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The collection was purchased from Max Burckhardt by the Rare Book and Manuscript Library in June, 2015.
2014.2015.M142: Source of acquisition--Max Burckhardt. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--June 2015.
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Papers processed Adrien Hilton July 2015.
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2024-03-14 Corrections made to container list for Series VI.B, VII, and VIII. CCR.
Edith Schloss was born in Offenbach, Germany. She was sent to France and England to learn languages and, in 1936, attended a private school in Florence where she first fell in love with Italy. Edith eventually ended up in England working as an au pair while going to night school. During the Blitz she left England in a convoy that landed in New York City. In New York Edith attended lectures and dance performances at Cooper Union and studied painting and printmaking at the Art Students League. She also studied art history, music and poetry at the New School for Social Research.
Her friend, Heinz Langerhans, German sociologist and follower of Marxist theoretician Karl Korsch, introduced her to Anne and Fairfield Porter. In 1944, Porter introduced Edith to Elaine and Willem de Kooning, and soon after she moved into a West 21st Street Chelsea loft that de Kooning had painted for Walter and Ellen "Pit" Auberbach.
In 1962, Edith and Rudy Burckhardt separated, at which point Edith and her young son Jacob moved to Rome. In Italy she painted and supported herself with her writing; she was the Italian art editor for the International Herald Tribune for nearly 20 years and wrote forWanted in Rome. During this time, Edith became friends with artists Cy Twombly (with whom she had an exhibition), Giulio Turcato, Paul Klerr and Peter Rockwell. She was also a longtime partner and lifelong friend of composer/performer/teacher Alvin Curran, with whom she often collaborated. Edith continued to work and paint up until she died in 2011 at the age of 92.
Edith very quickly became a part of the de Kooning/Denby Chelsea scene that included photographer/filmmaker/painter Rudy Burckhardt and the Jane Street Group around Nell Blaine. In 1947, she and Burckhardt married. Edith was "known for knowing everyone who counted in Manhattan's legendary postwar art scene" (New York Sun, 2008) and she, Burckhardt and Denby were vital components of the New York School and the loft scene of that era.
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Painters -- Italy -- Rome |
Women painters |
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Includes correspondence and other items on the death of the sculptor Roberto Bernacchi (1984) primarily between ESB, Patience Gray and Norman Mommens
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Blaine was the youngest member of the American Abstract Artists group. She was a founding member of the early artists' cooperative Jane Street Gallery and had her first solo show there in 1945. Her New York circle of artist and writer friends in the 1950s included John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, Larry Rivers, Jane Freilicher, Leland Bell, Robert De Niro Sr. and Rudy Burckhardt.
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Correspondence on Karl Korsch and Heinz Langerhans.
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Dancer, choreographer and director of the performance art group The School of Hard Knocks. Chuma was married to ESB's son, Jacob.
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Including Night Voyage exhibition announcement (Egan Gallery, 1953), Winter Night Skies folded card (Stable Gallery, 1955), Selected Works announcement (Stable Gallery 1957), Scatole & Films announcement (L'Attico, Rome, 1977), and Boxes & Films folded catalog with Jonas Mekas and Robert Motherwell essays (L'Attico, Rome, 1977).
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Painter and founder of the Green Mountain Gallery. The gallery showed Edward Dugmore, Helen DeMott, Rudy Burckhardt, Robert De Niro, and ESB among others. It was founded in Greenwich Village in 1968 but moved in 1971 and became part of the burgeoning SoHo gallery scene.
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Abstract expressionist painter. She was the only woman founder of the Tanager Gallery, which was an integral part of the Tenth Street co-operative gallery scene of the 1950s and 1960s
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Photographer and wife of abstract painter Edward Dugmore.
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Painter and collage artist. Born in Germany, and came to the United States in 1933. She studied at the Art Students League in New York.
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Married to Lucia Vernarelli. He was the Assistant Chief City Planner for the City of New York, also painted and created woodcuts.
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Military historian, author and husband of Barbara Guest.
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Painter. Helped found the New York Studio School. She often modeled for Philip Pearlstein, Lois Dodd and friends. Kramer also helped Lucien Day with the management of Green Mountain Gallery.
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See also Subseries II.B
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Scholar of nineteenth-century European art and European and American modernism. She is one of the founding members of the Redstockings radical feminist group and a pioneer of women's studies. She helped Marjorie Kramer and Lucien Day run the Green Mountain Gallery.
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American abstract painter.
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Belgian sculptor. Married to Patience Gray. He lived and worked in their a farmhouse in Puglia, southern Italy. See also Gray, Patience.
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Italian painter and printmaker.
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American composer, virtuoso pianist and a co-founder of Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV).
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Wife of composer Frederic Rzewski.
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Writer. She was known for her literary Greenwich Village and Provincetown literary salons.
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Includes drafts of letters by ESB and copies of the letters received by Jacob; and correspondence received from Jacob by ESB
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12 handwritten postcards and cards collaged elements
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Copy with corrections of Burckhardt remarks read at the October 1983 memorial for Edwin Denby at St. Mark's Church, NYC.
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Copy prints of the 1949 Burckhardt photomontage created for the 3 woman show with Helen DeMott, Lucia Vernarelli and ESB at the Pyramid Gallery.
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Read at Cooper Union, November 2, 1999 and included in the Rudy Burckhardt memorial book.
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Exhibition at Tibor de Nagy, June 14, 2000.
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Moore had been Woodman's boyfriend at RISD. Many have blamed her suicide on their breakup. He addresses her suicide in this letter to ESB.
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Francesca Woodman's close friend, model, and sometimes collaborator.
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Francesca's mother
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Given to ESB as a gift by Francesca Woodman. Woodman has signed her name on the f.f.e.
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Including manuscripts, fragments, notes, research and published work
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ESB was the art critic for Italy for The International Herald Tribune from 1968 until 1986.
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For many years ESB researched and wrote The Loft Generation, an unpublished memoir of her life as part of the de Kooning-Denby circle of poets, composers and painters (including, the de Koonings, Rudy Burckhardt, Edwin Denby, The Artist's Club, Leo Castelli, John Cage, Elliott Carter, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Frank O'Hara and Larry Rivers).
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ESB wrote and illustrated her own books and unpublished novels, including the self-published Seven Dog Walks in Rome
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Includes folders of correspondence between Barbara Ingber (Ingber Gallery) and ESB, 1972--2005.
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In addition to photographs located within the Archive's correspondence there are over 1800 photographs of various sizes taken in locations including New York, Italy, Egypt and Germany. Approx. 700 of the photographs are pasted into spiral-bound notebooks with captions, circa 1962--2009.
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The Archive contains over 110 notebooks, diaries and calendars, circa 1962--2011. In addition todaily reflections and thoughts, many of the diaries also contain copies of ESB's outgoing correspondence.
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