Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors records
name: label: Creator
content: Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors
label: Names
content: Feigin, Dorothy Dee Lubell, 1902-1969
label: Names
content: Gursoy, Ahmet
label: Names
content: Krashes, Barbara
label: Names
content: Mendelson, Haim, 1923-
topic: label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Modern -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Records on reel N69-75 lent for microfilming by the Federation in 1969. Unmicrofilmed papers donated 1974 by Edith Bry (Dorothy Feigin treasurer's records), in 1976 by Theodore Hios, a painter and member of the Federation, and in 1997 by Anelli Arms, Acting Head of the Federation.
creator: label: Creator
content: Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art association; New York, N.Y. Founded 1940 as an alternative to the Artists' Congress.
function: label: Function
content: Arts organizations
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear Feet ((partially microfilmed on 1 reel))
label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet (Addition)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940-1996
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fedemode
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Organizational records, exhibition catalogs, scrapbook, photographs, and printed materials.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL N69-75: Minutes of Federation meetings; correspondence; membership lists; copy of constitution; exhibition catalogs and announcements; a scrapbook; and miscellaneous printed materials.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Photographs of art works by Federation members exhibited in a traveling show sponsored by the American Federation of Arts; autobiographical collages by members of the Federation; exhibition catalogs and announcements; and treasurer's records kept by Dorothy Feigin while treasurer of the Federation during the 1950s.
label: Scope and Contents
content: ADDITION: Correspondence of Federation presidents Ahmet Gursoy (1974-1995), Barbara Krashes (1968-1975), and Heim Mendelsohn (1980-1991); administrative correspondence (1940-1996); historical materials describing the origins and purpose of the Federation (1940-1989), membership lists (1940-1989), a complete run of minutes (1940-1989), exhibition catalogs (1948-1996), announcements (1955-1996), proposals (1981-1988), photographs of members (c. 2005), and a photograph of Will Barnet (2003). There is also a very brittle scrapbook, ca. 1941-1954.