Robert Kostka papers
name: label: Creator
content: Kostka, Robert, 1928-
label: Names
content: Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.)
label: Names
content: Biederman, Charles Joseph, 1906-2004
label: Names
content: Gabo, Naum, 1890-1977
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1994 by Robert Kostka.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kostka, Robert, 1928-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, watercolorist, photographer, ceramist; Ashland, Or. Kostka attended the Institute of Design in the late 1940s-1950s. He was influenced at the time by a lecture given in 1948 by painter Naum Gabo, and later included him as a major aspect of his Master's Thesis.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 14 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1954-1993
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kostrobe
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Kostka's résumé, 1993; correspondence, 1954-1955, between Kostka, Charles Biederman and Naum Gabo in which they discuss the philosophy of art in relation to Kostka's Institute of Design Master's Thesis topic (the changing concepts of space between 1913-1930); and clippings, 1989-1993.