Photographic Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Yankowitz, Nina
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content: Nina Yankowitz papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.3 Linear Feet (Boxes 5-6)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1950-2010
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.yanknina, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Photographic material of Yankowitz, family, and friends is arranged first, followed by photographic material of artwork. Each category is arranged chronologically.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographic material includes photographs, copy prints, transparencies, and slides of Yankowitz, family, and friends, as well as a comprehensive view of her artwork and exhibition installations from the 1960s-2000s. Personal photographs capture Yankowitz at all stages throughout her life engaged in her work, travel, and celebrations with friends and family. Images of artwork from the 1960s include student work and her Central Park commission; 1970s images include draped, puckered, shirred, and pleated painting series, Painted Thread Readings, Dilated Grain Readings, Scanning Paint Placements, and Voices of the Eye; 1980s images include Hell's Breath tile installation, Scenario Sounds, and Shelter series; 1990s images contain oil paintings and drawings including Train/Vault, Wing, and Cantilever Boat; 2000s images contain numerous installations that incorporate a glass house, including CloudHouse. Also documented here are many public art projects Yankowitz completed from the 1980s-2000s including Tunnel Vision in the New York City subway, an interactive poetry walk in Cleveland, Ohio, Garden of Games/Garden of Scientific Ideas in Queens, New York, and American Myths at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. Yankowitz's husband, Barry Holden, was a collaborator on some of these projects.