Duncan Ferguson papers
name: label: Creator
content: Ferguson, Duncan, 1901-1974
label: Names
content: Bell, Cleo
label: Names
content: Gray, Laura
label: Names
content: Holt, Frederick Rodney
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors
label: Topic
content: Socialism
label: Topic
content: Socialism and art
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1996 by Jerry Estruth, who had been asked to retrieve them from storage by Ferguson's friend, Frederick Rodney Holt.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ferguson, Duncan, 1901-1974
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sculptor, teacher; La., Ohio, and Calif. Ferguson was born in Shangai, China. He studied art with Albert H. Atkins and Robert Laurent. He worked on the WPA art project on the facades of the Louisiana State Office Building and Agricultural Building in Baton Rouge, and the U.S. Post Office in Leesville. He taught at Louisiana State University in the 1940s and was also an instructor in Cleveland on the Federal Art Project for Karamu House, a neighborhood art center designed to provide instruction in the visual and performing arts. He was active in the Socialist Workers Party and other socialist and left-wing groups. He died in Los Angeles in 1974.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1920-1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fergdunc
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence with Ferguson's wives, family and friends, among them political cartoonist for The Militant, Laura Gray, ceramist Cleo Bell, and mathematician Frederick Rodney Holt, one of the founders of Apple Computers; photographs of Ferguson, his family, his sculptures and reliefs, and studio pictures; several issues of The Militant and the International Socialist Review; minutes from meetings of various socialist and civil rights organizations; and printed material.