Elliot Orr papers

Orr, Elliot (American painter, born 1904)

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Painter; Chatham, Massachusetts. Born Flushing, New York. In 1927, Orr was a student of Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and from 1927 to 1929, he studied at the Grand Central School of Art in New York under George Pierce Ennis, Henry B. Snell, and Wayman Adams. From 1929 to 1930 he studied under George Luks. From the description of Elliot Orr papers, 1910-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515108 ...

Whitney Museum of American Art

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American art museum; New York, N.Y. Founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and formally opened in 1931. Previous to its opening as a museum it was known as the Whitney Studio Club (1914-28) and Whitney Studio Galleries (1928-30). From the description of Whitney Museum of American Art artists' files and records, 1914-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86133455 The Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art is an upper level membershi...

Bridaham, Lester Burbank

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Artist. From the description of Oral history 12 July, 1979 [sound recording]. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 39167521 Born and raised in Denver, Colorado. Graduated from MIT. Trained at Harvard in Museum Administration. Served as secretary for the board of directors at the Chicago Art Institute (1945). Executive director at the Louisiana State Museum (1954-1956). Director of Chicago Historical Society (1956). Operated Lester B. Bridaham and Company, a fine arts...

Landgren, Marchal E.

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Art historian, librarian, educator, author; Washington, D.C.; b. 1907; d. 1983 Was director of art activities for the New York City Municipal Art Committee from 1935-1939. During the Depression he organized exhibitions of the work of Elliot Orr and Milton Avery and arranged for the first of several exhibitions of the work of Robert Loftin Newman whose definitive biographer he became. Moved to D.C. and worked for the D.C. Public Library, and taught art history and headed ...

Federal art project (Mass.)

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Vose Galleries of Boston

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Art gallery; Boston, Mass. Founded 1841 in Providence, R.I. by Ransom Hicks, and purchased by Joseph Vose in 1841. In 1850, his son Seth Morton Vose joined the firm, and in 1855 became director. Primary business until late 1860s was frame making, gilding and art supplies. Began regularly exhibiting in Boston in 1882. Seth's son Robert C. Vose joined in 1896, and managed the Boston gallery from 1897. After Seth's death in 1910, the Providence gallery closed, and Robert an...

Macbeth Gallery

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Art gallery at 237 5th Avenue and 450 5th Avenue, New York, N.Y. From the description of Macbeth Gallery exhibition catalogs, 1892-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84558225 Macbeth Gallery (founded 1892) is an art gallery from New York, N.Y. Founded in 1892 by William Macbeth in New York City, the first gallery at that time to deal solely in American art. The most famous of Macbeth's exhibitions was that of The Eight, in 1908. Robert Macbeth, the...

Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, 1874-1940

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Sherman started the magazine Art in America in 1913 and remained its owner and editor until his death in 1940. He was also the author of numerous books on art. From the description of [Letters] 1917 [to] Bernard Berenson / [Frederic Fairchild Sherman] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 432051648 Art collectors, art critics, art historians, and private publishers; New York, N.Y. From the description of Frederic Fairchild and Julia Munson Sherman papers, 1874-197...

Wildenstein Galleries

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