Zorach fam, Zorach family
(Show Bio)Zorach family papers, 1900-1987
4.8 linear ft. (on 10 microfilm reels)
Reel(s): NY59/1-NY59/4, NY59/19, and 4957-4961
Biographical material, correspondence, business records, notes, writings, interviews, art work, scrapbooks, printed material, photographs, and artifacts document the artistic careers of William and Marguerite Zorach, and the work of their son, art dealer Tessim Zorach, relating to his parents' work. Included to a lesser degree are materials documenting the work of the Zorach's daughter, artist Dahlov Ipcar.
REELS NY59/1-NY59/4: An artist's statement, biographical sketch, and the manuscript and typescript for William Zorach's autobiography; correspondence, 1916-1958, between William and Marguerite Zorach, and with their daughter and son-in-law Dahlov and Adolph Ipcar, patrons discussing commissions, and colleagues including Jacob Epstein, Charles Sheeler, and Max Weber; lecture notes, 1921-1950, including those from William's history of sculpture class at Columbia, a mailing list, and notes relating to Dahlov's work, 1940; art work, including 16 sketches, 1913, by William Zorach, and 25 childhood drawing by Dahlov; writings, including typescripts of articles by William, 1915-1952, and poems by Marguerite, undated and 1913.
Also, two scrapbooks, primarily concerning William, 1915-1959, containing clippings and exhibition announcements and catalogs, and one about Marguerite, 1911-1939, with clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, a print, and photographs of art work; clippings and exhibition catalogs and announcements, 1913-1957; and photographs, 1917-1945, of William Zorach and his family, his colleagues including Peggy Bacon, Marcel Duchamp, Jacob Epstein, Robert Laurent, David Smith, Joseph Stella, and Max Weber, group photographs of Art Students League instructors and classes, and photographs of art work.
REEL NY59/19: A poem by Alfred Kreymborg, 1914, illustrated by Marguerite Zorach, and 6 clippings, 1922, about the Zorachs.
REELS 4957-4961 (Ca. 4.5 ft.): Correspondence, primarily letters between Tessim Zorach and scholars, galleries and museums concerning the study and exhibition of his parents' work, but also including a letter from Marguerite Zorach to British painter Jessica Dismorr, 1922; notes and writings, consisting of 3 notebooks, 1968, listing art works, lecture notes for "Reminiscences of Provincetown" by Tessim Zorach, 1987, typescripts of "The Holy Land" by Marguerite Thompson (Zorach), and books, Young Poems by William and Marguerite Zorach by Carl N. Schmalz, 1966, and Zorach's Carved Sculpture by Roberta Tarbell, 1972; art work, consisting of a sketchbook and 40 drawings by William, ca. 1900, an etching and a traced design by Marguerite, and a lithograph by an unknown artist; a scrapbook, 1922-1953, containing clippings on Marguerite; printed material, including clippings by Marguerite, 1913-1914, clippings about the Zorachs, 1912-1981, exhibition announcements and catalogs, 1923-1981, for William, Marguerite, Dahlov Ipcar, and others, press releases, 1980, newsletters, 1968-1982, brochures concerning the
Location of Originals: Reels NY59/1-4 and NY59/19: Originals returned to William Zorach after microfilming; probably now in the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division.
Material on reels NY59/1-4 and NY59/19 lent for microfilming 1959 by William Zorach (and presumably donated to the Library of Congress). Additional papers, reels 4957-4961, were received from their son, Tessim, 1976-1982, including one group transferred from the National Collection of Fine Arts, 1979, and microfilmed in 1994 with funding provided by the Philip Birnbaum Foundation.
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