Sidney Gross papers, 1939-1969

Gross, Sidney, b. 1921 d. 1969
Painter
N.Y.

Collection size: ca. 400 items (on 2 partial microfilm reels).

Collection Summary: The papers of Sidney Gross include scrapbooks, art works, writings, exhibition catalogs, and a biographical outline.

Reel N70-56: Writings, on the philosophical and psychological implications of art and aesthetics, color theories, artistic techniques, and, generally, the history of art; drawings; exhibition catalogs; clippings; and a few miscellaneous items.

Reel N70-61: A biographical outline; lecture notes kept by one of his students; scrapbooks containing clippings and notices of Gross's shows; and ten letters to Francis Taylor, Gross's former high school art teacher, 1939-1950.

Biographical/Historical Note: Painter, writer; New York, N.Y. Produced primarily abstract paintings.

The lender is the widow of Sidney Gross.

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