Joan Kron papers, 1959-1971
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Collection Information
Size: 1.4 Linear feet
Summary: The papers of New York City art entrepreneur, curator, and journalist Joan Kron date from 1959 to 1971 and measure 1.4 linear feet. The papers include correspondence, scattered financial records, notes and writings, printed material, photographs, a sound and video recording, and project/exhibition files concerning Kron's involvement in the 1960s with the exhibtions of the Arts Council of the Young Men's/Women's Hebrew Association (YM/WHA)of Philadelphia and her business, the Beautiful Bag and Box Co.
Biographical/Historical Note
Joan Kron (circa 1928-) is a fashion and style journalist in New York City, but began her career in Philadelphia as an advocate of avante-garde artists and co-founder of The Beautiful Bag Co. which worked with artists to produce commercial household and fashion art products. Kron worked on projects with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Indiana, among others.
Related Materials
Additional copies of microfilm reels 4224-4225 are available at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Also found in the Archives are selected papers of the Young Men's/Women's Hebrew Association Arts Council that were loaned by Judith Golden for microfilming, and are now available only on microfilm reels 3898. Another small collection of printed material from the YM/WHA records was donated by Acey Wolgin and microfilmed on reel 4340, and transferred to the Smithsonian American Art Museum Library's vertical files.
Also in the Archives
Tags
- Kron, Joan
- Watts, Robert M.
- Venturi, Robert
- Dine, Jim
- Christo
- Segal, George
- Paik, Nam June
- Lichtenstein, Roy
- Sabol, Audrey
- Rosenberg, Karl
- Saint-Phalle, Niki de
- Turner, Evan H.
- Tinguely, Jean
- Indiana, Robert
- Hendricks, Geoffrey
- Kaprow, Allan
- Oldenburg, Claes
- Johnson, Ray
- Klüver, Billy
- Maitin, Sam
- Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of Philadelphia. Arts Council
- Beautiful Bag Co. (Philadelphia,Pa.)
- Tonight Show (Television Program)
- Curators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Pop art
- Wearable art United States
- Design, Industrial -- United States
- Works of art
- Video recordings
- Drawings
- Sound recordings
- Photographs
- Paintings
- Ledgers (account books)
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