Biographical Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Nevelson, Louise (1899-1988)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Louise Nevelson papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Boxes 1, 17, OV 21, 30, 31, Sol 42; 2.3 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1918-1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.neveloui, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Series consists of scattered material shedding light on different aspects of Nevelson's life and work. Included are the program of her graduation from Rockland High School, the announcement of her wedding to Charles Nevelson, real estate records pertaining to her apartment/studio in Manhattan, a draft of last her will and testament; some additional family papers concerning her son Mike Nevelson, such as his high school diploma and certificate of service as a seaman, an autograph book (containing signatures of artists, Louis Eilshemius, Hans Hofmann, and Kenneth Hayes Miller, among others), a short story, and various exhibition announcements and catalogs; numerous awards and honorary degrees received by Nevelson; her teaching certificate, dating from the time she taught in the adult education program of the Great Neck, Long Island public schools; material from various interviews with Nevelson, including transcribed interviews with Louise Elliot Rago and Tal Streeter and an untranscribed interview with Molly Haskell; writings about Nevelson, including a typescript of an article by Robert Rosenblum and a paper by Katherine Rouse; video  and sound recordings about Nevelson and her work; and other miscellaneous papers.

Biographical material is arranged in rough chronological order. The bulk of this series has been scanned.