Lois Rudnick Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: PICT-000-1088
Scope and Contents
The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the cultural milieu encompassing it (1920s-1990’s) are the prime focuses of the collection. Mabel Dodge Luhan, Tony Luhan, family, and friends who visited them are depicted in the collection. Dennis Hopper, who bought the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in 1970, and the “hippie” years are also documented via the photographs. Many of the photos were used to illustrate Rudnick’s publication, Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture.
The collection contains photographs by Lisa Law, Bob Campagna, Ron Cooper, Ernest Knee, Douglas Magnus, and “Finley.” Most photographs are reproductions.
Dates
- 1918-2003
- Majority of material found within 1970-1998
Creator
- Rudnick, Lois Palken, 1944-2021 (Person)
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
Limited duplication of CSWR material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for compliance with all copyright, privacy, and libel laws. Permission is required for publication or distribution. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist
Biographical Information
Dr. Lois Palken Rudnick researched and wrote about northern New Mexico for almost all of her adult life. She chaired the American Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston for 26 years, before retiring in 2009 and moving to Santa Fe. Rudnick taught, published, and lectured widely throughout the US and internationally on modern American culture, history, and literature, most especially on the writer and artist communities of Santa Fe and Taos. She is probably best known for her numerous books on Mabel Dodge Luhan, the doyenne of the Taos art colony in the early 20th century. Rudnick died on June 6, 2021, at age 76.
Extent
233 items (2 boxes) : 193 photographs; 40 slides
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The photographs focus on Rudnick’s research on Mabel Dodge Luhan, and the history of the Mabel Dodge Luhan House. Many of the photos were used to illustrate her publication, Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture.
Physical Location
B2. Shelved Pictorial Number; Box 2 0n Big Box shelves
Separated Materials
Photographs separated from Lois Rudnick Papers.
Creator
- Rudnick, Lois Palken, 1944-2021 (Person)
- Title
- Finding aid of the Lois Rudnick Photograph Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- B. Silbergleit
- Date
- 01/2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451