Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Lipman, Jean, 1909-1998
| title | Howard W. and Jean Lipman papers, 1848 |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | The records include correspondence, notes and printed material that served as research and reference material, along with some financial material that documents the art collecting activities and interests of the Lipmans. The collection also contains writing and editorial material used by Jean Lipman in her dual roles as an editor for Art in America magazine and as a respected author. The Personal Files describe the social activities and associations of the Lipmans and include biographical information, personal and family correspondence, gift giving activities, the art career of Jean Lipman, and relationships maintained by the Lipmans with various art organizations. The Art Collection Files describe the art collecting activities and interests of the Lipmans throughout their lifetime. The General Files section consists of reference files on art organizations and galleries with whom the Lipmans maintained relationships. The Sculptors and Painters of Interest section served as reference files about the activities of artists in whom the Lipmans were interested and whose works they owned, or considered owning. The Folk Art Collection section documents the collecting and purchasing activities of the Lipmans as they amassed and then subsequently sold their two significant folk art collections. The Artists Files document the friendship and projects that developed between the Lipmans and three major American artists: Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, and David Smith. Of special interest to researchers will be some original Calder artwork mixed into the correspondence between the Lipmans and Calder, as well as drawings, sketches, prints, and posters found in the associated oversize folder. Also found in the Calder subseries are some proofs from Calder's Circus, edited by Jean Lipman. The Research and Writing Files are divided into five sections dealing with research and writing projects undertaken by Jean Lipman. The first three sections deal with biographical projects that resulted in books or articles about three significant American primitive artists: Jurgan Frederick Huge, Rufus Porter, and Samuel Wood Gaylor. The fourth section deals with writing projects that resulted in the publication of several generalized books on the topic of American folk art. The final section consists of materials associated with the published articles and other authored works of Jean Lipman on a variety of American art topics. The Art in America Editorial Files consists of editorial material maintained by Jean Lipman during her tenure (1941-1971) as editor of Art in America. The Financial Files reflect the early financial activities of the magazine during the brief period when the Lipmans owned it. During the period that Jean Lipman served as editor, a variety of distinguished art historians, artists, architects, novelists, and poets contributed articles, columns, or artwork to the magazine. A sampling of correspondents that can be found in the general correspondence of this series include: Joseph Albers, Marcel DuChamp, John Dos Passos, Nelson Rockefeller, Charles Sheeler, and Andrew Wyeth. The General Correspondence Files also document the two subsequent changes of ownership and the growth of subscribers that occurred during the period of Lipman's editorship. Editorial material related to individual magazine issues is found within this series, as well as information pertaining to the innovative advertising and special projects undertaken by the magazine as it sought to expand its readership and prestige. The Art in America series also chronicles the changes at the magazine that led to Lipman's resignation as editor in 1971. |
| extent | Howard W. and Jean Lipman papers, 1848, 1916-2000 |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Financial Records Exhibition Catalogs |
| access | Use requires an appointment. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.lipmhowa.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/howard-w-and-jean-lipman-papers-9145 |
| finding aid | Online Finding Aid |
| acquisition information | Donated 1965-2001 by Howard and Jean Lipman. Several small portions of the numerous gifts were previously microfilmed on reels 422, 2101-2102, and 2155. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:29 |
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| title | Artist file: Lipman, Jean; 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./ Bio/History: d. June 20, 1998. Location MoMA Queens Artist Files Call Number Lipman, Jean |
| extent | 1 folder |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991010937939707141 |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:29 |
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| title | Jean Lipman Folk art records, 1938-1950. |
| repository | Museum of American Folk Art. Library, New York, NY. |
| description | A notebook maintained by Jean Lipman providing information about her personal collection of American folk art including type of work, provenance, circumstances under which artwork was acquired, and price paid. Her collection forms the basis of the collections at Fenimore House, New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, N.Y. Also significant are her ideas and notes for her articles and books about American folk art as well as random notes about folk art exhibitions. Biographical Notes: Pioneer scholar and collector in the field of American folk art. |
| extent | 1 v. |
| formats | Notebooks |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:35 |
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| title | Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1945-1969, n.d. Art in America. |
| repository | University of Pennsylvania |
| description | This correspondence reflects Zigrosser’s regular contributions to Art in America as an author and as a member of the editorial board. There are regular letters to Zigrosser concerning his recommendations for the annual "New Talent" issue. Some early 60’s correspondence centers around the New York World’s Fair of 1964-65, and Art in America’s agitation for an art exhibition to be included in Fair plans. Zigrosser also supplied photographs of works by Calder for several articles and provided his reminisences of the 1913 Armory Show for use in an article. Lloyd Goodrich and Jean Lipman were editors of Art in America. Included are copies of minutes for editorial board meetings. Contained in: Carl Zigrosser Papers, ca. 1891-1971. Folder 86. Location: Rare Book & Ms Library Manuscripts Call Number: Ms. Coll. 6 |
| extent | 45 items (56 leaves). |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | In general, the Carl Zigrosser Papers may be examined by qualified researchers in the reading room of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. Photocopying of Zigrosser materials is at the discretion of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The receipt of photocopies does not grant publication rights without the written permission of the University of Pennsylvania and the literary executors of the authors in question. |
| record source | http://www.franklin.library.upenn.edu |
| finding aid | Available in electronic form and in repository. |
| acquisition information | Gift June 1972 |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:35 |
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| title | Edward F. Fry Papers |
| repository | University of Pennsylvania |
| description | Art in America Correspondence with Edward F. Fry, 1969-1970. Contains 5 items (5 leaves) from Edward F. Fry. Contained in: Edward F. Fry Papers. Folder 28 Other authors: Lipman, Jean, 1909- Location: Rare Book & Ms Library Manuscripts Call Number: Ms. Coll. 651 |
| extent | 9 items (9 leaves) |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.franklin.library.upenn.edu |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:35 |
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| title | Interview with Louise Nevelson, 1983 |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Interview of Louise Nevelson conducted by Barbara Braun. Also present are Jean Lipman, Paul Anbinder, and Diana McGowan. |
| extent | 2 sound cassettes (87 p. transcript) |
| formats | Transcript Sound Recording Interview |
| access | Authorization to publish, quote or reproduce requires written permission of Barbara Braun, 7 E. 14th St., New York, N.Y. 10003 |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interview-louise-nevelson-9753 |
| finding aid | Finding aid in the library and on the repository's web site. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:35 |
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| title | Wood and Adelaide Lawson Gaylor papers, 1866 [ca. 1986]. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Biographical material, correspondence, journals, notebooks, address books, business records, writings, sketchbooks, exhibition announcements and catalogs, clippings, photographs, and subject files relating to the artistic careers of Wood Gaylor and Adelaide Lawson, to Gaylor's work as a fashion pattern desiger, and, more broadly, to the New York art scene from the 1913 Armory Show through the 1930s. REEL D160: A ca. 100 page typescript of a record of reminiscences on Gaylor's early art career. This is one of 4 parts dictated by Gaylor in 1953. This recording was used as the basis for Jean Lipman's article "Wood Gaylor: Diary of the Carefree Years," published in Art In America, December 1963. Biographical and Historical Note Painter, lithographer; full name Samuel Wood Gaylor. Wood was born in Stamford, Conn. Studied at the National Academy of Design, New York, under Walt Kuhn. He exhibited at the Armory Show, the Penguin Club, and the Gallery and participated in many art organizations including the Kit-Kat Club, the Penguin Club, Modern Artists of America, American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Engravers. He served on the board for the Salons of America, the Hamilton Easter Field Art Foundation, the New York City Municipal Art Committee, and the Museum of Art, Ogunquit, Me. |
| extent | 2.5 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 1 reel) |
| formats | Correspondence Journals Notebooks Business Papers |
| access | Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed portion requires an appointment and is limited to AAA's Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/wood-and-adelaide-lawson-gaylor-papers-8195 |
| acquisition information | Material on reel D160 donated 1964 by Adelaide Lawson Gaylor. Unmicrofilmed material donated 1986 by the Gaylors' sons, Wynn L. and Randall Gaylor. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:35 |
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| title | Oral history interview with Jean Lipman, 1973 June 19 |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Jean Lipman conducted by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art. Lipman discusses her education, New York art collectors and art historians, her interest in American folk art, and her association with ART IN AMERICA, among other topics. |
| extent | 2 digital wav files. (Duration 2 hrs., 7 min.) 61 Pages, Transcript |
| formats | Transcript Sound Recording Microfilm Interview |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-jean-lipman-11779 |
| finding aid | Finding aid in the library and on the repository's web site. |
| acquisition information | This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1959 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:35 |
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| title | Douglas MacAgy papers, 1916-1973 |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence; biographical information; family memorabilia; scrapbook; subject files; photographs; writings; business and financial records; and printed material. REEL 2423: Material regarding MacAgy's research on Gerald Murphy and Morgan Russell included as correspondence with Gerald Murphy and Jean Lipman about an article on Murphy for ART IN AMERICA, notes for and drafts of the article; and a typescript of it, GERALD MURPHY (16 pages)with 4 photos of Murphy's work. Materials regarding Russell includes: a letter to MacAgy from Henri Dorra, February 25, 1960, about documents relating to Russell; a handwritten statement by Russell about his work, 1916 (3 pages) [an edited version appears in the catalog, THE FORUM EXHIBITION OF MODERN AMERICAN PAINTERS, Anderson Galleries, 1916]; a pencil sketch with notes by Russell, ca. 1938; a photocopy of a statement by Russell about his work, 1947 (4 pages); 2 biographical essays on Russell; and a printed brochure, MORGAN RUSSELL SOME AUTHORITATIVE OPINIONS, undated. UNMICROFILMED: Correspondence; photographs and slides; biographical information; family memorabilia; Elizabeth Tillett's scrapbook; subject files; writings and notes; business and financial records; and printed material. Biographical and Historical Notes Art historian, administrator, museum director. Died 1973. MacAgy was chosen to revitalize the 70 year old California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, after WWII, then he was a special consultant to the director of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, as director of research for an art dealer in New York, as director of the Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, and he was Director of National Exhibitions at the National Endowment for the Arts, 1968-1972. |
| extent | 16.2 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 1 reel) |
| formats | Correspondence Ephemera Scrapbooks Subject Files Photographs |
| access | 35mm microfilm reel 2423 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/douglas-macagy-papers-9030 |
| finding aid | Finding aid in the library and on the repository's web site. |
| acquisition information | Donated 1973 by Elizabeth MacAgy, widow of Douglas MacAgy. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:35 |
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| title | Howard W. and Jean Lipman papers,Series 5: Art in America Editorial Files , 1932-1972, undated |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | This series chronicles the editorial activities of Jean Lipman from the magazine's early years until Lipman's resignation in 1970. Materials found in the series include correspondence; copyright applications for issues; advertising and publicity lists, promotional materials and contracts; award announcements; photographs and negatives; occasional drafts of articles and feature columns; proofs; ledger books and invoices from early years of the magazine when Lipman briefly owned it; and notes and miscellaneous printed matter related to the production of the various magazine issues. Arrangement of the series is alphabetical by subject heading. Material within folders is arranged chronologically by year. A sampling of correspondents that can be found in the general correspondence files of this series include: Milton Avery, Marcel Breuer, Rupert Conrad, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Eliot Noyes, Eleanor Roosevelt, and James Thurber. |
| extent | 17.3 linear ft |
| formats | Correspondence Business Papers Financial Records Photographs |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/howard-w-and-jean-lipman-papers-9145/series-5 |
| finding aid | Finding aid in the library and on the repository's web site. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:35 |
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| title | Frederic Fairchild and Julia Munson Sherman papers, 1874-1970. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Personal and business correspondence; biographical material; photographs of Elliot Orr and others, a daguerreotype of a drawing of Judge David Sherman Boardman of the Superior Court of Connecticut, 1853 by Waldo and Jewett; art work by Albert Lorey Groll, Elliot Orr, Thomas Maitland Cleland, Theodore Bolton, and others; notes; clippings and printed material; business records; correspondence regarding the Sherman's art collection; files containing writings, photographs, letters, and printed material regarding Ralph Earl, James Peale, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and other subjects of F.F. Sherman's writings and publications; manuscripts of articles written by Jean Lipman, Walter Gutman, Eliot Clark, and others; and ca. 100 books, pamphlets, catalogs and articles written, edited or published by the Shermans. Included in the printed material are v.1-3, v.4 (nos.1 and 3) and v. 5 (no.1) of Sherman's "The Literary Miscellany," 1908-1912; "Fine Art Publications" catalog, 1919-22, 1925-26, and 1932. |
| extent | 5.0 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Drawings Writings Catalogs |
| access | Unmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/frederic-fairchild-and-julia-munson-sherman-papers-8469 |
| acquisition information | Donated 1956-1972 by Julia Munson Sherman and the Munson Estate. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:35 |
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| title | Artist file: Lipman, Jean |
| 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 | Check with Library |
| 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 | 02/14/2025 10:07:40 |
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