Herman Trunk papers
name: label: Creator
content: Trunk, Herman, 1894-1963
label: Names
content: Hirschl & Adler Galleries
label: Names
content: Force, Juliana, 1876-1948
label: Names
content: McFarlane, Arthur E.
label: Names
content: Morrow, B. F.
label: Names
content: Simpson, Charles J.
label: Names
content: Smith, Joseph G.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Modernism (Art)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated in 2008 by Joseph G. Smith, Herman Trunk's nephew.
creator: label: Creator
content: Trunk, Herman, 1894-1963
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Herman Trunk (1894-1963) was a modernist painter who worked in a variety of media, and is well known for his watercolor paintings produced in the early 20th century.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1926-1950
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.trunherm
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters, writings, photographs, printed material, and a DVD videorecording relating to Trunk's career as a modernist painter. Letters are from Juliana Force, Arthur E. McFarlane, Henry McFee, author B.F. Morrow, and Charles J. Simpson, secretary of the American Veterans Society of Artists, Harry C. Richardson, Gertrude Herdle Moore, Holger Cahill, Audrey F. McMahon, Hugo C.M. Wendel, Kimon Nicolaides, Zoltan Hecht, and Marion M. Grant, among others. Writings include consignment forms and reports from the Dudensing Gallery, New York City, an artist statement, one notebook labeled Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Greco-Roman, one notebook on fresco painting, and two notebooks listing information on art works by Trunk. Photographs are of Trunk, his wife, and others. Printed material consists of scrapbook pages, newspaper clippings, exhibition catalogs and pamphlets mostly concerning Trunk's exhibitions at Dudensing Gallery, New York. The DVD documents the 1989 Trunk exhibition at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, filmed by the donor, Joseph Smith.