Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1941-1971, n.d.

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Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1941-1971, n.d.

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Mauricio Lasansky's letters to Carl Zigrosser concern his print studio and students at the State University of Iowa, grant applications, and their work with the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1959, Zigrosser was asked by the American Federation of Arts to curate a retrospective of Lasansky's prints. A large portion of the material in these files concerns that work. Included are letters with Robert Luck listing expenses and giving timetables and deadlines, Zigrosser's detailed notes on Lasansky's prints (giving dates, states and titles), a bibliography, and drafts of Zigrosser's essay.

118 item (199 leaves and 4 pamphlets).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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LUCK, ROBERT H.

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Lasansky, Mauricio, 1914-2012

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Mauricio Lasansky was born October 12, 1914 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to parents of Lithuanian ancestry. His interest in printing was stirred at a young age, because his father made engravings for printing the currency of Argentina. Young Lasansky began his formal printmaking education at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes, and within three years was the director of the Free Fine Arts School in Argentina. In 1943 he studied at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York under a Guggenheim Fel...

American federation of arts

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The American Federation of Arts was a non-profit education association that sponsored group and one-man shows as well as lecture tours to promote the arts in America. The correspondence with A.F.A. staff Leila Mechlin, Horace Jayne and Burton Cummings deals primarily with exhibitions of the work of Federico CastelloĢn, Misch Kohn and Mauricio Lasansky. Also mentioned is a lecture tour on prints made by Elmer Adler. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1929-1953...