Artists -- Missouri
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Art and Artists Collection
Collection
Identifier: A0056
Scope and Contents
The Art and Artists Collection consists of correspondence, news clippings, exhibit catalogues, and invitations relating to the arts and specific artists from St. Louis or Missouri.
The Artists Series contains correspondence, news clippings, manuscripts, and research notes. Artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Carl Wimar and others who gained prominence in the art world are filed in individual folders. Local artists and information...
Dates:
1806-1998
Jerome Clark Artist Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3066
Scope and Contents
The small collection includes four items arranged chronologically. There is a biography of Gerumba; a promotional card for the FV Art Faculty Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley; and a promotional card and program for Hands Up, Don’t’Shoot: Artists Respond, Alliance of Black Art Galleries.
The Hands Up, Don’t Shoot exhibition was presented by the Alliance of...
Dates:
2014-2015
Famous Barr Company Public Relations Records
Collection
Identifier: A3022
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of public relations records from the Famous-Barr Company, including some records relating to the May Department Stores Company and to Macy’s, Inc. There are three series in the collection arranged alphabetically: Administrative, 1905-2007; Events, 1963-2003; and Stores, 1955-2002. The bulk of the records date from 1955 to 1994. The files came from the office of Famous-Barr vice president...
Dates:
1905-2007
Milton and Virginia Frenzel Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3047
Scope and Contents
The collection spans from 1888 to 2001 and includes correspondence, two scrapbooks, and a small amount of subject files relating to Milton and Virginia Frenzel and their families. The correspondence dates from 1913 to 1976 and is arranged chronologically. The subject files are arranged alphabetically. Correspondence from 1938 to 1953 comprises the bulk of the collection. There are no letters for the years 1955 or 1960 through 1962.
The Frenzels had several nicknames that are...
Dates:
1888-2001; Majority of material found within 1938-1953
Milton and Virginia Frenzel Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: P0988
Scope and Contents
The Milton and Virginia Frenzel Photograph Collection documents the lives of Milton and Virginia (Price) Frenzel, and their daughter Mary. The collection also includes significant material relating to Virginia’s mother, Edna (Nagel) Price, and the Nagel and Price families. Photographs show daily life at the Frenzel home in Ironton, Missouri, as well as the Frenzels engaging in a wide variety of outdoor activities. Several photographs also show Milton, an artist who worked with the Emil Frei...
Dates:
1913-1995
Graves Gladney Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3230
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of a bound memorial service program for Graves Gladney; an issue of Illustration magazine; newspaper clippings; and a small number of letters, documents, photographs, and membership cards. Materials range in date from 1932 to 2009 with a large gap between 1977 and 2008. The twenty-seven diaries written by Graves Gladney comprise the bulk of the collection and date from January 1961 to April 1973. The first box is arranged...
Dates:
1932-2009; Majority of material found within 1961-1973
Gustav Frederick Goetsch Art Notes
Collection
Identifier: A3155
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of ten handwritten pages by artist Gustav F. Goetsch concerning mordant recipes; notes on uses of oils, varnishes, and etching and printing supplies; and color compositions and recommendations. The notes are not dated. All but two small pages are from a notebook with page numbers and include a brief table of contents.
Dates:
No date
Kelley Family Daniel R. Fitzpatrick Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3137
Scope and Contents
The collection contains items saved by the Dr. Robert W. Kelley family concerning long-time friend, cartoonist Daniel R. Fitzpatrick. The family saved cards and letters sent to them by Fitzpatrick, a pencil sketch, a photograph, newspaper clippings, and the eulogy delivered at his funeral. The collection is arranged chronologically and dates from 1955 to 1989; the bulk of the collection dates from 1965 to 1969. Gaps exist from 1956 to1958, 1960, 1964, and from 1970 to...
Dates:
1955-1989; Majority of material found within 1965-1969
St. Louis Oral History Project Records
Collection
Identifier: A3078
Scope and Contents
The records include tape information sheets for each interview, notes, and background clippings. There are no transcripts. Most of the interviews took place in 1991 and 1992; one took place in 1989.
There is not a single theme connecting all the interviews. Individuals were chosen to be interviewed based on recommendations from staff members. Bob Chambers, Elsa Ketzner, and Bill Shana reminisced about their lives in St. Louis. The Chambers interview focused on WWII home...
Dates:
1989-1992