Harold K. Zimmerman papers
name: label: Creator
content: Zimmerman, Harold K., 1905-1941
label: Names
content: Bloom, Hyman, 1913-
label: Names
content: Levine, Jack, 1915-2010
label: Names
content: Ross, Denman Waldo, 1853-1935
label: Names
content: Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art critics
label: Occupation
content: Art teachers
label: Occupation
content: Art patrons
label: Occupation
content: Artists' models
label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
label: Topic
content: Expressionism (Art)
label: Topic
content: Art patronage
label: Topic
content: Boston school of painting
label: Topic
content: Art criticism
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1991 by Richard Derby, who received the papers from his mother, Mrs. Hasket (Elizabeth) Derby, the widow of Harold Zimmerman.
creator: label: Creator
content: Zimmerman, Harold K., 1905-1941
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, art instructor; Cambridge, Mass. Zimmerman developed an experimental method of teaching drawing from memory or the "visual imagination." He was the first drawing teacher of Boston Expressionists Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine in ca. 1928-1929. Denman Ross, an influential educator, art collector and painter, became the instructor and patron of Bloom and Levine shortly after he wrote his essay on Zimmerman's experiment in art teaching.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet ((on one microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: l930-1954
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.zimmharo
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4961 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An etching by Zimmerman; photographs of Zimmerman, his wife, Spanish gypsies used as models, and of artwork by Zimmerman and Hyman Bloom; and newspaper clippings, 1933. Other material includes sympathy letters received by Mrs. Zimmerman after Harold Zimmerman's death in 1941; letters referring to sales of artwork and a possible exhibition of Zimmerman's work at the Fogg Art Museum, 1941-1954; typescript of "An Experiment in Art Teaching" by Denman W. Ross with illustrations and captions describing Zimmerman's experimental teaching method of drawing to the young Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine; and an incomplete edited typescript with a draft of a letter by Ross to Paul J. Sachs about Zimmerman's teaching experiment, 1930.