Creator:
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951.
Inclusive Dates:
1884- 1951
Abstract:
Correspondence, some in French and
Russian, telegrams, scrapbooks, photograph albums, costume sketches, and other
materials relating to the San Francisco Ballet, Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, and
others. Correspondents include Agnes De Mille, Romola Nijinsky, Ruth Page, Leopold
Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, and others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Motion pictures (visual works)
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Silent films.
Phonograph records.
Sound recordings.
Subject:
Ballet dancers.
Choreographers.
Dance and theatre
Ballet.
Ballet companies.
Ballet dancers.
Ballets -- Photographs.
Choreographers.
Creator:
Weston, Harold, 1894-1972.
Inclusive Dates:
1897- 1971
Abstract:
Papers of the American painter,
humanitarian. The collection includes artwork reproductions, correspondence subject
files, memorabilia and writings, much of which deal with Weston's work in various
organizations, including the Adirondack Trail Improvement Society, the American
Federation of Arts, the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Food for
Freedom, the International Association of the Plastic Arts of Plastic Arts, the
National Council on the Arts and Government and the United Nations. The collection
provides a detailed look at the lobbying efforts to create the National Endowment
for the Arts as well as development of post-World War Two international cooperation
in the arts.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Manuscripts for publication.
Drafts (documents)
Black-and-white negatives.
Correspondence.
Exhibition catalogs.
Minutes (administrative records)
Photographs.
Reports.
Subject:
Artists.
Painters.
Art -- Painters
Painting,American -- 20th century.
Art and state.
Federal aid to the arts.
Humanitarianism.