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Sterner, Albert, 1863-1946

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Albert E. Sterner (1863-1946) was an American painter, etcher and lithographer. He opened a studio in New York City in 1885, was one of the founders of Painter-Gravers of America, and taught at the Art Students League. His paintings were purchased by and exhibited at museums in Europe and the U.S. From the guide to the Albert E. Sterner correspondence, 1899-1945, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Illustrator and painter; New York City. Sterner...

Berman, Eugene, 1899-1972

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Graphic artist, painter, and designer; d. 1972. From the description of Eugene Berman papers, 1930-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83211971 From the description of Eugene Berman papers, 1930-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646393580 Graphic artist, painter, designer; New York, N.Y. From the description of Eugene Berman interviews, 1972 June 3-1972 Oct. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184646 Eugene Berman (1899-1972) was a graphic...

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959

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Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings. Berenson was a major figure in the attribution of Old Masters, at a time when these were attracting new interest by American collectors, and his judgments were widely respected in the art world. Recent research has cast doubt on some...

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

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Architect, designer; Illinois, Wisconsin and Arizona. From the description of Frank Lloyd Wright textile design studies, [ca. 1955]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122971 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American Architect internationally recognized for his distinctive Prairie Style houses, innovative building design, Taliesin school and fellowships, and philosophy of "organic architecture." From the guide to the Frank Lloyd Wright Miscel...

Francis, Henry Sayles, 1902-1994

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Henry Sayles Francis was born March 4, 1902 in Boston, Massachusetts to parents George Tappan Francis and Frances Coren Brown. After earning a degree in art history from Harvard University, Francis worked at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Francis worked at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1927 to 1929. He left to serve as Assistant to the Co-directors at the Fogg Museum and returned to work at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1931. Francis served as Art Historian and Curator of Prints and Pai...

Vanderbilt, Paul

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Paul Vanderbilt (1905-1992) was a librarian and archivist from Madison and Middleton, Wis. From the description of Oral history interview with Paul Vanderbilt, 1964 Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477553 Librarian, archivist; Madison and Middleton, Wisc. From the description of Paul Vanderbilt interview, 1964 Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220197500 Paul Vanderbilt, Librarian, archivist of Madison and Middleton, Wisc. From...

Doesburg, Theo van 1883-1931

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Dutch painter. From the description of Letter : Weimar, 1921. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79720572 Dutch painter and architect. From the description of Photograph, 1923. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 122444219 ...

Howe, George, 1886-1955

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Architect, Chair of the Dept. of Architecture at Yale University. Partner in the architecture firm Howe & Lescaze. From the description of George Howe papers, 1926-1974, (bulk 1926-1955). (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505720125 ...

Schindler, R. M. (Rudolph M.), 1887-1953

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Austrian architect who moved to the United States to work with F.L. Wright, settling finally in Los Angeles. From the description of R. M. Schindler, Architect, 1948. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84387916 American architect, whose work attracted young European architects, such as the Austrian-born R.M. Schindler, to the United States. From the description of Frank Lloyd Wright correspondence with R.M. Schindler, 1914-1929 (bulk 1918-1922). (Get...

Sizer, Theodore, 1892-1967

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Society named after Horace Walpole (1717-1797), founded in 1910 to promote the study and appreciation of British art. From the description of Walpole Society papers, 1934-1967. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 550528065 Theodore Sizer was born on March 19, 1892 in New York City. He received a B.S. degree from Harvard in 1915. He worked in the import-export business from 1915 until 1922 and served as a first lieutenant in the Army in World War I. He was curator at the ...

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990

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American writer. From the description of Correspondence with Alfred S. Dashiell, 1931-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51846130 Carl Zigrosser and Lewis Mumford were life-long friends with shared interests in the arts, society and politics. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1925-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902319 Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologi...

Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968

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Erwin Panofsky was a German Jewish art historian. He emigrated to the United States in the 1930s and subsequently taught at New York University, Princeton University, and Harvard University. He became widely known and very influential in the field of iconography. One of his most popular works is Studies in Iconology: Humanist Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939, reissued 1972). From the guide to the Erwin Panofsky Letters to Mrs. Alfred Barr, 1932-1967, (Princeton University. ...

Kaufmann, Edgar, 1910-1989

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d. 1989. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 81396145 Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. (1910-1989) was an American industrial designer, architect and artist. He apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright (1933-1934) and his father, Edgar Kaufmann, Sr., commissioned Fallingwater from noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936. Among his other accomplishments, he was director of the industrial de...

Washburn, Gordon B. (Gordon Bailey), 1904-

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Gordon Bailey Washburn (1904-1983) was an art museum director from New York, N.Y. Director of Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., 1931-1942. Director of Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1942-1949. Director of the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Penn., 1950-1962. Director, Asia House Gallery, New York, N.Y., 1961-1974. From the description of Oral history interview with Gordon Bailey Washburn, 1970 Mar. 4-18 [sound recor...

Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965

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Harvard Professor of Museology. From the description of Lecture notes and related manuscripts, 1926-1955. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80369439 Professor of fine arts. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Joseph Sachs : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309726511 Paul Joseph Sachs, the first associate director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University and a Harvard profes...

Summerson, John, 1904-1992

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Epithet: Curator of Sir John Soane's Museum British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x0003c9 Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F236 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x000248 ...

Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956

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Feininger was an American-born artist who went to Germany in 1887 and returned to the U.S. in 1936. From the description of Papers, 1883-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122520943 From the description of Drawings for Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's Norvegische Volksmärchen, 1908. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84317440 From the description of Lyonel Feininger photographs, 1896-1942. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612196407 ...

Berman, Leonid, 1896-1976

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Painter; New York, N.Y. Full name was Leonid Berman. Dropped his surname to avoid confusion with his brother, Eugene Berman, who was also a painter. From the description of Leonid Berman papers, 1920-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78264020 ...

Goldwater, Robert John, 1907-1973

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Robert John Goldwater (1907-1973) was an art historian from New York, N.Y. From the description of Robert John Goldwater papers, 1902-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233006984 Epithet: art historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x00029a Art historian; New York, N.Y. From the description of Robert John Goldwater papers, [ca. 1936-1973]. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Berman, Eugene, 1899-

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Berman was a Russian painter and designer. From the guide to the Eugene Berman drawings for the ballet, Giselle, 1946 and undated., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Eugene Berman (1899-1972) was a Russian-born American artist, theatre and opera designer, and collector. Between 1922 and 1957 he lived and worked in the United States. In 1957 he moved to Rome where he resided until his death in...

Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981

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Art Historian and first director of the Museum of Modern Art. From the description of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. papers, 1927-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122516895 Correspondence and biographical material collected by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (1902-1981) on Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). From the description of Barr/Feininger material, 1927-1944, 1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122531411 Museum director, curator, and critic; New York, N.Y. ...

Wittkower, Rudolf

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Rudolf Wittkower (1901-1971) was professor of art history at Columbia University, 1956-1969. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1923]-1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122515077 ...

Austin, Arthur Everett, 1900-1957

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Arthur Everett Austin, Jr.; also known as Chick Austin; director of the Wadsworth Atheneum (1927-1944); first director of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; he was instrumental in bringing the Asolo Theater, first constructed in 1798 in Asolo, Italy by Antonio Locatelli, to the museum. From the description of Chick Austin papers, 1955-1957. (Library of Congress / Nucmc). WorldCat record id: 639021595 ...

Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997

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Editor. From the description of Reminiscences of Brendan Gill : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309742429 Brendan Gill (1914-1997), author and columnist. William Shawn (1907-1992), editor. From the description of Brendan Gill letters to William Shawn, 1960-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702193978 ...

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987

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Architectural historian, critic, museum director, and influential teacher. Died 1987. From the description of Henry-Russell Hitchcock letters to Dorothy Stroud and John N. Summerson, 1946-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83551893 Architectural historian. From the description of Lectures on architecture, 1948 Jan.-May. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79723075 Hitchcock (1903-1987) was an architectural historian. From the description of Henr...

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-

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Virgil Thomson was born in Kansas City, Missouri on November 25, 1896. As a boy, he took lessons in piano and organ, and soon found work as a church organist. He attended public schools and then Kansas City Polytechnic Institute, a junior college. In 1917 he enlisted in the Army, but World War I came to an end before he could be sent to Europe. After his discharge from the military, Thomson attended Harvard, where he sang in the Glee Club and studied with Edward Burlinga...

Spark, Victor D. (Victor David), 1898-1991.

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Art dealer; New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Victor D. Spark, 1975 Aug. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 227191487 Victor D. Spark (1898-1991) was an art dealer from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Victor D. Spark, 1975 Aug. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 688852899 Art dealer, appraiser; New York, N.Y. From the description of Victor D. Spark papers, 1849-1983. (Unknown)....

Erffa, Helmut von, 1900-1979

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Art historian. Taught art history at Rutgers University. From the description of Helmut von Erffa letters, 1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86093779 ...

Scully, Vincent, Jr., 1920-

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Vincent Joseph Scully was born in 1920 in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Yale University, where he earned a B.A. (1940), an M.A. (1947), and Ph.D. (1949) in art history. He has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1947, where he is a Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art. He also teaches classes at the University of Miami. Scully was influenced by French-school art historians during his studies at Yale and developed an appreciation of contemporary architects Louis Kahn and Fr...

Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983

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German-born art and architectural historian, editor and professor, Nikolaus Pevsner was a scholar of European architecture, 19th and 20th century design, Italian Baroque painting and German sculpture. He worked with the Dresden Gallery from 1924 to 1928 and taught at Göttingen before emigrating to England in 1933. He subsequently taught at Birkbeck College and the Courtauld Institute, and lectured as Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge and Oxford. He was a member of the editorial board of the A...

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996

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American ballet director, writer, and dance historian, 1907-1995. Lincoln Kirstein was born in Rochester, NY, educated at Harvard (B.A. 1929, M.A. 1930). He married Fidelma Cadmus, sister of artist, Paul Cadmus, in 1941 and served in the U.S. Army 1943-45. He co-founded School of American Ballet with George Balanchine and Edward M.M. Warburg in 1934. Participated in the founding and/or direction of American Ballet in 1935, Ballet Caravan 1936-41, Ballet Society in 1946, and became general direct...

Soby, James Thrall, 1906-1979

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Writer, critic; New Canaan, Connecticut. Died 1979. From the description of James Thrall Soby interview, 1970 July 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190225 Author, art critic, editor, collector, patron, connoisseur, and MoMA director and trustee. From the description of James Thrall Soby papers, 1930-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122484551 James Thrall Soby (1906-1979) was a writer and critic from New Canaan, Conn. From the descript...

Oud, J.J.P. (Jacobus Johannes Pieter), 1890-1963

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Architect. From the description of The Influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on the Architecture of Europe, ca. 1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82839605 Dutch architect. From the description of J.J.P. Oud papers, 1907-1963, n.d. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78114358 From the description of Weissenhofsiedlung, 1927. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84394366 From the description of Maquette de maison de campagne [U...