Eli Levin papers
name: label: Creator
content: Levin, Eli, 1938-
label: Names
content: Santa Fe Armory Show (1977 : Santa Fe, N.M.)
label: Names
content: Ellis, Fremont F., 1897-1985
label: Names
content: Haddock, Arthur Earl, 1895-1980
label: Names
content: Levin, Meyer, 1905-
label: Names
content: Sharp, Joseph Henry, 1859-1953
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1983 by Eli Levin, now known as Jo Basiste.
creator: label: Creator
content: Levin, Eli, 1938-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, printmaker, and sculptor; Santa Fe, New Mexico. Levin first gained prominence as a painter with his "Bar Room" series, consisting of crowded bar room scenes with satirical undertones. He works in the tradition of the social realists often using egg tempra as his medium.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 261 Items ((on 3 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1949-1984
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.levieli
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3290 available for use at AAA's Washington, D.C. office, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Library; and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to Eli Levin after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A resume; exhibition catalogs and announcements, ca. 1967-1983; clippings, ca. 1974-1983; illustrated letters from Levin to his father Meyer Levin and his stepmother, Tereska Levin, ca.1964-1974; a 73 p. typescript of Levin's recollections of his mother Mable Levin; poems, 1949; typescripts of Levin's essays on Arthur E. Haddock, Joseph Henry Sharp, the relationship between psychiatry and art, and contemporary Indian art; an undated transcript of Levin's interview with Fremont F. Ellis; a typescript of Meyer Levin's autobiography "In Love"; typescripts of Meyer Levin's essays on the 1977 Santa Fe Armory Show, his son Eli, and the Santa Fe art boom; price lists for works of art, 1973 and 1983; biographical data; a sketchbook, 1974-1984; and photographs and a photograph album of Levin and his paintings and sculpture.