Wildenhain, Marguerite Friedlaender, b. 1896 d. 1985
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Marguerite Wildenhain papers, 1930-1982
3.3 linear ft. (on 4 microfilm reels)
Reel(s): 5045-5048
Biographical material, correspondence, notes, writings, art work, a scrapbook, printed material, photographs, and audio-visual material document the career of ceramist Marguerite Wildenhain.
Biographical material, 1943, consists of 4 biographical sketches. Correspondence, 1940-1981, is with patrons, students, and colleagues including Eugene Anderson, T. S. Eliot, and Gerhard Marcks. One letter, Mar. 3, 1980, from Marcks contains a photograph of Wildenhain and other German potters. Notes, 1952-1980, consist of lists of museum exhibition and lecture sites, collectors, and students. Writings, 1940-1979, include essays and lectures by Wildenhain as well as typescripts for her books Pottery: Form and Expression, The Invisible Core, and ...That We Look and See: An Admirer Looks at the Indian. There are also 2 short essays by others about Marguerite and Frans Wildenhain. Art work, 1961-1969, consists of designs for pottery, a floorplan, and a diagram of a kick wheel. A scrapbook, 1934-1963, contains clippings, exhibition announcements, and a photograph of art work.
Printed material includes clippings, 1932-1981, exhibition announcements and catalogs, 1968-1982, a press release, brochures, concerning Wildenhain and pottery classes, and books Kleine Bauhaus-Fibel, 1974, by Hans Wingler, and ...That We Look and See: An Admirer Looks at the Indians, 1979, by Wildenhain. Photographs are of Marguerite and Frans Wildenhain, 1930-1973, the Pond Farm Workshop, 1980, art works, 1951-1976, and exhibition installations, 1948-1962. There is also a family photograph album, 1933-1935. The audio-visual material consists of 2 motion picture films "Scripps College", 1954, recording a lecture by Wildenhain, and "Pond Farm", ca. 1965, recording Wildenhain at work. (Both films have been transferred onto a VHS videotape)
Donated 1973-1981 by Marguerite Wildenhain.
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