Carl E. and Rosamond Forbes Pickhardt papers relating to Harold K. Zimmerman
name: label: Creator
content: Pickhardt, Carl E.
label: Creator
content: Pickhardt, Rosamond Forbes, 1908-2004
label: Names
content: Bloom, Hyman, 1913-
label: Names
content: Levine, Jack, 1915-2010
label: Names
content: Ross, Denman Waldo, 1853-1935
label: Names
content: Zimmerman, Harold K., 1905-1941
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Massachusetts
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1992 by Carl E. and Rosamond Forbes Pickhardt. The drawings were given to the Pickhardt's from Zimmerman and from Rosamond's father, Edward Waldo Forbes, who received them from Mrs. Zimmerman.
creator: label: Creator
content: Pickhardt, Carl E.
label: Creator
content: Pickhardt, Rosamond Forbes, 1908-2004
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter Carl Pickhardt (b.1908) and his wife, Rosamond were students of Zimmerman. Rosamond's father, Edward Waldo Forbes, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was a collector and Zimmerman patron. Zimmerman developed an experimental visual method of teaching drawing. When Jack Levine and Hyman Bloom were teenagers, he was their first drawing teacher. His teaching procedures were recorded in detail by Denman Ross, an influential educator, art collector and painter who taught Bloom and Levine after they studied with Zimmerman.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1932]-1943
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pickcare
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letter from Zimmerman to Pickhardt, 1936; 2 photographs of Zimmerman; 9 pencil drawings by Zimmerman, ca. 1930s-1941, and photographs and negatives of drawings by him; xerox of a typescript of notes on Zimmerman's teaching by Rosamond Forbes Pickhardt, 1936-1938; 9 drawings by Jack Levine and 3 drawings by Hyman Bloom, both students of Zimmerman's, and a charcoal drawing of a male nude by Denman Ross.