Emil J. Bisttram papers

Public Works of Art Project.

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Cecil Jones was the business director of the PWAP. From the description of Correspondence and related records of Cecil Jones, 1933-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220181044 Rowan was the assistant technical director of the PWAP. He worked closely with Edward Bruce, the director of the PWAP. From the description of Correspondence and personal files of Edward P. Rowan, 1934-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220181019 Federally funded a...

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts.

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Established 1934 under the Treasury Department as the Section of Painting and Sculpture. Name changed to Section of Fine Arts in 1938. In 1939, the Federal Works Agency was established and set up the Public Buildings Administration, which combined the Treasury Department's Public Buildings Branch and the Branch of Public Buildings of the National Park Service. The Section's function was to decorate new federal buildings. Unlike the other New Deal art agencies, it was not a relief project, but aw...

Treasury Relief Art Project.

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The Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP) was established in 1935 under the Department of the Treasury with special funds allocated from the Works Progress Administration (later the Work Projects Administration) to decorate those federal buildings not funded by the Section of Fine Arts and as a relief agency for unemployed, but highly competent artists. The Chief of TRAP was Olin Dows, Forbes Watson was Director, and Cecil H. Jones Assistant Chief, later replacing Dows. From the descrip...

Berninghaus, Oscar E. (Oscar Edmund), 1874-1952

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Painter; Santa Fe, New Mexico. From the description of Oscar E. Berninghaus collection, 1976-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122333549 Painter, designer, teacher; Taos, New Mexico. From the description of Oscar E. Berninghaus correspondence, 1945-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455993 Painter and designer. From the description of Oscar E. Berninghaus papers, 1895-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86118406 ...

Jonson, Raymond, 1891-1982

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Raymond Jonson (1891-1982) was an American modernist painter and teacher. As a young man (1912 to 1917) he was the lighting, stage set, costume and graphics designer for the Chicago Little Theatre, America's first experimental theater, and later founded the Transcendental Painting Group (1938). He organized the Modern Wing at the Museum of New Mexico and taught art classes at his Atalaya Art School and at the University of New Mexico, retiring as Professor Emeritus in 1954. In 1950 he establishe...

Dows, Olin, 1904-1981

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Olin Dows (1904-1981) was a painter and arts administrator; he primarily lived and worked in Rhinebeck, New York. Dows was born in Irvington-on-Hudson, NY. He graduated from Harvard University in 1926 and also studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts. In 1935 he was appointed director of the Treasury Relief Art Project, funded by the Works Progress Administration. In 1938 he painted a series of murals for the post office in Rhinebeck, NY, and in 1941 painted murals for the post office in Hyde Par...

Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961

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Eero Saarinen was born in Kirkkonummi, Finland, on August 20, 1910. His father, the architect Eliel Saarinen, and his family moved to Michigan in 1921. After receiving a B.F.A. in Architecture from Yale University in 1934, Saarinen joined his father's firm (Saarinen, Saarinen and Swanson) and began work as an architect. After his father's death in 1950, Saarinen began to make a name for himself as an architect, started his own firm (Eero Saarinen and Associates), and established a reputation as ...

Phillips, Bert Geer, 1868-1956

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Painter, illustrator, educator; Taos, N.M. From the description of Bert G. Phillips letters, 1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515245 ...

Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973

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American artist; co-founder of the Synchromism movement. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [postmarked Santa Monica], to Morgan Russell, 1929 Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606816 Painter; Los Angeles, California. From the description of Oral history interview with Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 1967 May 26 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81393723 "Noted American painter Stanton Macdonald-Wright ... was hired to p...

Higgins, Victor, 1884-1949

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Higgins was a twentieth century artist who began his career in Chicago before moving to Taos, New Mexico in 1915, where he became a member of the Taos Society of Artists. His first wife Sara was the daughter of artist Sheldon Parsons. From the description of Victor Higgins papers, 1907-1966. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37497647 Painter; Taos, New Mexico. Born Shelbyville, Indiana. From the description of Victor Hig...

Ufer, Walter, Mrs.

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Bisttram, Emil, 1895-1976

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Painter, mural painter; Taos, N.M. From the description of Emil Bisttram interview, 1963 Oct. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220195759 From the description of Oral history interview with Emil Bisttram, 1963 Oct. 17 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312026206 Painter; Taos, N.M. Was an exponent of Dynamic Symmetry, a painting technique. From the description of Emil J. Bisttram papers, 1902-1982. (Unknown). Worl...