Emmanuel Jacobson papers
name: label: Creator
content: Jacobson, Emmanuel, 1907-
label: Names
content: Spears, Ethel, 1903-1974
topic: label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- Illinois -- Chicago
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1988 by Emmanuel Jacobson.
creator: label: Creator
content: Jacobson, Emmanuel, 1907-
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934-1941
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.jacoemma
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Notes (1940-1941); printed material (1937-1938) and photographs (1934-1937) documenting the New Deal art work of mural painter Emmanuel Jacobsen.
label: Scope and Contents
content: A list of historic figures proposed for inclusion in the Herzl Junior College mural illustrating "Significant Men and Women in the History of Science and Civilization"; a 3-page typewritten list (1940) of artists representing the Illinois Art Project in the "American Art Today" exhibition at the New York World's Fair; an 11-page bulletin listing January 1941 exhibitions; seven clippings concerning exhibitions by Illinois artists (1937-1938); a 1938 exhibition catalog "Art for the Public by Chicago Artists" and a copy of the May 1937 issue of FORTUNE magazine containing an article on "Unemployed Arts".
label: Scope and Contents
content: Subjects of photographs include the murals for the Mann School, Oak Park, Illinois; Bloom Township High School, Chicago Heights, Illinois (1936-1937); Herzl Junior College, Chicago, Illinois; Jacobson at work; an unused sketch; a tapestry and Ethel Spears at work on a mural.