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: Clippings and printed promotional materials document the founding and early years of The New School, through advertisements for classes, lectures and programs; fundraising letters; material related to the construction of the 66 West 12th Street building; leaflets for folk music and classical recitals and conferences, dance recitals, and typewritten statements about The New School.Administrative documents: form letter templates for donorsThomas Hart Benton T.S. Eliot (American poet): public speaking engagement at New SchoolJosé Clemente Orozco Thorstein VeblenTypewritten documents (copies): "New School Catechism"; "The Nature of the New School"; description of spaces within...

Subjects include: Includes: New School course schedules and promotional materials--Thorsten Veblen--Modernist Art exhibition at the New School (1931)--Alvin Johnson (Swedish language)--Thomas Hart Benton murals--Copy of a letter from Albert Einstein to Dr.Jacob Billikopf (1941)--Copy of a letter from Abel Cruz Santos, Consul General of Columbia to Dr.Alvin Johnson (1940).Alfred Adler (Austrian psychoanalyst, New School instructor)Thomas Hart BentonAaron Copland (American composer, New School instructor)Correspondence: Abel Cruz Santos (Consul General of Colombia) to Alvin JohnsonCorrespondence: Albert Einstein to Jacob Billikopf (Russian émigré labor leader, philanthropist)Henry CowellClarence Darrow (American lawyer, New School guest lecturer)José Clemente...

Subjects include:

Includes: Jose Clemete Orozco frescos--Thomas Hart Benton mural--Opening of the New School Building, West 12th Street--Joseph Urban--Horace M. Kallen.

José Clemente Orozco

Thomas Hart Benton

Horace M. Kallen

Opening of New School Building, West 12th Street (1930)

Joseph Urban

Subjects include:

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:

The American Artists Congress (founded in February 1936 as part of the popular front of the Communist Party to unite graphic artists in projects to combat the spread of fascism): meetings held at New School

Henry Cowell

Arthur Garfield Hayes, (American lawyer, general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, New School guest lecturer)

Inaugural live radio broadcast: "Forum of the Air on Contemporary Issues," collaboration between WHN and New School

Max Lerner (American journalist, New School instructor)

New York Folk Festival Council: performances at New School

José Clemente Orozco

United Neighborhood Houses WPA theatre project (sponsored by New School)

Subjects include:

Administrative document (typewritten): "Discussion of the position and policy of the New School for Social Research"

American Artists Congress: formation of, and events held at New School

Thomas Hart Benton

José Clemente Orozco

Promotional booklet: 66 West 12th Street building (includes list of Board of Directors, Instructors, and Lecturers, 1919-1930)

WPA Harlem Hospital mural controversy: New School student protests

Abstract

During the fall 2025 semester, Eugene Lang College students of Alhena Katsof’s Practicing Curating course curated an exhibition featuring silk panels that replicated the fresco murals by José Clemente Orozco entitled, A Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood. The collection includes programs, posters, zines, and images of events held while the exhibition was on display.