The papers document art historian Whitney Chadwick's groundbreaking studies of gender and sexuality in surrealism, modernism, and contemporary art. Files include research materials for Chadwick's books including the seminal Women, Art and Society and Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement. Included are correspondence with artists, colleagues and publishers; photographs and slides; interviews on microcassettes; transcripts of interviews and letters; scripts for lectures and public talks; and documents related to rights and reproduction requests, speaking engagements, teaching at San Francisco State University, fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute, research in Scandinavian, and her honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Artists of particular emphasis include Leonora Carrington, Romaine Brooks, and Sheila Hicks. Additional items include an early scrapbook detailing Chadwick's trip to Berlin as the recipient of an American Field Service "America Abroad" scholarship when in high school, and reviews and other materials related to her novel "Framed".
Biographical / Historical:
Whitney Chadwick (1943-) is an art historian in San Francisco, Calif. Chadwick was educated at Middlebury College and The Pennsylvania State University. She specialized in twentieth-century European and American art, feminism and gender studies. She taught at San Francisco State University. She was married to painter and fellow SFSU faculty member Robert Bechtle.
Provenance:
Donated in 2023 by Robert Firehock, Chadwick's nephew.
Restrictions:
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
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Burt Chernow. Interview with Anani, Didi, and Vlado Javacheff on 1982 Visit with Christo, 1997 January 18. Burt Chernow papers, 1930-2002. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Burt Chernow. Interview with Joe Fleming on Surrounded Islands, 1997 March 1. Burt Chernow papers, 1930-2002. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Burt Chernow and Jeanne-Claude. Interview with Jeanne-Claude in NYC, 1997 January 10. Burt Chernow papers, 1930-2002. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Burt Chernow and Jeanne-Claude. Interview with Jeanne-Claude on Surrounded Islands, 1997 April 3. Burt Chernow papers, 1930-2002. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.