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Archives related to: Thaw, Eugene Victor
| title | Artist file: Thaw, Eugene Victor; miscellaneous uncataloged material. | repository | The Museum of Modern Art |
| description | Pamphlet file The folder may include announcements, clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral material. Location MoMA Queens Artist Files Call Number Thaw, Eugene Victor |
| extent | 1 folder |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991011917189707141 |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:56 |
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| title | Drawings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw [exhibition records] : Dessins de la collection de M. et Mme. Eugene V. Thaw. | repository | National Gallery of Canada |
| description | TEXTUAL RECORDS: five (5) exhibition file folders; one (1) clippings file folder; one (1) archival copy of the exhibition catalogue entitled Drawings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. [New York. Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975] 228 p., ill.; one (1) archival copy of the french version of the exhibition catalogue entitled Dessins de la collection de M. et Mme. Eugene V. Thaw. [NGC, 1976] 232 p., ill. GRAPHIC MATERIAL: four (4) b&w photographs (installation views); seven (7) b&w slides (installation views). Notes: An exhibition of one hundred and fifteen (115) drawings./ Shown at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 6-Sept. 19, 1976. |
| extent | 6 cm of textual records. 4 photographs. 7 slides. |
| formats | Exhibition Files Clippings Photographs Slides |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions |
| record source | http://firstsearch.oclc.org |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:54 |
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| title | Oral history interview with Eugene V. Thaw 2007 Oct. 1-2. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Eugene V. Thaw conducted October 1 and 2, 2007 by James McElhinney for the Archives of American Art's Art Dealers Association of America Project at Thaw's residence in New York. Thaw speaks of his childhood in New York City; Mexican art in his home including watercolors by Diego Rivera; beginning classes at the Art Student’s League of New York at age 14; attending St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland; attending Columbia University for graduate courses in art history and studying with Meyer Shapiro and Millard Meiss; an early interest in Old Master, Renaissance, and German Expressionist art; studying in Florence, Italy for four months after World War II; opening The New Bookstore and Gallery with friend Jack Landau above the Algonquin Hotel upon his return to New York City; giving Joan Mitchell and Conrad Marca-Relli their first shows; ending his partnership with Landau, closing the bookstore, and moving the gallery to Madison Avenue; becoming involved in the international art market; the practice of buying and selling works of art in shares with other dealers; showing American and European artists; renaming the gallery E.V. Thaw & Company; operating essentially as a one-man gallery with very limited staff; his relationship with museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art; his personal collections, including extensive ancient Eurasian artifacts and American Indian art; establishing the Pollock-Krasner Foundation; the philanthropic vision of his own foundation, the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust; his retirement from dealing; the “hand of the artist” in historical context and its lack of significance in contemporary art; and advice for young and emerging art dealers. Thaw also recalls Richard Offner, Evelyn Sandberg-Vavala, Norbert Ketterer, Günther Franka, Pierre Matisse, Leo Castelli, Julius Held, Theodore Rousseau, Lee Krasner, Norton Simon, and others. |
| extent | Sound recording, master: 2 sound discs (2 hr., 25 min.) digital; 2 5/8 in., Transcript: 33 p. |
| formats | Sound Recording Online Transcript Transcript |
| access | Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website. |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_274662 |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-eugene-v-thaw-13687 |
| acquisition information | This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. Funding Note: Funding for this interview provided by Art Dealers Association of America. |
| updated | 07/24/2017 12:10:11 |
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| title | Anne Bowen Parsons collection of interviews on art, 1967-1968. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | The interviews are of artists, educators, art administrators, and dealers. Topics covered include the Federal Art Project, the Artists' Union, the Club, the influence of French emigre artists, and political activism among artists. The transcripts range from 1 to 4 pages in length. Interviewees include: Mildred Baker, Will Barnet, Emanuel Benson, James Brooks, Paul Burlin, Giorgio Cavallon, Willem de Kooning, Jimmy Ernst, Sidney Geist, Adolph Gottlieb, Balcomb Greene, Robert Gwathmey, Seymour Hacker, Carl Holty, Harry Holtzman, Reuben Kadish, Lee Krasner, Joe Lasker, Ibram Lassaw, Jack Levine, Conrad Marca-Relli, George McNeil, Dorothy Canning Miller, George L.K. Morris, Reuben Nakian, Phillip Pavia, Louis Schanker, Ben Shahn, Theodoros Stamos, Eugene Victor Thaw, Jack Tworkov, and Esteban Vincente. |
| extent | 30 transcripts. |
| formats | Transcript Interviews |
| access | Use requires an appointment. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated in 1985 by Anne Bowen Parsons' son, Randall T. Parsons. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:12 |
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| title | Sherman Emery Lee Personal Papers | repository | The Cleveland Museum of Art |
| description | This is a small collection of personal papers given to the archives by Dr. Lee's daughter, Katharine Reid. It consists primarily of clippings, travel journals, photographs, and audio tapes. The collection is arranged alphabetically by subject. Dr. Lee donated the substance of his personal papers to the Archives of American Art in 1996. The Arts and Monuments Division reports on private collections in Japan were transferred from the Library in April, 2007 (see box 5). |
| extent | 4 boxes |
| formats | Clippings Correspondence Journals Photographs Subject Files |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:12 |
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| title | Thaw, Eugene Victor | repository | The Cleveland Museum of Art |
| description | Reference Collection / Regular loan CLIPPING FILE |
| extent | contact repository for further details |
| formats | Clippings Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions |
| record source | http://lib-aleph.clevelandart.org |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:12 |
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| title | Sherman E. Lee papers, 1958-1996. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Biographical material; correspondence with scholars, editors, collectors, dealers, art societies and organizations, and others; newspaper clippings, ca. 1960-1970; honorary degrees and other awards; photographs of Chinese painting, Chinese and Japanese sculpture, ceramics and objects; trip itineraries, 1958-1982, and travel notebooks; Lee's field journal as a member of the Art and Archaeology Delegation to the People's Republic of China, 1973 (2 v. and typescript); published and unpublished writings including typescripts of articles, memorial addresses, introductions, and lectures, ca. 1963-1983; lists of Lee's publications; and records regarding Lee's personal art collection. Bio / His Notes: Museum director; Cleveland, Ohio. Born 1918. Lee's career has included positions as an author, curator, professor, and consultant of Chinese and Japanese art. In 1952, he joined the Cleveland Museum of Art as a curator of Oriental art, following jobs at the Detroit Institute of Art and the Seattle Art Museum. He served in the Navy during WWII and from 1946 to 1948, he was Advisor on Arts and Monuments at General MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo. He has written many books, including Chinese Landscape Painting (1954), A History of Far Eastern Art (1964), and The Genius of Japanese Design (1981). |
| extent | 9.0 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Clippings Photographs Notebooks Journals |
| access | Unmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to AAA's Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated 1997 by Sherman Lee. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:12 |
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| title | E.V. Thaw & Company Archive | repository | Private Repository |
| description | Thaw discusses his archive with James McElhinney in his Archives of American Art Oral History and says that the papers are in the possession of his son who is refining the archive. Thaw tells McElhinney that it includes financial records going back 40 and 50 years from the date of the interview (Oct. 1-2, 2007) and will include "interesting correspondence." Thaw explains that the archive is intended to go to a permanent home with a large institution such as Archives of American Art and The Metropolitan Museum or, The Morgan Library who has the Pierre Matisse Gallery archive. Oral history interview with Eugene V. Thaw, 2007 Oct. 1-2, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. |
| extent | unknown |
| formats | Financial Records Correspondence |
| access | Not open for research |
| record source | http://aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/thaw07.htm |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:12 |
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