Josephine and Salvatore Del Deo collection relating to Provincetown artists
name: label: Collector
content: Del Deo, Josephine Couch
label: Collector
content: Del Deo, Salvatore, 1928-
label: Names
content: Front Street Gallery (Provincetown, Mass.)
label: Names
content: Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center
label: Names
content: Geiger, Caroline
label: Names
content: Hensche, Henry, 1901-
label: Names
content: Knaths, Karl, 1891-1971
label: Names
content: Malicoat, Philip, 1908-1981
label: Names
content: Margo, Boris, 1902-1995
label: Names
content: Moffett, Ross
label: Names
content: Parr, James Wingate, 1923-1969
label: Names
content: Severini, Gino, 1883-1966
label: Names
content: Shackelford, Shelby
label: Names
content: Tworkov, Jack
label: Names
content: Winslow, J. Madaline
label: Photographer
content: Yater, George, 1910-1993
place: label: Place
content: Provincetown (Mass.)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1996, 1998 and 2000 by Jo & Sal Del Deo. They received the Moffett material Moffett's widow and used by Del Deo in preparation for her biography on Moffett. The Parr album was received from Robert Cummings, an old friend of Parr's, who had received it from Parr's parents. The Knaths sketchbooks were given by his widow, Helen, to the Del Deos. The Winslow letter was given to Josephine Del Deo by Janice Crouch who had a connection with Geiger or her family, either as a relation or a friend.
creator: label: Collector
content: Del Deo, Josephine Couch
label: Collector
content: Del Deo, Salvatore, 1928-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Collectors; Provincetown, Mass. Josephine is the author of Figures in a Landscape : the Life and Times of the American Painter, RossMoffett, 1888-1971. Sal (b. 1928) is a painter and former vice-president of the Fine Arts Work Center.
function: label: Function
content: Artist colonies -- Massachusetts
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1929-1970]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.deldeo
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Material collected or kept by the Del Deo's relating to Provincetown art and artists, including Ross Moffet, Karl Knaths, James Wingate Parr, J. Madaline Winslow, Front Street Gallery, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Center (FAWC).
label: Scope and Contents
content: Material pertaining to painter Ross Moffett includes photographs of his family and its farm in Iowa; photographs of Moffett's paintings and drawings; photographs of Moffett's work taken by George Yater; material pertaining to Moffett's lecture "Three Dimensional Organization in Painting"; translations from a publication by Gino Severini; and drawings of Moffett by Shelby Shackelford.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Knaths material consists of two sketchbooks, one with occassional notes (1929) and one, ca. 1952; the sketches are figure and landscape compositions in Knath's characteristic cubist style. Parr material consists of a small album containing clippings, photographs of work, telegrams, and letters (undated and 1946); Winslow material is a letter to Caroline H. Geiger (1938).
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also found are records of the cooperative Front Street Gallery, in which Sal Del Deo was a member for its one-season existence, including information on the "Freedom Riders Exhibition" to benefit the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); 7 reel-to-reel tape recordings made by Del Deo at the first three sessions of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC), 1968-1970, including lectures or seminars by Jack Tworkov, Henry Hensche, Karl Knaths, Philip Malicoat, Boris Margo, and Ross Moffett.