Artists' Files
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (Washington, D.C.)
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- Institute of Contemporary Arts records
- Sponsor
- Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collection Care Preservation Fund.
- Extent
- 4.9 Linear feet (Boxes 3-8)
- Date
- 1943-1967
- 1970-1979
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.instcona, Series 2
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Institute of Contemporary Arts records, 1927-circa 1985, bulk 1947-1967. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Arrangement
- Folders are arranged alphabetically by artist's last name.
- 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
- Artists' Files contains mostly incoming and outgoing correspondence with artists, authors, poets, musicians, composers, choreographers, and others, regarding arrangements of ICA-sponsored performances, lectures, and visiting professorships. Also found are biographies, exhibition printed materials, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings and scattered portrait photographs. Of interest are files on Nadia Boulanger, Aaron Copeland, e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, and Aldous Huxley, as well as lecture tour files for Wojciech Fangor, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Graves, Janheinz Jahn, Kathleen Raine, and Sir Herbert Read. The bulk of the materials date from 1943-mid-1960s.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original papers requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503512823167-1503512823204-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0