Papers of Ruth Abrams (1912-1986) (YUM 08)
Between 1965 and 1966, Ruth Abrams was Art Director for the New School of Social Research Association. She also lectured at the Parsons School of Design and elsewhere on changing perceptions of space as affected by advanced space technology. Abrams was also an accomplished artist, focusing on visual perspective and the image of space and scale.
Sampson Engoren Papers (YUM 09)
Sampson Seymour Engoren is a Jewish artist and architect most well-known for his synagogue design. Although he also created metal sculpture of religious items, the stained glass windows he designed for synagogues are his most prominent work.
Golub was a New Jersey-based artist, who primarily made fiber-based works with Jewish themes. She created custom-designed fiber art, including tapestries, Jewish ceremonial objects, and textiles with secular content, for synagogues, museums, and private collectors.
Abraham Gruber, who later changed his name to Abe Grubère, a designer in the women's fashion, was born on November 25, 1899. He had a long and illustrious career as a coat and suit designer and worked as a consultant to many leading coat and suit manufacturers. From 1938 to 1945, he worked for Morris W. Haft & Bros., the country's largest manufacturer of women's and misses' coats and suits. During the same period Grubère was elected President of the Guild of Designers (1943) and also served on Mayor La Guardia's Committee on Creative Industry.
This collection holds documents that describe the work of the artist Irv Koons. Although the majority of papers are professional in nature, there is also a small amount of personal papers. The major focus of this collection is on the artist's production of commercial and graphic art for various organizations and companies. The collection holds many sketches and drawings used to produce the artwork, as well as the published copies of finished pieces. This collection is also comprised of papers detailing Koons's creation of Jewish art. Found among the papers here are sketches, photographs, and a model of the Torah ornaments Koons designed for the Temple Emanu-El in Closter, New Jersey, as well as photographs and sketches of the stained glass windows he created for the Temple and for the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.
Papers of Kathryn M. Yochelson (1906-2006) (YUM 06)
This collection contains papers and visual materials accumulated by Kathryn Yochelson that relate to Israeli art. For the most part, the documents pertain to Israeli artists that she researched and often corresponded with. In addition, there is also information on other people associated with the Israeli art world and museums and galleries. There is only a small amount of biographical information concerning Yochelson herself, other than what may be gleaned from her letters to individuals, writing, and photographs. The papers include clippings, correspondence, handwritten research notes, typewritten articles, and manuscripts, as well as photographs, negatives and slides, publications, postcards, and scrapbooks
Art and revolution : Ernst Neizvestny and the role of the artist in the U.S.S.R. / by John Berger. Pantheon Books, 1969.
Hans Hofmann : the legacy / curated by Geoffrey Dorfman and Karen Wilkin. Painting Center, 2005.
Abstract Expressionism : other politics / Ann Eden Gibson. Yale University Press, 1997.
Women & art : a history of women painters and sculptors from the Renaissance to the 20th century / by Elsa Honig Fine. Allanheld & Schram/Prior, 1978.
Readings on Jewish Art / by the National Council on Art in Jewish Life in Cooperation with the Jewish Book Council of America.1972.
Art as activist : revolutionary posters from Central and Eastern Europe / Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Thames and Hudson, 1992.