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Archives related to: Hirschl, Norman
| title | John Richard Craft papers, 1909-1992; (bulk, 1954-1992). |
| repository | University of South Carolina |
| description | Letters, programs, and other items documenting the life of John Richard Craft as first director of the Columbia Museum of Art (1950-1977), including his early career in Pennsylvania, studies in Europe, and work to secure federal support for the arts in South Carolina with the passage of the National Endowment for the Arts during the mid-1960s. Includes items documenting Crafts' advocacy of the arts, his chair on the South Carolina Title IV State Advisory Council (1976-1980), and his part in the founding of the South Carolina State Museum, ca. 1978. Also includes four letters, 6 Dec. 1971-4 Aug. 1986, from portrait painter Everett Raymond Kinstler of New York City, and 24 photographs of portraits of South Carolinians painted by Kinstler; an exchange of eight letters, 1978-1982, between Craft and Norman Hirschl, of Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, re the disposal of paintings by Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir, privately owned in Columbia, S.C. Other correspondents include Georgia artist Lamar Dodd, Elizabeth Boatwright Coker, James B. Edwards, Catharine Rembert, John G. Sproat, John Waddill, and archeologist Oscar Broneer (1894-1922). Biographical Note Founder and director, Columbia Museum of Art (Columbia, S.C.); died, Jan. 1999. Location Columbia South Caroliniana (Library Use Only Call No. Manuscripts Pob |
| extent | 398 items. |
| formats | Business Papers Correspondence Administrative Records Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1993/jcraft93.html |
| record source | http://www.sc.edu/library/ |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:34 |
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