Archives of American Art

Sidney Gordin papers

Summary

Collection ID:
AAA.gordsidn
Creators:
Gordin, Sidney, 1918-1996
Dates:
[ca. 1925]-1995
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
1 Linear foot
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Correspondence, 1960-1995; photographs, ca. 1925-1960, files on artists, containing photographs of work, clippings, and exhibition announcements; and original art work by Cooper Union Classmates Jean Wong, Marty Bloom, Rosamund Tirana, Bill King, and Stanley Fisher. Among the correspondents are Edward Albee, Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, Herman Cherry, Herschell Chipp, Norman Kantor, George Lloyd, and Erle Loran.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Artist, sculptor, educator; Berkeley, Calif. Gordin was born in Russia. He emigrated to the U.S. and studied art at the Cooper Union of Art and Architecture in New York. He taught at Pratt Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, Brooklyn College, and the New School for Social Research before accepting a position at the University of California, Berkeley in 1958. He was the head of the art department from 1958-1986.

Administration

Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated 1997 by Eliot Nemzer, Gordin's nephew and executor of his estate.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access
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