Papers filmed as a loan on Reel N70-34
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Criss, Francis, 1901-1973
setName: label: See more items in
content: Francis Criss papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Box 1, Reel N70-34)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1916-1969
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.crisfran, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Found here are biographical data; teaching and lecture notes and data compiled by Criss for courses he taught at several New York art schools, including the New School and the School of Visual Arts. Topics include particular styles of teaching and his personal philosophy on art; general correspondence with museums and magazines; correspondence with Cornell University, the Henry McCarter Estate, and Theodore L. Shaw; exhibition announcements and catalogs; exhibition files and photographs for the Philadelphia Art Alliance exhibition in 1953 and the Visual Arts Gallery Retrospective in 1966; a record of paintings, murals, and projects; personal photographs and photographs of works of art; reproductions of Criss' commercial work for Abbott Laboratories and others; and clippings. The folders have been arranged in the order as they were filmed in 1970. Materials on microfilm only appear as See or See Also references.