Irma Engel Grabhorn papers
name: label: Creator
content: Grabhorn, Irma Engel, 1906-2003
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Germany
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Art patrons -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Irma Engel Grabhorn papers were donated by Irma Engel Grabhorn in 1991.
creator: label: Creator
content: Grabhorn, Irma Engel, 1906-2003
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content: Irma Engel Grabhorn papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of Irma Engel Grabhorn measure 0.8 linear feet and date from 1945-1991. The collection contains a subject file on Carl Hofer, letters, financial material, notes, printed material and photographs.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Irma Engel Grabhorn (1906-2003) was painter and art patron born in Badenweiler, Germany. She was a student of Andre Lhote in Paris, and studied at the Academy of Arts in Berlin under Carl Hofer. She married Samuel Engel, professor of ophthamology at Stanford University, in 1932. After his death, she remarried Edwin Grabhorn in 1964. Grabhorn had several exhibitions of her work in New York and San Francisco.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.8 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1945-1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.grabirma
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed in 1994 by Jean Fitzgerald. A finding aid was created in 2018 by Caroline Donadio.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of Irma Engel Grabhorn measure 0.8 linear feet and date from 1945-1991. The collection contains a subject file on Carl Hofer, letters, financial material, notes, printed material and photographs.

The subject file on Carl Hofer contains one hundred twenty-one letters from Carl Hofer to Grabhorn, who had been his student, and a printed speech by Hofer concerning an exhibition opening in Frankfurt. Additional letters are from friends and colleagues, discussing Grabhorn's career as a painter and art patron, as well as her interest in painter Hans Thoma and the activities and prizes named for him. Other material includes receipts, notes, clippings, an exhibition catalog for Thoma, programs, and four photographs of a house and an unidentified art work.