Douglas MacAgy papers

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Douglas MacAgy papers

1916-1973

Correspondence; biographical information; family memorabilia; scrapbook; subject files; photographs; writings; business and financial records; and printed material.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6762610

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MacAgy, Douglas, 1913-

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Art historian, administrator, museum director. Died 1973. MacAgy was chosen to revitalize the 70 year old California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, after WWII, then he was a special consultant to the director of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, as director of research for an art dealer in New York, as director of the Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, and he was Director of National Exhibitions at the National Endowment for the Arts, 1968-1972. ...

Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964

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Marion Lowndes, Palisades, New York, was a close friend of artist, Gerald Murphy. Murphy was a painter, born in Boston, Mass. and lived in Palisades, New York. He was active in Europe around 1921, and painted in an abstract style. From the description of Marion Lowndes letters from Gerald Murphy, 1948-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557109 Gerald Murphy (1888-1964), painter and businessman, and Sara Wiborg Murphy (1883-1975) were wealthy American expatriates in Paris...

Lipman, Jean, 1909-1998

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Jean Lipman (1909-1998) was an art editor and writer from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Jean Lipman, 1973 June 19 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495596665 Art editor, writer; New York, N.Y. Died 1998. From the description of Jean Lipman interview, 1973 June 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220187741 Pioneer scholar and collector in the field of American folk art. From the description o...

Russell, Morgan, 1886-1953

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Morgan Russell was born in Greenwich Village in New York City in 1886. He studied at the Art Students League and the New York School of Art before settling in Paris in 1909, where he studied sculpture with Henri Matisse. He was aware of the avant-garde movements Cubism, Orphism, and Futurism. Turning his attention from sculpture to painting, he developed a style based on the rhythmic use of color, analogous to symphonic musical composition, which he termed Synchromism. Like his cont...