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Pierre Matisse Gallery printed material

Title: Pierre Matisse Gallery printed material

The Pierre Matisse Gallery printed material measures 1.2 linear feet and dates from 1936 to 1988. The collection consists of exhibition catalogs from group and solo shows held at the gallery, an offer for a limited edition Joan Miro album, and several books on artists.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 Linear feet

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Frankforter, Katherine. Class notes from Black Mountain College, 1942-1945.

Title: Class notes from Black Mountain College, 1942-1945.

Seventy leaves contain class notes hand written by Katherine Frankforter while attending the second summer session at Black Mountain College in 1944. The notes quote directly from lectures given on aspects of art, architecture and psychology by the following instructors: Josef Albers, Victor d'Amico, Jean Charlot, Walter Gropius, Ernst Krenek, Barbara Morgan, J.B. (Jsrael Ber) Neumann, Amedee Ozenfant, Bernard Rudofsky, and Erwin Straus. Frankforter's illustrated notes convey Albers' lectures on color theory, perception, optics, color as psychological problem, and design. Other class notes cover the following topics: Charlot (on composition); d'Amico (on art education); Krenek (on tempo); Gropius (on the importance of community and on the acceptance of the machine as a vehicle of form); Morgan (on vision in photography); Neumann (the director of the New Art Circle gallery; on art appreciation); Ozenfant (on purism and minimal means), illustrated with a portrait sketch of Ozenfant in blue ink; Rudofsky (on clothing, its purpose and significance); and Straus (on perception).

ArchivalResource: 93 leaves : pencil, and some ink ; 28 x 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80021123 View

Kiesler, Frederick. Letters received by Frederick Kiesler, 1937-1961.

Title: Letters received by Frederick Kiesler, 1937-1961.

The collection is principally comprised of letters from surrealists in Paris in the years immediately following the Second World War, and includes extended reportage and commentary relating to Breton's circle and to their publications and exhibitions. Kiesler visited and exhibited in Paris in 1947 and 1948 and collaborated at this time with Breton on his "Ode a Charler Fourier."

ArchivalResource: 89 items.use copy. 1 microfilm reel : positive, b/w ; 35 mm.printing master. 1 microfilm reel : negative, b/w ; 35 mm.archival master. 1 microfilm reel : positive, b/w ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79154103 View

Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966. Papers related to Ozenfant's contribution to the Encyclopédie Française, 1934-1935.

Title: Papers related to Ozenfant's contribution to the Encyclopédie Française, 1934-1935.

The collection comprises two contracts signed by Ozenfant with the Comité de l'Encyclopédie française for two articles: one about "Les couleurs et leurs supports" for the 16th volume (1934 July 31, original & copy), and the other about "Les besoins collectifs de la peinture" for the 17th volume (1934 Sept. 24, original & copy). Also included are a copy of Pierre Abraham's letter acknowledging the agreement for the first contract (1934 June 20); copies of letters related to the information requested by Ozenfant from the Maison Lefranc (1934 Dec. 29 & 1935 Jan. 14); two letters signed by Ozenfant containing supplementary notes to his second article (1935 Mar. 5 & 8); and a thank you letter acknowledging receipt of his notes (1935 Mar. 9). In a postcard sent to Pierre Abraham, Ozenfant announces his departure for England (1935 Aug. 13).

ArchivalResource: 11 items (26 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82837499 View

Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966. Letters, 1940-1964, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1940-1964, to Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 8 items (9 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155874182 View

Jean Crotti papers

Title: Jean Crotti papers

The papers of French Dada painter Jean Crotti measure 1.7 linear feet and date from 1913 to 1973, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1913-1961. Among the papers are autobiographical essays, correspondence with friends and family, including many letters from Marcel Duchamp, notes and writings by and about Crotti, printed materials, one scrapbook, drawings by Crotti and others, photographs of Crotti and his family and friends, photographs of artwork, and three audio recordings of interviews with Crotti.

ArchivalResource: 1.7 linear ft.

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Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966. Letter to Prade, 1933 Nov. 27.

Title: Letter to Prade, 1933 Nov. 27.

Typed letter to Prade, addressed as "Cher Président et Ami," presumably a politician. Ozenfant thanks Prade for his courageous intervention "en faveur des artistes" at the "réunion collective" held that day. He asks him for a short private meeting at which he wants to make some suggestions that could help Prade's projects and might also offer a starting point for "le Statut des artistes vis-à-vis de la Ville et de l'Etat."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80589467 View

Houghton Cranford Smith papers

Title: Houghton Cranford Smith papers

The papers of painter Houghton Cranford Smith measure 2.2 linear feet and date from 1890-1991. They consist of eight scrapbooks compiled by his widow containing correspondence with family and friends, biographical materials, sketches, school work, extensive clippings, exhibition catalogs, travel documents and numerous photographs of family and friends.Biographical materials include photographs of Smith, of his artwork and of friends and family in Provincetown and New Mexico, school documents from the Foebel Academy, the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the Art Students' League, autographed menus, correspondence, including postcards and letters to family and friends sent from Bermuda and Jamaica, customs declarations, exhibition catalogs, newspaper clippings, a passport to Chile, newsletters, and Smith's teaching contract from the University of Kansas. Additionally, there are significant photographs and letters documenting Smith's art studies with E. Ambrose Webster at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts.The collection also includes Smith's correspondence from France and South America. A significant portion of the collection includes papers from his time in France from 1913-1914, where he studied at the Parisian art school Academie Julian. These include a log from a tandem bicycle trip with classmate Harold P. Browne, an invitation to the Bal Randolphe, a Browne Art Class brochure and a narrative entitled "A Party of Fugitives from France," which describes Smith's forced fleeing from France after the French mobilization in 1914. There are also papers describing his South American travels which include notes and correspondence about Argentina, Uruguay and his time in Chile, which spans five years.Materials documenting Smith's return to France and studies at the Academie Ozenfant from 1926 to 1933 include Smith's passport, ship passenger lists and other travel documents, correspondence with family, French identification letters, exhibition catalogs, newspaper clippings and his Academie Ozenfant list of classes and student card. Of particular note are correspondence from and a picture of Sir Walter Kitchener, governor of Bermuda, and letters from wife Elena Peralta to her parents-in-law. Topics covered in the correspondence of this scrapbook include sons Houghton Jr. and Gerrit and the birth of daughter Florence, financial difficulties, art teachers Amadee Ozenfant and Andree L'hote and the family's travels to Bermuda, New Mexico and New York City.Materials from later in Smith's life include correspondence from Smith to second wife Laura Gilbert Williams, exhibition catalogs and registers, photographs of artwork, newspaper clippings of reviews received for Smith's exhibited paintings and congratulatory letters from family and friends on Smith's successful exhibits and feature article in The American Artist. Additionally, there is significant correspondence with the Passedoit Gallery, Homer Saint-Gaudens of the Carnegie Institute regarding the exhibition and purchase of Smith's artwork and Smith's gifted painting to the Butler Institute of American Art. Additionally, there are several biographical newspaper articles and a biographical sketch written by his wife Laura after his death.Of note is the artist's original handwritten notes and final published version of his reminiscence "The Provincetown I Remember," notes about painting with various colors and color charts, related assignments from Smith's Color Theory Class, a signed copy of the book Color by E. Ambrose Webster, Smith's former art teacher, pencil sketches, a class notebook about lettering and an address book.

ArchivalResource:

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Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966. Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1963.

Title: Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1963.

Includes typescript of a 1918 quote from Ozenfant (3 leaves) regarding cubism.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (5 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212831059 View

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965. Manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and photographs, 1911-1970 (bulk 1920-1955).

Title: Manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and photographs, 1911-1970 (bulk 1920-1955).

Collection contains manuscripts for lectures, including radio talks, published and unpublished writings, including a film project. Sketches relate to writings on modern architecture, urbanism, and Algers. Correspondence comprises letters received from Jacques Duboin (1 letter, 1950), Bauchant (1 letter, 1924) and Amédée Ozenfant (7 letters, 1918, 1921-1922). Seven letters and 2 postcards were sent by Le Corbusier to others (ca. 1925-1926). Fourteen black-and-white photographs document his architectural designs. Manuscripts and sketches comprise, in whole or part, ca. 27 works, some of which are published titles: Aircraft, Poésie sur Alger, Précisions sur un état présent de l'architecture de de l'urbanisme, Manière de penser l'urbanisme, and La ville radieuse. Some pages of manuscripts and letters sent are written on the letterhead of Jenneret architects, or L'Esprit Nouveau.

ArchivalResource: ca. 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81728521 View

Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1949.

Title: Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1949.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155902586 View

Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966. Letter : New York, to Lewis Mumford, Amenia, 1940 Dec. 13.

Title: Letter : New York, to Lewis Mumford, Amenia, 1940 Dec. 13.

Praising one of Mumford's books and reflecting on the notion of progress in light of the world situation.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78794910 View

Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

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

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/199290411 View

OZENFANT, AMEDEE. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122344938 View

Valançay, Robert. Robert Valançay correspondence, 1920-1985 (bulk 1930-1949).

Title: Robert Valançay correspondence, 1920-1985 (bulk 1930-1949).

A collection of ca. 1600 letters received by Surrealist writer and translator Robert Valançay. Among the notable correspondents are Surrealist and Dada artists and poets: Jean Arp, Hans Bellmer, Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck, Georges Hugnet, Pierre de Massot, Ozenfant, Meret Oppenheim, Henri Parisot, Yves Poupard-Lieussou, Man Ray, Hans Richter, Yves Tanguy, and Jacques Villon. The letters' subjects range over themes such as: routine details of publication, artistic life in occupied Paris, the internal rivalries within the Surrealist movement, and the history of Surrealism. Letters from the poets Charles Théophile Féret, Charles Boulen, Fernand Fleuret and Napoléon Roinard are concerned with the promotion of Norman literature. More than 60 letters from Valançay's teacher Maurice Boucher provide information about Valançay's development as a translator. 12 letters from Valançay to various correspondents are part of the archive. Also included are: printed ephemera, ca. 50 photographs by members of the Surrealist group and various writings by Valançay. The writings document his work as a translator, including examples, and his work on Apollinaire.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (5 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82264991 View

Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966. Artist file.

Title: Artist file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/301710892 View

Westerdahl, Eduardo. Correspondence and papers relating to Gaceta de Arte, ca. 1932-1936.

Title: Correspondence and papers relating to Gaceta de Arte, ca. 1932-1936.

Collection consists of correspondence between Westerdahl and Wassily Kandinsky, Anatole Jakovski, Will Grohmann, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Naum Gabo, and others concerning the preparation of issues of the magazine and essays and articles by and about them.

ArchivalResource: ca. 150 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79258316 View

Ozenfant, Amédeé, 1886-1966. Amédée Ozenfant : 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: Amédée Ozenfant : 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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/662602573 View

Oral history interview with V. V. Rankine

Title: Oral history interview with V. V. Rankine

An interview of V. V. Rankine conducted 1990 Mar. 2-22, by Liza Kirwin, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording 3 sound cassettes.

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Joaquín Torres-García papers, circa 1904-1994

Title: Joaquín Torres-García papers circa 1904-1994

Uruguayan constructivist painter. Papers comprise published and unpublished manuscripts (including those by and about Torres-Garcia), sketches, charts, pamphlets, reviews of exhibitions, gallery notices, and art journals and catalogs. The collection also includes photocopies of Torres-Garcia’s letters, manuscripts, and reviews. The development and impact of Torres-Garcia’s art and ideas is traced through publications by groups affiliated with Torres-Garcia, including the Asociacíon de Arte Constructivo and El Taller Torres-García.

ArchivalResource: circa 5 linear feet; (9 boxes)

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Robert Valançay correspondence, 1921-1978

Title: Robert Valançay correspondence 1921-1978

Collection comprises ca. 1600 letters (ca. 1921-ca. 1978) sent to Robert Valançay, the French poet and critic, from artists and writers of the surrealist group. Twelve letters are from Valançay. The collection includes a translation in manuscript by Valançay, 5 manuscripts by others, printed ephemera, and ca. 50 photographs, most presumably taken by Valançay.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet; (5 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa950057 View

Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949. Joaquín Torres-García papers, ca. 1904-1994.

Title: Joaquín Torres-García papers, ca. 1904-1994.

Collection documents Torres-García's artistic career through unpublished manuscripts and sketches; publications by Torres-García and the groups Asociación de Arte Constructivo and El Taller Torres-García, including manifestoes and pamphlets; invitations and announcements for exhibitions of Torres-García and El Taller; exhibition review clippings; books by and about Torres-García; art periodicals and catalogs; and photocopies of letters, manuscripts, and reviews.

ArchivalResource: ca. 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81329089 View

Jean Crotti papers

Title: Jean Crotti papers

The papers of French Dada painter Jean Crotti measure 1.7 linear feet and date from 1913 to 1973, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1913-1961. Among the papers are autobiographical essays, correspondence with friends and family, including many letters from Marcel Duchamp, notes and writings by and about Crotti, printed materials, one scrapbook, drawings by Crotti and others, photographs of Crotti and his family and friends, photographs of artwork, and three audio recordings of interviews with Crotti.

ArchivalResource: 1.7 linear ft.

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9790c3ee5-acf6-44ec-b03f-8b3a8da017fb View

Lucien and Marcelle Labaudt papers

Title: Lucien and Marcelle Labaudt papers

Correspondence, photographs, exhibition materials, scrapbooks, journals, printed matter, essays, gallery records and other business records, and miscellaneous papers.

ArchivalResource:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9a9f5e236-5785-4470-ba27-6403b1b8667d View

Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966. Le Fauconnier (draft essay), 1948 Nov. 29.

Title: Le Fauconnier (draft essay), 1948 Nov. 29.

Introduction to an exhibition catalogue of Le Fauconnier's first show in America, at J. B. Neumann in New York. With a copy of the printed catalogue.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80052088 View

Houghton Cranford Smith papers

Title: Houghton Cranford Smith papers

The papers of painter Houghton Cranford Smith measure 2.2 linear feet and date from 1890-1991. They consist of eight scrapbooks compiled by his widow containing correspondence with family and friends, biographical materials, sketches, school work, extensive clippings, exhibition catalogs, travel documents and numerous photographs of family and friends.Biographical materials include photographs of Smith, of his artwork and of friends and family in Provincetown and New Mexico, school documents from the Foebel Academy, the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the Art Students' League, autographed menus, correspondence, including postcards and letters to family and friends sent from Bermuda and Jamaica, customs declarations, exhibition catalogs, newspaper clippings, a passport to Chile, newsletters, and Smith's teaching contract from the University of Kansas. Additionally, there are significant photographs and letters documenting Smith's art studies with E. Ambrose Webster at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts.The collection also includes Smith's correspondence from France and South America. A significant portion of the collection includes papers from his time in France from 1913-1914, where he studied at the Parisian art school Academie Julian. These include a log from a tandem bicycle trip with classmate Harold P. Browne, an invitation to the Bal Randolphe, a Browne Art Class brochure and a narrative entitled "A Party of Fugitives from France," which describes Smith's forced fleeing from France after the French mobilization in 1914. There are also papers describing his South American travels which include notes and correspondence about Argentina, Uruguay and his time in Chile, which spans five years.Materials documenting Smith's return to France and studies at the Academie Ozenfant from 1926 to 1933 include Smith's passport, ship passenger lists and other travel documents, correspondence with family, French identification letters, exhibition catalogs, newspaper clippings and his Academie Ozenfant list of classes and student card. Of particular note are correspondence from and a picture of Sir Walter Kitchener, governor of Bermuda, and letters from wife Elena Peralta to her parents-in-law. Topics covered in the correspondence of this scrapbook include sons Houghton Jr. and Gerrit and the birth of daughter Florence, financial difficulties, art teachers Amadee Ozenfant and Andree L'hote and the family's travels to Bermuda, New Mexico and New York City.Materials from later in Smith's life include correspondence from Smith to second wife Laura Gilbert Williams, exhibition catalogs and registers, photographs of artwork, newspaper clippings of reviews received for Smith's exhibited paintings and congratulatory letters from family and friends on Smith's successful exhibits and feature article in The American Artist. Additionally, there is significant correspondence with the Passedoit Gallery, Homer Saint-Gaudens of the Carnegie Institute regarding the exhibition and purchase of Smith's artwork and Smith's gifted painting to the Butler Institute of American Art. Additionally, there are several biographical newspaper articles and a biographical sketch written by his wife Laura after his death.Of note is the artist's original handwritten notes and final published version of his reminiscence "The Provincetown I Remember," notes about painting with various colors and color charts, related assignments from Smith's Color Theory Class, a signed copy of the book Color by E. Ambrose Webster, Smith's former art teacher, pencil sketches, a class notebook about lettering and an address book.

ArchivalResource:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c91ed2e8-4c21-403e-970c-80ba6269d66f View

Oral history interview with Ilya Bolotowsky

Title: Oral history interview with Ilya Bolotowsky

Interview of Ilya Bolotowsky conducted 1968 March 24-April 7, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 2 sound tape reels (6 hr.) ; 7 in.Transcript: 197 p.

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