Julian Stanczak (1928-2017) was a Polish-born American artist. He was born in Poland in 1928, and he emigrated to the United States in 1950, settling in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Th Op Art movement was named for his first major exhibition in 1964. Stanczak also taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Cleveland Institute of Art. Stanczak died in 2017.
The collection is divided into 2 series.
The Julian Stanczak papers measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1938 to 2002. The collection documents Stanczak's life through a series of microfilmed scrapbooks containing printed materials, letters, photographs, and writings. Also included are professional material made up of video recordings documenting Stanczak's career and transcripts for a series of interviews conducted by Neil K. Rector with Stanczak.
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Lent for microfilming 1974 by Julian Stanczak. Videos and transcripts were donated by Stanczak in 2007.
Portions of the collection are available on 35mm microfilm reel 871 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.
Scrapbooks returned to donor after being microfilmed.
Julian Stanczak papers, 1938-2002. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Ricky Gomez in 2020.
Material consists of the transcripts of the "Communicating in A Different Way" interviews Neil K. Rector conducted with Stanczak. Also included are a four part video series associated with "Communicating in A Different Way" interviews and two videos on the works of Stanczak.
Tape 1 of a video series associated with "Communicating in A Different Way" interviews
Tape 2 of a video series associated with "Communicating in A Different Way" interviews
Tape 3 of a video series associated with "Communicating in A Different Way" interviews
Tape 4 of a video series associated with "Communicating in A Different Way" interviews
Three Scrapbooks loaned by Stanczak to the archives for microfilming. Materials present include correspondence, printed material, some writings by Stanczak, photographs,and biographical material such as awards. Also included is Stanczak's thesis presented at Yale University, "Spacial Relationships On the Two Dimensional Surface."