Maude Kemper Riley papers
name: label: Creator
content: Riley, Maude Kemper
label: Names
content: Riley, Maude Kemper --  MKR's art outlook
label: Names
content: Riley, Maude Kemper -- Limited edition
label: Names
content: Riley, Maude Kemper -- Recollections of an art critic : New York in the 40's
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women art critics
label: Topic
content: Art -- New York (State) -- New York -- Periodicals
label: Topic
content: Art -- California -- Periodicals
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1996 by Monica Riley, daughter of Maude Kemper Riley., via art historian Charles E. Doherty.
creator: label: Creator
content: Riley, Maude Kemper
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Riley (b. 1902) was an art critic in New York during and after the second World War as well as an editor and publisher of her own newsletters, Limited Edition (1945) and MKR's Art Outlook (1945-1947).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1945-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rilemaud
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Printed material and two photographs. Included are Riley's book, Recollections of an Art Critic, New York in the 40's (New York: Sterling Books, 1983); clippings of articles by Riley on art in California for Fortnight, April-November 1952; a bound volume of newsletters edited by Riley, Limited Edition, nos. 1-6, August 1945-December 1945, and (renamed) MKR's Art Outlook, nos. 7-43, February 1946-May 1947; a Yale University Art Gallery exhibition catalog "35 American Painters of Today" with a forward by Riley, and photographs of Riley.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The newsletters include reviews by Riley of selected New York gallery and museum exhibitions, Philadelphia shows reviewed by Walter Emerson Baum, letters to the editor, obituaries, and special articles by Riley, Associate editor John Blomshield, and Hilda Loveman. Contributors include Balcomb Greene, Douglas MacAgy, Conrad A. Albrizio, Max Gottschak, and others.