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Smith, Charles (Charles William), b. 1893. Papers of Charles William Smith 1910-1979.

Title: Papers of Charles William Smith 1910-1979.

The collection contains Smith's personal and business correspondence with artists, admirers, critics, museums & galleries, and University of Virginia officials. Many are complimentary letters and thanks for Smith's books. The collection also contains official army papers, certificates for various honors, clippings, articles, photographs of Smith and his paintings and a copy of "Charles Smith and others," 1976. In addition the collection contains the woodblocks he used to print "The University of Virginia"; 32 woodcuts, 5 linoleum block prints of Williamsburg, Va. and a woodblock print of the Virginia Quarterly Review Office. Correspondents include Elmer Adler, J. Malcolm Bridges, Leslie Cheek, Francis Welch Crowninshield, Virginius Dabney, Colgate W. Darden, John D. Forbes, Charles Dana Gibson, Jean Hélion, Philip Hofer, Dard Hunter, Frank Loucks Hereford, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Wassily Kandinsky, Reginald Marsh, Lewis Mumford, William B. O'Neal, Maxfield Parrish, Herbert Read, Hilla, Baroness Rebay Von Ehrenwiesen, Rudolph Ruzicka, Fred O. Seibel, Theodore Sizer, Marion Willard and Carl Zyrosser.

ArchivalResource: 318 items.

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Florence Knoll Bassett papers

Title: Florence Knoll Bassett papers

The papers of architect, and interior designer and planner Florence Knoll Bassett, measure approximately 2 linear feet dating from 1932 to 2000. The collection selectively documents Knoll Bassett's education and her career at Knoll Associates, Inc. from the 1940s until her resignation in 1965, in addition to personal design projects and other activities after leaving the company. It is an important source of information on the development of interior architecture and design from the 1940s to the 1970s, chronicling the Knoll mission to synthesize space, furniture, and design by creating interiors based on practical use, comfort, and aesthetics.The collection documents the growth of Knoll's international reputation for its modern furnishings and interiors and the impact of a business philosophy that encompassed design excellence, technological innovation, and mass production. The material includes a chronology of Knoll Bassett's career; a portfolio of sketches, drawings and designs; photographs of Knoll Bassett and others; subject files containing sketches and photographic material; letters from friends, colleagues, clients and others; awards received by Knoll Bassett throughout her career; and printed material.Much of the material is annotated with historical and biographical notes written by Knoll Bassett which provide invaluable contextual information for the materials found therein. The notes are dated 1999 in the Container Listing, under the assumption that they were written by Florence Knoll Bassett as she was arranging her archival papers.

ArchivalResource:

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Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006

Title: Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006

These papers of Fogg Art Museum directors John Coolidge and AgnesMongan document their administration of the museum and related professional activities. Mostof Coolidge's papers were created during his administration, from 1948 to 1968; most ofMongan's papers are from her tenure as acting director and then director (1968 to 1971). Thepapers consist primarily of correspondence, including Coolidge's correspondence with artdealers, and also include photographs, memoranda, reports, meeting minutes, blueprints, printedmaterial, letters of recommendation, page proofs, financial documents, sketches and grantproposals.

ArchivalResource: 152 file boxes + oversize materials

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Cheek, Leslie, 1908-. Letters, 1940-1983, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1940-1983, to Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 6 items (11 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155867153 View

Baltimore Museum of Art. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1938-1969.

Title: Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1938-1969.

Carl Zigrosser was in regular contact with the Baltimore Museum of Art throughout his career in art, most particularly with Adelyn Breeskin who served as print curator and Director there. Breeskin and Zigrosser write about print and printmakers, as well as exhibition juries. There is correspondence from James Breckinridge concerning an article on Käthe Kollwitz by Zigrosser for the Museum's bulletin, along with a copy of the text for that article. Other employees of the Baltimore Museum who have correspondence in this file are Leslie Cheek and Victor Carlson. Copies of Zigrosser's letters to "Harold" concerning John Marin are also in this file.

ArchivalResource: 25 items (33 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155900072 View

Coolidge, John, 1913-1995. Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006.

Title: Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006.

These papers of Fogg Art Museum directors John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan document their administration of the museum and related professional activities. Most of Coolidge's papers were created during his administration, from 1948 to 1968; most of Mongan's papers are from her tenure as acting director and then director (1968 to 1971). The papers consist primarily of correspondence, including Coolidge's correspondence with art dealers, and also include photographs, memoranda, reports, meeting minutes, blueprints, printed material, letters of recommendation, page proofs, financial documents, sketches and grant proposals.

ArchivalResource: 152 file boxes + oversize materials

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/434571462 View

Cheek, Leslie, 1908-. Leslie Cheek, Jr. papers, 1940-1994.

Title: Leslie Cheek, Jr. papers, 1940-1994.

The papers include correspondence, drawings and blueprints relating to the proposed 1942 exhibition "For Us the Living." The papers document the planning process of the exhibition, also identified in its early stages to those involved as "Project X". The concept for the exhibition was developed by Leslie Cheek, Jr., Lewis Mumford, Edward Stone, Beardsley Ruml, Archibald MacLeish and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the material contains letters from Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Nelson A. Rockefeller among others. Also included are papers relating to Cheek's attempt in 1983 to have an article about the exhibition published in "American Heritage" magazine.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/670391031 View

Baltimore Museum of Art. Letters, 1940, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1940, to Lewis Mumford.

Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Leslie Cheek, Director, and Melville C. Branch, Director in Charge of the Exhibit--THE CITY, Baltimore Museum of Art.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (6 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155868342 View

Kilpatrick, James Jackson, 1920-2010. James J. Kilpatrick papers [manuscript], 1925-1966 (bulk 1950-1966).

Title: James J. Kilpatrick papers [manuscript], 1925-1966 (bulk 1950-1966).

The collection consists of the correspondence and writings of James J. Kilpatrick, including correspondence with his readers, fellow journalists, and prominent public figures; editorials; speeches; and the manuscripts for "The sovereign states," "The lasting south," "The smut peddlars," and "The Southern case for school segretation." The dominant theme is Federal infringement on State's rights including the issues of segregation, interposition, and flouridation. Other topics include payola, Richmond Virginians baseball team, the National Conference of Editorial Writers and a debate with Martin Luther King, Jr., on the nation's future. Major correspondents include Edwin M. Almond, Jim Bishop, Allen C. Brownfeld, William F. Buckley, Jr., Harry F. Byrd, Harry F. Byrd, Jr., the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, Colgate W. Darden, Roscoe Ellard, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Donald M. Ewing, Dick Fojut, Howard C. Gilmer, Joseph Addison Hagan, Anthony Harrigan, Burr P. Harrison, Human Events, Verne P. Kaub, David Lawrence, Shelby Little, William Loeb, Dr. Robert Needles, J. R. Orgain, Jr., Robert Whaley Orrell, Robert B. Patterson, Drew Pearson, Carleton Putnam, Lawrence R. Quarles, Henry Regnery, Donald R. Richberg, A. Willis Robertson, George W. Rogers, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Paul Saunier, Jr., the Spadea Syndicate, Thomas B. Stanley, Ulrich and Dorothy Troubetzkoy, William M. Tuck, United Feature Syndicate, Virginia Press Association, J. Barrye Wall, Robert Whitehead, John J. Wicker, John Cook Wyllie, Writers of one or two brief letters include Watkins M. Abbit, J. Lindsay Almond, T. Coleman Andrews, Fitzgerald Bemiss, Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., Julien Binford, Loyd C. Bird, McLemore Birdsong, James Baylor Blackford, John B. Boatwright, Jr., Armistead L. Boothe, Sarah-Patton Boyle, James H. Brewer, Owen Brewster, Joel Broyhill, Matthew Bruccoli, D. Tennant Bryan, Thomas Pinckney Bryan, J. L. Blair Buck, Warren E. Burger, Robert Y. Button, Mortimer Caplin, Margaret Haley Carpenter, Howard H. Carwile, Bruce Catton, Anthony J. Celebrezze, Bennett Cerf, Allan Knight Chalmers, Lenoir Chambers, Leslie Cheek, Walter N. Chinn, Randolph W. Church, Joseph S. Clark, Josephine G. Clark, J. Calvitt Clarke, Monroe Cockrell, Weldon Cooper, Norman Cousins, Kenneth R. Crispell, Virginius Dabney, John E. Dahlquist, Ted Dalton, Dominick V. Daniels, Donald Davidson, E. F. S. Davies, James C. Davis, Lambert Davis, Ralph de Toledano, Collins Denny, Jr., Gottfried Dietze, Hardy C. Dillard, Thomas J. Dodd, E. Griffith Dodson, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, John Dos Passos, Clifford Dowdey, Thomas N. Downing, Leon Dure, James O. Eastland, James E. Edmonds, Pocahontas Wight Edmunds, Mamie Eisenhower, Sam Ervin, Also Orval Faubus, Marshall Fishwick, Guy Friddell, Murray Friedman, Foster Furcolo, Francis Pendleton Gaines, John Gange, George Garrett, J. Vaughan Gary, James J. Geary, Henry Gemmill, Carter Glass, III, Mills Godwin, Harry Golden, Eric F. Goldman, Barry Goldwater, Albert Gore, J. Segar Gravatt, Garland Gray, John A. Griffin, Robert P. Griffin, S. Marvin Griffin, Erwin N. Griswold, Ernest Gruening, Raymond R. Guest, Harry F. Guggenheim, Edward J. Gurney, T. Marshall Hahn Jr., Leigh Hanes, Porter Hardy, Jr., Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., Deryl Hart, Booton Herndon, William S. Hildreth, Luther H. Hodges, Reynold D. Hogle, A. Linwood Holton, Jr., J. Edgar Hoover, A. E. Dick Howard, Dowell J. Howard, Edward W. Hudgins, Carl Humelsine, Hubert Humphrey, Thomas H. Hunter, Sterling Hutcheson, William Inge, CaryF. Jacob, William E. Jenner, John M. Jennings, J. Winston Johns, Forney Johnston, B. Everett Jones, Sidney S. Kellam, R. Wayne Kernodle, Russell Kirk, Warren P. Knowles, Arthur Krock, Alfred M. Landon, William E. Larsen, J. Bracken Lee, Albert Lévitt, Russell Long, Also Dumas Malone, Harrison Mann, Jr., John O. Marsh, Thurgood Marshall, Walter Rumsey Marvin, Linton Massey, John L. McClellan, Edward O. McCue III, James Douglas McKay, Harry Meacham, M. J. Menefee, Frank Pitts Moncure. A.S. Mike Monroney, E. Blackburn Moore, Sidney Grant Morse, Wayne Morse, Robert Moses, William P. Murphy, Hyde Murray, Edmund S. Muskie, Maurine B. Neuberger, Robert N. C. Nix, Elizabeth Copeland Norfleet, G. Warren Nutter, William B. O'Neal, E. J. Oglesby, William Old, Elizabeth H. Osth, John Crump Parker, T. Nelson Parker, Davis Young Paschall, Kenneth C. Patty, William H. Peden, Fred Pollard, J. Sergeant Reynolds, John Q. Rhodes, F.D.G. Ribble, Homer Richey, Wilfred Ritz, Ruby Altizer Roberts, George Romney, John J. Rooney, Archibald B. Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Parke Rouse, Vermont Royster, William A. Rusher, Dean Rusk, Lao and Walter Russell, Richard B. Russell, Allan H. Ryskind, Richard S. Salant, Terry Sanford, Reed Sarratt, David E. Satterfield, Jr., Davie E. Satterfield, III, Charles M. Schulz, Philip L. Scruggs, Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., D. French Slaughter, Also Howard K. Smith, Howard Worth Smith, Louis Spilman, Lawrence E. Spivak, John Stennis, A.E.S. Stephens, Adlai Stevenson, Lindley J. Stiles, Kathryn H. Stone, Lewis L. Strauss, Warren H. Strother, Earl G. Swem, William F. Swindler, Carl Swisher, G. Fred Switzer, Herman E. Talmadge, Lorin A. Thompson, Strom Thurmond, George Bell Timmerman, Jr., Henry St., George Tucker, Jr., D. Gardiner Tyler, Stewart Udall, George C. Wallace, Lurleen Wallace, William C. Wampler, Robert Welch, Jr., E. B. White, Roy Wilkens, Robert M. Wilkin, J. Harvie Wilkinson, John J. Williams, Earl Wilson, Edward H. Winter, Jennngs, C. Wise, Art Wood, William H. Wranek The collection also contains book reviews by University of Virginia Librarian John Cook Wyllie

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/747040790 View

Oral history interview with Leslie Cheek interview

Title: Oral history interview with Leslie Cheek interview

A summary by Richard Doud of an interview he conducted of Leslie Cheek for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: 5 p.

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CHEEK, LESLIE. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83235331 View

Leslie Cheek papers

Title: Leslie Cheek papers

Papers, ca. 1938-1988, including files kept during Cheek's tenure as director at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1939-1942, as editor at "Architectural Forum" magazine, 1945-1947, "House Beautiful" magazine, 1947-1942, and as head of the U.S. Army Camouflage Training Unit, 1942-1945. Also included are files related to projects he undertook from 1968 to 1988, following his tenure as Director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

ArchivalResource:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw97dff16b5-49d0-4075-8efb-aeb0726a3b27 View

Cheek, Leslie, 1908-. Papers, 1930-1957, 1940-1955.

Title: Papers, 1930-1957, 1940-1955.

Papers, chiefly 1940-1955, relating to the purchase and operation of Faraway Farm, Lake Lure, N. C., the rural retreat of Leslie Cheek, Jr. and his wife Mary Tyler (Freeman) Cheek. Includes Cheek's architectural drawings and photographs as well as documentation concerning a painting of Faraway Farm by William Bailey. There are papers concerning an egg project run by the Cheeks as part of the war effort during the Second World War. The collection also includes architectural drawings for the plan of the Virginia Room at the New York World's Fair, 1939 and theater set designs as well as correspondence between Leslie Cheek, Jr. and Malcolm E. Campbell of the University of North Carolina about the possibility of Cheek becoming Dean of the new School of Architecture and Landscape Design.

ArchivalResource: 2,930 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42218000 View

Knoll, Florence, 1917-. Florence Knoll Bassett papers, 1932-2000.

Title: Florence Knoll Bassett papers, 1932-2000.

The papers of architect, and interior designer and planner Florence Knoll Bassett, measure approximately 2.5 linear feet dating from 1932 to 2000. The collection selectively documents Knoll Bassett's education and her career at Knoll Associates, Inc. from the 1940s until her resignation in 1965, in addition to personal design projects and other activities after leaving the company. It is an important source of information on the development of interior architecture and design from the 1940s to the 1970s, chronicling the Knoll mission to synthesize space, furniture, and design by creating interiors based on practical use, comfort, and aesthetics. The collection documents the growth of Knoll's international reputation for its modern furnishings and interiors and the impact of a business philosophy that encompassed design excellence, technological innovation, and mass production. The material includes a chronology of Knoll Bassett's career; a portfolio of sketches, drawings and designs; photographs of Knoll Bassett and others; subject files containing sketches and photographic material; letters from friends, colleagues, clients and others; awards received by Knoll Bassett throughout her career; and printed material. Much of the material is annotated with historical and biographical notes written by Knoll Bassett which provide invaluable contextual information for the materials found therein. The notes are dated 1999 in the Container Listing, under the assumption that they were written by Florence Knoll Bassett as she was arranging her archival papers.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84558284 View

Heatwole, John L., 1948-2006. Personal papers, 1973- ; (bulk (1973-1987).

Title: Personal papers, 1973- ; (bulk (1973-1987).

This collection contains the personal papers of John L. Heatwole, primarily relevant to his work as an artist. Correspondence includes incoming letters from Leslie Cheek, former director of the Va. Museum of Fine Arts, and other clients; the Dow Agency; and Neiman-Marcus. Also included in the collection are show and lecture pamphlets, sales receipts, exhibition and consignment lists, and articles/other writings by Heatwole (incl. historical documentation on "Tobacco and 'The Planter, '" one of his sculptures). Magazine articles and news clippings about Heatwole as well as photographs, mostly of various woodcarving sculptures, are also included. A series of photographs showing the progression of work on an eagle sculpture, along with posters, sketches, and diary references all give us an interesting glimpse into the thinking/creative process of this artist.

ArchivalResource: 1 Hollinger box and 1 oversize box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20153674 View

Oral history interview with Leslie Cheek

Title: Oral history interview with Leslie Cheek

An interview of Leslie Cheek conducted 1982 June 8, by Buck Pennington, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 2 sound cassettes.Transcript: 38 p.

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw95263b39d-d203-4f92-aeae-3899d85e9862 View

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Letters, 1936-1948, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1936-1948, to Lewis Mumford.

Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from various members of the staff and administration of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

ArchivalResource: 16 items (22 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155873250 View