Peter Pollack papers

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...

Archives of American Art

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From its founding to 1954 the Archives was headquartered at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1960 the Archives moved its headquarters to New York but a branch office remained in Detroit. In 1963 an office was opened in Rome to collect the records of American artists' work in Italy. In 1970 the Archives became a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution and moved to Washington, D.C. Directors have included Edgar Preston Richardson, 1954-1964; William E. Woolfenden, 1964-1983; Richard N. Murray, 1983...

Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1933

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Resident of Saginaw, MI. From the description of Diary, 1863-1865. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 31683745 ...

Cole, Sylvan

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Art dealer, writer; New York, N.Y. b. 1918. d. 2005. From the description of Oral history interview with Sylvan Cole, 2000 June-Oct [sound recording]. (Smithsonian Archives of American Art). WorldCat record id: 220217381 ...

Gernsheim, Helmut, 1913-1995

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South Side Community Art Center

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Brassaï, 1899-

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Born 1899, Brasso, Transylvania, as Gyula Halász. Died 8 July 1984, in Nice, France. From the description of Artist file. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122530538 ...

De Diego, Julio, 1900-1979

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Painter; born in Madrid; d. 1979. From the description of Julio de Diego papers, 1931-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82903224 ...

Harissiadis, Dimitrios

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Federal Art Project (Ill.)

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Karsh, Yousuf, 1908-2002

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Schaffner earned his Harvard AB 1917. He served Harvard as a member of the Committee to Visit the Harvard College Library and as a donor of books. From the description of Joseph Schaffner, ca. 1955. ca. 1955. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228509808 From the description of Joseph Schaffner, ca. 1955. ca. 1955. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77068627 Yousuf Karsh, an Armenian Turk who emigrated to Canada in 1918, is known for his formal portrait...

Florsheim, Richard A., 1916-1979

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Richard A. Florsheim (1916-1979) was a painter and printmaker from Chicago, Ill. From the description of Oral history interview with Richard A. Florsheim, 1971-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397291 Painter, printmaker; Chicago, Ill. From the description of Richard A. Florsheim interviews, 1971-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220186016 Painter, sculptor, etcher, lithographer, educator, lecturer, and writer (Chicago, Ill., and Provincetown, M...

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984

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Ansel Adams, American photographer, was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. He was tutored privately at home where he studied piano, San Francisco, from 1914 to 1927, then studied photography with the photofinisher Frank Dittman, in San Francisco, in 1916 and 1917. He married Virginia Best in 1928, and had two children, Michael and Anne. Adams began his career as a photographer, 1927, and worked as a commercial photographer, from 1930 to 1960. He was a photography correspond...

Pollack, Peter, 1909-1978

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Photographer, curator, historian, writer; New York, N.Y. From the description of Peter Pollack papers, 1939-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78335707 American photographer and photojournalist, writer and lecturer, 1911-1979; Curator of Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, 1945-1957; Director, American Federation of the Arts, 1962-1964. Author: The Picture History of Photography, 1970; Understanding Primitive Art, 1968. From the description of Peter Pollack ...

Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993

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Beaumont Newhall, the founder of the art history of photography, was the first Curator of Photography at MOMA and then at George Eastman House. He authored numerous books, articles and reviews about photography. From the description of Beaumont and Nancy Newhall papers, 1843-1993. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79626249 Beaumont Newhall (1908-1993) was an art administrator and art historian from Rochester, N.Y. From the description of Oral histor...

Abrams, Harry N.

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Publisher, New York, N.Y.; b. 1905; d. 1979. From the description of Harry N. Abrams interview, 1972 Mar. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84170030 Harry N. Abrams (1905-1979) was a publisher from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Harry N. Abrams, 1972 Mar. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595031 b.1905; d.1979. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous unca...

Mayer, Grace M.

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Grace M. Mayer (1901-1996), self-described "Writer, Collector and Curator," established herself as a pioneering Curator of Prints at the Museum of the City of New York and later as a Curator of Photography (1964-1968) and Curator of the Edward Steichen Archive (1968-1996) at The Museum of Modern Art. From the description of Grace M. Mayer papers, 1929-1997. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 670149725 Grace M. Mayer is a curator and collector from New York, N...

Halsman, Philippe

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Philippe Halsman was born in Riga, Latvia in 1901. He opened a photography studio in Paris in 1931. He left occupied France for the United States in 1940. Halsman was a founding member (1945) and first president of the American Society of Media Photographers, Inc. Halsman is best known for his portraits of famous individuals, such as Salvador Dali, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. His thirty year affiliation with Life magazine resulted in 101 covers. His photographs have been published in ...