Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America

Archives related to: G Place Gallery

titleEdwin David Porter papers, 1929-1969.
repositoryArchives of American Art
descriptionFamily correspondence; personal and professional correspondence relating to Porter's career as a gallery owner, with Caresse Crosby, Eldzier Cortor, Worden Day, Edith Halpert, Adolph Gottlieb, Karl Knaths, Peggy Guggenheim, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and many others; diaries; notes; financial papers; clippings; publicity catalogs; and miscellany.
extent2.0 linear ft. (on 5 microfilm reels) reels N70-27- N70-31
formatsCorrespondence Clippings Notes Financial Records Diaries
accessPatrons must use microfilm copy.
record sourcehttp://www.siris.si.edu/
finding aidMicrofilm inventory available in AAA offices.
acquisition informationLent for microfilming 1970 by Edwin David Porter.
updated03/16/2023 10:29:48
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titleJohn Wilson papers, [ca.1939]-1993.
repositoryArchives of American Art
descriptionBiographical material, such as autobiographical notes, school records, personal documents, and a bibliography, 1981; personal and business correspondence, undated and 1938-1993 including the Albany Institute of History and Art, Atlanta University, Carnegie Institute, Ebony", David Porter of the G Place Gallery, Institute of Modern Art, Alain Locke, Gloria May, Museum of Modern Art. Frederick G. Rice, Hale Woodruff and others; files on the New York City Board of Education, 1959-1965, regarding his teaching art; project files, including Wilson's submission for the competion for a Frederick Douglass statue, "Eternal Presence," "Father and Child Reading," and Wilson's monuments and bust of Martin Luther King, Jr.; files on exhibitions; notebooks, 1958-1960; lesson plans, 1959, 1963; notes, writings, and lectures, ca. 1945-1993; transcripts of interviews of Wilson and relatedcorrespondence, 1978-1987; legal material, 1978; a notebook of sales and expenses, 1945-1950 and other financial records, 1944-1991; photographs, 1940-1990, of Wilson, his work, sculpture, and exhibition installations, 1944-1984; a scrapbook, 1939-1967; art work, including sketchbooks, 1970-1992, life studies done as a student, 1939-1947, and miscellaneous art work, 1939-1992; and printed material, 1939-1993, including exhibition catalogs, illustrated books and book jackets, and ephemera. Received with collection is a sound recording of an interview of Wilson conducted by Alan Trachtenberg, ca. 1979 (untranscribed).
Biographical Note:
African American painter, sculptor, illustrator, printmaker, educator; Boston, Mass. Full name John Woodrow Wilson. Studied with Ture Bengtz and Karl Zerbe at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and with Fernand Leger at his school in Paris, 1949; won competitions to execute statues of Martin Luther King, Jr. for the city of Buffalo, N.Y., 1982 and for the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 1985. Taught art for the New York City schools, at Boston University, 1985-1986; Professor Emeritus, 1986-
extent5 microfilm reels. Sound recording: 1 cassette : analog.
formatsMicrofilm Sound Recording
accessPatrons must use microfilm.
record sourcehttp://www.siris.si.edu/
acquisition informationOriginals returned to John Woodrow Wilson after microfilming.
updated11/12/2014 11:29:55
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