Jacob Zavel Jacobson papers
name: label: Creator
content: Jacobson, J. Z. (Jacob Zavel), 1900-
label: Names
content: Armin, Emil, 1883-
label: Names
content: Biesel, Charles, 1865-1945
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Occupation
content: Authors -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Occupation
content: Editors -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Topic
content: Art criticism
label: Topic
content: Modernism (Art)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1985 by Helen M. Jacobson, widow of Jacobson.
creator: label: Creator
content: Jacobson, J. Z. (Jacob Zavel), 1900-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Writer, editor, critic; Chicago, Ill. Edited Art of today, Chicago, 1933, and was associated with the 57th St. Art colony. Died 1970.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1925-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.jacojz
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Various manuscripts and essays on art, biographies on artists and architects, Judaism, unpublished and published manuscripts, and a pocket notebook; correspondence from Forbes Watson, Julia Thecla, Todd Kempf, Samuel Putnam, Emil Armin, John Doctoroff, Ivar Rose, Oscar Leonard, John Sloan, and others; biographical and personal information, writings, photographs, printed material and art work, including a pen drawing by Emil Armin and a sketch/guest book from the studio of Charles Biesel, given to Jacobson after Biesel's death as a memento of their friendship.