Avis Berman research material on art and artists

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Avis Berman research material on art and artists

1976-1994

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Avis Berman research material on art and artists measures 2.4 linear feet and dates from 1976-1994. Included are interviews conducted by Berman, correspondence, printed material, and drafts of writing for articles and essays published by Berman in preparation for various books, articles and exhibitions, magazines and museum and gallery catalog essays. Subjects include Romare Bearden, Adelyn Breeskin, Howard Chandler Christy, Chaim Gross, Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade, Jacob Lawrence, Marisol, Mary Miss, Reuben Nakian, Maxfield Parrish, Helen Farr Sloan, John Sloan, Raphael Soyer, and others. Correspondence consists primarily of letters received from artists and art professionals Avis contacted during her research process for various assignments. This type of correspondence also appears in the artist and art workers files and the topical files of this collection. The artist and art workers files contains a wide range of research material including correspondence, notes, and copies of published articles and book chapters, generally collected in preparation for a writing assignment. Some drafts for those writing assignments appear in the files as well. Topical files consist of research materials compiled by Avis Berman on topics she researched and deloped primarily for the sake of writing projects, including correspondence, notes, and copies of published sources.

2.4 Linear feet

Archives of American Art

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Archives of American Art

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Brâncuşi, Constantin, 1876-1957

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Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988

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B. September 2, 1911in Charlotte, N.C;d. 1988. From the description of Romy Bearden : Artist File. (International Center of Photography). WorldCat record id: 539064129 Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was painter from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Romare Bearden, 1968 June 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81776639 Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was an African-American primitive painter from New York, N.Y. From the...

Brooks, Romaine

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Portrait painter; France. From the description of Romaine Brooks papers, 1940-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82903235 ...

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...

Cone, Etta

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Art collectors; Baltimore, Md. Etta was born 1870; Claribel born 1864 and died 1929. From the description of Claribel and Etta Cone letters, 1898-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502623 Etta Cone (1870-1949), along with her older sister, Dr. Claribel Cone (1864-1929) lived in Baltimore but traveled frequently to Europe, and amassed one of the finest collections of modern French art in the United States. From the description of Etta Cone letters, 1927-1949....

Toklas, Alice B., 1877-1967

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Toklas was a writer and companion to Gertrude Stein. From the guide to the Alice B. Toklas letters to William Alfred, 1951-1961., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Biographical Note Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) was an author and the life partner of Gertrude Stein. Don Frank is the son of one of Toklas' childhood friends. After his service in the armed forces, he met Toklas in Europe. ...

Cone, Claribel

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Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, 1896-1986

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Art historian, museum curator; Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C. Died 1986. From the description of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin papers, 1934-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565670 Adelyn Dohme Breeskin (1986-1986) was a museum director and art historian from Baltimore, Md. and Washington, D.C. From the description of Oral history interview with Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, 1979 Aug. 1-14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477474 Adelyn D. Breeskin (1896-1...

Foster, James W., 1920-

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Ivins, William Mills, 1881-1961

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American author who wrote about woodcuts and about the history of books. From the description of Letter, 1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122480247 From the guide to the William Mills Ivins letter, 1925, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) William Mills Ivins, graduate of Harvard and Columbia Law School, Curator of Prints and Acting Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, recipient of an honorary degree from Yale in 1946, author of How Prints Loo...

Child, Katherine B.

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Rosenthal, Gertrude, 1903-1989

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Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926

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Mary Cassatt (b. Mary Stevenson Cassatt, May 22, 1844, Allegheny City, Pennsylvania-d. June 14, 1926, Paris, France) was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker....

Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000

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Painter; New York, N.Y.; b. 1917; d. 2000. From the description of Oral history interviews with Jacob Lawrence, 1982 July 20-Aug. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84455118 Jacob Lawrence was an African-American painter and illustrator. He received the Spingarm Medal in 1975 and taught at the New School and Pratt Institute. He died in 2000. From the description of Jacob Lawrence exhibition card and autobiographical notes, 1947-1948. (Pennsylvania State University...

Sloan, John, 1871-1951

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Illustrator, painter, etcher, teacher, writer, lithographer; lived in New York City and Santa Fe, N.M. From the description of John Sloan manuscript collection, 1871-1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 775599666 Painter, etcher, illustrator, teacher, writer, and lithographer; lived in New York City and Santa Fe, N.M.; John Sloan and Will Shuster, painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and sculptor, first met in the summer of 1920, their friendship lasted until Sloan's death ...

Sloan, Helen Farr, 1911-2005

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Helen Farr Sloan was the second wife of John Sloan, the painter. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [between 1932 and 1963]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 186363657 Widow of the painter John Sloan. From the description of Helen Farr Sloan interview, 1988 July 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81618103 Helen Farr Sloan (1911-2005) was the widow of celebrated American artist John Sloan (1871-1951), one o...

Horiuchi, Paul, 1906-1999

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Paul Chikamasa Horiuchi (1906-1999) artist. Horiuchi was born in Japan in 1906 and learned calligraphy and sumi techniques as a child. In late 1920, he departed for America and found work with the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming, using his mother's maiden name of Kamakura, where his father was already an employee. Paul Horiuchi held that job for 20 years. In 1946 he moved to Seattle to study with Zen Master, Tamotsu Takazaki, who introduced him to Mark Tobey. Horiuchi completed his first colla...

Lau, Alan Chong

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Namkung, Johsel, 1919-

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Photographer; Seattle, Wash.; b. in Korea. From the description of Oral history interview with Johsel Namkung, 1989 Oct. 5-1991 Feb. 25 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85185386 Namkunk, Johsel, 1919, Photographer of Seattle, Wash.; b. in Korea. From the description of Oral history interview with Johsel Namkung, 1989 Oct. 5-1991 Feb. 25 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646399453 ...

Takami, David A.

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Tsutakawa, George

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Sculptor; Seattle, Wash.; d. 1997. From the description of Oral history interview with George Tsutakawa, 1983 Sept. 8 - Sept. 19 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80973823 George Tsutakawa, d. 1997, Sculptor of Seattle, Wash. From the description of Oral history interview with George Tsutakawa, 1983 Sept. 8-19 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646401429 Sculptor, painter, teacher; Seattle, Wash.; b. 1910; d. 1997. ...

Yang, Chao-Chen, 1910-1969.

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Photographer; Seattle, Wash. Born Hangchow, China, Yang received degrees in foreign relations and art education from the University of Hwin-Hwa, Shanghai, and became the director of the Department of Art at the Government Institute in Nanking. Coming to the United States in 1934 to work at the Chinese Consulate in Chicago, he took night courses in art at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1935 to 1939. He was transferred to Seattle as Deputy Consul and founded the Seattle...

Tobey, Mark

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Painter; Abstract Expressionist. Also worked as fashion illustrator, portrait painter. Born in Wisconsin, December 11, 1892. Died 1976. Worked in Chicago, Seattle, Basel, Switzerland; New York, N.Y., Dartington Hall, Devonshire, England, and Paris. Convert to Baha'i religion. From the description of Mark Tobey papers, [ca. 1920]-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78566820 Tobey was a painter; Seattle, Wash. Corle was at one time a New York City stage actress and wife of no...

Nakian, Reuben, 1897-1986

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Sculptor; Stamford, Ct. Died 1986. From the description of Reuben Nakian interviews, 1981 June 9-June 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220188656 Sculptor; Stamford, Conn. Died 1986. From the description of Reuben Nakian interview, 1981 Apr. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84555292 Sculptor; Stamford, Conn.; d. 1986. From the description of Reuben Nakian interviews, 1981 June 9-June 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276394238 Reu...

Berman, Avis

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Avis Berman (1949- ) is an art historian from New York, N.Y. Berman is Katharine Kuh's executor. Kuh opened her own gallery in Chicago in the 1930s representing a variety of now well known artists. She is considered a pioneer for women in the field of art. From the description of Avis Berman research material on Katharine Kuh, 1939-2006. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 430380758 Art historian; New York, N.Y. Berman is Katharin...