Peggy (Georgina Margaret) Huck papers
name: label: Creator
content: Huck, Peggy, d. 1996
label: Title
content: Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966. Painter's primer : form and color in the creative process
label: Names
content: Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- United States -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Typescript of Painter's Primer lent for microfilming 1971 by Georgina Huck. 4.2 feet of papers were donated in 1998 by Keith Bradley, executor of her estate.
creator: label: Creator
content: Huck, Peggy, d. 1996
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Huck, a scholar, assisted Hans Hofmann, the "dean" of American Abstract Expressionism, in the translation of his "Painter's Primer." She died in 1996 at the age of 80. She was also a painter, and served as a studio monitor for Hofmann in NYC and Provincetown for 15 years. Huck was born in Jersey City, N.J., and received a B.A. from Vassar in 1937, an M.A. from Yale in 1938, and a Ph.D. in Germanic language and literature from Boston College in 1972. Most of her career was as a teacher at private and secondary schools in New York and Boston.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.2 Linear Feet
label: Extent
content: 1 Volume (Painter's Primer: . (101 p.))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1931-1996
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.huckpegg
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Volumes
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Painter's Primer (101 p. typescript): 35mm microfilm reel 106 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters, journals, diaries, calendars, address books, photographs, clippings, exhibition catalogs, as well as manuscripts and translations of Hans Hofmann's "Painter's Primer"; Hofmann's lectures at Berkeley, 1931 and notebooks of his critiques, 1945-1947 (transcribed by Tina Dickey); and an interview of Huck conducted by Tina Dickey, Mar. 23, 1991 (3 cassettes and transcript). Among the correspondents are painter Fritz Bultman and the Andre Emmerich Gallery (regarding Hofmann). Also found are teaching certificates, photographs of Huck, materials related to Huck family history and Ellis Island, a book of poetry, works of art on paper and two framed paintings.