The papers of sculpcor Heinz Warneke (1895-1983), born in 

 Germany, and who migrated to the United States in 1923, 

 have also been donaced to the Archives. Warneke was head of 

 the sculpture department of the Corcoran School of Art from 

 the early 1940s to 1970. 



Another rich collection, papers (1907-1973) of painter 

 Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890-1973) including corre- 

 spondence (1909-1915) from the artist and his brother Wil- 

 lard Huntington Wright to their mother, and a diary 

 (1909) from Paris concerning color theories and aesthetics, 

 were donated by the artist's wife. Included is a treatise on 

 color with palette and color wheels and an untitled manu- 

 script loosely based on the lives of Stanton and Willard 

 Wright as well as five journal notebooks kept by the artist 

 from 1939-1973. 



Finally, the Archives was bequeathed the papers of art histo- 

 rian Albert Elsen (1928-1995) professor of art history at Stan- 

 ford University and president of the College Art Association 

 from 1974-1976. Elsen was also author of the "Statement on 

 Standards for Sculptural Reproduction and Preventive Mea- 

 sures to combat Unethical Casting in Bronze." Long-time 

 member of the Archives' West Coast Advisory Committee, he 

 was instrumental in the acquisition of several collections. This 

 collection includes correspondence, writings, photographs and 

 printed materials related to his teaching and research in such 

 figures as Rodin, Matisse, Seymour Lipton and Paul Jenkins. 



Exhibitions 



An exhibition of a promised gift of papers of sculptor Louise 

 Bourgeois was presented at the New York Regional Center, 

 November 11 to December I, 1994. Ms. Bourgeois donated the 

 papers to the Archives in honor of Agnes Gund, the well- 

 known collector and supporter of contemporary art, and the 

 Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art. 

 Mts. Gund was honored by the Archives of American Art at a 

 black tie benefit dinner at the University Club on November 

 17 attended by 280 people. 



Katharine Kuh (1904-1994), an art historian, critic, gallery 

 owner, and curator, gave the first installment of her papers to 

 the Archives in 1971 and continued to make gifts of her corre- 

 spondence throughout the 1970s and 1980s. It was her wish 

 that after her death the remainder of her letters, manuscripts, 

 photographs, and diaries also be given to the Archives. 

 Archives' staff member Nancy Malloy and art historian Avis 

 Berman curated a wonderful exhibition at the Archives' New 

 York Gallery featuring Kuh's papers, which document the 

 broad range of interests and contributions to art history and 

 criticism made by this remarkable scholar. 



Letters, sketchbooks, diaries, travel journals, and photo- 

 graphs of abstract expressionist painter Georgio Cavallon 

 (1904-1989) were on display at the Archives' Gallery in the 

 New York Center from April 4 to June 30. Complementing 

 the papers were a selection of 18 of Cavallon's paintings and 

 watercolors that were lent for the exhibition. Critic Robert 

 Hughes praised Cavallon's work as "one of the most lucid, 



steadfast, and articulate bodies of work in modern American 

 painting." Diane Kelder, Professor at CUNY Graduate Center 

 and Chair of the Art Department at Staten Island College, was 

 the guest curator. 



Also on view at the Archives' New York Regional Center 

 was an exhibition featuring highlights from collections re- 

 cently acquired by the Archives of American Art. Among the 

 items displayed were letters, sketches, and books from private 

 libraries of artists and critics such as Peter Dean, Frank Stella, 

 Robert Smithson, and Lucy Lippard. Also on view were origi- 

 nal birthday cards given to collector Roy Neuberger from art- 

 ists such as Jackson Pollack, Romare Bearden, Stuart Davis, 

 and Alexander Calder. 



Publications 



The Archives' latest publication, Government and Art: A Guide 

 to Sources in the Archives 0} American Art, will be published in 

 late Fall. In addition to other materials the Archives has the 

 largest collection of manuscripts, archives, and oral history 

 interviews documenting the New Deal arts programs of the 

 1930s. 



Oral History 



During the 1995 Fiscal Year, the Archives conducted a number 

 of new oral history interviews. Among figures interviewed 

 were New York art dealer Paula Cooper, interviewed by Bill 

 Weiss, who speaks of her gallery experiences and the begin- 

 nings of her involvement with such contemporaries as Walter 

 de Maria, Carl Andre, and other sculptors of the 1960s. Paul 

 Karlstrom, West Coast Regional Director interviewed sculp- 

 tor Viola Frey (b. 1933), as part of the Women in the Arts Oral 

 History Project, she discusses her education and recalls artists 

 such as Richard Diebenkorn, Marc Rothko, and Robert Arne- 

 son. Claire Falkenstein (b. 1908), interviewed by Paul J. 

 Karlstrom, provided a candid discussion of her development 

 as an artist while a student at the University of California, 

 Berkeley. Falkenstein discusses her largest commission at 

 St. Basil's Cathedral in Los Angeles. She also talks about her 

 teaching in the Bay area and friendships with Clyfford Still as 

 well as meetings with such figures as Karl Appel, Martha 

 Jackson and Sam Francis. In an interview Fritz Scholder 

 (b. 1937) discusses his family background and growing up 

 in the parallel worlds of Anglo and Native American cul- 

 ture, his education and his travel in Europe and Egypt as 

 well as the importance of magic and occult in his work. 

 He also recalls such contemporaries as Wayne Thiebaud, 

 Vincent Price, Georgia O'Keeffe, Agnes Martin and 

 Leonard Baskin. 



The Archives has undertaken an oral history project in 

 cooperation with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New 

 York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Oral History Proj- 

 ect has interviewed twelve of the approximately twenty- 

 five individuals who are or have been closely connected 

 with the museum's operations and programs. These inter- 



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