Annita Delano papers

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Annita Delano papers

circa 1900-1975

The papers of painter and educator Annita Delano measure 2.7 linear feet and date from circa 1900 to 1975. Found are biographical material, personal and professional correspondence, writings and notes, printed material, photographs, and artwork. Writings consist of lecture notes and extensive analytical writings about European artists and works of art.

2.7 Linear feet

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SNAC Resource ID: 6737717

Archives of American Art

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Albers, Anni, 1899-1994

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Anni Albers was born in Germany in 1899 and attended the Bauhaus where she met her husband designer Josef Albers in 1922; they married in 1925. At the Bauhaus. she experimented with new materials for weaving and executed richly colored designs on paper for wall hangings and textiles in silk, cotton, and linen yarns. When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, the Albers lived alongside the families of artist teachers Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Oscar Schlemmer, and others in one of ...

Morgan, Barbara Brooks, 1900-1992

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Barbara Brooks Morgan was born in Buffalo, Kansas on July 8, 1900, but grew up in Los Angeles, Calif. She attended UCLA from 1919 to 1923, and later joined the art faculty (1925-30). She married Willard D. Morgan (ca. 1925) and relocated to New York (1930). After the birth of her two sons, Douglas (1932) and Lloyd (1935), she began to concentrate on her photography career. An accomplished designer, author, artist, and photographer, she is best known for her photographs of American modern dancers...

Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970

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Richard Josef Neutra was born in 1892 in Vienna; immigrated to US, 1923; Frank Lloyd Wright invited him to Taliesin during the fall of 1924; Neutra moved to Los Angeles, CA, 1925; most productive years were during 1930s and 1940s; spent most of his last decade in partnership with his son, Dion; published several books, including Wie baut Amerika? (1927) and Survival through design (1954); died in 1970. From the description of Papers, 1925-1970. (University of California, Los Angeles)...

Delano, Annita, 1894-

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Painter, designer, and teacher (Los Angeles, Calif.); went to Europe in 1928, meeting and befriending Robert and Sonia Delaunay. In 1930-31, she returned to Europe on a Barnes Founation scholarship, spending some time with the Bauhaus faculty and other architects (Joseph Albers and Richard Neutra). She was also a founding member of the U.C.L.A. Art Department. From the description of Annita Delano papers, 1909-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502444 Annit...

Delaunay, Sonia

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French painter. From the description of Letters, 1923-1967. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79305505 ...

Delaunay, Robert, 1885-1941

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French painter who introduced vibrant color into Cubist painting, originating the movement known as Orphism. From the description of La peinture est proprement un language lumineux, ca. 1924. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81456593 French painter. From the description of Extrait de H. J. Rousseau, le Douanier (essay), 1920. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82539082 From the description of Letters to ReneĢ Delhumeau, ca. 19...

Weston, Edward, 1886-1958

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Edward Weston, (American, 1886-1958), was born in Highland Park, Illinois and from an early age was involved with photography. He studied at the Illinois College of Photography in 1908, afterwards moving to Los Angeles to work for a commercial portrait studio and eventually starting his own. Weston exhibited his works in many salons and exhibitions, making his works known in the photographic community. In 1929 Weston moved to Carmel, California, where he would spend the rest of his...