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Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968

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Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (French:28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of...

Mayor, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt), 1901-1980

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American museum curator and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, New York, to Miss Julia Wightman, 1975 Feb. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270637283 Hyatt Mayor was Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1943-1970, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902195 A. Hyatt Mayor (1901-1980) was a museum curator, art histori...

Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

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Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...

Huxtable, Ada Louise, 1921-2013

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Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was an architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public’s awareness of the urban environment. In 1970 she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner (1984) for architectural criticism, said in 1996: "Before Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture was not a p...

Childs, J. Rives (James Rives), 1893-1987

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James Rives Childs was born February 6, 1893 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He attended the Virginia Military Institute before graduating from Randolph-Macon College in 1912, then earned a master of arts from Harvard University in 1915. He served the United States Army during World War I as a cryptoanalyst and radio intelligence liaison in France. After the war he joined the American Relief Administration in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1923 he joined the United States Foreign Service, e...

Crosby, Caresse, 1891-1970

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Caresse Crosby was born Mary Phelps Jacob on April 30, 1891 in New Rochelle, New York, daughter of a prominent New England family. After a brief marriage to Richard Rogers Peabody, she married Harry Crosby in 1922 and soon after moved to France. In April, 1927, they founded a publishing company soon to become The Black Sun Press. The publications included a Hindu Love Book, The Fall of the House of Usher, and letters by Harry's cousin, Henry James, to Walter Berry. Other contributors to the Blac...

BERES, PIERRE

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Mellon, Paul

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b. 1907; d. 1999. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86133671 ...

Nikirk, Robert

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Librarian. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Nikirk : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122308358 Founded in 1884 by a group of seven New York City Book collectors, the Grolier Club has employed librarians for over a century, and in the last few decades they have also assumed the duties of director. Robert Nikirk had a background in art historical studies and employment in a book auction house when he was app...

Steegmuller, Francis, 1906-1994

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Francis Steegmuller was a biographer of French literary figures such as Cocteau, Apollinaire and Flaubert. He also translated French literature. From the description of Letters from Douglas Cooper, 1966-1997. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78011580 Alfred Kazin was an American essayist, literary critic, and historian. From the guide to the Alfred Kazin collection of papers, 1933-1990, 1933-1978, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A...

Jammes, André 1938-....

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Schimmel, Herbert D., 1909-

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Adheḿar, Jean

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Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000

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Sculptor and graphic artist; Leeds, Mass. and Devon, England. b. 1922, in New Brunswick, N.J. d. Northampton, Mass., June 3, 2000, age 77. Worked on FDR memorial in Washington, DC. Studied at Yale Univ. Founded the Gehenna Press in 1942. Taught at Smith College, in Northampton, MA, 1953-1974, and Hampshire College, in Amherst, MA, 1984-1994. From the description of Oral history interview with Leonard Baskin, 1969 Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184...

Goldschmidt, Marguerite

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Goldschmidt, Lucien

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Lucien Goldschmidt (1912-1992) is an art and book dealer from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Lucien Goldschmidt, 1974 May 19-June 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477493 Lucien Goldschmidt, 1912-, art and book dealer of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Lucien Goldschmidt, 1974 May 19-June 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397353 Art and book dealer; New York, N.Y. Born 1912. ...

Smith, William, 1727-1803

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Clergyman, educator, playwright. From the description of Letter to Jasper Yeates, Lancaster [manuscript], 1773 July 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814474 Physician Joseph Carson taught medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The College of Philadelphia's Medical School, founded in 1765, became known as the University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Medicine In 1779. From the guide to the Joseph Carson letters, 1789-1858, 1789-1858, (American P...

Wing, Donald Goddard, 1904-1972

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Donald Goddard Wing was born in Athol, Massachusetts in 1904 and attended public schools there. He graduated from Yale University in 1926 and received a master's degree in English from Harvard University in 1928. In that year, he joined the Yale University Library as an assistant reference librarian, and participated in the move of the Yale collections to the new Sterling Memorial Library. Wing spent his entire career at Yale as a librarian and bibliographer, retiring as Associate L...

Austin, Gabriel

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Gabriel Austin was curator of the Grolier Club (a society for bibliophiles located in New York City) from 1963 to 1965 and librarian from 1965 to 1970. Jean Grolier was a French court official and bibliophile who served in various capacities under Louis XII, Francois I, Henry II and Charles IX. He was a patron of French and Italian scholarship and printing. Grolier's extensive library may have numbered as many as 3,000 volumes, and he commissioned elaborate bindings for many of them. The collect...

Jackson, William A. (William Alexander), 1905-1964

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Jackson was a bibliographer and librarian. He was the first librarian of the Houghton Library at Harvard University.. From the description of William A. Jackson diplomas and certificates, 1927-1962. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 663976597 Jackson was a bibliographer and librarian. He was the first librarian of the Houghton Library at Harvard. From the description of William A. Jackson letters to Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, 1945. (Harvard University). WorldC...

Ryskamp, Charles.

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Librarian. From the description of Reminiscences of Charles A. Ryskamp : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569526 ...

Berès, Huguette, d. 1999.

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Hyde, Mary Morley Crapo.

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Rops, Félicien, 1833-1898

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Belgian painter, engraver, and lithographer. From the description of Letters, ca. 1870-1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78991640 French artist. From the description of Portion of an autograph letter signed : [Paris], to "Edmond", [ca. 1880]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270857819 Rops was born in Belgium but spent his professional life moving between Belgium and France. A painter, engraver and lithographer, he is known particularly for depicting wo...

Rosenwald, Lessing, 1891-1979

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Gay, Peter, 1923-....

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Historian. Gay was Professor of History at Columbia University, 1962-1968. From the description of Peter Gay papers, [ca. 1954]-1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 265033263 ...

Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc.

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Lucien Goldschmidt (1912-1992) worked in Berlin for the auction house of Max Perl from 1930 to 1932. In 1933 he joined the Parisian antiquarian bookshop of Pierre Berès and in 1937 established the New York City branch. While maintaing the business, Goldschmidt served with the United States Third Army from 1943 to 1945. Goldschmidt was manager of Berès in New York until 1954, when he opened his own antiquarian bookshop and gallery. Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc. dealt in European drawings and illustr...

Wilson, Michael, 1942-

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Von Bul̈ow, Claus, 1925-

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Nixon, Howard M.

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Groger, Simone

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Auchincloss, Louis

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American novelist, short-story writer, lawyer, historian and critic Louis Auchincloss (1917- ) was born in Lawrence, New York. Auchincloss attended Yale University from 1935 to 1939 and was an editor of the Yale Literary Magazine during his studies there. Auchincloss graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1941. While practicing law in New York State from 1941 to 1986, he penned many of his novels and short stories. He is best known for his novels of manners set in the world of c...

Altschul, Frank, 1887-1981

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Frank Altschul was born in San Francisco on April 21, 1887. He graduated from Yale in 1908 and served as chairman of the General American Investors Co. Inc. Altschul died on May 29, 1981. From the guide to the Frank Altschul papers, 1924-1941, (Manuscripts and Archives) Investment banker, philanthropist, bibliophile, authority on international affairs. From the description of Frank Altschul papers, 1900-1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCa...

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri, 1864-1901.

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Lerner, Abe, 1908-2002

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Book designer and photographer; New York, N.Y. He designed the layout and format of MOSES SOYER. Soyer is a contemporary artist who emigrated to America from Russia in 1913. His works reveal an interest in realism and sensitive expression of the human figure. From the description of Abe Lerner papers concerning the book MOSES SOYER, 1961-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122291292 Abe Lerner was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. From 1928 to his death he was assoc...

Steinberg, Leo, 1920-2011

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Steinberg, art historian, critic, lecturer and professor, wrote on historical and contemporary art subjects and artists. From the description of Leo Steinberg research papers, 1945-1996 (bulk 1950-1993). (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84394874 ...