Janet Frame papers, 1925-1990 (bulk 1969-1989).

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Janet Frame papers, 1925-1990 (bulk 1969-1989).

The bulk of the collection consists of Frame's letters to California artists William Theo Brown and Paul Wonner, 1969-1989; 77 photographs of Frame, her family, her houses, and her cats; some drawings, poems, and collages she sent to Brown and Wonner; and two cassette recordings of her reading poetry, the cat purring, and an interview with New Zealand author and her friend, Frank Sargeson. In her letters, Frame writes about her work, the difficulties she has writing, her distaste of neighbors and noise, the antics of her cats, politics, her health, money problems, her travels, stays at the MacDowell and Yaddo artists' colonies, and her friends (Charles Brasch, Sue Marquand, John Money, Frank Sargeson, May Sarton, and Jacquie Baxter [J.C. Sturm]).

0.90 cubic feet.

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Yaddo (Artists' colony)

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Yaddo is an artists' retreat located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Yaddo first began welcoming creative guests in 1926, but its roots extend back to the final decades of the 19th century. After the loss of their fourth child, Spencer and Katrina Trask decided to bequeath their baronial mansion and its surrounding grounds to future generations of creative men and women. Yaddo's guest list has included Newton Arvin, Milton Avery, James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capot...

MacDowell (Peterborough, N.H.)

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MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States, founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDowell Colony (or simply "the Colony") but the Board of Directors voted to remove "Colony" from the name in an effort to remove "terminology with oppressive overtones". After Edward MacDowell died in 1908, Marian MacDowell established the artists' residency pr...

Wonner, Paul, 1920-2008

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Painter; San Francisco, Calif.; b. 1920. From the description of Paul Wonner photographs and printed material, [ca. 1956-2005]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84547896 ...

Marquand, Sue.

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Brown, William Theo, 1919-

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William T. Brown (1919- ) is a painter in San Francisco, Calif. Jonathan Weinberg (1957- ) is an artist and art historian in New Haven, Conn. From the description of Oral history interview with William T. Brown, 2010 Aug. 23-24 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 710020647 Painter; San Francisco, Calif. Associated with the late 1950s movement of Bay Area figurative painting. Had particularly close ties with contemporary musical and lite...

Sargeson, Frank

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Money, John, 1921-2006

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Physician; Baltimore, Maryland. From the description of John Money papers, 1962-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122571621 Biography John William Money was born on July 8, 1921, in Morrinsville, Waikato, New Zealand. He grew up in a conservative, evangelical Christian family, which may have influenced his research focus later in life. He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Victoria University in 1943,...

Sarton, May, 1912-1995

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By Source, Fair use, Link May Sarton (May 3, 1912-July 16, 1995), poet and novelist, was born Elanore Marie Sarton in Wondelgem, Belgium, the daughter of George Sarton, a noted historian of science, and Eleanor Mabel Elwes, an English portrait painter and designer. Sarton moved with her parents to England, and in 1916 the family immigrated to the United States. All three became naturalized Americans in 1924, by which time Sarton's name had been Americanized to Eleanor May. Sart...

Sturm, J. C.

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Frame, Janet

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Janet Paterson Frame was born on August 28, 1924 in Dunedin, New Zealand. She published novels, an autobiography in three separately published parts, and collections of short stories and poetry. One novel, A State of Siege, became a film, and Jane Campion based her film, An Angel at My Table, on Michael King's biography of Frame. On 29 January 2004, at age 79, Janet Frame died from blood and bone marrow cancer. From the description of Janet Frame papers, 1925-1990 (bulk 1969-1989). (...

Brasch, Charles

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