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Acquisitions Dankmar Adler (1844-1900) Gift of the Newberry Library, Chicago, 1976 Papers, 1865-1900, 38 items, including a brief autobiographical sketch, xerox copies of 2 letters received, and 29 letters written by Adler mostly to his family during a trip to Europe in 1888 and from the Institute of Architects' conven- tion that he attended in Boston in 1891. In addition, there are a few clippings, copies of a funeral oration by Emil Hirsch and of Army discharge papers and an oath of identity.

Florence Millner Amold (b. 1900) Gift of Florence Arnold, 1975

Papers, 1925-1975, c. 650 items, including letters, certificates and awards, sketches and sketchbooks, slides and photographs of the artist and her work, clippings, 1926-1974, catalogs, programs, miscellaneous printed material, and transcripts of interviews with the artist.

Carl Ashby (b. 1914) Gift of Carl Ashby, 1977

Correspondence and papers, 1944-1972, c. 50 items, including papers on art education and the philosophy of art written while Ashby was at New York Univer- sity, and photographs, catalogs, clippings, and announcements.

Xavier J. Barile (b. 1891) Gift of Mrs. Camilla Tortorella, 1976 Papers, 1901-1965, c. 460 items, including biographical data; correspondence, some from John Sloan and Leo Lentelli; notes and personal documents; original prints, sketchbooks, and scrapbooks; personal photographs, photographs of Barile with his art classes and of Barile's paintings; pictures of the 1927 and 1929 Kit Kat Ball; slides and reproductions of Barile's cartoons and paintings; catalogs, invitations, announcements, publicity material, clippings, and printed miscellany. Barile was an early student of John Sloan's and his first monitor at the Art Students League.

Myron Barlow (1873-1937) Gift of George Russel, 1977 Papers, 1892-1912, 23 items, including 7 letters written by Myron Barlow to Julie Russel, 6 written by or to Julie Russel from other people, 1 note, and 9 miscellaneous photographs.

Harold Baumbach (b. 1905) Gift of Harold Baumbach, 1977 Correspondence and papers, 1935-1970s, c. 100 items, including letters from Adolph Gottlieb and Edgar Levy. There are also several issues of Art Front and

MKR, slides of Baumbach and his paintings, catalogs, announcements, clippings, and 1 tape recording.

Margit Beck Gift of Margit Beck, 1977

Papers, 1950s-1970s, c. 500 items, including personal and professional correspondence, clippings, catalogs, announcements, and similar printed material.

Berta N. Briggs (1884-1976) Gift of Mrs. Malcolm Fooshee, 1977

Papers, 1930-1976, 137 items, including bibliographic material; notes and an early manuscript for Briggs' book on Charles Willson Peale; a citation and a medal from the National Association of Women Artists; photographs of Briggs' work; sketches and sketchbooks; exhibition catalogs and other printed material.

Byron Brow#e (1907-1961) Gift of Rosalind Bengelsdorf Browne, 1976 Papers, 1960-1976, 1000 items, including biographical material, correspondence, greeting cards, tax records, exhibition brochures, printed material, and photographs and magazine pictures hung by Browne in his studio in Prov- incetown, Mass.

Hans Burkhardt (b. 1904) Gift of Hans Burkhardt, 1975-1977

Papers, 1955-1977, c. 970 items, including correspondence, 2 sketchbooks, 2 scrapbooks, business papers, manuscripts, poems, clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, and awards.

Paul Burlin (1886-1969) Gift of Margaret T. Burlin, 1974-1975 Papers, c. 1915-1969, 3500 items, containing correspondence with Stuart Davis, Stanley and Elise Kunitz, Hans Hofmann, and Sam Jaffee, among others, and including letters from many major 20th-century painters about a forum in 1948 at the Museum of Modem Art organized by Burlin, Stuart Davis, and Carl Holty; writings by and about Burlin, including comments by Leo Stein and Stanley Kunitz; lists of paintings; exhibition catalogs; a 1945 priced Parke- Bemet auction catalog; and photographs.

Robert Bushnell (1896-1960) Gift of Dorothy Bushnell Cole, 1977 One sketchbook, 1943-1944, 32 items, and an undated photograph album containing 5 photographs of Robert Bushnell working on his murals and 26 photographs of his murals.

Victor Candell (1903-1977) Gift of Mrs. Victor Candell, 1977 Correspondence and papers, 1960s- 1970s, c. 75 items, including letters

from students and letters about the Provincetown Workshop, catalogs, announcements, clippings, and 4 snapshots taken at Provincetown, Mass.

George Catlin (1796-1872) Gift of Judith Catlin, 1976 Manuscripts and drawings, c. 1863, 19 items, including writings, notes, drawings of ships, submarines, and parts of sailing vessels, rough drafts of an essay on the Steamboat Slipper, and an incom- plete essay addressed to the Consular Agency of the United States, Belgium.

Michael Church Gift of Michael Church, 1976 Papers, 1958-1976, 44 items, including letters from Michigan artists William Lewis, Charles Culver, Edgar Yaeger, Nick Marcicano, Carol Wald, and Clif- ford West; a catalog of works by William Lewis, 1964; a photograph of Zubel Kachadoorian, 1964; magazines, newsletters, clippings, and copies of articles by and about Church and Michigan art.

Michael Church Gift of Michael Church, 1977 Papers, 1947-1976, 33 items, including letters from artists to Church; a copy of Ronald C. Gee's The Role of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin in the Development of State-Wide Cultural Arts (117 pp.); a brief history of the Cultural Activities Programs at the University of Michigan; "The Place of Art In American Life," a lecture by Henry B. Luce; clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and other printed items.

Max Arthur Cohn (b. 1903) Gift of Max Arthur Cohn, 1976

Papers, 1928-1976, c. 400 items, including biographical data; correspondence; typescript of Silk Screen Stenciling as a Fine Art, by J. I. Biegeleisen and Max Arthur Cohn, and a copy of Silk Screen Techniques by the same authors; business records; catalogs and invitations; photographs, clippings, and printed miscellany. Most of the papers are about Max Cohn's activities in the WPA, the Delaware Valley Artists Association, and the National Serigraph Society.

Dorothy Bushnell Cole Gift of Dorothy Bushnell Cole, 1977 Correspondence and papers, 1898-1976, c. 700 items, including engagement calendar/diaries, personal photographs, photographs of Cole's collages, catalogs, clippings, exhibition announcements, and 1 tape recording.

Joseph Comell (1903-1973) Gift of Betty Comell Benton, 1974-1976 Twenty-one boxes including correspondence, 1916-1973; an extensive diary, 1930-1972; c. 100 photographs;


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and files kept by Cornell consisting of clippings, notes, and miscellany. Many of the files are on other artists, dancers, and friends; others contain source material for Comell's collages. In his diary entries Cornell writes of dreams, his im- pressions of music, art, and ballet, his personal relationships, and his daily activities. Much of the correspondence is with his family; other correspondents include Hans Namuth, George Brecht, Tamara Toumanova, Eudora Welty, Julie Beckman, Ray Johnson, Anne and Hu- bert Kappel, Piero Dorazio, and Tilly Losch.

Natalie Curtis (Mrs. Paul Burlin) (d. 1921) Gift of Margaret T. Burlin, 1974-1975 In the Paul Burlin Papers there is a folder of Natalie Curtis Burlin's manuscripts containing copies of "The Deer Dance: A Pueblo Indian Legend-Dance." In the correspondence, there is a copy of the contract between Curtis and Adolph Bolm about the rights to produce "The Deer Dance" as a ballet and a series of letters about the production of the ballet from members of the Curtis family, Paul Burlin, and Adolph Bolm, following Curtis' death.

Edith Emerson Lent for filming by Edith Emerson, 1977 Scrapbooks, 1912-1976, 4 vols., containing correspondence, clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, memorabilia, and miscellany concerning Emer- son's artistic career, her curatorship of the Woodmere Art Gallery, Chestnut Hill, Pa., her friendship with Violet Oakley, and her presidency of the Violet Oakley Memorial Foundation.

Richard E. Fuller (1897-1976) Gift of Betty Bowen, 1972

Correspondence and papers, 1898-1972, c. 100 items, including photographs of Fuller and his family, articles and anec- dotes about Fuller and his career as a geologist and as director of the Seattle Art Museum, clippings, a catalog, and other printed material. There are also letters from friends and associates to Betty Bowen, Publicity Department, Seattle Art Museum, answering her re- quest for information about Fuller to be used in a book to celebrate the museum's fortieth anniversary.

Fu.genie Gershoy (b. 1905) Gift of Eugenie Gershoy, 1976 Papers, c. 1920-1976, c. 400 items, biographical data, correspondence, writings, sketches, catalogs and invitations, photographs, clippings, and printed miscellany.

Jules Langsner, n.d. Jules Langsner Papers, Archives of American Art (Photo: Marvin Silver).

Andree Golbin (b. 1923) Gift of Andree Golbin, 1977

Papers, c. 1946-1977, c. 410 items, including correspondence with Joseph Konzal, Lucy Lippard, Harold Rosen- berg, Dorthy Vogel, Lena Domieson, Sylvia Sleigh, Eleanore Lockspeiser, and Robert Stefaudty; several annotated date books; orders and bills paid, 1968; press reviews, contracts, receipts of paintings sold; an address book; illustrations for publications, sketches and drawings, photographs of Golbin's works, and personal photographs of Golbin and her husband, Don David.

Frank Greco (b. 1903) Gift of Frank Greco, 1977 Papers, 1922-1977, 130 items, including correspondence, slides, bibliographic material, exhibition brochures, and sketches and photographs of posters Greco designed while in the WPA. Also included are xerox copies of WPA correspondence and clippings related to Greco's recent work.

Mark Green (b. 1932) Gift of Mark Green, 1974-1976

Papers, 1974-1976, 297 items, mostly relating to Green's exhibition A Kind of

Beatness: Photographs of a North Beach Era, 1950-1965. Included are the exhibition catalog; announcements from the Nanny Hill Gallery; approximately 100 letters sent and 30 received; and 100 photographs (several self-portraits and photographs by Green) among them pictures of Richard Brautigan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, David Melt- zer, Eric Nord, Paddy O'Sullivan, and Edward Silverston Taylor.

James Hamilton (1819-1878) Transfer from the National Collection of Fine Arts, 1977 Papers, c. 1870-1967, 20 items, including a biography of Hamilton by Charles S. Keyser; a letter from Grace Greenwood with 2 photographs of herself and a letter from Greenwood's hu3band, L. K. Lip- pincott, with his photograph; an illustrated manuscript titled "The Subject of Clouds"; 4 snapshots of Hamilton's paintings; several letters to his grand- daughters, Katherine Reed and Mrs. Walter Sonneberg; and printed matter.

Serge Hollerbach (b. 1923) Gift of Serge Hollerbach, 1976 Correspondence, dating from 1969, and papers, 1946-1975, 216 items. Included are adiary, in Russian, 1966-1976; photographs of Hollerbach and of his work; 3



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sketch books, 1971-1975; and catalogs and clippings. Correspondents include Aleksis Rannit, Ralph Fabri, and Fritz Eichenberg, among others.

Isabella Howland (1895-1974) Gift of Barbara C. Summer, 1976 Papers, 1895-1973, c. 800 items, including biographical data; correspondence, writings, and notes; manuscript and typescript of '"Willy Nilly," written and illustrated by Howland; business records; address book; childhood drawings and memorabilia; sketchbook, sketches, and Christmas cards designed by How- land; photographs; invitations, catalogs, clippings, and miscellany. A member of the Woodstock, N.Y., art community, Howland's correspondence contains letters from the following: Eugenie Ger- shoy, Henry Strater, Edith Halpert, Peggy Bacon, Forbes Watson, Jerry By- waters, Adolph Dehn, and Dorothea Greenbaum.

Robert Bruce Inverarity (b. 1909) Gift of Robert Bruce Inverarity, 1976 Papers and photographs, c. 1938-1941, 298 items, including 8 art booklets published by or relating to the WPA-FAP; 23 display panels exhibiting airbrush sten- cil prints, with 3 photographs showing how the stencils are made; 21 mounted photographs illustrating mosaic proce- dures; 245 photographs, many of them mounted on display panels, relating to the Washington WPA-FAP; and a display panel of 3 photographs of the mosaic at the Municipal Auditorium in Long Beach, Calif.

Morris Kantor (1896-1974) Gift of Mrs. Morris Kantor, 1976 Papers, 1941-1975 and undated, 380 items, including correspondence, exhibition announcements, catalogs, and invitations, notes by Kantor, a transcript of the Conference on Art in Higher Edu- cation, 1959, and miscellany.

Nikolai M. Kasak (b. 1917) Gift of Nikolai Kasak, 1977 Papers, c. 1944-1977, c. 300 items, containing correspondence (most of it is not in English), including 32 letters from Professor Silvio Conforto, 1 letter from Alexander Archipenko, and a postcard from Alexander Calder; writings on physical art by Kasak; a copy of The Art of Kasak, along with a paste-up proof of the book; 2 unpublished manuscripts about Kasak; photographs of works of art; and clippings. An inventory, pro- vided by Kasak, is at the beginning of the collection.

Ethel Katz (b. 1900) Gift of Ethel Katz, 1977 Papers, 1949-1977, c. 400 items, including sketchbooks and sketches, many

with notes, a letter from Steward Klonis announcing a Merit Scholarship in Katz's name at the Art Students League, and 1 postcard.

Henry G. Keller (1870-1949) Gift of Albert Keller, 1976 Papers, 1901-1954, 515 items, including correspondence, 1901-1954; sketchbooks; a published article, "The Appli- cation of the Physiology of Color Vision in Modem Art"; notes and writings; photographs; legal and financial papers; printed articles, clippings, and exhibition catalogs.

Greta Kempton (b. 1903) Gift of Greta Kempton, 1977 Papers, c. 1948-1977, c. 250 items, including correspondence, mostly with the families of prominent people whose portraits Kempton painted; photographs, exhibition announcements, and printed matter.

Jules Langsner (1911-1967) Gift of fune Harwood Langsner, 1973- 1974 Papers, 1938-1968, c. 3020 items, including correspondence, 1948-1968, with artists, art magazine editors, museums, galleries, and others, and many letters from Langsner to June Harwood written while traveling in Japan, Hong Kong, and India, 1964-1967; extensive notes on the Orient, European art, art and technology, art and philosophy, and other subjects; drafts and typescripts of articles and lectures; Langsner's articles for Art News, 1949-1967; clippings of his articles from newspapers and magazines; photographs of him and of artists and exhibitions; and an address book, travel itineraries, and reports of various meetings.

Rico Lebrun (1900-1964) Gift of Constance Lebrun Crown, 1976 Correspondence, 1950-1966, 165 items, including personal letters to friends and colleagues, and letters concerning various mural projects. Correspondents include Abe Lublin, E. Wilson Lyon, Donald Winston, Bill Ptaszynski, Peter Selz, John Rex, James Pinto, John Crown, Jan Stussy, Barry Schactman, Howard War- shaw, and Constance Lebrun.

Linda Lindeberg (1915-1973) Gift of Giorgio Cavallon, 1973 Papers, 1949-1973, 250 items, including biographical data; letters from family, friends, and business acquaintances, 1949-1973; business records; sketches, photographs of Lindeberg, her work, studio, home, family, and friends (Gior- gio Cavallon, Franz Kline, and Stanley Kunitz, among others); exhibition no- tices, clippings, and miscellany.

Erie Loran (b. 1905) Gift of Erle Loran, 1975

Papers, 1913-1974, 550 items, including correspondence with artists, collectors, critics, museums, and galleries; biographical data; manuscripts, notes, photographs, and diagrams for Cezanne's Composition; notes and drafts for the Hans Hofmrnann Symposium, University Art Museum, Berkeley, and other lectures, notes, and writings on art; catalogs, announcements, clippings, and miscellaneous printed material; photographs of Loran, his work, friends, Ce- zanne's Aix-en-Provence studio, and 1 of Loran with Abraham Rattner and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 1952.

Louis Lozowick (1892-1973) Gift of Mrs. Adele Lozowick, 1975

Papers, 1931-1973, 395 items, including correspondence, notes for lectures, 3 small notebooks, printed material, and miscellaneous notes.

Louis Lozowick (1892-1973) Gift of Mrs. Adele Lozowick, 1977 Sixty-five letters, 1931-1937, to his wife, Adele, written while on various trips.

Louis Lozowick (1892-1973) Gift of Mrs. Adele Lozowick, 1977 Papers, 1904-1973, 109 items, including correspondence, 1928-1973, mostly condolence letters from other artists to Lozowick's wife, Adele; photographs of Lozowick, his family, other artists and friends, and his studio; papers relating to the American Artists' Congress; membership cards and miscellany.

Marcia Marcus (b. 1928) Gift of Marcia Marcus, 1977 Papers, 1976-1977, c. 100 items, including mostly correspondence and 1976 Christmas cards received, photographs, clippings, and exhibition announcements.

Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) Gift of Norman Sasowsky, 1977 About 320 photographs of prints by Reginald Marsh, 1921-1953 and undated, used in the preparation of a book by Nor- man Sasowsky, University of Delaware.

Francis John McComas (1874-1938) Gift of Kent Seavey, 1977 Papers, 1898-1940, c. 120 items, including 1 letter, 1928, enclosing a birth certificate; 5 photographs; 6 exhibition catalogs and announcements, notes, loose clippings, and a scrapbook of clippings. Gari Melchers (1860-1932) Lent for filming by Belmont The Gari Melchers Memorial Gallery, 1977 Correspondence, 1887-1932, c. 2000 items, awards and certificates; and 10



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pages of diary entries, February and March 1908, concerning Melchers' visit to the White House while President Theodore Roosevelt was sitting for a portrait by Melchers. The correspondence includes general and business correspondence, and an extensive personal correspondence with his wife.

Marion de Sola Mendes (1909-1972) Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Stem, 1977 Papers, c. 1936-1972, c. 400 items, containing correspondence about membership and awards from art associations; a genealogical history of Mendes' maternal ancestors, prepared for the Daughters of the American Revolution; awards; 3 painted miniature portraits; exhibition announcements, clippings, and miscellany.

Elisabeth Model (b. 1903) Gift of Elizabeth Model, 1977 Papers, c. 1950-1977, c. 100 items, containing correspondence, including letters from and signed printed items by Her- mann Hesse, along with a photograph of Hesse; original Christmas cards designed by Model; 50 photographs of works of art; a transcript of a radio broadcast done with Lena Gurr; and exhibition announcements.

William Morehouse (b. 1929) Gift of William Morehouse, 1976 Papers, 1934-1973, c. 550 items, including correspondence, personal documents, 3 sketchbooks, lists of works, notifica-

tions of sales of his paintings by the Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, papers relating to his teaching career at Sonoma State College, Calif., exhibition catalogs and announcements, clippings, magazines, and photographs of Morehouse and his works.

Elias Newman (b. 1903) Gift of Elias Newman, 1977 Papers, c. 1923-1977, c. 450 items, containing correspondence, most of it relating to the Artists Equity Association and the Conference of American Artists; speeches and eulogies; manuscripts, including "Jews in Art" and the manuscript and a copy of the book Art in Palestine; photographs, including a snapshot of Newman with Moses Soyer taken in 1923 at the Flducational Alliance Art School; and exhibition announcements and printed matter.

Violet Oakley (1874-1961) Lent for filming by Edith Emerson, 1977 Photograph albums, c. 1870-1976, 6 vols., including photographs of the Oak- ley and Swain families and of their portraits; photographs of Oakley, Edith Emerson, Jessie Willcox Smith, and F.li7abeth Shippen Green; photographs of Oakley's "Red Rose" studio in Villa- nova, Pa., of her "Cogslea" studio in Philadelphia, and of her studio on Chest- nut Street in Philadelphia, 1898. In addition there are photographs of Oakley at work and of her works of art.

Abbott Pattison (b. 1916) Gift of Abbott Pattison, 1976 About 190 items including exhibition catalogs, brochures, clippings, articles, and a letter, c. 1951-1976.

Dorothy Pere Gift of Dorothy Pere, 1977 Papers, 1975-1977, 46 items, including correspondence, catalogs and announcements, clippings, and other printed items.

Frank Peris Gallery Gift of the Frank Perls estate, 1976 One hundred fifty-eight items including exhibition catalogs, announcements, and other printed items from the Frank Perls Gallery, 1939-1974.

Oliver Haz7rd Perry (1842-1913) Gift of Oliver Hazard Perry, 1976 Ten items including a diary, 1856, kept in school near or in Hamden, Conn., and 3 diaries, 1885-1887, with lengthy entries; a record book of addresses, perhaps relating to the disposition of paintings; 3 photographs of Perry; and clippings.

Charles Pollock Gift of Elizabeth Pollock, 1976

Correspondence, 1929-1976, 95 items, between Charles and Elizabeth Pollock.

Victor Hugo Proetz (1897-1966) Transferred from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1977 Papers, c. 1937-1965, c. 340 items, including 7 notebooks, 1948-1955, of records of work done; c. 280 photocopies of designs for furniture, fireplaces, lamps, and other accessories; a card file of American architects; and a file of drawings, notes, and photographs relating to work done for the National Portrait Gal- lery, Washington, D. C.

Edward Willis Redfield (1869-1965) Gift of Edward Redfield Richardson, 1976 Papers, 1836-1973, 1205 items, including correspondence, generally congratula- tory, asking for examples for exhibitions, and inquiring about the history of Red- field's paintings. Frequent correspondents include C. Powell Minniegrode, Robert Lortac, W. C. Teagle, and Homer Saint-Gaudens. There are also catalogs, photographs, sketches, priced plaque cards, certificates, dated lists of Red- field's paintings and their prices, address books with exhibition diagrams and lists of paintings and their owners, and an extensive clipping file.

Walter Rivers Gift of Walter Rivers, 1977 Two notebooks, "Landscape Painting, Volumes 1 and 2," 1937-1938, from classes with George Demont Otis.



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Oliver'Hazard Perry, diary pages, 1885. Oliver Hazard Perry Papers, Archives of American Art.

Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings (1905-1976) Bequest of Terence Harold Robsjohn- Gibbings through Carlton W. Pullin, 1977 Four undated volumes of original drawings of furniture designs, some based on Greek models, of original Greek furniture, and of Greek and Roman bronze lamps, handles, and furniture.

Martin Rosenthal (1899-1974) Gift of Rosalind Leonard, 1976 Thirteen items including 3 undated sketchbooks, miscellaneous clippings, and exhibition catalogs.

Emilio Sanchez (b. 1921) Gift of Emilio Sanchez, 1977 Papers, 1972-1974, 418 items, including correspondence (mostly in Spanish), sketches and sketchbooks, exhibition catalogs, short-entry calendars, price lists, and about 100 negatives.

Constance Scharff Gift of Constance Scharff, 1977

Correspondence and papers, 1950-1976, c. 300 items, including drawings and sketchbooks, photographs of the artist and her work, awards, catalogs, invitations, announcements, newspaper clippings, and biographical information.

Joe Scheuerle (1873-1948) Lent for filming by Thomton Boileau, 1977 Papers, 1895-1948, 62 items, relating to his portrait paintings of Indians of Mon- tana and other Westem states, including 20 letters received; 6 sketches, Christ- mas card and postcard designs, 5 photographs, and clippings. Among the correspondents are Nancy C. Russell, Carlos Montezuma, and J. H. Sharp.

Harry Shoulberg (b. 1903) Gift of Harry Shoulberg, 1976 Papers, c. 1904-1976, c. 500 items, including correspondence with artists and Shoulberg's family; financial records; a xerox copy of his scrapbook, 1941-1976; clippings, catalogs, photographs of Shoulberg, his work, and his family.

Peter Selz (b. 1919) Gift of Peter Selz, 1976 Files of papers, c. 1943-1975, 330 items, relating to Rico Lebrun, Fletcher Benton, "hippie" posters, "Funk," Bruce Conner, Max Beckmann, Leonard Baskin, Sam Francis, and the Public Education Asso- ciation. Included in the files are correspondence, catalogs, announcements, clippings, other printed material, photographs, manuscripts, and a transcript.

Myma Shiras (b. 1936) Gift of Myma Shiras, 1976 Papers, c. 1974-1977, 450 items, including correspondence, mostly with femi- nist art organi7ations and publishing houses; 23 original drawings; 42 photographs and xeroxes of photographs of works of art; 29 photographs of family and friends; a manuscript entitled "A Sum of Small Vulgarities"; and printed matter.

James B. Smith Lent for filming by James B. Smith, 1976 Files, 1970-1976, 56 items, kept by Smith on 10 artists whom he contacted to do sculptures for his employer, the Taubman Co. The files contain photographs, correspondence, some exhibition catalogs, and a few chronologies. Sculp- tors represented include Bruce Beasley, William Crutchfield, Josefa Filkosky, Richard Lippold, Jim Pallas, Buky Schwartz, Emest Trova, Wen-Ying Tsai, and DeWain Valentine.

Eloise Spaeth (b. 1904) Gift of Eloise Spaeth, 1977 Papers, 1952-1964, 101 items, including personal correspondence; American Fed- eration of Arts correspondence and newsletters; printed material on Walt Kuhn; and photographs of the work of John Singelton Copley and colonial American artists. Correspondents include Vera Kuhn and William Congdon.



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Issue Table of ContentsArchives of American Art Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3 (1977), pp. 1-32Front Matter [pp.1-1]E. P. Richardson [pp.2-4]Detroit Institute of Arts Acquisitions [pp.4-9]The Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum Acquisitions [p.10]Research in American Painting [pp.10-12]E. P. Richardson: A Bibliography [pp.12-14]Interview: Ben Shahn Talks with Forrest Selvig [pp.14-21]Bulletins: Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships in American Art History [pp.22-23]The Curator's Report [pp.23-24]The Oral History Program [p.24]Regional Office Reports [pp.24-27]Acquisitions [pp.28-32]Back Matter

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