Artist Files
odd: label: Appendix: Printed Material from Series 3 for Wifredo Lam, Amelia Peláez, and Enrique Riverón
content: Wifredo Lam: Exhibition and Auction Announcements and Invitations, 1955-1996

1955:  -- Wifredo Lam,  --  Pabellón de Ciencias Sociales, Havana

1969:  -- Wifredo Lam on Paper,  --  Cisneros Gallery, New York

1982:  -- Homenaje a Wifredo Lam,  --  Museo Español de Arte Comtemporáneo, Madrid

1984: Important Latin American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Sotheby's, New York

1987:  -- Wifredo Lam,  --  Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris

1987:  -- Wifredo Lam: Peintures,  --  Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris

1992:  -- Rumbas &f Love Songs: The Musical Canvas of Wifredo Lam,  --  Symphony Space, New York

1992:  -- Wifredo Lam,  --  Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

1993:  -- Wifredo Lam: The Annonciation di Aimé Cesaire,  --  Fedric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables

1994:  -- Wifredo Lam: Oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié,  -- Musee du Dessin et de L'Estampe Originale de Gravelines, Paris

1996:  -- Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raissone,  -- Gary Nader Gallery, Coral Gables

Wilfredo Lam: Exhibition brochures and catalogs, 1950-1993

1950:  -- Exposicíon Lam: Obras Recientes,  --  Havana

1955:  -- Exposicíon Lam,  --  Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas

1959:  -- Lam,  --  Galleria Pagani, Milan

1969:  -- Wifredo Lam: Exposicion de Pinturas,  --  Casa de Cultura, Cuenca

1971:  -- Wilfredo Lam,  --  Gimpel Gallery, New York

1977:  -- Wilfredo Lam,  --  Galeria Meindl, Bogota

1978:  -- Lam,  --  Gissi Galleria d'Arte, Torino

1980:  -- Wifredo Lam,  -- Galleri D'Arte La Borgognona, Rome

1981:  -- Max Ernst-Wifredo Lam: Paintings, Watercolors and Graphics,  -- Guild Gallery, New York

1992:  -- Afro-Caribbean Culture: The World of Wifredo Lam,  -- The Americas Society, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Symphony Space, New York

1993:  -- Wifredo Lam:  -- Museo Nacional Palacio de Bellas Artes, Havana

Undated: Winter Calendar, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Amelia Peláez: Exhibition Announcements, Invitations and Brochures, 1988, undated

1977:  -- Amelia Peláez,  -- Metropolitan Museum and Art Centers, Miami

1988:  -- Amelia Peláez 1896-1968: A Retrospective,  -- Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington DC

1988:  -- Amelia Peláez 1896-1968: A Retrospective/Una RetrosPerspe,  -- Cubann Museum of Arts and Culture, Miami

1988: Fall calendar, Museum of Modern Art, Organization of American States, Washington DC

Undated: Information on artist, Organization of American States, Washington, DC

Amelia Peláez: Exhibition Catalogs, 1930s-1980s, 1991

1933:  -- Exposition: Amelia Pelaez del Casal,  -- Galérie Zak, Paris

1935:  -- Exposición: Amelia Pelaez del Casal,  -- Lyceum, Havana

1937:  -- Dance International 1900-1937: Exhibit of Arts Relating to the Dance,  -- Rockefeller Center, New York

1941:  -- Peláez,  -- Norte Gallery, New York

1943:  -- Amelia Peláez: Retrospective 1929-1943,  -- Institución Hispano-Cubana de Cultura, Havana

1968:  -- Amelia Peláez: Exposición Retrospectiva,  -- Museo Nacional Palacio de Bellas Artes, Havana (2 copies)

1977:  -- Amelia Peláez,  -- Metropolitan Museum and Art Centers, Miami

1977:  -- Cuba Peintres D'aujourd'hui,  -- Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris [Incomplete]

1979:  -- La Gran Pintora Cubana Amelia Peláez,  -- Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City

1980:  -- Amelia Peláez: Oleos Tempera y Tinta,  -- Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota

1986:  -- Amelia Peláez: Exposición Antologica, Pinturas 1929-1967,  -- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana

1991:  -- Amelia Peláez: Exposición Retrospectiva, 1924-1967,  -- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Caracas

Enrique Riverón: Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs, 1957-1994, undated

1926:  -- Enrique Riverón,  -- Association Paris Amerique Latine, Paris

1957:  -- Riverón,  -- Sudamericana Gallery, New York

1958:  -- Retrospective Exhibition: Riverón,  -- Wichita Art Museum, Wichita

1960:  -- Enrique Riverón,  -- Arger Gallery, Coral Gables

1961:  -- Riverón,  -- Gallery of Modern Arts, Sante Fe

1965:  -- Riverón,  -- Bacardi Art Gallery, Miami

1965:  -- Riverón,  -- Museum of Modern Art, Miami

1969:  -- Enter the Sun: New Paintings by Riverón,  -- Pageant Gallery, Miami

1973:  -- Gala: Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos,  -- Bacardi Art Gallery, Miami

1974:  -- Riverón Retrospective Exhibition,  -- Bacardi Art Gallery, Miami

1977:  -- Bermudez, Davila, Fernández, Riverón, Velazquez,  -- Forma Gallery, Coral Gables

1980:  -- Riverón: 1925-1950 Paris/La Habana /New York,  -- Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables

1980:  -- Riverón: 1950-1980 Wichita/Coconut Grove,  -- De Armas Gallery, Virginia Gardens

1983:  -- Riverón,  -- Gallery at Grove Isle, Coconut Grove

1987:  -- Enrique Riverón: Recent Works,  -- Bacardi Art Gallery, Miami

1994:  -- Alfonzo, Espada, Iraola, Marin, Riverón,  -- Barbara Greene's, Miami
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Blanc, Giulio V.
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content: Giulio V. Blanc papers
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content: 6 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-8)
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content: 0.001 Gigabytes (ER01)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1920-1995, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.blangiul, Series 3
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content: Archival materials
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altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: "Files of Cuban Artists" disk to Maria Brito are on reel 5476; Lydia Cabrera to Vicente Dopico are on reel 5477; Antonia Eiriz to Lourdes Gomez-Franca are on reel 5478; José Gómez Sicre to Raquel Lázaro are on reel 5479; Lilia Lazo to Ricardo Pau-Llosa are on reel 5480; Amelia Peláez to Enrique Riverón, Newspaper Clippings are on reel 5481; Enrique Riverón, Articles by Enrique Riverón to Susan Sori are on reel 5482; Rafael Soriano to Ricardo Zulueta are on reel 5483.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This extensive series contains artist files Giulio Blanc collected and arranged alphabetically by name of artist. The files contain scattered correspondence, newspaper clippings, original writings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and miscellaneous materials, one in born-digital form.

Several of the artist files are further broken down into areas such as Biographical Material, Letters, Writings, Notes, Printed Material, Audio material, and Photographs. Examples of Biographical material include curricula vita and resumes, fellowship applications, copies of birth certificates, written statements by artists concerning their work, and brief reference information written by Blanc about the artists and their artwork. 

Letters are from art institutions, artists, curators, art historians and friends and are addressed primarily to Giulio Blanc, although a number of letters are addressed to other individuals. Found are original letters, photocopies, or facsimiles and occasionally include attachments such as exhibition announcements, newspaper clippings or photographs. Greeting cards and postcards are also found here.

Writings consists of unpublished material such as draft copies of essays and articles, papers written for courses, as well as poems, journal entries, and other original writings. Printed material includes exhibition announcements and catalogs, public program brochures, invitations to exhibition openings, and published articles and newspaper clippings. These are recorded by name of item.

In addition, the artists files also house interviews conducted by Blanc and recorded on audio cassette tape. Those interviewed are artist Enrique Riverón, curator José Gomez Sícre, Cuban ethnographer Lydia Cabrera speaking on the work of Wifredo Lam (Wifredo Lam files), Eva Frajaville on Agustin Fernández (Agustin Fernández files), and Elena Peláez de Medero discussing the work of her sister, Amelia Peláez (Amelia Peláez files).

Of special interest in this series are a number of documents in the files of artists Wifredo Lam, Amelia Peláez and Enrique Riverón. These include rare exhibition announcements and invitations, exhibition catalogs, clippings from European newspapers and various other original documents that date from the 1920s-1990s. An itemized list of these documents is found in the 

See Appendix for list of printed material from Series 3 for Wifredo Lam, Amelia Peláez, and Enrique Riverón