Harold Tovish papers
name: label: Creator
content: Tovish, Harold, 1921-2008
label: Names
content: Pineda, Marianna, 1925-1996
label: Names
content: Tovish, Harold, 1921-2008
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Massachusetts -- Boston
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated in 1997 and 1998 by Harold Tovish, except for 14 photographs and 11 items of correspondence between Tovish and Pineda which he lent for microfilming in 1997.
creator: label: Creator
content: Tovish, Harold, 1921-2008
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist; Boston, Mass.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Tovish was born in the Bronx to a poor Jewish immigrant family. As a result of his family becoming destitute after Tovish's father's death ca. 1929, he spent most of his childhood at the Hebrew Orphan asylum in Manhattan, where he studied sculpture under Andrew Berger. He worked on various WPA projects in the 1920s, studied sculpture with Oronzio Mandarelli at Columbia University (1940-1943), fought in Europe during WWII, and studied art in Paris under the GI Bill. Tovish married fellow student Marianna Packard Pineda in the late 1940s. After his noted teaching career began at the University of Minnesota (1951-1954), he again studied in Europe, and moved to Boston to teach at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1957. He served as one of the first Fellows at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, and later taught at Boston University (1971-1983). He exhibited widely, became active in anti-Vietnam War activities, and in the Boston Visual Artists Union.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.2 Linear Feet
label: Extent
content: 27 Items (Reel 5281)
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1942-1995]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.toviharo
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 5281 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 5281: Originals returned to Harold Tovish after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material; correspondence, including letters from artists, galleries, museum officials, universities and others, and copies of letters from Tovish to his family, editors, students, and others; manuscripts for lectures; art school course assignments; project files; exhibition announcements and catalogs, 1942-1993 and price lists and checklists for exhibitions, 1974-1986; clippings of reviews, interviews and editorials, 1942-1991; 5 photographs of Tovish and his sculpture; and a small amount of material compiled by Tovish on other artists, such as Rodin; and terms of agreement for commission of a sculpted portrait of Washington University professor, Carl Cori.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 5281: Fourteen photographs and eleven notes and letters between Tovish his wife, Mariana Pineda. Photographs show Tovish at ages 16, 20, 24; Tovish in Paris; Pineda in Paris, Utah and Hawaii, with Nina Tovish, with Harold Tovish, and Pineda immediately after her death. Letters and note cards are mostly personal, reflecting their family life, birthdays, and anniversaries.