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Bohrod, Aaron.
Correspondence (family, art organizations and associations, educational institutions, galleries and museums, patrons, fellow artists), artwork, writings, memorabilia of the American realist painter.
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Harriton, Abraham, 1893-1986
Correspondence (1937-1965); personal papers (1950-1952); photographs of Harriton and his work (1918-1962); manuscripts by Harriton on art and artists (1949-1964); scrapbooks (1915-1962); published material (1922-1964); and biographical material.
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Tromka, Abram, 1896-1954.
Papers of the Polish-born American Jewish painter, etcher, serigrapher. Also worked under name Abraham Phillips. Collection includes correspondence, exhibition catalogs, photographs of Tromka and his work, published material, including articles and clippings about Tromka.
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Dasburg, Andrew, 1887-1979.
Papers of the American painter. Correspondence, photographs of work, exhibition catalogs, and miscellaneous published material. Correspondents include William C. Agee, John H. Bradley, Alexander Brook, Louise Bryant, Jerry Bywaters, Witter Bynner, Peggy Church, Howard Cook, Philip Dedrick, Arthur Davison Ficke, Edwin Gamble, Marsden Hartley, Richard Hollander, Lila Howard, D.H. Lawrence, Ward Lockwood, Erle Loran, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Henry Lee McFee, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Louis Ribak, Morgan Russell, Lesley Simpson, Carl Van Vechten, Victor White, Owen Wister, and others.
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Toney, Anthony.
Papers of the American painter. Collection includes correspondence (1932-1969); artwork, and printed material, including articles, clippings, and exhibition catalogs.
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Huntington, Archer M. (Archer Milton), 1870-1955
Papers of the American philanthropist, poet. Correspondence; secretarial daybooks, 1922-1957; manuscripts; legal and financial papers. Organizational correspondence includes that of the Academy of American Poets, American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Geographical Society, American Museum of Natural History, American Numismatic Society, Brookgreen Gardens, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Hispanic Society of America, Mariners' Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of the American Indian, National Academy of Design, National Arts Club, National Sculpture Society, New-York Historical Society, New York Zoological Society, and Yale University.
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Scheler, Armin, 1901-
Papers of the German-born American sculptor. Collection contains incoming and outgoing correspondence (1949-1965); exhibition catalogs (1939-1965); photographs (1932-1962); and manuscripts (1945-1964).
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Kopman, Benjamin, b. 1887
Papers of the American Jewish painter, lithographer, etcher, illustrator, sculptor.Born in Russia. Correspondence (1911-1962), including a series of letters (1936-1958), some in scrapbook form, by Kopman to his art dealer, G.D. Thompson; manuscript poems, and prose, some in Yiddish; legal and financial papers; sketches; and photographs of Kopman's work and his family. Incoming letters, arranged alphabetically, include those from the Art Institute of Chicago, David Burliuk, the Federal Art Project, Rockwell Kent, Katharine Kuh, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Clifford Odets, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Hugo Robus, Frederic F. Sherman, Raphael Soyer, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Carl Zigrosser.
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Johnson, Ben, 1902-1967
Papers of the American painter. Spanning 1951 to 1968, the Ben Johnson Papers comprises correspondence, artwork, writings, and memorabilia of the Brooklyn-born painter (1902-1967) who specialized in female nude figures. Illuminating Johnson's personal and professional life, the collection also provides insight into the career of his wife, artist Alice Terry (b. 1925). Includes correspondence, personal and business, including family letters (1951-1968); photographs of Johnson's paintings; interviews, statements on art; lists of paintings, partially annotated with prices; and printed material, including articles and reviews (1963-1967), newspaper clippings (1954-1967), and exhibition catalogs and invitations (1962-1966).
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Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991.
Correspondence (1943-1964); and exhibition catalogs, clippings, and articles about Chaim Gross (1937-1964). Incoming correspondence includes that of Sidney Alexander, Associated American Artists, George Biddle, Theodore Bikel, Isabel Bishop, Butler Institute of American Art, Rhys Caparn, Federico Castellón, Philip Evergood, Robert Gwathmey, Benjamin Kopman, Leon Kroll, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Hedy Lamarr, Millard Lampell, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Irving Marantz, Herman Maril, Museum of Modern Art, National Institute of Arts and Letters, New School for Social Research, Jan Peerce, Raphael Soyer, Sabina Teichman, Carl Van Vechten, Harold Weston, Whitney Museum of American Art, and William Zorach.
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Coiner, Charles T.
Correspondence (1930s-1970); design drawings for government commissions, including preliminary sketches and other material pertaining to the NRA blue eagle as well as civilian defense logos and war posters; documents relating to various Ayer clients, including the Container Corporation of America; ms. essays and speeches, and tear sheets for Coiner's 'Clipping Board' column; and memorabilia, including awards, clippings, exhibition catalogs, and photographs. Correspondence includes letters of Raymond A. Ballinger, Herbert Bayer, Harry Bouras, Alexey Brodovitch, Werner Drewes, Leo Lionni, George Samerjan, Lajos Szalay, and others.
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Fasano, Clara, 1900-
Papers of the American sculptor, born in Italy. Photographs of work, 1952-1954; published material including exhibition notices and articles by and about Fasano, 1952-1964; and a biographical sketch.
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Roberts, Colette, 1910-1971.
Papers of the American art critic, gallery director.Born in Paris, France, died 1971. Director of Grand Central Moderns (N.Y.), 1952-1968. Collection consists of taped interviews with Will Barnet, Nell Blaine, Victor Candell, Giorgio Cavallon, pianist George Copeland, Ben Cunningham, Fielding Dawson, Marcel Duchamp, Adolph Gottlieb, José Guerrero, Stanley William Hayter, John Hultberg, Jennett Lam, Charlotte Lichtblau, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner, Robert Mallary, Leo Manso, Ezio Martinelli, Seong Moy, Norman Narotzky, Louise Nevelson, Betty Parsons, Bernard Pfriem, Abraham Rattner, Man Ray, Robert Reid, Ralph Rosenborg, Jason Seley, William Soles, Hyde Solomon, Hedda Sterne, and Reuben Tam.
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Holden, Donald, 1931-
Holden's writings (articles, books) and artwork (drawings of nude human figure in various media, watercolor landscapes); binders containing a catalog of Holden's watercolors and slides of his work in public collections; assortment of exhibition catalogs and articles about the painter.
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Caesar, Doris.
Spanning 1926 to 1977, the Doris Caesar Papers comprises biographical material, correspondence-subject files, artwork, writings, and memorabilia of the New York-born sculptor (1892-1971). Correspondents include Alexander Archipenko, Alexander Calder, Frank Kacmarcik, William Pachner, and James A. Porter. The collection illuminates Caesar's personal life and the evolution of her artistic career.
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Wilson, Edward A. (Edward Arthur), 1886-1970.
Spanning 1915 to 1963, the Edward A. Wilson Papers comprises biographical material, correspondence, artwork, writings, and memorabilia of the Scottish-born illustrator, lithographer, and painter (1886-1970). The collection illuminates Wilson's artistic career, which ranged from book and magazine illustration to the design of advertisements, bookplates, magazine covers, postage stamps, and war posters.
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Clark, Eliot Candee, 1883-
Papers of the American painter, art critic. Correspondence, 1910-1969; holograph and typescript essays, lectures, and speeches; photographs; and printed material, including articles, exhibition catalogs, and material relating to the National Academy of Design, of which Clark wrote a history.
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Gershoy, Eugenie, 1901-
Papers of the Russian-American sculptor, painter. Incoming and outgoing correspondence; manuscripts including drawings, notes, sketches, and illustrations; published material; and photographs of Gershoy's work and family.
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Martinelli, Ezio, 1913-1980.
Correspondence, family, business, and personal (1927-1967); artwork, including photographs and reproductions of Martinelli's United Nations commission; statements on his work; and printed material, including clippings about Martinelli (1928-1968), and exhibition announcements, catalogs, and invitations (1934-1968). Correspondents include Aldo John Casanova, Ed Colker, Martin Craig, Dorothy Dehner, Helmut von Erffa, Giannetto Fieschi, Horace Gregory, Peter Grippe, Edmund Haines, Stanley Hayter, Louis I. Kahn, Leon Kelly, Leon Kroll, Norman Lewis, Sam Maitin, Barbara Brooks Morgan, Marnie Pomeroy, Melville Price, Walter Reinsel, Theodore Roszak, Charles Seide, Helena Simkhovitch, David Smith, and Carl Zigrosser.
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Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915
25 outgoing letters, 4 incoming letters from William Henry Rideing; single typescript pages, with revisions, from 3 of Smith’s novels; and miscellany, including clipped signatures, an inscribed reproduction of a photographic portrait of F. Hopkinson Smith, and printed ephemera, including booksellers’ catalogs and an advertisement.
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Werner, Fritz.
Papers of the Austrian-American portrait painter. Collection contains correspondence, incoming, 1934-1965; drawings; photographs of his portraits; and printed material, including articles, clippings and exhibition catalogs, 1936-1964.
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Klitgaard, Georgina, 1893-
Correspondence (1917-1965); artwork, including lithographic plates and sketches; photographs and reproductions of paintings; and printed material, including clippings (1928-1965), exhibition catalogs (1927-1965), and reviews. Correspondents include Bill Alexander, the American Artists Group, Inc., Erwin S. Barrie, Ray Bethers, George Biddle, Julius Bloch, Mortimer Borne, W. Sterry Branning, Lucile E. Bush, Millicent Carey, the Carnegie Institute, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Compnay, Van Cort, Russell Cowles, Katharine Day, Dorothy Dehner, Juliana Force, Kathryn Gamble, Daisy Gill, Lloyd Goodrich, Buckner Hollingsworth, Kaj Klitgaard, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Archibald MacLeish, Hughes Mearns, Hermon More, Hobson Pittman, Frances M. Pollak, Henry Varnum Poor, Homer Saint-Gaudens, Silvia Saunders, Jean Paul Slusser, Charles A. Smart, Carl Spaatz, Eugene Speicher, Francis H. Taylor, Zoraida E. Weeks, and William Zorach.
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Bates, Gladys Edgerly.
Papers of the American sculptor, born 1896. Collection includes correspondence (1924-1956); six sketchbooks (1913-1921); photographs of sculpture; a notebook containing an annotated list of works and biographical notes; personal photographs; clippings (1922-1961); and exhibition catalogs (1920s-1961). Notable correspondents include Dolores Bryant, Beatrice Cuming, sister Beatrice Edgerly, Katherine Forest, brother-in-law John Havard MacPherson, Mabel Pugh, Brenda Putnam, Abraham Rattner, Margaret Sanger, Susan Gertrude Schell, and a number of other artists.
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Derujinsky, Gleb W., 1888-
Papers of the American sculptor, born in Smolensk, Russia; died in 1975. Correspondence, with, among others, Archer M. Huntington and Ronald Lane Latimer, 1925-1960; photoprints; published material about Derujinsky, 1922-1964; and an original sketch.
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Mayor, Harriet H. (Harriet Hyatt), 1868-1960.
Correspondence (1892-1960); diaries, genealogical materials, notebooks, photographs, printed material, including articles and clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and sketchbooks. Correspondence includes that of Adelaide Cole Chase, Clara Carter Hyatt Coad, Anna Hyatt and Archer M. Huntington, Audella Hyatt, and Alfred G. Mayor.
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Wickey, Harry.
Papers of the American sculptor, lithographer, etcher (1892-1968?). Primarily correspondence (1928-1965); also clippings and photographs of Wickey and his work.
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Williams, Hiram.
Papers of the American painter and educator. Collection includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, original book illustrations and a painting of his parents, reproductions of Williams' artwork, financial and legal material, lists of paintings, photographs of Williams and his family, and printed material. Correspondents include Luis Eades, Hobson Pittman, and art galleries and museums.
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Giles, Howard, 1876-1955.
Papers of the American painter, lithographer. Correspondence, 1918-1957; exhibition catalogs, photographs, published material by and about Giles; and sketches and watercolors by Giles.
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Lehman, Irving, 1900-1983.
Papers of the American Jewish painter, sculptor, engraver, designer. Born in Russia. Photographs of Lehman's paintings and sculpture (1935-1963); clippings (1958-1961); and exhibition catalogs, invitations, and posters (1947-1960).
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Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000.
Spanning 1937-1971, the Jacob Lawrence Papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, artwork reproductions, writings, printed material, and memorabilia of the African-American painter, printmaker, and artist.
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House, James,1902-
Papers of the American sculptor, caricaturist. Collection includes drawings; exhibition catalogs (1932-1965); book manuscript and lectures; photographs of sculpture (1929-1965); articles and clippings about House (1928-1963); and published caricatures (1947-1955).
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De Marco, Jean, 1898-
Papers of the American sculptor, often of religious subjects. Born in Paris. Collection includes biographical material including a scrapbook of photographs of De Marco's work (1963-1964); correspondence (1954-1963); and published material about De Marco.
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Liberte, Jean, 1896-1965.
Papers of the Italian-American painter including correspondence, reproductions of his art, clippings, photographs and other memorabilia
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Lasker, Joe.
Spanning 1934 to 1969, the Joe Lasker Papers comprises biographical material, correspondence, artwork, writings, and memorabilia of the Brooklyn-born painter, illustrator, educator, and political activist (b. 1919). The collection illuminates Lasker's artistic career as well as his personal life.
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Ferren, John Millard.
Papers of the American painter, stone carver, sculptor (1905-1970). Assistant professor of art at Queens College, Brooklyn. Photocopies of correspondence (1952-1953); exhibition material; photocopy of a scrapbook; slides of Ferren's work (1928-1964); manuscript articles and addresses by Ferren; five sketchbooks (1929-1957); and published articles and clippings by and about Ferren (1936-1963).
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Rood, John, 1902-1974.
Papers of the American sculptor, editor of Manuscript (periodical). Collection includes correspondence (1937-1962); exhibition catalogs, and other printed material, including clippings and reviews; photographs, scrapbooks which include material on the John and Dorothy Rood Art Collection; and travel diaries.
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John Vassos Papers, 1928-1981 7.5 linear ft., incl. 232 oversize items

Vassos, John, 1898-1989
The collection consists of the artwork and professional papers of John Vassos. Arranged in four categories (Correspondence-Subject File, Artwork, Writings, and Memorabilia), the collection focuses on Vassos' creative efforts as an arts administrator (Silvermine Guild of Artists), an innovative illustrator (The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Phobia), and an industrial designer. The collection includes correspondence, designs, drawings, photographs, paintings, essays, books, memorabilia and printed material.
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Klitgaard, Kaj
Correspondence (1914-1966); photographs, sketchbooks, and published material, including articles and clippings. Correspondents include Egmont Arens, Peggy Bacon, Rockwell Kent, Alfred Kreymborg, Harry E. Maule, William McFee, Ogden Nash, John Crowe Ransom, Henry Morton Robinson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles Allen Smart, and Lowell Thomas. Additional letters of many of the correspondents can be found in a scrapbook.
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Martin, Keith, 1911-1983.
Papers of the American painter, collagist; died 1983. Collection includes correspondence (1933-1978); artwork reproductions and photographs; writings, including a reminiscence of Gertrude Stein; and memorabilia, including inventories of artwork, itineraries, photographs, financial material, exhibition announcements, invitations, and catalogs (1931-1987), and articles and reviews about Martin. Correspondence covers family, business, and personal correspondence, including that with Adelyn Breeskin, Tom L. Freudenheim, Henry Gorski, Lincoln F. Johnson, Ralph T. Millet, Wasyl Palijczuk, Charles Parkhurst, Brenda Richardson, Eleanor Patterson Spencer, Bertha Fanning Taylor, and Alice B. Toklas.
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Kupferman, Lawrence, 1909-
Papers of the American painter, etcher. Died 1982. Correspondence, financial material, photographs and slides of work, sketchbooks, and printed material, including articles and exhibition catalogs.
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Jackson, Lee, 1909-
Papers of the American painter. Collection includes correspondence, exhibition catalogs, photographs of work, articles and clippings about Jackson.
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Volk, Leonard Wells, 1828-1895.
Papers of the American sculptor. Correspondence to and from Volk family members; photographs of a bust of Volk by David Richards, works by Volk, family members, and the areas around Pittsfield, Massachusetts and Wells, New York; and material relating to the acquisition of the collection by Edward Deming Andrews, grand-nephew of Volk.
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Lozowick, Louis, 1892-1973.
Papers of the American Jewish lithographer, painter, and art critic, born in Russia, emigrated to the United States in 1906. Correspondence (1923-1973); manuscript writings, including various chapters of an unpublished autobiography; photographs and reproductions of Lozowick's work; and printed material, including articles by Lozowick and exhibition catalogs.
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Citron, Minna, 1896-1991.
Correspondence, 1946-1965; typescript essays; exhibition catalogs, invitations, and posters; photographs of Minna Citron and her work; newspaper clippings; and publicity
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Luce, Molly, 1896-
Papers of the American painter. Wife of painter and art historian Alan Burroughs. Correspondence, 1939-1967, featuring a series of letters from Luce to Alan Burroughs; clippings, 1927-1965; exhibition catalogs, 1924-1945, 1966, 1980; photographs of her work, and a typescript manuscript for An Artist's Angle.
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Medellin, Octavio, 1907 or 8-1999.
Papers of the Mexican-American sculptor, mosaicist, specialized in religious subjects. Correspondence (1941-1963), incoming and outgoing; artwork reproductions, 14 original sketches and other material relating to a number of church commissions; autobiographical essays, and memorabilia, including articles and reviews about Medellin (1941-1958), newspaper clippings (1936-1962), and exhibition catalogs. Correspondents include Ben Bailey, Xavier Gonzalez, Gyorgy Kepes, Carlos Merida, Cora Elder Stafford, Salvador Toscano, and Charles Umlauf.
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Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987.
Papers of the American author, caricaturist, illustrator, painter. Collection includes correspondence between Bacon and her husband Alexander Brook, as well as that of others; manuscript articles, illustrations, poems, and notebooks; published material including articles, drawings, and newspaper clippings by or about Bacon and Brook; memorabilia, including awards, photographs, and reviews; and miscellany.
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Lipman-Wulf, Peter.
Spanning 1945 through 1975, the Peter Lipman-Wulf Papers consists of correspondence, writings and memorabilia of the American sculptor, painter, graphic artist and educator (b. 1905). A German Jew by birth, Peter Lipman-Wulf fled to France in 1933 where he was interned in a prison camp before emigrating to the United States in 1947. While documenting his professional career, the collection reveals little of his personal life or war-time experiences.
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Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973.
Papers of the American Jewish painter. Collection includes exhibition catalogs, holograph manuscript by Evergood of an essay prepared in advance of the opening of an exhibition of his paintings in Rome, Italy, a typescript manuscript of a review of Rockwell Kent's Greenland Journal, and miscellaneous printed material.
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Caparn, Rhys, 1909-1997.
Correspondence (1932-1967); original sketches, photographs, and reproductions of her artwork; essays and notes for an art column; and printed material, including articles and reviews about Caparn (1933-1963), clippings (1935-1970), exhibition catalogs, invitations, and posters (1939-1973). Correspondents include Alexander Archipenko, Doris Caesar, George Constant, Lyonel Feininger, Sidney Gordin, Joseph Konzal, Theodore J. Roszak, Helena Simkhovitch, and Mitzi Solomon.
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Florsheim, Richard A., 1916-1979
Primarily correspondence (1927-1979). Also, artwork reproductions; manuscript and printed articles, book reviews, and essays; lecture notes and manuscripts; photographs and memorabilia, including clippings (1951-1979), exhibition catalogs and invitations from the 1940s through the 1980s; and financial material relating to artwork prices and studio construction. Correspondence of greatest depth and duration with Rose H. Alschuler, the Artists Equity Association, Artists League of the Midwest, Illinois Arts Council, Norman MacLeish, José Pijoán, Peter Pollack, Daniel Catton Rich, Rose Valland, and Hudson Walker. Other correspondents include Edgar Britton, Clayton Charles, Leon Kroll, Martyl, Arthur Rissman, and Ladislas Segy.
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Parker, Robert Andrew.
Papers of the American painter, illustrator, art educator; born 1927. Collection includes correspondence (1959-1966) documents Parker's illustration work for Marianne Moore's Eight Poems; and 18 undated sketchbooks in various media, some annotated with Parker's statements on art.
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Riggs, Robert, 1896-1970.
Papers of the American painter, illustrator, and lithographer, specializing in circus art and prize-fight lithographs. Sketchbooks (2) labelled "Circus '35" and "Coney"; photographs of Riggs at the circus, in his studio, and miscellaneous portraits and candid shots; and printed material, including articles (1933-1947), and clippings (1912-1970).
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Crampton, Rollin McNeil, 1886-1970.
Papers of the American painter, sculptor (1886-1970). Copies of letters received, 1952-1964; exhibition notices and photographs of work; manuscript 'Laws of Proportion', 1964; also published materials.
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Bassford, Wallace, 1900-1998
Papers of the American still-life and portrait painter; specialized in the female figure. Collection includes correspondence concerning art exhibitions (1945-1953); artwork reproductions, statements on art, and memorabilia, including articles and clippings about Bassford (1953-1968) as well as his exhibition catalogs (1939-1962).
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Barnet, Will, 1911-2012
Papers of the American painter, printmaker. Correspondence (1937-1960); exhibition catalogs (1938-1965); manuscript and published writings, including a draft of an untitled autobiography; photographs and reproductions of Barnet's artwork; and various printed material, including articles (1937-1960) and clippings (1930-1966) about Barnet.
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Gropper, William, 1897-1977.
Papers of the American painter, illustrator, cartoonist, lithographer. Correspondence (1927-1950); original drawings, paintings, and prose by Gropper and others; published material, including cartoons from New Masses, clippings, exhibition lists, and illustrations (1918-1968); and a scrapbook containing birthday congratulations.