A. Contini & Son records
name: label: Creator
content: A. Contini & Son
label: Names
content: Baker, Bryant, 1881-1970
label: Names
content: Calder, Alexander Stirling, 1870-1945
label: Names
content: Contini, Attilio J., 1884-1960
label: Names
content: Contini, Cesare, 1907-
label: Names
content: Evans, Rudulph, 1878-1960
label: Names
content: Fraser, James Earle, 1876-1953
label: Names
content: Fraser, Laura Gardin, 1889-1966
label: Names
content: Gregory, John, 1879-1958
label: Names
content: Hancock, Walker Kirtland, 1901-1998
label: Names
content: Huntington, Anna Hyatt, 1876-1973
label: Names
content: Lachaise, Gaston, 1882-1935
label: Names
content: Moore, Bruce, 1905-1980
label: Names
content: Proctor, Alexander Phimister, 1862-1950
label: Names
content: Recchia, Richard, 1885-1983
label: Names
content: Rubins, David K.
label: Names
content: Weinman, Adolph A. (Adolph Alexander), 1870-1952
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors
label: Topic
content: Plaster casts
label: Topic
content: Sculpture -- Technique
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1984 by Cesare Contini.
creator: label: Creator
content: A. Contini & Son
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Plaster casting firm; New York, N.Y. Following training in Italy, Attilio (1884-1960) and his son Cesare (b. 1907) came to America and operated A. Contini and Son, New York, N.Y, making plaster molds for sculptures by wide group of artists, including James Earle Fraser, Ivan Mestrovic, Herbert Haseltine, A. Stirling Calder, Adolph Weinman, Gaston Lachaise, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.1 Linear Feet ((partially microfilmed on two reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1916-1981
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.acontson
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3612-3613 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence (1916-1981); business records (1922-1971); notes (undated and 1929); interview transcript (1978); printed material (1929-1981); and photographs (1920-1945).
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 3612-3613: Correspondence concerning work done by the Continis for sculptors, including letters from Bryant Baker, A. Stirling Calder, Rudolph Evans, James Earle Fraser, John Gregory, Walker Hancock, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Gaston Lachaise, Bruce Moore, A. Phimister Proctor, Richard Recchia, David Rubins, and Adolph Weinman; photographs of the Contini family and of works of art, including "End of the Trail" by James Earle Fraser and works by Rudolph Evans, Anna Hyatt Huntington, and Richard Recchia (1920-1945); Attilio Contini's address book; and a notebook listing works of art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also, receipts and invoices addressed to various sculptors (1922-1971) and a contract for work on Frederic Remington's sculpture "Coming Through the Rye" for the National Cowboy Hall of Fame; a transcript of an interview with Cesare Contini conducted by George Gurney on August 26, 1978; clippings (1950-1981), exhibition catalogs (1929-1939), and 2 programs for the unveiling of the Martin Luther monument in Baltimore, Maryland (1936) and the Bing Crosby statue in Spokane, Washington (1981).
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Three undated photographs mounted on board of historical panels at the West Point Library executed by Laura Gardin Fraser.