2002.

Title: Nell Blaine diaries and correspondence, ca. 1947-2002.

Diaries and correspondence of the American artist, Nell Blaine. The diaries provide a detailed record of her works of art, their creation, exhibition, and sale, as well as of her health, reading, accounts, and contacts. The correspondence is chiefly letters to Blaine from her circle of artist and writer friends including John Ashbery, Leland Bell, Rudy Burckhardt, Elaine De Kooning, Robert De Niro Sr., Jane Freilicher, Kenneth Koch, Denise Levertov, Frank O'Hara, and Larry Rivers.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (2.5 linear feet)

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Oral history interview with Elaine de Kooning

Title: Oral history interview with Elaine de Kooning

An interview of Elaine de Kooning conducted 1981 August 27, by Phyllis Tuchman, for the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and His Times oral history project.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 1 cassette : analog.Transcript: 11 p.

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Herbert Aach papers

Title: Herbert Aach papers

The papers of New York painter, art instructor and writer Herbert Aach (1923-1985) measure 2.4 linear feet and date from 1942 to 1988. Papers include biographical materials, correspondence, scattered financial and legal records, notes and writings, subject files, a scrapbook, printed materials, photographs, and one videocassette.Legal records include materials relating to a lawsuit against Larry Rivers for a lease termination. Letters are from colleagues including Emily Genauer and Edwin W. Zoller regarding exhibitions and other art-related matters and brief letters from Elaine DeKooning, John Ferren, Adolph Gottlieb, and Rufino Tamayo. Subject files are found for many organizations of which Aach was a member, including the American Society for Testing and Materials, the Artists Technical Research Institute, and the Inter-Society Color Council. Printed materials include one scrapbook, clippings, and exhibition catalogs. There is documentation of Aach's work translating and editing <emph render="italic">Goethe's Color Theory</emph>, one 55 minute videocassette entitled <emph render="italic">Herbert Aach</emph> by Albright Knox Gallery, and photographs of Aach and his artwork.

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Oral history interview with Milton Resnick

Title: Oral history interview with Milton Resnick

An interview of Milton Resnick conducted 1988 July 13-Oct. 11, by Cynthia Nadelman, for the Archives of American Art. Resnick speaks of his life in Russia, New York, and Paris, his views on light and dark in painting; the development of his two paintings, NIGHT and DAY; his watercolors; his distrust of ideas; the influence of Soutine and Monet on him. He recalls Willem and Elaine de Kooning, the Club, Harold Rosenberg, Thomas B. Hess, Pat Passlof, Hans Hofmann, Lionel Abel, and others.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 3 sound cassettes.Transcript: 172 p.

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Earl Kerkam papers

Title: Earl Kerkam papers

Obituary, exhibition announcements, testimonials by fellow artists, bibliographical material, and articles and clippings about Kerkam.

ArchivalResource: 24 items (on partial microfilm reel)

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De Kooning, Elaine : Biographical file.

Title: De Kooning, Elaine : 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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47181413 View

DE KOONING, ELAINE. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122448338 View

Paul Jenkins papers

Title: Paul Jenkins papers

The papers of abstract expressionist painter and playwright Paul Jenkins measure 11.1 linear feet and date from circa 1915 to 2010. Jenkins's career in New York and Paris is documented through biographical material, family papers, correspondence, writings, personal business records, printed material, photographs of Jenkins in his studio and at various events, and original artwork by Jenkins and others.

ArchivalResource: 11.1 Linear feet

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Herbert Matter papers, ca. 1937-1984

Title: Herbert Matter papers ca. 1937-1984

Original artwork, photographs, letters, manuscripts, process materials, memorabilia, negatives, transparencies, film, printed material, and working equipment.

ArchivalResource: ca. 310 linear feet

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