Benjamin Ivry collection of correspondence on Pavel Tchelitchew, 1981-1982.

Nabokov, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1867-1951

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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

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Gertrude Stein (b. February 3, 1874, Allegheny, PA-d. July 27, 1946, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. She moved to Paris and acquired a love for modern painting. Stein began building a personal collection of major artists, many of whom became her friends and formed the core of her regular salons. In 1907, as Stein was struggling to establish herself as a writer, she met Alice Babette Toklas, a fellow American who had come to P...

Acton, Harold, 1904-1994

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Harold Acton was a British writer and scholar. His works include The Last Medici (1932), The Bourbons of Naples, 1734-1825 (1956), and two memoirs, Memoirs of an Aesthete (1948) and More Memoirs of an Aesthete (1970). Acton lived in China from 1933 to 1939, during which time he supported himself by teaching English Literature and collaborated with others to translate various Chinese literary works. His translations include Glue and Lacquer: Four Cautionary Tales (1941) and ...

Rorem, Ned, 1923-

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Composer and author. From the description of Oral history conducted by Vivian Perlis, March 31, 1997. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155905487 Commissioned by Nikolai Sokoloff and the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla, California. Composed 1956. First performance La Jolla, California, 5 August 1956, Nikolai Sokoloff conductor. Dedicated to Nikolai Sokoloff and the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla, California.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. Fr...

Tchelitchew, Pavel, 1898-1957

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Russian-born painter, set designer, and costume designer, Pavel Tchelitchew emigrated in 1920. He lived in Berlin (1921-23) and Paris (1923-34) before moving to New York, where he lived with his partner Charles Henri Ford. He became a United States citizen in 1952 and died in Grottaferrata, Italy in 1957. Tchelitchew's early painting was abstract in style, described as Constructivist and Futurist and influenced by his study with Aleksandra Ekster in Kiev. After emigrating to Paris ...

Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992

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Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was an American avant garde writer and poet. She lived in San Francisco, Newark, Delaware, and Rowayton, Connecticut, when she wrote these letters. From the description of Kay Boyle letters and poems, 1935-1975. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 33890909 Kay Boyle was an American essayist, novelist, short-story writer, translator, essayist, and translator. From the description of Kay Boyle collection of papers, 1...

Markevitch, Igor

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Italian conductor and composer of Russian birth. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Vevey], 27 January [1933], to Comtesse Etienne de Beaumont in Paris, 1933 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270581831 ...

McCarthy, Mary, 1944-

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American writer. From the description of Letters to Robie Macauley, 1972 & 1978. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32959698 ...

Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983

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Kenneth Clark was an art historian and a patron of the arts. He was born in London, and educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, where he gained a second class in modern history. In the autumn of 1925, art historian Bernard Berenson asked him to assist him in the revision of his corpus of Florentine drawings. In 1929 he was offered the task of cataloguing Leonardo da Vinci's drawings held at Windsor Castle. In 1931 he was appointed keeper of the Department of Fine Art at the Ashmolean...

Davenport, Guy

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American author. From the description of The bicycle rider [manuscript], galley proof, 1985. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647820340 From the description of Papers of Guy Davenport [manuscript], 1987. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647821125 From the description of The Mimes of Herondas [manuscript], 1981. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647818418 From the description of Papers : of Guy Davenport, 1961-1979 [manu...

Elmslie, Kenward

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An American poet, writer and lyricist associated with the New York School, Kenward Elmslie was born in New York City in 1929. The grandson of newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, Elmslie graduated from Harvard in 1950 with a B.A. in literature and began his writing career as a lyricist and librettist for theatre and musicals, including The Sweet Bye and Bye (1966) and The Glass Harp (1972). He published stories, short plays and poetry in small magazines and collections; collaborated with graphic a...

Fini, Leonor, 1908-1996

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French painter. From the description of Letters, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81972197 ...

Abbott, Jeremiah, 1790-1879

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Bonham-Carter, Helena 1966-....

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Elliott Carter's wife. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Waccabuc, N.Y., 24 August [1978], to Francis S. Mason, 1978 Aug. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564156 ...

Ivry, Benjamin

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Benjamin Ivry, American poet, biographer and translator. Among his works are biographies of Arthur Rimbaud, Francis Poulenc and Maurice Ravel, and Paradise for the Portuguese queen, a volume of poetry. From the description of Benjamin Ivry collection of correspondence on Pavel Tchelitchew, 1981-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702192915 ...

Praz, Mario, 1896-1982

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Cremonini, Leonardo, 1925-2010

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Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987

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Architectural historian, critic, museum director, and influential teacher. Died 1987. From the description of Henry-Russell Hitchcock letters to Dorothy Stroud and John N. Summerson, 1946-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83551893 Architectural historian. From the description of Lectures on architecture, 1948 Jan.-May. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79723075 Hitchcock (1903-1987) was an architectural historian. From the description of Henr...

Pears, Peter, 1910-1986

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English tenor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Aldeburgh-on-Sea, [24 January 1978 and 1 August 1980], to Francis [S. Mason, Jr.] in New York, 1978 Jan. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674854 Tenor Epithet: singer Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000350.0x000288 ...

De Lamar, Alice.

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Wind, Margaret.

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Gorer, Geoffrey, 1905-

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Sitwell, Sacheverell

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Sitwell was a poet, critic and author of volumes of verses. He died in 1988. From the description of The parrot's voice snaps out=No good to contradict=What he says he'll say again: Dry facts, like biscuits, = : calligraphed illustration. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863289 Sacheverell Sitwell was an English author and critic. Born into an aristocratic and gifted family, he joined with his brother Osbert and sister Edith to help change the tastes of British society in a...

Imbs, Bravig, 1904-1946

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Tanner, Allen.

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Allen Tanner, pianist, companion of the artist Pavel Tchelitchew, and part of Gertrude Stein's circle in Paris in the 1920's. From the description of Allen Tanner papers, 1902-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81257907 From the description of Allen Tanner papers, 1902-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702153174 ...

Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004

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Husband of Martine Franck. From the description of Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1969-1988. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 212020979 Photographer. From the description of Letters : Paris, 1964. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82218283 The Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939) was a conflict between the newly-elected left-leaning government of the Spanish Republic and its supporters and the (ultimately ...

Kenner, Hugh

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