Art Work
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Nevelson, Louise (1899-1988)
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content: Louise Nevelson papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Boxes 13, 20, 40, Sol 43; 0.5 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1905-1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.neveloui, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Art work is arranged in chronological order according to type. All of Nevelson's art work in this series has been scanned in its entirety, except for printing plates.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Series consists of some of Nevelson's early art work. Included are drawings she made as a child and adolescent; watercolor copies of Old Master paintings (including a slightly changed version of the Mona Lisa), watercolor landscapes, and drawings of period furniture created while she was taking art classes in high school; various watercolors created while she was studying art in the 1920s; and four printing plates mounted on wood blocks, presumably used in making relief prints of certain Nevelson sculptures. Art work found here documents Nevelson's artistic tendencies as a youth and her early development as an artist, and provides an interesting contrast to the later work for which she became famous. 

Also included are illustrated holiday and greeting cards, sketchbooks, and other pieces of art gifted to Nevelson by her friends, peers, and assistant Teddy Haseltine; and two copies of Louise Nevelson: Geometry + Magic, a portrait of Louise Nevelson filmed over four years by Diana MacKown and Rawn Fulton (1982).