Nancy Goldring papers
name: label: Creator
content: Goldring, Nancy, 1945-
label: Names
content: Alloway, Lawrence, 1926-1990
label: Names
content: Lax, Robert
label: Names
content: Steinberg, Leo
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Nancy Goldring donated her papers to the Archives of American Art in 2015 and 2021.
creator: label: Creator
content: Goldring, Nancy, 1945-
setName: label: See more items in
content: Nancy Goldring papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of New York artist Nancy Goldring measure 5.1 linear feet and 0.213 GB and date from circa 1950-2020. Her career and personal life are documented through biographical material; personal and professional correspondence; writings; project and exhibition files; printed and digital material; scrapbooks; atwork; and photographic material. Notable correspondents include Lawrence Alloway, Robert Lax, and Leo Steinberg. There is a 0.4 linear foot unprocessed addition to this collection donated in 2020 that includes printed material, artwork, correspondence (emails, handmade cards), poetry, photographs of friends and family, and misc. Materials date from circa 1967-2020.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Nancy Goldring (1945- ) is an American artist working in New York. Raised in St. Louis, Missouri where her father was a professor of cardiology at Washington University, Goldring attended Smith College, receiving a BA in art history in 1967. She spent a year in Italy on a Fulbright fellowship and was later enrolled in the MFA program at New York University. She has been teaching at Montclair State University since the early 1970s. In 1994, Goldring traveled in India and Sri Lanka on another Fulbright fellowship.

In 1969, Goldring co-founded SITE (Sculpture in the Environment) with several other artists interested in developing public art projects. Within a few years, Goldring moved on to explore other forms of artmaking and subsequently developed a technique she calls "foto-projection" which combines photography, drawing, models, and slide projection. She is influenced by travel, location, memory.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5.1 Linear Feet
label: Extent
content: 0.213 Gigabytes
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1950-2020
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.goldnanc
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Gigabytes
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as nine series

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1957-2014 (0.2 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1962-2015 (1.2 linear feet; Box 1-2)

Series 3: Writings, circa 1955-2014 (0.3 linear feet; Box 2)

Series 4: Project and Exhibition Files, 1970-2015 (0.5 linear feet; Box 2-3)

Series 5: Printed Material, circa 1950-2015 (1.6 linear feet; Box 3-4, OV 6, 0.213 GB; ER01)

Series 6: Scrapbooks, 1955-circa 1956 (0.3 linear feet; Box 4)

Series 7: Artwork, circa 2006 (1 folder; OV 7)

Series 8: Photographic Material, circa 1955-2015 (0.5 linear feet; Box 5, OV 8)

Series 9: Unprocessed Addition, circa 1967-2020 (0.4 linear feet; Box 9)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed to a minimal level and a finding aid prepared by Hilary Price in 2016. Born-digital material was processed by Kirsi Ritosalmi-Kisner in 2019 with funding provided by Smithsonian Collection Care and Preservation Fund.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of New York artist Nancy Goldring measure 5.1 linear feet and 0.213 GB and date from circa 1950-2020. Her career and personal life are documented through biographical material; personal and professional correspondence; writings; project and exhibition files; printed and digital material; scrapbooks; artwork; and photographic material. Notable correspondents include Lawrence Alloway, Robert Lax, and Leo Steinberg.There is a 0.4 linear foot unprocessed addition to this collection donated in 2020 that includes printed material, artwork, correspondence (emails, handmade cards), poetry, photographs of friends and family, and misc. Materials date from circa 1967-2020.