Summary

This collection consists of course catalogs from The New School, including continuing education courses, Eugene Lang College, the Dramatic Workshop of The New School, New School Art Workshops and the New School for Social Research, formerly known as the Graduate Faculty.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of documentation about five artists and the works they created for the New School at its flagship building at 66 West 12th Street, and for later additions to the building. The materials here were gathered and produced by the curators of the New School Art Collection. Materials include correspondence, photographs, documentation of restoration efforts, exhibition catalogs, and promotional materials.

Summary

The New School Publicity Scrapbook collection consists of fifty-seven scrapbooks compiled for internal administrative use between 1919, when The New School was founded, through 1953. The scrapbooks include newspaper articles and editorials, and administrative documents and correspondence, course catalogs--or Bulletins--weekly supplemental pamphlets (also called Bulletins), ephemera, promotional materials, and invitations to New School events.

Newspaper clipping content includes political and cultural news of the day as it pertained to people and events affiliated with The New School, New School curricula, notable public speaking engagements at The New School, news about guest lecturers, faculty, students and alumni.

Subjects include: "Jazz Age" article with quotes from F.Scott Fitzgerald and George Gershwin--motion picture studies at the New School--Arthur Weiser (architect)--Alvin Johnson and Adult Education--Camillo Egas exhibition--"Causes of the Depression" editorial--John Martin Dance Course--Joseph Jastrow--Frank Lloyd Wright--Waldo Frank--Nicholas Slominsky--Soviet School of Expression puppet shows--Francis Anne Ballard--Leon Theremin--Henry Cowell and the Rhythmicon--Radio City Music Hall murals controversy (student protests over the use of foreign artists).Henry Cowell and Leon Theremin: co-invention of the RhythmiconCamilo Egas (Equadorian-born painter, New School Director of Art beginning in 1935)Waldo Frank (American novelist, social critic, New School instructor)Joseph Jastrow (Polish-born...

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Includes: Joseph Urban--dance reviews--Tina Flada American debut--Mary Wigman Dance Group, American debut--Thomas Hart Benton mural--Jose Clemente Orozco--modern architectural exhibition (prototypes for mass produced steel modular homes)--Jose de Creeft--"Cruxifixion of Christ," Frederick Wright.

Thomas Hart Benton

José de Creeft

Camilo Egas

José Clemente Orozco

Modern Housing Exhibition at New School (1933)

Harry Alan Potamkin (American literary and film critic, New School lecturer)

Joseph Urban

Subjects include: Max AscoliCharles A. BeardThomas Hart BentonBrochures, courses: New School concerts and lecturesMinna Citron (American printmaker, exhibited at New School)Horace B. Davis (labor historian, activist, New School instructor)Caroline O'Day (American politician, first female Democrat elected to Congress, New School guest lecturer )Camilo Egas Robert Frost (American poet, New School guest lecturer)J.B.S. Haldane (British geneticist and evolutionary biologist, New School guest lecturer)Richard Neutra (Viennese-born architect, New School...

Subjects include: Emilo Amero (Mexican-born artist, New School instructor)Artists’ Union (established in New York City in 1934. Advocated for more positions within the Works Progress Administration-Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP), better pay and working conditions): meetings held at New SchoolJoseph Blumenthal (American typographer, bookmaker, co-founder of the Spiral Press, New School instructor)Aaron Copland (American composer, New School instructor)Camilo EgasNew York Folk Festival CouncilYasuo Kuniyoshi (Japanese-born painter, New School instructor)"The Ten" (Whitney Museum Dissenters, a nine-member artists group comprised of Joseph Solman, Ilya Bolotowsky, Louis Schanker, Yankel Kufeld, Lee Gatch, Ben Zion, Loius Harris, M. Rothkowitz, and Adolph Gottlieb): New School exhibitionAlexander Woollcott (American literary and...