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Now available online at the Archives of American Art- Smithsonian Institution, May 2018

 

Finding aids:

 

Armory Show (International Exhibition of Modern Art) memorabilia, 1913

Organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the Armory Show of 1913 (also known as the International Exhibition of Modern Art), was the first large-scale modern art exhibition of modern art held in the United States.

 

Rudolf Arnheim papers, 1919-1998

Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was a writer, educator, art historian, and psychologist who was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States where he primarily worked in New York and Massachusetts.

 

R. Kirk Askew papers, 1928-1967

R. Kirk Askew (1903-1974) was an art dealer and manager of the Durlacher Bros. New York location from from 1927 to circa 1969.

 

William J. and Jane Brown papers, circa 1940-2014

William J. Brown (1923-1992) was a designer, taught at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the University of Delaware and was the second director of the Penland School of Crafts from 1962-1983. He was married to Jane Brown (1932- ), an arts administrator in Bakserville, North Carolina.

 

C.G. Sloan & Co. auction catalogs, 1893-1963

C.G. Sloan and Co. (1853-2003) was an auction gallery in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1853 and closed in 2003. Reopened in 2003 as Sloans and Kenyon.

 

Avel De Knight papers, 1947-2003, bulk 1957-1968

Avel C. de Knight (1921-1995) was an African American painter, educator, and art critic.

 

Richard E. Filipowski papers, circa 1940-1998

Richard E. Filipowski (1923-2008) was a designer, sculptor, painter, filmmaker and educator mostly based in Massachusetts. He studied under Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at the Institute of Design (formerly known as the New Bauhaus) from 1942 to 1946 and taught there after graduating, 1946-1950.

 

Jane Hanks papers related to William Keith, 1898-1905

Jane Richardson Hanks (1908-2014) was the daughter of Maud Wilkinson Richardson (1868-1946), a friend of painter William Keith (1838-1911). Hanks was a noted anthropologist know for studying the tribes of Thailand.

 

Elizabeth Hertz letters from William and Marguerite Zorach, 1943-2006

(Grace) Elizabeth "Beth" Hertz (1920- ) is an artist and was a student of William Zorach's at the Art Students League in New York.

 

Lynn and James Igoe papers, 1883, 1968-1996

Lynn Moody Igoe (1937-2006) was an art historian and author who wrote about African American art and artists.

 

Interviews of AfriCOBRA founders, 2010

AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) is an African American artist collective founded in 1968, first as COBRA (Coalition of Black Revolutionary Artists), in Chicago, Illinois. AfriCOBRA explores the possibility of identifying or developing a characteristically Black style in the visual arts.

 

Jean Ellen Jones research material on Lizzie Wilkerson, 1978-1984

Jean Ellen Jones is an art historian in Atlanta, Georgia. She taught at Georgia State University and curated a traveling exhibition of Lizzie Wilkerson's work for the Georgia State University Art Gallery in 1983. Lizzie Wilkerson began to paint at age 77, after a life as a sharecropper and maid.

 

Marilynn Karp papers regarding Richard Lippold, 1949-2015

Marilynn Karp (1939- ) was a student of Richard Lippold's who became his friend and installation assistant beginning in 1957 and was a trustee of his foundation and an executor of his estate until his death.

 

Brian Kazlov papers, 1959-1991

Brian Kazlov (1944-1991) was a painter and teacher in New York City and Yachats, Oregon.

 

Luigi Lucioni letters to Nelson C. White, 1922-1927

Nelson C. White (1900-1989) was a Connecticut painter, art historian, and collector. Son of artist Henry C. White, Nelson was a friend of the artist Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988), a realist painter best known for his landscapes of Vermont and portraits of opera singers.

 

Ryah Ludins portfolio, circa 1920-1950

Ryah Ludins (1896-1957) was a muralist and painter in New York, New York. Ludins completed murals projects for the Works Project Administration, Section of Painting and Sculpture and the Mexican government.

 

Miye Matsukata papers, circa 1900-1982

Miye Matsukata (1922-1981) was a jewelry designer and metalsmith in Boston, Massachusetts. She worked in her jewelry firm Janiye in Boston from 1950 until her death.

 

Eve Propp papers regarding Joseph Cornell, 1966-1994

Eve Propp befriended artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) while operating a short lived gallery in New York, New York.

 

Sanford Schwartz papers, 1948-2011

Sanford Schwartz (1946- ) is an exhibition curator in New York, New York.

 

Anna Walinska papers, 1927-2002

Anna Walinska (1906-1997) was a painter, lecturer, and dealer in New York, New York.

 

Ellis Wilson papers, 1922-1959, bulk 1940s

Ellis Wilson (1899-1977) was an African American painter and illustrator.

 

Transcripts of oral history interviews with:

 

Robert Adams (2010)

 

David Best (2007)

 

Diane Burko (2016)

 

Olav Hammarstrom (1982-1983)

 

Tom Marioni (2017)

 

Allan McCollum (2010)

 

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