James Johnson Sweeney correspondence, 1961-1967.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Office of the Director.

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James H. Chillman, Jr., first Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, was born in Philadelphia on December 24, 1891. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, with concentrations in architecture and drawing. In 1916 he joined the Faculty of Rice University in Houston and was later appointed a Fellow in Architecture at the American Academy in Rome (1919-1922). He served as Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from 1924 to 1953 and a...

Ashton, Dore, 1928-2017

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Dore Ashton (May 21, 1928 – January 30, 2017) was a writer, professor and critic on modern and contemporary art. She was born in Newark, New Jersey. She was the author or editor of more than thirty books on art, including Noguchi East and West, About Rothko, American Art Since 1945, The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning and Picasso On Art. Ashton also contributed to many publications, including Art Digest. and worked as an art critic at The New York Times. Ashton was one of the New York art ...

Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995

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Oveta Culp Hobby (January 19, 1905 – August 16, 1995) was the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first director of the Women's Army Corps, and a chairperson of the board of the Houston Post. Hobby went to Washington, D.C., in 1941 to head the newly formed women's division of the War Department's Bureau of Public Relations. At the request of Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall she drafted plans for the formation of a women's auxiliary to the male army, ...

Nabokov, Nicolas, 1903-1978

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Beginning in 1934, Lincoln Kirstein put efforts towards producing a ballet entitled Tom, inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's cabin. Kirstein first commisioned a libretto from poet E.E. Cummings and music from Virgil Thompson. These initial efforts, however, were rejected by choreographer George Balanchine. The following year, Kirstein comissioned set and costume designs from Ben Shahn and a new score from Nicolas Nabokov, working with both artists, as well as Balan...

Soulages, Pierre, 1919-....

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Lassus, Bernard

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Bernard Lassus, landscape designer, born 1929 in Chamalières (Puy de Dôme), France. Began as a painter; and from 1960, also worked as a kinetic and installation artist. His major achievements as a landscape architect are the Parc de la Corderie Royale, Rochefort-sur-Mer (1982-1996), and his landscaping works on French motorways. From the description of [Bernard Lassus papers, 1967-2009]. 1967-2009. (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library). WorldCat record id: 762673842 ...

Geeslin, Campbell

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Wildenstein and Co.

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Holmes, Ann

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Corita, Sister, 1918-

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Lissim, Simon, 1900-1981

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Artist and stage designer who emigrated from Russia to France in 1919, and from France to the United States in 1941. From the description of Simon Lissim Papers, ca. 1919-1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 320409768 Porcelain, theater, and metalwork designer. Born, Kiev, Russia, 1900. Lissim left Russia in 1919 and moved to Paris where he resided until 1940. In all of Lissim's designs, his appreciation for nature is apparent in his use o...

Hood, Dorothy, 1919-2000

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Born in 1919, Bryan, Texas. Studied at Rhode Island School of Design. From the description of Artist file. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122481615 Painter, sculptor; Houston, Tex. Died Oct. 29, 2000, at age 81. From the description of Dorothy Hood papers, 1888-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79939071 ...

Lowry, W. McNeil (Wilson McNeil), 1913-

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Art administrator; director of humanities and arts, Ford Foundation, 1957-1964, vice-president of Ford Foundation, 1964-1974. From the description of W. McNeil Lowry interviews, 1981 Oct. 19-1982 Apr. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220187886 W. McNeil Lowry, art administrator, director of humanities and arts, Ford Foundation, 1957-1964, and vice-president of Ford Foundation, 1964-1974. From the description of Oral history interview with W. McNeil Lowry, 1981 ...

Bess, Forrest, 1911-1977

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B. 1911 d. 1977. From the description of Forrest Bess artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228432978 Bess was a painter in Bay City, Texas.; the Cooke's, art collectors. From the description of Forrest Bess letters to Mr. and Mrs L. E. Cooke, [ca. 1963-1964]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123373515 Painter; Bay City, Tex. From the description of Forrest Bess photographs and slides, 1932-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat...

Wilke, Ulfert, 1907-1987

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Painter, art administrator, art collector; Solon, Iowa. Born Bad Tolz, Germany. Director, Department of Art, Kalamazoo College And Institute of Arts, 1940-1942; Director, University of Iowa Museum of Art. From the description of Ulfert Wilke papers, 1934-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515681 ...

Myers, Bernard S., 1908-1993

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John, Grace Spaulding

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Painter, writer, lecturer; New York, N.Y. and Houston, Tex. Lived 1892-1972. Ruth Uhler was a painter and lecturer who worked in Houston as well as Santa Fe, N.M. From the description of Grace Spaulding John papers, 1890-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82229350 Grace Spaulding John was born February 10, 1890, in Battle Creek, Michigan, at the home of her maternal grandmother. The first thirteen years of her life were spent in Vermont where her father was a ...

Sert, José Luis (1902-1983).

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Josep Lluis Sert received a degree in architecture in 1929 from Barcelona's ESA in the 1930s. Among the leading young Spanish architects in the 1930s, he gained an international reputation with his design for the Spanish Pavilion built for the 1937 Paris Exposition. Emigrating to the United states in 1941, he was from 1941-1958 a founding partner in Town Planning Associates and in 1955, he opened his own firm, Sert Jackson, & Associates, in Cambridge, MA. SJA's work included residences, muse...

Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981

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Art Historian and first director of the Museum of Modern Art. From the description of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. papers, 1927-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122516895 Correspondence and biographical material collected by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (1902-1981) on Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). From the description of Barr/Feininger material, 1927-1944, 1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122531411 Museum director, curator, and critic; New York, N.Y. ...

Leeper, John Palmer

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Leeper was born in 1921 in Dennison, TX; BS in journalism from Southern Methodist Univ. and an MA in art history from Harvard Univ.; Blanche Magurn Leeper was born in 1911 in Boston, MA; BA in philosophy and MA in Fine Arts from Radcliffe College; she was asst. curator of Oriental Art at the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum at Harvard; asst. to the director, Pasadena Art Museum, 1950-53; married John Leeper in 1953; from 1954-90 John served as the director of the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum in ...

Addison Gallery of American Art.

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Morot-Sir, Edouard

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Jacqueline Morot-Sir was Edouard's wife. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1960. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864005 ...

Roth, Jack, 1927-2004

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Sandberg, Willem Jacob Henri Berend, 1897-1984

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Penrose, Roland, Sir

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Staempfli Gallery

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Hobby, William F. (William Francis), 1908-

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William "Bill" P. Hobby served as lieutenant governor of Texas for 18 years (1973-1991). Born in Houston on January 19, 1932, he is the son of former Texas governor William Pettus Hobby, Sr. and Oveta Culp Hobby. Hobby began his career in public service in 1959, serving as parliamentarian of the Texas Senate. Under President Lyndon B. Johnson, he served on the Presidential Task Force on Suburban Problems and the National Citizens Advisory Committee on Vocational Rehabili...

Trier, Eduard 1921-

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Coke, Van Deren, 1921-2004

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Hayes, Bartlett H., 1904-1988

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Museum director, consultant. From the description of Bartlett H.Hayes interview, 1972 Oct. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220178439 From the description of Oral history interview with Bartlett H. Hayes, 1972 Oct. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007002 Museum director, art administrator; Boston, Mass.; Died 1988. From the description of Bartlett H. Hayes interview, 1974 July-1975 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220186376 Bartlett ...

Sweeney, James Johnson, 1900-1986

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James Johnson Sweeney, 1900-1986. From the description of Papers of James Johnson Sweeney, 1953-2005. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 271825527 Art administrator. From the description of Ends and beginnings : sound recording, 1965 Mar. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86093871 James Johnson Sweeney served as Director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art (1945-1946), Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Mus...

Barnstone, Howard

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Menil, John de, 1908-1997

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Mladek, Meda

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Selz, Peter, 1919-

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Peter Howard Selz, 1919, was a Curator and art historian of Berkeley, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Peter Howard Selz, 1999 Nov 3 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646401444 Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern art, 1958-1965; art history professor. From the description of Oral history, 1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122456775 Curator, art historian; Berkeley, Calif. b. 191...

Hayes, David, 1931-...

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Hogg, Ima

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Ima Hogg, daughter of Governor James Stephen Hogg, was born in Mineola, Texas, on July 10, 1882. After graduating from the University of Texas, between 1901 and 1909 she studied music in New York, Berlin, and Vienna. She then moved to Houston, where she gave piano lessons to a select group of pupils and helped found the Houston Symphony Orchestra. She served as the first vice president of the Houston Symphony Society and became president in 1917. Ima Hogg was also involved in founding the Housto...

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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Kohlmeyer, Ida, 1912-1997

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Painter; Metairie, La. [Kohlmeyer died 1997]. From the description of Oral history interview with Ida Kohlmeyer, 1989 May 17-1989 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220191778 Painter, sculptor; Mataire, La.; d. 1997. From the description of Ida Kohlmeyer papers, [ca. 1950]-1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80468572 d. Jan. 24, 1997. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA))....

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976

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Sculptor. From the description of Alexander Calder correspondence, 1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452461 Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Alexander Calder, 1971 Oct. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646395903 B. 1898, d. 1976. From the description of Alexander Calder artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228431975 ...

Hamilton, George Heard.

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Art historian, museum director and author. From the description of George Hamilton Heard autograph [manuscript], no date. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 664830249 George Heard Hamilton was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on June 23, 1910. He received a B.A. (1932), an M.A. (1934), and a Ph.D. (1942) from Yale University. He taught art history at Yale from 1936 until 1966, and was the curator of modern art at the Yale University Art Gallery from 1940 to 1966. ...

Chillida, Eduardo, 1924-2002

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Griffiths, Higford

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Hartung, Hans, 1904-1989

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Hartung was born in Leipzig, Germany in September 21, 1904.He was was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the French Foreign Legion.In 1947 in Paris he had his first solo exhibition. By the late 1950s he had achieved recognition for his gestural paintings, which were nearly monochromatic and characterized by configurations of long rhythmical brushstrokes or scratches. In 1960 he was awarded the International Grand Prix f...

Menil, Dominique de

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b. March 23, 1908, Paris; d. Dec. 31, 1997, Houston. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122461649 ...

Mathieu, Georges, 1921-2012

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Byrnes, James B.

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American curator and art historian. From the description of Interview with James Byrnes, 1996 Apr. 21. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 85172690 Museum director, fine arts appraiser, Los Angeles, Calif., Raleigh, N.C., and New Orleans, La.; b. 1917. Byrnes was also executor of the Valentiner estate. From the description of James Byrnes papers, [ca. 1940 -2000] (bulk 1960-1990). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79897813 ...

Mocsanyi, Paul

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