Adelheid Lange Roosevelt papers, 1955-1959

Roosevelt, Adelheid Lange, b. 1878 d. 1962
Painter, Sculptor
Paris, France; New York, N.Y.; St. Louis, Mo.; Zurich, Switzerland

Collection size: 69 items (partially microfilmed on 2 reels)

Collection Summary: Correspondence, photographs, and memoirs.

REEL 3471: Roosevelt's memoirs; correspondence between Leila Roosevelt Westley and the Childs Gallery, Boston, concerning the sale of work by Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Jacques Villon and Francis Picabia.

REEL 5284: Photographs of Roosevelt, her work, and a photograph of Francis Picabia.

Biographical/Historical Note: Abstract and cubist sculptor; Paris, France and New York, N.Y. Studied with Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Constantin Brancusi in Paris.

Donated by Douglas Hyland, 1981 and 1983.

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