Federal Art Project
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS -1002-BC
Abstract
The collection contains Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak's personal papers, art-related documents, and the Mandelman-Ribak Foundation's Oral Archives History Project.
Dates:
1902-2014
Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak Pictorial Collection
Collection
Identifier: PICT-000-1002
Abstract
This collection includes photographs, slides, posters and other visual material related to Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak's professional artistic work, along with family, friends, other Taos artists, and travel images.
Dates:
1900-1998
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; Majority of material found in 1933-1942
Collection of Correspondence concerning the Sculpture, "Arrowed Death"
Item
Identifier: MSS-44-SC
Scope and Content
The collection consists of letters and memorandum to the National Park Service and the New Mexico Cuarto Centennial Commission soliciting funding for the bronze casting of John Terkin's, "Arrowed Death" sculpture, discussing placing the bronze statue in the patio at Bandelier National Monument. Six photographs accompany the letters. Whether or not the piece was ever cast in and placed at Bandelier National Monument is not answered in the correspondence.
Dates:
1938-1939