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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
Charlotte Chambliss papers
Collection
Identifier: 081
Content Description
Correspondence, invitations, honors and awards, clippings, programs, announcements, speeches, writings, and other ephemera pertaining to Chambliss' career as an artist and educator.
Dates:
Other: 1962-1979
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Chicago Music Association collection
Collection
Identifier: 86
Content Description
This collection is comprised of 7.84 linear feet of printed items of the Chicago Music Association, the first incorporated branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. and of collected printed items highlighting the musical activities of the members of the Association, the recipients of its yearly cash awards, and other professional African American musicians, singers and organizations. Formats in the collection include programs, playbills, flyers and newsletters. The bulk of...
Dates:
1936 - 1991, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Claude Clark papers
Collection
Identifier: 773
Content Description
The Claude Clark papers document the life and work of Clark, an African American painter, printmaker, and educator active from the 1940s through the 1990s. The collection dating from circa 1935 to 2001 consists of correspondence, exhibition catalogs and invitations, teaching materials, writings, photographs, and moving image formats.
The earliest documents are reproductions of family photographs and Clark’s contributions to The Wissahickson, the school magazine at Roxborough High...
Dates:
Other: 1935-2001
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Vivian Ellis papers
Collection
Identifier: 147
Content Description
The papers of New Orleans-born, self-taught artist Vivian Ellis include catalogs, posters, brochures and other printed ephemera about exhibits, both individual and group, in which Ellis has been included. Most of the items are in German, and many of the exhibits opened in Germany where the artist resides and works as a military nurse. Additional materials include photographs of Ellis' father, Reverend Aaron Ellis, former pastor of the Greater Rose Hill Baptist Church in New Orleans
Dates:
Other: 1950-2004
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
Marr-McGee Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 246
Scope and Contents
The Marr-McGee Family papers document the lives of writer, photographer, and cultural promoter Warren Marr II; his wife, attorney, community activist, and energy consultant Carmel Carrington Marr; and his sister, nurse, and race relations advocate Grace Marr Nugent. The key topics covered in this collection are the founding and administration of the Amistad Research Center; Black arts and theater; community development and relations; historically Black colleges and universities; human rights...
Dates:
Created: 1915-2000; Other: Majority of material found in 1961-1985; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1971
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Francisco Mora papers
Collection
Identifier: 574
Content Description
Francisco Mora is a renowned Mexican painter and printmaker, as well as the husband of artist Elizabeth Catlett. His papers include a resume, correspondence, newspaper clippings, exhibition announcements, lists of Mora's works, photographs, sketches, and writings by Mora. Additionally, the papers consist of five file units of curriculum vita, resumes, contracts and material on his various exhibitions. Also included are two photographs of Mora and cards with prints of his artwork.
Dates:
Other: 1973-2001
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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