Artist/Subject Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hess, Thomas B.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Thomas Hess papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.5 Linear Feet (Boxes 5-9, OVs 13, 15-16)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1946-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hessthom, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The contents of the general files are listed and arranged alphabetically.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Sound recordings have been digitized for research access.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The bulk of the material in the artist and subject files consist of photographs, but printed material, writings, and other records are also found. Many of the photographs are labeled or marked, possibly for use in publications. Photographs are of artwork, artists, and colleagues of Hess. Hess is depicted alongside many of the artists including Salvador Dalí. The material on Ray Johnson features flyers and copies of collages created for advertisements. The file for Isamu Noguchi includes plans and research photographs for an unrealized project to build a park in New York. Willem de Kooning's files are extensive and include biographical information, bibliographies, correspondence, interview transcripts, lists of artwork, notes, a manuscript about de Kooning by George Dickerson, printed materials, photographs, and two sound tape reels of a conversation between Hess, de Kooning, and Harold Rosenberg recorded by Betty Wolff.