Smithsonian Institution Archives

Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution

Record Unit 324
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Office of Public Programs,
Records, 1976-1982


Introduction

Historical Note

Descriptive Entry

Series Descriptions

  Series 1. PROGRAMS, 1976-1982. ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY SEMESTER.

  Series 2. CORRESPONDENCE, 1979-1981. ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY.



INTRODUCTION

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.


HISTORICAL NOTE

The Office of the Program Coordinator, a unit of the Education Division, develops programs for the general public that deal with various aspects of the decorative arts. Included in each semester's offerings are lecture series, tours, workshops, weekend seminars, luncheon lectures, and an assortment of special programs for young people. Funding is provided in part by registration fees, and in part through the contributions of private foundations and corporations.

Jane Clark served as program coordinator from the beginning semester in 1976 to 1978, when she was succeeded by Jennifer Jarvis. Since 1979, the position has been shared by Jarvis and Susan Yelavich.


DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY

These records document the activities of the program coordinator and the development and administration of the Office from the fall semester of 1976 to the fall semester of 1982. Included is correspondence with organizers for travel programs, speakers, instructors, performers, guides, vendors and registrants; syllabi, course descriptions, and teaching aids; student profile and program evaluation forms; contracts with course leaders; photographs and biographical information for selected instructors; newspaper and magazine articles concerning various programs; fiscal records for course supplies; transcripts of some lectures; program guides and agendas; and staff notes and memoranda.


SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES 1.
PROGRAMS, 1976-1982. ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY SEMESTER.

Box 1 of 17

Fall 1976

Administrative Records

Folder1   Thank yous to Fall instructors

Classes

Folder2   American Decorative Arts
Folder3   Art Nouveau. Includes biographical material on Martin Eidelberg.
Folder4   Calligraphy
Folder5   Decorative Motifs in Chinese Arts. Includes biographical material on Joan M. Hartman.
Folder6   English Country Houses
Folder7   The Evolving Chair. Includes biographical material on Nicos Zographos.
Folder8   History of Costume. Includes a letter from Dean Robert Gutman to S. Dillon Ripley concerning recruitment of teachers for a seminar in product design.
Folder9   Perception and Communication
Folder10   The Place of Silver (1500-1900)
Folder11   Stage Design

Craft Workshops

Folder12   Cloisonne (Louise Parish). Includes biographical material on Parish.
Folder13   Enameling (Mary Megee)
Folder14   Paper Marbling (Deborah Evetts)
Folder15   Stitchery (Kristina Friberg). Includes biographical material, newsclippings, and press releases on Friberg.

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder16   Decorative Arts Repair Clinic. Includes biographical material on Steven A. Leon

Luncheon Lectures

Folders17-18   Collecting Antiques

Weekend Seminars

Folder19   Textile Design (Hans Krondahl). Includes biographical material on Krondahl.
Folder20   Versailles

Young People's Programs

Folder21   American Indian Design (Demetri Bove). Includes biographical material on Bove.
Folder22   Banners (Norman Lalberte)
Folder23   Bread Sculpting (Marion Weiss)
Folder24   Children's Workshop (Linda Maddox)
Folder25   Designing Furniture (Jerry Lefrances)
Folder26   Early American Crafts. Includes biographical material on Janet F. Hoffman.
Folder27   For the Eyes
Folder28   Performing Arts (Ann Cohen Puppets)
Folder29   Performing Arts (Future Puppeteer Ideas). Includes background material on Dragon Marionettes.
Folder30   Performing Arts (Jerry Hartnett Puppets). Includes background material on Hartnett and the Marionette Musicale.
Folder31   Performing Arts (Jo Humphrey Puppets)
Folder32   Performing Arts (Poko Puppets, Lary Engler)
Folder33   Performing Arts (Rod Young Puppets). Includes biographical material, newsclippings, and magazine articles on Rod Young.
Folder34   When Is a Chair a Chair?

Winter 1977

Administrative Records

Folder35   Community Trust (1977-1978). Includes programs and funding reports.
Folder36   Deposed Courses
Folder37   Thank yous to Winter instructors

Classes

Folder38   American Folk Art
Folder39   Antique Auction Mart
Folders40-41   Calligraphy
Folder42   Cities in Perspective

Box 2 of 17
Folder1   Graphic Art (Rex Pickering). Includes biographical material on Rex Pickering.
Folder2   Industrial Design
Folder3   Japanese Print. Includes biographical material on Barbara Brennan Ford.
Folder4   Northern Renaissance
Folder5   Victoriana

Craft Workshops

Folder6   Includes biographical material and photograph of Sandra Corrie Newman
Folder7   Decoupage
Folder8   Instant Furniture. Includes biographical material on Peter S. Stanberg
Folder9   Stained Glass. Includes biographical material and photographs of Jack Cushon and Theresa E. Sweeney.

Luncheon Lectures

Folder10   Luncheon Talks on Decorating
Folder11   Second Luncheon Lecture (Interior Design)

Tours

Folder12   Washington, D.C., tour

Weekend Seminars

Folder13   Ceramic Art. Correspondence with American Crafts Council includes biographical material on Garth Clark.

Young People's Programs

Folder14   The Five Senses Touch
Folder15   The Shaping of New York. Includes biographical material on Samuel R. Mozes.
Folder16   Young People's Crafts. Includes biographical material on Janet F. Hoffman.

Spring 1977

Administrative Records

Folder17   Bus and Expenses. Includes invoices for supplies and bus trips.

Classes

Folder18   African Art. Includes transcript of graduate and undergraduate causes of the instructor, Rachel H. Kemper.
Folder19   American Architecture and Public Art. Includes biographical material on Robert E. Jensen.
Folder20   Calligraphy. Includes biographical material on Donald Kung.
Folder21   Carpets. Includes biographical material on Jack Soskin.
Folder22   French Decorative Arts. Includes transcript of one lecture in the series.
Folder23   Landscape Gardening
Folder24   Palladio
Folder25   Regency. Includes biographical material and magazine articles by and about Mitzi Cunliffe.

Craft Workshops

Folder26   Japanese Flower Arranging. Includes biographical material on Josephine McTage; and clippings from New York (magazine), Spring 1977, on gardens.
Folder27   Raku
Folder28   Tie Dye

Special Programs

Folder29   Tools. Includes photographs of outdoor demonstrations.
Folder30   Two Hundred Years of American Architecture
Folder31   Weaving With Sheep. Includes biographical material on Ruth Katz and Albertje Koopman Haynes.

Box 3 of 17

Special Series

Folder1   Flower Design

Young People's Programs

Folder2   The Five Senses Touch
Folder3   Kite Building and Flying. Includes biographical material on Paul Garber, and the December 1976 issue of "Art to Zoo" (newsletter).
Folder4   Puff the Magic Dragon

Summer 1977

Administrative Records

Folder5   Accounting

Classes

Folders6-7   Collectibles. Includes biographical material on Dennis Doordan.
Folder8   The Question of Style. Includes biographical material and newsclippings on Mary McFadden.

Young People's Programs

Folder9   Crafts
Folder10   Drawing. Includes biographical material on Lee Dejasu.

Fall 1977

Classes

Folder11   Architecture and the Arts. Includes biographical material on Brent Brolin.
Folder12   Art Deco
Folder13   Decorative Arts (from the Industrial Revolution to 1930)
Folder14   Decorative Motifs in Islamic Design
Folder15   Design in the Ancient World. Includes biographical material on Ellen Davis, Karen Sydney Rubinson, and Jeffrey Ruesch.
Folder16   Interior Design in Italy. Includes biographical material on Laura Tampieri Neagle.
Folder17   Native North American Design Traditions
Folder18   Perception and Expression
Folder19   Porcelain
Folder20   Revival Syles in 19th-Century America

Craft Workshops

Folder21   Bookbinding. Includes biographical material on Richard Minsky.
Folder22   Christmas Ornaments Workshop. Includes biographical material on Helga Orthofer.
Folder23   Marquetry workshop. Includes biographical material on Allen Fitchett and a copy of Constantine's Wood Catalog/Yearbook 1977.
Folder24   Quilting Workshop. Includes biographical material on Carter Houck.
Folder25   Screen Printing. Includes biographical material on Bill Baily.

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folders26-27   Furniture Repair
Folder28   Porcelain Repair

Luncheon Lectures

Folder29   Fashion Luncheons

Box 4 of 17

Special Series

Folder1   Fabric Houses. Includes background information on Quadrille Fabrics from articles in the June 18 and October 7, 1975, issues of Home Furnishings Daily.
Folder2   Masters of the Decorative Arts
Folder3   The Subway

Tours

Folder4   Bronx Art Deco Tour
Folder5   Virginia Tour

Weekend Seminars

Folder6   Design in the American Southwest
Folder7   Living with the Past
Folder8   Patrons/Collectors. Includes curriculum vitae of Robert H. Luck.
Folder9   Relief Printing. Includes biographical material on Karen Ellen Wenig and invitations to an exhibition on April 26, 1977, and a reception, November 22, 1977, by the artist.
Folder10   Resources

Young People's Programs

Folder11   Color, Line, and Form
Folder12   Explorations
Folder13   Drop In

Winter 1978

Classes

Folder14   American Architecture
Folder15   American Furniture Styles. Includes a publication from the New York School of Interior Design, English and American Period Styles.
Folder16   Arts and Crafts Movement. Includes information on the William Morris Society in the New York City area.
Folder17   Chinoiserie
Folder18   Classical Architecture
Folder19   Collectibles. Includes September 1977 issue of The New York Antique Almanac.
Folder20   Glass. Includes biographical material on Paul E. Doros.
Folder21   Medieval Architecture and Minor Arts
Folder22   Prints: Technique and History

Craft Workshops

Folder23   Craft Workshop

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder24   Repair Workshops

Luncheon Lectures

Folder25   Antiques Luncheon

Special Programs

Folder26   Wagner Series

Special Series

Folder27   Rug Bazaar. Includes a copy of Kilim by Oriental Carpet Manufactures.

Box 5 of 17
Folder1   Shop Talks

Weekend Seminars

Folder2   Early Americans
Folder3   Master Drawings
Folder4   More Than Meets the Eye

Young People's Programs

Folder5   Circus Arts. Includes photographs of the class.
Folder6   Mystery Book Illustrations
Folder7   Readings
Folder8   Start from Scratch
Folder9   Theatre Improvisation

Spring 1978

Classes

Folder10   Embroidery
Folder11   French Provincial
Folder12   Gothic Revival
Folder13   Great Auctions
Folder14   History of Furniture Styles. Includes biographical material on Jackie Miesel.
Folder15   Landscape. Includes biographical material on Elizabeth B. MacDougal and David Harris Engel; and an issue of "American Society of Landscape Architects" (newsletter).
Folder16   New York Historical Interiors
Folder17   Venice and Florence

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder18   Repair/Textiles

Special Programs

Folder19   Paper Day. Includes biographical material on Toyce Anderson, Glen Tunstull, Michael Shall, Alexander Catlin Twining, and Spiros M. Zakas; photographs of Anderson, Tunstull, and Zakas; and historical information on the "Origami Center of America."

Special Series

Folder20   Interior Designers
Folder21   Rug Bazaar
Folder22   Visits to Artists' studios. Includes biographical material on William Compely and Christo Javacheff.

Weekend Seminars

Folder23   Garden Weekend. Includes excerpts from articles in Landscape Architecture, July 1975, and the April 1977, edition of the New Jersey Monthly on JSL Greentree; and Greentree's design plans for landscaping Montvale, New Jersey.
Folder24   Grand Tour

Young People's Programs

Folder25   Boats and Kites. Includes biographical material on Robin Lehren.
Folder26   Creating a Circus

Summer 1978

Administrative Records

Folder27   Summer Programs 1978. Includes some material fruit the Spring of 1978.
Folder28   Summer Contracts

Box 6 of 17
Folder1   Summer Time. Includes proposed plans for the summer semester.

Classes

Folder2   Tastemakers. Includes an article by Diana Vreeland on "The 70's Style" in The New York Times, August 1977.
Folder3   Victoriana; The Age of Victoria

Craft Workshops

Folder4   It'll be a Stitch. Includes biographical material and photographs of Charles Bain.
Folder5   Victorian Beadwork. Includes prints of Victorian bead-work.

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder6   Summer Crafts Repair Clinic. Includes material from the Spring of 1978; and biographical material on Ita Aber, May Fry, and Juliette Hamelecourt.

Young People's Programs

Folder7   Young People's Classes

Fall 1978

Administrative Records

Folders8-9   Fall Semester - General. Includes copies of the Fall Programs schedule.

Classes

Folder10   American Architecture
Folder11   Art of the Indian Subcontinent. Includes biographical material on Marilyn T. Grayburn.
Folder12   Baroque and Rococo
Folder13   Book Arts
Folder14   Great English Country Houses
Folder15   Historic Preservation. Includes biographical material on Jeanne H. Watson; a copy of The Newark Museum Quarterly, Fall 1976; historical information on Rambusch Studios; and a clipping from the New York Times, August 1978, on restoration
Folder16   Neo-Classicism

Box 7 of 17
Folder1   State of the Crafts. Includes biographical material on Jacqueline Springwater; historical information on the "New York Experimental Glass Workshop"; copies of African Artists in America; and an article in The New Yorker (magazine), September 1978, entitled "Crafts in the City: A Guide to Courses, Shops, and Galleries" by Roberta Intrater and Jacqueline Springwater.
Folder2   20th-Century Ornamentation. Includes biographical material on Collin Forbes, Dona Guimaraes, Mark Hampton, and Patricia Oleszko; and a photograph of Oleszko.
Folder3   Wiener Werkstaette

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder4   Crafts - Repair. Includes biographical material on Ita Aber and Ann Golob.

Luncheon Lectures

Folder5   American Antiques Luncheon

Special Series

Folder6   Artists' Post Cards. Includes loan agreements between collectors and the Cooper-Hewitt.
Folder7   Corporate Design
Folder8   The Influence of Western Religion on Art and Design. Includes an article "Zen Temple" from Tokyo (magazine), September 1, 1977.
Folder9   Russian Decorative Arts

Weekend Seminars

Folder10   Collectibles
Folder11   Grand Chateaux
Folder12   Interior Design
Folder13   Masterworks of the Islamic Near East

Young People's Programs

Folder14   Drawing and Design
Folder15   How They are Made

Winter 1979

Administrative Records

Folder16   Calendar 1979
Folder17   Equipment Needs Forms
Folder18   Fund Raising Proposal Programs (1979 - 1980)
Folder19   Programs (winter 1979)

Classes

Folders20-21   English Antiques
Folder22   Domestic Art
Folder23   German Architecture. Includes biographical material on Henry Wollman.
Folder24   Great Cities
Folder25   Great Rulers and Their Decorative Arts. Includes biographical material on Eleanor G. Sims.
Folder26   Hudson River School
Folder27   Renaissance
Folder28   Theatre Design

Box 8 of 17
Folder1   Woven Textiles

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder2   Book and Paper Repair Clinic

Luncheon Lectures

Folder3   Interior Design

Special Series

Folder4   Porcelain

Weekend Seminars

Folder5   American Homes
Folder6   Frank Lloyd Wright
Folder7   Ludwig Seminar

Young People's Programs

Folder8   Children's Winter Classes. Includes biographical material on Alexander L. Neblett.
Folder9   Performing Arts
Folder10   Performing Arts (Magic)

Spring 1979

Classes

Folder11   American Decorative Arts
Folder12   Auctions
Folder13   Chinese Art
Folder14   Classical Architecture
Folder15   Design of the Twenties and Thirties. Includes biographical material on Jeffry L. Merkle
Folder16   French 18th Century
Folder17   Japanese Architecture
Folder18   Japanese Craft Tradition
Folder19   Japanese Prints
Folder20   Oriental Carpet Critiques
Folder21   Pre-Columbian Architecture. Includes biographical material on Clara Lipson.
Folder22   Rugs
Folder23   Seafaring/Oceanography and Exploration. Includes a copy of Sea History by the National Maritime Historical Society, Summer 1979.

Craft Workshops

Folder24   Craft Workshop

Special Programs

Folder25   Performing Arts
Folder26   Crafts Visits. Includes biographical material on Michele Lester and Mary Ann Scherr.
Folder27   Interior Design on a Budget
Folder28   Trends in Design

Tours

Folder29   Art Deco Interiors

Weekend Seminars

Folder30   Bonzai, Ikebana, and Japanese Gardens. Includes a catalogue, "The New York Botanical Garden and the Horticultural Society of New York Combined Education Program," Spring 1977.

Young People's Programs

Folder31   Children's classes. Includes biographical material on Kathleen E. Ferguson and Linda Margolin

Box 9 of 17

Summer 1979

Craft Workshops

Folder1   Craft Workshops

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder2   Repair Clinic

Special Programs

Folder3   Films/Urban Open Spaces. Includes film catalogues from the University of California Extension Media Center and The Museum of Modern Art.
Folder4   Summer Symposium

Special Series

Folder5   Fantastic Architecture
Folder6   Oasis in the City

Tours

Folder7   Urban Murals. Includes biographical material on Jay Rosenblum.
Folders8-9   Wave Hill. Includes photographs.

Young People's Programs

Folder10   Children's Classes

Fall 1979

Administrative Record

Folder11   Programs - Fall 1979

Classes

Folder12   African Art. Includes a copy of Africa, A Brief History of Ancient and Medieval Africa by R. H. Kemper.
Folder13   American Folk Art
Folder14   Archaeology and Film
Folder15   Glass
Folder16   History of Technology. Includes biographical material on Elizabeth Hitz and Judith Marci Gutman.
Folder17   Native American
Folder18   Natural History. Includes articles and newsclippings on Sidney Horenstein.
Folder19   Reform Movements
Folder20   Spaceflight Lectures. Includes biographical material on Frederick C. Durant III and Fred Wallace Haise, Jr.
Folder21   20th Century American Painting

Craft Workshops

Folder22   Craft Workshop

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder23   Repair Clinics

Luncheon Lectures

Folder24   Collecting Antiques Luncheon

Special Programs

Folder25   Poetry Reading Series

Box 10 of 17

Tours

Folder1   Sleepy Hollow Restoration Tour
Folder2   Sunday Field Trips

Weekend Seminars

Folder3   Gems and Minerals
Folders4-5   Stage Design

Young People's Programs

Folder6   Children's Classes. Includes biographical material on the instructor, Savannah; and a copy of the NASA film catalog, July 1977.
Folder7   Performing Arts

Winter 1980

Administrative Records

Folder8   Brochure Copy
Folder9   Programs and Memos (Fall 1979 and winter 1980)

Classes

Folder10   Archaeology. Includes letters of reference for Clara Lipson from staff members of the Cooper-Hewitt.
Folder11   Art Deco. Includes biographical material on Helen Amy Harrison.
Folder12   English Architecture and the Decorative Arts
Folder13   From Iberia to Modern Spain. Includes biographical material on Jerrilyn Denise Dodds.
Folder14   Furniture. Includes biographical material on Elizabeth Stillinger.
Folder15   Gothic - 12th Century
Folder16   Himalayan. Includes an excerpt from Alexandra David-Neel's Adventures in Tibet, Fact or Fiction by Braham Norwick.
Folder17   Interiors
Folder18   Needlework
Folder19   Prints. Includes biographical material an Frederick den Broeder.

Craft Workshops

Folder20   Crafts

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder21   Repair Clinic

Luncheon Lectures

Folder22   Chinese Luncheon Lecture

Special Programs

Folders23-24   "Door". Includes photographs, press releases, and excerpts from articles on the production of "Door" at the Cooper-Hewitt.
Folder25   19th Century Furniture. Includes biographical material on Page Talbot, Marilyn Johnson Bordes, Peter L. L. Strickland, Jan Seidler, and Ed Polk Douglas.

Special Series

Folder26   Antiques Visits

Weekend Seminars

Folder27   Design and Energy. Includes newspaper clippings of "The Architect's Role in Saving Energy"; an issue of Popular Science, October 1979; and a copy of Solar Heated Buildings Survey, 12th edition, March 3, 1976.
Folder28   Southern Antiques

Box 11 of 17

Young People's Programs

Folder1   Children's Performing Arts. Includes background material on Elizabeth Albot and the Kaleidoscope Dancers.
Folder2   Teens - Design. Includes biographical material on Margit Echols.
Folder3   Winter Children's classes

Spring 1980

Classes

Folder4   Artists as Designers
Folder5   Ceramics of the East
Folders6-7   Changing Metropolis. Includes biographical material on Richard M. Rosan.
Folder8   18th- and 19th-Century Fashion. Includes biographical material on Maureen Conner.
Folder9   Greek and Roman Architecture
Folder10   Image of America in landscape. Includes biographical material on Via Wynroth.
Folder11   Interior Design: Renaissance through Baroque. Includes biographical material on Joyce Geary Volk.
Folder12   New England Architecture
Folder13   Trends in Design

Craft Workshops

Folder14   Non-Woven Fiber and Fabrics Craft Workshops. Includes biographical material on Shery De Leon, Arlene Minter, and Ellen Weilbord; and a copy of Beyond Tapestry by Joan Livingston.

Decorative Arts Repair Clinics

Folder15   Furniture Finishers Repair Clinic

Special Programs

Folder16   Americana Day
Folder17   Ceramic Symposium

Special Series

Folder18   Talks with Flower Designers

Tours

Folder19   Barnes Tour. Includes historical material on the Barnes Foundation.
Folder20   Charleston Tour

Weekend Seminars

Folder21   Brownstone Revival. Includes a copy of The Old House Journal, volume 8, May 1980.

Young People's Programs

Folder22   Classes for Young People. Includes biographical material on Diana Rolls.
Folder23   Performing Arts for Young People. Includes biographical material on Jehan Clements, David Marquis, and Lea Wallace; and photographs of Clements.

Summer 1980

Administrative Records

Folder24   Summer Programs - 1980

Craft Workshops

Folder25   Summer Crafts - 1980. Includes biographical material on Cecily Barth Firestein; and a copy of Step by Step Decoupage by Dee Davis and Dee Frenkel.

Special Programs

Folders26-27   Performing Arts. Includes an article on Stuart Davis in Courier, April 23, 1979; background information on the Harvard/Radcliffe Dance Co.; and articles from the New Yorker (magazine), May 9, 1977, The New York Times, April 27, 1977 and July 2, 1978, The New York Post, April 26, 1977, and The Record, May 19, 1978, on The Federal Music Society.

Box 12 of 17

Special Series

Folder1   Victoriana Moderne: The Modern Movement in American Architecture

Tours

Folder2   Victoriana Moderne: Walking Tour
Folder3   Yale/New Haven Tour

Young People's Programs

Folder4   Young People

Fall 1980

Classes

Folder5   American Decorative Arts
Folder6   Art Nouveau
Folder7   Development of the American Home in the 20th Century. Includes articles on design from Interior Design, May 1978, Architectural Record, May 1980, Design Dialogue and Progressive Architecture, April 1980.
Folders8-9   Drawings
Folder10   18th- and 19th-Century European Interiors
Folder11   Frank Lloyd Wright. Includes an account of Edgar Tafel's life and his association with Frank Lloyd Wright.
Folder12   Georgian England
Folder13   Guatemalan Folk Aft Class
Folder14   Italian Decorative Arts
Folders15-16   New York Cultural Center: New York, The Arts in the Eighties. Includes published edition of roundtable discussion on New York City by Touche Ross and transcripts of four lectures given by New York art, dance, literature, and theater critics.
Folder17   Palladio
Folder18   Pre-Columbian
Folder19   Silver
Folder20   Wallpaper

Craft Workshops

Folder21   Erica Wilson Workshop
Folder22   Fall Craft Workshops. Includes biographical material on Keyomi Iwata and Ruth Ann Greenhill.

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder23   Repair Clinic

Luncheon Lectures

Folder24   China Trade

Box 13 of 17

Special Series

Folder1   Visits to Fabric Houses

Tours

Folder2   Atlantic City

Weekend Seminars

Folder3   American Cut Glass. Includes biographical material on Estelle Sinclaire Farrar.
Folder4   Lofts

Young People's Programs

Folder5   Classes for Young People. Includes biographical material on Amy Trompetter; and historical information on the Blackbird Press.

Winter 1981

Classes

Folder6   American Architecture
Folder7   American 19th-Century Furniture
Folder8   Arts and Crafts Movement. Includes a copy of The Furniture of Gustav Stickley, by Carol Lorraine Bohdan and Todd Mitchel Volpe; and an article, "American Art Pottery" by Robert W. Blasberg and Todd M. Volpe in Nineteenth Century, Summer 1979.
Folder9   Chinese Painting
Folder10   Constructivism
Folder11   Egyptian Culture
Folder12   Italian Interiors
Folder13   Jewelry
Folder14   Rome
Folder15   Spanish Architecture and Decorative Arts
Folder16   Textiles

Craft Workshops

Folder17   Crafts. Includes biographical material on Enrique Espinoza and a copy of "Treatise on 19th-Century Theorem Painting as Practiced Today," Ruth Ann Greenhill.

Decorative Arts Repair Clinics

Folder18   Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Luncheon Lectures

Folder19   Folk Art

Special Programs

Folder20   Architecture Symposium. Includes biographical material on Michael Graves.
Folder21   Innovative Furniture Symposium

Special Series

Folder22   Furniture Designer Visits

Weekend Seminars

Folder23   Buddhist Art
Folder24   19th-Century Symposium with Paul Bernet and Victorian Society

Young People's Programs

Folder25   Young People. Includes biographical material on Jay Wright; and a newsclipping from the New York Daily News, January 22, 1981, on young people's courses at the Cooper-Hewitt.

Spring 1981

Administrative Records

Folder26   Programs

Box 14 of 17

Classes

Folder1   Ceramics/Pottery
Folder2   German Stage and Film Design
Folder3   Japanese Architecture. Includes some correspondence with Fall 1982 instructors.
Folder4   Landscape Architecture
Folder5   McKim, Mead and White. Includes biographical material on Richard Guy Wilson.
Folder6   Miniatures. Includes biographical material on Tom and Gloria Warner and a treatise on "Minituria" by The International Guild of Miniature Artisans.
Folder7   Splendors of Moghol India
Folder8   20th-Century Fashion. Includes a transcript of Maureen Connor's lecture, "Form Follows Fashion," published in Art Forum, December 1979.
Folder9   20th-Century Interiors

Craft Workshops

Folder10   Crafts. Includes biographical material on Martin Baroshian and Leigh Alice Hubler.

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder11   Repair clinic

Special Programs

Folder12   Spring Symposium (Industrial Design). Includes a transcript of the symposium.

Young People's Programs

Folder13   Spring Workshops. Includes biographical material on Denise Gonzales.

Summer 1981

Classes

Folder14   Giverny. Includes a clipping, "Design Notebook", from The New York Times, August 1980; and a copy of A Visit to Giverny by Gerald Van Der Kemp.

Craft Workshops

Folder15   Summer Crafts

Special Programs

Folder16   Animation Festival
Folder17   Floral Demonstrations

Tours

Folder18   Circle Line Tour
Folder19   Mystic Seaport. Includes historical material an the Mystic Seaport Museum.
Folder20   New York Botanical Garden Tour
Folder21   Yale Museums

Young People's Programs

Folder22   Young People

Fall 1981

Box 15 of 17

Classes

Folder1   Book Arts
Folders2-3   Cities. Includes biographical material on Barry Commoner; an article in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, September 3, 1980, on architectural education; a draft of work in process entitled "City Building Education for the American Bar Association" by Doreen Nelson; and a copy of Synergy, a publication of The Center for City Building Educational Programs, Winter/Spring 1979.
Folder4   European Interiors
Folder5   Gothic Architecture
Folder6   History of Graphic Art
Folder7   Islamic Art and Architecture
Folder8   Quilts. Includes biographical material on Judith Reiter Weissman.
Folder9   Rugs. Includes biographical material on Walter B. Denny, Parvis Nemati, Sarah B. Shermill; and a photograph of Nemati.
Folder10   Silver

Craft Workshops

Folder11   Crafts. Includes biographical material on Kay Radcliffe.

Luncheon Lectures

Folder12   Continuing Trends in Interior Design

Special Programs

Folder13   Book Day
Folder14   Symposium on Graphic Design

Weekend Seminars

Folder15   Harris/Late Victorian Architecture

Winter 1982

Classes

Folder16   Artists as Designers. Includes biographical material on Rony Cohen.
Folder17   Chinese Ceramics
Folder18   Jewelry
Folder19   Miniatures. Includes a copy of Creating the Miniature Room Setting by Dusty Boynton
Folder20   Robert Adams

Box 16 of 17

Craft Workshops

Folder1   Crafts/Rugs. Includes biographical material on Sally Clark Carty and Gundrun M. H. Kohleo.

Special Programs

Folder2   Architecture Symposium
Folders3-4   Films - Architecture. Includes a copy of French Short Films (catalogue).
Folder5   Royal Oak Symposium

Spring 1982

Classes

Folder6   The Golden Age of Naples
Folder7   Great Gardens
Folder8   Majolica/English Ceramics
Folder9   New York Modern
Folder10   Regional American Furniture Styles

Craft Workshops

Folder11   Spring Crafts. Includes biographical material on Henry Pomerance.

Luncheon Lectures

Folder12   English Country Homes

Special Programs

Folder13   Films
Folder14   Industrial Design

Tours

Folder15   Auction Tour
Folder16   Robert Adam Tour
Folder17   Soho Tour

Young People's Programs

Folder18   Classes for Young People

Summer 1982

Administrative Records

Folder19   Programs and Workshops

Classes

Folder20   American Folk Art
Folder21   American Landscape

Special Programs

Folder22   Russell Lynes, More than Meets the Eye
Folder23   Summer Dance Concerts. Includes biographical material on Eric Barnes, Scott Caywood, Alice Farly, Deborah Gladster, Pamela Harling, Rachel Harms, Tamar Kotoske, and Morocco; and photographs of Caywood Gladstein.

Fall 1982

Classes

Folder24   Rugs I and II. Includes correspondence from the Winter 1983 session.

Craft Workshops

Folder25   Lace Workshops. Includes biographical material on Michael Sinclair, Gunnel Teitel, and Joanne Segal Brandford.

Box 17 of 17

Special Programs

Folders1-8   Scandinavian Symposium. Includes correspondence with the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Guggenheim Museum; biographical material on lecturers Per Mollerup, Jens Nielsen, Guy-Christer Lonngren, Stefan Snaebyornsson, Knut Yran, Carl Christiansson, Lennart Lindkvist, Tapio Heikki Perrainen, and Estelle Rosenlow; photographs of Perrainen, Yran, Rosenlow, and an unidentified individual; press releases; and transmittal reports.

Special Series

Folder9   Artists' Talks. Includes biographical material on Seymour Chwast and Paul Davis.

SERIES 2.
CORRESPONDENCE, 1979-1981. ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY.

Box 17 of 17
Folders10-11   Correspondence 1979. Includes biographical material on Roberta Dervis Klein, Bruce Linden, and Otto Kallir.
Folder12   Correspondence 1980
Folder13   Correspondence 1981. Includes biographical material on Susan Allan; and canceled checks.


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