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Margaret Casey Gates papers

1934-1988

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The papers of Washington, D.C. painter Margaret Casey Gates date from 1934-1988, and measure 1.0 linear foot. Gates' papers document her work as a painter, her projects for the New Deal federal arts programs, the Phillips Memorial Gallery and its art school, where she attended school and later worked as secretary and where her husband Robert Franklin Gates was a teacher, and the Washington, D.C. arts scene. Found are scattered correspondence, seven sketchbooks by Gates and two sketchbooks of her divorced husband Robert Franklin Gates. Miscellaneous notes and writings, a scrapbook, printed material, and photographs of Gates, her husband, friends, artwork, and views of the Virgin Islands are also included in the papers.Twelve folders of scattered correspondence include letters from the Federal Works Agency and one or two letters each from friends and individuals that reflect Gates' wide range of interests and activities. Correspondents include Betty Jean Clark, Arthur G. Dove, D. R. Fitzpatrick, Alice Garrett, John Gernand, Karl Knaths, John L. Lewis, a Brazilian artist named Portinari, Julian Lee Rayford, Alfred Stieglitz, and Prentiss Taylor.Artwork consists of seven of Margaret Casey Gates' sketchbooks and two of Robert Franklin Gates' sketchbooks of both abstract and figural sketches. Margaret's sketchbooks contain landscapes that illustrate her travels to Colorado, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and the Virgin Islands. Sketchbook #2 contains pencil, ink, and pastel drawings of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands and an intimate drawing of Robert Franklin Gates, Mitchell Jamieson, and Prentiss Taylor asleep on a ship. Artwork also includes a fine caricature of Robert Franklin Gates by Karl Knaths. Notes and writings primarily consist of scattered notes and brief descriptive accounts of Gates's experiences at the Phillips Gallery, and at the Colorado Springs Art Center. Her extensive descriptions of her travels to the Virgin Islands are also illustrated. A scrapbook primarily contains clippings, but also includes an award certificate, letters concerning various topics including Pepsi-Cola's annual art competition and Federal Works Agency projects, brochures for the Phillips Gallery Art School and for the McLean Art Club, and a photograph of the mural at the Mebane, North Carolina post office.Printed material consists of clippings including copies of the rare magazines <emph render="italic">The Washington Spectator</emph> and the American University publication <emph render="italic">Right Angle</emph>, announcements and catalogs for exhibitions of Gates's work, and miscellaneous booklets and brochures. There is also printed material concerning the Armory Show including a copy of the booklet <emph render="italic">The Story of the Armory Show</emph> by Walt Kuhn.Photographs are of Margaret Casey Gates, Robert Franklin Gates, friends including Prentiss Taylor, her home, and her artwork. Photographs of Margaret and Robert Gates and their artist friends during their visits to the Virgin Islands in the 1930s are of primary interest, offering unique glimpses of that culture during the 1930s. These photographs include aerial photographs of St. Thomas and photographs by Prentiss Taylor.

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Phillips Collection.

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Phillips Memorial Gallery. Art School.

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Phillips Memorial Gallery. Art School.

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Watkins, C. Law (Charles Law), 1886-1945

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United States. Public Buildings Administration. Section of Fine Arts

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The Section of Fine Arts was initially established in 1934 under the Treasury Department as the Section of Painting and Sculpture, changing its name in 1938. In 1939, it was transferred (retaining its name) from the Treasury Dept. to the Public Buildings Administration of the newly created Federal Works Agency, until it was abolished in 1943. Its function was to decorate new federal buildings, but unlike the other New Deal art agencies, it was not a relief project and it awarded contracts throug...

Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-1991

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Society of Washington Artists (Washington, D.C.)

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Phillips Collection.

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Knaths, Karl, 1891-1971

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Painter. From the description of Karl Knaths interview, 1962 Aug. 2 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80242439 From the description of Oral history interview with Karl Knaths, 1962 Aug. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312026559 Painter; Provincetown, Mass. From the description of Karl Knaths lecture, 1968 Aug. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84559262 Painter, printmaker, educator; Cape Cod, Mass. Die...

Gernand, John, 1913-1990

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Painter; Washington, D.C. b. 1913. From the description of John Gernand interviews, 1979 Jan. 18-Feb. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78813623 From the description of John Gernand interviews, 1979 Jan. 18-Feb. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276394214 John Gernard, 1913-1990, painter of Washington, D.C. From the description of Oral history interview with John Gernand, 1979 Jan. 18-Feb. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat rec...

Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969

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John L. Lewis was born in Lucas, Iowa in 1880. From 1917 until his death in 1969 he served the United Mine Workers of America, acting as its president from 1920 to 1960. Lewis led in the establishment of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and served as CIO president until his resignation from that post in 1940. From the description of Papers, 1879-1969. [microform] (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64091529 From its founding in 1935 until 1942, the hist...

Dove, Arthur Garfield. 1880-1946

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Arthur Dove painted with Brooks's daughter-in-law, Inez Seibert Brooks. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [Between 1920 and 1946]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 175227818 Arthur Garfield Dove (1880-1946) and Helen Torr Dove were painters from Geneva and Centerport, N.Y. Born in Canandaigua, N.Y., Arthur Dove settled in New York City in 1903, becoming an illustrator for popular magazines, including ...

Clark, Betty Jean

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Knaths, Karl, 1891-

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Gates, Margaret Casey, 1903-1989

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Painter; Washington, D.C. Gates met her husband, Robert Franklin Gates at the Phillips Gallery Art School, where she worked as a secretary, 1933-1946. From the description of Margaret Casey Gates papers, 1933-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82379681 Margaret Casey Gates (1903-1989) was a painter from Washington, D.C. Gates studied art in the studio of Bertha Perry, and from 1924 to 1926 at the Corcoran Art School. She later studied under Henry V...

Federal Art Project

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The FAP projects included a broad range of events and activities which generated the various publications and materials found in the central files of the general subject series. ART FOR THE MILLIONS was a publication project about the accomplishments of the FAP consisting of a series of articles by Project workers. In addition to creating work for artists, the FAP sought to increase art appreciation as well as art sales among the general public. In doing so it devised a plan which created Nation...

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946

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Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer, founder of the Photo-Secession Group, gallery owner, and editor and publisher of photography magazines, most notably, Camera Work. Frank Hermann was an American painter, who spent most of his career in Germany, where he associated with several avant-garde art groups. Childhood friends, Stieglitz and Herrmann were schoolmates, spent time together when Stieglitz was in Europe, and visited each other in the United States when Herrmann returned in 1919....

Phillips Collection

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Federal Works Agency.

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Fitzpatrick, Daniel Robert, 1891-1969

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Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick (1891-1969), commonly known as D. R. Fitzpatrick, was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1913-1958). Born on March 5, 1891 in Superior, Wisconsin, Fitzpatrick attended the Art Institute of Chicago. Fitzpatrick worked as a staff artist and cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News from 1911 until 1912. Joining the St. Louis Post Dispatch in 1913, Fitzpatrick was the editorial cartoonist there until ...

Gates, Robert Franklin, 1906-1982.

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Painter, instructor; Washington, D.C. Gates taught in the art department at American University from 1946-1976, serving as chair from 1953-1957. He also taught at the Phillips Memorial Gallery (now Collection) art school. From the description of Robert Franklin Gates papers, 1916-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84451799 Robert Franklin Gates (1906-1982) was a painter and instructor in Washington, D.C. Gates studied under...

Rayford, Julian Lee

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Armory Show (1913 : New York, N.Y.)

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Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-

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Prentiss Taylor was born 1907 in Washington, D.C. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City and became a noted landscape painter. He spent four months in Charleston, South Carolina in 1933 doing sketches of rundown buildings. Working for the W.P.A., he made a series of lithographs from these drawings. He was also an illustrator about stories of blacks in the South. He served as president of the Society of Washington Printmakers for 34 years and did pioneering work in ar...

Phillips Memorial Gallery. Art School.

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Garrett, Alice Warder

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