Calvert Coggeshall Papers

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Calvert Coggeshall Papers

1920-1999

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The papers of Maine abstract painter and designer Calvert Coggeshall measure 1.7 linear feet and date from 1920-1999, with the bulk of the material dating from 1965-1989. They consist of biographical material, personal and business correspondence, personal writings, exhibition and business files, printed material, and photographs. The bulk of the material documents Coggeshall's professional work and his friendships with other artists.Biographical material includes Coggeshall's personal address books and day planning notes, oral history transcripts, including an interview discussing his friendship with Walker Evans, a copy of his Guggenheim application and acceptance letters, and miscellaneous records.Correspondence is predominantly in the form of cards, postcards, and short letters received from family and friends. These include correspondence from Coggeshall's father, children, his older grandchildren, and his mother-in-law, Frances Coralie Perkins. Other frequent correspondents include family friend Daphne Cox, artists Michael Lekakis, Loren McIver, Jack Tworkov, and museum director Gordon Washburn.Personal writings consist of poetry notes and drafts and a short essay on church design.Exhibition files concern Coggeshall's one man shows at the Betty Parsons Gallery during the 1970s and early 1980s, his retrospective at Bowdoin College in 1977, and his inclusion in shows at Artists Space, the Farnsworth Museum, and Jack Tilton Gallery.Business files related to Coggeshall's interior design work consist of architectural renderings and blueprints, work proposals, invoices, and receipts. Some of the more significant projects include work done for Lisa de Kooning, Priscilla Morgan, Arthur Penn, and Shoji Sadao.Printed material includes newspaper clippings, exhibition announcements from other artists, and a booklet showcasing abstract artists titled, "Artfully Taught."Photographs are color and black and white prints of Coggeshall and his friends in his studio and outside his Newcastle, Maine residence. There are also black and white photographs of Coggeshall's early design work in furniture and fabric, as well as documentation of his gallery design work for the Albright Art Gallery.

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Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965

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Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Rooseve...

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Coggeshall, Calvert, 1907-1990

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Painter, interior designer, poet; New York, N.Y. From the description of Calvert Coggeshall papers, 1939-2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84653651 Calvert Coggeshall (1907-1990) was a painter, interior designer, and poet from New York, N.Y. and Maine. From the description of Calvert Coggeshall papers, 1920-1999, bulk, 1965-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 710019972 From the description of Calvert Coggeshall papers, 1920-1999, bulk, 1965-1989. (Un...

Shōji, Sadao, 1937-

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William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum

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Evans, Walker, 1903-1975

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Walker Evans (1903-1975) was a photographer. From the description of Oral history interview with Walker Evans, 1971 Oct. 13-Dec. 23 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595155 Photographer and professor at Yale; best known for documenting the people and conditions of the southern United States during the Great Depression. From the description of Walker Evans photographs, 1935-1936. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 55636072 P...

Lekakis, Michael, 1907-

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Bowdoin College Museum of Art

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Washburn, Gordon B. (Gordon Bailey), 1904-

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Gordon Bailey Washburn (1904-1983) was an art museum director from New York, N.Y. Director of Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., 1931-1942. Director of Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1942-1949. Director of the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Penn., 1950-1962. Director, Asia House Gallery, New York, N.Y., 1961-1974. From the description of Oral history interview with Gordon Bailey Washburn, 1970 Mar. 4-18 [sound recor...

Morgan, Priscilla

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Betty Parsons Gallery

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Penn, Arthur, 1922-2010

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Jack Tilton Gallery

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Tworkov, Jack

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Jack Tworkov was a painter; New York, N.Y.; b. 1900; d. 1982. Bramberger and Tworkov were friends. From the description of Jack Tworkov letters to Troy-Jjohn Bramberger, 1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81952814 Jack Tworkov, 1900-1982, painter of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Jack Tworkov, 1981 May 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007167 Painter; New York, N.Y.; b. 1900; d. 1982. From the descrip...