Art, American
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Fényes-Curtin-Paloheimo Collection
Collection
Identifier: nmsfamh0011
Abstract
This collection documents the lives of three generations of one family, grandmother, Eva Scott Muse Fényes, mother, Leonora S.M. Curtin, and daughter, Leonora Curtin Paloheimo. The personal papers of the women contain extensive correspondence, diaries, thousands of photographs, business and financial documents, travel records, scrapbooks, clippings, and ephemera.
Dates:
1847-2005