Papers, 1923-1969 (inclusive) [microform].

Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

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Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959

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Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings. Berenson was a major figure in the attribution of Old Masters, at a time when these were attracting new interest by American collectors, and his judgments were widely respected in the art world. Recent research has cast doubt on some...

Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 190...

Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978

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Illustrator, painter; Norman Rockwell painted and illustrated 317 covers for the Saturday Evening Post from 1916-1963. From the description of Norman Rockwell collection of Saturday Evening Post covers, 1919-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 777815899 Norman Rockwell was among the most popular and successful American artists of the 20th century. His signature style of representational realism, used to express themes of traditional American values, was easily recognized an...

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976

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Sculptor. From the description of Alexander Calder correspondence, 1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452461 Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Alexander Calder, 1971 Oct. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646395903 B. 1898, d. 1976. From the description of Alexander Calder artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228431975 ...

Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965

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Harvard Professor of Museology. From the description of Lecture notes and related manuscripts, 1926-1955. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80369439 Professor of fine arts. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Joseph Sachs : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309726511 Paul Joseph Sachs, the first associate director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University and a Harvard profes...

MacKnight, Dodge, 1860-1950

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Watercolorist, painter; Sandwich, Mass. During the 1920's Vose Gallery, Boston, sold out every one of MacKnight's paintings. He also used the name W. Dodge Macknight. From the description of Dodge Macknight papers, 1888-1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502470 ...

Wertheim, Maurice, 1886-1950

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Canham, Erwin D.

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Hopkinson, Charles, 1869-1962

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Painter; Massachusetts. From the description of Charles Hopkinson and Hopkinson family papers, 1890-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86132993 ...

James, Frederika Paine

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Hopper, Jo N. (Josephine Nivison), 1883-1968

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Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Dorothy Varian papers, 1902-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 767864474 Dorothy Varian, b. 1895; d. 1987, Painter of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Dorothy Varian, 1980 Dec. 6-7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646398711 ...

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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Architect, educator. Studied architecture at the Universities of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich, Germany from 1903 to 1907. Founded and directed the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919, which Gropius moved to Dessau in 1925 and renamed "Bauhaus Dessau". Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1937 and Chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1938 to 1952. Formed the Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge in 1946. For further information see James ...

Goldberg, Issac, 1887-1938.

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Pouzzner, Bessie London.

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Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Coolidge, John, 1913-1995

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Coolidge earned his Harvard AB in 1935. He was the director of the Fogg Art Museum from 1948-1968. From the description of Notes in Fine Arts 1c and 1d, 1931-1932. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075975 From the description of Notes in History 1, 1931-1932. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075976 Coolidge, John, 1913, Educator and director of the Fogg Art Museum, 1948-1968. From the description of Oral history interview with John C...

Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009

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Andrew Wyeth (b. July 12, 1917, Chadds Ford, PA–d. Jan. 16, 2009, Chadds Ford, PA) was a realist painter and one of the best known American artists of the 20th century. He is the son of artist N.C. Wyeth and began drawing at a young age. In 1937, at age twenty, Wyeth had his first one-man exhibition of watercolors at the Macbeth Gallery in New York City....

John, Augustus, 1878-1961

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The Welsh artist Augustus John was a successful painter and draftsman, and a well known bohemian figure. He was in great demand as a portraitist, although his works were often controversial. During WWI he was employed by the Canadian government as a war artist in France. John visited the United States as a guest of the Carnegie Institute in 1923. In 1942 King George VI awarded him the Order of Merit for services to art. From the description of Letters, 1917-ca. 1957. (Getty Research ...

Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985

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Russian-French painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed (1) and greeting cards signed (2) : Marseilles and St. Paul, to John Rewald, 1941 Jan. 3, 1967 July 18 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870508 Marc Chagall was a Russian-born painter working chiefly in France whose works frequently featured themes from Russian-Jewish folklore and from the Bible. From the description of Marc Chagall letter to D. Vaughan, 1967 February 21. (Pennsyl...

Vermeule, Cornelius C. (Cornelius Clarkson), 1925-2008

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James, William, 1882-

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Portrait painter, instructor; Cambridge, Mass. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Son of psychologist William James (1842-1910), brother of portrait painter Alexander Robertson James, and nephew of novelist Henry James. Pupil of Benson and Tarbell and teacher at Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, 1913-1926. From the description of William James papers, 1883-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80588584 ...

Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972

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Poet, acting editor of The Dial magazine, 1925-1929. Born Marianne Craig Moore. From the description of Book manuscripts, 1935-1967. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122417395 From the description of Albums, [ca. 1905-1936]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122524976 From the description of Family correspondence, 1848-1972, bulk 1905-1972. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122540617 From the desc...

Fink, Frances Sharf

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Frances Sharf Fink, an author, has written on art and been an editor at the Jewish Advocate. Her husband, Nathan H. Fink, was a dentist in Boston, Mass. From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1924-1963. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122609262 From the guide to the Frances Sharf Fink letters from various correspondents, 1924-1963., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Lachaise, Gaston, 1882-1935

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Gaston Lachaise (1882-1935) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. and Maine. Best known for his stylized monumental female nudes, dating from 1918 to the 1930s. From the description of Gaston and Isabelle Nagle Lachaise papers, 1903-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756821031 Sculptor; New York, N.Y.; Maine. Best known for his stylized monumental female nudes, dating from 1918 to the 1930's. From the description o...

Nathan, George Jean, 1882-1958

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Author. From the description of Letter with reply of George Jean Nathan, 1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983742 Editor of The American Spectator. From the description of Letters signed (17) : New York, to Claire Luce, 1933-1955 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270952693 ...

Rathbone, Perry Townsend, 1911-2000

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Art museum director. From the description of Reminiscences of Perry Townsend Rathbone : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309723354 Perry Townsend Rathbone (1911-2000) was a museum director from New York, N.Y. He was a curator at the Detroit Institute of Art, 1936-1940, director of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1940-1955, and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1954-1972. At the time o...

Adlow, Dorothy, 1902-1964

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Adlow (Radcliffe College, A.B. and A.M.) was art critic for the Christian Science Monitor for 41 years. She lectured throughout the United States, travelled widely in Europe, and visited artists and collectors in the U.S. and abroad. She married Nicholas Slonimsky, musicologist and pianist, in 1931; they had one daughter. From the description of Papers, 1923-1969 (inclusive) [microform]. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006901 ...