Louise Bruner papers

Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975

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Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States. His work is strongly associated with the Midwestern United States, the region in which he was born and which he called home for most of his life. He also studied in Paris, lived in New York City f...

Guevara, Susana, 1896-

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Cotsworth, Staats, 1908-1978.

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Rood, John, 1902-1974

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John Rood, sculptor, was born 22 February 1902 near Athens, Ohio, the son of George D. and Frances E. (Snedden) Rood. He left school at the age of twelve to help his widowed mother support the family, and educated himself in painting, music, and writing. Two years in Europe fostered these interests. Several years' work in printing and publishing culminated in the literary periodical Manuscript, published at Athens from 1934 to 1936, and edited by Rood and his first wife, Mary Lawhea...

Loring, Frances, 1887-1968

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Mac'Avoy, Edouard, 1905-

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Greene, Balcomb, 1904-1990

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Balcombe (John Wesley) Greene (1904-1990) was an American artist known for his modernist landscapes and collages. From the guide to the Balcombe Greene Papers, unspecified, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Balcomb Greene (1904-1990) was a painter from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Balcomb Greene, 1972 Mar. 13 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595043 Painter; New Y...

United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Milliken, William Mathewson, 1889-1978

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Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1930-1958). From the description of Papers, ca. 1885-1978. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 18242561 William Milliken (1889-1978) was a museum director from Cleveland, Ohio. He was the director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930-1958. From the description of Oral history interview with William Milliken, 1974 Dec. 27-1976 Mar. 13 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id:...

Winter, Thelma Frazier, 1903-

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Kozlow, Richard M., 1926-2008

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Richard Kozlow (1926-2008) was a painter and lecturer from Birmingham, Mich. From the description of Oral history interview with Richard Kozlow, 1974 Apr. 5 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495596649 Painter; Detroit, Michigan. From the description of Richard Kozlow papers, 1926-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455474 Painter, lecturer; Birmingham, Michigan. From the description of Richard Kozlow interview, 1974 Apr. 5...

Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904

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Martin Johnson Heade was born in Lumberville, Pennsylvania, in 1819. He studied art under painter Edward Hicks, and began his career as a portrait painter. After traveling abroad and living in Rome for two years, he made his artistic debut in 1841 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Heade began exhibiting regularly in 1848, after another trip to Europe, and became an itinerant artist until he settled in New York in 1859. In the early 1860s he turned to painting landscapes and seascapes, in...

Bookatz, Samuel, 1910-

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Bruner, Louise Katherine, 1910-

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Art critic, writer; Toledo, Ohio Critic for the Toledo Blade. From the description of Louise Bruner papers, 1945-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220169897 ...

Winter, Edward G. A. (Edward George Adlington), 1853-1933

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The Winters were very successful and popular artists in Cleveland, Ohio during the period 1932-76. Edward, whose legal name was H. Edward, was primarily an enamelist, and his wife Thelma was a ceramic sculptor. Edward studied in Vienna, Austria, and introduced many simple sifting techniques he learned there to the U.S. He was the first to use enameling to make large bowls and plates of enamel on copper, and murals on copper and steel. He was associated with the Ferro Corporation in Cleveland for...

Harper, Billy

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Philipp, Robert, 1895-1981

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Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Robert Philipp papers, 1906-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81190939 ...

Botero, Fernando, 1932-....

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