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Archives of American Art
Theodore Barbarossa papers
Summary
- Collection ID:
- AAA.barbtheo
- Creators:
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Barbarossa, Theodore Cotillo, 1906-1992Kennedy, Kennedy, Keefe and Carney (Firm)
- Dates:
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1931-1991
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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0.8 Linear feet8.6 Linear feetAddition
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Biographical data; awards and citations; personal and business correspondence with: Inslee Hopper, consultant to the Chief of the Section of Fine Arts; Richard T. Feller, Clerk of Works for the Washington Cathedral; and Kennedy, Kennedy, Keefe and Carney (formerly Maginnis and Walsh and Kennedy), architects for the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. and the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, Md. concerning his work at those churches; correspondence regarding his work at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the St. Thomas' Church, NYC, and others; sketches, drawings, etchings and studies for reliefs and sculpture; clippings; and photographs of Barbarossa and his sculpture.
Scope and Contents
ADDITION: Biographical data; awards and citations; military records; correspondence, mostly business but including a few letters from friends and fellow sculptors such as Richard Barthe, Walker Hancock, Thomas Lo Medico, and Heinz Warneke; writings; sketches, drawings, and etchings by Barbarossa and others; studies for relief and figural sculpture; photographs and slides of Barbarossa, others, and of his sculpture, notably of his commissioned sculpture for the New York World's Fair (1939), for several Treasury Dept. art projects in the 1930s, and for his post-WWII commissions for churches, primarily in Baltimore, Md., Washington, D.C. and NYC, and Catholic schools in Tarrytown and Yonkers, NY.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Sculptor; Belmont, Mass. Died 1992.
Administration
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated 1980 by Theodore Barbarossa. Addition donated 1996 by Susan Gray Barbarossa, Barbarossa's daughter.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
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Keywords
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