Sam Hunter papers relating to Larry Rivers
name: label: Creator
content: Hunter, Sam, 1923-
label: Names
content: Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians
label: Occupation
content: Painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The donor, Sam Hunter, gave this material after it was used by the Chicago Art Institute for a retrospective exhibit on Larry Rivers.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hunter, Sam, 1923-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art historian and educator; Princeton, New Jersey. Hunter has taught at Princeton since 1969. He has worked in many capacities for Harry N. Abrams, Inc., including editor-in-chief, 1971-72. He has curated and consulted for museum exhibitions at several institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Minneapolis Art Institute and the Princeton Art Museum. Larry Rivers is a contemporary painter known for his life-size portraits.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1950-1969
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.huntsam
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm rolls 630 & 673 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Research materials collected for Hunter's monograph LARRY RIVERS (Harry Abrams, Inc., 1969).
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel 630: Correspondence, 1965-1969, a 59 page biography of Rivers, disposition lists of Rivers' works, a chronolgy and bibliography, a typescript of a tape-recorded interview with Rivers, 1969, writings and a lecture by Rivers, a typescript of LARRY RIVERS, and clippings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel 630: Approximately 50 photographs, 1949-1968, of which 2 are personal photographs and the remainder are of works of art, Rivers painting, and gallery installations of Rivers' work.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel 673: 470 photographs of the works of Larry Rivers.