Sal Sirugo papers

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Sal Sirugo papers

1936-1976

Correspondence; personal documents; tax returns; grant applications; applications for public housing; exhibition catalogs; clippings; 34 personal photographs and 17 photographs of Sirugo's paintings. Correspondence concerns housing difficulties, economic problems, arrangements for exhibitions, Sirugo's art work, and friendships. Among the correspondents are Mal Thomas, Andrew Morgan, Warren Brandt, Gladys Ishikawa, and Sidney Geist. Virginia McCall, Sirugo's art teacher during his convalescence, writes about art as occupational therapy for disabled veterans.

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McCall, Virginia, 1909-

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Virginia Nielsen McCall (1909-2000) was an author of romantic and confession stories, self-help articles and books, and juvenile literature. McCall sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Virginia Nielsen. She was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and educated at the University of Idaho and University of California extension classes. McCall began writing for greeting cards companies and short verse for religious publications in 1937. McCall branched out into self-help articles and...

Morgan, Andrew Wesley, 1922-

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Sirugo, Sal, 1920-

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Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Sal Sirugo papers, 1936-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557188 ...

Ishikawa, Gladys.

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Geist, Sidney.

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Sculptor, critic. Born 1914. From the description of Sidney Geist papers, 1938-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86132900 Sidney Geist (1914-2005), sculptor, writer and critic was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He was an apprentice to Paul Feine in Woodstock between 1931-1937, studied with William Zorach, Jose de Creeft and Ossip Zadkine in 1945-46. He taught at Brooklyn College, the University of California at Berkeley, and Southern Illinois University, among...

Thomas, Mal.

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