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Sylvia Sleigh Papers, 1803-2011, Bulk 1940-2000 http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8qc049h Online items available Finding aid for the Sylvia Sleigh papers, 1803-2011, bulk 1940-2000 Maggie Hughes Finding aid for the Sylvia Sleigh 2004.M.4 1 papers, 1803-2011, bulk 1940-2000 Descriptive Summary Title: Sylvia Sleigh papers Date (inclusive): 1803-2013, undated (bulk 1940-2000) Number: 2004.M.4 Creator/Collector: Sleigh, Sylvia Physical Description: 80.2 Linear Feet(138 boxes, 6 flatfile folders) Repository: The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles 90049-1688 [email protected] URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref (310) 440-7390 Abstract: The papers of noted Welsh-born feminist painter Sylvia Sleigh (1916-2010) document her life, career, and the larger context of contemporary feminist art, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1940-2000. Sleigh, a realist painter, moved to the United States in 1961 with her husband, art critic Lawrence Alloway. Sleigh's paintings of nude males in traditional odalisque poses remain her best-known works. She was a central figure in the New York City area feminist art movement of the 1970s. Request Materials: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the catalog record for this collection. Click here for the access policy . Language: Collection material is in English Biographical / Historical Note Sylvia Sleigh Alloway (1916-2010), known professionally as Sylvia Sleigh throughout her career, was a noted realist painter, curator, and feminist. Welsh-born, she was active primarily in the New York City area where she lived, along with her husband, art critic Lawrence Alloway, from 1961-2010. Sleigh's paintings of nude males in traditional odalisque poses remain her best-known works. Born Sylvia Margaret Sleigh in Llandudno, Wales on May 8, 1916, she was raised by her maternal grandmother in Hove, Sussex. Her parents separated early in her childhood. Her mother, Katherine Cancedda, moved to Africa, and later to France, remarried two times, and had three more children. Sleigh's relationship with her mother was strained throughout her life and she had virtually no contact with her half sisters. Sleigh's father, John Sleigh, lived continuously in England and maintained a pleasant, yet somewhat distanced relationship with Sleigh. Sleigh was an enthusiastic artist and painter during her childhood and attended the Brighton School of Art in Sussex, England. She became a seamstress and dressmaker and eventually opened her own shop in Brighton. In 1941, she married local artist and art history lecturer Michael Greenwood, moving with him to London. Their marriage lasted thirteen years, during which Greenwood and Sleigh often lived apart-Sleigh in Pett and Greenwood in London. Her relationship with Greenwood and proximity to the art world helped reignite her love of art and she began to pursue painting professionally. In 1944, while taking night classes in art history at the University of London, Sleigh met Lawrence Alloway, then 17 years old. Thus began a close friendship and, later, romantic relationship that would result in the two marrying immediately upon Sleigh's divorce from Greenwood in 1954. Often unhappy in her relationship with Greenwood, Sleigh found a true partner in Alloway. Concurrently, Alloway was beginning his own foray into the world of art criticism and greatly encouraged Sleigh's career. He begins appearing as a model in Sleigh's paintings in the late 1940s. Sleigh's first documented participation in a group show was in 1950; her first solo exhibition was in 1953 at the Kensington Art Gallery in London. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, her work consists primarily of still lifes, landscapes, and portraits. In 1961, Alloway accepted a teaching position at Bennington College in Vermont and he and Sleigh moved to New York City. The city would remain their primary residence for the rest of their lives. From 1962 to 1966 Alloway was the curator of the Guggenheim and Sleigh continued to pursue painting. During the 1960s, Sleigh began the theme in her work that is perhaps best known today-male nudes in traditional female poses as seen in paintings by old masters such as Velasquez and Ingres. For example, Philip Golub Reclining (1971) plays on Velasquez's Rokeby Venus. Her work challenged traditional conventions of the female nude. Sleigh worked almost exclusively with models she knew well and with whom she had personal relationships. She sought to humanize her nudes by treating them as women historically had not been, as individuals. In The Turkish Bath (1973) Sleigh uses Ingres' painting Finding aid for the Sylvia Sleigh 2004.M.4 2 papers, 1803-2011, bulk 1940-2000 of the same name as a vehicle to portray five men she respected and cared for: art critics Lawrence Alloway, Scott Burton, John Perreault, and Carter Ratcliff with two images of her frequent model Paul Rosano. Sleigh's professional breakthrough, which coincided with the burgeoning feminist movement, happened early in the 1970s when her nudes began to garner more attention. In 1973 the Village Voice declared that, "The nude portrait and nude male portrait by a woman artist is one of Sleigh's strongest accomplishments. Invention of any new genre is never exact, but occurs within a context; in this case, feminism and art history." Life in New York City in the 1970s proved to be fertile ground for Sleigh's beliefs and talents as she became more active in the feminist movement. She was a founding member of the Soho20 Gallery, an all women, artist-run gallery, in 1973 and was a member of Artists in Residence (A.I.R.) Gallery, another all-women artist-run gallery from 1974-1978. Sleigh continued her promotion of women artists for the rest of her life, assembling a large collection of contemporary women artists' works. Close friends and associates included May Stevens, Lucy Sallick, Maureen Conoor, Rosemary Mayer, and Dottie Attie. In addition to her painting and activism, in the 1970s and early 1980s Sleigh held several temporary teaching positions at the New School for Social Research, Queens College, and State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1977, Sleigh was awarded the Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Professorship at Northwestern University. Alloway's health declined throughout the 1980s, due to a neurological disorder, until his death in 1990. Sleigh continued to create new work and pursue new projects throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. In the 1980s she worked on a series of portraits of women artists, and in the 1990s returned to her theme of classical nudes with male subjects. For approximately twenty years, Sleigh worked on a large-scale, ten-panel piece, Invitation to a Voyage (1970-1999) which was exhibited in several one-woman shows as well as in a retrospective of her work at the Hudson River Museum. On October 24, 2010 Sleigh passed away after suffering a stroke in New York City. Access Open for use by qualified researchers with the following exceptions. Audio and video recordings and computer files are unavailable until reformatted. Student records in Box 64, folder 10 are SEALED until 2063 per Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) legislation and institutional policy. Publication Rights Contact Library Reproductions and Permissions . Preferred Citation Sylvia Sleigh papers, 1803-2011, bulk 1940-2000, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2004.M.4 http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2004m4 Acquisition Information Gift of Sylvia Sleigh and The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway in 2004, 2010, and 2012. Processing History The collection was rehoused by the Registrar's Office upon receipt in 2004. Additional material received in 2010 and 2012 was rehoused by Maggie Hughes in 2011 and 2012. The entire collection was processed, arranged, and described by Maggie Hughes in 2012 under the supervision of Andra Darlington. Seven boxes of additional material recieved in 2018 (ADD5) were integrated into the collection by Kit Messick in 2020 in boxes 140-143. Twenty additional boxes recieved in 2018 (ADD4) are unprocessed and cannot be made available until processed due to conservation concerns. With the exception of the women artists' announcements in Series VII.B., the arrangement scheme for the collection was imposed during processing in the absence of a discernable original order. Digital Collection In 2015 the correspondence between Sylvia Sleigh and Lawrence Alloway from 1949 to 1982 was digitized as part of the GRI research project, "Lawrence Alloway, Critic and Curator." The digitized correspondence is available for research: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2004m4b1f5_9 Related Archival Materials Related archival material can be found in the Lawrence Alloway papers (accession no. 2003.M.46), 1935-2003, held by the Getty Research Institute. Click here for the catalog record for this collection. Separated Materials More than 200 publications were transferred to the general collection of the Getty Research Institute. They can be found by searching the library catalog for the phrase "Sylvia Sleigh Collection" as the source collection. Finding aid for the Sylvia Sleigh 2004.M.4 3 papers, 1803-2011, bulk 1940-2000 Scope and Content of Collection The papers of noted Welsh-born feminist painter Sylvia Sleigh date from 1803-2011, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1940-2000. The archive documents her life, career, and the larger context of contemporary feminist art, concentrated in the New York City area-- her primary residence beginning in 1961. The papers are comprised of correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues; project files relating to exhibitions of Sleigh's work; documentation of Sleigh's and others' work; writings and lectures by Sleigh and others; files concerning Sleigh's involvement with women artist organizations and cooperatives; teaching files; printed matter in the form of clippings, ephemera, and publications; and personal material, including photographs, legal, and financial documents.
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