Archives of American Art
José de Creeft papers
De Creeft, José, 1884-1982
AAA.decrjose
Archival Resource Key
28.1 Linear feet
1871-2004, bulk 1910s-1980s
bulk 1910-1990
The papers of Spanish-born sculptor and educator José de Creeft measure 28.1 linear feet and date from 1871 to 2004 with the bulk of the material dating from the 1910s to the 1980s. Found are biographical materials, correspondence, fifty diaries, writings, subject files, personal business records, printed materials, twenty-seven photo albums and other photographs, scrapbooks, and scattered sketches.
Collection is in English and Spanish.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The José de Creeft papers were first lent for microfilming by the artist in 1963 and 1972. Lorrie Goulet, José de Creeft's widow, donated most of this material along with additional items in 1985 and 2009.
Related Materials
The Archives of American Art also holds an interview of José De Creeft conducted October 1-8, 1968 by Forrest Selvig and the papers of de Creeft's wife Lorrie Goulet.
Processing Information
Portions of the collection were milcrofilmed onto reels D150, 375-378 upon receipt of a loan and returned to the donor. Most of the collection was later donated in multiple accessions. The collection was processed to a minimal level and a finding aid prepared by Jayna Josefson in 2016, with funding provided by the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund. The Archives of American Art has implemented accelerated processing tactics when possible in order to increase information about and access to more of our collections.
Processing included arrangement to the series, subseries, and folder levels. Generally, items within folders were simply verified with folder titles, but not arranged further. The collection was rehoused in archival containers and folders, but not all staples and clips were removed.
Preferred Citation
José de Creeft papers, 1871-2004, bulk 1910s-1980s. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Existence and Location of Copies
Portions of the collection and materials lent for microfilming are available on 35mm microfilm reels D150 and 375-378 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
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Conditions Governing Access
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Scope and Contents
The papers of Spanish-born sculptor and educator José de Creeft measure 28.1 linear feet and date from 1871 to 2004 with the bulk of the material dating from the 1910s to the 1980s. Found are biographical materials, correspondence, fifty diaries, writings, subject files, personal business records, printed materials, twenty-seven photo albums and other photographs, scrapbooks, and scattered sketches.
Biographical materials include address books, awards, recorded interviews with and about de Creeft, membership materials, naturalization records, resumes, and travel documents.
Correspondence is primarily professional in nature and concerns exhibitions, de Creeft's involvement in arts organizations, and awards. There are also scattered personal letters from family and friends. Correspondents include Alexander Calder, Nina, Alice, Barbara and William de Creeft, Hunt Diederich, Joseph Escudar, and Gil Gomez, Jacques Lipchitz, Edwin Dickinson, James Johnson Sweeney, Costantino Nivola, Abraham Rattner, and Lamar Dodd, among others.
De Creeft's fifty diaries are nearly complete for the period dating from 1926 to 1981. Some are bound volumes and others are loose pages. The bulk of the diaries are in Spanish and many include sketches. Additional writings, called "escritos varios" by José de Creeft, are mostly in Spanish and consist of typed manuscripts and essays, including "Roosty Was My Friend, 1957, notebooks, an artist's statement, and writings by others, including drafts for The Sculpture of de Creeft by Jules Campos, and a video recording entitled José de Creeft by Bob Hanson. There is one sound recording of Lorrie Goulet reading poetry.
Subject files are varied and include files on de Creeft's teaching positions at the New School for Social Research, Black Mountain College, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Art Students League. There are files for some of his sculpture projects, inlcuding Alice in Wonderland, Poet, and a proposed model for the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial in Georgia, as well as compiled information about various art related topics of interest.
De Creeft's business records include appraisals, contracts, leases, price lists, and scattered receipts. Also found are art inventories in the form of three sets of index cards, some of which include photographs.
Printed materials include books, clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, exhibition labels, postcards, and posters.
There are loose photographs and twenty-seven photograph albums depicting de Creeft, his family, friends, and works of art. There are photos of Alexander Calder; de Creeft and Goulet with Raphael Soyer, posing with Soyer's portrait of them; Gertrude Lawrence; art juries, which also include images of Chaim Gross, Jacques Lipchitz, Theodore Roszak, and William Zorach; students, friends, and faculties of Black Mountain College, the Art Students League, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Norton School of Art, which also includes images of Joseph Albers, Alexander Calder, Julio De Diego, Walter Gropius, J. B. Neumann, and Abraham Rattner.
Seven mixed media scrapbooks document de Creeft's career from 1929 to 1982. Also found are scattered pen and pencil sketches and one sketchbook dating from the 1920s.
Biographical / Historical
José de Creeft (1908-1982) was a Spanish-born sculptor active in New York City, New York.
José de Creeft was born in Guadalajara, Spain and raised in Barcelona. In 1900, he apprenticed to sculptor Don Augustine Querol and studied drawing with Idalgo de Caviedas. De Creeft moved to Paris in 1905 and began formal art training at the Académie Julianand. He also took a studio in the Batteau Lavoir in Montmartre, where he interacted with Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Manolo, and Pablo Gargallo, all of whom also had studios there. During this period, de Creeft became friends with the artist Mateo Hernandez.
In 1915, de Creeft rejected the traditional technique of reproducing sculpture in stone from clay and plaster models and turned to direct carving in wood and stone. He was also one of the first sculptors who practiced assemblage and incorporated found objects into his work. His notable assemblage sculpture El Picador, a large figure on horseback, received worldwide press coverage and was exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Independents in 1926. Between 1919 and 1928, his work was exhibited in various Paris salons. In the late 1920s, he created 200 stone carvings for Roberto Ramonje's Forteleza (fortress) in Mallorca. It was around this time frame when de Creeft met Alexander Calder, who became his student in direct carving. De Creeft encouraged Calder to display his mechanical toys and Calder put his Circus together for the first time in de Creeft's studio.
De Creeft emigrated to the United States in 1929, right after marrying fellow sculptor Alice Robertson Carr. They divorced nine years later.
While in New York, de Creeft began sculpting with lead sheets beaten into three-dimensional forms and established a studio at 1 Washington Square. His first solo exhibition was at the Ferargil Galleries in New York City and included The Portrait of Cesar Vallejo in chased lead and The Silver Fox of found materials.
In 1932, de Creeft accepted a teaching position in sculpture at the New School for Social Research. He also taught courses at Black Mountain College, where he met his second wife, sculptor Lorrie Goulet, the Art Students League, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Norton Gallery and School of Art. In 1946, de Creeft and Goulet purchased a hundred-acre farm in Hoosick Falls, NY where they established a studio and part-time residence.
Perhaps De Creeft's most well-known monumental scuplture is Alice in Wonderland in Central Park, New York City. The 12' x 16' bronze was dedicated during a public event in 1959 and gave de Creeft worldwide recognition. In 1995 a short film about the making of the sculpture was produced by J. D'Alba and narrated by Lorrie Goulet.
De Creeft was as founding member of the American Artist's Congress, the Sculptors Guild, and the Artist's Equity Association. De Creeft was represented by the Georgette Passedoit Gallery from 1936 to 1949. Later, he joined The Contemporaries (gallery) and exhibited there until 1966. Kennedy Galleries represented de Creeft from 1970 until his death in 1982.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged as 10 series:
Missing Title
- Series 1: Biographical Material, 1914-1979 (Boxes 1, 27; 0.9 linear feet)
- Series 2: Correspondence, 1910s-1980s (Boxes 1-6; 4.2 linear feet)
- Series 3: Diaries, 1926-1981 (Boxes 6-11; 5.4 linear feet)
- Series 4: Writings, 1871-1977 (Boxes 11-13, 28; 2.5 linear feet)
- Series 5: Subject Files, 1924-1980 (Boxes 13-16, 27; 2.4 linear feet)
- Series 6: Personal Business Records, 1909-1980s (Boxes 16-17, 27; 1.0 linear feet)
- Series 7: Printed Material, 1921-1980s (Boxes 17-21, 27, 33; 4.7 linear feet)
- Series 8: Photographs, 1900-2004 (Boxes 21-25, 29, 31; 5.1 linear feet)
- Series 9: Scrapbooks, 1929-1982 (Box 26, 30, 32; 1.8 linear feet)
- Series 10: Artwork, 1920s-1930s (Box 26; 2 folders)
Separated Materials
The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming (reels D150 and 375-378). While most of the items were included in subsequent gifts, material not donated to the Archives remain with the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.
Photographs
Art -- Study and teaching
Educators -- New York (State) -- New York
Sound recordings
Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
Sculpture, Modern -- New York (State) -- New York
Video recordings
Diaries
Interviews
Scrapbooks
Sketches
Stone Mountain Memorial (Ga.)
Neumann, J. B. (Jsrael Ber) -- Photographs
Dickinson, Edwin Walter, 1891-1978
Lawrence, Gertrude -- Photographs
De Diego, Julio, 1900- -- Photographs
Diederich, William Hunt, 1884-1953
Dodd, Lamar
Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973
Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 -- Photographs
New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.) -- Faculty
Norton Gallery and School of Art
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture -- Faculty
Escuder, Joseph
Gómez Gil, Alfredo, 1936-
Rattner, Abraham -- Photographs
Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987 -- Photographs
Roszak, Theodore, 1907-1981 -- Photographs
Zorach, William, 1887-1966 -- Photographs
Sweeney, James Johnson, 1900-
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) -- Faculty
Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) -- Faculty
Albers, Josef -- Photographs
De Creeft, William
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 -- Photographs
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976
Nivola, Costantino, 1911-1988
Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973 -- Photographs
Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991 -- Photographs
Campos, Jules
Biographical Material
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
0.9 Linear feet
Box 1, 27
1914-1979
Scope and Contents
Biographical materials include an address books and calling cards, awards, and resumes. Membership materials include scattered minutes and identification cards reflecting good-standing in an organization, many of which are art related. De Creeft's naturalization records and travel documents are also found, some of which are in Spanish. An interview from 1972 on a sound tape reel is with de Creeft by Karl Fortness and interviews with Lorrie Goulet by Jules Campos are on two cassette tapes.
Address Books and Calling Cards
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1920s-1940s
1
1-8
Awards and Certificates
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1954-1975
1
9
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 27
Calendar
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1932
1
10
Exhibitor's Cards
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1914-1944
1
11
Identification Cards
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1929-1968
1
12
Interviews with José de Creeft by Karl Fortness
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1 Sound tape reel
1972
1
13
Interview with Lorrie Goulet by Jules Campos
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2 Cassette tapes
circa 1972
1
14
Membership Files
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1920-1971
1
15-18
Naturalization and Immigration Records
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1900s-1959
1
19
Resumes and Biographical Sketches
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1930s-1970s
1
20-21
Travel Papers
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1932-1963
1
22
Who's Who Material
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1953-1979
1
23
Oversized Awards and Certificates, from Box 1, F9
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1950s
27
Correspondence
Series 2
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4.2 Linear feet
Boxes 1-6
1910s-1980s
Scope and Contents
Primarily, correspondence concerns business with some dealers and galleries, exhibitions, students, and art colleagues however family and personal correspondence is also found. Letters from Alfredo, Alice, Barbara and William, Nina de Creeft and Christian (de Creeft) Durupt date from the 1920s to the 1980s. Other correspondents include Alexander Calder, Hunt Diederich, Joseph Escudar, and Gil Gomez, Jacques Lipchitz, Edwin Dickinson, James Johnson Sweeney, Costantino Nivola, Abraham Rattner, and Lamar Dodd, among others
Researchers should note additional correspondence may be found in Series 5 and Series 6.
Art Dealers
Archival Resource Key
1926-1964
1
24
Aspillaga, Ramón
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1962-1966
1
25
Birthday Cards
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1974
1
26
de Creeft, Alfredo Ramón
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1930s-1971
2
1
de Creeft, Alice
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1929-1970s
2
2-4
de Creeft, Barbara and William
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1950s-1970s
2
5-7
de Creeft, Nina
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1960-1980s
2
8-14
de Creeft Grandchildren
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1970s
2
15
Durupt, Christian and Jacqueline
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1949-1971
2
16-17
Escuder, Joseph
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1933-1970
2
18-19
Fan Mail
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1970s
2
20
Friends
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1940s-1970s
2
21-23
Inquiries
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1930-1972
2
24
Museums
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1936-1972
2
25
Paine, Elizabeth
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1940s
2
26
Students
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1928-1971
3
1-2
Zegri, Armando
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1960s
3
3
General
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1910s-1950s
3
4-25
General
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1950s-1970s
4
1-23
General
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1970s-1980s
5
1-19
General
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1980s
6
1-3
Diaries
Series 3
Archival Resource Key
5.4 Linear feet
Boxes 6-11
1926-1981
Scope and Contents
Fifty of de Creeft's diaries date from 1926 to 1981 and are almost complete. There are no diaries for the years 1930 or 1951 and some years have multiple diaries. Some are bound volumes and others are loose pages that were removed from three-ring binders. The bulk of the diaries are in Spanish and many include sketches.
Diary 1
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1926
6
4
Diary 2
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1927
6
5
Diary 3
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1928
6
6
Diary 4
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1929
6
7
Diary 5
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1931
6
8
Diary 6
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1932
6
9
Diary 7
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1933
6
10
Diary 8
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1934
6
11
Diary 9 (Loose Pages)
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1935
6
12-13
Diary 10
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1936
6
14
Diary 11 (Loose Pages)
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1936
7
1-2
Diary 12
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1937
7
3
Diary 13 (Loose Pages)
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1937
7
4-6
Diary 14
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1938
7
7
Diary 15 (Loose Pages)
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1938
7
8-10
Diary 16
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1939
7
11
Diary 17 (Loose Pages)
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1939
7
12-14
Diary 18
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1940
7
15
Diary 19 (Loose Pages)
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1940
7
16
Diary 19 (Loose Pages)
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1940
8
1
Diary 20 (Loose Pages)
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1941
8
2-4
Diary 21 (Loose Pages)
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1942
8
5-6
Diary 22 (Loose Pages)
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1942
8
7-8
Diary 23 (Loose Pages)
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1943
8
9-11
Diary 24 (Loose Pages)
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1944
8
12-14
Diary 25 (Loose Pages)
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1945
8
16-18
Diary 26 (Loose Pages)
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1946
8
19-20
Diary 27 (Loose Pages)
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1947
8
21-22
Diary 28 (Loose Pages)
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1948
9
1-2
Diary 29 (Loose Pages)
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1949-1950
9
3-4
Diary 30
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1952
9
5
Diary 31 (Loose Pages)
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1952-1953
9
6-7
Diary 32 (Loose Pages)
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1954-1957
9
8-9
Diary 33 (Loose Pages)
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1958
9
10-11
Diary 34 (Loose Pages)
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1959
9
12-13
Diary 35 (Loose Pages)
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1960-1962
9
14-16
Diary 36 (Loose Pages)
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1963-1966
9
17-18
Diary 37 (Loose Pages)
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1967-1968
9
19-20
Diary 38 (Loose Pages)
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1969-1970
9
21
Diary 38 (Loose Pages)
Archival Resource Key
1969-1970
10
1-2
Diary 39 (Loose Pages)
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1971
10
3-4
Diary 40 (Loose Pages)
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1972
10
5-7
Diary 41 (Loose Pages)
Archival Resource Key
1973
10
8-10
Diary 42 (Loose Pages)
Archival Resource Key
1974
10
11-13
Diary 43 (Loose Pages)
Archival Resource Key
1975
10
14-15
Diary 44 (Loose Pages)
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1976
10
16-17
Diary 45 (Loose Pages)
Archival Resource Key
1977
10
18
Diary 46 (Loose Pages)
Archival Resource Key
1978
11
1
Diary 47 (Loose Pages)
Archival Resource Key
1979
11
2-3
Diary 48
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1979-1981
11
4
Diary 49 (Loose Pages)
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1980
11
5-6
Diary 50 (Loose Pages)
Archival Resource Key
1981
11
7-8
Writings
Series 4
Archival Resource Key
2.5 Linear feet
Boxes 11-13, 28
1871-1977
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the writings found in this series are entitled "escritos various" by de Creeft and are in Spanish. Most are typescripts of essays or draft essay and some also include sketches and doodles. Also found are notebooks, an artist's statement, and lists of works of art. Works by others are by Manuel Borja, Jules Campos, Deborah Norden, Domingo Carmelo Querolez, and Daniel Stetson. Also found is a sound tape reel of Lorrie Goulet reading poetry and a VHS video recording entitled José de Creeft by Bob Hanson.
General, Escritos Varios
Archival Resource Key
1924-circa 1950s
11
9-25
General, Escritos Varios
Archival Resource Key
1940s-1975
12
1-18
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 28
Notebooks
Archival Resource Key
1920-1950s
12
19-22
Notebooks
Archival Resource Key
1930s-1970s
13
1-6
Artist's Statement
Archival Resource Key
1977
13
7
Lists of Works of Art
Archival Resource Key
1946-1977
13
8-10
by Others, on José de Creeft
Archival Resource Key
13
Borja, Manuel
Archival Resource Key
1983
13
11
Campos, Jules, The Sculpture of José de Creeft, Draft
Archival Resource Key
1968-1972
13
12-13
Goulet, Lorrie
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
circa 1959-1970s
13
14-17
Scope and Contents
Sound tape reel is of Lorrie Goulet reading poetry according to the label.
Hanson, Bob, José de Creeft
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1 Videocassettes (VHS)
circa 1980
13
18
Norden, Deborah
Archival Resource Key
1975
13
19
Querolez, Domingo Carmelo, "Doctrina Racional"
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1871
13
20
Stetson, Daniel
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circa 1971
13
21-22
Oversized General Writings from Box 12, F18
Archival Resource Key
1950s-1970s
28
Subject Files
Series 5
Archival Resource Key
2.4 Linear feet
Boxes 13-16, 27
1924-1980
Scope and Contents
Subject files are mixed and include teaching files, project files, and files concerning topics of interest. Teaching files are found for his work at the New School for Social Research, Black Mountain College, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Art Students League. Project files cover Poet, Alice in Wonderland, and his submission for the completion of the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, 1961-1963. A VHS video recording found within the files regarding Alice in Wonderland is likely a recording of the dedication of the sculpture. Contents of the files vary widely but often include correspondence, printed materials, a few sound and video recordings, scattered financial material and business records, and photographs.
Alice in Wonderland
Archival Resource Key
1950s-1970s
13
23-27
Alice in Wonderland
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
1980s
14
1
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 27
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Archival Resource Key
1970s
14
2
American Federation of Arts
Archival Resource Key
1960-1962
14
3
Art Students League
Archival Resource Key
1959-1980
14
4-9
Artists Equity Association
Archival Resource Key
1978-1982
14
10
Black Mountain College
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1945-1970
14
11
Books
Archival Resource Key
1963-1970s
14
12-18
Committee of Religion and Art of America
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1970s
14
19
Contemporaries Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1962-1968
14
20
Delacorte Fountain
Archival Resource Key
1979
14
21
Dezcallar Portrait
Archival Resource Key
1978
14
22
Elizabeth Seton Statue, Mt. St. Joseph, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1964-1965
14
23
Exhibitions
Archival Resource Key
1929-1974
14
24-32
Gomez-Gil, Alfredo
Archival Resource Key
1970-1972
14
32
"Guardian"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s
14
34
Hispanic Museum
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1986
14
35
Hispanic Society of America
Archival Resource Key
1976
14
26
Hoosick Falls, New York
Archival Resource Key
1970s-1980
14
37-39
Isabel La Catolica Award
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1973
14
40
Juries
Archival Resource Key
1924-1972
14
41
Kennedy Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1970s
14
42
Kennedy Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1970s
15
1-9
Keystone Interview
Archival Resource Key
1975
15
10
King and Queen of Spain
Archival Resource Key
1976
15
11
López-Herce, Alberto
Archival Resource Key
1973-1977
15
12
Mallorca
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1920s-1940s
15
13
Materials
Archival Resource Key
1963
15
14
Miro Foundation
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1980
15
15
Monumento al Descubrimiento de America en Nueva York
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1980s
15
16
National Arts Club Award
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1973
15
17
New School
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1936-1974
15
18-21
Nurses' Residence and School
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1961
15
22
Palm Beach Art League
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1940-1952
15
23
Passedoit Gallery
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1915-1950
15
24
Philadelphia Project, Not Completed
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1950s
15
25
"Poet," Fairmont Park Association
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1950s
15
26-27
Projects
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1982
15
28
Public Health Laboratory Building, New York
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1966
15
29
Publicity
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1969-1970
15
30
Ramonje, Roberto
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circa 1930s
15
31
Rosello, Jose Luis
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1980
15
32
Rye Free Reading Room
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1963
15
33
Rutgers University
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1980
15
34
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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1980s
15
35
Schools
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1936-1967
15
36
Sculptors' Guild
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1974-1982
15
37
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
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1948-1959
15
38
Spain
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1922-1977
15
39
Stone Mountain Memorial
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1961-1963
15
40-45
Whitney Museum of American Art
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1960-1962
15
46
Wichita Western Memorial
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1976
16
1
Writers
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1931-1970
16
2
7 Arts
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1945-1972
16
3
Oversized Alice in Wonderland Material, from Box 14, F1
Archival Resource Key
1970s
27
Personal Business Records
Series 6
Archival Resource Key
1 Linear foot
Boxes 16-17, 27
1909-1980s
Scope and Contents
Business records include self-appraisal of works, contracts, leases, price lists, and scattered receipts. Three sets of index cards are inventories of sculpture and some include photographs.
Other business records may be found in subject files under the names of specific galleries.
Appraisals
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1960s
16
4
Commissions
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1952-1968
16
5
Contracts and Agreements
Archival Resource Key
1970s-1980s
16
6-7
Expenditures, Notebook
Archival Resource Key
1928-1935
16
8
Leases
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1923-1963
16
9-10
Lists of Collectors
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1960s-1970
16
11
Price Lists
Archival Resource Key
1950s-1960s
16
12-13
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 27
Receipts
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1909-1959
16
14-17
Inventory Cards
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1960s
16
18-20
Inventory Cards, Sculpture
Archival Resource Key
1960s
16
21-28
Inventory Cards, Sculpture
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1960s
17
1-2
Oversized Price Lists, from Box 16, F13
Archival Resource Key
1950s
27
Printed Material
Series 7
Archival Resource Key
4.7 Linear feet
Boxes 17-21, 27, 33
1921-1980s
Scope and Contents
Found are published books, clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, exhibition labels, postcards, and posters which document de Creeft's career.
Books
Archival Resource Key
1933-1981
17
3-7
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 27
Brochures
Archival Resource Key
1950s
17
8
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1960s
17
9-24
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1970s-2008
18
1-6
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 27
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1929-1940s
18
7-21
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1940s-1960s
19
1-17
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1960s-1970s
20
1-18
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1970s-1980s
21
1-6
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 27
Exhibition Labels
Archival Resource Key
1947
21
7
Order Forms
Archival Resource Key
1944
21
8
Pamphlets
Archival Resource Key
1921
21
9
Postcards
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s
21
10
Programs
Archival Resource Key
1942-1975
21
11
Oversized Posters
Archival Resource Key
1950s
33
Oversized Printed Material, from Box 17, F7; Box 18, F6; Box 21, F6
Archival Resource Key
1930s-1970s
27
Photographs
Series 8
Archival Resource Key
5.1 Linear feet
Boxes 21-25, 29, 31
1900-2004
Scope and Contents
Photographs and twenty-seven photograph albums depict de Creeft, his family, friends, including Alexander Calder, and works of art. Included are de Creeft with friends in Paris; de Creeft and his wife Lorrie Goulet with Raphael Soyer, posing with Soyer's portrait of them; Gertrude Lawrence; art juries, which include Chaim Gross, Jacques Lipchitz, Theodore Roszak, and William Zorach; students, friends, and faculties of Black Mountain College, Art Students League, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Norton School of Art, including Joseph Albers, Alexander Calder, Julio De Diego, Walter Gropius, J. B. Neumann, and Abraham Rattner, among others.
Photo Album 1, Viejos, Paris and Mallorca
Archival Resource Key
1910s
21
12
Photo Album 2, Recuerdos I
Archival Resource Key
circa 1890-1920s
21
13
Photo Album 3, Recuerdos II
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1960s
21
14
Photo Album 4, Recuerdos III
Archival Resource Key
1930s-1970s
21
15
Photo Album 5, Fragment
Archival Resource Key
1940s-1960s
21
16
Photo Album 6, Birthday Party
Archival Resource Key
1966
21
17
Photo Album 7, Drawing Exhibition at Kennedy Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1971
21
18
Photo Album 8, Events and Dinners
Archival Resource Key
1972
22
1
Photo Album 9, Art Students League Dinner
Archival Resource Key
1974
22
2
Photo Album 10, José de Creeft's 90th Birthday
Archival Resource Key
1974
22
3
Photo Album 11, Gold Medal Award, National Arts Club
Archival Resource Key
1975
22
4
Photo Album 12, Awards
Archival Resource Key
circa 1975
22
5
Photo Album 13, Campos Party
Archival Resource Key
1975
22
6
Photo Album 14, Spanish Institute
Archival Resource Key
1976
22
7
Photo Album 15, Art Students League Birthday Party
Archival Resource Key
1976
22
8
Photo Album 16, José De Creeft's Birthday
Archival Resource Key
1976
23
1
Photo Album 17, José de Creeft's Birthday Party
Archival Resource Key
1977
23
2
Photo Album 18, Portraits of José de Creeft
Archival Resource Key
1970s
23
3
Photo Album 19, José de Creeft's Studio
Archival Resource Key
1970s
23
4
Photo Album 20, José de Creeft with Sculpture
Archival Resource Key
1970s
23
5
Photo Album 21, José de Creeft's Birthday
Archival Resource Key
1970s
23
6
Photo Album 22, José de Creeft at Events
Archival Resource Key
1970s
23
7
Photo Album 23, Travel
Archival Resource Key
1970s
23
8
Photo Album 24, Dismantled
Archival Resource Key
1970s
23
9
Photo Album 25, José de Creeft Portraits
Archival Resource Key
1970s
23
10
Photo Album 26 and 27
Archival Resource Key
1970s
23
11
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 29, F1-2
José de Creeft, Portraits and Snapshots
Archival Resource Key
1900-1970s
23
12-13
José de Creeft, Portraits and Snapshots
Archival Resource Key
1930s-1970s
24
1-18
José de Creeft, Studio
Archival Resource Key
1970s
24
19
Lorrie Goulet and Family
Archival Resource Key
1960s
24
20
Alice Carr de Creeft and Family
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1940s
24
21
Albertos, Farewell Party
Archival Resource Key
1977
24
22
Friends and Students
Archival Resource Key
1930s-1960s
24
23
Juries and Organizations
Archival Resource Key
1940s
24
24
Exhibitions and Installations
Archival Resource Key
1930s-1960s
24
25
Mallorca
Archival Resource Key
1920s
24
26
Mallorca
Archival Resource Key
1920s
25
1-2
Works of Art
Archival Resource Key
1930s-2004
25
3-22
Slides
Archival Resource Key
1970s
25
23
Oversized Photo Albums from Box 23, F11
Archival Resource Key
1970s
29
Oversized Photographs, Works of Art
Archival Resource Key
1950s
31
Scrapbooks
Series 9
Archival Resource Key
1.8 Linear feet
Boxes 26, 30, 32
1929-1982
Scope and Contents
Seven mixed media scrapbooks document de Creeft's career from 1929 to 1982 and may contain clippings, exhibition materials and other printed material, correspondence, and photographs.
Scrapbook 1, New School Retrospective
Archival Resource Key
1974
26
1
Scrapbook 2, 1975 Exhibition
Archival Resource Key
1975
26
2
Scrapbook 3, 1975 Exhibition
Archival Resource Key
1975
26
3
Scrapbook 4, Mixed Media
Archival Resource Key
1979
26
4
Scrapbook 5, Mixed Media
Archival Resource Key
1980-1981
30
1
Scrapbook 6, Mixed Media
Archival Resource Key
1982
30
2
Scrapbook 7, Mixed Media
Archival Resource Key
1929-1957
32
Artwork
Series 10
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
Box 26
1920s-1930s
Scope and Contents
Artworks include scattered pen and pencil sketches and one sketchbook dating from the 1920s. Many of the works are unsigned.
Sketches, Figures
Archival Resource Key
1930s
26
5
Sketchbook, Figures
Archival Resource Key
1920s
26
6