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Richmond Barthe papers
Collection
Identifier: 034
Scope and Contents
The papers of Richmond Barthe, Harlem Renaissance sculptor, consist of correspondence, contact books, programs, brochures, news and magazine clippings, notes, lists, financial information, poetry, letters, passports, publications, resumes, advertisements, and photographs. The papers have been arranged in three general groups of correspondence, other materials, and photographs. The correspondence has been arranged into nine divisions alphabetically according to topic and...
Dates:
Created: 1901-1989; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1987
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Black Arts Collection
Collection
Identifier: 048
Content Description
This artificial collection of memorabilia documents Black artists (1908-2002). This collection consists of news clippings, programs, posters, exhibition catalogs, correspondence, announcements, and invitations arranged in chronological order.
Dates:
Other: 1908-2002
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Elizabeth Catlett papers
Collection
Identifier: 078
Scope and Contents
The papers of Elizabeth Catlett, sculptor, graphic artist, teacher, and political activist, consist of correspondence, audiotape cassettes, biographical data, news clippings, notes, photographs, exhibition catalogs, posters, writings, and a reel-to-reel film. The papers have been arranged into three general groups: correspondence, non-correspondence and oversized items, and is arranged alphabetically according to topic and chronologically within each file unit. Non-correspondence includes...
Dates:
Created: 1959-1984; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Elizabeth Catlett papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 078-1
Scope and Contents
The Elizabeth Catlett papers addendum consists primarily of Catlett's professional correspondence (1959-2003) and items collected by her throughout her professional life as a sculptor, graphic artist, teacher, and political activist. The collection measures 12.5 linear feet and dates from 1942-2003, with the bulk of material dating from 1976-2000. Correspondence in the collection is comprised mostly of letters received by Catlett from museums, galleries, and individuals...
Dates:
Created: 1942-2003; Other: Majority of material found in 1976-2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1987
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Elizabeth Catlett papers addendum II
Collection
Identifier: 078-2
Scope and Contents
The addition to the papers of artist Elizabeth Catlett consists of correspondence, photographs, exhibition and event ephemera, and certificates. Events covered within the materials include creation and installation of a commissioned Catlett sculpture at Terrell Place in Washington, D.C. (2003); presentation of The Sharecropper print to the University of Iowa Museum of Art (2002); Elizabeth Catlett’s birthday weekend exhibition celebration at the Stella Jones Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana...
Dates:
Created: 1921-2011; Other: Majority of material found in 1995-2008; Other: Date acquired: 12/03/2014
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Louise Jefferson papers
Collection — Box: 55
Identifier: 597
Scope and Contents
The Louise E. Jefferson papers contain a wide variety of Jefferson’s artistic works including drawings and designs. Additionally, the papers cover decades worth of correspondence, and perhaps most notably, hundreds of photographs from around the world. The bulk of the photographs are from Jefferson’s trips to Africa in the 1960s and 1970s, and over a dozen African countries are represented in the collection. Besides her professional photographs, the collection also contains hundreds of...
Dates:
Created: 1925-2001; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/2002
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Amos Kennedy collection
Collection
Identifier: 808
Content Description
This collection, which is intended to be a continuing collection, is comprised of posters and ephemera printed by African American printer Amos Kennedy. It includes posters produced under his Kennedy Prints imprint and a postcard and ephemera produced under the Press of the Black Cat imprint. The works include quotations from Ella Baker, Frederick Douglass, and Rosa Parks. Of note is a large inscribed poster for a musical event produced by Make Music NOLA in New Orleans, Louisiana, in May...
Dates:
2016
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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
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