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TexTreasures -- 2020

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Digitization and access for this material is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and Texas State Library and Archives Commission (2020), with collaboration of the Museum of FIne Arts, Houston, and the University of Houston Libraries and permission of the Smithsonian Insitution's Archives of American Art.

Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

Margaret Webb Dreyer papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 7077
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Margaret Webb Dreyer papers
Dates: ca. 1948-1979
Scope and Contents

Biographical information; correspondence; printed materials including clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, articles in the HOUSTON REVIEW by Martin Dreyer, "The Way We Were: Houston's Culture in the 1940's" and "Portrait of a Houston Artist: An Interview with Margaret Webb Dreyer"; Dreyer Galleries file, 1962-1975; and personal photographs.

Maude Folmar papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 8189
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Maude Folmar papers
Dates: 1954-1980
Scope and Contents

Biographical information; correspondence; photographs; clippings, exhibition brochures and newsletters; and illustrations and sketches.

Texas Art Project Microfilm: Eleanor Freed Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA_MFAH 3538
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Texas Art Project Microfilm: Eleanor Freed Papers
Dates: 1965-1984
Scope and Contents Available only on microfilm at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.The Eleanor Freed Papers were microfilmed for the Texas Art Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston as part of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. Currently the papers can be accessed on microfilm at MFAH.The University of Houston Libraries and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston are digitizing the Texas Art Project microfilm as part of a collaborative TexTreasures 2020 grant project...

Ann Cushing Gantz papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 8171
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Ann Cushing Gantz papers
Dates: 1948-1980
Scope and Contents

A resume; correspondence; a scrapbook containing clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, letters, and memorabilia, 1960-1965; awards and certificates; exhibition catalogs; Christmas cards and cards designed by Gantz; photographs of works of art; and printed material concerning painting classes taught by Gantz.

Texas Art Project Microfilm: Terese Tarlton Hershey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 7746
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Texas Art Project Microfilm: Terese Tarlton Hershey Papers
Dates: 1956-1981
Scope and Contents Correspondence; files on 42 artists, containing clippings, photos, exhibition catalogs and letters; exhibition files for her gallery, Gallery of Wonderful Things, Fort Worth, Texas, and Tall Timbers, Houston, Texas; a scrapbook containing clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, photos, and letters about the Gallery of Wonderful Things; printed material and loan records for her private collections of ceramics, paintings and sculpture; photographs; and printed miscellany. Artist...

Jimmy Jalapeeno papers

 Collection
Identifier: MFAH-TAP005
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Jimmy Jalapeeno papers
Dates: ca. 1972-1983
Scope and Contents Available only on microfilm at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.The Jimmy Jalapeeno Papers were microfilmed for the Texas Art Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston as part of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. Currently the papers can be accessed on microfilm at MFAH.The University of Houston Libraries and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston are digitizing the Jalapeeno papers as part of a collaborative TexTreasures 2020 grant project through...

Grace Spaulding John papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 9286
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Grace Spaulding John papers
Dates: 1890-1972
Scope and Contents Diaries, writings, sketches and drawings, scrapbooks, printed matter and photographs relating to John and her work.Circa 650 pages of undated sketches and notes from travels on the west coast of Mexico, and 24 combination journals and sketchbooks from her travels throughout Europe, Canada, Cuba, Mexico and the United States. Poetry, descriptions of places and people visited, and statements about her work comprise the major portion of the journal entries.Biographical...

Annelies Kahn papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 7640
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Annelies Kahn papers
Dates: 1958-1979
Scope and Contents

Resumes; a letter from the Dallas Chamber of Commerce; a ceramics course textbook written by Kahn; awards for craft designs; and printed material including newsletters of the Texas Designer/Craftsman organization, exhibition catalogs and announcements, clippings and magazine articles.

Janet Kutner papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 9177
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Janet Kutner papers
Dates: 1955-1980
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and clippings.

REELS 2765-2766: Correspondence and clippings, 1955-1976, pertaining to the 1950's controversy about "communist art" at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; and clippings, 1970-1976, of articles written by Kutner as a critic for the DALLAS MORNING NEWS.

REEL 2816: Newspaper clippings, 1979-1980, from the DALLAS MORNING NEWS.

Janet Shook LaCoste papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 9110
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Janet Shook LaCoste papers
Dates: 1948-1976
Scope and Contents Correspondence; photographs; sketches; notes; announcements; clippings; and printed material.REELS 1656-1657: Clippings, invitations, announcements, and notes about the Shook-Carrington Gallery; a letter, clippings, and printed material about the San Antonio Art League; correspondence and clippings about Shook as an artist; photos of completed needlepoint; hand-painted sketches of needlepoint designs; and correspondence, 1963-1973, primarily with Lady Bird Johnson, about...

Amy Freeman Lee papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 7945
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Amy Freeman Lee papers
Dates: 1934-1980
Scope and Contents Biographical information; correspondence; scrapbooks spanning the years 1934-1979, arranged by year or subject and containing correspondence, clippings, printed material concerning her riding stables in San Antonio. Also, her "Local Painter of the Year Exhibit," 1953, at the Witte Museum, San antonio; the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters bestowed by Incarnate Word College, 1965; various exhibitions catalogs, photographs, invitations and announcements. There are also 12 bound volumes of...

Texas Art Project Microfilm: Sandra Curtis Levy Photographs and Slides

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 10073
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Texas Art Project Microfilm: Sandra Curtis Levy Photographs and Slides
Dates: 1935-1984
Scope and Contents Photographs and slides of artists, their studios and works of art. Some photographs taken by Sandra Curtis Levy. Most of the artists are from Texas. Artists include Larry Bell, Forrest Bess, John Biggers, James Boynton, Bob Camblin, Melvin Chin, Clyde Connell, Nina Cullinan, Otto Dozier, Joe Dugan, David Ellis, David Folkman, Don Foster, Roy Fridge, Roberta Harris, Honey Harrison, Dorothy Hood, Lucas Johnson, Enrico Leal, William Lester, Bert L. Long Jr., Jim Love, Fletcher Mackey, David...

Texas Art Project Microfilm: Bert L. Long, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 7098
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Texas Art Project Microfilm: Bert L. Long, Jr. Papers
Dates: 1975-1982
Scope and Contents

6 scrapbooks; correspondence; clippings; writings; subject files on the International Sculpture Conference, a project called 20/20, Artists in Action, and the Houston Contemporary Artists and Models Ball, 1979; pencil sketches for an ice sculpture; clippings of cooking columns written by Long; copies of "Houston ArtScene" magazine and other printed materials.

Jermayne MacAgy exhibition files

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 7935
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Jermayne MacAgy exhibition files
Dates: 1955-1964
Scope and Contents

Exhibition files containing correspondence, lender's forms, receipts, catalogs, invitations, photographs of artwork, and installation photographs, for exhibitions MacAgy directed at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, the University of St. Thomas, Houston and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Also included are four albums of installation photographs.

Mary Myart Malott papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 9034
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Mary Myart Malott papers
Dates: 1954-1981
Scope and Contents

Correspondence; writings; photographs; legal and business records; a resume; journals; a notebook; exhibition catalogs and announcements; clippings; and printed material.