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Archives related to: Kainen, Jacob
| title | Jacob Kainen papers, 1905-2003 (bulk 1940-2001). | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | The Jacob Kainen papers date from 1905 to 2003 (bulk 1940-2001), and measure 17 linear feet. The collection consists primarily of personal correspondence to and from friends and family members and professional correspondence concerning Kainen's activities as an artist, curator, teacher and art collector. The collection also contains biographical material, writings, diaries, inventories, transcripts, printed material, photographs, works of art by other artists, and a videocassette. Biographical materials include items concerning Kainen's career as a curator and artist, in addition to a useful bibliography, detailed biographical outline, and a copy of an FBI report compiled on him. Correspondence/Subject files comprise the bulk of the collection and contain correspondence to and from both Jacob and Ruth Kainen's family members and friends concerning personal and professional matters. A historical as well as personal context for Jacob Kainen is established through his correspondence with several leading artists, critics, and curators of the time. The variety of correspondents within the series reflects Kainen's diverse experiences as an artist, teacher, curator, and collector. A substantial portion of the correspondence consists of letters specifically addressed to and written solely by Ruth Kainen. Writings include materials written by and about Jacob Kainen. Kainen's formal and more scholarly articles and lectures are included with his short stories and poems dating from the 1930s through the 1990s. The series also includes several statements Kainen made regarding his artistic motivations and justifications. Dairies include both Jacob and Ruth Kainen's diary entries with Jacob Kainen's diaries dating mostly from the 1950s and 1960s and Ruth Kainen's entries covering more recent events from the 1970s though the 1990s. Also found are calendars, including daily calendars and travel itineraries from 1972 through 2001. Transcripts of informal conversations with and formal interviews of Jacob Kainen constitute the next series and include interviews with reporters and critics, and conversations with friends and fellow artists. Many of the interviews and conversations contain comments from Ruth Kainen as well as Jacob Kainen. Also found are inventories of paintings by Jacob Kainen that were sold, missing, or unsold along with color photographs of some of Kainen's paintings. Printed materials include Kainen's exhibition catalogs and announcements, clippings of articles by and about Jacob Kainen, and an exhibition guestbook. A substantial number of photographs are contained in the papers including those of Kainen with his family and friends, at exhibition openings, and working in his studios. Works of art by others includes handmade greeting cards, limited edition prints, and portfolios given to Jacob Kainen. The final item in the collection is a videocassette about the artist Martin Ries. Related Materials: The Archives of American Art contains a sound recording and microfilmed transcript of Avis Berman's interview with Jacob Kainen for the Archives of American Art's "Mark Rothko and His Times" oral history project (reel 4937). Microfilm copies of Bertha Kainen's correspondence from 1993 to 1994 regarding Avis Berman's essay about Jacob Kainen are also available at the Archives of American Art (reel 5030). Separated Material Materials loaned by Jacob and Ruth Kainen from 1973 to 1981 are available on microfilm reels 565, 2147-2149, and 2200. See Appendix A for an inventory of the contents of the microfilm reels. |
| extent | 17 linear feet |
| formats | Correspondence Diaries Inventories Photographs Ephemera |
| access | The collection is open for research. Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed portion requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. research facility. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | Online and in repository. |
| acquisition information | Correspondence, writings, and printed materials were lent to the Archives of American Art from 1973 to 1981 by Jacob and Ruth Kainen to be microfilmed and then returned after microfilming. Additional papers were donated to the Archives of American Art by Jacob and Ruth Kainen in several accessions from 1981 to 2000. Much of the original loaned materials were subsequently donated. Mrs. Ruth Kainen donated additional materials in 2003. On March 6, 2003 eight photographs of Jacob and Ruth Kainen were transferred from the National Portrait Gallery to the Archives of American Art. |
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| title | Bertha Kainen correspondence, 1993-1994. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Bertha Kainen's correspondence with art historian Avis Berman, first husband, artist Jacob Kainen, and National Museum of American Art Director, Elizabeth Broun, regarding Berman's essay, "Images from a Life," in JACOB KAINEN (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1993). Kainen discusses what she believes to be errors in Berman's essay. The book was published on the occassion of a Jacob Kainen retrospective exhibition at the National Museum of American Art, 1993. Bio / His Notes: Bertha Kainen was the first wife of artist Jacob Kainen. |
| extent | 9 items. reel 5030 (fr. 468-486) |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated 1994 by Bertha Kainen. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:56 |
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| title | Jacob Kainen interview, 1982 Aug. 10-Sept. 22. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Jacob Kainen conducted by Avis Berman for the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and His Times oral history project. Kainen speaks about his family and educational background; early interest in art; his studies at the Art Students League and Pratt Institute; showing at the ACA Gallery; the community of artists in New York in the late 1930s; writing for ART FRONT; his employment by the graphic arts division of the WPA-FAP in New York; his move to Washington, D.C. in 1942 to work for the Smithsonian Institution; his first marriage to Bertha Friedman and their children; his career in Washinton, D.C. as a curator, painter, printmaker, writer, and teacher; the FBI investigation of his background; and the art scene in Washington, D.C. Kainen also recalls artists he has known including Stuart Davis, Joseph Solman, John Graham, Mark Rothko, Pietro Lazzari, Willem de Kooning, Max Schnitzler, Arshile Gorky, Gene Davis, Alma Thomas, George McNeil, Kenneth Noland, Boris Margo, Stanley Hayter, and Ad Reinhardt. He discusses Mark Rothko's influences, how he "hated the art industry" and was secretive about his art materials. Kainen also recalls encountering Rothko in Provincetown in 1968 and comments on his art and his suicide. Jacob Kainen's wife, Ruth, was also present and contributed her recollections. Bio / His Notes: Painter, printmaker, curator; Washington, D.C.; b. 1909. Studied at the Art Students League and Pratt Institute; d. March 19, 2001, at age 91. |
| extent | Sound recording: 6 cassettes analog. Transcript: 108 p. (on partial microfilm reel) reel 4937 |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript Microfilm Online Transcript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | This interview was conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and his Times oral history project, with funding provided by the Mark Rothko Foundation. Others interviewed on the project (by various interviewers) include: Sonia Allen, Sally Avery, Ben-Zion, Bernard Braddon, Ernest Briggs, Rhys Caparn, Elaine de Kooning, Herbert Ferber, Esther Gottlieb, Juliette Hays, Sidney Janis, Buffie Johnson, Louis Kaufman, Jack Kufeld, Katharine Kuh, Stanley Kunitz, Joseph Liss, Dorothy Miller, Betty Parsons, Wallace Putnam, Rebecca Reis, Maurice Roth, Sidney Schectman, Aaron Siskind, Joseph Solman, Hedda Sterne, Jack Tworkov, Esteban Vicente and Ed Weinstein. Each has been cataloged separately. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:57 |
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| title | Lynd Ward and May McNeer papers, 1929-1981. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence and subject files relate to the activities of Ward, including his membership in the Society of American Graphic Artists, and his collaborative work with his wife, May McNeer Ward. Correspondents include Fritz Eichenberg, Wanda Gág, Harry Gottlieb, Jacob Kainen, Rockwell Kent, Louis Lozowick, Elizabeth McCausland, Diego Rivera, Prentiss Taylor, and Carl Zigrosser, as well as bookdealers, collectors, children, writers, galleries and museums, publishing and printing companies, advertising and public relations firms, religious organizations, and art, civic, and political associations and societies. Letters are often accompanied by enclosures such as writings and printed material. Subject files contain awards, drafts and typescripts of Ward's writings, lectures, and speeches, notes, outlines and galley proofs for McNeer's and Ward's books, scripts for radio broadcasts, book contracts and royalty statements, lists of Ward's graphic works, illustrations and Christmas cards by Ward, exhibition announcements and catalogs, clippings, reviews, newsletters, bulletins, press releases, and miscellaneous printed material. Bio / His Notes: Lynd Ward: Printmaker, illustrator, writer. Died 1985. May McNeer: Children's book author. Died 1994. Born Chicago, Lynd Kendall Ward majored in Fine Arts at the Teachers College, Columbia University, where he illustrated school publications until his graduation in 1926. In the same year he married May McNeer of Tampa, Florida. They collaborated on many books written by McNeer and illustrated by Ward. Between 1926 and 1927, Ward studied at the National Academy for Graphic Arts in Leipzig, Germany, working with Alois Kolb, George Mathey, and Hans A. Mueller. Ward was a prolific graphic artist, illustrating over one hundred books including GODS' MAN and other woodcut novels produced between 1929 and 1937. |
| extent | 19 microfilm reels, reels 3505-3523 |
| formats | Microfilm Subject Files Correspondence |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | A 116 page inventory prepared by Georgetown University listing the files and describing the items within each file is available in all AAA offices and on roll 3505. The "Family series," was not microfilmed. |
| acquisition information | Lent for microfilming 1985 by Georgetown University. Location of Original: Originals in Georgetown University, Special Collections Division |
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| title | Will Barnet papers, 1938-2000. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | REEL N68-22: Paintings of Barnet by James T. Farrell, 1950; exhibition catalogs, 1960-1968; general correspondence, correspondence regarding exhibitions, juries, lectures, teaching, correspondence with museums, art organizations, colleges and universities, dealers, and letters from artists; personal photographs; writings; magazine articles; press releases; and clippings. REEL N68-35: Writings; drafts of letters; biographical outline; correspondence, 1952-1960; articles and notes about Barnet; clippings; and exhibition catalogs and announcements. REEL N69-46: Correspondence with artists; writings; drafts of letters; general correspondence; photographs of Barnet including two of him in his studio, 1949 and 1951; ten photographs of Barnet at the Art Student's League lecturing to classes and with artists Byron Browne, Robert Brockman, Reginald Marsh; four group photos of Barnet with Joe Hirsch, Dore Ashton, and Bates Lowry, 1967 and 1968; and of his work; and printed material. REEL N69-126: Correspondence with museums, galleries and others; sketchbooks; studies; notes and writings; photogrpahs; exhibition catalogs; and miscellany. REEL N70-48: Writings by Barnet; and a typescript of a book about him by an unidentified author. REEL 98: Correspondence, writings; photographs; Art Students' League publications; exhibition catalogs and announcements; clippings; and biographical data. UNMICROFILMED (4.8 ft.) Biographical material; letters, 1940-1982, mainly from artists and galleries; legal and financial records, including price lists, receipts, and income tax records; notes and writings, 1940-1979, by and about Barnet, including transcripts of lectures and discussions; typescripts of interviews, 1968-1982; sketchbooks and 2 art works, 1959-1962; subject files, 1952-1976; photographs, 1939-1981, of Barnet, his work and an Art Student League dinner; exhibition announcements and catalogs; clippings; press releases; sound recordings and transcripts of lectures, interviews, and discussions, an 8 mm film transferred to VHS of an exhibition at Hirschl & Adler, 1966; and a videotape, 1981, of Barnet. Among the correspondents are Daisy Barr, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, Cameron Booth, Minna Citron, Worden Day, Emily Genauer, Arthur Heintzelman, Jacob Kainen, Jacob Lawrence, George L. K. Morris, Seong Moy, Mike Nevelson, Henry Pearson, Esther Robles, Jack Shadbolt, Arnold Singer, George Swinton, John Von Wicht, and the Waddell Gallery. Subjects of photographs include Barnet, Ture Bengtz, Bryon Browne, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, Adolf Dehn, Ernest Fiene, Alfred Jenson, Dong Kingman, Reginald Marsh, Lee Salk, Ben Shahn, Raphael Soyer, and Art Students League. General correspondence, 1962-1991; photographs of Barnet in his studio, with friends, and at events; "Will Barnet: Artist and Teacher," dissertation by Peter Barnet, New York University School of Education, 1974; and printed matter, 1960-1994, consisting of exhibition catalogs, announcements, reviews, and articles. ADDITION: Includes correspondence, photographs, videotapes, and audiocassettes of lectures by, and interviews with Barnet from 1970-1998. Among the correspondents are Richard Anuskiewicz, Ethel Baziotes, Robert Blackburn, Christina Bothwell, Walker Cain, Worden Day, Francoise Gilot, Francine du Plessix Gray, John Hultberg, Everett Ray Kinstler, Mike Nevelson, George Picken, Anne Poor, Paul Resika, Clare Romano, Angelo Savelli, Harry Sternberg and Steve Wheeler. Among the photographs are Barnet at the printing press at the Art Students League (1930s), and with James Brooks, Everett Ray Kinstler, and Robert Motherwell (1980s); group portraits of Art Students League dinners (1950's) with Julien Levy, Theodoros Stamos, Vytlav Vytacil and William Zorach; and photographs of Barnet with Isabel Bishop, Robert Beverly Hale, and Nike; and unpublished images include the Famous Artists School in Westport, Conn. showing Barnet with Stuart Davis (1954). Bio / His Notes: Painter and printmaker; New York, N.Y. Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School from 1927 to 1930, and at the Art Students League from 1930 to 1933. He taught at the Art Students League beginning in 1936, and at the Cooper Union Art School from 1945 to 1965, as well as working as an instructor, visiting critic or professor at many other institutions. |
| extent | ca. 10.0 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 6 reels) reels N68-22, N68-35, N69-46, N69-126, N70-48, and 98 |
| formats | Microfilm Exhibition Catalogs Writings Correspondence Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Microfilmed material lent for filming 1968-1970; materials on reels N68-35, N69-46, and 98 subsequently donated with the exception of scattered items. The unmicrofilmed material was donated 1968-2001. Location of Original: Material on reels N68-22, N69-126, and N70-48 was lent for microfilming. Originals returned to Barnet after microfilming. |
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| title | Prentiss Taylor papers, 1885-1991 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Primarily subject/correspondence files (ca. 16 ft.), reflecting Prentiss' career as a lithographer and painter, his association with figures prominent in the Harlem Renaissance, notably Carl Van Vechten and Langston Hughes, his activities as president of the Society of Washington Printmakers and other art organizations, his work in art therapy treating mental illness, and his teaching position at American University. The subject/correspondence files contain mostly correspondence, but many include photographs and printed material. Also included are biographical, financial, legal and printed material; several hundred photographs; notes and writings; sketchbooks, drawings and a few prints by Taylor; and scrapbooks, 1885-1956. Among the family members, artists, writers, performers, and organizations represented in the subject/correspondence files are Taylor's mother, Beatrice H. Taylor, Elizabeth (Mrs. John White) Alexander, Victor Babin and Vitya Vronsky, Franz Bader, Remo and Florence Bufano, Aaron Copland, Jean Dubuffet, Rachel Field, Frances Frost, Aline Fruhauf (Vollmer), Anne Goldthwaite, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jacob Kainen, George C. Miller, National Academy of Design, Josephine Pickney, the Society of Washington Printmakers, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Gertrude Stein, the Washington Print Club, Winter Wheat Press, Carl Van Vechten, and Carl Zigrosser. The Hughes file contains 75 photocopies of typescripts of letters from Hughes and 3 signed greeting cards; an autographed card printed with Hughes' poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"; a contract with Taylor forming the Golden Stair Press; layout sheets, galleys, and final copies of Hughes' publications "The Negro Mother", "Scottsboro Limited", and the "Golden Stair Broadsides", all illustrated by Taylor; the magazines Opportunity Journal of Negro Life, 1931, The Rebel Poet, 1932, and pamphlet "Eight Who Lie in the Death House" by Paul Peters; 1 photocopy of closing testimony by Hughes before the Senate Committee on Permanent Investigations; 10 photographs of Hughes; clippings, and 5 obituaries. Included in Van Vechten's file are a scrapbook of postcards from Van Vechten, photographs of Van Vechten, and of his wife Fania Marinoff appearing in various plays with Rollo Peters and Dorothy Gish; photographs by Van Vechten of Gladys Bentley, W. C. Handy, Nora Holt, Langston Hughes, Rockwell Kent, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eugene O'Neill with Carlotta Monterey, Diego Rivera with Frida Kahlo, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Ethel Waters; exhibition catalogs; an autographed copy of Van Vechten's booklet "Dance Index" with the original art work for the cover by Taylor; 6 programs, 1925-1965, including one each for recitals by Taylor Gordon, Paul Robeson, and for a benefit concert, 1929, for the NAACP. The three photograph albums, 1908-1939, contain photographs by Taylor of friends and colleagues, including Richmond Barthe, Remo and Florence Bufano, Rachel Field, Frances Frost, Anne Goldthwaite, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Mark Van Doren, Carl Van Vechten, and scenes of Harlem and Charleston, S.C. Other photographs are of Taylor, his work, including costumes he designed, and travel photographs of New York and the American West. Scrapbooks, 1885-1956 and 1921-1937, contain letters, a poem and printed material. Included in the writings series is a homemade book "Modelling Zorach P.M.," 1932-1934, containing notes and 51 photographs of Taylor and William Zorach's sculpture class. Printed material contains programs, booklets, and book jackets illustrated by Taylor. REEL 1392: Three notebooks, 1931-1978, detailing Taylor's lithographs with title, size, date begun and and finished, editions, states printers, exhibitions and disposition; a gift and sales notebook, 1937-1963; a guestbook, 1936-1963; 3 exhibition announcements, undated and 1942; and a brochure, 1927, of the Arts Club of Washington [D.C.] in which Taylor is mentioned as a promising young artist. Bio / His Notes: Lithographer and painter; Washington, D.C.; d. 1991. Sometimes used pseudonyum Baxter Snark. Studied at the Art Students League and under Charles H. Hawthorne in Provincetown, Mass. During early 1930s, he befriended Carl Van Vechten and collaborated with poet Langston Hughes in publishing booklets relevant to the Harlem Renaissance. Returned to his birthplace, Washington, D.C., in 1935, and widely exhibited his work and associated with many organizations, becoming president of the Society of Washington Printmakers in 1942. Worked as an art therapist at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, 1943-1954 and at Chestnut Lodge, Rockville, Md., 1958-1978. Taught painting at American University, 1955-1975. |
| extent | 20.4 linear ft. (microfilmed on 25 reels) |
| formats | Microfilm Subject Files Correspondence |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | Electronic finding aid available at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/taylpren.htm |
| acquisition information | Papers on reel 1392 lent for microfilming 1978 by Prentiss Taylor. Additional material microfilmed on reels 5911-5935 donated 1978 and 1984 by Taylor and in 1992 and 2004 by his companion, Roderick S. Quiroz, for Taylor's estate. Reproduction: 95 letters from Rachel Field, 75 letters from Langston Hughes, 3 letters from Armin Landeck, 46 letters from Josephine Pinckney, 1 letter from Gertrude Stein, 7 letters from Alice B. Toklas, 1 postcard from Mark Van Doren, and 25 letters from Carl Van Vechten are photocopies. Location of Original: Letters from Langston Hughes and from Alice B. Toklas: Originals donated to Yale University Library. |
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| title | Harry Rand interviews with artists, 1973-1999. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Seven audio recordings on cassettes of research interviews with Jacob Kainen, Seymour Lipton, Ethel Schwabacher, and Julien Levy and his wife, conducted by Rand. Also included is an audio recording of two brief interviews with Julian Stanczak, one of which aired on National Public Radio, Washington, D.C. 26 July 1999 and a corresponding letter to Rand from Neil K. Rector regarding the interviews. Bio / His Notes: Art historian, curator; Wahington, D.C. Rand is a senior curator of Cultural History at the National Museum of American History; former curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
| extent | 0.2 linear ft. |
| formats | Sound Recording |
| access | Use requires an appointment. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated 2005 by Harry Rand. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:57 |
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| title | Chaim Gross papers, 1920-1983. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Biographical material, correspondence, business records, notes, writings, art work, printed material, and photographs. REEL D115: Ca. 900 letters and greeting cards, 1939-1963, to Gross from collectors, museums, art organizations, and colleagues; contracts and receipts, 1941-1959; a drawing of African sculptures; 4 sketches drawn on envelopes and letters received; minutes of an exhibit committee meeting, 1962; and printed material, mainly exhibition announcements and catalogs, 1942-1962, and invitations to art-related events, 1948-1959. Correspondents include: John I. H. Baur, Isabel Bishop, Cornelia Van Auken Chapin, Henry Di Spirito, Eliot Elisofon, Juliana Force, Hy Freilicher, Al Hise, Edward Hopper, Mervin Jules, Benjamin Kopman, Leon Kroll, Paul Manship, Frances M. Morgan, Arnold Newman, Elias Newman, Abbo Ostrowsky, Ann Cole Phillips, Edna Reindel, Hugo Robus, Edward Rowan, Charles Salerno, Paul Sample, Mitchell Siporin, Henry Strater, Isaac Stern, Egon Weiner, Anita Weschler, Warren F. Wheelock, Harry H. Wickey, Carl Zigrosser, and William Zorach. REELS D115a and 924-925: Ten record books of Gross' sculpture, 1926-1975, containing rough drawings of works, dimensions, titles, dates, materials, production locations, and information regarding owners. REELS N69/7-8, N69/19-20, N69/28-29, N69/34, and N69/52: Eighty sketchbooks, 1920-1968. REELS N69/35-36: Letters, 1942-1969, from universities, museums, galleries, and colleagues including Ben-Zion, George Biddle, Peter Blume, Federico Castellon, Joseph Floch, Jo Hopper, Karl Knaths, Arnold Newman, Elliot Offner, Paul Suttman, Stuyvesant Van Veen, and William Zorach; miscellaneous writings by Gross and others; 3 lists of works; and printed material. REELS 2320-2321 and unmicrofilmed: Letters and postcards, 1934-1974, many illustrated, from Mimi Gross and her husband, Red Grooms; eight illustrated letters and two envelopes from Mimi Gross to her parents Renee and Chaim Gross, written while she was traveling in Italy, Macedonia, Greece, and Yugoslavia in 1961 and 1968; 3 sketches; 2 clippings; and an exhibition announcement for Red Grooms, undated. REEL 2813: Thirteen postcards, 1951-1954, from friends who were traveling. REELS 4913-4923: Primarily correspondence (7.2 linear ft.), 1926-1983, with galleries, philanthropic organizations, and colleagues, including Isabel Bishop, Peter Blume, Jose De Creeft, Allen Ginsberg, John Graham, Joseph Hirsch, Joseph and Olga Hirshhorn, Jacob Kainen, Leon Kroll, Arnold Newman, Elias Newman, Abraham Rattner, Warren Robbins, Edward Rowan, Isaac Singer, Moses Soyer, Raphael Soyer, Isaac Stern, William Zorach, and an undated letter containing a photograph of Merce Cunningham. Photographs, 1935-1982, are of Gross, his children, art-related events, gallery receptions, gatherings at Gross' home, exhibition installations, of art work executed between 1920 and 1979, and colleagues, including Sam Adler, George Constant, José De Creeft, Alexander Dobkin, Philip Evergood, Ernest Fiene, Joseph Floch, Eugenie Gershoy, Vincent Glinsky, Aaron Goodelman, Adolph Gottlieb, Lena Gurr, Cleo Hartwig, Joseph Hirshhorn, Leon Kroll, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Arnold Newman, Warren Robbins, Nelson Rockefeller, Isaac Soyer, Raphael Soyer, Stuyvesant Van Veen, Karl Knaths posing for Gross, and Joseph Stella posing for Moses Soyer. Other material includes contracts, loan agreements, receipts; minutes of meetings; lists of art work and people; writings by Gross and others; 2 drawings; clippings; exhibition announcements and catalogs, 1935-1982; a catalog, 1977, for "The Sculptor's Eye," an exhibition of African art from Gross' collection; press releases; programs; brochures; 2 books, Chaim Gross: The Jewish Holdiays (1972) and The Sculpture Reliefs of the Ten Commandments by Chaim Gross (1973); and reproductions of art works. Bio / His Notes: Sculptor, instructor; New York, N.Y.; b. 1904; d. 1991. Born in a small village in Austria-Hungary, Gross studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts (Budapest) in 1919, and at the Kunstgewerbeschule (Vienna) in 1920. Immigrating to New York City in 1921, he attended classes at the Educational Alliance Art School from 1921-1926 and befriended Raphael and Moses Soyer. He also studied at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and with Robert Laurent at the Art Students League. Gross taught at the Educational Alliance Art School from 1927-1990, and at the New School of Social Research from 1950-1990. A renowned collector of African sculpture, Gross was active in many art-related and philanthropic organizations. His daughter, Mimi, was married to Red Grooms in 1964. |
| extent | 10.4 linear ft. (on 28 microfilm reels) reels D115-D115a, N69/7-8, N69/19-20, N69/28-29, N69/34-36, N69-52, 924-925, 2813, 2320-2321, and 4913-4923 |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Business Papers Notes Writings |
| access | Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed material requires an appointment. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | Finding aid available at AAA offices. |
| acquisition information | Material on reels D115, N69-35, N69-36, and 4913-4923 donated by Gross from 1963-1983. (Missing originals filmed on D115: fr. 81, 873, and 1296-1303). Sketchbooks and record books lent for microfilming 1966-1975 by Gross. His daughter, Mimi, lent material on reels 2320-2321 in 1981 and donated letters, some of shich are filmed on 2320-2321 in 2005. Postcards on reel 2813 were donated by Mrs. Irving Marantz in 1975. Funding for microfilming provided by the Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, Inc., the Samuel Bronfman Foundation, and the Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation. |
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| title | Frank Kleinholz papers, 1930-1980. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence with David Burliuk, Philip Evergood, Alfred Hitchcock, Jacob Kainen, Rockwell Kent, Paul Strand and others; financial material; photographs of Kleinholz, his family and artwork; six videotapes and one tape recording; manuscripts and lecture notes, including a typescript copy of "Frank Kleinholz," by Evergood; four sketches; and printed matter. Also included are 23 phonograph records of interviews, 1944-1945, which Kleinholz conducted for the "Art in New York" program, Station WNYC. Persons interviewed include Philip Evergood, Philip Reisman, Ralph Mayer, Elizabeth McCausland, Lily Harmon, Abraham Walkowitz, John Groth, and Ladislas Segy; and 2 7" tapes (untranscribed) of interviews, one containing a brief interview with Holger Cahill and a more lengthy interview with McCausland discussing Picassco and the 1944-1945 art season; the other an interview with Evergood. Bio / His Notes: Painter, talk show interviewer; Port Washington, New York. Died 1987. |
| extent | 8.0 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Sketches Financial Records Photographs Interviews |
| access | Unmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated 1961-1982 by Frank Kleinholz. |
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| title | Artist file: Kainen, Jacob | repository | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 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 | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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| title | Artist file: Kainen, Jacob | 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 | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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