Albert Alcalay papers
name: label: Creator
content: Alcalay, Albert, 1917-2008
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Massachusetts
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1978 by Albert Alcalay.
creator: label: Creator
content: Alcalay, Albert, 1917-2008
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content: Albert Alcalay papers
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Albert Alcalay (1917-2008) was an abstract expressionist painter and educator in Boston, Massachusetts. Alcalay was born in Paris to Serbian parents. During WWII, he was in the Yugoslavian army and was imprisoned as a prisoner of war. Once free, he settled in Rome and in 1951 he and his family moved to the United States. He was a 1959 Guggenheim fellow and taught at Harvard University from 1960 until 1982. He exhibited his work in many United States institutions, as well as abroad.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Microfilm reels (877 items on 2 microfilm reels)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1944-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.alcaalbe
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 1462-1463 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The microfilm Albert Alcalay papers contain autobiographical and biographical writings; correspondence; teaching notes and lecture texts; and a scrapbook (1946-1970) containing printed materials about Alcalay's career and photographs of Alcalay and his paintings. Also included are price lists of work by Alcalay (1950s-1978); exhibition catalogs and announcements; and additional printed material.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Also held at the Archives of American Art is the oral history interview with Albert Alcalay, 1979 January 17-October 19 conducted by Robert F. Brown.