Tarry Rivers, and the critic Clement Greenberg studied with 

 Hofmann. The Hans Hofmann Papers span the dates 1911 to 

 1966, with the bulk of the material covering the period 1945— 

 1965. Roughly one quarter of the collection comprises per- 

 sonal papers. Fully half comprises art books, periodicals, and 

 shorter works collected by Hofmann and frequently annotated 

 by him. 



Liza Kirwin, Southeast Regional Collector, traveled to Tesu- 

 que, New Mexico, in 1998 to collect the papers of Chuck and 

 Jan Rosenak. For the past two decades, the Rosenaks have 

 devoted their energies to studying and collecting twentieth 

 century American folk art. Their papers consisr of their re- 

 search material gathered in the course of writing three books: 

 Museum of American Folk An Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century 

 American Folk An and Anna (1991), The People Speak: Navajo 

 Folk An (1994), and Contemporary American Folk An: A 

 Collector's Guide (1996). 



Among other new acquisitions in FY 1998 was the Lily 

 Harmon's Research Collection on J.B. Neumann, which con- 

 sisted of Harmon's research material for a biography of an 

 dealer J.B. Neumann (1887-1961), who was director of the 

 New Art Circle Gallery, New York. The collection consists of 

 photographs, interview tapes, transcripts of letters between 

 Neumann and an dealer Karl Nierendorf from 1925 to 1934, 

 and letters to Clifford Odets, as well as the unpublished biog- 

 raphy itself. Another notable addition was the records of O- 

 Toole-Ewald Art Associates, including files on artists Louise 

 Nevelson, Clyfford Still, Roy Lichtenstein, and Kenneth 

 Nolan, as well as materials on gallery owners and collectors. 

 The Archives also acquired documents from artist Joseph Sol- 

 man (b. 1909) and the Richard Wunder Research Collection 

 on Harriet Blackstone, a painter who was a rurn-of-the-cen- 

 tury colleague and friend of William Merritt Chase and 

 Thomas Dewing. 



A major addition to the Archives was approximately 100 

 feet of the papers of sculptor/painter Claire Falkenstein (1908— 

 1997). More than 60 sketchbooks and a large number of draw- 

 ings complete this significant collection. Among Falkenstein's 

 famous commissions were the gates at the home (and now 

 museum) of Peggy Guggenheim in Venice. The Archives col- 

 lected an addition to the Jacob Lawrence/Gwendolyn Knight 

 Papers, including thtee feet of correspondence with art 

 museums, galleries, and friends. Also added were the papers 

 of Los Angeles artist John Altoon [Altoonian] (1925— 1969), 

 who was a major figure in the Los Angeles art scene from the 

 late 1950s until his death. The Archives collected the papers of 

 Beniamino Buffano (1889— 1970), documenting the life and 

 career of San Francisco's favorite sculptot. 



Other collections include additions to the Betty Parsons 

 Papers, comprising correspondence (1944-1982), calen- 

 dars/date books (1933—1981), and exhibition announcements 

 and clippings (1929-1944). Additions were made to the 

 Eugene Goosen Papers, the William I. Homer Papers, and the 

 Reginald Marsh Papers, as well as a gift of papers (1946-1989) 

 from the sculptor Dmitri Hadzi (b. 1921). The Archives ac- 



quired papers from the New York sculptor William Walcutt 

 (1819— 1882). These papers include a handwritten journal 

 documenting his voyage from New York City to London in 

 1852 and a notebook containing notes made during the 

 voyage, as well as a sketchbook dating ca. 1853 and letters writ- 

 ten between 1878 and 1880. The Archives also collected select 

 papers from the estate of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. (1929— 

 1998), folk art collector, founder of the Museum of American 

 Folk Art, and Smithsonian benefactor. 



On March 18—21, 1998, Director Richard Wattenmaker and 

 Southeast Regional Collector Dr. Liza Kirwin traveled to Puer- 

 ro Rico to meet with directors of museums and archives and 

 explore a potential microfilming project documenting art in 

 Puerto Rico. Their trip underscored the significance of the 

 Archives' current (FY 1998) survey of art-related manuscript 

 material in Puerto Rico as the foundation fot future research 

 and microfilming. The trip was underwritten by a generous 

 grant from the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Fund. Dr. Wat- 

 tenmaker and Ms. Kirwin visited Puerto Rico's major cultural 

 institutions, including the Luis Mufios Marin Foundation, the 

 Museum of Art in Ponce, the Institute of Puerto Rican Cul- 

 ture, the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Pedras, and the 

 Athenaeum. 



The Archives received a grant from the Smithsonian Latino 

 Initiatives Fund administered by the Office of the Provost in 

 the amount of $42,984, which will fund Spanish-to-English 

 translations of 12 oral history interviews with Cuban- 

 American artists that are currently being conducted. The 

 money will also allow the Archives to broaden the current sur- 

 vey of art-related manuscript material in Puerto Rico that was 

 described above to include a field survey of the papers of Puer- 

 to Rican artists in New York, which will be compiled of infor- 

 mation about the papers of prominent Puerto Rican artists 

 living in New York City and will survey personal papers at 

 museums, historical societies, research institutions, and arts 

 organizations. The two surveys, one in Puerto Rico and the 

 other in New York, promise to illuminate the separate but in- 

 terrelated culture of Puerto Rican artists and greatly enhance 

 the Archives' sources for cross-cultural research. 



The Archives held a four-day meeting of its Regional Col- 

 lectors from around the country October 20—23, 1997. The ses- 

 sions provided an opportunity fot Washington staff to meet 

 and discuss a wide variety of Archives' issues with collectors 

 from New York, Boston, the Southeast, and the West Coast. 

 Topics covered included collections management policies and 

 procedures, with particular emphasis on processing of archival 

 collections and registrarial standards; administrative policies 

 and procedures; development planning; and collecting 

 guidelines. 



Publications and Online Services 



The Archives published A Finding Aid to the Rockwell Kent 

 Papers, which was underwritten by a generous grant from The 

 Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., which also funded the process- 

 ing of the collection. Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), an energetic 



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