Milton Wolf Brown papers, 1937- [ca. 1997].

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Brown, Milton W. (Milton Wolf), 1911-1998. Milton Wolf Brown papers, 1937- [ca. 1997].

Milton Wolf Brown papers, 1937- [ca. 1997].

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Biographical material, correspondence, notes, notebooks, and writings, teaching files, research files, subject files, printed matter, and photographs relate to Brown's career and influence as an art historian. Documented are Brown's affilliations with the Archives of American Art, Brooklyn College, the Century Association, the College Art Association, Fine Arts Council of Great Britain, the Smithsonian Council, the Victorian Society, and other organizations; his numerous books, catalogs, articles, lectures and exhibitions on and involving many artists and topics, among them the Armory Show, Jacob Lawrence, Jewish-American artists, Paul Strand, Jack Levine, Maurice Prendergast, Raphael and Moses Soyer, Robert Gwathmey, Federal art projects, Duncan Phillips, Realism, Lois Dodd, the Hirshhorn collection, Max Weber, Modernism, The Eight, the Ashcan School, Charles Sheeler, Lewis Hine, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Sachs, Charles Daniel, Louis Lozowick, Ben Shahn, James McNeill Whistler, and others; friendships with photographers Paul Strand and Walter Rosenblum; and his studies at the Institute of Fine Arts where he studied Medieval art with Rufus Morey, Italian Renaissance painting with Richard Offner, Michaelangelo, 17th and 18th-century French painting with Erwin Panofsky, and Medieval manuscripts, Medieval architecture, French romanesque architecture, and Modern painting with Meyer Shapiro; notes from Brown's museum course with Paul Sachs, 1938 and his art criticism class with A. Philip MacMahon at the Fogg Art Musuem. Included are photostats of letters to Joseph Trovato relating to the fiftieth anniversary of the Armory Show, (1963). Among the correspondents are Alexander Archipenko, Maurice Becker, Stephan Bourgeois, Paul Burlin, Randall Davey, Stuart Davis, Nathan Dolinksy, Marcel Duchamp, John Rewald, Charles Sheeler, Carl Sprinchorn, William Zorach, and Carl Zigrosser. Also letters from Brown's travels in Europe including his impressions of Germany and Russia (1934) and travel diaries of Milton and Blanche Brown, 1940s-1970s. Research files relating to Maurice B. Prendergast and Charles Prendergast including a catalog raisonne, 1990 and transcripts of Brown's interviews with Mrs. Prendergast (ca. 1.5 linear ft.); notes, notebooks, writings, a transcript of an interview with Brown by Sally A. Duncanson, 1997, and printed material. Also included is a typescript of the book "American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression" published in 1955.

26.0 linear ft.

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