Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1936-1957, n.d.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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The main building of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a new art reference library, named the Thomas J. Watson Library, was designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford and Forbes in consultation with the Museum. Severud-Elstad-Krueger were the structural engineers; Krey and Hunt were the mechanical engineers. The Library formally opened Jan. 26, 1965. It occupies three floors: the two lower floors comprise s...

Mechau, Frank, 1904-1946

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Mural painter; Colorado. Painted for the Public Works of Art Project in Colorado. From the description of Frank Mechau correspondence and mural contracts, 1934-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122936 ...

Newcombe, Warren

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Blumenthal, Joseph, 1897-1990

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American printer. From the description of Typographic years, [ca. 1980]-1982. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936707 Joseph Blumenthal, American printer, printing historian, and type designer. From the description of Joseph Blumenthal papers, 1922-1991. (RIT Library). WorldCat record id: 745451641 Joseph Blumenthal, American printer, printing historian, and type designer. Blumenthal designed Spiral type in 1931 in Germany so that it c...

Meissner, Leo, 1895-1977.

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Golden, Samuel A.

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Samuel Golden, New York printer who specialized in theatrical publicity materials and owner of Artcraft Litho and Printing Company. From the description of Samuel Golden theater collection, [ca. 1930-1979]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476208 ...

WOICESKE, R. W.

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Cheffetz, Asa, 1896-1965

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Rannells, Edward Warder, 1892-1972.

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Writer; Lexington, Kentucky. From the description of Oral history interview with Edward Warder Rannells, 1965 June 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007112 From the description of Edward Warder Rannells interviews, 1965 June 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220195811 Edward Warder Rannells (1892-1972) was a writer from Lexington, Ky. From the description of Oral history interview with Edward Warder Rannells, 1965 June 2 [sound recording]. (Unknown). ...

Flint, Ralph, 1885-....

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Howard, Eloise.

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Spiral Press

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The Spiral Press was an American fine press founded by Joseph Blumenthal (1897-1990) in 1926. Between 1926 and its closure in 1971, the press designed and printed books for or by Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Pablo Neruda, William Carlos Williams, Robinson Jeffers and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The press's institutional clients included the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library, Museum of Modern Art, Frick Collection, Random House, and CBS Television Network. Blumentha...

Karasz, Ilonka, 1896-1981

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Silberman, James M.

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BUTTS, HUGH F.

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Higgins, Eugene, 1874-1958

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Painter and etcher; New York City and Lyme, Connecticut. From the description of Eugene Higgins certificate, 1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565566 ...

Olson, Helen Jane, 1898-1984

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Helen Jane Olson was born in Scotland on May 29, 1898, to William and Mary Ann (Stewart) Barron. She emigrated to the western United States, and married Edward H. Olson in 1938 in Seattle, Washington. The couple settled in Miles City, Montana, where she worked as a teacher. Olson attended Miles City Community College, then transferred to the University of Montana in Missoula. In June, 1947, she graduated from the university with degrees in both history and political science, and wit...

Davenport, H. Jean.

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Lewis, Allen, 1873-1957

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American wood engraver & type designer. From the description of Allen Lewis papers, [ca.1925-1945]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 609578406 Allen Lewis was born April 7, 1873 in Mobile, Alabama to Seth Francis and Ida L. Lewis. Lewis was educated in public schools and later studied at the Buffalo Art Students League under George Bridgman. In September 1894 Lewis began studying art at Ecole des Beaux Arts. After returning to the United...

Ruellan, Andrée.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a leading American film production company, was established in 1924, an amalgam of three older production companies: Metro Pictures Corporation, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures, and was under the corporate control of the exhibiting concern, Loew's Inc. From the guide to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films and personalities scrapbooks, 1920-1944, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the ...

Dehn, Adolf, 1895-1968

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Painter, printmaker; New York, N.Y. From the description of Adolf Dehn letters, [ca. 1932-1987]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122355167 Painter, lithographer (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Adolf Dehn interviews, 1963 Jan. 23-1964 Feb. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220179288 Artist; was a concientious objector in World War I, performed alternative service at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S.C., the bulk of this correspondence was written d...

Sandzén, Birger, 1871-1954

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American Institute of Graphic Arts

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Griffen, Davenport

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Peirce, Waldo, 1884-1970

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Nationally recognized American artist Waldo Peirce (1884-1970) was known for illustrating envelopes. Peirce was a Harvard alumnus, having earned his Harvard AB 1908; the addressee, William Bingham (1889-1971) earned his Harvard AB 1916 and served as director of athletics at Harvard from 1926 to 1951. These envelopes were sent during a period when the Harvard football team was at a low point and being criticized by the press. From the description of Illustrated envelopes addressed to ...

American Artists Group

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In response to the hardships suffered by American artists during the Depression, the American Artists Group was formed in 1936 by Samuel Golden and Carl Zigrosser. They hoped to sell original prints by known artists made in unlimited runs, and sell them by mail at unusually low prices. By keeping costs low, the American Artists Group hoped to generate steady incomes for their artists, built on volume sales, by opening the fine art market to a new kind of customer. The Group quickly expanded into...

Ganso, Emil, 1895-1941

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Painter, printmaker; Woodstock, N.Y. From the description of Emil Ganso papers, 1930-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515010 From the description of Emil Ganso papers, 1930-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 744426273 ...

Ferguson, Duncan

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Eby, Kerr, 1890-1946

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Based on a trip Eby made to England and France in 1924-1925. From the description of Rye marshes [graphic] / Eby. 1929. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 45266651 Artist and illustrator, Westport, Conn., born in Japan to Methodist missionaries. He moved to the U.S. at 18 to pursue a career in art. His illustrations appeared in the magazines "Life" and "The Century." From the description of Letter : Westport, Conn., to Mrs. [Evelyn] Frichter, [Providence, R....

Murphy, Alice Harold (American painter, 1896-1966)

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Sowers, Roy Vernon, 1897-

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American book dealer. From the description of Correspondence, 1952-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122540896 ...

Dalzell Hatfield Gallery.

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Lewenthal, Reeves, 1909-1987

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Frame, Walter K.

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Lubell, Winifred

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Winifred A. Milius Lubell is an artist, designer and illustrator of children's books, who sometimes worked in collaboration with her husband, Cecil Lubell, or with other authors. From the description of Papers, 1956-1968. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63301875 Winifred Lubell was born June 14, 1914, in New York, NY. She became an artist and illustrator of children's books, and has had her art exhibited in several major cities in the U. S. Much o...

Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987

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Soyer was a painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Artists' statement, 1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122394893 Painter. From the description of Raphael Soyer papers, 1949-1954. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935130 Raphael Soyer, 1899-1987, painter of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Raphael Soyer, 1981 May 13-June 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 657038622 From ...

Walton, Marion (American sculptor, born 1899)

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Carnegie corporation of New York

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The World Center for Women's Archives was created by Mary Ritter Beard in 1936 to collect material on women in the United States and abroad on the grounds that without documents women would continue to be excluded from written history. A secondary purpose was to encourage research an teaching on women's history. The WCWA was disolved in 1941 due to financial problems, and the outbreak of World War II; collections were distributed to Radcliffe and Smith Colleges, and other universities and librar...

Cikovsky, Nicolai

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Reynard, Grant T., 1887-1968

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Grant T. Reynard (1887-1968) was an American artist and illustrator. His illustrations appeared in many national magazines, including Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, Ladies' Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Collier's, McCall's, and many more. Grant Tyson Reynard was born October 20, 1887, at Grand Island, Nebraska, to Stephen Blackstone and Jennie Lynd (Bacon) Reynard. He studied at the Chicago Art Institute, 1906-1907, and Chicago Academy of Fine A...

Associated American Artists

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Associated American Artists was established in 1934 in New York City. From the guide to the Associated American Artists Records, 1916-1974, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Organized in 1934 to stimulate interest throughout the U.S. in the ownership of works of art by promoting the sale of prints through department stores. In 1935, oils, watercolors, and other media were added. Later the department store project was abandoned in favor of a...

Miller, George Chapman, 1828-1905

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Pezet, Alfonso Washington, 1889-

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DeBaufer, Harry P.

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Costigan, John

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Epithet: Canadian statesman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000572.0x0002a4 ...

Balderston, Anne

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