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Senga Nengudi papers
Collection
Identifier: 794
Processing Information
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services award MH-245560-OMS-20. Content Description Senga Nengudi papers compile records reflecting more than fifty years of Nengudi’s career and personal life. The papers of Senga Nengudi mainly document her artistic career as a sculptor and performance artist encompassing correspondence, ephemera and photographs. Images and documentation for Nengudi’s...
Dates:
1952-2021, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Cecelia Pedescleaux collection
Collection
Identifier: 576
Content Description
Cecelia Pedescleaux is an African American and Louisiana quilt-maker. This collection includes news articles about her, photographs of a quilting workshop given at the Amistad Research Center, as well as a quilt by Pedescleaux on the Amistad Revolt. Of note is information regarding a quilt exhibition in France in 2008.
Dates:
Other: 1998-1999
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
John T. Scott papers
Collection
Identifier: 334
Scope and Contents
The John T. Scott papers contain materials relating to Scott’s work as an artist and teacher in New Orleans, Louisiana. The collection consists of exhibition announcements and catalogs featuring Scott’s artwork, correspondence with fellow board and committee members of local artistic organizations, Scott’s drawings and designs, and collected material from his time as an art professor at Xavier University. The collection also includes correspondence from art galleries and museums, as well as...
Dates:
Created: 1962-1995; Other: Majority of material found in 1970-1986; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1987
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Sue Jane Smock papers
Collection — Container: Small Collection
Identifier: 2480
Content Description
The papers of artist Sue Jane Smock consist of correspondence, clippings, artist statements, and programs. The bulk of the collection consists of photocopies. Of note is Smock's reminiscences of Jessie Covington Dent, as well as statements made by David M. Thomas, Cultural Counselor of the Embassy of Liberia at the 1957 funeral of Smock's father William H. Mitchell.
Dates:
Other: 1957-2004
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Albert F. Sperath collection
Collection
Identifier: 709
Content Description
This collection documents the research conducted by Sperath to locate and document holdings of artwork by Ellis Wilson in private and institutional hands in preparation for a retrospective exhibition of Wilson’s work curated by Sperath. The exhibition, entitled "The Art of Ellis Wilson," traveled to select museums in Kentucky in 2000. A catalog was produced for the exhibition.Also included are three binders and five boxes of slides documenting artwork by Ellis Wilson. These...
Dates:
Other: 1952-2010
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
William Edward Taylor papers
Collection
Identifier: 430
Content Description
The papers of painter, sculptor, and photographer William Edward Taylor includes correspondence, honors and awards, programs, and a videocassette of a 1983 interview with Taylor on WFYI (PBS) in Indianapolis. Correspondents include: Alvin R. Bergeron, Donald Elder, Susan L. Cahn (of the Jewish Community Center of Indianapolis), and Donald F. Rees (Lay President of the Lutheran Church Council). Additional materials include research for the exhibition and publication entitled "A...
Dates:
Other: 1900-1999
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Yvonne and Curtis Tucker papers
Collection
Identifier: 661
Content Description
Yvonne and Curtis Tucker were a husband and wife team of nationally-known ceramists. Curtis Tucker, originally a painter, became interested in ceramics when he saw the work of his future wife Yvonne Edwards at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was born in Austin, Texas, but raised in San Diego, California. He passed in 1992 after working with his wife for over twenty years. Yvonne Tucker is a professor of art at Florida A&M in Tallahassee. She is a ceramist and sculptor...
Dates:
Other: 1960-2002
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Margaret Rose Vendryes collection
Collection
Identifier: 746
Content Description
The Margaret Rose Vendryes collection consists of research files compiled by Vendryes, an artist and art historian, in preparation for her 2008 book, Barthé: A Life in Sculpture. The collection and Vendryes’ book concern African American sculptor Richmond Barthé, a native of Mississippi and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. The collection dates from 1939-2008 and measures 2.80 linear feet.
The majority of the collection consists of photocopied...
Dates:
Other: 1939-2008
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Ruth G. Waddy papers
Collection
Identifier: 377
Scope and Contents
The papers of African American artist Ruth G. Waddy document her career, particularly the founding of Art West, an African American artists collective in Los Angeles, California, as well as her collaboration with Samella Lewis on the two-volume Black Artists on Art. The collection includes correspondence, catalogs, invitations, programs for plays and musical events, biographical information on Waddy, collected periodicals, news clippings, photographs, and...
Dates:
Created: 1932-1985; Other: Date acquired: 07/01/1985
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Hale Woodruff letters
Collection
Identifier: 2469
Scope and Contents
The Hale Woodruff letters consist of 30 handscript letters, dating from 1973 to 1978, from African American artist Hale Woodruff to his former student Mary Parks Washington. In 1973, Washington wrote to Woodruff to request one of his prints; their correspondence developed over the next five years into a a business relationship, with Washington acting as Woodruff's West Coast agent for sales of his prints. Much of the correspondence concerns the sale of Woodruff's prints and Washington's role...
Dates:
Created: 1973-1978; Other: Date acquired: 08/07/1991
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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