Emily Nathan papers
name: label: Creator
content: Nathan, Emily
label: Creator
content: De Creeft, José, 1884-1982
label: Creator
content: Lerner, Abram
label: Creator
content: Goldberg, Rube, 1883-1970
label: Names
content: Archives of American Art
label: Names
content: Smithsonian Institution -- Public relations.
label: Names
content: Towle Mfg. Company -- Public relations
label: Names
content: De Creeft, José, 1884-1982
label: Names
content: Hirshhorn, Joseph H.
label: Names
content: Johns, Jasper, 1930-
label: Names
content: McLanathan, Richard B. K.
label: Photographer
content: Namuth, Hans
label: Names
content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
label: Names
content: Smith, Tony, 1912-1980
label: Names
content: Spyropoulous, Jannis, 1912-
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content: Woolfenden, William E. (William Edward), 1918-1995
topic: label: Occupation
content: Cartoonists -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Public relations consultants
label: Topic
content: Roosters -- Pictorial works
label: Topic
content: Roosters -- Anecdotes
label: Topic
content: Caricatures and cartoons
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Inventors -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Archives -- Public relations
label: Topic
content: Museums -- Public relations
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content: Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art and industry
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated between 1973-1988 by Emily Nathan and in 2000 by the Emily Nathan estate, via Edgar S. Nathan, III, executor. The letter to Nathan from Daniel Catton Rich was donated by Rich, 1977.
creator: label: Creator
content: Nathan, Emily
label: Creator
content: De Creeft, José, 1884-1982
label: Creator
content: Lerner, Abram
label: Creator
content: Goldberg, Rube, 1883-1970
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Emily Nathan (1907-1999) was a journalist and public relations consultant specializing in arts and cultural heritage institutions.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1943-1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.nathemil2
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The letter from Daniel Catton Rich is available on 35mm microfilm reel 3483 at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of public relations consultant and journalist Emily Nathan measure 5.0 linear feet and date from circa 1943-1985.  Included are files on clients, among them Towle Manufacturing and its gallery; the Smithsonian Institution, including the Archives of American Art, Radio Smithsonian and the National Portrait Gallery. 

Among the correspondence are letters to Georgia O'Keeffe regarding a pending oral history with the sculptors Dorothy Dehner and David Smith and a letter from museum administrator and lecturer Daniel Catton Rich expressing his pleasure at having met Jannis and Zoe Spyropoulous in Athens, Greece and describes the painting by Jannis that he purchased for the Worcester Art Museum. The majority of the photographs are of personalities long associated with the Archives of American Art. There are two photographs of Jasper Johns, and one each of Mark Rothko and Tony Smith, all taken by Hans Namuth, 1960.

Interviews conducted by Nathan for Radio Smithsonian include New York, N.Y. cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg (1883-1970), 1970; art historian and writer Richard B. K. McLanathan, 1970; Director of the Archives of American Art William E. Woolfenden, 1970, Abram Lerner, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, and art collector Joseph Hirshhorn, 1969. Also found is an interview of William Woolfenden May 6, 1983 upon his retirement as Director of the Archives of American Art.

Also found is a folder of material assembled by Nathan regarding Jose de Creeft's story, as told to Nathan, of his pet rooster, intended by Nathan to be submitted for publication under the title "Roosty Was My Friend." Included are an introduction by Nathan, providing biographical information on de Creeft; sample text for the story (2 pages) and an outline for the remainder (3 pages), 24 drawings by de Creeft illustrating the story; and a photograph of de Creeft with a wire sculpture of Roosty, 1957, taken by Budd studio.