Theodore Barbarossa papers
name: label: Creator
content: Barbarossa, Theodore Cotillo, 1906-1992
label: Creator
content: Kennedy, Kennedy, Keefe and Carney (Firm)
label: Names
content: Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Baltimore, Md.)
label: Names
content: National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, D.C.)
label: Names
content: St. Thomas' Church (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Washington Cathedral
label: Names
content: Feller, Richard T.
label: Names
content: Hopper, Inslee
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors
label: Topic
content: Christian art and symbolism
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1980 by Theodore Barbarossa. Addition donated 1996 by Susan Gray Barbarossa, Barbarossa's daughter.
creator: label: Creator
content: Barbarossa, Theodore Cotillo, 1906-1992
label: Creator
content: Kennedy, Kennedy, Keefe and Carney (Firm)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sculptor; Belmont, Mass. Died 1992.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.8 Linear Feet
label: Extent
content: 8.6 Linear Feet (Addition)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1931-1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.barbtheo
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical data; awards and citations; personal and business correspondence with: Inslee Hopper, consultant to the Chief of the Section of Fine Arts; Richard T. Feller, Clerk of Works for the Washington Cathedral; and Kennedy, Kennedy, Keefe and Carney (formerly Maginnis and Walsh and Kennedy), architects for the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. and the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, Md. concerning his work at those churches; correspondence regarding his work at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the St. Thomas' Church, NYC, and others; sketches, drawings, etchings and studies for reliefs and sculpture; clippings; and photographs of Barbarossa and his sculpture.
label: Scope and Contents
content: ADDITION: Biographical data; awards and citations; military records; correspondence, mostly business but including a few letters from friends and fellow sculptors such as Richard Barthe, Walker Hancock, Thomas Lo Medico, and Heinz Warneke; writings; sketches, drawings, and etchings by Barbarossa and others; studies for relief and figural sculpture; photographs and slides of Barbarossa, others, and of his sculpture, notably of his commissioned sculpture for the New York World's Fair (1939), for several Treasury Dept. art projects in the 1930s, and for his post-WWII commissions for churches, primarily in Baltimore, Md., Washington, D.C. and NYC, and Catholic schools in Tarrytown and Yonkers, NY.