Albert Kotin papers

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Albert Kotin papers

1935-1977

Approximately 200 letters, 1943-1945, to his wife, some illustrated; ca. 250 letters to and from friends, among them Matthias Goeritz, Bennett Buck and Ted Boppel; several sketches; notes on art technique, theory, and art materials; unpublished fiction and poetry; exhibition catalogs and announcements; financial records; a few photographs of Kotin and others; and printed miscellany.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6762550

Archives of American Art

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United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts.

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Established 1934 under the Treasury Department as the Section of Painting and Sculpture. Name changed to Section of Fine Arts in 1938. In 1939, the Federal Works Agency was established and set up the Public Buildings Administration, which combined the Treasury Department's Public Buildings Branch and the Branch of Public Buildings of the National Park Service. The Section's function was to decorate new federal buildings. Unlike the other New Deal art agencies, it was not a relief project, but aw...

Treasury Relief Art Project.

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The Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP) was established in 1935 under the Department of the Treasury with special funds allocated from the Works Progress Administration (later the Work Projects Administration) to decorate those federal buildings not funded by the Section of Fine Arts and as a relief agency for unemployed, but highly competent artists. The Chief of TRAP was Olin Dows, Forbes Watson was Director, and Cecil H. Jones Assistant Chief, later replacing Dows. From the descrip...

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 ...