Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz research materials on New Deal Art

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Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz research materials on New Deal Art

1931-1999

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The Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz research files on New Deal art are dated 1931-1999 and measure 5.8 linear feet. The research files document New Deal art projects and artists through some original correspondence with artists, printed material, interview transcripts, and several sound recordings of interviews with artists of the period. Subject files relate to WPA era art and art projects; many contain numerous photocopies of records from the Personnel Records Center and the U. S. Treasury Relief Arts Projects now in the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration.The collection consists primarily of artists' files documenting the WPA, The National Personnel Records Center, the Public Art Preservation Committee, and the U.S. Treasury Relief Art Project. Also found are lists of artists arranged by category, correspondence, transcripts of interviews, printed material, exhibition catalogs, monographs, photographs, slides, and sound recordings. Among the artists are: Charles Alston, Will Barnet, Ilya Bolotowsky, Louis Bouche, James Brooks, Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, Minna Citron, Robert Cronbach, Hugo Gellert, Adloph Gottlieb, Leo Katz, Roy King, Albert Kotin, Edward Lanning, Ethel Magafan, William Palmer, Anton Refregier, Philip Reisman, Lincoln Rothschild, Joseph Solman, Harry Sternberg, Stuyvesant Van Veen, and Marion Walton.

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Park, Marlene, 1931-

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Art historians; New York, N.Y. Authors of exhibition catalog, New Deal for Art: The Government Art Projects of the 1930s with Examples from New York City and State (1977), and a book, Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal (1984). From the description of Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz research materials on New Deal art, [ca. 1974-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82962563 ...

Markowitz, Gerald E

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Gellert, Hugo, 1892-1985.

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Mural painter. From the description of Hugo Gellert interview, 1984 Apr. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83826254 Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Hugo Gellert lecture, 1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122394902 Hugo Gellert (1892-1985) was a communist graphic artist, cartoonist, muralist and painter. He was born in Hungary in 1892 and came to the U.S. in 1906. Gellert was a leading contributor of art work to The Masses, The Liberato...

Sternberg, Harry, 1904-2001

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Harry Sternberg was an artist represented at the Weyhe Gallery. Carl Zigrosser took a personal interest in Sternberg's career, and Sternberg is one of the artist profiled in Zigrosser's book, The Artist in America. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1932-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 192002565 Harry Sternberg (1904- ) was a Graphic artist/painter of Escondido, Calif. From the description of Oral hist...

Rothschild, Lincoln, 1902-

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Sculptor, writer; Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Died in 1983. From the description of Lincoln Rothschild interview, 1964 Oct. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220196020 Sculptor, writer; Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. From the description of Lincoln Rothschild interview, 1964 June 26-June 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220196009 From the description of Oral history interview with Lincoln Rothschild, 1964 June 26-27 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31202627...

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...

Walton, Marion, b. 1899.

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Sculptor; New York, N.Y. From the description of Marion Walton papers, 1915-1976. (Smithsonian Archives of American Art). WorldCat record id: 123379762 ...

Park, Marlene

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Art historians Marlene Park and husband Gerald E. Markowitz conducted research on New Deal art projects. Their work resulted in an exhibition "New Deal for Art: The Government Projects of the 1930's with Examples from New York City and State" (1977) and a catalog with the same title. 7), and a book, Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal (1984). Both were on the faculty of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Marlene Park served on the Public Art Preserv...

Katz, Leo, 1887-1982

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Painter, writer; Bronx, N.Y. b. 1887, in Austria; d. 1982. From the description of Leo Katz papers, 1924-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81787106 ...

King, Roy E., 1903-

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Magafan, Ethel, 1915 or 6-1993

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Kotin, Albert, 1907-1980.

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Painter, lithographer and educator; New York City. From the description of Albert Kotin papers, 1935-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557099 ...

Bouché, Louis, 1896-1969

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Louis Bouché (1896-1969) was a painter, mural painter, and teacher from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Louis Bouché, 1963 Mar. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312024875 Louis Bouché (1896-1969) was a mural painter and interior designer in New York, N.Y. From the description of Louis Bouché papers, 1860-1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756821043 From the description of Louis Bouché papers, 1860-1997. (Unknow...

Reisman, Philip, 1904-

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Markowitz, Gerald E.

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Alston, Charles Henry, 1907-1977

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African-American artist Charles Henry Alston, nicknamed "Spinky," was born 28 November 1907 in Charlotte, N.C. He was the youngest of five children born to the Reverend Primus Priss Alston, who was born into slavery in Chatham County, N.C., and Anna Miller Alston. After Primus's death, Anna married Harry Pierce Bearden, artist Romare Bearden's uncle, and moved the family to New York in 1913. Charles Alston worked as a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, illustrator, and educator, gaining national...

Citron, Minna, 1896-1991

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American painter, printmaker. From the guide to the Minna Citron Papers, 1932-1965, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Painter and printmaker; New York, N.Y.; d. 1991. From the description of Minna Wright Citron papers, 1930-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83334930 ...

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 ...

Brooks, James, 1906-

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Solman, Joseph, 1909-2008

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Painter, educator; New York, N.Y. and Gloucester, Mass. Solman was a member of The Ten, an influential artists' group of the late 1930s. From the description of Joseph Solman papers, 1933-1998. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81461299 ...

National Personnel Records Center (U.S.)

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Barnet, Will, 1911-2012

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Will Barnet (1911- ) is a painter and printmaker from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Will Barnet, 1964 Jan. 20-1964 Feb. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 767864603 Painter, printmaker; New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Will Barnet, 1964 Jan. 20-Feb. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122600031 From the description of Oral History Interview with Will Barnet, 1993 Apr. 9. (Unknown). Wor...

Palmer, William, 1906-1987

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Painter, mural painter; Iowa and New York. From the description of Oral history interview with William C. Palmer, 1965 June 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220195712 William C. Palmer (1906-1987) was a painter, mural painter, and educator from Iowa and New York. From the description of Oral history interview with William C. Palmer, 1980 Aug. 5-1981 Aug. 22 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 613315331 From the description of Oral history...

Refregier, Anton, 1905-

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Painter; Woodstock, New York. From the description of Oral history interview with Anton Refregier, 1964 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220195819 Painter; Woodstock, N.Y. Died in 1979. From the description of Anton Refregier papers, 1900-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756821044 From the description of Anton Refregier papers, 1900-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122291504 From the description of Anton Refregier papers, ca. 1900-...

United States. Work Projects Administration

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The Works Progress Administration was involved in various projects including the compilation of sources on American territories. The card catalogs for these were prepared at the Library of Congress and are now in the National Archives. From the description of Classified Alaska Bibliography, 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42927718 Works Progress Administration (later called Work Projects Administration) began operations in San Joaquin County, Calif., July 1935. County a...

Cronbach, Robt. (Robert M.), 1908-

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Sculptor; New York, N.Y. From the description of Robert M. Cronbach papers, 1933-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122355076 ...

Bolotowsky, Ilya, 1907-1981

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Russian-American abstract painter; New York, N.Y. Died 1981. From the description of Ilya Bolotowsky interview, 1968 Mar. 24 - Apr. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220181271 From the description of Ilya Bolotowsky interview, 1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78430875 From the description of Abstraction and neoplasticism : lecture, 1975 January 15 / by Ilya Bolotowsky. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84201827 From the description of Ilya Bolotowsky paper...

Lanning, Edward P.

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Van Veen, Stuyvesant.

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Stuyvesant Van Veen, painter of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Stuyvesant Van Veen, 1981 May 5-14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646396912 Painter (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Stuyvesant Van Veen interviews, 1981 May 5 - May 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220180468 Stuyvesant Van Veen (1910-1988) was a painter, illustrator, cartoonist, and printmaker in New York, N.Y. He was t...

Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967

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Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) was a watercolorist and painter in West Seneca, N.Y. From the description of Charles Burchfield letter to Alan M. Pensler, 1966 Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477543 From the description of Charles Burchfield letter to Alan M. Pensler, 1966 Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756821068 Painter; Gardenville, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Charles Burchfield, 1959 Aug. 19. (Unknown). Wo...