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Artists -- New Mexico

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Appleton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-531-BC
Scope and Content The Appleton family papers are dominated by materials relating to the diverse dual careers of Norman Appleton, artist-scientist. The collection is roughly twofold, documenting Norman Appleton and his first wife Carolyn Ten Eyck Appleton (1902-1948) and their careers, which span from the late 20's to her death in 1948. The collection contains research, manuscripts and correspondence, demonstrating the polemics of entomology and the high degree of sophistication and tenacity entomologists...
Dates: 1920-1972

Art League of New Mexico Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-856-BC
Abstract This collection contains early records of the Art League of New Mexico, founded in 1929. The papers relate mainly to exhibitions the Art League of New Mexico sponsored, correspondence with respect to exhibitions and some files on fundraising events in the 1940s and 1950s.
Dates: 1936-1970; Majority of material found within 1941-1953

Charles Mattox Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS -644-BC
Scope and Content This collection contains two main series: Personal and Professional Papers, and Printed Material. The Mattox papers center around the development of his sculpture and his various art shows. His involvement with the Department of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico and with Albuquerque's Explora Museum, are also represented. Also included are newspaper and magazine clippings about Mattox and his work, as well as articles written by Mattox. An oversize box contains posters and large...
Dates: 1874-1994, (bulk 1949-1994)

Chuzo Tamotsu Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS -609-BC
Scope and Content The collection focuses on Tamotsu's business affairs. These files include correspondence, notes, news clippings, and catalogues from galleries, museums, and friends. The collection begins with folders specifically focusing on Tamotsu's life, art, and studio/gallery. Following these are alphabetically arranged business files documenting exhibitions, sales, loans of Tamotsu's art work. Publications and excerpts from publications containing articles about Tamotsu and his work, as well as...
Dates: 1924-1995

Chuzo Tamotsu Pictorial Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PICT-000-609
Abstract The collection contains photographs of Chuzo Tamotsu's paintings. Many of his works employ an ecclectic, hybrid style which relates to both East Asian and Western styles of painting.
Dates: 1931-1993

Consuelo and Nora Chavez Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC 287
Scope and Content Collection consists of material on Angélico Chávez. Material includes clippings on his writings; the seminary newsletter Brown and White, which he edited for several years; designs for book title pages; conference and meeting material. Also included in the collection are legal documents relating to the Chávez family and the Chávez Family Association and two scrapbooks with clippings covering the early career of Angélico Chávez.
Dates: 1927-1996

Edgar L. Hewett Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC 105
Scope and Content This collection contains the personal and professional papers of archaeologist and educator Edgar Lee Hewett (1865-1946). The collection includes materials from 1861-1992, with the bulk of the materials from 1897-1947. The types of materials include correspondence, manuscripts by Hewett and others, publications, archaeological notes and reports, financial records, personal documents, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, account books and ledgers, visitor registers, maps, and other miscellaneous...
Dates: 1861 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1897 - 1947

Ferenc M. Szasz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-552-BC
Abstract The collection consists of records of F.B.I. investigations about convicted spy Klaus Fuchs, and research materials related to Szasz's writings such as, "The Culture of Modern New Mexico, 1940-1970," and "Tony Hillerman and the turn-of-the-century American Southwest" and for his book, Great Mysteries of the West The collection also contains research materials pertaining to the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, the Trinity Site, World War II...
Dates: 1894-2005; Majority of material found in 1942-1999

Gendron Jensen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1068-BC
Abstract The collection primarily contains correspondence, illustrated letters, projects, and publications about Jensen's work.
Dates: 1916-2019; Majority of material found within 1972-2010

Gerald Cassidy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC-035-p
Scope and Content Collection consists of 10 postcards of paintings by Cassidy published by Fred Harvey for the 1922 Santa Fe Fiesta, and photocopies of four letters concerning the return of Cassidy's "Coronado Murals" to New Mexico in 1948.
Dates: 1922-1949; 1922; 1948; 1948; 1962

Helen Blumenschein Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC 376
Scope and Content There is material from her war service, correspondence, drawings, and publications. Her historical writings about Taos valley and other areas in New Mexico are included. Research manuscripts on archaeology and history are in the collection. In addition, there are materials from many of the organizations that interested Blumenschein, such as the Wilderness Society. There is also banking and tax material.
Dates: 1910-1989

Ina Sizer Cassidy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC-036
Scope and Content The collection includes Cassidy's correspondence, manuscripts, and newspaper clippings dealing with Pueblo Indians. Also included are copies of correspondence by Richard Kern, who was an artist on the Fremont Expedition of 1848-49.
Dates: 1921-1961; 1848-49; 1912; 1935-1939

Lloyd Lozes Goff Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS- 632 -SC
Scope and Content This small collection consists of a "mock-up" of an unpublished children's book, "The Duck and Duckess of Lordsbury Pond," with original color illustrations by Goff. Also included is correspondence relative to the children's book, Run Sandpiper Run, one contract for the painting of a mural on U.S. government property, and a drawing of Alice B. Toklas in Paris, March, 1966. Also in the collection is one photograph of Lloyd L. Goff...
Dates: 1938-1972

Lois Rudnick Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1088-BC
Abstract The collection illuminates Lois Rudnick’s career as an academic and as a researcher/writer. Her research focuses included Mabel Dodge Luhan and the Taos (NM) arts scene.
Dates: 1949-2020; Majority of material found in 1977-2018

Alejandro López Papers and Ethnographic Interviews, 1971-2021

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-943-BC
Abstract This collection contains papers and interviews created and collected by Alejandro López from the 1970s to 2021. The papers relate to education, resolana, and service-learning programs, while the ethnographic interviews focus on elders from Chimayo, Truchas, and other Nuevomexicano communities.
Dates: 1971 - 2021

Museum of Fine Arts Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: AC 154
Scope and Content Collection consists of the correspondence between the Museum of Fine Arts and various artists and their families (1910-1978). Correspondence pertains to exhibits, donations of artwork, and repairs to artwork loaned to the Museum. Some of the artists represented in this collection are Gustave Baumann, Oscar E. Beringhaus, Donald Beauregard, Georgia O'Keeffe (1 letter), and John Sloan. Included in the Beauregard correspondence are letters addressed to Edgar L. Hewett (director of the Museum of...
Dates: 1910-1978

Robert R. White Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-813-BC
Abstract The collection contains journals, articles and research files of author and scholar Robert Rankin White. The bulk of the collection consists of White's personal journals and materials pertaining to New Mexico artists.
Dates: 1842-2010

Robert R. White Pictorial Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PICT-000-813
Abstract The collection consists primarily of photographs and slides related to Robert White’s research on early Taos artists and artists of Territorial New Mexico.
Dates: 1907-2009

Ted Egri Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-635-BC
Scope and Content This collection contains materials relating to teaching, sculpture production, and service to the art community. Includes correspondence and information about the various lecturing positions held by Ted Egri. Class notes and three notebooks from students are included, as well as general information about the schools at which Egri taught. It also contains personal documentation of commissioned sculptures by Egri, drawings, and correspondence between Egri and his clients. The collection contains...
Dates: 1952-1974

University of New Mexico. Oral History Projects and Video Recordings Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-821-BC
Abstract This is a collection of oral history projects done in conjunction with the University of New Mexico. Project themes include community/local/family history, politics/government, veterans, labor, education, and events.
Dates: 1984-2006; Majority of material found within 1995-1998

Webb Young Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC 248
Scope and Content The collection contains documents pertaining to the structural development of Santa Fe and to the activities of the Santa Fe City Council during the 1960s.
Dates: 1957-1986

William T. Lumpkins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AC 139
Scope and Content This collection includes William Lumpkins' diplomas and certificates, promotional material relating to his artistic and architectural pursuits as well as personal correspondence.

The approximately 5,000 architectural drawings are accessed through a separate inventory organized by job number. There is also an alphabetically arranged list organizing the architectural drawings by job number with client and location information.
Dates: 1930-1982