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Creator:
Kopman, Benjamin, b. 1887
Inclusive Dates:
1911-1962
Abstract:
Papers of the American Jewish painter, lithographer, etcher, illustrator, sculptor.Born in Russia. Correspondence (1911-1962), including a series of letters (1936-1958), some in scrapbook form, by Kopman to his art dealer, G.D. Thompson; manuscript poems, and prose, some in Yiddish; legal and financial papers; sketches; and photographs of Kopman's work and his family. Incoming letters, arranged alphabetically, include those from the Art Institute of Chicago, David Burliuk, the Federal Art Project, Rockwell Kent, Katharine Kuh, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Clifford Odets, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Hugo Robus, Frederic F. Sherman, Raphael Soyer, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Carl Zigrosser.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Drawings (visual works)
Essays.
Exhibition catalogs.
Photonegatives.
Photographs.
Subject:
Poems.
Scrapbooks.
Artists.
Illustrators.
Lithographers.
Painters.
Sculptors.
Art -- Painters
Art, American.
Art, American -- 20th century.
Jewish artists -- United States.
Illustrators -- United States.
Jews, American.
Lithographers, United States.
Lithography, American -- 20th century.
Painters -- United States.
Painting, American.
Painting, American -- 20th century.
Russian Americans.