Burt Hasen papers
name: label: Creator
content: Hasen, Burt
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1981 and 1994 by Burton Stanley Hasen, and in 2000 by his wife, Mary.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hasen, Burt
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter and printmaker; New York. Middle name is occasionally spelled Stanly. b. 1921. d. 2007.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934-1997
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.haseburt
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, art work, photographs, a ledger, diary entries, printed material, and a video recording.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Personal and professional correspondence, 1948-1992, includes letters from Hasen to his family, and from Dolph Baranik, Joseph Cornell, Hans Hofmann, Graham Sutherland, Cassie Schwartz, and others. Art work includes 6 drawings. Printed material consists of a book, CONTES DE L'INATTENDU, by Richard Parker, illustrated by Hasen, exhibition catalogs and announcements, 1948-1994, and clippings and articles, 1948-1992. Also included are twelve photographs of Hasen and friends; a bound volume listing print sales and loans, completed prints for 1977, and diary entries dated January and February, 1977 (some in French); a videotape (30 min.) of Hasen interviewed by Bill Page; and an award for the Emily Lowe Foundation Fourth Prize in Painting, 1953.
label: Scope and Contents
content: ADDITION: Primarily printed material, including exhibition announcements, catalogs, and reviews of shows in which Hasen was included. Also found are ca. ten letters, notably from artists John Hultberg, Paul Resika, and Harold Tovish, represented by one letter each.