Lily Harmon papers

Ashton, Dore, 1928-2017

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Dore Ashton (May 21, 1928 – January 30, 2017) was a writer, professor and critic on modern and contemporary art. She was born in Newark, New Jersey. She was the author or editor of more than thirty books on art, including Noguchi East and West, About Rothko, American Art Since 1945, The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning and Picasso On Art. Ashton also contributed to many publications, including Art Digest. and worked as an art critic at The New York Times. Ashton was one of the New York art ...

Neumann, J. B. (Jsrael Ber)

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J. B. Neumann was an innovative art dealer in New York City. He was married to artist Elsa Schmid. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1929-1961, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902422 Jsreal Ben Neumann [JBN] was born in Austria in 1887. In 1910, he opened his first book and art store in Berlin, displaying works by such artists as Edvard Munch. By 1922, branches were opened in Bremen, Düsseldorf, and Munich. Neumann...

Schmid, Elsa, 1897-

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Sculptor. From the description of Elsa Schmid interview, 1968 August 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190166 Elsa Schmid was an artist, and the wife of J. B. Neumann. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1946. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155899134 Elsa Schmid (b. 1897) was a sculptor. From the description of Oral history interview with Elsa Schmid, 1968 August 1. (Unknown). WorldCat rec...

Vogel, Ilse-Margret

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German-born, American author and illustrator of children's book. From the description of City cats, country cats : production material, ca. 1969. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62680980 Ilse-Margret Vogel was born June 5, 1914 in Sybillenort, Germany [now Poland]. She was educated in Germany and studied art in Berlin prior to World War II; she later studied art in Basel, Switzerland after the war. In the 1940s, Ilse-Margret Vogel co-founded and c...

Stix, Hugh

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Founder of Artists' Gallery, New York, N.Y. Died 1992. From the description of Hugh Stix interview, 1963 Sept. 23-Dec. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190706 From the description of Oral history interview with Hugh Stix, 1963 Sept. 23-Dec. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007058 From the description of Oral history interview with Hugh Stix, 1963 Sept. 23-Dec. 5 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312025098 Gallery preside...

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946

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Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer, founder of the Photo-Secession Group, gallery owner, and editor and publisher of photography magazines, most notably, Camera Work. Frank Hermann was an American painter, who spent most of his career in Germany, where he associated with several avant-garde art groups. Childhood friends, Stieglitz and Herrmann were schoolmates, spent time together when Stieglitz was in Europe, and visited each other in the United States when Herrmann returned in 1919....

Hertzberg, Benjamin

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Cornell University Class of 1931. From the description of Benjamin Hertzberg student notebook, 1930. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073185 ...

Harmon, Lily, 1912-

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d. 1998. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122362899 Painter and sculptor; New York City. Harmon worked for the influential art dealer J.B. Neumann, and spent several years preparing a biography of him which was never published. As an artist, she lived in Europe in the early part of the century, and worked on WPA art projects in the 1930s. From the ...

Isaacs, Lewis,

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Hutton, Leonard, Sir,

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Lamm, Johanna Neumann,

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Kuh, Katharine

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Katharine Kuh, art historian, art curator, and author. From the description of Katharine Kuh papers, 1937-1964 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702131643 b. 1904; d. 1994. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81397405 Art consultant, curator, and critic; Chicago and New York City; b. 1904; d. 1994. From the description of Katharine Kuh interviews, 1982 Mar. 18 - 19...

Dehner, Dorothy, 1901-1994

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Married to David Smith. From the description of Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1969-1970. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 212070485 Sculptor, painter, printmaker; New York, N.Y. Dehner was married to sculptor David Smith. [Dehner died in 1994.]. From the description of Oral history interviews with Dorothy Dehner, 1965 Oct.-1966 Dec. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185543 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. Dehn...

Neumann, Albrecht

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Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963

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Playwright; New York, N.Y. From the description of Clifford Odets sketches. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 42743828 Clifford Odets was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1906. He left school at age fourteen and worked as an actor in local New York theater groups and traveling stock companies until 1930. That same year the Group Theatre was formed. As one of the founding members, Odets continued acting, but found new release for his creativity in writing pl...

Copley, Alfred L.

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AVERY, SALLY

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Painter; widow of painter Milton Avery. From the description of Oral history interview with Sally Michel Avery, 1967 Nov. 3 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 422876351 Painter, widow of Milton Avery; New York and Long Island. From the description of Sally Avery interview, 1982 Feb. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220208627 Painter; interviewee married Milton Avery. From the description of Oral history interview with Sally M...

Solman, Joseph 1909-

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Joseph Solman, 1909-, painter and educator of Massachusetts. From the description of Oral history interview with Joseph Solman, 1981 May 6-8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007164 Painter, educator; Massachusetts. From the description of Joseph Solman interview, 1981 May 6-8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220208978 ...

Sapanel, Margarete,

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Neumann, Peter, 1928-

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Driggs, Elsie, 1898-

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Bruno, Phillip A.

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Philip A. Bruno (1930-) is an art collector and director of Marlborough Gallery, New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Philip A. Bruno, 2009 Jan. 13-21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 317592537 ...

Drew, Bettina, 1956-....

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Bettina Drew is a professor of creative writing and the author of two books of non-fiction: "Nelson Algren: A Walk on the Wild Side" and "Crossing the Expendable Landscape." Nelson Algren (1909-1981) was an American writer. His books include "The Man with the Golden Arm", "A Walk on the Wild Side" and "The Neon Wilderness". He lived in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Patterson, New Jersey. "The Man with the Golden Arm" won the National Book Award in 1955 and was made into a motion picture. ...

Knotts, Howard

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Manacher, Frances,

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Rothbaum, Nolbert,

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Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981

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Nelson Algren, original name Nelson Ahlgren Abraham was born on March 28, 1909 in Detroit, Michigan and died May 9, 1981 in Sag Harbor, New York. Algren's writings focused on the poor, inspired by routine naturalism and its vision of pride, humour, and unquenchable yearnings. He captured the poetic essences of the city's underside: its jukebox pounding, distinguishable stench, and neon glare. Algren was raised in Chicago and later studied at the University of Illinois, where he graduated wit...

Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981

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Art Historian and first director of the Museum of Modern Art. From the description of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. papers, 1927-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122516895 Correspondence and biographical material collected by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (1902-1981) on Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). From the description of Barr/Feininger material, 1927-1944, 1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122531411 Museum director, curator, and critic; New York, N.Y. ...

Kahn, Max, 1903-

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Nierendorf, Karl, 1889-1947

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Karl Nierendorf (1889–1947) was a prominent German art dealer who specialized in expressionist and abstract paintings, first running galleries with his brother, Josef, out of Cologne and Berlin. The rise of Nazism and the march toward war, with its accompanying attacks on art and artists, prompted Nierendorf to visit and then resettle in the United States, establishing his own gallery in New York City (1937–1947). This new iteration of the Nierendorf Gallery quickly gained prestige by promoting ...

Schultz, Margarete

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