Lucien and Marcelle Labaudt papers
name: label: Creator
content: Labaudt, Lucien, 1880-1943
label: Creator
content: Labaudt, Marcelle, 1892-1987
label: Names
content: California School of Design
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content: Federal Art Project (Calif.)
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content: Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery
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content: San Francisco Women Artists
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content: Arnautoff, Victor Mikhail, 1896-1979
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content: Biberman, Edward
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content: Feitelson, Lorser, 1898-1978
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content: Ferier, André
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content: Ford, C.
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content: Gerstle, Wilhelm, 1879-1963
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content: Kent, Adaline Dutton, 1900-1957
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content: Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949
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content: London, Charmian
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content: Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955
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content: Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973
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content: Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954
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content: Moya del Pino, José, 1891-1969
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content: Oldfield, Otis, 1890-1969
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content: Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966
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content: Ozenfant, Marthe
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content: Pflueger, Timothy Ludwig, 1892-1946
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content: Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
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content: Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946
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content: Sotomayor, Antonio, 1904-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Costume designers
label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Occupation
content: Gallery owners -- California
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts -- California
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content: Art and state -- California -- San Francisco -- Exhibitions
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content: Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century -- California -- San Francisco
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content: Costume -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Muralists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Marcelle Labaudt 1974-1976, and after her death by her estate through her step-sister and executor, Simone M. Berges, 1984. After Berges' death in 1988, an additional installment was received via Berges' sister-in-law, Jill Alexander.
creator: label: Creator
content: Labaudt, Lucien, 1880-1943
label: Creator
content: Labaudt, Marcelle, 1892-1987
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lucien Labaudt was a painter, muralist, costume and set designer. He also ran a commercial art school called the California School of Design. After his death in 1943, on assignment as a war artist correspondent, his wife, Marcelle Labaudt, established the Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery in San Francisco, California. She specialized in giving younger or relatively unknown artists their first exhibitions and operated the gallery until 1980.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8.5 Linear Feet ((partially microfilmed on 11 reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1896-1987
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.labaluci
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 1052, 1854 and 3799-3806 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, photographs, exhibition materials, scrapbooks, journals, printed matter, essays, gallery records and other business records, and miscellaneous papers.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 3799-3806: A resume; a travel journal; an address book; appointment books; passports for Marcelle Labaudt; correspondence, including 3 illustrated Christmas cards from Walt Kuhn and letters from Edward Rowan about Lucien Labaudt's murals for the Los Angeles post office for the Section of Fine Arts; notes on costume design, geometry, and metric color scales; writings by Lucien Labaudt, including "Color Constructions--Opticolormetry", 1940; 4 sketchbooks and 70 sketches by Labaudt; prints and drawings by others; scrapbook on history of costume design; announcements; programs; reproductions; printed material concerning Labaudt's California School of Design; records of the San Francisco Women Artists organization; minutes of the Artists' Council kept by Marcelle Labaudt; artist files; guest registers; ledgers 1929 and 1939-1949, and financial records, 1943-1980, for the Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery; clippings; photographs of Labaudt's family, 1911-1981; of works of art, 1913-1968; and stage and costume design.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 1052: Correspondence relating to the Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery and to Lucien and Marcelle; photographs (many undated and unidentified) of a gallery opening, 1950 of Max Hages, two paintings by Fred Martin, and two by R. Kaess; manuscript material; biographical material on artists who exhibited at the gallery; catalogs and announcements; printed material; and clippings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 1854: Photographs, 1920-1940 of: Labaudt; Labauadt working on Beach Chalet Murals; at the Bohemian Club Grove with C. Ford, Arnautoff, Otis Oldfield, Moya del Pino, Sotomayer, Timothy Pflueger, William Gerstle, and Diego Rivera; with Adeline Kent; with Marcelle and André Ferier; costumes and sets designed by Labaudt; and paintings and murals by Labaudt. Also included are 173 personal and business letters, 1923-1975; sketches; manuscripts, including essays about Labaudt by Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Lorser Feitelson; a scrapbook; business records; catalogs and announcements; clippings and other printed matter. Correspondents include: Edward Biberman, Lorser Feitelson, Walt Kuhn, Fernand Leger, Charmain London (Mrs. Jack), Henri Matisse, Marthe and Amedee Ozenfant, Timothy L. Pflueger and Edward Rowan.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Biographical material regarding Marcelle Labaudt's education; correspondence, 1901-1979, with friends and associates, including Alvyne Maisonneuve, Yliane Remy, Henry and Ann Varnum Poor, Charmian London, Millard Sheets and Richard Diebenkorn (1 letter, 1950); Marcelle Labaudt's travel diary kept on a trip to France, undated; art works, undated, including a sketchbook and illustrated letter by Lucien and an unsigned print; exhibition catalogs and clippings regarding the Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery; photographs, slides and negatives, 1896-1976, of friends, family and art works, and an album of photographs of Lucien's works of art.