Oral history interview with Peter Agostini

Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943

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Marsden Hartley, one of the early modernist painters and also a poet, was born in Lewiston, Maine, in 1877. After his mother's death, he moved to Cleveland to live with his father and stepmother, attending the Cleveland Institute of Art. He then moved on to study at the New York School of Art, where he found inspiration in the works of the American transcendentalists, particularly Emerson and Whitman. Among his other influences were Emily Dickison, his friend and contemporary Hart Crane, and Ger...

Judd, Donald, 1928-1994

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Born Donald Clarence Judd on June 3, 1928 in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, he served in the United States Army from June 1946 until November 1947. Before he transitioned to work in three dimensions, Judd began as a painter and an art critic, having studied philosophy and art history at Columbia University and painting at the Art Students League. He developed his idea of the permanent installation of his work and collections first in New York, at 101 Spring Street, and later in Marfa, Texas. Throu...

Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967

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An abstract painter considered influential in the development of Minimalism. Though a contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists, he rejected biomorphism and developed paintings based on geometry, specifically grids, often using a single color in gradations. His last works were a series of all-black canvases. From the Getty's Union List of Artist Names record...

Segal, George, 1924-2000

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George Segal was born in New York on November 26, 1924, to a Jewish couple who emigrated from Eastern Europe. His parents first settled in the Bronx where they ran a butcher shop and later moved to a New Jersey poultry farm. George spent many of his early years working on the poultry farm, helping his family through difficult times. For a while, George lived with his aunt in Brooklyn so that he could attend Stuyvesant Technical High School and prepare himself for a future in the math/science ...

United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986

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Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, renowned for her contribution to modern art.Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. By the time she graduated from high school in 1905, O’Keeffe had determined to make her way as an artist. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, where she learned the techniques of traditional painting. Th...

Roszak, Theodore, 1907-1981

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Theodore Roszak (May 1, 1907 – September 2, 1981) was a Polish-American sculptor and painter. He was born in Posen, Prussia (German Empire), now Poznań, Poland, as a son of Polish parents, and emigrated to the United States at the age of two. From 1925 to 1926 he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, In 1930 he won the Logan Medal of the Arts, then moved to New York City to take classes at the National Academy of Design with George Luks and at Columbia University, where he studi...

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author, poet, and critic. In 1834 Poe married his cousin Virginia, who was not quite fourteen at the time, and began seriously seeking a means of supporting "his family." In the spring of 1835, the family moved back to Richmond where Poe took a position with the Southern Literary Messenger . Poe used the opportunity to publish several of his poems and short tales in the paper, but he also began developing his reputation as a pugnacious critic by contr...

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...

Lipton, Seymour, 1903-1986

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Sculptor; New York, N.Y.; d. 1986. From the description of Oral history interview with Seymour Lipton, 1964 Apr. 28-May 20 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312026575 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. From the description of Seymour Lipton papers, 1915-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82903229 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. Died 1986. From the description of Seymour Lipton interview, 1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220187676 ...

Manship, Paul, 1885-1966

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Sculptor. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Manship : oral history, 1956. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733743 From the description of Paul Manship interview, 1959 Feb. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80437629 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. From the description of Paul Manship papers, 1863-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502772 From the description of Paul Manship interview, 1956 Oct. 9-31...

Kaprow, Allan

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Allan Kaprow, Painter, educator of Pasadena, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Allan Kaprow, 1968 Sept. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 657039358 From the description of Allan Kaprow interview, 1968 Sept. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220186948 Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) was a painter and educator from Pasadena, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Allan Kaprow, 1968 Sept. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat recor...

Zorach, William, 1887-1966

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Sculptor, painter; interviewees are married. From the description of Reminiscences of Willam and Marguerite Zorach : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309727160 William Zorach (1887-1966) was a sculptor and painter from New York, N.Y. From the description of William Zorach letter to Mr. Shipley, Feb. 8, 1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756821127 Artist. From the description of William Z...

Lippold, Richard, 1915-

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Sculptor (Locust Valley, N.Y.). From the description of Richard Lippold interview, 1971 Dec. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220178732 Richard Lippold (1915-2002) was a sculptor from Locust Valley, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Richard Lippold, 1971 Dec. 1 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595044 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. From the description of Richard Lippold papers, 1944-1977. (Unknown). World...

Smith, Tony, 1912-1980

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Tony Smith (1912-1980) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Tony Smith, 1978 Aug. 22-30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477529 Tony Smith, b. 1912; d. 1980, Sculptor of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Tony Smith, 1978 Aug. 22-30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397565 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. Died 1980. From the description of Tony Smith interviews, 1978...

Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967

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Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker. While he is widely known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Hopper created subdued drama out of commonplace subjects 'layered with a poetic meaning', inviting narrative interpretations. He was praised for "complete verity" in the America he portrayed. His career benefited significantly from his marriage to fellow-artist Josephine Nivison, who...

Cornell, Joseph

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American artist. From the description of Joseph Cornell letters : Flushing (N.Y.), to Charles Henri Ford, 1938-1957. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 123429522 Assemblage artist. Born 1903, died 1972. From the description of Joseph Cornell letters to Muriel Streeter Schwartz, 1957-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86118594 Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) was an assemblagist, collagist, and filmmaker from Flushing, N.Y. ...

Hare, David, 1917-1992

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Sculptor; New York City. Died 1992. From the description of David Hare papers, 1944-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122648004 David Hare, b. 1917; d. 1992, Sculptor of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with David Hare, 1968 Jan. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397088 David Hare (1917-1992) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with David Hare, 1968 Jan. 17. (Un...

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...

Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956

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Jackson Pollock was born in 1912, in Cody, Wyoming, the youngest of five sons. His family moved several times during his childhood, finally settling in Los Angeles. In 1930 he joined his older brother, Charles, in New York City, and studied with Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York. Pollock worked during the 1930s for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. During 1936 he worked in artist David Alfaro Siqueiros's Experimental Workshop. In...

Smith, David, 1906-1965

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Sculptor; Bolton Landing, N.Y. From the description of David Smith interview, 1964 Oct. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80437636 Sculptor. Studied painting at the Art Students League in New York City between 1927 and 1932. Smith began working with sculpture around the time of leaving the League. In 1940 he moved to upstate New York where he remained until his death in 1965. Retrospective exhibitions of Smith's work at the Museum of Modern Art in 1957, and at the Fogg Art ...

Stankiewicz, Richard, 1922-1983

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Sculptor, educator; Huntington, Mass. From the description of Richard Stankiewicz interviews, 1963 Feb.-Aug. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190445 From the description of Richard Stankiewicz interviews, 1979 June 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190460 From the description of Richard Stankiewicz interviews, 1963 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82224285 From the description of Oral history interview with Richard Stankiewicz, 196...

Morris, Robert, 1931-....

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Robert Morris (1931-) is a sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Morris, 1968 Mar. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83475559 ...

Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988

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Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was a sculptor from Long Island City, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Isamu Noguchi, 1968 Apr. 22 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78996711 From the description of Oral history interview with Isamu Noguchi, 1973 Nov. 7-1973 Dec. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83401964 From the description of Oral history interview with Isamu Noguchi, 1973 Nov. 7-Dec. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477625 ...

Chamberlain, John, 1927-2011

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Epithet: of the Ordnance Drawing Room British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x0003ad Sculptor; Sarasota, Florida. From the description of John Chamberlain interview, 1991 Jan. 29-30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220201687 John Chamberlain, 1927-, sculptor of Sarasota, Florida. From the description of Oral history interview with John Chamberlain, 1991 Jan. 29-30. (Unknown). Wo...

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet and author. From the description of Walt Whitman collection, 1842-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702172830 Poet, journalist, essayist. From the description of Letter, 1863 July 27-1863 Sept. 9. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 477038304 American author. From the description of Letter to Mary E. Van Nostrand, 1890 November 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49377819 America...

Marisol, 1930-

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Sculptor; New York, N.Y. From the description of Marisol interview, 1968 Feb. 8 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80026209 Marisol (1930- ) is a sculptor in New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Marisol, 1968 Feb. 8 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 613316382 ...

Di Suvero, Mark, 1933-....

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Sculptor; New York, N.Y. From the description of Mark di Suvero and di Suvero family papers, 1934-2005. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 710019826 From the description of Mark di Suvero and di Suvero family papers, 1934-2005. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79376327 ...

La Tour, Onya, 1896-1976

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Collector, dealer, and painter; Columbus, Ind. La Tour was founder of the Indiana Museum of Modern Art, Brown County, Indiana. From the description of Onya La Tour papers, 1940-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80156576 Art collector, dealer, and painter; Columbus, Ind. La Tour founded the Indianapolis Museum for Modern Art, which no longer exists. She was director of the Federal Art Gallery, N.Y., and the Onya La Tour Gallery, N.Y. From the description of Ony...

Lassaw, Ibram, 1913-2003

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Sculptor; East Hampton, N.Y.; b. May 4, 1913, Alexandria, Egypt; d. Dec. 30, 2003 at the age of 90. From the description of Ibram Lassaw papers, 1928-2003. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82983829 From the description of Ibram Lassaw interview, 1968 Aug. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220187509 Ibram Lassaw (1913-2003) was a sculptor in East Hampton, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Ibram Lassaw, 1968 Aug. 26 [sound recording]....

Hague, Raoul, 1905-1993

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Sculptor; Woodstock and NYC, N.Y. Birthdate also listed as 1904. Died 1993. From the description of Oral history interview with Raoul Hague, 1983 Sept. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 227192593 Sculptor; Woodstock, N.Y. and NYC. Birthdate also listed as 1904. Died 1993. From the description of Raoul Hague interview, 1964 Nov. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78626499 d. Feb. 17, 1993. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous un...

De Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978

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Italian painter. From the description of Assortimento di verita (essay), ca. 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81610064 Greek-born Italian painter. From the description of Assortimento di verità : autograph manuscript signed, [after 1943]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870147 ...

Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944

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Nakian, Reuben, 1897-1986

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Sculptor; Stamford, Ct. Died 1986. From the description of Reuben Nakian interviews, 1981 June 9-June 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220188656 Sculptor; Stamford, Conn. Died 1986. From the description of Reuben Nakian interview, 1981 Apr. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84555292 Sculptor; Stamford, Conn.; d. 1986. From the description of Reuben Nakian interviews, 1981 June 9-June 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276394238 Reu...

Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906

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French artist. From the description of Autograph letter (incomplete at end and lacking signature) : [Paris], to his parents, [1876 Sept. 10]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870505 ...

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 ...

Agostini, Peter

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Peter Agostini (1913-1993) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Peter Agostini, 1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 657041545 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. Born 1913. Died 1993. From the description of Peter Agostini interview, 1968 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646400697 From the description of Peter Agostini interview, 1968 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82223590 ...

Kohn, Gabriel, 1910-1975

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Tobey, Mark

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Painter; Abstract Expressionist. Also worked as fashion illustrator, portrait painter. Born in Wisconsin, December 11, 1892. Died 1976. Worked in Chicago, Seattle, Basel, Switzerland; New York, N.Y., Dartington Hall, Devonshire, England, and Paris. Convert to Baha'i religion. From the description of Mark Tobey papers, [ca. 1920]-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78566820 Tobey was a painter; Seattle, Wash. Corle was at one time a New York City stage actress and wife of no...

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

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Herman Melville (b. Aug. 1, 1819, NY, NY–d. Sept. 28, 1891, NY, NY) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and or...

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...

Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973

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American artist; co-founder of the Synchromism movement. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [postmarked Santa Monica], to Morgan Russell, 1929 Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606816 Painter; Los Angeles, California. From the description of Oral history interview with Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 1967 May 26 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81393723 "Noted American painter Stanton Macdonald-Wright ... was hired to p...

Kienholz Edward 1927-1994

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Edward Kienholz (October 23, 1927 – June 10, 1994) was an American installation artist and assemblage sculptor whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life. From 1972 onwards, he assembled much of his artwork in close collaboration with his artistic partner and fifth wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz. Throughout much of their career, the work of the Kienholzes was more appreciated in Europe than in their native United States, though American museums have featured their art more prominently...

Maillol, Aristide, 1861-1944

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French sculptor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Banyuls-sur-Mer, to Garner, ca. 1900-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270844663 From the description of Autograph letters signed (6) and autograph letters (2) : Banyuls-sur-Mer, to John Rewald, 1938 Jan. 20-1941 Feb. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871389 From the description of Copies of letters (2) : Banyuls-sur-Mer, to Barr, 1940 Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874577 ...

Kolbe, Georg, 1877-1947

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Pompon, François, 1855-1933

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Ferber, Herbert, 1906-1991

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Herbert Ferber, 1906-1991, sculptor and painter of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Herbert Ferber, 1981 June 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007155 Sculptor, painter; New York, N.Y. Died 1991. From the description of Herbert Ferber interviews, 1968 Apr. 22-1969 Jan. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185963 Herbert Ferber (1906-1991) was a sculptor and painter in New York, N.Y. From the description of...

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...

Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965

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Painter; Irvington, N.Y. From the description of Charles Sheeler letter to E.P. Richardson, 1958 Sept. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79265385 From the description of Oral history interview with Charles Sheeler, 1959 June 18 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79269772 Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) was a painter, lithographer, and photographer from Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. From the description of Charles Sheeler papers, circa 1840s-1966,...

Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994

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Clement Greenberg, for many years America's most influential art critic, helped to create an audience and market for New York School artists such as Pollock, Newman, and David Smith. Greenberg wrote for Partisan review in the late 1930s and began writing art reviews for The Nation in the 1940s. Beginning in the 1950s, he abandoned regular reviewing in favor of the occasional article, organized exhibitions, lectured around the world, and served as a consultant for galleries, museums, and dealers....

Roberts, Colette, 1910-1971

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Colette Jacqueline Roberts (1910-1971) was a French-born artist, teacher, critic and gallery director. Born in Paris, she studied at the École du Louvre, the Academy Ranson, and the Institut d’Art et Archéologie. She moved to the United States during World War II and became a U.S. citizen shortly thereafter, becoming an active part of the New York art world. In addition to her own work, she wrote and lectured on modern art and fostered cultural exchange efforts between her native and adopted cou...

Dove, Arthur Garfield. 1880-1946

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Arthur Dove painted with Brooks's daughter-in-law, Inez Seibert Brooks. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [Between 1920 and 1946]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 175227818 Arthur Garfield Dove (1880-1946) and Helen Torr Dove were painters from Geneva and Centerport, N.Y. Born in Canandaigua, N.Y., Arthur Dove settled in New York City in 1903, becoming an illustrator for popular magazines, including ...

Scarpitta, Salvatore, 1919-2007

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Sculptor.; d. Apr. 12, 2007, at age 88. From the description of Salvatore Scarpitta interview, 1975 Jan. 31.-Feb. 3 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220189903 Salvatore Scarpitta (1919-2007) was a sculptor. From the description of Oral history interview with Salvatore Scarpitta, 1975 Jan. 31.-Feb. 3 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007050 ...

Kline, Franz, 1910-1962

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Franz Kline created bold, vigorous, large-scale calligraphic abstract paintings in black and white. His first solo exhibition at the Egan Gallery, New York, in 1950 established him as one of the leading Abstract Expressionists. In the late 1950s he integrated strong colors into some of his works. From the description of Franz Kline papers, 1930-1967. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 518305942 ...

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997

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Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) was an abstract artist from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Willem De Kooning and others, 1979 Sept. (Smithsonian Archives of American Art). WorldCat record id: 688855147 Abstract artist; New York. 1904-1997. From the description of Oral history interview with Willem DeKooning and others, 1979 September [sound recording]. (Smithsonian Archives of American Art). WorldCat record id: 123944643 ...

Bontecou, Lee, 1931-....

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Lee Bontecou (1931-) is a sculptor and print maker from New York, N.Y. Bontecou studied at the Art Students League of New York and taught at Brooklyn College. From the description of Oral history interview with Lee Bontecou, 2009 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 317592536 ...

Sugarman, George, 1912-1999

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Sculptor, painter; New York, N.Y. b. 1912 d. 1999. From the description of Oral history interview with George Sugarman, 1974 June 20-June 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007056 From the description of George Sugarman interviews, 1974 June 20-June 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190529 d. August 25, 1999. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 83339287 ...

Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970

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Russian-born American artist, Mark Rothko, is noted as one of the primary artists of Abstract Expressionism and color field painting. From the description of Mark Rothko manuscripts and sketchbook, circa 1935-1943. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81257215 Mark Rothko was an American painter and draughtsman of Russian birth. Born Sept. 25, 1903, Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils, Latvia). Died Feb. 25, 1970, New York. From the description of The artis...

Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935

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Painter; Lancaster, Pennsylvania. From the description of Charles Demuth papers, [ca. 1890-1936]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122370503 ...

Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985

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French artist. From the description of Letters, 1955-1956, to Rene Drouin. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122444228 French painter, litographer, sculptor, architect and author. From the description of Correspondence and papers, 1944-1984. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78575673 French painter. From the description of Letters to "Editions Alecto." (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122583669 From the description of Letter...

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954

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Matisse was born in 1869 to generations of weavers in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, a northern French town whose woolen mills constituted the main industry. He was raised in nearby Bohain, famous for its luxury fabrics. This early exposure to textiles would shape his visual language: examples from his own collection of carpets and cloths from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East would deeply inform his sense of color and pattern and appear in his compositions. Taking up painting after first studyin...

Flannagan, John Bernard, 1895?-1942

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Sculptor and engraver (New York, N.Y.). From the description of John Bernard Flannagan papers, 1923-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515006 ...

Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-

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B. 1929, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Claes Oldenburg was born in 1929, in Stockholm. His father was a diplomat, and the family lived in the United States and Norway before settling in Chicago in 1936. Oldenburg studied literature and art history at Yale University, New Haven, from 1946 to 1950. He subsequently studied art under Paul Wieghardt at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1950 to 1954. During the first two years of art school, he also worked as an apprentice reporter at the City News Bureau of Chi...

Spaventa, George, 1918-

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Sculptor, instructor; New York, N.Y. From the description of George Spaventa papers, 1944-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122404247 ...

Samaras, Lucas, 1936-....

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Lucas Samaras (1936- ) is a sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Lucas Samaras, 1968 Jan. 18 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 458411461 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. From the description of Lucas Samaras interview, 1968 Jan. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220189700 ...

Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966

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Italian sculptor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Paris, to John Rewald, 1960 Jan. 26 and 1962 Oct. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870863 Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x0002e2 ...

Chryssa, 1933-2013

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Sculptor; New York, N.Y. Full name Vardea Chryssa. From the description of Chryssa interview, 1967 June 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185193 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. Full name Vardea Chryssa. From the description of [Vardea] Chryssa lecture, 1968 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86118690 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. Full name Vardea Chryssa. From the descrip...