John Richard Craft papers, 1909-1992; (bulk, 1954-1992).

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John Richard Craft papers, 1909-1992; (bulk, 1954-1992).

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Letters, programs, and other items documenting the life of John Richard Craft as first director of the Columbia Museum of Art (1950-1977), including his early career in Pennsylvania, studies in Europe, and work to secure federal support for the arts in South Carolina with the passage of the National Endowment for the Arts during the mid-1960s. Includes items documenting Crafts' advocacy of the arts, his chair on the South Carolina Title IV State Advisory Council (1976-1980), and his part in the founding of the South Carolina State Museum, ca. 1978. Also includes four letters, 6 Dec. 1971-4 Aug. 1986, from portrait painter Everett Raymond Kinstler of New York City, and 24 photographs of portraits of South Carolinians painted by Kinstler; an exchange of eight letters, 1978-1982, between Craft and Norman Hirschl, of Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, re the disposal of paintings by Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir, privately owned in Columbia, S.C. Other correspondents include Georgia artist Lamar Dodd, Elizabeth Boatwright Coker, James B. Edwards, Catharine Rembert, John G. Sproat, John Waddill, and archeologist Oscar Broneer (1894-1922).

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Sproat, John G.

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Hirschl, Norman.

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Hirchl & Adler Galleries.

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Edwards, James B., 1927-

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James Burrows Edwards was born in Hawthorne, Florida on June 24, 1927. He graduated with honors from the University of Louisville School of Dentistry in 1955. In addition, he was president of the student body and graduating class. He then attended Graduate Medical School (1957-58) at the University of Pennsylvania for Advanced Correlated Clinical Sciences. He was a resident of oral surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan from 1958-1960. Dr. Edwards served in the U.S. Maritime Service...

Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903

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French painter. From the description of Paintings sold to Caillebotte : autograph manuscript notes : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270858214 From the description of Letters, 1882-1903. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81892174 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Félix Fénéon, 1889 Feb. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872111 ...

Kinstler, Everett Raymond

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South Carolina portrait artist; b. 1926. From the description of Raymond Everett Kinstler papers, 1960-1975. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 31028455 ...

Coker, Elizabeth Boatwright

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Waddill, John

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Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919

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French painter. From the description of Letters, 1882-1919. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 146000012 From the description of Autograph postal card signed : [postmark: Paris], to Monsieur Wyzewa, [1897 Dec. 22]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872160 ...

National Endowment for the Arts

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Dodd, Lamar

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b. Fairburn, Ga.; d. Sept. 21, 1996, Athens, Ga. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 86101080 Painter and educator (Athens, Ga.). Born in 1909, Dodd taught at the University of Georgia. In addition, he was chairman of of the committee that revitalized Gutzon Borglum's carving project at Stone Mountain, Georgia, in the early sixties. From the description of Lamar Dodd selected...

Broneer, Oscar, 1894-1992

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American relief worker in Greece. From the description of Greece as I saw it : sound recording, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122561008 Biographical/Historical Note American relief worker in Greece. From the guide to the Oscar Theodore Broneer sound recording : Greece as I saw it, undated, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

South Carolina State Museum

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Craft, John Richard, 1909-

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Founder and director, Columbia Museum of Art (Columbia, S.C.); died, Jan. 1999. From the description of John Richard Craft papers, 1909-1992; (bulk, 1954-1992). (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 30066852 ...

Rembert, Catharine

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