Eugenie Gershoy papers
name: label: Creator
content: Gershoy, Eugenie, 1901?-1983 or 6
label: Names
content: Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Woodstock Artists Association (Woodstock, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Yaddo (Artist's colony)
label: Names
content: Baker, Mildred, 1905-
label: Names
content: Blanch, Arnold, 1896-1968
label: Names
content: Blanch, Lucile, 1895-1981
label: Names
content: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, 1896-1986
label: Names
content: Calder, Alexander Stirling, 1870-1945
label: Names
content: Dehn, Virginia
label: Names
content: Force, Juliana, 1876-1948
label: Names
content: Fruhauf, Aline, 1909-1978
label: Names
content: Gottlieb, Harry, 1895-
label: Names
content: Hart, Agnes, 1912-1979
label: Names
content: Knight, Frederic C., 1898-1979
label: Names
content: Marantz, Irving, 1912-1972
label: Names
content: Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
label: Names
content: Nakian, Reuben, 1897-1986
label: Names
content: Picken, George, 1898-
label: Names
content: Pollet, Joseph C., 1897-1979
label: Names
content: Presser, Josef, 1906-1967
label: Names
content: Refregier, Anton, 1905-
label: Names
content: Scaravaglione, Concetta, 1900-1975
label: Names
content: Soyer, Moses, 1899-1974
label: Names
content: Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987
label: Names
content: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-
label: Names
content: Varda, Jean
place: label: Place
content: Woodstock (N.Y.)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Draftsmen (artists) -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Ceramicists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
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content: Women ceramicists
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Eugenie Gershoy papers were donated to the Archives of American Art between 1975 and 1983 by the artist.
creator: label: Creator
content: Gershoy, Eugenie, 1901?-1983 or 6
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content: Eugenie Gershoy papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of sculptor and art instructor, Eugenie Gershoy, measure 7.2 linear feet and date from 1914 to 1983. The collection documents Gershoy's career through biographical material, correspondence, business records, notes, writings, artwork, printed material, and photographs.
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Born in Krivoi Rog, Russia on January 1, 1901, Eugenie was the youngest of the Gershoy children. The family immigrated to New York City in 1903. She later became a U.S. citizen.

With the aid of two scholarships, she attended the Art Students League and studied under A. Stirling Calder, Leo Lentelli, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Boardman Robinson, and Carl Walters. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, she maintained a studio with Harry Gottlieb in Woodstock, New York. From 1936 to 1939, under the WPA Federal Art Project, she worked in conjunction with Max Spivak on murals for the children's recreation room in the Astoria branch of the Queens Borough Public Library, New York.

Gershoy's first solo show was at the Robinson Gallery in New York in 1940. Following a year of teaching at the New Orleans Art School, she moved to San Francisco in 1942. In 1946 she taught ceramics at the California School of Fine Arts, and in May 1950, she studied at Yaddo.

In addition to visits to England and France in the early 1930s, Gershoy travelled to Mexico and Guatemala in 1947, 1948, and 1961. She worked in Paris in 1951 and toured Africa, India, and the Orient in 1955.

Eugenie Gershoy died in 1986.
function: label: Function
content: Artists' studios -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1914-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gerseuge
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Christmas cards
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
label: Type
content: Sketches
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into eight series according to material type. The contents of each series have been arranged chronologically.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1939-1971 (boxes 1, 8-9; 3 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1914-1983, undated (boxes 1-6, 8-9; 5.8 linear ft.)

Series 3: Business Records, 1952-1978 (box 6; 5 folders)

Series 4: Notes, 1967-1970, undated (box 6; 3 folders)

Series 5: Writings, 1970, undated (box 6; 2 folders)

Series 6: Artwork, 1932-1978, undated (boxes 6, 8-9, OV 10, 26 folders)

Series 7: Printed Material, 1932-1983, undated (boxes 7, 9; 19 folders)

Series 8: Photographs, 1916-1983, undated (boxes 7, 9; 12 folders)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed by Jean Fitzgerald in 1994. Funding for the microfilming of this collection was provided by the Philip Birnbaum Foundation.
altformavail: label: Alternative Forms Available
content: The collection is available on 35 mm microfilm reels 293, and 4966-4972 at Archives of American Art offices, and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of the material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Christmas cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketches
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Content Note
content: The Eugenie Gershoy papers date from 1914 to 1983, measure 7.2 linear feet, and reflect Gershoy's career as a sculptor and teacher. The collection contains biographical material, correspondence, business records, notes, writings, artwork of Gershoy and others, printed material including exhibition catalogs, and photographs with subjects including Gershoy, her friends and colleagues, her studio, and her artwork.

Correspondence forms the bulk of the collection and includes correspondence between Gershoy and her siblings and their families regarding her activities, as well as with colleagues, many of whom were associated with the Woodstock Artist Association, and many of whom were museum colleagues.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Material
content: Related material in the Archives of American Art includes a transcribed oral history interview with Eugenie Gershoy conducted by Mary McChesney for the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts Oral History Program, October 15, 1964. A link to the transcript is provided from the online catalog.