This collection is arranged as eight series. Series 1: Biographical Material, 1941-1974 (Box 1; 7 folders) Series 2: Correspondence, 1941-1998 (Box 1, OV 6; 0.6 linear feet) Series 3: Writings, 1951-1969 (Box 1; 0.4 linear feet) Series 4: Teaching Files, 1943-1970 (Box 2, OV 6; 0.7 linear feet) Series 5: Project Files, 1944-1976 (Boxes 2-3, OV 6-7; 0.6 linear feet) Series 6: Printed Material, 1941-1989 (Box 3, OV 7; 0.4 linear feet) Series 7: Photographic Material, circa 1940-1989 (Boxes 3-4, OV 8; 0.7 linear feet) Series 8: Artwork, circa 1940-circa 1985 (Boxes 4-5, OV 6, 8; 0.7 linear feet)
Access Note / Rights:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.
Summary:
The papers of Massachusetts-based designer, sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and educator Richard E. Filipowski measure 4.1 linear feet and date from circa 1940 to 1998. The papers document his career through biographical material, correspondence, writings, teaching files, project files, printed material, photographic material, artwork, and a sound recording.
Citation:
Richard E. Filipowski papers, circa 1940-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
The sound recording of the lecture "Art Phobia in Our Society" was digitized for research access in 2013 and is available at the Archives of American Art offices. Researchers may view the original reel for any archival notation on it, but the original reel is not available for playback due to fragility.
Related Materials:
Also found in the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Richard E. Filipowski conducted by Roger Brown on September 25, 1989 through March 14, 1990.
Biography Note:
Richard E. Filipowski (1923-2008) was a designer, sculptor, painter, filmmaker and educator mostly based in Massachusetts. Richard Filipowski was born in Poland in 1923 and he and his family moved to Ontario, Canada in 1927. He studied under Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at the Institute of Design (formerly known as the New Bauhaus) from 1942 to 1946 and taught there after graduating, 1946-1950. Filipowski was invited by Walter Gropius to organize and teach Design Fundamentals at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design where he stayed until 1952. He then taught as an Associate Professor of Visual Design in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1953-1989.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
The papers were donated to the Archives of American Art by Richard E. Filipowski in multiple installments from 1989 to 1998.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
