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| Clippings and Serials, 1919-2007 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Serials, 1924-2007 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/1 | Opera Monthly, 1989 July | ||||||||||||
| Note: "The World According to Peter Sellars" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/2 | Opera News, 1985 March 16 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Porgy and Bess | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/3 | P2 Musik, 1998 September | ||||||||||||
| Note: Special on George Gershwin | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/4 | Performance: The Magazine, 1998-1999 | ||||||||||||
| Note: George Gershwin's 100th anniversary | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/5 | Perspective (California State University, Northridge), 1990 Spring | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/6 | Piano and Keyboard, 1993 January-February | ||||||||||||
| Note: "Gershwin the Pianist" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/7 | The Players Bulletin, 1963 Autumn | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/8 | Porgy and Bess: PBS Educator's Guide, 1993 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/9 | Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 1974 April | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/10 | Reader's Digest Music Guide, 1962 July | ||||||||||||
| Note: "Classical Selection: Gershwin Concerto in F" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/11-13 | Saturday Review, 1956-1963 | ||||||||||||
| Three issues | |||||||||||||
| Includes: "Gershwin: Paradox in Blue"; Ira Gershwin's essay "Which Came First?"; George Gershwin's self-portrait on cover | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/14 | Sheet Music Magazine, 1988 January | ||||||||||||
| Note: Special on George Gershwin | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/15 | Sheet Music Magazine, 1996 November-December | ||||||||||||
| Includes: "100 Years of Ira Gershwin" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/16 | Show Business Illustrated, 1962 January 2 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 257/10-12 | Show: The Magazine of the Arts | ||||||||||||
| Note: 1962 October; 1962 December; 1963 April | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/17 | Show Music, 1998 Fall | ||||||||||||
| Note: "The Gershwins at 100" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/18 | Sipario, 1975 | ||||||||||||
| Three issues | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/19 | The Smithsonian Associate, 1998 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/20-21 | Songwriters Protective Association Bulletin Quarterly, 1933-1934 | ||||||||||||
| Two issues | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 201/22 to 202/1-2 | Staff Notes, 1975-1976 | ||||||||||||
| Three issues | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 258/1-8 | The Stage, 1933-1939 | ||||||||||||
| Eight issues | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 202/3 | Stereo Review, 1974 May | ||||||||||||
| Note: "Ira Gershwin: Best Words for the Best Music" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 258/9 | The Sunday Times Magazine, 1969 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 202/4 | The Texas Quarterly, 1961 Winter | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 202/5 | Then and Now: American Portraits of the Past Century from the National Portrait Gallery, 1987 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 202/6-8 | Theatre Arts, 1935-1955 | ||||||||||||
| Three issues | |||||||||||||
| Includes: "Porgy and Bess: American Opera in the Theatre" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 202/9 | The Theatre Guild Magazine, 1932 February | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 202/10 | The Threepenny Review, 2003 Summer | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 202/11 | True Comics, 1945 Winter | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Six-page comic about George Gershwin's life and legacy as an American composer. It references his associations with Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, and Paul Whiteman. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 258/10-11 | Variety, 1954, 1957 | ||||||||||||
| Two issues | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 202/12 | VOKS Bulletin, 1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 202/13 | Winners and Sinners, 1960-1961, 1974 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 202/14 | WPAT Gaslight Revue Program Guide, 1959 October | ||||||||||||
| Note: Special on Ira Gershwin | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 202/15 | Words Without Music: The Ira Gershwin Newsletter, 2007 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 203, 501, 571, 582, 584, 586 MAPCASE FOLDER 5 | Visual Art, 1917-2003 | ||||||||||||
| This series features pieces of artwork, in a variety of media, created by George and Ira Gershwin, as well as files that document George's private collection. | |||||||||||||
| Organized as two subseries. | |||||||||||||
| Artwork, 1917-2002 | |||||||||||||
| This subseries consists of pencil, colored pencil, and pen drawings, as well as watercolor and oil paintings, that George and Ira Gershwin created primarily during the 1930s. Subjects include Kay Swift, Leonore Gershwin, and Woodrow Wilson, other unidentified persons, and one still life. It contains a pencil drawing of George by Vernon Duke and several unidentified works. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged by subject. | |||||||||||||
| George Gershwin | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/1 | Ink drawing of seated woman, circa 1932 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/6 | Ink sketch on cardboard of LSG lying on couch, circa 1932 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/3 | Ink drawing on cardboard of woman in profile, circa 1933 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/8 | Pencil drawing of LSG seated on shipboard, 1933? | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/4 | Oil fauve sketch of Kay Swift, circa 1934-1935 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 571/4 | Spirex sketch pad, 1935? | ||||||||||||
| [3] pages | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 571/3 | Colored pencil frontal portrait of Scandinavian woman, 1930s | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/7 | Colored pencil portrait of woman in hat, wearing brooch, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/2 | Ink drawing of seated woman, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 571/2 | Ink drawing of two male heads, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/5 | Watercolor of woman, lying on couch with book, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 582/1 | Watercolor of woman's head, undated | ||||||||||||
| Ira Gershwin | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/1 | Pencil drawing of conductor titled "Attention!," 1917 June 2 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/9 | Ink drawing of Chinese jar and lid on stand, circa 1933 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/10 | Pencil sketch of standing man holding pipe, circa 1933 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/11 | Pencil sketch of two women at card table, 1930s | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/12 | Ink bust of Woodrow Wilson, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 584/1 | Oil painting of window washer, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/13 | Pencil drawing of female nude, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 582/2 | Pencil drawing of seated female nude, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/2 | Pencil sketch of bowing woman, undated | ||||||||||||
| Others | |||||||||||||
| CPL | Anthonisen, George: George Gershwin, 1976 | ||||||||||||
| Maquette bust | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 571/1 | Bachardy, Don: Drawing of Leonore Gershwin, 2002 June 27 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 577/7 | Berlin, Irving: painting, undated | ||||||||||||
| MAPCASE FOLDER 5 | Birnbaum, Abe: Print of drawing of George Gershwin, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/14 | Duke, Vernon: Pencil drawing of George Gershwin, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/15 | Unidentified: Ink drawing of female and male nudes, undated | ||||||||||||
| CPL | Unidentified: bust of George Gershwin, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 586/1 | Unidentified: Sunday Morning, print, 1960 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/16 | Unidentified: Watercolor landscape postcard, 1932 | ||||||||||||
| Art Collection Files, 1923-2003 | |||||||||||||
| This subseries consists of materials documenting George Gershwin’s personal art collection. Included is correspondence with cousin and noted painter Henry Botkin on acquiring pieces from Europe, as well as receipts for sale and shipping and handling of the acquired pieces, exhibit and loan information, insurance documents and appraisals. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by subject. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/3 | African sculptures: Exhibits and loans, 1959, 1961 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/4 | Appraisals of art owned by Ira and Leonore Gershwin, 1936, 1961, 1988, and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/5 | Art Commission of the City of Los Angeles: Exhibition of the Collection of Ira and Leonore Gershwin, 1952 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/6-7 | Art purchased by George Gershwin, 1929-1936 | ||||||||||||
| Inventories; receipts | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/8 | The Arts Club of Chicago: Exhibition of the George Gershwin Collection of Modern Paintings, 1933 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/12 | Calhern, Louis: Ceramic table of Ira Gershwin's song titles and memorabilia, undated | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/9-11 | Botkin, Harry, with George Gershwin, 1931-1933 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/13 | Gershwin, George, with others, 1931-1936 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/14 | Gershwin, Ira and Leonore, 1956, 1964-1966, 1974 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/15 | The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1932 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/16 | Galerie Zborowski, 1931, 1956 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/17 | The George Gershwin Collection: Illustrated Checklist, 2000-2003 and undated | ||||||||||||
| Inventories | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/18 | George Gershwin's paintings, 1932-1938, 1963, 1994, and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/19 | Insurance: Nicholas Volk and Co., Inc., 1933-1936 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/20 | Inventory: Property of Ira and Leonore Gershwin, 1974 March 8 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Prepared by Sotheby Parke-Bernet | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/21 | Loans of artwork, 1929-1939 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/22 | Loans of artwork, 1953-1956, 1975, and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/23 | Miscellaneous, 1933, 1951, 1962-1966, and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/24 | Paul Kantor Gallery and Frank Perls Gallery, 1964 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Exhibition titled "50 Years of Beverly Hills" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 203/25 | Les Peintres Français Nouveaux, no. 15: Andre Derain, 1923 | ||||||||||||
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