Giulio V. Blanc papers, 1920-1995

This extensive series contains artist files Giulio Blanc collected and arranged alphabetically by name of artist. The files contain scattered correspondence, newspaper clippings, original writings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and miscellaneous materials, one in born-digital form.

Several of the artist files are further broken down into areas such as Biographical Material, Letters, Writings, Notes, Printed Material, Audio material, and Photographs. Examples of Biographical material include curricula vita and resumes, fellowship applications, copies of birth certificates, written statements by artists concerning their work, and brief reference information written by Blanc about the artists and their artwork.

Letters are from art institutions, artists, curators, art historians and friends and are addressed primarily to Giulio Blanc, although a number of letters are addressed to other individuals. Found are original letters, photocopies, or facsimiles and occasionally include attachments such as exhibition announcements, newspaper clippings or photographs. Greeting cards and postcards are also found here.

Writings consists of unpublished material such as draft copies of essays and articles, papers written for courses, as well as poems, journal entries, and other original writings. Printed material includes exhibition announcements and catalogs, public program brochures, invitations to exhibition openings, and published articles and newspaper clippings. These are recorded by name of item.

In addition, the artists files also house interviews conducted by Blanc and recorded on audio cassette tape. Those interviewed are artist Enrique Riverón, curator José Gomez Sícre, Cuban ethnographer Lydia Cabrera speaking on the work of Wifredo Lam (Wifredo Lam files), Eva Frajaville on Agustin Fernández (Agustin Fernández files), and Elena Peláez de Medero discussing the work of her sister, Amelia Peláez (Amelia Peláez files).

Of special interest in this series are a number of documents in the files of artists Wifredo Lam, Amelia Peláez and Enrique Riverón. These include rare exhibition announcements and invitations, exhibition catalogs, clippings from European newspapers and various other original documents that date from the 1920s-1990s. An itemized list of these documents is found in the

See Appendix for list of printed material from Series 3 for Wifredo Lam, Amelia Peláez, and Enrique Riverón

"Files of Cuban Artists" disk to Maria Brito are on reel 5476; Lydia Cabrera to Vicente Dopico are on reel 5477; Antonia Eiriz to Lourdes Gomez-Franca are on reel 5478; José Gómez Sicre to Raquel Lázaro are on reel 5479; Lilia Lazo to Ricardo Pau-Llosa are on reel 5480; Amelia Peláez to Enrique Riverón, Newspaper Clippings are on reel 5481; Enrique Riverón, Articles by Enrique Riverón to Susan Sori are on reel 5482; Rafael Soriano to Ricardo Zulueta are on reel 5483.