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Architecture

Subject — Box: 2

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The contents of this collection date from approximately the 1850s to the 1930s, across fifteen broad subject areas: animals, architecture, funereal, landscape, leisure/picnic, military, music, occupation, portraits, school, sports, sill life, store fronts, street scenes, and transportation. This collection displays multiple early photography formats and processes, including albumen prints, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, tintypes, and cyanotypes.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1850s-1930s

Found in: American Folk Art Museum Archives / A0076, Gerald Kornblau Photograph Collection

Architecture 2

Subject — Box: 3

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The contents of this collection date from approximately the 1850s to the 1930s, across fifteen broad subject areas: animals, architecture, funereal, landscape, leisure/picnic, military, music, occupation, portraits, school, sports, sill life, store fronts, street scenes, and transportation. This collection displays multiple early photography formats and processes, including albumen prints, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, tintypes, and cyanotypes.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1850s-1930s

Found in: American Folk Art Museum Archives / A0076, Gerald Kornblau Photograph Collection

Archuleta, Felipe, 1983, 1987

File — Box: 1, Folder: 4

Identifier: I

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains primarily photographs, negatives, and slides, as well as some written research material related to folk artists. The Rosenaks visited many of these artists, and photographed them in their homes and studios, with their artwork and sometimes their families. The Rosenaks used these photographs as research material for their books Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists (New York: Abbeville,...

Dates: Other: 1983, 1987

Found in: American Folk Art Museum Archives / A0009, The Charles B. and Janice M. Rosenak Collection / Series I: Artist Photography Files

Archuleta, Felipe*, 1975-1976

File — Box: 2, Folder: 8

Identifier: II

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes artists both featured in Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists and not, as well as items from artists dated after the publication of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists. Originally, Weissman kept the files separate, but when the collection was donated to the American Folk Art Museum, they were combined into one alphabetical unit. Some folders have extensive correspondence with the...

Dates: 1975-1976

Found in: American Folk Art Museum Archives / A0010, Julia Weissman Papers / Series II: Artist Files

Archuleta, Felipe Benito, 1986 - 1993

File — Box: 3, Folder: 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Richard Gasperi Papers primarily comprises research files on artists that Gasperi collected, studied, featured in exhibitions, and engaged with on a personal level throughout his career. These files include newspaper clippings, excerpts of scholarly articles and publications, photographs, art inventories, and exhibition advertisements. Gasperi used these sources to write his own artist biographies, which can also be found in the collection. Some artist files contain correspondence,...

Dates: Other: 1986 - 1993

Found in: American Folk Art Museum Archives / A0054, Richard Gasperi Papers

Archuleta, Leroy, 1989

File — Box: 1, Folder: 5

Identifier: I

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains primarily photographs, negatives, and slides, as well as some written research material related to folk artists. The Rosenaks visited many of these artists, and photographed them in their homes and studios, with their artwork and sometimes their families. The Rosenaks used these photographs as research material for their books Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists (New York: Abbeville,...

Dates: Other: 1989

Found in: American Folk Art Museum Archives / A0009, The Charles B. and Janice M. Rosenak Collection / Series I: Artist Photography Files

Archuleta, Leroy and Felipe, 1987-08-10

Item — Multiple Containers

Identifier: II

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The cassettes have been digitized and are available to be listened to upon request. Full transcripts were created when the tapes were digitized and are also available upon request. This database contains short summaries of each recording in this series. To find these descriptions, navigate to the name of the artist (they are listed alphabetically), and click on the "digital materials" tab at the bottom of the page. Click on the name of the recording you would like to view. You...

Dates: 1987-08-10

Found in: American Folk Art Museum Archives / A0009, The Charles B. and Janice M. Rosenak Collection / Series II: Artist Interviews and Recordings / Sub-Series B: Audio Recordings

Ardsley Public Library, 1993 - 1998

File — Box: 1, Folder: 6

Identifier: A

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains material organized alphabetically by the name of the cultural organization. In the original processing of the Fasanella papers, there were two separate groupings of materials: museums and galleries. However, there was an extraordinary amount of duplicated material in both groups, both galleries and museums were filed into the other category, and exhibition-specific files were mixed in. There were also institutions that were not primarily museums or galleries, such as...

Dates: Other: 1993 - 1998

Found in: American Folk Art Museum Archives / A0007, Ralph and Eva Fasanella Papers / Series I: Arts and Cultural Organizations / Sub-series A: Arts and Cultural Organizations, Alphabetical

Armadillo (2003.7.32)

Item — Box: 105, Folder: 21

Identifier: 2003.7.32

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains the resource materials that Darger used in his visual artwork, including clippings from coloring books, comic books, newspapers, and periodicals. The series contains imagery common in many of his artworks, such as soldiers and assorted Civil War imagery, disasters (volcanoes, fires, tornadoes), images of girls, a limited number of images of boys, drawings of Darger’s blengin characters (winged beings with curved horns), clippings of flora, fauna, and miscellaneous...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1920 - 1963

Found in: American Folk Art Museum Archives / A0006, Henry Darger Papers / Series III: Source Material / Sub-Series A: Clippings, Coloring Books / Clippings, Coloring Books

Armadillo (2003.7.198)

Item — Frame: 2003.7.198

Identifier: 2003.7.198

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains a collection of Darger’s paper-based collaged imagery and portraiture, which often contains compositions made from of a multitude of news and magazine clippings, primarily of young girls and assorted religious imagery. The collages are often mounted on cardboard. Some are framed by a border of postage stamps, some contain inscriptions by Darger, and all are often covered by a glaze of glue or lacquer. The collages are commonly seen hanging in Darger’s apartment as...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1909 - 1965

Found in: American Folk Art Museum Archives / A0006, Henry Darger Papers / Series IV: Visual Material / Sub-Series E: Studies and Sketches

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