Oral history interview with Eugene V. Thaw

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...

Thaw, Eugene Victor, 1927-2018

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Eugene Victor Thaw (1927-2018) was an American art collector and art dealer based in New York City with additional residences in Cherry Valley, N.Y. and Santa Fe, N.M. He married his former gallery assistant Clare Eddy in 1954. They remained married until Clare's death in 2017. His personal collection featured more than 400 drawings, including rare works by Goya, Van Gogh and Andrea Mantegna and price-setting items by Rembrandt and Samuel Palmer. Mr. Thaw also earned distinction as the co-au...

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Simon, Norton, 1907-1993

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Ketterer, Norbert

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Pollock-Krasner Foundation

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St. John's College Annapolis, Md

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Matisse, Pierre, 1900-1989

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E.V. Thaw & Co.

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Landau, Jack, 1925-1967

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Castelli, Leo

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Leo Castelli (1907-1999) was an art dealer in New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Leo Castelli, 1969 July [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79081963 b. September 4, 1907; d. August 21, 1999. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122377727 Art collector and dealer; interviewee b. 1907. From the description of Reminiscences of Leo C...

Franka, Gunther.

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Mitchell, Joan, 1925-1992

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Oct. 30, 1992. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 83529128 Joan Mitchell, b. 1925 Feb. 21, Chicago, Ill.; d. 1992 Oct. 30, Paris, France, Painter. Birth date also cited, incorrectly, as 1926. From the description of Oral history interview with Joan Mitchell, 1986 Apr. 16 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80375972 ...

McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-

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Rousseau, Théodore, , 1912-1973

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Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984

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Painter; Easthampton, N.Y. From the description of Lee Krasner interview, 1966 July 31 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82561305 Painter; Easthampton, N.Y.; b. 1908. From the description of Lee Krasner interview, 1972 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77755808 Painter; interviewee married Jackson Pollock, d.1984. From the description of Reminiscences of Lee Krasner : oral history, 1978. (Columbia University In...

Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)

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Art school. Organized in 1875 by students as a revolt against the National Academy of Design school. From the description of Art Students League records, 1875-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565877 ...

Offner, Richard, 1889-1965

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Vavala, Evelyn Sandberg.

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Marca-Relli, Conrad, 1913-2000

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d. August 29, 2000. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 81540644 Collagist, New York, N.Y. Born in Boston, Mass. Taught at Yale University, University of California at Berkeley and the New College in Sarasota, Fla. Developed collage to a high art form. Died Aug. 28, 2000, at age 87. From the description of Conrad Marca-Relli letter, 1963 Aug 22. (Unkn...

Shapiro, Meyer

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Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957

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Mexican painter and muralist. From the description of Declaration in connection with a watercolor and a drawing sold to Mrs. Schwartz, 1934 March 7, Mexico City. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81939422 Diego Rivera, a renowned Mexican mural painter, was commissioned by Mrs. Samuel Strong in 1935 to paint a portrait of her friend, Kathleen Burke, of Cleveland, Ohio. From the description of Receipt from Diego Rivera, 1935 Mar. 5. (Unknown). WorldCa...

Held, Julius S. (Julius Samuel), 1905-2002

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The American art historian Julius Samuel Held (1905-2002) was renowned for his scholarship in 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art, and an authority on the works of Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. Educated in pre-war Germany, Held emigrated in 1934 to the United States where he pursued an academic career at Barnard College, Columbia University. Held also lectured and taught at other colleges and art institutions in the United States. From the description o...

Cleveland Museum of Art. Department of Art History and Education

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Meiss, Millard

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Art historian, Princeton, N.J. Born 1904 Died 1975. From the description of Millard Meiss papers, [ca. 1920-1975]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122576787 ...