Murals without walls [videorecording] / WNET/Thirteen; director, Alfred Broderick; producer, Elizabeth Davis; artistic consultant, Ruth Bowman
Describes the 1972 discovery and later conservation of Arshile Gorky's murals "Aviation" at the Newark, N.J. International Airport, executed in 1937 by Gorky as part of the Work Projects Administration art project. Art historian Ruth Bowman, N.J. Port Authority employees Saul Wenegrat and Stephen Staempler, and conservator Carroll Wales of Oliver Bros …
Sadakichi Hartmann papers
Letters from artists, members of their families, and dealers, 1906, resulting from Hartmann's commission, apparently from the Art Society of Pittsburgh, to collect and exhibit American drawings for the benefit of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. Writing about their work are Charles H. Davis, Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott, Marcus Waterman, Walter A …
Oral history interview with Elizabeth Bliss Parkinson
Cummings, Paul
An interview of Elizabeth Bliss Parkinson conducted 1978 Jan. 3, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
Interviews of Ohio artists
68 Pages (Transcript: Frederick and John Miller)
Interviews conducted by Elizabeth McClelland. Interviewees include: David E. Davis, Edwin Mieczkowski, Frederick A. Miller (36 p.), John Paul Miller (32 p.), David Ouich, John Pearson, Phyllis L. Sloane, Julian Stanczak and Athena Tacha.
Storm King Art Center records
Files on 121 sculptors including: photographs, printed illustrations, and slides of works of art; a few photographs of sculptors; resumes; exhibition catalogs and announcements, clippings; and some correspondence.
Richard Henry and Elizabeth B. Stoddard letters
Stoddard, Elizabeth B.
Letters received by the Stoddards from writers and artists including: 26 letters from William J. Linton, mostly about poetry, and enclosing several clippings; an 11-page letter from W. Hamilton Gibson reporting that "over 600 friends visited the Studio" and describing in detail the studio's furnishings and contents; a letter from Alexander Lawrie …
Albert Winslow Barker selected papers
The microfilmed Albert Winslow Barker selected papers contain biographical information, including resumes and a typescript by Barker's wife; correspondence with his publisher and dealer, Elizabeth Whitmore; correspondence with Bolton Brown, John Taylor Arms, Albert Fowler, print societies, and suppliers; letters regarding exhibitions; a manuscript on lithography; notes on a course …
Elizabeth S. Navas papers
Correspondence, photographs, clippings, magazines and statements by 20th century artists on their works bought for the Roland P. Murdock Collection of the Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas, by Navas.
R. E. G. (Ron) Davies Air Transport Collection
1847 to 2011
R. E. G. (Ron) Davies (1921 -2011) was an English airline historian, who worked in airline marketing research before joining the National Air and Space Museum in 1981. He served as a curator until his retirement in 2011. This reference collection was compiled by Davies during his career and consists of historical data and materials—including photographs, timetables, and memorabilia—from the airlines of the world.
Smithsonian Institution 150th Birthday on the Mall Interviews
As part of the Smithsonian Institution’s celebration of its Sesquicentennial in 1996, a 150th Birthday Party was held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., over the course of two days in August. At the Smithsonian Institution Archives tent, staff of the Institutional History Division and volunteers conducted interviews with 39 Smithsonian …
