Writings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Nevelson, Louise (1899-1988)
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content: Louise Nevelson papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 5, 38, Sol 42; 0.5 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1936-1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.neveloui, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Writings are arranged in rough chronological order. A portion of this series has been scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Series consists of writings by Nevelson, which shed light on different aspects of her creativity and on her ideas about art in general and her work in particular. Included are a journal of sorts in which she recorded her dreams for a two-month time period (from April 21 to June 21) in 1936; various poems and fragments of writings; various writings on art, including technical notes and sketches, titled pieces such as "The Birth of Painting (Picture Happy)" and "The Winged City," drafts of speeches on the artist Rose Newman-Wolinska and on sculpture, an article on sculpture for the Christian Science Monitor; statements which seem to have been written for The Whitney Review (1961-1962); salutes to others, including a poem for Dorothy Dehner which appeared in an exhibition catalog for one of her shows and the draft of a short piece (possibly a speech) in honor of Merce Cunningham; and drafts and galley proofs of Dawns and Dusks: Taped Conversations with Daiana MacKown by Louise Nevelson and Diana MacKown (1976).