Dorothy Eisner papers, 1925-2008.

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Dorothy Eisner papers, 1925-2008.

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The Dorothy Eisner Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and ephemera that document periods of her personal life and artwork. Eisner's correspondence files contain letters from fellow painters: nearly thirty from her friend Dorothy Andrews (1918-2008), who wrote mostly from her home in Khania, Crete; three from William Kienbusch (1914-1980); and one each from Sarah Freedman McPherson (1894-1978) and Emil Holzhauer (1887-1986); there are also letters from her stepdaughter, the painter Joan McDonald Miller. However, the bulk of the correspondence is between Eisner and her parents, and includes letters in which she describes her interactions with Leon Trotsky during the Dewey Commission's hearing in Mexico City. Additional items related to that experience are the nearly fifty informal snapshot photographs taken in and around the hearing, Eisner's admission card, and one letter from Trotsky. Other friends in the correspondence files include the writers Tess Slesinger (1905-1945) and Diana Trilling (1906-1996). A folder of miscellaneous personal papers holds some childhood letters and drawings, a bank book from the early 1930s, and a few Social Security papers from the late 1970s-early 1980s. A scrapbook of clippings, photographs, and ephemera, supplemented by folders of announcements, brochures, and installation photographs, document exhibitions of Eisner's paintings and collages mounted during her lifetime. The collection also includes two published books of Walker Evans's photographs.

1.75 linear feet (4 boxes)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8020376

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Eisner, William J., 1880-1975

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Painters, New York, N.Y. Husband and wife. William is the father of painters Dorothy and Anne Eisner. He was the president, New York Paraffin and Parchment Co. and treasurer, Woodstock Art Association. Rensie is the reverse spelling of Florine's married name, Eisner. From the description of William J. Eisner and Florine Rensie papers, 1952-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86133055 ...

Trilling, Diana

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Writer Diana Trilling spent much of her life carving a niche out for herself that would separate her from her husband, critic and author, Lionel Trilling. Although she was fiercely devoted to their marriage, she maintained her own identity and had a successful career as a literary critic, an author, and a cultural commentator. She was not afraid to shy away from controversy especially if, in her view, her political opinions were being distorted or misunderstood by others. (The name ...

Slesinger, Tess, 1905-1945

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Trot︠s︡kai︠a︡, Natalii︠a︡ Ivanovna, 1882-1962.

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Putnam, Anne Eisner

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Anne Eisner Putnam (1911-1967) was a New York abstract and landscape painter, watercolorist, and collector of African art. She was also one of the founders of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, and later a writer, her best known book being her account of her experiences in the former Belgian Congo, Madami: My Eight Years of Adventure with the Congo Pygmies . Together with her husband, Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-1953), she ran a compound known as Camp Putnam in the Congo (now...

Eisner, Dorothy

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Painter; New York City. Born 1906. From the description of Dorothy Eisner papers, 1934-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455681 Dorothy Eisner (1906-1984) was an American artist whose career spanned more than five decades. She was born and raised in New York, and studied at the Art Students League, briefly in France, and with Jack Tworkov. With the exception of three years, Eisner resided and had painting studios in the Greenwich Village section of New Yor...

Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940

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Lev Davidovich Bronstein[a] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Ukrainian revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Trotskyism. Born to a wealthy Ukrainian-Jewish family in Yanovka (now Bereslavka), Trotsky embraced Marxism after moving to Nikolayev in 1896. In 1898, he was arrested for revolutionary activities and subsequently exiled to Siberia. He escaped from ...

Kienbusch, William, 1914-1980

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William Kienbusch (1914-1980) was a painter in New York, N.Y. and Maine. From the description of William Kienbusch letters to Francis and Sydney Hamabe, 1958-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81787101 William Kienbusch (1914-1980) was a painter and art instructor in New York, NY, and Cranberry Island, Maine. Kienbusch befriended Rockport, Maine artist Francis Hamabe (1917-2002) and his wife Sydney (1917-1978). Hamabe was the co-founder of the Maine Coast Artists Associati...

Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, New York, 1937.

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The Dewey Commission (officially the "Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials") was initiated in March 1937 by the "American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky." It was named after its Chairman, John Dewey. Trotsky was defended by the lawyer Albert Goldman. The commission cleared Trotsky of all charges made during the Moscow Trials and, moreover, exposed the scale of the frame-up of all other defendants during these trials. The Dewey Commissio...

Evans, Walker, 1903-1975

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Walker Evans (1903-1975) was a photographer. From the description of Oral history interview with Walker Evans, 1971 Oct. 13-Dec. 23 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595155 Photographer and professor at Yale; best known for documenting the people and conditions of the southern United States during the Great Depression. From the description of Walker Evans photographs, 1935-1936. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 55636072 P...

Andrews, Dorothy, 1918-2008

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