George Lynes Platt photographs, 1935-1953.

Graham, Martha, 1894-1991

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Martha Graham, a pioneer in the establishment of American modern dance, was one of the principal choreographers of the twentieth century. Her work, which spanned more than seven decades, resulted in the development of a movement technique and a body of 180 choreographic works. Known also for her innovative collaborations, Graham worked with sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who created over thirty-five designs for Graham works; lighting designer Jean Rosenthal; costume designer Halston; and many composers...

Cocteau, Jean

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French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Antonin Artaud -- French poet, essayist, actor and director -- was the leading playwright of the 'Theatre of Cruelty.' From the description of Le moine de M.G. Lewis raconté par Antonin Artaud [manuscript], ca. 1931 / Jean Cocteau. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 318989605 French poet, novelist, playwright, and artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed :...

Morgan Library

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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983

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Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. His father, Cornelius, a salesman who was largely absent had a bad relationship with Tennessee, the second of his three children. Consequently, Tennessee was raised predominantly by his mother, Edwina, and maternal grandparents. His often strained and disturbed family life became the fodder for many of his plays. After moving to New Orleans in his late 20s, and adopting the name Tenn...

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...

Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994

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Burton Stephen Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American actor and producer. Initially known for playing tough guys with a tender heart, he went on to achieve success with more complex and challenging roles over a 45-year career in film and, later, television. He was a four-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actor (winning once), and he also won two BAFTA Awards and one Golden Globe Award for Best Lead Actor. The American Film Institute ranks Lancaster as #19 of th...

Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980

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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was one of the most brilliant practitioners of the art of the short story. Her literary reputation rests on the stories in her Collected Stories (1964) rather than on her best-selling novel Ship of Fools (1962). Born Callie Russell Porter on May 15, 1890, she was the fourth of Harrison and Mary Alice Porter's five children. When her mother died in March 1892, her father moved the four surviving children from his farm in the central Texas community ...

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a poet, critic, editor, and playwright, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B. A. in 1909 and an M. A. in 1910 from Harvard, where he also pursued a doctoral degree in philosophy. In 1915, he married Vivienne (Vivien) Haigh-Wood. He completed his dissertation in 1916 while living in England and submitted it to Harvard, but was unable to defend it. He was literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. In the Spring 1917, he publishe...

Tchelitchew, Pavel, 1898-1957

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Russian-born painter, set designer, and costume designer, Pavel Tchelitchew emigrated in 1920. He lived in Berlin (1921-23) and Paris (1923-34) before moving to New York, where he lived with his partner Charles Henri Ford. He became a United States citizen in 1952 and died in Grottaferrata, Italy in 1957. Tchelitchew's early painting was abstract in style, described as Constructivist and Futurist and influenced by his study with Aleksandra Ekster in Kiev. After emigrating to Paris ...

Steinberg, Saul, 1914-1999

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Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American artist and illustrator, known for his visual commentary on American life created for The New Yorker magazine during the 1940s through 1990s, as well as for his drawings, paintings, collages, and sculpture. Steinberg was born on June 15, 1914 in Râmnicu Sărat, Romania, to Moritz Steinberg and Rosa Steinberg (née Jacobson). Steinberg had one older sister, Lica Roman (née Steinberg), born a year earlier. During Steinberg’s childhood, the family lived on S...

Perlin, Bernie.

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Perelman, S. J.

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Monroe Wheeler

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Kirstein, Fidelina

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Pomeroy, Ralph, 1926-....

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Ralph Pomeroy (1926-1999), American poet. Monroe Wheeler, 1899-1988, publisher and director of exhibitionsat the Museum of Modern Art. From the description of Monroe Wheeler collection of Ralph Pomeroy, 1951-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81345305 Ralph Pomeroy (1926-1999), American poet. Monroe Wheeler, 1899-1988, publisher and director of exhibitionsat the Museum of Modern Art. From the description of Monr...

Maisze, Mai.

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GISH, LILLIAN

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Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004

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Tichenor, George

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George Tichenor III was born in New Orleans, La., on December 17, 1906, to George Humphreys Tichenor, Jr., a doctor and Gertrude Belknap. He was educated at Tulane University in New Orleans. He served as a cub reporter on the Picayune and later became a free lance writer and photographer. He was the author of two popular novels, Gibson and Manhattan Prodigal . As a free lance writer he contributed travel articles to the New York Times and many other publications. Two of ...

Bailey, Bill

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Longshoremen activist. From the description of Bill Bailey oral history transcripts and related papers, [ca. 1970-1978]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 233004149 ...

Bresson, Henri Cartier.

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Grosz, George, 1893-1959

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George Grosz was a German-born artist. His early works seethed with satire for social conditions in Germany but, after emigrating to the United States, his works were equally accomplished but less political. He worked successfully as an oil painter, printmaker, and illustrator. From the description of George Grosz letter to W.H. Auden, 1944 Nov. 12. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 53458459 Grosz was a German-born artist, who moved to the U.S. i...

Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966

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English novelist and travel writer. From the description of Evelyn Waugh Collection, 1843-1994 (bulk 1910-1966). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122492298 Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh (1903-1966) ranks as one of the outstanding satiric novelists of the 20th century. Hilariously savage wit and complete command of the English language were hallmarks of his style. He was born in London on Oct. 28, 1903, the son...

Sitwell, Osbert

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Nude, Female

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Valdez, Tito

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Harris, William

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Epithet: Prebendary of Llandaff British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x0002de Epithet: of Sibford Ferris British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x0002dc Epithet: of Add Ch 6209 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x0002d9 Epithet: DD 176...

Day, Daphne Vane.

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Baranova, Irina Mikhaĭlovna

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Magellanes, Nicholas

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Harrison, Barbara, 1940-

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Starkowski, Ted

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O'Connell, Dick.

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Adriaen

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Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955

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George Platt Lynes is best known as a portrait, fashion, and nude photographer. He spent several years living with and traveling with Glenway Wescott and Monroe Wheeler. From the guide to the George Platt Lynes diaries and memorabilia, 1921-1955, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) George Platt Lynes, American photographer. From the description of George Platt Lynes diaries and memorabilia, 1921-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84388835 From ...

Tichenor, Jonathan

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Sharaff, Irene

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Bampton, Rose

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Rose Bampton, an American operatic soprano born 1908, was married to Canadian conductor Wilfrid Pelletier; both had professional connections with conductor Arturo Toscanini. From the guide to the Collection of items associated with Arturo Toscanini, ca. 1882-1967, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) American mezzo-soprano, later soprano. From the description of Autograph letter signed Rose B. Pelletier, dated : [New York], to Francis Mason, 1975 Nov. 1...

Vreeland, Diana

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John Edward Heys was born in New Jersey on April 24, 1944. He moved to New York in 1967. Heys is an actor/performer who performed with numerous performance groups including the Angels of Light, the Cockettes, and Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company. Heys knew and worked with numerous artists including Charles Ludlam, Ethyl Eichelberger, Jackie Curtis, Cookie Mueller, Bill Vehr, Tomata du Plenty, and Gary Indiana Heys began his career as an usher then stage man...

Miller, Bill, 1955-

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Carlucci, Tony

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Williams, Mona

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Durst, Andre.

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Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x000080 Aldous Huxley was a British novelist, short-story writer, playwright, screenwriter, literary and social critic, and poet. From the description of Aldous Huxley collection of papers, 1915-1973 bulk (1915-1963). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517267 From the guide to the Aldous Huxley collection of papers, 19...

Windham, Donald

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Donald Windham, author, born in Atlanta, Georgia, resided mainly in New York (N.Y.). Sandy Campbell, actor, publisher, and former editor of "The New Yorker. From the description of Donald Windham and Sandy Campbell papers, [ca. 1940-1987]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476245 American writer. From the description of Photographs of Windham, 1988. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51091394 Born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1920, Donald Windham le...

Kinsey, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956

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George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981, 1903-1982, (American Philosophical Society) Alfred C. Kinsey, most famous for his work on human sexual behavior, was a world authority on gallflies, also known as Cynipidae or gall wasps. Kinsey began his entomological studies in 1917, eventually traveling to 54 locations in 36 states, and accumula...

Jonathan Tichenor

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Connelly, John.

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Moore, Marianne

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From the guide to the Marianne Moore papers, 1929-1973, 1973, (Literature and Rare Books) ...

Lifar, Serge.

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Platt, Joseph B., 1915-2012

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Wescott, Barbara Harrison

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Hartley, Marsden

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Montgomery, George R.

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur C714 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x00039a Epithet: of Magbie Hill Title: 2nd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x000163 ...

Tamara Geva

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Brynner, Yul

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Yeon, John

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John Yeon (1910-1994) worked for the firm of A.E. Doyle & Associates and is credited, along with Pietro Belluschi, with the development of the Northwest Regional Style of architecture. He designed the Wentz Studio in Neahkahnie, Oregon. His other notable buildings include the Watzek House in Southwest Portland (1937), Shaw House, and Swan House. Yeon was a dedicated conservationist who donated land to the state parks system. His work was honored in an exhibit by the Portland Art Museum in 19...

Roy, Pierre

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Granger, Farley

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Cerulli, Donald.

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Dick, Douglas, 1920-

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Pelus, Marie Jeanne.

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Lynes, Russell, 1910-1991

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Writer, critic; New York, N.Y. Died 1991. From the description of Russell Lynes interview, 1973 June 20 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123379778 Russell Lynes (1910-1991) was writer and critic from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Russell Lynes, 1973 June 20 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495596674 Writer, art critic, art historian; New York City and North Egremont, Mass...

Zadkine, Ossip

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Russian sculptor. From the description of Letters and manuscripts of Ossip Zadkine, 1940-1959. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 122642567 ...

Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985

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Russian-French painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed (1) and greeting cards signed (2) : Marseilles and St. Paul, to John Rewald, 1941 Jan. 3, 1967 July 18 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870508 Marc Chagall was a Russian-born painter working chiefly in France whose works frequently featured themes from Russian-Jewish folklore and from the Bible. From the description of Marc Chagall letter to D. Vaughan, 1967 February 21. (Pennsyl...

Miró, Joan, 1893-1983

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Spanish painter. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Mallorca, to John Rewald, 1971 Dec. 26 and 1972 Oct. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871537 French painter. From the description of Aidez l'Espagne (poster), 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83814624 ...

Bocquillion.

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Aba, Mata.

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Jimmy Daniels.

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Tooker, George

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Painter, printmaker; New York, N.Y. From the description of George Tooker interview, 1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79640736 George Tooker (1920-2011) was a painter and printmaker in Hartland, Vt. From the description of George Tooker papers, 1932-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86093827 ...

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970

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Russell was an English logician and philosopher. Marsh edited Russell's Logic and knowledge: essays 1901-1950 and wrote about Russell. From the guide to the Letters to Robert C. (Robert Charles) Marsh, 1950-1959., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Russell, British philosopher and mathematician and the 3rd Earl Russell. From the description of [Letter, 19]44 Dec. 8, Trinity College, Cambridge [to] Dear Sir / Bertrand Russell. (Smith C...

Beatod.

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Lynes, Akin.

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Perlin, Bernard, 1918-2014

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Bernard Perlin, painter. From the description of Bernard Perlin letters to Glenway Wescott, 1940-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702164957 ...

Huppler, Dudley.

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Alix Jeffry

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Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987

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Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) was the author of novels, poetry, short stories, and essays. He met Katherine Anne Porter in Paris in the 1930s, and they remained friends for many years. From the description of Glenway Wescott collection, 1932-1977 (bulk 1932-1962). (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 304239078 Glenway Wescott was an American author and personality. He was born in Wisconsin, and became part of the Paris literary circle of the 1920s before ret...

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996

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American ballet director, writer, and dance historian, 1907-1995. Lincoln Kirstein was born in Rochester, NY, educated at Harvard (B.A. 1929, M.A. 1930). He married Fidelma Cadmus, sister of artist, Paul Cadmus, in 1941 and served in the U.S. Army 1943-45. He co-founded School of American Ballet with George Balanchine and Edward M.M. Warburg in 1934. Participated in the founding and/or direction of American Ballet in 1935, Ballet Caravan 1936-41, Ballet Society in 1946, and became general direct...

Chitwood, Teddy

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Unidentified Man.

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Khill, Marcel.

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Ferreira, Chico.

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Adrien, ...

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Cerolli, Tony

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Porter, Paul

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Harrison Paul Porter was born July 29, 1921, in Houston, Texas, the second of the four children of Constance Eve Ingalls Porter and Harry Ray Porter. His father, also known as Harrison Paul Porter, was Katherine Anne Porter's brother. Mr. Porter's siblings were Dorothy Rae, Constance Elita, and Charles Boone. He graduated from John H. Reagan High School in Houston in 1939, served in the army in Europe in World War II, then attended the University of California, Los Angel...

Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-

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Tanguy, Yves

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Ossorio, Alfonso

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Wescott, Lloyd

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Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964

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English poet, biographer, critic, and anthologist. Edited and contributed to the annual anthology Wheels. From the description of Edith Sitwell correspondence, 1942-1944. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 28185434 English poet, critic, and novelist. From the description of Letter to an unknown recipient, ca. 1949. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647817483 From the description of Photoprint and letter, n.d. and 1981 Oct...

William Dollar.

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Wescott, Barbara.

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Shot, Fashion

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Jourdan, Louis, 1810-1881

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Louis Jourdan was an historian. From the description of Autographed commentary, ca. 1855-1856. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155887675 ...

Easton, Harvey.

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Model (Arthur Lee's model with shadow of Robert Bishop)

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Wall, Studio

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Calhoun, Rory, 1922-1999

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Toumanova,Tamara 1919-1996

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Bacon, Thomas

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Epithet: Rector of Kingsworthy, county Hampshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000566.0x000344 ...

Goyen, William

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Harris, Bill

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Lynes, George Platt

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Cadmus, Paul, 1904-1999

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Paul Cadmus was an "American artist who created paintings, drawings, and prints in a figurative, near-illustrational style during a career that spanned some 70 years. Cadmus decided upon a career in art when he was still a young boy and enrolled in art classes at New York City's National Academy of Design (now the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts) when he was 15. He studied there until 1926 and at the Art Students League for the following two years and then went to work at an adve...

Lynes, George Platt

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Vogue Studios

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Santoro, Joe.

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Auden, W. H.

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Inge, William

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William Motter Inge (1913-1973) was born in Independence, Kansas. He studied speech and drama at the University of Kansas and graduated in 1935. He received his Master's degree from George Peabody College at Nashville, Tennessee in 1938. He worked as a teacher, laborer, and theater critic. He is best-known as a playwright and novelist. In his lifetime he earned both a Pulitzer Prize for Picnic and an Academy Award for the screenplay to the motion picture Splendor in the Grass. His later works di...

Nude, Male

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George Balanchine.

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Mann, Thomas

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Ynocencio, A. J..

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McClendon, Carlos.

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Eglevsky, Andre.

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Douglas, Laurie.

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Fonssagrives, Lisa

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Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was an American composer. During the years 1964 and 1965 Copland wrote, conducted, narrated, and hosted a series of twelve television programs entitled Music in the 20s = Music in the Twenties. The transcripts described in this collection were transcribed from filmed interviews recorded live at the WGBH studios in Boston, Mass. between 1964 Nov. 11 and 1965 Jan. 26. These unedited, preliminary tape recordings later formed the basis of the series...

Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...

Balanchine, George

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Ballet dancer and ballet and theater choreographer; the major ballet figure in the twentieth century. From the description of Correspondence and contracts, 1949-1966. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122533853 George Balanchine (1904-1983) was a Russian-American dancer and choreographer. In 1921 he graduated from the Theatre School in Petrograd. He left Russia in 1924, and the same year he was engaged by Serge Diaghilev as a choreographer for his company Ballet...

Wheeler, Monroe, 1899-1988

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Monroe Wheeler was born on February 13, 1899 in Evanston, Illinois. Following an early career as a publicity writer, he established Harrison of Paris, a fine press, which was in operation from 1930-1935. He began work with the Museum of Modern Art in 1938, soon becoming director of exhibitions and publications. Wheeler died on August 14, 1988. From the description of Monroe Wheeler papers, 1890-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85181624 From the description of Monroe Whee...

Prokosch, Frederick.

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Ryan, Mrs. Alan, Jr..

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Beans, Reginald.

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Ford, Ruth Van Sickle, 1897-1989

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Ruth Van Sickle Ford was a painter and the first woman admitted to the Palette and Chisel Club in Chicago. She was president and owner of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts from 1936 to 1960, her best known students were Walt Disney and William Mauldin. From the description of Ruth Van Sickle Ford papers, 1924-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122893 ...

Dewey, Jean.

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Paley, Nathalie (Princess).

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Hart, Richard E., 1949-....

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Epithet: Captain; naval officer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000218.0x0000e5 Epithet: of Add MS 41803 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000218.0x0000e8 ...

Richter, Ray.

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French, Jared, 1905-1988

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Jared French, a painter who specialized in the medium of egg tempera, was part of a circle of friends and colleagues, including Paul Cadmus and George Tooker, sometimes referred to as magic realists. French received a B.A. degree from Amherst College in 1925 before moving to New York City, where he befriended Cadmus. He married artist Margaret Hoening in 1937 and, with Cadmus, they formed the PaJaMa photographic collective. French relocated to Italy in 1961, where he remained until his death in ...

Pavel Tchelitchev

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Maugham, Somerset

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Kay Thompson

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American Ballet

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Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980

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Cecil Beaton, theatrical designer, won the 1960 Tony Award for costume design for his work on SARATOGA. He was also nominated for best scenic designer for the same production. From the guide to the Costume designs for Saratoga, 1959, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.) B. in London, 1904;d. January 18, 1980. From the description of Cecil Beaton : Artist File. (International Center of Photography). WorldCat record id: 539084703 Eng...

Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967

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Author; interviewee married Alan Campbell. From the description of Reminiscences of Dorothy Rothschild Parker : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86158240 Dorothy Parker was born in West End, New Jersey, in an upper-middle-class family of mixed heritage. Estranged from her parents due to her dislike of her strict, devout stepmother, she read voraciously and wrote verse. Seeking a career in literature, she worked for Vogue,...

Danilova, Alexandra

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Crawford, Joan

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Shipley School

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Flanner, Janet, 1892-1978

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Papers of Janet Flanner (1892-1978) and Natalia Danesi Murray (1901-1994); journalists, writers, and editors. From the description of Papers of Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray, 1940-1984 (bulk 1944-1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132644 Janet Flanner (1892-1978), who used the pseudonym Genêt, and her companion, Solita Solano (1888-1975), were American journalists, writers, and literary editors, who settled in Paris, France, in 1922. From the desc...

Porter, Katherine Anne; Lynes, George Platt

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J. Russell Lynes

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Bernard Perlin

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Magallanes, Nicky.

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Moorehaus, Marion.

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Moylan, Mary Ellen

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A. Jenson Yow

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Griffith, Harold.

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Wisner, John.

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McCarthy, Buddy.

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Lynes, Elizabeth.

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Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987

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Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) was the author of novels, poetry, short stories, and essays. He met Katherine Anne Porter in Paris in the 1930s, and they remained friends for many years. From the description of Glenway Wescott collection, 1932-1977 (bulk 1932-1962). (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 304239078 Glenway Wescott was an American author and personality. He was born in Wisconsin, and became part of the Paris literary circle of the 1920s before ret...

Lynes, J. R., Jr..

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Newberry, John S. (John Stoughton), 1826-1887

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Student at the University of Michigan. From the description of John Stoughton Newberry letter, September 1846. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422939 Detroit industrialist and Congressman. From the description of Correspondence and papers of John Stoughton Newberry, 1779-1906. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 51448754 The son of Elihu and Rhoda Phelps Newberry, John S. Newberry was born at Waterville, New York on November 18,...

de Menecol, Richard.

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McWilliam, Ralph

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Whitney, Betsey.

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Harrison, Francis Burton, 1873-1957

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Francis Burton Harrison was born in New York City 18 December 1873. He was the son of Burton Harrison and Constance (Cary) Harrison and the brother of Fairfax Harrison. He graduated from Yale University in 1895 and from the New York Law School. He served in the Spanish-American War and in Congress from 1907-1913. Harrison was governor-general of the Philippines 1913-1921. He lived in Scotland from 1921-1934. He served as advisor to the governors of the Philippines. Harrison died in Flemington, N...

Douglas, Kirk, 1972-

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