Mississippi Art Colony records
name: label: Creator
content: Mississippi Art Colony
label: Names
content: Allison Wells Art Colony
label: Names
content: Barnes, Halcyone D.
label: Names
content: Baruzzi, Peter
label: Names
content: Beattie, George
label: Names
content: Bucci, Andrew (1922-2014)
label: Names
content: Conway, Fred, 1900-
label: Names
content: Dawson, Bess
label: Names
content: Dodd, Lamar
label: Names
content: Faiers, Edward Spencer, 1908-
label: Names
content: Gelinas, Bob
label: Names
content: Holmes, Ruth Atkinson
label: Names
content: Hudson, Ralph M.
label: Names
content: Hull, Marie
label: Names
content: Kohlmeyer, Ida, 1912-1997
label: Names
content: Mitchell, Fred, 1923-
label: Names
content: Sella, Alvin, 1924-
label: Names
content: Trivigno, Pat, 1922-
label: Names
content: Wolfe, Karl, 1904-
label: Names
content: Zerbe, Karl, 1903-1972
label: Names
content: Zoellner, Richard
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- Mississippi
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Mississippi
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1992 by Lallah Perry, member and archivist of the colony.
creator: label: Creator
content: Mississippi Art Colony
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art colony; Utica, Miss. Founded 1948. Originally named Allison Wells Art Colony and located in Allison's Wells, Miss. Moved to Stafford Springs, Miss., 1963 and renamed the Mississippi Art Colony. Moved to Laurel, Miss. in 1970 and to Camp Henry Jacobs in Utica, Miss. in 1973.
function: label: Function
content: Artist colonies -- Mississippi
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear foot ((on 1 microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1954-1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.missart
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4598 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to Lallah Perry, archivist of the colony, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Scrapbooks, an administrative file, and printed material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Scrapbooks, 1958-1987, contain newspaper clippings, many focusing on the art work of colony members, especially Halcyone D. Barnes, Bess Dawson, Marie Hull and Ruth Atkinson Holmes, photographs of the faculty and students, including one of Fred Mitchell, letters, including one from Ida Kohlmeyer to Bill Broome, Colony President, 1974, and exhibition checklists. A file, 1963-1992, contains brochures, registration lists, board meeting minutes, and newsletters from Spring and Fall workshops. School catalogs, 1954-1964, provide historical information and biographical sketches of faculty members George Beattie, Peter Baruzzi, Andrew Bucci, Fred Conway, Lamar Dodd, Edward S. Faiers, Bob Gelinas, Ralph M. Hudson, Alvin Sella, Pat Trivigno, Karl Wolfe, Karl Zerbe and Richard Zoellner. Also found are magazine articles, 1980, 1988, and a book, Allison's Wells, The Last Mississippi Spa, by Hosford Latimer Fontaine (1981), containing many illustrations by Colony members (only title p. and illustrations were microfilmed).