Oral history interview with Adele S. Brown and William H. Calfee

Crosby, Caresse, 1891-1970

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Caresse Crosby was born Mary Phelps Jacob on April 30, 1891 in New Rochelle, New York, daughter of a prominent New England family. After a brief marriage to Richard Rogers Peabody, she married Harry Crosby in 1922 and soon after moved to France. In April, 1927, they founded a publishing company soon to become The Black Sun Press. The publications included a Hindu Love Book, The Fall of the House of Usher, and letters by Harry's cousin, Henry James, to Walter Berry. Other contributors to the Blac...

Kirwin, Liza

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Tworkov, Jack

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Jack Tworkov was a painter; New York, N.Y.; b. 1900; d. 1982. Bramberger and Tworkov were friends. From the description of Jack Tworkov letters to Troy-Jjohn Bramberger, 1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81952814 Jack Tworkov, 1900-1982, painter of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Jack Tworkov, 1981 May 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007167 Painter; New York, N.Y.; b. 1900; d. 1982. From the descrip...

Phillips Studio House.

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Knaths, Karl, 1891-1971

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Painter. From the description of Karl Knaths interview, 1962 Aug. 2 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80242439 From the description of Oral history interview with Karl Knaths, 1962 Aug. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312026559 Painter; Provincetown, Mass. From the description of Karl Knaths lecture, 1968 Aug. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84559262 Painter, printmaker, educator; Cape Cod, Mass. Die...

Phillips, Duncan

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Marjorie Phillips (1895-1985) was a painter and collector from Washington D.C. Died June 16, 1985. Wife of Duncan Phillips. Social Security Death Index and the Phillips Collection website site her birth date as 1894. From the description of Oral history interview with Marjorie Phillips, 1974 June 27 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495596706 Marjorie Grant Acker (later Phillips) was born in Indiana on October 25, 1894 or...

Phillips, Duncan, 1886-1966

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Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, 1896-1986

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Art historian, museum curator; Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C. Died 1986. From the description of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin papers, 1934-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565670 Adelyn Dohme Breeskin (1986-1986) was a museum director and art historian from Baltimore, Md. and Washington, D.C. From the description of Oral history interview with Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, 1979 Aug. 1-14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477474 Adelyn D. Breeskin (1896-1...

Gates, Robert Franklin, 1906-1982.

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Painter, instructor; Washington, D.C. Gates taught in the art department at American University from 1946-1976, serving as chair from 1953-1957. He also taught at the Phillips Memorial Gallery (now Collection) art school. From the description of Robert Franklin Gates papers, 1916-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84451799 Robert Franklin Gates (1906-1982) was a painter and instructor in Washington, D.C. Gates studied under...

West, Hal, 1902-1968

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Illustrator, graphic artist; Santa Fe, N.M. From the description of Oral history interview with Hal West, 1964 May 1 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 317592459 From the description of Hal West interview, 1964 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220197654 From the description of Oral history interview with Hal West, 1964 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312026464 ...

Acheson, Alice

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Painter, illustrator; Washington, D.C. Born 1895. Full name Alice Stanley Acheson; granddaughter of painter John Mix Stanley. Wife of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. From the description of Alice Stanley Acheson letter, 1944 March 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565873 ...

Cross, Bernice (American painter, 1912-1996)

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Marin, John, 1870-1953

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Painter, etcher. From the description of John Marin letter to Louis Kalonyme, 1953 July 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122403986 John Marin was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1870. He spent two years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1898-1900), one year at the Art Students' league, and four years in Europe, mainly Paris, where he free-lanced in etching, oil, and watercolor. He was mentored by Alfred Stieglitz, famous New York photographer, who showed Marin's ...

Groves, George, 1933-

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Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-1991

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Prentiss Taylor was born 1907 in Washington, D.C. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City and became a noted landscape painter. He spent four months in Charleston, South Carolina in 1933 doing sketches of rundown buildings. Working for the W.P.A., he made a series of lithographs from these drawings. He was also an illustrator about stories of blacks in the South. He served as president of the Society of Washington Printmakers for 34 years and did pioneering work in art theorapy wi...

Brown, Adele Smith, 1910-

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Art administrator and instructor; Washington, D.C.; Full name Adele Smith Brown; Maiden name Adele K. Smith. Brown worked as manager of the Phillips Studio House of the Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1933-1937; manager of the Museum of Modern Art Gallery of Washington, affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 1937-1939, followed by an exhibition assistant, 1940-1942 for the Section of Fine Arts; b. 1910; d. 2001. From the description of Adele S. Brow...

Calfee, William H. 1909-1995.

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Painter, sculptor; Washington, D.C. area. Calfee worked on WPA mural projects for post offices in the 1930s. He was chair of the art dept. at American University, 1945-1954. From the description of William H. Calfee papers, 1937-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122596 ...

Watkins, Law Bradley

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Noland, Kenneth, 1924-2010

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Kenneth Noland (1924- ) is a painter from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Kenneth Noland, 1971 October 9-December 21 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495596695 Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Kenneth Noland, 1971 October 9 - December 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 227191418 Kenneth Noland (1924-2010) was a painter, educator in South Salem, New York, and fr...