Norman Kent papers

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Collection Overview ...... 1 Administrative Information ...... 1 Scope and Contents...... 1 Scope and Contents...... 2 Biographical / Historical...... 1 Names and Subjects ...... 2 Container Listing ...... Norman Kent papers AAA.kentnorm

Collection Overview

Repository: Archives of American Art

Title: Norman Kent papers

Identifier: AAA.kentnorm

Date: 1939-1964

Creator: Kent, Norman, 1903-1972

Extent: 300 Items ((on 2 microfilm reels))

Language: English .

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information Lent for microfilming 1965 by Norman Kent. Location of Originals Originals located at the George Arents Research Library, Syracuse University. Related Materials Additional Norman Kent papers pertaining to American Artist also located at: George Arent Research Library Syracuse University. Other Finding Aids Microfilmed inventory available at Archives of American Art offices. Available Formats 35mm microfilm rolls D229 & D229A available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Restrictions The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Biographical / Historical

Illustrator, educator, lithographer, engraver, painter and writer; studied at Rochester Institute of Technology and was active in New York State. Former editor of AMERICAN ARTIST.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, articles, clippings, and gallery literature.

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Scope and Contents

Among the correspondents are Charles Avery Aiken, Grace Albee, Ernfred Anderson, John Taylor Arms, Ralph H. Avery, William J. Aylward, Merrill A. Bailey, Vernon Howe Bailey, George Biddle, Louis Bouche, Fiske Boyd, J. Paul Bransom, Charles Burchfield, Clarence H. Carter, Asa Cheffetz, Eliot C. Clark, Howard N. Cook,, James H. Daugherty, E. Hubert Deines, Fritz Eichenberg, Ralph Fabri, , James D. Havens, Wilmot Emerton Heitland, Peter Helck, J. Lars Hoftrup, Philip Kappel, , Julius J. Lankes, Clare Leighton, Warren B. Mack, Roy M. Mason, Leo Meissner, John C. Menihan, Henry C. Pitz, Ogden Pleissner, Grant T. Reynard, William S. Rice, , Sven Birger Sandzen, Alice P. Schafer, Eric Sloane, Charles W. Smith, James Swann, Donald Teague, Nora S. Unwin, Robert Von Neumann, Lynd Ward, Herbert O. Waters, Aldren A. Watson, Stow Wengenroth, Frederic Whitaker, Esther Williams, Edward A. Wilson, and others.

Names and Subject Terms

This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:

Names: Aiken, Charles Avery, 1872-1965 Albee, Grace Anderson, Ernfred, 1896- Arms, John Taylor, 1887-1953 Avery, Ralph Hillyer, 1906-1976 Aylward, W. J. (William James), 1875-1956 Bailey, Merrill A., 1909- Bailey, Vernon Howe, 1874-1953 Biddle, George, 1885-1973 Bouché, Louis, 1896-1969 Boyd, Fiske, 1895-1975 Bransom, Paul, 1885- Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967 Carter, Clarence Holbrook, 1904-2000 Cheffetz, Asa, 1896-1965 Clark, Eliot Candee, 1883- Cook, Howard Norton, 1901-1980 Cornwell, Dean, 1892-1960 Daugherty, James Henry, 1889-1974 Deines, E. Hubert, 1894-1967 Eichenberg, Fritz, 1901-1990 Fabri, Ralph, 1894-1975 Fawcett, Robert Havens, James D., 1900-1960 Heitland, Wilmot Emerton, 1893-1969 Helck, Peter, b. 1893 Hoftrup, Julius Lars, 1874-1954 Kappel, Philip Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971 Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960 Leighton, Clare, 1899- Mack, Warren Bryan, 1896-1952 Mason, Roy Martell, 1886-1972

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Meissner, Leo J. (Leo John), 1895-1977 Menihan, John C. Pitz, Henry Clarence, 1895-1976 Pleissner, Ogden M. Reynard, Grant T., 1887-1968 Rice, William S., 1873-1963 Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978 Sandzén, Birger, 1871-1954 Schafer, Alice Pauline, 1899-1980 Sloane, Eric Smith, Charles (Charles William), b. 1893 Swann, James, 1905-1985 Teague, Donald, 1897- Unwin, Nora Spicer, 1907- Von Neumann, Robert Ward, Lynd, 1905-1985 Waters, Herbert Watson, Aldren Auld, 1917- Wengenroth, Stow, 1906-1978 Whitaker, Frederic Williams, Esther, 1907-1969 Wilson, Edward Arthur, 1886-1970

Occupations: Educators -- New York (State) Engravers -- New York (State) Illustrators -- New York (State) Lithographers -- New York (State) Painters -- New York (State) Woodcutters (printmakers) -- New York (State)

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