Ronald Joseph sketchbooks
name: label: Creator
content: Joseph, Ronald, 1910-1992
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Topic
content: African American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Sketchbooks were lent by Ronald Joseph through art historian Ann Gibson in 1990.
creator: label: Creator
content: Joseph, Ronald, 1910-1992
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ronald Joseph (1910-1922) is an St. Kitts-born African American abstract painter. He moved to New York City around 1920-1921 and participated in the Works Progress Administration mural project and the Harlem Artists Guild. He received a Rosenwald Fellowship and studied art in Peru for two years, then studied in Paris under the G.I. Bill. Joseph moved to Brussels, Belgium in 1956, where he continued his artistic career.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1951-1972
label: Date
content: bulk 1951-1952
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.joserona
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4392 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to Ann Gibson after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This microfilm collection consists of two of African American abstract painter Ronald Joseph's sketchbooks. One sketchbook is dated 1951-1952. The other contains a dated collage from 1972, but the bulk of the work probably dates from the 1950s.