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Art, American

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Belisario R. Contreras Papers on New Deal Art,

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 486 BC
Scope and Content The collection contains the material for Belisario Contreras' book Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art, London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1983. The collection consists of documents on the New Deal art programs of the Roosevelt administration during the 1930's and 1940's. It includes the official correspondence of Edward Bruce, Holger Cahill, and Forbes Watson, books and articles on New Deal art and the federal...
Dates: 1860-1976 (bulk 1933-1942)

Fényes-Curtin-Paloheimo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: nmsfamh0011
Abstract

This collection documents the lives of three generations of one family, grandmother, Eva Scott Muse Fényes, mother, Leonora S.M. Curtin, and daughter, Leonora Curtin Paloheimo. The personal papers of the women contain extensive correspondence, diaries, thousands of photographs, business and financial documents, travel records, scrapbooks, clippings, and ephemera.

Dates: 1847-2005