Gordon Franklin Peers papers
name: label: Creator
content: Peers, Gordon Franklin, 1909-1988
label: Names
content: Rhode Island School of Design
label: Names
content: Fink, Albert Lewis, 1921-
label: Names
content: Hammer, Alfred Emile, 1925-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Educators
label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Rhode Island -- Providence
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- History -- Rhode Island -- Providence
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1980-1981 by Gordon F. Peers.
creator: label: Creator
content: Peers, Gordon Franklin, 1909-1988
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, educator; Providence, Rhode Island. Taught for many years at the Rhode Island School of Design.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.2 Linear Feet ((ca. 800 items))
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1916-1981]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.peergord
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence; biographical information; photo album with photographs of art works and personal photographs; a sketchbook and loose sketches; writings; a 1957 tape recording of Albert Lewis Fink and Alfred Emile Hammer of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) rehearsing for a television program on drawing and printmaking; printed material; and a 16mm kinescope film (b&w., sd.) of television program "The World Around Us;" and miscellaneous other material. Much of the material relates to Peers' association with RISD, 1934-1960s.