Nina Winkel papers

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Nina Winkel papers

1944-1982

Correspondence, business records, printed material and writings documenting the activities of sculptor Nina Winkel and the Sculpture Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8340185

Archives of American Art

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Sculpture Center (New York, N.Y.)

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Art society; New York, N.Y. Established 1928 by Dorthea Denslow as the Clay Club. Was located on 8th Street in Manhattan. Incorporated as the Clay Club Sculpture Center in 1944, and changed to the Sculpture Center in 1950. From the description of Sculpture Center records, 1923-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86118570 ...

Winkel, Nina, 1905-

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Nina Winkel, nee Koch, was born in 1905 in Borken, Germany. She studied sculpture at the Staedel Institute in Frankfurt/Main and in Paris from 1923 to 1941. She came to the United States in 1942, becoming a citizen in 1945. During the war, she taught at the servicemen's canteen of the Sculpture Center. Winkel is also known for her research on antique and Byzantine mosaics, becoming an outside reader at the Institute of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. She was the President of the Sculpture C...