Whitney Museum of American Art artists' files and records
name: label: Creator
content: Whitney Museum of American Art
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content: Whitney Studio Club
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content: Whitney Studio Galleries
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content: Baziotes, William, 1912-1963
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content: Bellows, George, 1882-1925
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content: Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
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content: Bloom, Hyman, 1913-
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content: Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967
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content: Burlin, Paul, 1886-1969
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content: Cadmus, Paul, 1904-1999
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content: Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926
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content: Curry, John Steuart, 1897-1946
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content: Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964
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content: De Creeft, José, 1884-1982
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content: Dickinson, Edwin Walter, 1891-1978
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content: Eilshemius, Louis M. (Louis Michel), 1864-1941
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content: Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973
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content: Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956
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content: Gatch, Lee, 1902-1968
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content: Glackens, William J., 1870-1938
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content: Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948
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content: Graves, Morris, 1910-2001
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content: Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991
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content: Grosz, George, 1893-1959
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content: Harnett, William Michael, 1848-1892
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content: Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943
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content: Henri, Robert, 1865-1929
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content: Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
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content: Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967
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content: Inness, George, 1825-1894
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content: Karfiol, Bernard, 1886-1952
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content: Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949
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content: Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953
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content: Lachaise, Gaston, 1882-1935
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content: Lawson, Ernest, 1873-1939
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content: MacIver, Loren, 1909-1998
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content: Marin, John, 1870-1953
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content: Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954
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content: Motherwell, Robert
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content: Mount, William Sidney, 1807-1868
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content: Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988
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content: O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
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content: Pereira, I. Rice (Irene Rice), 1902-1971
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content: Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
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content: Prendergast, Maurice Brazil, 1858-1924
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content: Pène Du Bois, Guy, 1884-1958
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content: Reder, Bernard, 1897-1963
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content: Rimmer, William, 1816-1879
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content: Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002
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content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
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content: Ryder, Albert Pinkham, 1847-1917
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content: Schnakenberg, H. E. (Henry Ernest), 1892-1970
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content: Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965
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content: Sloan, John, 1871-1951
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content: Smith, David, 1906-1965
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content: Stella, Joseph, 1877-1946
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content: Tobey, Mark
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content: Twachtman, John Henry, 1853-1902
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content: Tworkov, Jack
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content: Walkowitz, Abraham, 1880-1965
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content: Weber, Max, 1881-1961
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content: Wyant, A. H. (Alexander Helwig), 1836-1892
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content: Young, Mahonri Mackintosh, 1877-1957
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content: Zorach, William, 1887-1966
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States
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content: Artists -- Exhibitions -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Art, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Weber files on reels NY59/8-10 were lent for microfilming 1959 by the Whitney Museum of American Art; the remainder was lent 1964-1967; additional material from the Museum was lent at the same time, and subsequently donated, including the papers of Lloyd Goodrich, Juliana Force, Thomas B. Clarke, the American Art Research Council, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; these have each been cataloged separately. Portions of Weber, and O'Keeffe material that was microfilmed in 1959 were refilmed in 1967.
creator: label: Creator
content: Whitney Museum of American Art
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Whitney Museum of American Art is an American art museum in New York, New York. Founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and formally opened in 1931. Previous to its opening as a museum it was known as the Whitney Studio Club (1914-28) and Whitney Studio Galleries (1928-30).
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 78 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1914-1966
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whitmuse
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels N591-N597, N599-N609, N646-N694, NWH 1-NWH 7; and NY59/8-NY59-10 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the Whitney Museum of American Art.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS N591-N597: Photographs of the Museum, Juliana Force, Herman Moore; scrapbooks on the Whitney Studio Club, Whitney Studio Galleries and the Museum, 1927-1965.
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content: REELS N599-N604: Notebooks of Edwin W. Dickinson; photographs and provenance information for works by Philip Evergood; a catalog of information and some photographs of Chinese ink drawings and other works by Reginald Marsh; and photographs and information on Bernard Reder, Jack Tworkov, Max Weber (portions also microfilmed on reel NY59-8 (fr. 497-658), reel NY59-9 (fr. 1-51), and William Zorach.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS N604-N609: Exhibition catalogs, 1946-1966, for artists and groups shows at the Museum, including Robert Feke, William Rimmer, Ralph Blakelock, Albert Maurer, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Thomas Cole, Max Weber, Arshile Gorky, Mark Tobey, John Sloan, Loren MacIver, I. Rice Pereira, George Grosz, Reginald Marsh, Charles Burchfield, Morris Graves, Theodore Roszak, John Marin, Hans Hofmann, Bradley Tomlin, Stuart Davis, Milton Avery, Lee Gatch, Jose De Creeft, Maurice Prendergast, Edward Hopper, Hyman Bloom, Robert E. Jones, Balcomb Greene, Karl Zerbe, Arthur G. Dove, William Zorach, Philip Evergood, Bernard Reder, Herbert Feber, Oliver O'Connor Barrett,Arthur B. Davies, Jose De Rivera, Paul Burlin, Joseph Stella, Jack Tworkov, Ivan Albright, Stuart Davis, Edwin Dickinson, John Quidor, and Niles Spencer.
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content: REELS N646-N694: Artists' files on: Oliver O'Connor Barrett,William Baziotes, George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Peter Blume, James Brooks, Patrick Henry Bruce, Charles Burchfield, Paul Burlin, David Burliuk, Paul Cadmus, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Cole, Glenn Coleman, Jon Corbino, John Steuart Curry, Jo Davidson, Arthur B. Davies, Jose DeCreeft, Charles Demuth, Jose De Rivera, Arthur Dove, Guy Pène du Bois, Stuart Davis, Frank Duveneck, Ralph Earl, Eastman Johnson, The Eight, Philip Evergood, Robert Feke, Lyonel Feininger, Ernest Fiene, George Fuller, Lee Gatch, William Glackens, Arshile Gorky, Balcomb Greene, Chaim Gross, George Grosz, William Harnett, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, John Heliker, Robert Henri, Hans Hofmann, George Inness, Leon Kelly, Franz Kline, Karl Knaths, Leon Kroll, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Gaston Lachaise, Robert Laurent, Ernest Lawson, Jack Levine, Seymour Lipton, George B. Luks,
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content: Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Loren MacIver, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Alfred Maurer, K. H. Miller, Robert Motherwell, William Mount, Jerome Myers, Louise Nevelson, Georgia O'Keeffe (portions also microfilmed on reels NY59-13 (fr. 98-115, 406-424, 586-685), reel NY59-14 (entire), and reel NY59-15 (fr. 1-140, 145-153), I. Rice Pereira, Bernard Perlin, Joseph Pollett, Jackson Pollock, Reginald Pollack, Henry V. Poor, Richard Pousette-Dart, Maurice Prendergast, Abraham Rattner, Bernard Reder, Ad Reinhardt, William Rimmer, Larry Rivers, Hugo Robus, Theodore Roszak, Mark Rothko, Concetta Scarvaglione, Henry Schnakenberg, Ben Shahn, John Sloan, David Smith, Eugene Speicher, Theodoros Stamos, Joseph Stella, Maurice Sterne, Mark Tobey, Bradley Tomlin,Trajan, Allen Tucker, John Twachtman, Jack Tworkov, Abraham Walkowitz (also on reel NY/59-15) , Max Weber, James M. Whistler, Gertrude Whitney, Grant Wood, Alexander Wyant, Mahonri Young, and William Zorach.
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content: REELS NWH 1-NWH 7: Artist files on Charles Sheeler, Bernard Karfiol, Louis Eilshemius; scatterred records of the Whitney Studio Club and Museum, 1914-1945, including minutes, Oct. 15, 1930, and Whitney Studio ledgers, 1928-1931; catalogs of one-man shows, 1932-1945; catalogs of annual painting exhibitions, 1932-1940, sculpture, watercolor and drawing exhibitions, 1933-1945, and group exhibitions, 1932-1945; and clippings, Oct. 1935-1936.
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content: REELS NY59/8 (fr. 256-end)-NY59/10: Files on Max Weber, including biographical material, lists of work, and miscellany. Also found (NY59/8 frames 354-383) are ca.20 letters from Weber to Abraham Walkowitz, 1907-1924.