Clifford Wight papers relating to Diego Rivera
name: label: Creator
content: Wight, Clifford, 1900-ca.1960
label: Names
content: Biddle, George, 1885-1973
label: Names
content: Richardson, Edgar Preston, 1902-1985
label: Names
content: Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
label: Names
content: Stackpole, Ralph, 1885-1973
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration
label: Topic
content: Public art
label: Topic
content: Mexican American art
label: Topic
content: Muralists
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming by Syracuse University Library, Special Collections, 1992. The arrangement devised by the lender has been maintained.
creator: label: Creator
content: Wight, Clifford, 1900-ca.1960
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Wight, a sculptor and epigrapher; San Francisco, Calif.; acted as Mexican muralist Diego Rivera's technical assistant, translator, and secretary during his soujourn in the United States, ca. l931-1934, while Rivera completed murals for the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Rockefeller Center in New York (destroyed), and the Coit Tower in San Francisco.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear foot ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929-1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wighclif
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4573 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in Syracuse University Library, Special Collections, Syracuse, N.Y.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: A finding aid, prepared by the Syracuse University, describing the collection and listing selected correspondents is on frames 215-220.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence between Wight, Rivera, and Rivera clients; technical documents including a chemical analysis of the fresco process, and proposals, cost analyses, work schedules and specifications relating to Rivera murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Rockefeller Center; writings by George Biddle, Edgar P. Richardson, Rivera and Wight; photographs of Rivera, Wight and others; photographs of work by Rivera, Ralph Stackpole and Wight (?); articles, newspaper clippings and other printed material; and sketches by unidentified artists including a layout for a mural(?).