Eunice Leopold papers relating to Benton Spruance
name: label: Creator
content: Leopold, Eunice Robinson, 1916-2001
label: Names
content: Spruance, Benton, 1904-1967
topic: label: Occupation
content: Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Prints, American -- Collectors and collecting -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Prints, American -- Pennsylvania
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration, American -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Pennsylvania
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1986 by Eunice Leopold and 2002 by Ellen Leopold, Eunice Leopold's daughter.
creator: label: Creator
content: Leopold, Eunice Robinson, 1916-2001
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Leopold: collector and friend of Spruance. Spruance: painter and printmaker; Pennsylvania. Spruance is known especially for color lithography. Studied Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; taught at Philadelphia College of Art and Beaver College, Jenkintown, Pa.; b. 1916; d. Mar. 12, 2001, at age 84; full name Eunice Robinson Leopold.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1958-2000
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.leopeuni
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are letters to Eunice Leopold (1958-1986) concerning loans and gifts of prints by Benton Spruance; a letter from Henri Marceau to Spruance (1963), a letter from Ludwig Bemelmans (1958); letters to Leopold from Spruance (1961- 1967); sound recordings containing a Spruance lecture on prints and printmaking; printed matter relating to Spruance's career including exhibition catalogs, invitations, announcements, typed essays and news clippings; and photographs depicting Spruance's mural for the Home of Detention Chapel, Philadelphia, Pa.