Lily Harmon papers
name: label: Creator
content: Harmon, Lily, 1912-
label: Names
content: Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981
label: Interviewee
content: Ashton, Dore
label: Interviewee
content: Avery, Sally
label: Interviewee
content: Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981
label: Interviewee
content: Bruno, Phillip A.
label: Interviewee
content: Copley, Alfred L.
label: Interviewee
content: Dehner, Dorothy, 1901-1994
label: Interviewee
content: Drew, Bettina, 1956-
label: Interviewee
content: Driggs, Elsie, 1898-1992
label: Interviewee
content: Hertzberg, Benjamin
label: Interviewee
content: Hutton, Leonard, Sir
label: Interviewee
content: Isaacs, Lewis
label: Interviewee
content: Kahn, Max, 1903-2005
label: Interviewee
content: Knotts, Howard
label: Interviewee
content: Kuh, Katharine
label: Interviewee
content: Lamm, Johanna Neumann
label: Interviewee
content: Manacher, Frances
label: Interviewee
content: Neumann, Albrecht
label: Names
content: Neumann, J. B. (Jsrael Ber)
label: Interviewee
content: Neumann, Peter, 1928-
label: Names
content: Nierendorf, Karl
label: Names
content: Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963
label: Interviewee
content: Rothbaum, Nolbert
label: Interviewee
content: Sapanel, Margarete
label: Names
content: Schmid, Elsa, 1897-
label: Interviewee
content: Schultz, Margarete
label: Interviewee
content: Solman, Joseph, 1909-2008
label: Names
content: Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
label: Interviewee
content: Stix, Hugh
label: Interviewee
content: Vogel, Ilse Margret
label: Names
content: Warburg, Edward M. M.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1983 and 1998 by Lily Harmon.
creator: label: Creator
content: Harmon, Lily, 1912-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter and sculptor; New York City. Harmon worked for the influential art dealer J.B. Neumann, and spent several years preparing a biography of him which was never published. As an artist, she lived in Europe in the early part of the century, and worked on WPA art projects in the 1930s.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1930-1996
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.harmlily
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Video recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Primarily research files and notes, subject files, interview tapes and transcripts, correspondence, writings, and other materials compiled by Harmon for a never-published biography of art dealer J.B. Neumann, titled The Art Lover. Found are photocopies of J.B. Neuman's correspondence with Karl Nierendorf, Clifford Odets, Elsa Schmid, and Alfred Stieglitz; photocopies and other materials from the J.B. Neumann Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Center, including photocopies of the magazine published by Neumann titled Art Lover Library, 1930-1957 (volume 1, 1930 is original bound volume), copyprints and photocopies of photographs of Neumann, his family, and of other subjects; interview transcripts and audio tapes with numerous artists conducted in the mid-1980s; research notes and files; and subject files on numerous artists (all photocopies).
label: Scope and Contents
content: Harmon's personal papers include resumes; copies of letters from friends, family, dealers and others; photographs of Harmon's paintings; writings, including poems, excerpts from diaries, autobiographical essays, and her autobiography FREEHAND; photocopies of various mss. drafts of Harmon's biography of Neumann, The Art Lover, and related writings by Harmon, including The Art Dealer and the Playwright, and Synopsis of Art Lover, ca. 1987-1990 ; a transcript of an interview of Harmon conducted by Karl Fortress, 1967; magazine and newspaper clippings; exhibition announcements and catalogs; and miscellany.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Interviewees include: Dore Ashton, Sally Avery, Alfred Barr, Phillip Bruno, Al Copley, Dorothy Dehner, Bettina Drew (about Nelson Algren), Elsie Driggs (also found is a video interview and transcript of Driggs by Merryman Gatch, n.d.), Ben Hertzberg, Leonard Hutton, Lewis Isaacs, Max Kahn, Katharine Kuh, Johanna Neumann Lamm, Frances Manacher, Peter Neumann, Albrecht Neumann, Nolbert Rothbaum, Margarete Schultz, Joseph Solman, Margarete Sapanel, Hugh Stix, Ilse Vogel with Howard Knotts, and Edward M.M. Warburg.