William Theo Brown papers
name: label: Creator
content: Brown, William Theo, 1919-2012
label: Names
content: Anderson, Eugene Newton
label: Names
content: Bachardy, Don, 1934-
label: Names
content: Barber, Samuel, 1910-
label: Names
content: Barton, Betsy
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content: Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy, Sir, 1904-
label: Names
content: Broughton, James
label: Names
content: Callahan, Harry M.
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content: Callery, Mary, 1903-1977
label: Names
content: Carson, Josephine, 1919-
label: Names
content: Coke, Van Deren, 1921-
label: Names
content: Craft, Robert
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content: Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1933
label: Names
content: De Kooning, Elaine
label: Names
content: DeFeo, Jay, 1929-1989
label: Names
content: Diebenkorn, Richard, 1922-1993
label: Names
content: Donovan, Richard
label: Names
content: Golschmann, Vladimir, 1893-1972
label: Names
content: Hamilton, George Heard
label: Names
content: Hess, Thomas B.
label: Names
content: Hindemith, Gertrud, 1900-1967
label: Names
content: Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963
label: Names
content: Hockney, David
label: Names
content: Holloway, Sterling
label: Names
content: Howard, Bart
label: Names
content: Inge, William
label: Names
content: Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-
label: Names
content: Jenkins, Dorothy
label: Names
content: Johnson, Frank
label: Names
content: Kiesler, Frederick
label: Names
content: Kiesler, Lillian, 1910?-2001
label: Names
content: Lambert, Gavin
label: Names
content: Lathwood, Jo
label: Names
content: Loomis, Amy
label: Names
content: Masselind, Ben
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content: McLaughlin, John, 1898-1976
label: Names
content: Meeks, Everett, 1879-1954
label: Names
content: Oliveira, Nathan, 1928-2010
label: Names
content: Park, David, 1911-1960
label: Names
content: Petty, Mary
label: Names
content: Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963
label: Names
content: Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-
label: Names
content: Saint, Eva Marie, 1924-
label: Names
content: Sarton, May, 1912-
label: Names
content: Schrade, Leo, 1903-1964
label: Names
content: Sekula, Sonja, 1918-1963
label: Names
content: Shaw, Robert
label: Names
content: Simonds, Bruce
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content: Stone, Helen, 1903-
label: Names
content: Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
label: Names
content: Stravinsky, Vera
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content: Swift, Richard, 1927-
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content: Tardos, Anne, 1943-
label: Names
content: Thiebaud, Wayne
label: Names
content: Wonner, Paul, 1920-2008
label: Names
content: Zajac, Jack, 1929-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Composers
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
label: Topic
content: Composition (Music) -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Music -- 20th century
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reels 877 and 921 lent for microfilming and remainder donated 1974 by William T. Brown. Catalogs on reel 1095 were transferred to NMAA/NPG Library after microfilming.
creator: label: Creator
content: Brown, William Theo, 1919-2012
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; San Francisco, Calif. Associated with the late 1950s movement of Bay Area figurative painting. Had particularly close ties with contemporary musical and literary worlds.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.8 Linear Feet ((on 4 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1845-1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.browwilt
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels 877 & 921: Originals returned to William T. Brown after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Scrapbooks, photograph albums, sketchbooks, correspondence, manuscripts, and printed material reflect Brown's work as a painter, and his ties with contemporary musical and literary figures.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 877: Four scrapbooks, 1946-1972, containing: photographs of composers Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith, artist Don Bachardy and Brown; letters and notes to Brown from musicians Stravinsky, Hindemith, John Cage, and Samuel Barber; drawings and photographs of works by Brown; clippings; and manuscript material by John Cage and Francis Poulenc.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 921: Eight photograph albums, 1941-1971, including photos of Brown's work; photos of Brown at MacDowell Colony working on a series of self-portraits; of Brown, friends, and other artists, including Paul Wonner, Sonia Sekula, John McLaughlin, Jack Zajac, Sterling Holloway, Richard Diebenkorn, Mary Callery, David Park, Robert Shaw, poet May Sarton, playwright William Inge, composers Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith, author Christopher Isherwood, and others.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 1095 and 1116 (photographs only): Correspondence, ca. 1923-1974; with artists, musicians, writers, composers, and others; privately published letters of Brown's grandfather; sketchbooks, including two from his early years, 1926 and 1930-1934, and six done in Europe, 1945; one sketch by Brown and one each by Paul and Gertrude Hindemith; manuscripts; photographs of family, friends, and associates; photographs of drawings; catalogs and announcements; printed papers; legal documents; and 2 clippings relating to Igor Stravinsky.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 1095: Correspondents include: Eugene Anderson, Cecil Beaton, James Broughton, Van Deren Coke, Robert Craft, Jay DeFeo, Elaine De Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Richard Donovan, Vladimir Golschmann, George H. Hamilton, Thomas B. Hess, Gertrude Hindemith (36 letters), Paul Hindemith, David Hockney, Bart Howard, William Inge, Christopher Isherwood, Dorothy Jenkins, Frank Johnson, Gavin Lambert, Jo Lathwood, Amy Loomis, Ben Masselind, Everett Meeks, Nathan Oliveira, Mary Petty, Josephine Carson Rider, Muriel Rukeyser, Eva Marie Saint, Leo Schrade, Bruce Simonds, Helen Stone, Vera Stravinsky, Richard Swift, Ann Tardos and Wayne Thiebaud; many are represented with only one letter.