Things you should know about Living American Art : a handbook of facts for editors and critics
name: label: Creator
content: Living American Art, Inc.
label: Names
content: Boni, Charles
topic: label: Topic
content: Copy art
label: Topic
content: Art -- Reproduction
label: Topic
content: Art publishing
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1978, provenance unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Living American Art, Inc.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Living American Art, Inc. was founded by Charles Boni for the purpose of disseminating reproductions of American art works to the general public. Boni devised a mail order brochure of the prints and set up approximately 250 exhibitions of the prints at colleges, universities, and museums around the country for publicity. Also published was a periodical which carried brief biographies of artists whose works were chosen for reproduction, thus attempting to generally educate the "average" American in issues and history of American art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 19 Pages ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1937
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.liviamer
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3091 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Reproduction Note
content: Typescript mimeograph.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The manual describes the function of Living American Art, Inc., and gives information regarding the process by which paintings are chosen for printing and commercial purposes, the jury members, the artists and their rights to royalties, etc.