Peter Howard Selz papers

Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973

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Edward Jean Steichen, born Eduard Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973), was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator. His were the photographs that most frequently appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its publication from 1903 to 1917. Steichen laid claim to his photos of gowns for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911, being the first modern fashion photographs ever published. Steichen used his talents in the military in ...

University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum

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Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), an early 20th century artist, an Abstract Expressionist, from Bavaria, started teaching art classes during summer session at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1930. In 1963 he donated forty-five paintings and $250,000 to the University of California on the condition that an art museum be built on campus. Today the Berkeley Art Museum's (or the University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum) collection of work by Hofmann is the largest in any museum i...

Voulkos, Peter, 1924-2002

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Francis, Sam, 1923-1994

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California born artist Sam Francis was a second generation Abstract Expressionist painter who incorporated influences of Jungian psychology, Buddhism, and Japanese watercolor into the urban and angst-ridden painting style of the New York School. After living abroad in Paris and Japan, he settled in Los Angeles, where he founded a print press, the Litho Shop, a book publishing enterprise, Lapis Press, and painted prolifically until his death in 1994. From the description of Sam Franci...

Garcia, Rupert, 1941-....

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Painter, teacher; San Francisco Bay area, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Rupert Garcia, 1996 June 24 -1995 Nov. 10 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78323592 Rupert Garcia (1941- ) is a painter and teacher from the San Francisco Bay area, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Rupert Garcia, 1995 Sept. 7-1996 June 24 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 613316405 ...

Selz, Peter, 1919-

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Peter Howard Selz, 1919, was a Curator and art historian of Berkeley, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Peter Howard Selz, 1999 Nov 3 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646401444 Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern art, 1958-1965; art history professor. From the description of Oral history, 1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122456775 Curator, art historian; Berkeley, Calif. b. 191...

Namuth, Hans

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Photographer, filmmaker; New York, N.Y.; d. 1990. From the description of Oral history interview with Hans Namuth, 1971 Aug. 12-1971 Sept. 8 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81603857 Hans Namuth (1915 -1990) was a photographer and a filmmaker from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Hans Namuth, 1971 Aug. 12-Sept. 8 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595056 Photographer, filmmaker; New Yor...

Dvortcsak, Michael, 1938-

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Lane, Christopher 1937-

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Sasseen, Robert.

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San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.). Art Council.

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Lebrun, Rico, 1900-1964

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Rico (Frederico) Lebrun (1900–1964) was an Italian-born American painter, muralist, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor. From the guide to the Rico Lebrun Papers, 1957-1965, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Painter, teacher; Los Angeles, Calif. Born in Naples, Italy, Lebrun studied at the Beaux-Arts Academy and the Academy of Arts and National Technical Institute in Naples, assisting fresco painters between 1918 a...

Christo, 1935-

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Christo (American/Bulgarian, b.1935) is a sculptor best known for his unique wrapped works, which span from small-scale wrapped books to entire buildings and sites in nature, encased in fabric. Christo, born Christo Vladimiroff Javacheff, attended the art academy in Sofia as a youth, trained in the Socialist Realist aesthetic of the era. He moved to Prague, where he was first exposed to the work of early European modernists, and later to Paris, where he befriended a group of artists including Yv...

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000

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Sculptor and graphic artist; Leeds, Mass. and Devon, England. b. 1922, in New Brunswick, N.J. d. Northampton, Mass., June 3, 2000, age 77. Worked on FDR memorial in Washington, DC. Studied at Yale Univ. Founded the Gehenna Press in 1942. Taught at Smith College, in Northampton, MA, 1953-1974, and Hampshire College, in Amherst, MA, 1984-1994. From the description of Oral history interview with Leonard Baskin, 1969 Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184...

Kornfeld, Eberhard W.

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Neri, Manuel, 1930-....

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Sculptor; Benecia, California. From the description of Manuel Neri papers, 1940-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565805 Manuel Neri (1930- ) is a sculptor and educator living and working in Benecia, Calif. Neri taught at the California School of Fine Arts from 1959-1965 and at the University of California, Davis from 1965-1999. Neri is best known for his life size figurative sculptures. From the description of Oral history intervie...

Lindner, Richard, 1901-1978

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Painter; New York, N.Y.; d. 1978. From the description of Oral history interview with Richard Lindner, 1962 Oct. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80691356 ...

Melchert, Jim, 1930-....

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James Melchert, 1930-, ceramist of Oakland, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with James Melchert, 2002 Sept. 18-Oct. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220218895 Ceramicist; Oakland, Calif.; b. 1930. From the description of James Melchert papers, 1962-2004 (bulk 1980-2003). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79376310 Jim Melchert, 1930-, sculptor, teacher and art administrator of Oakland, Calif. Chairman, Ceramic...

Baden, Mowry

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B. 1936. From the description of Mowry Baden artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228432526 ...

Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008

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Born in McPherson, Kansas, in 1933, Bruce Conner spent his childhood and young adulthood in nearby Wichita. Upon graduating from Wichita High School East, Conner went on to study art at Wichita University and University of Nebraska, where he met his wife-to-be, Jean Sandstedt. He continued art studies at the Brooklyn Art School and the University of Colorado. In 1957, at the urging of his childhood friend, the poet Michael McClure, and attracted by stories of a vibrant art and literary scene tha...

Gerbault, Alain 1945-

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Benton, Fletcher, 1931-....

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Benton, Fletcher, 1931, Painter and sculptor of San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Fletcher Benton, 1989 May 2-4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397139 Sculptor; San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Fletcher Benton papers, 1965-2003. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85027418 Painter, sculptor (San Francisco, Calif.); b. 1931. From the description of Oral history interview with Fletcher Benton, ...

Beckmann, Max, 1884-1950

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Painter and educator; New York, N.Y. Born and educated in Germany. From the description of Max Beckmann papers, 1904-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122648059 ...

Brown, Joan, 1938-1990

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Joan Brown was an artist. From the description of Joan Brown papers, 1959-2002 (bulk 1970-1990). (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 62767038 Painter, professor; San Francisco, Calif.; d. 1990. Studied at the California School of Fine Arts 1955-1960 under Elmer Bischoff and others. Killed in an accident in Proddatura, India. From the description of Joan Brown papers, 1955-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77979761...