Gerome Kamrowski papers
name: label: Creator
content: Kamrowski, Gerome
label: Names
content: Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
label: Names
content: University of Michigan
label: Names
content: Whitney Museum of American Art
label: Names
content: Breton, André, 1896-1966
label: Names
content: Lange, Monique
label: Names
content: Matter, Mercedes
label: Names
content: Rebay, Hilla, 1890-1967
label: Names
content: Sandler, Irving, 1925-
label: Interviewer
content: Sawin, Martica
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Surrealism
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2008 by Mary Jane Kamrowski, Kamrowski's widow.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kamrowski, Gerome
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gerome Kamrowski (1914-2004) was a Surrealist painter in New York, N.Y. and Ann Arbor, Michigan.
function: label: Function
content: Artists' studios
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8.3 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938-2004
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kamrgero
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material, photographs, project files, subject files, correspondence, printed material and audio visual material concerning Gerome Kamrowski's career as a Surrealist painter.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material includes curriculum vitae and an interrview transcript with Kamrowski by Michael Sherker. Photographs, slides and negatives are of Kamrowski, his family, studio, artwork, exhibition installations and exhibitions. The bulk of the project files concern individual works of art and include correspondence, reviews, photographs and miscellany. Subject files pertain to the University of Michigan, exhibitions that involved Kamrowski, organizations and people who worked with Kamrowski, and include correspondence and printed material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence includes letters from Andre Breton, Monique Lange, Hilla von Rebay, Mercedes Matter, Irving Sandler, and numerous dealers and institutions including the Guggenheim Foundation, The Whitney Museum of Art, the Andre Emmerich Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Students League.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Audio visual material includes an interview on three cassettes of Kamrowski conducted by Martica Sawin, 1986, and three reels of motion picture film footage of sculptures, one labeled "Celestial Rhythms" and the others untitled, 1971. Printed material includes Kamrowski's portfolios, exhibition reviews, catalogs, and announcements, press releases, and newspaper clippings.