New Britain Museum of American Art records

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New Britain Museum of American Art records

1907-1978

Letters from artists, art dealers, and art collectors, mostly addressed to Sanford Low, Director of the Museum, 1940-1964. Some letters contain price lists of works of art, photographs and printed matter. Correspondents include John Taylor Arms, Milton Avery, Thomas Hart Benton, Leonard Baskin, Varujan Boghosian, Charles Burchfield, Adolf Dehn, Philip Kappel, Sol LeWitt, Herbert Meyer, Ogden Pleissner, Henry Schnakenberg, Robert Vose and others. Also included are writings by Low and others about the Musuem.

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New Britain Institute. Art Museum.

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Pleissner, Ogden M.

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Painter; New York, N.Y. Born 1905, died 1983. Painted sporting scenes and landscapes. From the description of Ogden M. Pleissner papers, 1930-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123430309 Painter; New York, N.Y. Born 1905, died 1983. Worked as an artist in World War II in the Air Force. From the description of Ogden M. Pleissner papers, 1928-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233006986 Ogd...

Arms, John Taylor, 1887-1953

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Etcher. From the description of John Taylor Arms papers, 1923-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122606 John Taylor Arms was an American artist, known for his architectural etchings. Born in Washington, D.C., he attended Princeton as a pre-law student, but transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study architecture. He moved to New York, and was working as an architectural draftsman when his wife bought him an etching kit as a Christmas gift, revealing...

Kappel, Philip

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Etcher, lithographer, illustrator, painter and writer; New Milford, Conn. Studied at Pratt Institute; b. 1901; d. 1981. From the description of Philip Kappel papers, ca. 1920-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86093804 From the description of Philip Kappel interview, 1976 Mar. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220208443 Philip Kappel (1901-1981) was an etcher, lithographer, illustrator, painter, and writer from New Milford, Conn. He studi...

Schnakenberg, H. E. 1892-1970.

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Boghosian, Varujan

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Sculptor and educator, born in 1926. From the description of Varujan Boghosian papers, 1950-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122394018 ...

New Britain Museum of American Art.

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Known as the Art Museum of the New Britain Institute prior to 1961. From the description of New Britain Museum of American Art records, 1907-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80281793 ...

Vose, Robert C. (Robert Churchill), 1911-1998

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Art dealer, Vose Galleries of Boston. From the description of Robert C. Vose interviews, 1986 June 27-1986 July 23 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123373516 Art dealer (Boston, Mass.). From the description of Robert C. Vose lecture, 1987 May 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184253 Robert C. Vose (1911-) is an art dealer from Boston, Mass. From the description of Robert C. Vose lecture, 1987 May 14. (Unknown). WorldCat r...

Low, Sanford B. D. 1905-1964.

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Dehn, Adolf, 1895-1968

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Painter, printmaker; New York, N.Y. From the description of Adolf Dehn letters, [ca. 1932-1987]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122355167 Painter, lithographer (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Adolf Dehn interviews, 1963 Jan. 23-1964 Feb. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220179288 Artist; was a concientious objector in World War I, performed alternative service at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S.C., the bulk of this correspondence was written d...

LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007

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Sol LeWitt (1928 – 2007) Sol LeWitt was born on September 9th, 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut to Eastern European immigrants. His father, a doctor and inventor, died when he was 6. Soon after, he moved with his mother, a nurse, to live with an aunt in New Britain, Connecticut. His mother took him to art classes at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford and he would draw on wrapping paper from his aunt’s grocery store. LeWitt received a BFA from Syracuse University in 1949 (where he made his f...

Meyer, Herbert W. 1882-1960.

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Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000

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Sculptor and graphic artist; Leeds, Mass. and Devon, England. b. 1922, in New Brunswick, N.J. d. Northampton, Mass., June 3, 2000, age 77. Worked on FDR memorial in Washington, DC. Studied at Yale Univ. Founded the Gehenna Press in 1942. Taught at Smith College, in Northampton, MA, 1953-1974, and Hampshire College, in Amherst, MA, 1984-1994. From the description of Oral history interview with Leonard Baskin, 1969 Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184...

Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975

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Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States. His work is strongly associated with the Midwestern United States, the region in which he was born and which he called home for most of his life. He also studied in Paris, lived in New York City f...

Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967

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Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) was a watercolorist and painter in West Seneca, N.Y. From the description of Charles Burchfield letter to Alan M. Pensler, 1966 Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477543 From the description of Charles Burchfield letter to Alan M. Pensler, 1966 Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756821068 Painter; Gardenville, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Charles Burchfield, 1959 Aug. 19. (Unknown). Wo...