Project Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Ross, Gloria F.
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content: Gloria Ross papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7.3 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-7, 14-15, 17-19, OVs 20, 22-24, Artifact)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1960-1998
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rossglor, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged as 2 subseries.

3.1: Artist Collaborations, 1960-1998

3.2: Other Projects, 1971-1997
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Project files primarily document Ross's collaborations with prominent artists to create tapestries of their paintings. She worked with artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, Romare Bearden, Louise Nevelson, Milton Avery, and Stuart Davis to create designs and selected weavers to translate the artworks into tapestries. She also oversaw commissions and sales of these works to individuals, corporations, and museums.  Project files may include correspondence, contracts, invoices, notes, photographs, yarn samples, and a few maquettes and cartoons. Also of note are extensive files regarding her collaborations with Kenneth Noland, with whom she had the longest working relationship of any artist. Included is documentation regarding the Native/Noland series. For this series Ross worked with Navajo weavers to create tapestries based on Noland's geometric paintings. Researchers should note that a few files document project collaborations that were never realized.

Other project files found here include a commissioned tapestry for Temple Emanu-El in collaboration with artist Mark Podwal, as well as commissions for Mazza Gallerie, Phoenix Civic Center, and Westinghouse Broadcasting Company. Documents include correspondence, invoices, agreements, photographs, and notes. Files regarding a Vesti Corporation mostly contain legal records and correspondence regarding Gloria Ross's role in the project.