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Identifier: MC 1522

Abstract: Papers reflecting Ann Sperry's thirty-five year career as a sculptor, teacher, and activist. The material primarily relates to Sperry’s many public commissions, individual exhibitions, and participation in group exhibitions throughout the world. It also includes some documentation of her teaching at various institutions, her early career as a jewelry designer, her service on the College Art Association’s Status of Women Committee, and her activities as an editor of Helicon Nine magazine....
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Identifier: IJS-0002

Scope and Contents: The Count Basie family papers and artifacts comprise the extant papers and personal belongings of the Basie family, including Catherine, Diane, and Count Basie. The collection contains personal papers, music, photographic prints and negatives, business records, artwork, and audio and moving image recordings, as well as artifacts. The majority of items in the collection are from the 20th century, particularly the time period between the mid-1950s to the early 1980s.Most...
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Identifier: IJS-0056

Scope and Contents: The Dan Morgenstern papers document the full span of Morgenstern's life and career, from his early years in Vienna through his leadership of the Institute of Jazz Studies. The collection consists of personal and professional papers including correspondence, research notes, manuscripts, liner notes, drafts, review copies, setlists and concert notes, interviews, ephemera, photographs, audio and moving image recordings, datebooks, applications, awards, clippings, souvenirs, contracts, teaching...
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Identifier: MC 1484

Abstract: The Rita Myers Papers documents Myers' art career. Myers received her BFA from Douglass College, Rutgers University and her MA from Hunter College. Since 1975, Rita Myers has created a body of large-scale, multi-media installations that create highly theatrical, metaphorical spaces from a fusion of video, text, sound, and sculptural and natural forms. Juxtaposing elements of landscape and architecture, these formalized, symbolic environments function as contemplative sites that resonate with...