Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Marantz, Irving, 1912-1972
| title | Irving Marantz papers, 1936-1972. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence; 540 letters and postcards received, 1933-1972, from Charles Brady, F. W. Hayman Chaffey, Aristodemos Kaldis, and many others; photographs; catalogs; publicity material; clippings; an inventory of Chinese works of art purchased by Marantz in the 1930's; and miscellany. Also included is a scrapbook, 1947-1970, containing correspondence, clippings, catalogs, and photographs. Bio / His Notes: Painter; New York, N.Y. |
| extent | 1.4 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Postcards Photographs Clippings Ephemera |
| access | Unmicrofilmed: use requires an appointment. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated 1974-1975 by Mrs. Irving Marantz, widow of Marantz, and after her death by their daughter Mady, 1976. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:57 |
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| title | Eugenie Gershoy papers, 1914-1983. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Biographical material, correspondence, business records, notes, writings, art work, printed material, and photographs. REEL 293: Biographical material consists of a resume, 1965, and a biographical sketch, 1971. Correspondence, 1942-1971, is primarily from museum colleagues including Alfred Barr, Adelyn Breeskin, Juliana Force, and A. Hyatt Mayor, and a letter of recommendation from Anton Refregier. Art work includes 2 etchings, a sketchbook from New Orleans, 1941, and a sketchbook from Mexico, 1949. There are 3 photographs of Gershoy, 1970-1971, photographs of art work and an exhibition installation. Other material includes clippings, 1940-1970, printed material, and notes. REELS 4966-4972 (6.7 ft): The bulk (5.5 ft.) of these papers consists of correspondence, 1914-1983, primarily with her siblings and their families regarding Gershoy's activities, including her interactions with Harry Gottlieb and Juliana Force. Correspondence with colleagues, many associated with the Woodstock Artists Association, includes letters from Elizabeth Ames of Yaddo, Mildred Baker, Arnold and Lucile Blanch, Virginia Dehn, Aline Fruhauf, Agnes Hart, Frederic Knight, Josef Presser, and Virgil Thomson, and Christmas cards from Irving Marantz, George Picken, Anton Refregier, Moses Soyer, and Raphael Soyer. Art work consists of 10 sketchbooks, 1948-1973?, drawings, 1932-1978, 2 prints, 1948 and 1975, and art work by others, including Lucile Blanch. Photographs are of Gershoy, 1916-1983, Gershoy's Art Students League class with A. Stirling Calder, 1920, her friends, 1930-1975, including Harry Gottlieb, Reuben Nakian, Joseph Pollet, Concetta Scaravaglione, Jean Varda, and her friends at Yaddo. There are also photographs of a studio interior, 3 street views of Woodstock, New York, and art work by Gershoy and others. The remainder of the papers consist of receipts for the delivery of art work to museums, 1969-1976, and loan and consignment receipts, 1966-1967; lists of friends' names; autographs of Woodstock and other artists (including Georgia O'Keeffe's, 1970); writings by Gershoy and others, including an essay "Fantasy and Humor in Sculpture" by Gershoy, instructions on the use of plaster, a proposal for a Program in Ceramics project, poems by Bonnie Grainger, a handwritten poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and an essay "On the De-Humanization of Education" by Francis V. O'Connor; clippings, 1952-1983; exhibition announcements and catalogs for Gershoy and others, 1932-1983; printed greeting cards designed by Gershoy; Gershoy's will, 1972; membership cards; and award certificates, 1945 and 1964. Bio / His Notes: Sculptor, art instructor; New York, N.Y.; b. 1901; d. 1986. Born in Krivoi Rog, Russia, Gershoy immigrated with her family to New York City in 1903, later becoming a U.S. citizen. She attended the Art Students League and maintained a studio with Harry Gottlieb in Woodstock, N.Y. From 1936 to 1939, under the WPA Federal Art Project, she worked on murals with Max Spivak. Gershoy's first solo exhibition was at the Robinson Gallery in New York in 1940. |
| extent | 7.2 linear ft. (microfilmed on 8 reels) reels 293 and 4966-4972 |
| formats | Correspondence Business Papers Notes Writings |
| 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/gerseuge.htm |
| acquisition information | Material donated by Eugenie Gershoy, 1971-1983. Funding for the microfilming of the collection was provided by the Philip Birnbaum Foundation. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:58 |
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| title | Jacques Joseph Camins films and posters, ca. 1965. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Two 16mm motion picture films, transferred to VHS, by Camins. One film is about Provincetown artists, the second is about some of his students, including Marion Greenwood, Anton Refregier, and other individuals involved in art fields. Also included are two original posters by Seong Moy and Anne Brigadier done for Camins's film on Provincetown, Mass; a sound tape reel (7") of an interview with Henry Botkin, Umberto Romano, Joseph Kaplan, Irving Marantz, Sol Wilson, Anne Brigadier, and Sabina Teichman, and a sound tape reel (7") of an interview of Karl Knaths, both conducted by Camins and untranscribed. Bio / His Notes: Painter, printmaker; New York, N.Y. and Bay Harbor Islands, Fla. Born in Russia. Studied in Paris and at the Art Students League. |
| extent | 5 items, 9 film reels, 825 ft., 16 mm. |
| formats | Film Sound Recording Video recording Ephemera |
| access | Unmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | |
| acquisition information | Donated 1975-1980 by Joseph Camins. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:58 |
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| title | Karl E. Fortess taped interviews with artists, [1963-1985]. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Untranscribed taped interviews, 30 to 60 minutes in length, of painters, sculptors, and printmakers. The interviews were conducted and recorded by Fortess of the School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston University, in part, under a contract with the Office of Education, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare. Fortess' Final Report on the project, June 1968, summarizes the objective was "to develop a library of taped interviews with contemporary American painters, sculptors, and graphic artists, such interviews to be concerned with questions of technical, professional and personal interest." Among the interviewees are Kenneth Armitage, Will Barnet, Romare Bearden, George Biddle, James Brooks, Adolph Dehn, Jane Freilicher, Julian Levi, Alice Neel, Larry Rivers, Moses Soyer, Dorothy Varian, and many others. Bio / His Notes: Fortess was a painter and printmaker, b. 1907 in Belgium. [Fortess died in 1993.] |
| extent | 268 interviews recorded on 205 audio cassettes. |
| formats | Sound Recording |
| access | Dorothy Varian interview is: ACCESS RESTRICTED; written permission required. Untranscribed; use requires prior notice, and is limited to Archives of American Art offices. The donor has specified as a condition of the gift that the tapes may not be transcribed or edited. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/karl-e-fortess-interviews-artists-13399 |
| finding aid | Online sound clip. |
| acquisition information | Donated 1978-1985 by Karl Fortess. Location of Original: Duplicate tapes also available at Boston University in the Fine and Applied Arts Library and the Mugar Library. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:16 |
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| title | Mischa Richter papers, 1915-1988. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Biographical data; certificates and awards; letters, including one notifying Richter of his appointment to the Executive Council of the National Cartoonists Society; an original greeting card from Irving Marantz; photographs of Richter and his work; notes on cartooning; exhibition material; and clippings and other printed material. ADDITION: Biographical information; an autobiograpical memoir, 36 p., 1994; letters, 1930-1987; a pencil sketch from a plaster cast of sculpture, 1928, and a pencil sketch for a mural, 1935; photographs of Richter and others; clippings, ca. 1935-1984; exhibition material, ca. 1958-1967; and printed material, undated and 1940-1982. Among Richter's correspondents are cartoonists Milton Caniff and William Steig, and artists Ad Reinhardt and Will Barnet. Bio / His Notes: Cartoonist, painter; New York, N.Y. and Provincetown, Mass. Richter was born in the Ukraine. He came to the United States in 1922, attending special art classes for gifted students at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and subsequently graduating from the Yale School of Fine Arts in 1934. After working on the WPA art project as a mural painter in New York, he turned to cartooning, doing editorial and humorous cartoons for the daily newspaper, PM, and then becoming art editor for the New Masses. In 1941 he began his longtime affiliation with the New Yorker, as well as producing daily panels, "Strictly Richter" and "Bugs Baer" for King Features. In the 1970s and 1980s, Richter did numerous drawings for the OpEd page of the New York Times. Died March 23, 2001, at age 90. |
| extent | 0.4 linear ft. Addition: 0.3 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Ephemera Exhibition Files Clippings Notes |
| access | Unmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated 1993-1996 by Mischa Richter. Additions are expected. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:58 |
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| title | Irving Marantz interview, [ca. 1968]. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Irving Marantz conducted by Dorothy Seckler for the Archives of American Art. General Note: Sound quality is extremely poor. An interview of Mary Van Meter and Gladys Kleinman conducted by J. Tyler, 1971 is also on this tape. |
| extent | 1 sound tape ; 5 in. |
| formats | Sound Recording |
| access | Use requires an appointment. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | These interviews are 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 others. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:58 |
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| title | Artist file: Marantz, Irving | 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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