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Richard E. Filipowski papers, circa 1940-1998

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Series 5: Project Files, 1944-1976
0.6 Linear feet
Boxes 2-3, OV 6-7

Project files contain correspondence, business records, notes, printed material, sketches and photographs for commissions in architecture, sculpture and furniture design. Notable folders include projects with Moholy-Nagy, Temple Emanu-El with letters from William W. Wurster, Temple B'rith Kodesh with letters from Belluschi, Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church with letters from Otto E. Reichert-Facilides, the Art in the Embassies Program, and design for the RKO General Building. There are also files on programs which Filipowski assisted in planning and organizing, including the ICA's Design in Industry exhibition, the Boston Art Festival, and an exhibition of Filipowski's work at the Fitchburg Art Museum.
The projects in this series are arranged chronologically as the original order was maintained.
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Canadians All, 1944
2
64
Projects with Moholy-Nagy, 1946
2
65
Sherman Hotel Beauty Salon Project with Moholy-Nagy, circa 1946
2
66
Smith College Dormitories Competition, 1946
2
67
International Furniture Competition, 1948
2
68
Design in Industry Exhibition (1952) - Correspondence and Printed Material, 1952
2
69
Design in Industry Exhibition (1952) - Photographs, 1952
2
70-71
Hampshire Craft Furniture, 1954
Oversized material housed in OV 7, Folder 1.
2
72
Boston Art Festival Committee, 1954-1955
2
73
Temple Emanu-El Bronze Menorah, 1956-1957
2
74
Power Strut Inc. Sculpture Installation, 1957
2
75
Temple Israel, 1957-1959
Includes 3 lantern slides.
2
76
Dallas Sheraton Hotel Commission
Contracts and Financial Records, 1958-1959
2
77
Correspondence, 1958-1959
2
78
Photographs, 1958-1959
2
79
Printed Material and Notes, 1958-1959
2
80
Merit Oil Company Sculpture, 1959
Oversized material housed in OV 6, Folder 3.
2
81
Temple B'Rith Kodesh
Correspondence, 1962-1963
2
82
Insurance, Sketches, Notes, 1962
2
83
Photographs, 1962-1963
2
84
Printed Material, 1962-1963
Oversized material housed in OV 7, Folder 2.
2
85
Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1963-1965
2
86
Revere Copper & Glass Incorporated, 1964-1965
3
1
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1964-1979
3
2
Boston Sheraton Hotel Commission, 1965-1968
Oversized material housed in OV 6, Folder 4.
3
3
Art in the Embassies Program, 1966-1970
3
4
Richard Filipowski Sculpture Exhibition - Fitchburg Art Museum (1969), 1968-1969
3
5
Locust Plaza Sculpture, 1971-1972
3
6
RKO General Building Government Center Competition, 1973
3
7
"Projected Color" Research Project, 1976
3
8
Oversized Merit Oil Company Sculpture Design from Box 2, Folder 81, 1959
OV 6
3
Oversized Boston Sheraton Hotel Pedestal Design from Box 3, Folder 3, 1965
OV 6
4
Oversized Hampshire Craft Furniture Storage Unit Design from Box 2, Folder 72, 1954
OV 7
1
Oversized Temple B'Rith Kodesh Printed Material from Box 2, Folder 85, 1968
OV 7
2

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