Papers of and relating to John D. Graham
name: label: Creator
content: Graham, John, 1887-1961
label: Names
content: Graham, John, 1887-1961
label: Names
content: Mayer, Jack
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
label: Topic
content: Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Cubism
label: Topic
content: Surrealism
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming by Jack Mayer, 1971.
creator: label: Creator
content: Graham, John, 1887-1961
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jack Mayer was an art dealer and owner of Gallery Mayer, New York, which handled the work of painter John Graham. Graham, born Ivan Gratsianovitch Dombrovski in Kiev, Russia in 1886 (baptised in 1881, hence the use of that year on many authoritative sources), came to N.Y. in 1920 and was a central figure among American avant-garde artists, especially from the late 1920s to 1940s. Graham was also a collector of African art which inspired an interest in primitivism in his work. Graham moved to Mexico in 1936. In 1937 he published Systems and Dialectics of Art, stimulating American artists interest in primitive art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Partial microfilm reel.
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1950-1960]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.grahjohp
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 96 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Jack Mayer, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Corrected and annotated mss. by Graham "Art History" with related notes (ca. 350 p. total); an autobiographical sketch, entitled "Autoportrait" (3 p. typescript); and an 8 p. summary by Angus Deming of an interview she conducted with Graham, Sept. 1960 in Paris.