Artwork
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gellert, Hugo, 1892-1985
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content: Hugo Gellert papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Box 7, OV 10)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1927-1981
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gellhugo, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Artwork includes silkscreen prints, lithographs, woodcuts, sketches, drawings, doodles, designs, sketchbooks, layouts for printed materials, and other print production elements. Artwork is by Hugo Gellert and others, including Philip Reisman, Gyula Derkovits, Anton Refregier.

 Artwork that is part of identifiable, titled projects is filed first, including sketches for Gellert's 1934 book Karl Marx's Capital in Lithographs, and a set of silkscreen prints that he issued as a portfolio entitled Century of the Common Man in 1943. General files for sketches, sketchbooks, layouts, and prints filed after them. Sketches, drawings, and designs include a wide variety of material, from loose sketches and doodles to finished drawings, as well as text design, technical drawings, and floor plans. Notes and writings are common among the sketches and sketchbooks, and the sketchbook dated 1950 also contains a handwritten, autobiographical essay. 

 Layouts and prints production elements include sketches, prints, typography, brownprints, photostats, and prints in various states.