Treasures From the Archives of American Art

An online version of an exhibition in AAA's New York Research Center
October 19, 2000 - January 5, 2001

Browse Framed Items on the Walls

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Please note that digital images are not available for all items that were represented in the 2001 exhibition.

Cave at Sorrento, Bay of Naples, June 1848, by Jasper Francis Cropsey Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900), painter. Study, Cave at Sorrento, Bay of Naples, June 1848. Pencil and brown wash with touches of white on blue paper. John Davis Hatch Papers. Gift of John Davis Hatch and the John Davis Hatch Estate, 1960-1996.
Eadweard Muybridge self-portrait Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), photographer. Attributed self-portrait. Albumen silver prints, 1880s. Thomas Anshutz Papers. Gift of Mr. Robert and Mrs. Joy McCarty, 1971.
AAA_macdstan_0001t.jpg (8776 bytes) Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890-1973), painter. Color wheel, Plate I: Inherent - Saturation Spectrum. Stanton Macdonald-Wright Papers. Gift of Jean Macdonald-Wright, 1995.
AAA_blumosca_0001t.jpg (9225 bytes) Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938), painter. Study, The Dance of Factory Life, etc., etc., ca. 1930. Watercolor, gouache, and casein on paper. Oscar Bluemner Papers. Gift of John Davis Hatch, 1970-1985.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), author of The Little Prince, illustrated letter to Hedda Sterne (b. 1916). Ink on paper. Hedda Sterne Papers. Gift of Hedda Sterne, 1970-1983.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942), sculptor, museum founder. Photograph by Baron Adolf de Meyer (1868-1946). Platinum print, ca. 1913. Whitney Museum of American Art, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Papers. Gift of Flora Miller Irving, 1981.
AAA_marsregi_0001t.jpg (12550 bytes) Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), painter. Study for the painting Fourteenth Street Frieze (1944). Pen and ink wash on paper, April 4, 1944, sketchbook no. 27. Reginald Marsh Papers. Gift of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987.
AAA_bassflor_0001t.jpg (13382 bytes) Florence Knoll (b. 1917), architect, designer. Interior design sketch of Hans Knoll's office, 575 Madison Avenue, New York, 1950. Florence Knoll Bassett Papers. Gift of Florence Knoll Bassett, 2000.

 

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), painter. Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). Gelatin silver print, 1920. Gift of Florence Davies, 1966. Photographs of Artists Collection I.
Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), painter. Photograph by Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934). Platinum print, ca. 1908. Ferargil Gallery Records. Anonymous gift, 1968.
William Ivins (1881-1961), museum curator, director. Photograph by Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934). Platinum print, ca.1900. William Ivins Papers. Gift of Barbara Ivins, 1977-1983.
Dorothy Liebes (1899-1972), textile and interior designer. Woman with Calla Lilies. Photograph by Consuelo Kanaga (1894-1978). Gelatin silver print, ca. 1940. Dorothy Liebes Papers. Gift of Dorothy Liebes Estate, 1972-1974.
Alexander Calder (1898-1976), sculptor. Photograph by Herbert Matter (1907-1984). Gelatin silver print, late 1930s. Alexander Calder Papers. Gift of Alexander Calder, 1963.
Hugo Weber (1918-1971), painter. Photograph by Harry Callahan (1912-1999). Gelatin silver print, 1947. Hugo Weber Papers. Gift of Anne Weber, 1971.
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), painter. Photograph by George Platt Lynes (1907-1955). Gelatin silver print, February 21, 1950 (posthumously printed). George Platt Lynes Papers. Gift of Russell Lynes, 1967-1971.
Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), painter. Photograph by Arnold Newman (b. 1918). Gelatin silver print, 1941. Arnold Newman Papers. Gift of Arnold Newman, 1961.
William Edmondson (1883?-1951), sculptor. Photograph by Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989). Gelatin silver print, 1937. Elizabeth McCausland Papers. Gift of Elizabeth McCausland, 1959.
kuniyos4.gif (53546 bytes) Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953), painter, printmaker, photographer. Photograph by Max Yavno (1911-1985). Downtown Gallery Records. Gift of Edith Gregor Halpert Estate, 1972-1978.
Stuart Davis (1892-1964), painter. Photograph by Arnold Newman (b. 1918). Gelatin silver print, December 1941. Arnold Newman Papers. Gift of Arnold Newman, 1961.
Louise Nevelson (1900-1988), sculptor. Photographer unknown. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1931. Louise Nevelson Papers. Gift of Louise Nevelson, 1966-1979.
Nickolas Muray (1892-1965), photographer. Photograph by Edward Steichen (1879-1973). Gelatin silver print, ca. 1928. Nickolas Muray Papers. Gift of Mimi Muray, 1988.
Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), painter, lithographer, photographer. Self-portrait. Gelatin silver print, ca. 1923. Downtown Gallery Records. Gift of Edith Gregor Halpert Estate, 1972-1978.
Lee Krasner (1905-1984), painter. Photograph by Irving Penn (b. 1917). Gelatin silver print, 1972. Lee Krasner Papers. Gift of Lee Krasner Estate, 1985.
Hedda Sterne (b. 1916), painter, and Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), cartoonist. Photograph by George Platt Lynes (1907-1955). Gelatin silver print, 1944. Hedda Sterne Papers. Gift of Hedda Sterne, 1970-1983.
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), painter. Photograph by Hans Namuth (1915-1990). Gelatin silver print, 1950. Rudi Blesh Papers. Gift of Rudi Blesh, 1981.
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). Photograph by Arnold Newman (b. 1918). Gelatin silver print 1959. Arnold Newman Papers. Gift of Arnold Newman, 1961.
Ansel Adams (1902-1984), photographer. "Photomatic" image. Gelatin silver print, 1936. Katharine Kuh Papers. Gift of Katharine Kuh and Katharine Kuh Estate, 1971-1994.
Horace Pippin (1888-1946), painter. Photograph by Arnold Newman (b. 1918). Gelatin silver print, ca. 1940. Downtown Gallery Records. Gift of Edith Gregor Halpert Estate, 1972-1978.
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), painter. Preliminary sketch for the painting As I Opened Fire (1964) and the comic strip on which it was based. Roy Lichtenstein Papers. Gift of Richard Brown Baker.
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), painter. Photograph by Sidney J. Waintrob (b. 1903) Gelatin silver print, May 11, 1954. Waintrob-Budd Photographs of American Artists. Gift of Samuel I. Hoffberg, 1979-1980.

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