Herbert Aach papers

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Herbert Aach papers

1942-1988

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The papers of New York painter, art instructor and writer Herbert Aach (1923-1985) measure 2.4 linear feet and date from 1942 to 1988. Papers include biographical materials, correspondence, scattered financial and legal records, notes and writings, subject files, a scrapbook, printed materials, photographs, and one videocassette.Legal records include materials relating to a lawsuit against Larry Rivers for a lease termination. Letters are from colleagues including Emily Genauer and Edwin W. Zoller regarding exhibitions and other art-related matters and brief letters from Elaine DeKooning, John Ferren, Adolph Gottlieb, and Rufino Tamayo. Subject files are found for many organizations of which Aach was a member, including the American Society for Testing and Materials, the Artists Technical Research Institute, and the Inter-Society Color Council. Printed materials include one scrapbook, clippings, and exhibition catalogs. There is documentation of Aach's work translating and editing <emph render="italic">Goethe's Color Theory</emph>, one 55 minute videocassette entitled <emph render="italic">Herbert Aach</emph> by Albright Knox Gallery, and photographs of Aach and his artwork.

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Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1933

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Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974

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Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) was a painter from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Adolph Gottlieb, 1967 Oct. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646398642 Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Adolph Gottlieb papers, 1929-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122545836 From the description of Adolph Gottlieb interview, 1967 Oct. 25 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82919384 ...

Aach, Herbert, 1923-1985

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Painter, art instructor and writer Herbert Aach (1923-1985) worked primarily in New York City. Born in Cologne, Germany, Aach came to the United States in 1939. He taught at the Brooklyn Museum School (1947-1951), Pratt Institute (1966-1969), and at Queens College (1966-1985). In 1971 he was editor and translator of Goethe's Color Theory . Aach was president of the Artists Technical Research Institute, which was founded in 1959 by Bena Frank and Ralph Mayer to conduct scientific and...

American society for testing and materials

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Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002

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Inter-Society Color Council

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Ferren, John, 1905-1970

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de Kooning, Elaine

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Zoller, Edwin W., 1900-1967

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Zoller was professor of art and assistant director of the Center for Continuing Liberal Education, Pennsylvania State University, 1933-1960. From the description of Edwin W. Zoller papers, 1927-1967. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 31020129 ...

Genauer, Emily, 1910-2002

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Art critic, columnist; New York, N.Y.; b. 1910; d. 2002. Emily Genauer was an art reviewer and columnist from 1932 until well into the 1980s, with regular writing posts on the New York World, the New York World-Telegram, the New York Herald Tribune, Newsday, and the New York Post. She also worked for Harper's and in television. She won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1975. From the description of Emily Genauer papers, [ca. 1930-1995]. (Unknown). WorldCat re...

Tamayo, Rufino, 1899-1991

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Artist's Technical Research Institute.

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