Miriam Beerman papers
name: label: Creator
content: Beerman, Miriam
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New Jersey
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- New Jersey
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women printmakers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Miriam Beerman donated her papers in several installments from 2005 to 2009. Additional materials were donated by Beerman's son, William Jaffe in 2015.
creator: label: Creator
content: Beerman, Miriam
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content: Miriam Beerman papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of printmaker and painter Miriam Beerman measure 2.3 linear feet and 2.34 GB and date from circa 1930 to 2006. Found are scattered biographical materials including artwork and a video recording, correspondence, writings including digitial video recordings, and printed material.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Miriam Beerman (1923- ) is a painter and printmaker in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.

Beerman was born in Providence, Rhode Island and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. She continued her studies with Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Art Students League and with Adja Yunkers at the New School for Social Research. 

In 1972, Beerman's exhibition The Enduring Beast, based on a book of poems that she edited and illustrated, was the first one-woman show ever presented by the Brooklyn Museum. Since that time Beerman has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions over the last 50 years and is represented in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.3 Linear Feet
label: Extent
content: 2.34 Gigabytes
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1930-2006
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.beermiri
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Gigabytes
label: Type
content: Video recordings
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as 4 series.

Series 1: Biographical Material, circa 1930-2006 (0.7 linear feet; Boxes 1, 3)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1945-2005 (0.8 linear feet; Boxes 1-2)

Series 3: Writings and Notes, 1949-2006 (0.3 linear feet; Box 2, 2.34 GB; ER01-ER02)

Series 4: Printed Material, 1956-2005 (0.5 linear feet; Box 2)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Jayna Josefson in 2021. Born-digital material was processed by Kirsi Ritosalmi-Kisner in 2019 with funding provided by Smithsonian Collection Care and Preservation Fund.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The video recording has been digitized for research access and is available at Archives of American Art offices.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of printmaker and painter Miriam Beerman measure 2.3 linear feet and 2.34 GB and date from circa 1930 to 2006. Found are scattered biographical materials including artwork and a video recording, correspondence, writings including digitial video recordings, and printed material.  

Biographical materials include Beerman's artist statements and curriculum vitae, scattered personal business records, artworks, and a video recording titled Miriam Beerman: Drawings, Prints, Collage. 

Correspondence includes professional and personal letters including Beerman's letters to her parents when she was a student in Paris, France.

Writings by Beerman include two digital video recordings of artist books: Three Sentences Beginning with the Letter S [featuring poems by Halvard Johnson and others], 2006, and Washing the Corpse [poem by Rainer Maria Rilke], 2006, narrated by Beerman.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds an interview of Miriam Beerman conducted 2009 December 28, by Anne Louise (Bayly) Berman, at Beerman's home, in Silver Spring, Maryland.