Subject Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Starr, Nina Howell, 1903-2000
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content: Nina Howell Starr papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6.4 Linear Feet (Boxes 2-8, 25)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1939-1996
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.starnina, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The series is organized alphabetically by name or topic according to Starr's original arrangement.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: General subject files compiled and organized by Starr contain research about artists and art history topics; correspondence with or about artists, galleries friends, and acquaintances; photographs of artists, friends, artwork, and exhibitions; and membership documents.  Generally, the contents of each file or group of files vary widely and may contain printed materials, photographs, and writings.   There is correspondence related to Starr's exhibitions and publications, including at the Mid Town "Y" Gallery (1977), the Witkin Gallery (1991), the Jehu Gallery (1981), and the Huntington Galleries (1974). Files also include correspondence with and photographs of Stephanie Cohen, Henry DiSpirito, Henri Ghent, photographer Consuelo Kanaga and husband Wallace Putnam, Margot Starr Kernan, Stanton Mac-donald Wright, Paul Strand, John Szarwarski, and artist William Zorach and his wife, Marguerite.  Particularly rich files exist for Evelyn Daitz, Director of the Witkin Gallery, regarding Starr's 1991 exhibition; Van Deren Coke, Director of the George Eastman Company, which includes Christmas cards from Coke to Starr; the Fotofolio printing company; Henri Ghent, Curator of The Brooklyn Museum's Community Gallery; the Sharon Arts Center; Paul Strand, including pictures of he and his wife taken by Starr in 1966; and photographer Jerry Uelsman, including Christmas cards.  There is also a writing by Starr about Walker Evans entitled, "Walker Evans in New Haven."