Papers of Alfonso Ossorio and Edward Dragon Young, 1902-2000

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...

Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

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Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...

Rorem, Ned, 1923-

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Composer and author. From the description of Oral history conducted by Vivian Perlis, March 31, 1997. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155905487 Commissioned by Nikolai Sokoloff and the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla, California. Composed 1956. First performance La Jolla, California, 5 August 1956, Nikolai Sokoloff conductor. Dedicated to Nikolai Sokoloff and the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla, California.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. Fr...

Archives of American Art

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From its founding to 1954 the Archives was headquartered at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1960 the Archives moved its headquarters to New York but a branch office remained in Detroit. In 1963 an office was opened in Rome to collect the records of American artists' work in Italy. In 1970 the Archives became a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution and moved to Washington, D.C. Directors have included Edgar Preston Richardson, 1954-1964; William E. Woolfenden, 1964-1983; Richard N. Murray, 1983...

Alloway, Lawrence, 1926-1990

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Lawrence Alloway, born in England in 1926 and largely self-educated, became a major 20th century critic of American art, known for his pluralism and inclusiveness. As a young man he was associated with the Independent Group in England, a circle of artists, critics and writers that included Reyner Banham, and that questioned conventional distinctions between high and low art. As a director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London from 1954 to 1959, he introduced American Abstrac...

Webster & Sheffield

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Tete Maculee

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Bankers Trust Company

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John Brill

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Lloyd, Michael

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Fredericks, Claude

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The Banyan Press was a small press founded in 1946 by Claude Fredericks and Milton Saul. In 1948 they moved their operation, a single 10"x14" Golding press, to Pawlet, Vermont. Most design work was done by Fredericks (3 or 4 items were designed by Saul and 1 by Harry Prickett); after the first few books, Saul did most of the typesetting and Fredericks handled the paperwork. All type was set by hand except for one item, the introduction to The Poetry Center presents (1947), which was printed by l...

Museum of Modern Art

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United States Trust Company of New York

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Trust company, New York City. From the description of Account book, 1854-1862. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58773073 ...

Friedman, B. H.

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Purdum, Rebecca

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Bridget Hubrechtnegatives

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Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985

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French artist. From the description of Letters, 1955-1956, to Rene Drouin. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122444228 French painter, litographer, sculptor, architect and author. From the description of Correspondence and papers, 1944-1984. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78575673 French painter. From the description of Letters to "Editions Alecto." (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122583669 From the description of Letter...

DiMolli, Alfred

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Concord Partners

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B. H. Friedman

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Victorias Milling Company

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Rogers, Miriam

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Peter Paul Reubens.

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E. Karp

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Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center

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Fogg Art Museum.

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The Index of American Design was a project of the research division of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration which produced approximately 20,000 reproductions (photographs and original drawings) and classifications of a wide variety of American art, paintings, sculptures, handicrafts, and folk art. From the description of Records relating to Index of American Design Exhibition, 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122404372 Founded in 1891, through the...

Pruden, Dunstan

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William Doyle Galleries

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Greene, Alexander, active 1663

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Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980

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Ferrier, Jean-Louis

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Stratton, Arthur, 1872-1955

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Ross, Clifford, 1952-....

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Budd, David

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Tower Gallery

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Dubuffet Foundation

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Ossorio, Robert

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Ossorio, Alfonso

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Abrams, Harry

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Carey, Graham

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Bankers Trust Company (New York, N.Y.)

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Reinhold, John

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Howard, Hubert

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Birpsledt, Gregory

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Bridget Hubrecht

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Wilder, Clint.

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Tillich, Hannah

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Oscarsson Hood Gallery

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Scheinberg, De Petris & Pruzansky

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Zogbaum, Wilfrid, 1915-1965

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Sculptor; New York. From the description of Wilfrid Zogbaum papers, 1924-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122647941 Sculptor, New York, N.Y. From the description of Wilfrid Zogbaum interview, 1964 Nov. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220198948 Wilfrid Zogbaum, b. 1915; d. 1965, Sculptor of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Wilfrid Zogbaum, 1964 Nov. 2 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 317...

Karl Fortess

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Evans, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 37505 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001094.0x000160 Epithet: Archdeacon of Merioneth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001188.0x0003b7 The creator of this manuscript is believed to be John Evans, the Unitarian Minister at Carmarthen from 1816 to 1818. The document was compiled whilst he was recovering from a...

Aberbach, Julian

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Frieda Lawrence

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Norman Mailer

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Kelsey, John

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Hubrecht, Bridget

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Jose Ossorio

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Zobel, Fernando

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Edward Dragon Young, 1921-2011

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Alfonso Angel Ossorio Y Yangco was born in 1916 on the Island of Luzon in Manila, Philippines, the fourth of six boys. His mother, Maria Paz Yangco (Pacita), was of Filipino-Spanish-Chinese descent and his father, Miguel José Ossorio, founded a large sugar refinery in the Philippines, Victorias Milling Company, in 1919 that is still in production today. Ossorio spent much of his childhood in England with his mother and two younger brothers, Frederic (Eric), and Robert (B...

Portsmouth Priory

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Victoria Oscarsson

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Alfonso Ossorio

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White, Peter, 1947-....

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Epithet: of Long Island British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x000066 Epithet: MD, of Lewes, county Sussex British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x000065 Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x000064 Epithet: Chur...

Trees Incorporated

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Executive House

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Kramrisch, Stella, 1898-1993

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As a teacher, lecturer, curator and prolific writer, Stella Kramrisch (1898-1993) devoted nearly 70 years to the study and appreciation of Indian art. In remembering Kramrisch, Thomas Lawton, the former deputy director of the Freer Gallery of Art, observed that “all students of Indian culture must acknowledge an intellectual indebtedness” to Kramrisch’s numerous and highly original scholarly contributions. Stella Kramirsch was born May 29, 1898 in the Moravian town of Ni...

Aberbach, Joachim Jean

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Ossorio, Frederic

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Parson, Jeffrey

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Maria Paz Yangco

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Alice Jones

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Constable, Rosalind

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Jackson Pollock

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Howarth, A. Alfred

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Bridgehampton National Bank

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Wanger, Beatrice

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Bethune, Ade, 1914-2002

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Ade Bethune was born in Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 12, 1914. In 1928 her family immigrated to the United States. Bethune met Dorothy Day in 1934 and became involved with the Catholic Worker movement. She produced a great deal of original art for the Catholic Worker, including designs for thank-you and Christmas cards for Catholic Worker readers. The demand for these led Bethune to set up an independent mail-order business, which led to the formation of the St. Leo Shop as an outlet for distributing...

Irving, Flora

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Victorias Milling Company

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Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956

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Jackson Pollock was born in 1912, in Cody, Wyoming, the youngest of five sons. His family moved several times during his childhood, finally settling in Los Angeles. In 1930 he joined his older brother, Charles, in New York City, and studied with Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York. Pollock worked during the 1930s for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. During 1936 he worked in artist David Alfaro Siqueiros's Experimental Workshop. In...

Lewis, Grace Hegger

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Signa Gallery

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Commercial art gallery, founded 1957. Exhibited the work of contemporary East Hampton, N.Y. artists. From the description of Signa Gallery records, 1957-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502642 ...

Soriano, Jose

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Haydn Stubbing

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Lawrence, Frieda von Richthofen, 1879-1956

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Frieda Emma Johanna Maria von Richthofen was born on August 11, 1879 in Metz, France. In 1912, Frieda met David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence, and they married in 1914. Frieda Lawrence was intimately involved with D.H. Lawrence's work. Facets of her personality are often discernable as components of characters in his poems and novels. After D.H. Lawrence's death in 1930, Frieda settled in New Mexico. Frieda died in Taos on August 11, 1956. From the guide to the Frieda Lawrence Photograph C...

Pepler, Clare

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Dickie, Robert B.

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Tiliich, Paul

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Hagreen, Philip

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Elizabetgh Glosgow

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Marchant, Cecily

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Eric Torres

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Stadler Gallery

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Barnett Barney Newman

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Thomas Gibson Fine Art London

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Guggenheim-Museum

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Freeman, Betty

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Biography Betty Freeman was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1921 and was raised in Brooklyn, New York. She was graduated from Wellesley in 1942, where she had studied music. She later took classes at the Juilliard Institute. Freeman began her activities as a philanthropist and supporter of musicians in 1961 by contributing to a young musician's legal defense. Since then, she has assisted more than 30 contemporary composers. Beginnin...

De Cuevas, Elizabeth

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Carmichael, Deborah

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Grolier Club

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The Grolier Club was founded in Jan. 23, 1884 by a group of seven New York City book collectors with the object, as stated in its constitution, "of literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." From its early days the Club has maintained a library related to collecting, bibliography and books about books. A library endowment fund (sometimes referred to as the "Library Fund) for the Grolier Club was first proposed in 1921, and the first fund-raising campaign amo...

Casanova, Grace Hegger

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Parsons, Betty, 1900-1982

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Betty Parsons (b. January 31, 1900, New York, NY–d. July 23, 1982, New York, NY) was one of the leading art dealers in New York City specializing in modern art, particularly the work of the Abstract Expressionists. She opened Betty Parsons Gallery in 1946 at 11 E. 57th St., later moving to 24 W. 57th St. The history of the Betty Parsons Gallery is inextricably bound to the life and experiences of its founder. Betty Parsons was born Betty Bierne Pierson on Janua...

Tilton

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Miguel Ossorio

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C. Fulford

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Iriving, Mike

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Arthur W. Newman

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Hans Namuth

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Picher, Stanton

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Robert U. Ossorio

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Howell, D. M. Douglas Morse

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Parrish Art Museum

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Owen, Jane, 1958-

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Thomas, Lewis

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Mike Solomon

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Bessemer Trust

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Robert Ossorio

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Ossorio, Alfonso, 1916-1990

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Painter, sculptor; New York, N.Y. Died 1990. From the description of Alfonso Ossorio papers, 1949-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122647958 Alfonso Ossorio (1916-1990) was an American artist who was born in the Philippines, attended boarding schools in England, and came to the United States to study at the Portsmouth Priory School, Rhode Island, and then at Harvard University. Ossorio is best known as for his illustrations and abstract sculpture. From the de...

Allen, Blaise

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Miguel José Ossorio

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Eric Frederic Ossorio

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Gregory Markopoulos

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Erskine, Branson

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Bultman, Jeanne

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Barneby, Rupert

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Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854

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Schuh, Art

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Blake, Peter.

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Peter Blake was a noted architect and author of architectural publications. He was associated with "Architectural Forum," a leading and influential journal, from 1942 to 1972, as a contributing author, associate editor, managing editor, and as its editor in chief, a position he held from 1964 to 1972. From 1955 to 1957 he was the architecture editor of "House and Home." He also was chief publisher of "Architecture Plus" from 1972-1975. He was the author of more than 15 books includi...

Taras, John

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Blasdel, Gregg N.

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Abad, Pacita, 1946-2004

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Pacita Abad (born October 5, 1946 – died December 7, 2004, Singapore) was born in Basco, Batanes, a small island in the northernmost part of the Philippines, between Luzon and Taiwan. Her more than 30-year painting career began when she traveled to the United States to undertake graduate studies in Spain. She exhibited her work in over 200 museums, galleries and other venues, including 75 solo shows, around the world. Abad's work is now in public, corporate and private art collections in over 70...

Jean Dubuffet

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Růžička, Rudolph 1883-1978

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Ruzicka was a Czech-American graphic artist and engraver. From the description of Designs for Harvard University, 1951-1973. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612374439 Graphic artist and type-designer, Ruzicka (1883-1978) was born in Bohemia, emigrated to Chicago, where he trained as a wood engraver and designer; continued his studies in New York. During the 1930s he collaborated with Philip Hofer on a number of projects, including a series of engravings for Harvard...

Paul Vanetre

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Pinto, Morris

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Walters, Edward

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Krausner, Elana

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Tapie, Michel

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Zogbaum, Marta

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Hugh Arnold

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