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Artists

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Alternate ROOTS records

 Collection
Identifier: 803
Content Description The records of Alternate ROOTS at the Amistad Research Center (ARC) consists of the entire body of the activities of the organization and its members from late 1975 to 2017. The records document a thorough and thoughtful exploration of the arts as a form of social justice. At 111 linear feet, the records consist of correspondence and memoranda, minutes of meetings, newsletters, publicity materials, policy papers, and printed ephemera, as well as an extensive collection of electronic media...
Dates: 1975-2017

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

Arthur Berry papers addendum

 Collection
Identifier: 551-1
Content Description This addition to the papers of artist and educator Arthur Berry is comprised of correspondence, photographs, biographical information, news clippings, writings and speeches, programs and catalogs of exhibitions of Berry’s work, some examples of his artwork, and collected materials on fellow African American artists and authors. The correspondence pertains mainly to Berry’s career as an art educator and includes letters with a number of university officials. Other prominent correspondents...
Dates: Other: 1949-2012

Selma H. Burke interviews

 Collection
Identifier: 633
Content Description

Selma H. Burke was an African American teacher and sculptress who designed the portrait for the Roosevelt dime and who founded the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The collection consists of 5 audiocassette tapes of interviews conducted by Clifton H. Johnson with Burke in her home in Pennsylvania from May 7-9, 1991. A separate interview conducted on February 20, 1991 is present on a VHS videotape.

Dates: Other: 1991

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

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

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

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

Sue Jane Smock papers

 Collection — 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

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