Correspondence with Herzl Emanuel
name: label: Creator
content: Gurney, George
label: Names
content: National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
label: Names
content: Emanuel, Herzl, ca. 1915-
label: Names
content: Emanuel, Herzl, ca. 1915-
label: Names
content: Zadkine, Ossip
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- France -- Paris
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- Technique
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Photocopies donated by George Gurney, 1994. Photocopies discarded after microfilming.
creator: label: Creator
content: Gurney, George
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gurney is Curator of Sculpture, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Emanuel is a sculptor known for his cubist style who lived in Rome, and later Westport, Ct.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1994
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gurngeor
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 5028 (fr. 434-448) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Reproduction Note
content: All photocopies.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence concerning Gurney's planned exhibition regarding approaches to carving sculpture, and in particular, Emanuel's work owned by the Museum, "Head of a Prophet." Emanuel provides a brief history of the work, responds to Gurney's questions regarding carving, and encloses a 5 p. typescript, "Recollections of Zadkine," (1975) in which he writes of the period he worked under Ossip Zadkine in Paris (and made "Head of a Prophet"), Zadkine's residence in New York during WW II, and their reunion in 1962 in Zadkine's Paris studio.