John DeWitt papers

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John DeWitt papers

1962-1979

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The scattered papers of federal arts administrator John DeWitt date from 1962-1979, and measure 1.4 linear feet. The collection primarily documents 1970s arts programs organized by DeWitt while working for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, an agency of the Department of the Interior. Found within the papers are scattered correspondence concerning the department's art projects, including the Preservation of Endangered Species Art Program and activities of the Hereward Lester Cooke Foundation. There are letters from artists Vija Celmins, Lamar Dodd, and Ethel Magafan. Files for the two exhibitions organized by DeWitt for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, <emph render="italic">The American Artist and Water Reclamation</emph> and <emph render="italic">America 1976</emph>, include a wide variety of materials. There are correspondence, lists of artwork, printed materials, a scrapbook, financial materials, audio recordings of interviews with DeWitt, audio recordings of a symposium on <emph render="italic">America 1976</emph>, and numerous photographs of exhibited artwork and participating artists. There are also additional photographs of DeWitt and his colleagues and artists Joseph Raffael and Ann Wyeth McCoy.

1.4 linear feet

Archives of American Art

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SNAC Resource ID: 6630460

Archives of American Art

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DeWitt, John, 1910-1984.

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Arts administrator; Washington, D.C. As art program director, Bureau of Water Reclamation, Department of the Interior, De Witt invited a number of artists, including Norman Rockwell, Fritz Scholder, and Ralston Crawford, to depict the majesty of reclamation projects in the American West. An exhibition, of their work, THE AMERICAN ARTIST AND WATER RECLAMATION, opened at the National Gallery of Art in 1973 and travelled around the country. For the Bicentennial, as Director of the Visual Arts Progr...

Magafan, Ethel, 1915 or 1916-1993

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Painter, mural painter; Woodstock, N.Y. From the description of Ethel Magafan interview, 1964 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220194956 From the description of Oral history interview with Ethel Magafan, 1964 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312026004 Ethel Magafan (1915 or 6-1993) was a mural and landscape painter from Colorado. Painted murals for the WPA. Jenne Magafan was her twin sister. From the description of Et...

United States. Dept. of the Interior. Visual Arts Program.

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American artist and water reclamation (1973 : Washington, D.C.)

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America 1976 (1976-1978 : Washington, D.C.)

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America 1976 (1976-1978 : Washington, D.C.)

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United States. Bureau of Water Reclamation

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Celmins, Vija, 1938-....

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Vija Celmins (1938- ) is a multimedia artist in New York, N.Y. Julia Brown (1951- ) is an independent scholar in San Antonio, Tex. From the description of Oral history interview with Vija Celmins, 2009 Feb. 11-Oct. 15 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646402687 ...

McCoy, Ann Wyeth.

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United States. Dept. of the Interior. Visual Arts Program.

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American artist and water reclamation (1973 : Washington, D.C.)

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United States. Bureau of Water Reclamation

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United States. Bureau of Reclamation

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The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation Service) was a bureau of the Department of the Interior which oversaw water development projects in the western United States. In July of 1902, in accordance with the Reclamation Act 32 Stat. 388, approved June 17, 1902 (also known as the Newlands Act), Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock established the Reclamation Service within the Geological Survey. The new Reclamation Service studied potential water development projects in each western stat...

aCelmins, Vija, 1939-

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America 1976 (1976-1978

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McCoy, Ann Wyeth

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Dodd, Lamar

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b. Fairburn, Ga.; d. Sept. 21, 1996, Athens, Ga. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 86101080 Painter and educator (Athens, Ga.). Born in 1909, Dodd taught at the University of Georgia. In addition, he was chairman of of the committee that revitalized Gutzon Borglum's carving project at Stone Mountain, Georgia, in the early sixties. From the description of Lamar Dodd selected...

Magafan, Ethel, 1915 or 6-1993

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Raffael, Joseph, 1933-....

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Painter, illustrator, printmaker; Calif. From the description of Joseph Raffael illustrated manuscripts, 1956-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78498754 ...

American artist and water reclamation (1973

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Dewitt, John

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John DeWitt was born in 1910 and was a wood sculptor and federal arts administrator in Washingon, D.C. DeWitt began his career as a professional writer and was a wood sculptor connected with the Veerhoff Gallery in Washington, D.C. His wife, Miriam Hapgood DeWitt, was a painter. In the late 1960s, DeWitt was the Director of Art Programs for the Bureau of Reclamation, an agency of the Department of Interior responsible for water conservation in arid regions of the United ...

Hereward Lester Cooke Foundation

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Arts foundation, Washington, D.C. Supported "visual artists in mid-career." Founded in honor of Hereward Lester Cooke, an artist and Curator of Painting at the National Gallery of Art. From the description of Hereward Lester Cooke Foundation records, 1973-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557471 ...