New York Artists Equity Association records
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content: New York Artists Equity Association
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content: Art Bank (U.S.)
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content: Artists Welfare Fund
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content: Broome Street Gallery
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content: Ashford, Doug
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content: Avery, Frances
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content: Babin, Angela
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content: Berger, Ted
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content: Bibro, Denise
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content: Bolotsky, Marvin
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content: Brodski, Judith
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content: Carswell, Mary
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content: Cohen, Jean
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content: Concholar, Dan, 1939-
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content: Diener, Bert
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content: Facci, Domenico, 1916-1994
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content: Fiene, Ernest, 1894-
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content: Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011
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content: Fuller, Sue (1914-2006)
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content: Gillespie, Dorothy, 1920-2012
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content: Golub, Leon, 1922-2004
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content: Goulet, Lorrie, 1925-
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content: Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991
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content: Gussow, Alan, 1931-1997
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content: Gussow, Roy, 1918-2011
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content: Hall, Nan
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content: Hasen, Burt
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content: Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988
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content: Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012
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content: Kertess, Klaus
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content: Knight, Gwendolyn
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content: Kotik, Charlotte
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content: Kramer, Hilton
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content: Kroll, Leon, 1884-1974
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content: Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953
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content: Laufman, Sidney, 1891-
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content: Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
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content: Lipsky, Eleanor
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content: Mandel, Howard, 1917-1999
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content: Marinoff, Elaine
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content: Marxer, Donna, 1934-
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content: Millman, Edward, 1907-1964
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content: Morris, George L. K., 1905-1975
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content: Nevelson, Louise (1899-1988)
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content: Newman, Arnold, 1918-2006
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content: Newman, Elias, 1903-
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content: O'Hanlon, Richard E. (Richard Emmett), 1906-1985
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content: Phillips, Helen, 1913-
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content: Phillips, Renée
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content: Poroner, Palmer
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content: Reeves, Ruth, 1892-1966
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content: Refregier, Anton, 1905-
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content: Rothschild, Lincoln, 1902-
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content: Sandler, Irving, 1925-
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content: Searles, Charles Robert, 1937-2004
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content: Simon, Sidney, 1917-1997
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content: Sloan, John, 1871-1951
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content: Smart, Bill
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content: Smith, David, 1906-1965
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content: Steinbaum, Bernice
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content: Stirton, Laura
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content: Teller, Susan
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content: Walker, Hudson D. (Hudson Dean), 1907-1976
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content: Waterson, Harry
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content: Wayne, June, 1918-2011
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content: Winters, Denny Sonke, 1907-1985
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content: Zaleski, Jean
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content: Zerbe, Karl, 1903-1972
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content: deLisser, Carolyn
topic: label: Topic
content: Artists -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The records were donated to the Archives of American Art by the New York Artists Equity Association in several increments between 1980-2016.
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content: New York Artists Equity Association
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content: New York Artists Equity Association records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The records of the New York Artists Equity Association (NYAEA) measure 26.8 linear feet and 2.99 Gb and date from 1920-2012.  The records include history and founding documents, presidents' files, board of directors' files that include monthly board meeting minutes, committee files and annual membership meeting minutes, general administrative and correspondence files, financial and legal files, event and program files, artists and subject files, extensive individual membership files, art project and exhibition files, Broome Street Gallery files, NYAEA publications that include issues of The Artists Proof, printed and digital materials, four  scrapbooks, sketches created by artists attending a party in honor of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and photographs of member artists and events.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The New York Artists Equity Association (originally the Artists Equity Association) was created in 1947 to promote and support living American artists.  Nine prominent New York artists founded the organization and elected Yasuo Kuniyoshi as the organization's first president.  The original membership included 160 well-known American artists, but by the end of its first year, membership had grown to over one thousand.  By the 1950s, the organization had grown into an influential national organization.  Past and present members have included Milton Avery, Will Barnet, Romare Bearden, George Biddle, Isabel Bishop, Robert Blackburn, Paul Cadmus, Charles Burchfield, Stuart Davis, Jose de Creeft, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Leon Golub, Chaim Gross, Rockwell Kent, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Alice Neel, Isamu Noguchi, Jules Olitski, Philip Pearlstein, Henry Varnum Poor, Charles Scheeler, Ben Shahn, David Smith, Frank Stella, Andrew Wyeth, and many others.  

In 1959, the New York Chapter, with more members than all of the other states combined, re-organized into the New York Artists Equity Association.  The Association maintained it own gallery, Broome Street Gallery, from 1991-2011. The organization remains active today and is located in SoHo.
function: label: Function
content: Arts organizations -- New York (State)
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content: Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 26.8 Linear Feet
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content: 2.99 Gigabytes
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1920-2012
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.nyarteqa
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
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content: Video recordings
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content: Sketches
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content: Scrapbooks
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content: Sound recordings
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into sixteen series.

Series 1:  History and Founding Documents, 1933-2000 (0.3 linear feet; Box 1, 27

Series 2:  Presidents' Files, 1927-2007 (2.8 linear feet; Boxes 1-4)

Series 3:  Board of Directors' Files, 1947-2003 (1.4 linear feet; Boxes 4-5)

Series 4:  Committee and Meeting Files, 1950-2009 (1.5 linear feet; Boxes 5-6)

Series 5:  General Administrative and Correspondence Files, circa 1930-2008 (2 linear feet; Boxes 7-8, 0.284 GB; ER01)

Series 6:  Financial and Legal Files, 1947-2000 (1 linear foot; Box 9) 

Series 7:  Events and Programs, 1930-2010 (4.2 linear feet; Boxes 10-14, 27, 0.446 GB; ER02)

Series 8:  Artists and Subject Files, 1930-1998 (0.4 linear feet; Box 14) 

Series 9:  Membership Files, 1920-2009 (4.4 linear feet; Boxes 14-18, 27, 2.26 GB; ER03) 

Series 10:  Project and Exhibition Files, 1934-2010 (2 linear feet; Boxes 19-20)

Series 11:  Broome Street Gallery Files, 1990-2011 (2.7 linear feet; Boxes 21-23, 31) 

Series 12:  Association Publications, 1947-2012 (1 linear foot; Boxes 23-24)

Series 13:  Printed Materials, 1930-2008 (1.6 linear feet; Boxes 24-25, 27, 31, OV 28, OV 29) 

Series 14:  Scrapbooks, 1947-1969 (0.3 linear feet; Box 25, OV 30)

Series 15:  Artwork, 1947-2000 (0.1 linear foot; Box 26, 27) 

Series 16: Photographs, 1930s-2004 (0.9 linear feet; Box 26, 27)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Multiple accretions were merged and processed by Kelly Nolte in 2014-2015 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund. 
Born-digital materials were processed in 2019 by Kirsi Ritosalmi-Kisner with funding provided by Smithsonian Collection Care and Preservation Fund.
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content: Photographs
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content: Video recordings
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content: Scrapbooks
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content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The records of the New York Artists Equity Association (NYAEA) measure 26.8 linear feet and 2.99 GB and date from 1920-2012.  The records include history and founding documents, presidents' files, board of directors' files that include monthly board meeting minutes, committee files and annual membership meeting minutes, general administrative and correspondence files, financial and legal files, event and program files, artists and subject files, extensive individual membership files, art project and exhibition files, Broome Street Gallery files, NYAEA publications that include issues of The Artists Proof, printed and digital materials, four  scrapbooks, sketches created by artists attending a party in honor of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and photographs of member artists and events. 
 
The President's files appear to be complete and include files for presidents Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Louise Nevelson, Harry Waterson, Roy Gussow, Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, Karl Zerbe, Ernst Fiene, Sidney Laufman, Carolyn deLisser, Burt Hasen, and Bert Diener, among others.  Committee files and meeting minutes are found, as well as general administrative and correspondence files which include information pertaining to the national level Association. 

Event files include documentation of the Association's Art Thursday series, where they hosted talks and panels by artists.  Artists referenced in these files include Jean Cohen, Charles Searles, Leon Golub, Doug Ashford, Bruno Palmer-Poroner, Dom Facci, Susan Teller, Eleanor Lipsky, Ted Berger, Hilton Kramer, Bernice Steinbaum, Laura Stirton, Jean Zaleski, Renee Philips, Denise Bibro, Dan Concholar, Irving Sandler, Angela Babin, Dorothy Gillespe, Donna Marxer, Nan Hall, Ivan Karp, Alan Gussow, Mary Carswell, Bill Smart, Charlotte Kotik, Klaus Kertess, Elaine Marinoff, and Judith Brodski.  Additional events covered in this series include the annual awards dinner, masquerade balls, lectures, the Association's 55th Anniversary event, which includes recollections by Helen Frankenthaler, Sidney Simon, and Lorrie Goulet, as well as other events and programs.  Videocassette and sound recordings of many of the events are found here. 

Artists' and subject files contain mostly printed materials about a few artists and subjects or issues in which the Association was interested.  

There are extensive files on individual members that include card files, applications, biographies, and clippings. 

Project and exhibition files include material pertaining to the Artists Welfare Fund, the Art Bank artwork donation, and a few scattered exhibitions.  Additional exhibition and event files are found in the series containing the Broome Street Gallery files.  

Association publications consist of what appears to be a full run of Association newsletters and reports.  The NYAEA newsletter changed its name to The Artists Proof in 1986.  Additional printed materials include exhibition catalogs and announcements, programs, clippings, posters, and newsletters of other arts organizations.  There are four scrapbooks (two unbound) that contain printed materials, and a few items of correspondence.  One of the scrapbooks documents the annual "Bal Fantastique".  

Artwork consists mostly of sketches and drawings by artists attending a 1948 dinner in honor of Yasuo Kuniyoshi.  Photographs are of members and events.  Photographers include Arnold Newman, Marvin Bolotsky, and Frances Avery, among others.  Numerous notable artists are depicted in the images.