Elizabeth Fuller Chapman papers and films 1932-1976

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968

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Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (French:28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of...

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

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Gertrude Stein (b. February 3, 1874, Allegheny, PA-d. July 27, 1946, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. She moved to Paris and acquired a love for modern painting. Stein began building a personal collection of major artists, many of whom became her friends and formed the core of her regular salons. In 1907, as Stein was struggling to establish herself as a writer, she met Alice Babette Toklas, a fellow American who had come to P...

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971

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Russian born composer and conductor. From the description of Audio materials [sound recording]. 1931-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40723194 Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer. From the description of Sketchbook, [1917?]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465769 Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress, set to the libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, was inspired by William Hogarth's series of paintings. Stravinsky had wan...

Massine, Léonide, 1896-1979

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Leonide Feodorovitch Miassin (Massine) was born in Moscow in 1896. His mother, Eugenia, was a soprano in the Bolshoi Theatre chorus, and his father, Feodor, played French horn in the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra. Massine's parents had a daughter, Raissa, and three other sons. Although all of his brothers were engineers, Massine entered the Imperial Theatre School at age 8, studying both drama and ballet. Massine intended a career as an actor, and, in fact, was later noted for his drama...

Nabokov, Nicolas, 1903-1978

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Beginning in 1934, Lincoln Kirstein put efforts towards producing a ballet entitled Tom, inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's cabin. Kirstein first commisioned a libretto from poet E.E. Cummings and music from Virgil Thompson. These initial efforts, however, were rejected by choreographer George Balanchine. The following year, Kirstein comissioned set and costume designs from Ben Shahn and a new score from Nicolas Nabokov, working with both artists, as well as Balan...

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954

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Matisse was born in 1869 to generations of weavers in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, a northern French town whose woolen mills constituted the main industry. He was raised in nearby Bohain, famous for its luxury fabrics. This early exposure to textiles would shape his visual language: examples from his own collection of carpets and cloths from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East would deeply inform his sense of color and pattern and appear in his compositions. Taking up painting after first studyin...

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973

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Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon...

Austin, Arthur Everett, 1900-1957

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Arthur Everett Austin, Jr.; also known as Chick Austin; director of the Wadsworth Atheneum (1927-1944); first director of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; he was instrumental in bringing the Asolo Theater, first constructed in 1798 in Asolo, Italy by Antonio Locatelli, to the museum. From the description of Chick Austin papers, 1955-1957. (Library of Congress / Nucmc). WorldCat record id: 639021595 ...

Faÿ, Bernard 1893-1978

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Faÿ (1893-1978) was a French historian of Franc-American relations who wrote extensively against the Masons. He was part of the Vichy government in France during the German occupation. In particular, he is remembered for the assistance he provided in protecting Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Jewish-Americans who remained in France during World War II. From the description of [Autograph fragment] / B. Faÿ. [20th century] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 191100930 ...

Toklas, Alice B., 1877-1967

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Toklas was a writer and companion to Gertrude Stein. From the guide to the Alice B. Toklas letters to William Alfred, 1951-1961., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Biographical Note Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) was an author and the life partner of Gertrude Stein. Don Frank is the son of one of Toklas' childhood friends. After his service in the armed forces, he met Toklas in Europe. ...

Marcoussis, Louis, 1878-1941

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Dalí, Gala.

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Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989

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Salvador Dalí (b. May 11, 1904, Figueres, Spain–d. January 23, 1989, Figueres Spain) was a prominent Spanish surrealist artist. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range ...

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975

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Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), novelist and playwright. From the description of Thornton Wilder collection, 1918-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82555916 From the description of Thornton Wilder collection, 1918-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702165470 Thornton Wilder was an American playwright, novelist, and essayist. From the description of Thornton Wilder collection of papers, 1926-1975 bulk (1926-1967). (New York Public Library). WorldCat rec...

Vuillard, Édouard, 1868-1940

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French artist. From the description of Letters sent, ca. 1894-1937. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81865748 French painter. From the description of Autograph postal card signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, [no year] Nov. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872421 ...

Garden, Mary

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Scottish singer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Paris and Aberdeen, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1947 Sept. 16 and 1951 July 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863977 American soprano of Scottish birth. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p.], 1958 or 1959, to Miss Burkman, 1958 or 1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270967492 From the description of Typewritten document signed, dated : Paris, 8 June 1907, 19...

Bérard, Christian, 1902-1949

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Painter, costume designer, interior decorator and fashion illustrator active in Paris in the 1930's and 1940's. His drawings, loose and unfinished in style, appeared in Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. Known for his fine color sense, he influenced Dior and Schiaparelli, among others. From the description of Christian Bérard sketches, 1936-1946. (Fashion Institute of Tech Library). WorldCat record id: 122516071 French artist, designer and fashion illustrator involved in theatrical...

Chapman, Elizabeth Fuller

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Elizabeth Fuller Chapman, was an American socialite and patron of the arts. Born Elizabeth Fuller in 1893 in Evanston, Illinois to Dr. Charles Gordon and Isabella Fuller, she had one sister, Dorothy. From a young age she was known as "Bobsy." Elizabeth was educated in Paris at the Villa Dupont, a boarding school for American girls. She received an education in art and literature and remained in Paris until she was 20 years old. She continued her studies at the Art Institute of Chica...

Poulenc, Francis

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Composer. From the description of Francis Poulenc autograph letter to [Jay S. Harrison], [1953] July 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 476902904 French composer. From the description of Discours du Général / (Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel) / Francis Poulenc / (1921). Avril 1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270568728 From the description of Autograph note signed on his visiting card, dated : [Paris, n.d.], to an unidentified recipient, [n.d.]. (Unkn...

Braque, Georges, 1882-1963

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French painter. From the description of Letter, 1905 July 13, Honfleur. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80147574 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Varengeville, to John Rewald, 1951 Oct. 4 and [1956 Sept. 19]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870407 From the description of Letter, 1925. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78558538 ...

Brâncuşi, Constantin, 1876-1957

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Derain, André, 1880-1954

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French painter. From the description of Manuscript essay, ca. 1900. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82375373 From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Chambourg, to John Rewald, 1952 Aug. 4-1953 Oct. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870656 ...