Guide to the Howard Warshaw Papers, 1921-2004
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Howard Warshaw Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
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Howard Raphael Warshaw (1920-1977) was born in New York City in 1920. He died in 1977 at the age of 56. He attended Pratt Institute and at age 11 was invited to study at the National Academy of Design. By 18 he was auditing classes at Columbia University, studying at the Art Students League and exhibiting his work. In 1950, Warshaw took a teaching position at the University of Iowa, followed by a position at the Jepson Art Institute in Los Angeles. The bulk of his teaching career was at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Warshaw spent the fall of 1969 as a visiting professor of art at Bowdoin College. Besides teaching, he exhibited his paintings and became known for his murals, including Deposition and the Daily News (1969), which hangs in the Franklin Pierce Reading Room at Bowdoin College Library. During his life Warshaw gained national recognition, and prominent museums collected his work. The Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art and the University of California, Santa Barbara, have extensive Warshaw holdings.
Artwork, clippings, lecture notes, typescripts, reviews, notices, exhibition catalogs, and related materials by and concerning Howard Warshaw. Original artwork includes approximately 200 pen-and-ink drawings, oil paintings, works in gouache, watercolors, and engravings. A digital copy of the "Howard Warshaw Notebook" (on compact discs) includes image files of Warshaw artwork and text files with a Warshaw biography/bibliography. There are also copies of material held by the Howard Warshaw Estate including letters, notes, articles, manuscripts, and images of his work. Three monographs by Warshaw, Los Angeles Art Community: Group Portrait (1977); Drawings on Drawing: a Graphic Reflection of the Language of Drawing (1981); and Drawings of the Watergate Hearings (1973), have been separated from the Howard Warshaw Papers and added to the book collections of Bowdoin College.
Artwork by Warshaw, including approximately 200 original pen-and-ink drawings, oil paintings, works in gouache, watercolors, and engravings. There are metal plates from Warshaw's well-known study of hands, photographs of some of his exhibits, exhibit catalogs, and clippings relating to Warshaw's art. Also included is a digital copy of the "Howard Warshaw Notebook" that includes Warshaw artwork as well as text files with a Warshaw biography/bibliography.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
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Artwork (original)
Artwork (original)
Clippings, etc.
Exhibition catalogs (Art of America magazine)
Exhibition catalogs (College Art Journal)
Exhibition catalogs (Los Angeles County Museum)
Exhibition catalogs (Santa Barbara, Jeppsen Art Institute)
Exhibit catalogs (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
Exhibit catalog (Sullivan Gross Gallery), 2004
Exhibit photos
"Howard Warshaw Notebook": digital copy; two CD's with image files of Warshaw artwork (Adobe Photoshop format) plus text files with a Warshaw biography/bibliography
"Howard Warshaw Notebook": digital copy; one CD with JPEG copies of image files
Metal plates of hands
Warshaw's notes for lectures he delivered while teaching at the University of Iowa and Jepson Art Institute, as well as two notebooks that combine sketches and diagrams with notes for lectures. A typescript of "The Painter-Teacher," written by Warshaw describing the process of painters becoming teachers, is also included.
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Lecture notes
Notebook
Notebook
"The Painter-Teacher" [typescript; copy]
This series contains copies of material held by the Howard Warshaw Estate. There are five volumes of collected papers which include letters, notes, articles, eulogies, legal documents, and manuscripts. There is also one volume of notes for "Vision Made Visible," a journal by Anna Raphael Warshaw, Warshaw's mother, and in German, Der weise Professor Virrus, by Stephan Lackner. In addition, there is a CD-ROM with files of JPEG images of Warshaw's works.
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"Howard Warshaw Collected Papers" (copies), v.1-5
"Howard Warshaw Estate: Works," JPEG copies of image files organized by subject
Journal of Anna Raphael Warshaw, 1921-1942 (copy)
Lackner, Stephan. Der weise Professor Virrus, 1963 (copy)
"Notes for `Vision made Visible,' March 8, 1967" (copy)