Guide to the Records of the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, 1957-2020

Arai, Tomie, 1949-

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Artist and community activist Tomie Arai was born in New York City in 1949. A third generation Japanese American, her parents are from Hawaii and California and her grandparents were farmers who settled in the country in the early 1900s. Her experiences growing up Asian American in New York City deeply color her work as an artist, as many of her works deal with the urban experience and attempt to make connections to her family and community through art. At the time she began to pursue a caree...

Littman, Robert R

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New York University. Art Collection

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The Grey Art Gallery is New York University's fine arts museum whose function is to collect, preserve, study, document, interpret, and exhibit the evidence of human culture. the Grey distinguishes itself by emphasizing art's historical, cultural, and social contexts, with experimentation and interpretation as integral parts of programmatic planning. Thus, in addition to being a place to view the objects of material culture, the Gallery serves as a museum-laboratory in which a broade...

Reynolds, Gary A.

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Art historian; New York, N.Y. and Newark, N.J. Born 1949. Died 1990. Curator of painting and sculpture at the Newark Museum, N.J., 1983-1990; the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, 1977-1983, and curatorial assistant at the Brooklyn Museum, 1972-1977. Specialized in 19th and 20th century American painting. Wrote numerous articles on art. From the description of Gary A. Reynolds papers, 1973-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122995 ...

Mathis, Kenneth L.

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Bowman, Ruth, 1923-

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Art historian, educator; Los Angeles, Calif. and New York, N.Y.; b. 1923. From the description of Ruth Bowman papers, [ca. 1960- 2002]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79370057 Art historian; curator; New York, N.Y. Bowman received her M.A. at NYU, and later was guest curator at the Grey Art Gallery. From the description of WNYC Views on Art radio program interviews, 1967-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79005489 ...

Sokolowski, Thomas W.

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Grey, Abby Weed 1902-1983

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Abby Weed Grey was born on October 23, 1902 to Henry and Emily Weed in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was educated at Vassar College, and in 1929 she married Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Edwards Grey, twenty years her senior. For the next 27 years she lived as an army wife, traveling on long, cross-country trips and entertaining. During that time, her husband invested in Western Railroad stocks and bonds. In 1956 Lieut. Col. Grey died of cancer in St. Paul. In 1960 Mrs. Grey to...

Gordon, Joy L.

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Grey Art Gallery & Study Center

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The Grey Art Gallery is New York University's fine arts museum whose function is to collect, preserve, study, document, interpret, and exhibit the evidence of human culture. the Grey distinguishes itself by emphasizing art's historical, cultural, and social contexts, with experimentation and interpretation as integral parts of programmatic planning. Thus, in addition to being a place to view the objects of material culture, the Gallery serves as a museum-laboratory in which a broade...