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Richard Brown Baker papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 691
Abstract:
The Richard Brown Baker Papers consist of correspondence; art and artist files; professional and personal papers; exhibit files; diaries; writings; photographic prints, negatives, and slides; photograph albums; objects; printed material; and an audiocassette interview.
Dates:
1895-2004
Doris Bry papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 865
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of correspondence, publication material, art work, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating to Doris Bry's various editorial projects and professional association with Georgia O'Keeffe. The January 2017 acquisition consists of records organized by and received from the Doris Bry Trust, including correspondence between Bry and O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz estate papers, research materials for catalogues raissoné for O'Keeffe and Stieglitz, records of...
Dates:
circa 1880s-2010s, bulk 1930s-2010s
Paul Cadmus papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1977
Abstract:
The Paul Cadmus papers, which span from 1812-2019, contain personal papers and files, correspondence, photographs, artwork, papers of others, artwork, address books, printed matter, and other materials that document the life and work of Paul Cadmus.
Dates:
1812-2019
Royal Cortissoz papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 146
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, a small quantity of personal papers, and printed material relating to the life and career of Royal Cortissoz. Correspondents include Henry Bacon, Bernard Berenson, Joseph Duveen, John La Farge, Clarence Mackay, Whitelaw Reid, Edmund Clarence Stedman, William Winter, and other critics and friends. The personal papers include drafts of articles and lectures by Cortissoz and awards presented to him. Printed material includes copies of writings by Cortissoz,...
Dates:
1864-1955, bulk 1920-1955
Michael De Lisio and Irving Drutman Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 756
Abstract:
The papers provide insight into the lives and careers of Michael De Lisio, poet and sculptor, and Irving Drutman, a journalist and editor. The papers contain drafts, research notes, and printed versions of De Lisio and Drutman’s writings. Correspondence with various authors, artists, and performers, including Peter Bull, Janet Flanner, Lillian Gish, Ira Gershwin, and Lotte Lenya, also sheds light into their professional lives. De Lisio and Drutman’s artwork, including De Lisio’s sculptures...
Dates:
1890-2003, bulk 1921-2003
Elizabeth Willis DeHuff Collection of American Indian Art
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-150
Abstract:
A collection of 199 drawings and watercolors by Pueblo, Navajo, Apache, Cheyenne, and Kiowa artists, much of it student work, collected by Elizabeth Willis DeHuff, wife of a superintendent of the Santa Fe Indian School and an early art instructor of many of the artists.
Dates:
1917-1945
Adee Dodge papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2701
Abstract:
The Adee Dodge Papers consist of drawings, research files, financial records, correspondence, and biographical files documenting the life and work of Navajo visual artist and linguist Adee Dodge. Personal papers consist chiefly of biographical documentation compiled by Dodge's daughter, Nanabah Grogan. Business papers document Dodge's uranium prospecting business in the 1950s. Research files document Dodge's research on the Navajo language and on the comparative mythology of peoples of the...
Dates:
1930-2005
Muriel Draper Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 49
Abstract:
The Muriel Draper Papers document the personal life and artistic and political interests of Muriel Draper. Major correspondents include George Antheil, Samuel Courtauld, Paul Draper, Max Ewing, Lincoln Kirstein, Walter Lowenfels, and Mark Tobey. The collection also contains manuscripts of many of Draper's writings, including the largely unpublished America Deserta, and records of her activities as a member of the Congress of American Women, the League of American Writers, and similar...
Dates:
1881-1977, bulk 1925-1950
Dorothy Eisner papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 778
Abstract:
The Dorothy Eisner Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and ephemera that document periods of her personal life and artwork. Eisner's correspondence files contain letters from fellow painters: nearly thirty from her friend Dorothy Andrews (1918-2008), who wrote mostly from her home in Khania, Crete; three from William Kienbusch (1914-1980); and one each from Sarah Freedman McPherson (1894-1978) and Emil Holzhauer (1887-1986); there are also letters from her stepdaughter, the...
Dates:
1923-2008
Tom Feelings artwork
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 74
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of original artwork, dummies, prints, posters, professional and personal papers, and audiovisual materials documenting Tom Feelings's work as an artist and book illustrator. The collection includes the original artwork for The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo, which consists of 51 drawings, currently housed in 47 frames, created in mixed-media tempera, pen and tissue, heightened with white and collage; the artwork...
Dates:
1940s-2010
Jared French papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 732
Abstract:
Collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other materials documenting the life and career of painter Jared French and a circle of friends and collaborators. Correspondence with individuals and cultural institutions, chiefly museums and galleries, document French's personal and professional affairs, with significant representation from members of the literary and artistic and gay male communities in New York during the middle decades of the twentieth century. In addition to large...
Dates:
1921-1990
Henry Geldzahler papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 684
Abstract:
The Henry Geldzahler papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, audiotapes, video recordings, motion picture film, printed material, and other papers that relate to the personal and professional life of the American photographer Henry Geldzahler. Other papers include notes and writings on Andy Warhol and others, working illustrations and notes for his unfinsished monograph, "Modern Art in America", and footage used in Peter Rosen's 2005 documentary about Geldzahler,...
Dates:
circa 1945-2006
Frederic Rodrigo Gruger collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1454
Abstract:
The papers consist of original sketches and drawings by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger illustrating stories written by prominent American authors and published in several major journals and magazines. There are twelve mounted and numbered pictures containing illustrations for "Stover at Yale" by Owen Johnson, which was serialized in McClure's Magazine in 1911 and 1912. There is an unnumbered, mounted picture containing an advertisement for "Stover at Yale," and a photograph of author Owen Johnson...
Dates:
1911-1935
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Rebecca Salsbury James papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 16
Abstract:
The papers contain correspondence and family papers documenting aspects of the career and friendships of Rebecca Salsbury James, especially her involvement with the Stieglitz circle. Correspondents include Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Isabel Lachaise, and Frieda Lawrence.
Dates:
1924-1967, bulk 1930-1939
Katharine Kuh papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 15
Abstract:
The papers contain correspondence and art on greeting cards by artists whose works she exhibited.
Dates:
1937-1964 (inclusive)
Henry Adams La Farge papers relating to a catalogue raisonné of works by John La Farge
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 653
Abstract:
The collection consists of material created and accumulated by Henry Adams La Farge and others in the course of researching and compiling an unpublished catalogue raisonné of works by the American artist John La Farge. Material includes descriptive text and photographic reproductions of La Farge's works in various media, including oil paintings, drawings, watercolors, glass, and engravings; extensive correspondence files relating to the provenance of works by La Farge; and research and...
Dates:
1965-1998
Arthur Lee diaries and papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1732
Scope and Contents:
The bulk of this collection consists of diaries kept by sculptor Arthur Lee between 1914 and 1959. The diaries document Lee's artistic and intellectual life in Greenwich Village and New York City throughout the middle of the 20th century, and include some drawings. The collection also includes sketchbooks, drawings, photographs, correspondence, printed material, and other papers by or relating to Lee.
Dates:
1908-1998
Richard Merkin collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 762
Scope and Contents:
The Richard Merkin collection, which spans 1823 to 2009, contains extensive correspondence and artwork. The collection also contains photographs, clippings, ephemera, audiovisual materials, objects, scrapbooks, and personal papers related to Merkin's life and work.
Dates:
1823-2009
Sara and Gerald Murphy papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 468
Abstract:
The collection consists of the personal and family papers of Gerald and Sara Murphy, including material created and accumulated by Gerald and Sara, their children Baoth, Patrick, and Honoria, and the Wiborg family. The collection documents the Murphy's unconventional and artistic lifestyle and their role in the American expatriate community in Paris and Antibes, France during the 1920s and early 1930s, as well as their personal connections with artists and writers of the Modernist period....
Dates:
1854-2005
Robert Olsen papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-3230
Abstract:
The Robert Olsen Papers contain sketchbooks, notebooks, ephemera, and artwork documenting Olsen's artistic practice.
Dates:
circa 1995-2014