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Artist:

Mario Cooper  Search this

Astronaut:

Neil A. Armstrong  Search this

Medium:

Drawing, Pencil on Paper

Dimensions:

2-D - Unframed (H x W): 27.3 x 21cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)

Type:

ART-Drawings

Country of Origin:

United States of America

Date:

1969

Credit Line:

Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Inventory Number:

A19751319000

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Air and Space Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv905f16d36-d591-4a18-9db9-1ef706042080

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A19751319000

Artist:

Mario Cooper  Search this

Astronaut:

Neil A. Armstrong  Search this

Medium:

Drawing, Felt Tip Pen on Paper

Dimensions:

2-D - Unframed (H x W): 27.3 x 21cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)

Type:

ART-Drawings

Country of Origin:

United States of America

Date:

1969

Credit Line:

Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Inventory Number:

A19751332000

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Air and Space Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9b367f99a-08f7-41b0-abf8-e5f98eba1231

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A19751332000

Artist:

Mario Cooper  Search this

Astronaut:

Neil A. Armstrong  Search this

Medium:

Drawing, Felt Tip Pen on Paper

Dimensions:

2-D - Unframed (H x W): 27.3 x 21cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)

Type:

ART-Drawings

Country of Origin:

United States of America

Date:

1969

Credit Line:

Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Inventory Number:

A19751343000

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Air and Space Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv977e5b1f2-d302-4d64-9ee8-8ff9843080ba

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A19751343000

Artist:

Mario Cooper  Search this

Astronaut:

Neil A. Armstrong  Search this

Medium:

Drawing, Felt Tip Pen on Paper

Dimensions:

2-D - Unframed (H x W): 27.3 x 21cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)

Type:

ART-Drawings

Country of Origin:

United States of America

Credit Line:

Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Inventory Number:

A19760201000

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Air and Space Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv909af6201-e95f-4f13-88eb-1d4075852ac7

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A19760201000

Artist:

Paul Calle  Search this

Medium:

Drawing, Pen and Ink on Paper

Dimensions:

2-D - Unframed (H x W): 27.9 × 35.6cm (11 in. × 1 ft. 2 in.)

2-D - Unframed (H x W): 33 × 27cm (1 ft. 1 in. × 10 5/8 in.)

Type:

ART-Drawings

Country of Origin:

United States of America

Date:

1969

Credit Line:

Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Inventory Number:

A19750992000

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Air and Space Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9524ac24a-1342-4d18-b6ee-b55aabbe864c

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A19750992000

Artist:

Hugh Laidman  Search this

Medium:

Drawing, Felt Tip Pen on Paper

Dimensions:

2-D - Unframed (H x W): 31 × 50.2cm (1 ft. 3/16 in. × 1 ft. 7 3/4 in.)

Type:

ART-Drawings

Country of Origin:

United States of America

Date:

1964

Credit Line:

Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Inventory Number:

A19760508000

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Air and Space Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv95d4e0e63-4859-42c9-b1ba-0ffa581b7048

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A19760508000

Artist:

Chrystal Jackson  Search this

Medium:

Painting, Watercolor and Ink on Paper

Dimensions:

2-D - Unframed (H x W): 21.7 x 27.6cm (8 9/16 x 10 7/8 in.)

2-D - Unframed (H x W) (Mounted): 30.5 x 45.4cm (12 in. x 17 7/8 in.)

Type:

ART-Paintings

Country of Origin:

United States of America

Date:

1966

Credit Line:

Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Inventory Number:

A19781260000

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Air and Space Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv92506153b-9a9a-4829-aae6-34f3b658fdbb

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A19781260000

Collection Creator:

DeWitt, John, 1910-1984  Search this

Container:

Box 1, Folder 42

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1970-1971

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment.

Collection Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Collection Citation:

John DeWitt papers, 1962-1979. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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John DeWitt papers

John DeWitt papers / Series 2: Exhibition Files / The American Artist and Water Reclamation

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ebf93119-b006-4a19-8384-6a0c13960e1b

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-dewijohn-ref41

Creator:

Jacques Seligmann & Co.  Search this

Subject:

Hauke, Cesar M. de (Cesar Mange)  Search this

Glaenzer, Eugene  Search this

Haardt, Georges  Search this

Seligman, Germain  Search this

Seligmann, Arnold  Search this

Parker, Theresa D.  Search this

Waegen, Rolf Hans  Search this

Trevor, Clyfford  Search this

Seligmann, René  Search this

Seligmann, Jacques  Search this

De Hauke & Co., Inc.  Search this

Jacques Seligmann & Co  Search this

Eugene Glaenzer & Co.  Search this

Germain Seligmann & Co.  Search this

Gersel  Search this

Type:

Gallery records

Citation:

Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, 1904-1978, bulk 1913-1974. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Mackay, Clarence Hungerford, 1874-1938 -- Art collections  Search this

Schiff, Mortimer L. -- Art collections  Search this

Arenberg, duc d' -- Art collections  Search this

Liechtenstein, House of -- Art collections  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- France -- Paris  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war  Search this

La Fresnaye, Roger de, 1885-1925  Search this

Art, Renaissance  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Art treasures in war  Search this

Art, European  Search this

Theme:

Art Gallery Records  Search this

Art Market  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9936

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212486

AAA_collcode_jacqself

Theme:

Art Gallery Records

Art Market

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_212486

Interviewee:

Winslow, Marcella Comès  Search this

Interviewer:

Pennington, Estill Curtis  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Marcella Comès (Winslow), 1982 May 4. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Women photographers  Search this

Theme:

Women  Search this

Photography  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12311

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212598

AAA_collcode_winslo82

Theme:

Women

Photography

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_212598

Creator:

Gates, Robert Franklin, 1906-1982  Search this

Subject:

Taylor, Prentiss  Search this

United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this

American University (Washington, D.C.). Fine Arts Dept.  Search this

Jack Rasmussen Gallery (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Type:

Drawings

Christmas cards

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Citation:

Robert Franklin Gates papers, 1910-1988, bulk 1928-1988. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war  Search this

Post office buildings  Search this

Mural painting and decoration, American  Search this

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)6616

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)215926

AAA_collcode_gaterobe

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_215926

Creator:

Gates, Robert Franklin, 1906-1982  Search this

Names:

American University (Washington, D.C.). Fine Arts Dept. -- Faculty  Search this

Jack Rasmussen Gallery (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this

Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-1991  Search this

Extent:

2.3 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Drawings

Christmas cards

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Date:

1910-1988

bulk 1928-1988

Summary:

The papers of Washington, D.C. area painter and art instructor Robert Franklin Gates date from 1910-1988, bulk 1928-1988, and measure 2.3 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical materials; letters from government agencies, museums, galleries, and colleagues; business records primarily concerning transactions with the Jack Rasmussen Gallery; artwork including scattered drawings by Gates and block prints by Joe Goethe and D. Neufeld; two scrapbooks; printed materials; and photographs of Gates, family members, models, artwork, and exhibition installations. There are also photograph albums and miscellaneous photographs documenting a 1936 voyage to the Virgin Islands commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Department.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of Washington, D.C. area painter and art instructor Robert Franklin Gates date from 1910-1988, bulk 1928-1988, and measure 2.3 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical materials; letters from government agencies, museums, galleries, and colleagues; business records primarily concerning transactions with the Jack Rasmussen Gallery; artwork including scattered drawings by Gates and block prints by Joe Goethe and D. Neufeld; two scrapbooks; printed materials; and photographs of Gates, family members, models, artwork, and exhibition installations. There are also photograph albums and miscellaneous photographs documenting a 1936 voyage to the Virgin Islands commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Department.

Biographical material includes resumes, biographical accounts, award certificates, records for employment through a State Department Specialists Grant, address lists, teaching notes, writings about Gates, and a guest book signed by colleagues celebrating Gates' forty years at American University. There is a also a group of Navy Department records documenting Gates' employment designing three-dimensional photo-surfaced topography models for use by troops during World War II.

Letters are primarily from the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Works Agency discussing commissions, including the painting of post office murals in Maryland and West Virginia, and from various museums and galleries discussing exhibitions and other art-related activities. There are one or two letters each from colleagues Alice Acheson, Adelyn Breeskin, Charles Burchfield, Alida Conover, John Gernand, Duncan Phillips, Henry Varnum Poor, and Prentiss Taylor. Some letters are Christmas cards decorated with original block prints.

Business records primarily document Gates' interaction with the Jack Rasmussen Gallery in Washington, D.C., but also include miscellaneous sales records and pay stubs from American University.

Artwork consists of scattered drawings of modern houses by Gates and abstract sketches by others, and small block prints by Joe Goethe and D. Neufeld. Two Scrapbooks contain clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and scattered letters.

Additional printed material includes clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs for Gates and others, prospectuses for art exhibitions, press releases, calendars of events, booklets about color and lenses, brochures for art schools and books, and an unannotated calendar containing a reproduction of one of Gates' paintings.

Photographs are of Robert Gates, various family members including Gates with his first wife photographed by Prentiss Taylor, models, artwork, and exhibition installations. There are two photograph albums and unbound photographs documenting a 1936 voyage to the Virgin Islands commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Department. Images of this trip are of Gates and colleagues including Mitchell Jamieson, the ship Doris Hamlin, the crew, markets, a cock fight, miscellaneous buildings, town squares, and the countryside of the Virgin Islands.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into 7 series. Each series is arranged chronologically:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1928-1975 (Box 1, OV 4; 34 folders)

Series 2: Letters, 1930-1988 (Box 1; 25 folders)

Series 3: Business Records, 1961-1982 (Box 1; 5 folders)

Series 4: Artwork, circa 1962 (Box 1; 6 folders)

Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1932-1939 (Box 1-2; 4 folders)

Series 6: Printed Material, 1916-1988 (Box 2; 48 folders)

Series 7: Photographs, 1910-1982 (Boxes 2-3, OV 4; 20 folders)

Biographical Note:

Robert Franklin Gates was born on October 6, 1906 in Detroit, Michigan. He studied at the Detroit School of Arts and Crafts, and from 1929 to 1930 attended the Art Students' League in New York. Between 1930 and 1932, Gates studied under C. Law Watkins at the Phillips Gallery Art School in Washington, D.C., later becoming an instructor in life drawing and painting there. During this time, he met fellow student Margaret Casey, and they married on January 7, 1933. Between 1934 and 1938, Robert Gates was an art instructor at the Studio House in Washington, D.C.

In 1934, Gates received a commission from the U.S. Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts to create a series of watercolors of Charles Gardens, South Carolina, and from 1929-1940, murals for post offices in Bethesda, Maryland, Oakland, Maryland, and Lewisburg, West Virginia. In 1936, the Treasury Department also commissioned Gates and fellow artists Mitchell Jamieson and Prentiss Taylor to create series of watercolors of the Virgin Islands, arranging for several voyages there.

Between 1937 and 1942, Gates was a guest instructor at the University of Florida, taught art classes at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland and at the Washington County Museum of Art in Hagerstown, Maryland. He also taught at the Phillips Gallery Art School in Washington, D.C. while his wife was employed as the school secretary. In 1938, Gates received a summer scholarship to study under Henry Varnum Poor at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

During World War II, Gates worked as a civilian technician for the Navy Department doing model making and camouflage design, receiving the Distinguished Civilian Service Award for his work.

After the war, and the closing of the Phillips Gallery Art School, Gates attended classes taught by Bill Calfee at American University. In 1946, he joined the faculty and eventually becane chairman of the Art Department in 1954. Robert and Margaret Gates were divorced sometime in the mid-1950s. From 1966 to 1967, Gates was Artist-in-Residence at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, under the Department of State Educational and Cultural Exchange Program. In 1967, he married his second wife, Sarita, while in Baghdad.

Gates is represented in the permanent collections of the American University, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Dumbarton Oaks collection, the Phillips Collection, and the Lewisshon collection.

Robert Franklin Gates died on March 11, 1982 in Alexandria, Virginia.

Related Material:

Also in the Archives of American Art are the papers of Gates' first wife Margaret Casey Gates, 1934-1988,

Provenance:

The Robert Franklin Gates papers were donated in 1995 by Sarita W. Gates, the artist's widow, via legal representative Bradford G. Weekes III.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Painters -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Art teachers -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Topic:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war  Search this

Post office buildings  Search this

Mural painting and decoration, American  Search this

Genre/Form:

Drawings

Christmas cards

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Citation:

Robert Franklin Gates papers, 1910-1988, bulk 1928-1988. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.gaterobe

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Robert Franklin Gates papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9d311e740-03de-4049-91d8-ab87870ebc27

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-gaterobe

Collection Creator:

DeWitt, John, 1910-1984  Search this

Extent:

(Boxes 1-2; 1.3 linear feet)

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1962-1978

Scope and Contents note:

Exhibition files concern two exhibitions, The American Artist and Water Reclamation in 1972 and America 1976. Files contain a wide variety of materials, such as scattered correspondence, a drawing by William Palmer, scattered financial material, lists of exhibited artwork, miscellaneous notes, a scrapbook, clippings, exhibition catalogs; photographs of scenes of the American West; photographs of participating artists including Vija Celmins, Hereward Lester Cooke, Ralston Crawford, Richard Diebenkorn, Lamar Dodd, Michael Frary, Xavier Gonzalez, Peter Hurd, Billy Morrow Jackson, Mitchell Jamieson, Dong Kingman, Ethel Magafan, Carl Morris, William Palmer, Norman Rockwell, and Fritz Scholder; and phtotographs of their artwork. There is also an album of photographs of the opening of the exhibition The American Artist and Water Reclamation. Audio recordings on cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes contain interviews concerning the exhibition, as well as a tape of a symposium on the exhibition America 1976.

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment.

Collection Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Collection Citation:

John DeWitt papers, 1962-1979. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.dewijohn, Series 2

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw96448de8c-61e4-4f8a-888e-4060ab48bff6

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-dewijohn-ref20

Creator:

Smith, Emily Guthrie, 1909-  Search this

Extent:

0.2 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sketchbooks

Date:

1941-1979

Summary:

The scattered papers of painter and educator Emily Guthrie Smith measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1941 to 1979. Found are biographical materials, correspondence, photographs of Smith with her art, and printed material.

Scope and Contents:

The scattered papers of painter and educator Emily Guthrie Smith measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1941 to 1979. Found are biographical materials, correspondence, photographs of Smith with her art, and printed material.

Arrangement:

Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.

Biographical / Historical:

Fort Worth, Texas painter Emily Guthrie Smith (1909-1986) was known for her portraits and still lifes.

In 1931 Smith studied under Robert Brackman at the Art Students League in New York City, and later with Mitchell Jamieson and Frederic Taubes. She pursued a career in painting portraits, landscapes, and still lifes in Fort Worth while also teaching workshops and classes in Texas, Nevada, and New Mexico.

Smith's work is represented in museums in Texas and elsewhere, as well as in private collections, and she was a member of multiple art associations.

Separated Materials:

The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming on reels 1701-1702, 1597. Reel 1597 contains sketches and sketchbooks of figure studies, still lifes, and portraits; a photograph album containing snapshots of paintings and drawings; and photographs of Smith and others. Reels 1701-1702 contain two scrapbooks containing clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements and notes about paintings sold; exhibition catalogs; letters from patrons, friends, and colleagues; autographed books; and an inventory of art work in Smith's personal collection and files on the artists represented. This material was returned to Smith after microfilming and is not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:

A portion of the collection was donated in January 1979 by Smith and microfilmed on reel 1514. Additional material was loaned for microfilming on reels 1597 and 1701-1702 in January 1979 and returned to the donor. With the exception of the photograph album, sketches, and sketchbooks, this material was subsequently donated in October 1979.

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.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Painters -- Texas -- Fort Worth  Search this

Educators -- Texas -- Fort Worth  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Scrapbooks  Search this

Women educators  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sketchbooks

Citation:

Emily Guthrie Smith papers, 1941-1979. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Processing of this collection received support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.

Identifier:

AAA.smitemil

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Emily Guthrie Smith papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f8fbabce-068b-48ab-84c1-e310fd339d6b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-smitemil

Artist:

Ernst Kassowitz, 1888 - 1983  Search this

Sitter:

Mitchell Jamieson, 1915 - 1976  Search this

Medium:

Graphite and pastel (possibly)

Dimensions:

20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10")

Type:

Drawing

Date:

c. 1945-55

Topic:

Mitchell Jamieson: Visual Arts\Artist  Search this

Mitchell Jamieson: Male  Search this

Mitchell Jamieson: Education and Scholarship\Educator  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: University of Washington

Object number:

MPH461 UW

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Catalog of American Portraits

Data Source:

Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4ab753235-b4f3-43d1-9dee-10ed9192868d

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_MPH461_UW

Artist:

Mitchell Jamieson, born Kensington, MD 1915-died Alexandria, VA 1976  Search this

Type:

Drawing

Topic:

Figure group\male  Search this

Vietnamese  Search this

State of being\other\imprisonment  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Frank McClure

Object number:

1976.100.4

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department:

Graphic Arts

Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk71c4f10ee-4360-49c9-b424-06fb4542f5b3

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_1976.100.4

Interviewee:

Winslow, Marcella Comès  Search this

Interviewer:

Pennington, Estill Curtis  Search this

Extent:

28 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1982 May 4

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Marcella Comès (Winslow) conducted 1982 May 4, by Estill Curtis (Buck) Pennington, for the Archives of American Art, at Winslow's home in Washington, D.C.

Winslow speaks of her art training at the Carnegie School of Fine Arts and in Europe; her first portrait commission; her first exhibitions in Pittsburgh, Pa.; her marriage to William Randolph Winslow and their relocation to Washington, D.C.; the Corcoran Gallery, the Phillips Gallery and the arts community in Washington, D.C., and exhibitions available in the 1940s and 1950s; the many Southern writers she painted and the Southern literary renaissance; her studio in Georgetown and how she came to live and work there and in New Hampshire; painting people realistically, and their reactions to that realism as they get older; her work with Artists' Equity in Washington, D.C.; exhibiting in local galleries; the Whyte Gallery, the Obelisk, and the Bader Gallery, the Henri Gallery, and Jefferson Place; changing styles to cubism and abstraction from realism, and how cultural mood dictates artistic styles; her various interests outside of painting, including her garden, her grandchildren, and her house; and the changes in Washington, D.C., and Georgetown in particular, over the years that she has lived there. Ms. Winslow speaks in great detail about the people whose portraits she painted, including: Monsignor Francis Spellman; her mother-in-law, writer Anne Goodwin Winslow; Allen Tate, who introduced her to many of the writers she subsequently painted; Tate's wife Caroline Gordon; John Crowe Ransom; John Peale Bishop; Robert Penn Warren; Katherine Anne Porter; Ezra Pound; Robert Lowell; Eudora Welty; Karl Shapiro; Leonie Adams; Elizabeth Bishop; Mark van Doren; Denis Devlin; Juan Ramon Jimenez; Katherine Chapin Biddle; Robert Frost; Richard Eberhart; Joanna Sturm; and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Ms. Winslow also recalls Homer Saint-Gaudens, Robert Franklin (Bob) Gates, Margaret Casey Gates, William (Bill) Calfee, Sarah Baker, Bernice Cross, Mitchell Jamieson, Herman Williams, Bill Walton, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Marcella Comès (Winslow) (1905-2000) was a portrait painter, photographer of Washington, D.C. Known also as Marcella Comès and Marcella Rodange Comès.

General:

Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 17 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.

Restrictions:

Access to the entire recording is restricted. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Portrait painters -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Photographers -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Women photographers  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.winslo82

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw95beaaf29-6197-465e-b6ed-3b83b6a78259

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-winslo82

Collection Creator:

Watson, Forbes, 1880-1960  Search this

Container:

Box 7, Folder 79

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1942-1954, undated

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment.

Collection Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Collection Citation:

Forbes Watson papers, 1840-1967, bulk 1900-1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Forbes Watson papers

Forbes Watson papers / Series 6: Artist/Patron Files

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b444e326-a1ba-473e-a097-27ad83c3ca93

EDAN-URL:

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Collection Creator:

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953  Search this

Container:

Box 3, Folder 5

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1949-2002

Collection 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. Researchers interested in accessing audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.

Collection Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Collection Citation:

Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers, 1906-2016, bulk 1920-1990. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by Stephen Diamond, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

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Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers

Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers / Series 4: Organization Records

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f2238403-8ce5-443e-b1af-0df645f8fb4b

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-kuniyasu-ref1185

Collection Creator:

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953  Search this

Container:

Box 3, Folder 3

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1949-1952

Collection 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. Researchers interested in accessing audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.

Collection Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Collection Citation:

Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers, 1906-2016, bulk 1920-1990. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by Stephen Diamond, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

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Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers

Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers / Series 4: Organization Records

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw93ebff5ca-116a-47a1-937e-c4292503be8b

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-kuniyasu-ref34