Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Fine, Ruth, 1941-
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- Ruth Fine papers
- Sponsor
- The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.
- Extent
- 15 Linear feet (Box 5-18, 24; OV 25)
- 14.11 Gigabytes (ER09-ER26)
- Date
- 1947-2016
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.fineruth, Series 7
- Type
- Archival materials
- Gigabytes
- Collection Citation
- Ruth Fine Papers, 1929-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Scope and Contents
- Writing and exhibition files, correspondence, artwork, audio and visual recordings, printed and digital material, and photographs related to the various artists who Fine came into direct or indirect contact with throughout her career. Compared to other artists in this series, there is extensive material on the following artists: Romare Bearden, Kathan Brown and the Crown Point Press, George Bunker, Clifford Burke, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, James Magee (and his pseudonym, Annabel Livermore), John Marin, Benton Spruance, Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press, and James McNeil Whistler. Other notable artists are Stephen and Timothy Quay, better known as Brothers Quay, who were students of Fine's at the University of the Arts and frequently corresponded with her after moving to study at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1969. Also found in this series are files related to Ruth Fine's art career, her mother--artist, educator, and writer Miriam Brown Fine, as well as artist and educator George Bunker. Ruth Fine's material consists of correspondence, exhibition-related papers, awards, papers related to grants and residencies, images of artwork, and some printed material; her mother's files include newspaper clippings, awards, images of artwork, and printed material; and George Bunker's files contain printed material, notebooks, drawings, lectures and lecture notes, and material related to his trust foundation.
- Collection Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Access to original papers and audio visual material requires an appointment, and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
- Record ID
- ebl-1695044700724-1695044702642-1
