Robert Reiss papers relating to Sarah Freedman McPherson
name: label: Creator
content: Reiss, Robert
label: Names
content: McPherson, Sarah Freedman, 1895-1978
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1980 by Robert Reiss.
creator: label: Creator
content: Reiss, Robert
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Reiss is a professor at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y. His grandmother, Sarah Freedman McPherson, was a painter and art instructor, New York City.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1924-1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.reisrobe
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3470 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Reproduction Note
content: All photocopies.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Papers collected by Reiss while preparing a retrospective exhibition at the Monhegan (Maine) Museum on his grandmother, Sarah Freedman McPherson. Included are biographical material on McPherson; published and unpublished writings about McPherson by Barbara Deming, Michael Loew, James McKinnell, Walter Pach, Anne Poor, Arthur Sainer, and B.F. Skinner; a typescript of a memorial address, "Sarah McPherson 1895-1978, A Remembrance," by Reiss; and a photograph of McPherson.