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Paul Jenkins papers, 1940-2007.

Author: Paul JenkinsSuzanne C JenkinsBeauford DelaneyAlbert Edward ElsenDore AshtonAll authors
Edition/Format:   Archival material : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Correspondence, works of art, writings, photographs, financial material and printed material regarding the career of Paul Jenkins as an abstract expressionist and his involvement with theater. Also included is information regarding Jenkins interest in artists Lynd Ward and Karl Prantl.
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Genre/Form: Photographs
Drawings
Manuscripts
Travel diaries
Named Person: Lynd Ward; Karl Prantl
Document Type: Archival Material
All Authors / Contributors: Paul Jenkins; Suzanne C Jenkins; Beauford Delaney; Albert Edward Elsen; Dore Ashton; Norman Bluhm; Jean Dubuffet; Zoe Dusanne; Elaine De Kooning; Alice Baber; Willem De Kooning; Clement Greenberg; Martha Kellogg Jackson; Thomas B Hess; Matsumi Kanemitsu; Michael Goldberg; Frank O'Hara; Mark Tobey; Milton S Fox; Joan Mitchell; Georges Mathieu; Lee Krasner; André Verdet; David Douglas Duncan; Frank Trapp; Kenneth B Sawyer; Peter Brook; Pierre Gruneberg; Philippe Hosiasson; Paul Bunshi; Thomas Erma; Muriel Silverstein; George Wittenburn; Lili Verame
OCLC Number: 430380769
Description: 11.3 linear feet.
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Correspondence, works of art, writings, photographs, financial material and printed material regarding the career of Paul Jenkins as an abstract expressionist and his involvement with theater. Also included is information regarding Jenkins interest in artists Lynd Ward and Karl Prantl.

Correspondence including letters, postcards, invitations, telegrams, faxes, and photocopies is with family, colleagues, art dealers, and art historians including Dore Ashton, Alice Baber, Norman Bluhm, Albert Elsen, Elaine de Kooning, Beauford Delaney, Jean Dubuffet, David Douglas Duncan, Zoe Dusanne, Michael Goldberg, Clement Greenberg, Thomas B. Hess, Philippe Hosiasson, Martha Jackson, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Sawyer, Mark Tobey, Frank Trapp, and others.

Works of art are by Norman Bluhm, Denis Bowen, Thomas Erma, Milton Fox, Pierre Gruneberg, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Paul Kanemitsu, Jean-Louis Prat, Muriel Silverstein, N. Hayden Stubbing, Gerard Thalman, Andre Verdet, George Wittenborn, and eight watercolor sketches, 1997, by architect Frank Prince, among others. Watercolor sketches are of a proposed building to adjoin Jenkin's sculpture park, Mandala Meditation Sundial, installed at Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y. in 1994. Writings include manuscripts by Jenkins and others; and travel diaries kept by Jenkins while traveling to China, Russia, and France, and a travel diary kept by Lili Verame, a friend of Jenkins, while traveling to China.

Photographs are of Jenkins, colleagues, and exhibition installations. Financial material includes bills and bank statements. Printed material includes press releases, newspaper articles, and death notices. Miscellaneous material includes bills of lading, a signed guest book from a solo exhibition by Jenkins at the Tokyo Gallery, and various membership cards.

Also included are correspondence and 38 photographs of the woodcut series "God's Man" by Lynd Ward and photographs and correspondence on a sculpture created by Karl Prantl and owned by Jenkins.

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