Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Shapiro, Jory
| title | Joseph Randall Shapiro and Jory Shapiro papers, 1943-1985. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Letters, scrapbooks, and printed material documenting the development of the Shapiro's art collection. Correspondence, primarily from dealers, museums, art organizations and artists, includes letters from Enrico Baj, Aaron Bohrod (recommending Ben Shahn as a muralist), George Buehr, Jose Luis Cuevas, Leon Golub, Margo Hoff, Miyoko Ito, Sidney Janis, Ellen Lanyon, Pierre Matisse, Ida Meyer-Chagall (discussing her father's work), Abbott Pattison, Irving Petlin, Abraham Rattner, and Kay Sage Tanguy (discussing her husband's work). Printed material consists of 11 exhibition announcements and catalogs (1952-1984), and clippings (1965-1985). Four scrapbooks (1943-1955) contain clippings, some dealing with the "Art to Live With" program, exhibition catalogs, a letter from Richard Daley (1958), a 3-page typescript "Surrealism Then and Now" by Doris Lane Butler (1958), press releases (1959), and a letter from R. J. Nedved of the Illinois Society of Architects (1967). |
| extent | 0.6 linear ft. (on 1 microfilm reel) reel 3759 |
| formats | Correspondence Catalogs Scrapbooks Ephemera |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/joseph-randall-shapiro-and-jory-shapiro-papers-9547 |
| record source | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/joseph-randall-shapiro-and-jory-shapiro-papers-9547 |
| acquisition information | Material on reel 3759 (fr. 1-320) donated 1986; and material on fr. 323-569 lent for microfilming 1986 all by Joseph R. Shapiro. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:54 |
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