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Archives related to: Wilder, Nicholas
| title | Oral history interview with Nicholas Wilder, 1988 July 18. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Nicholas Wilder conducted by Ruth Bowman for the Archives of American Art. Wilder discusses his education; working for the Lanyon Art Gallery near San Francisco; opening the Nicholas Wilder Gallery in Los Angeles in 1965 and operating it until it closed in 1979; the Los Angeles art scene in the 60s and how it has changed; Charlie Cowles and the founding of ARTFORUM magazine; and artists his gallery handled including Bruce Nauman, Joe Goode and Tom Holland. |
| extent | Sound recording: 2 sound cassettes. Transcript: 104 p. |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_214891 |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-nicholas-wilder-11998 |
| acquisition information | These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1959 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:31 |
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| title | Artist file: Wilder, Nicholas , 1938-1989 | repository | National Portrait Gallery Library |
| description | Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs. |
| extent | 1+ folders (check with repository) |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Folder(s) do not circulate. Folder(s) available for use only at the holding library |
| record source | http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/Art-Design/artandartistfiles/ |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:40 |
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| title | Morris Louis and Morris Louis Estate papers, circa 1910s-2007, bulk 1965-2000 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Biographical material, correspondence, receipts, banking and tax records, notes, writings, printed material, photographs, and a sample of canvas reflect the career of Morris Louis. The remaining half, documenting the administration of his estate, includes general correspondence, notes, writings, clippings, photographs, interview transcripts, and business records. In the personal papers, biographical accounts, 1964-1966, outline the life histories of Morris and Marcella Louis. General correspondence, 1941- 1962, is primarily from colleagues, including Helen Frankenthaler and Clement Greenberg. There is a postcard from David Smith, 1962, and a letter from the André Emmerich Gallery enclosing pages from a guest book signed by Leonard Bocour, Donald Judd, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitsky, David Smith, and Frank Stella, among others. Business records consist of receipts, 1951-1963, for household expenses, studio rent, travel, shipment of art work, and Louis' art supplies, banking records, 1945-1964, such as deposit slips, bank statements, and cancelled checks, and tax records, 1951-1962. Seven notebooks, 1956-1962, record the payments, attendence, and addresses of Washington Workshop Center for the Arts students, studio rent, travel expenses, and brief annotations on Louis' art work. Notes also include lists of art work, 1960-1962, and a recipe card written by Louis. Writings consist of typescripts "Morris Louis" by Dan Robbins, and a dialogue with Dr. Ira Lewis. Printed material consists of clippings, 1950-1962, exhibition announcements and catalogs, 1937-1962, and brochures, 1950-1960, including one for the Washington Workshop Center for the Arts. There are also 5 photographs of the Rome-New York Art Foundation exhibition, 1960, and a sample of canvas labelled "No. 26 Dawn". Related to the estate are letters, 1962-1986, from Leonard Bocour, Helen Frankenthaler, Clement Greenberg, a family friend who relates an account of Louis' death, and others. In addition, correspondence is included in files on art historian Diane Upright (Headley) and attorney I.S. Weissbrodt, along with business records, notes, and printed material, and several letters from Louis and one from Frankenthaler in a file on the Bernstein family. The bulk of the estate records consist of files on 30 galleries and museums, among them the Andre Emmerich Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Israel Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in Shiga, Japan, containing mostly correspondence, business records, printed material, notes, and a few photographs documenting exhibitions of works of art. Also found are transcripts of interviews about Louis, 1966-1979, with Leonard Bocour, Marcella Brenner, James Collins, John Elderfield, André Emmerich, Helen Frankenthaler, Michael Fried, Diane Headley, Joe Helman, Helen Jacobson, James Lebron, Kenworth Moffett, Gifford and Joann Phillips, Lawrence Rubin, Charles Schucker, Anne Truitt, and Nicholas Wilder, and one from an interview for National Educational Television with Brenner, Frankenthaler, Clement Greenberg, Helen Jacobson, and Kenneth Noland. Remaining estate records include files on the Morris Louis Film Project, 1979-1985, and the National Symposium of Art Museum Docents, 1983; miscellaneous notes, essays "As I Remember Morris Louis", by an unidentified author, and "Morris Louis: A Painter 'Recollected in Tranquility'" by Doris Margaret Thornton, 1972, clippings, 1966-1988, and an undated photograph of Louis. Other photographs are of the Brenners, Diane Upright Headley, James Lebron looking at Louis' work, 1980, and one of Roy Lichtenstein's variation on a Louis "Unfurled", 1973. Biographical and Historical Note Painter; Washington, D.C. Born 1912. Died 1962. Born Morris Louis Bernstein in Baltimore, Md. Attended the Maryland Institute from 1929 to 1933. He lived in NYC from 1936 to 1945, where he participated in the WPA Easel Painting Project, and adopted the name Morris Louis. In 1947, two years after returning to Baltimore, he married Marcella Siegel, an educator, and they moved to Washington, D.C. in 1952. Louis was influenced by the work of Helen Frankenthaler and he began creating his color-stained unprimed canvases categorized as Veils (1954- 1959), Florals (1959-1960), Unfurleds (1960), and Stripes (1961-1962). Through his colleague, Kenneth Noland, Louis met Clement Greenberg who was influential in popularizing Louis' work, which only began to gain notoriety at the time of his death from lung cancer in 1962. Marcella Louis became administrator of his estate of paintings, as a result of an agreement with his family, the Bernsteins. In 1964 she married scientist Abner Brener. |
| extent | 6.3 linear ft. (on 7 microfilm reels) reels 4988-4994 |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Financial Records Legal Papers Writings |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.louimorr.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/morris-louis-and-morris-louis-estate-papers-7040 |
| finding aid | Finding aid available at AAA offices. |
| acquisition information | The Morris Louis and Morris Louis Estate papers were donated by Marcella Brenner in several installments in 1976, 1986, and 1988. Subsequent donations in 2009 and 2012 were donated by Marcella Brenner via Ann M. Garfinkle, Executor. The Anita Faatz interviews were donated in 1976 by Marcella Brenner. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:43 |
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