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- catalog abstract "Diaries and correspondence of the American artist, Nell Blaine. The diaries provide a detailed record of her works of art, their creation, exhibition, and sale, as well as of her health, reading, accounts, and contacts. The correspondence is chiefly letters to Blaine from her circle of artist and writer friends including John Ashbery, Leland Bell, Rudy Burckhardt, Elaine De Kooning, Robert De Niro Sr., Jane Freilicher, Kenneth Koch, Denise Levertov, Frank O'Hara, and Larry Rivers.".
- catalog contributor b12557208.
- catalog date "1947".
- catalog description "Diaries and correspondence of the American artist, Nell Blaine. The diaries provide a detailed record of her works of art, their creation, exhibition, and sale, as well as of her health, reading, accounts, and contacts. The correspondence is chiefly letters to Blaine from her circle of artist and writer friends including John Ashbery, Leland Bell, Rudy Burckhardt, Elaine De Kooning, Robert De Niro Sr., Jane Freilicher, Kenneth Koch, Denise Levertov, Frank O'Hara, and Larry Rivers.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou02037".
- catalog description "Nell Blaine Diaries and Correspondence, circa 1947-2002 (MS Am 2658). Houghton Library, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "Nell Blaine was born in Richmond (Va.) July 10, 1922 and died from post-polio syndrome November 14, 1996, in New York (N.Y.). She attended the Richmond School of Art; studied with the artist Hans Hofmann in New York (N.Y.) from 1942-1944; studied etching and engraving at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter in 1945; and attended the New School for Social Research from 1952-1953. She maintained a studio in Gloucester (Mass.) but also traveled and painted extensively in Austria, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, St. Lucia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and West Indies. Blaine married Robert Bass, a musician, in 1943; they divorced in 1949. She contracted polio on Mykonos Island (Greece) in the fall of 1959, spending months in a hospital in New York and in an iron lung, but proving the medical opinion wrong that she would not paint again, laboriously retraining her hands. She used a wheelchair the rest of her life. She was survived by her companion of 30 years, Carolyn Harris, also a painter. Blaine's painting began in realism, but at age 21 she was the youngest member of the group American Abstract Artists. She was a founding member of the Jane Street Gallery, an early artists' cooperative, and had her first solo show there in 1945. During a trip to Paris with Larry Rivers in 1950, she immersed herself in 19th-century European painting and from that point developed a vivid and colorful representational style for which she is best known. She exhibited solo at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1953 and was represented by the Poindexter Gallery and the Fischbach Gallery.".
- catalog extent "2.5 linear feet (8 boxes)".
- catalog issued "1947".
- catalog language "Materials in English.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "Art, Abstract.".
- catalog subject "Ashbery, John, 1927- corrrespondent.".
- catalog subject "Bell, Leland, correspondent.".
- catalog subject "Blaine, Nell, 1922-1996.".
- catalog subject "Burckhardt, Rudy, correspondent.".
- catalog subject "De Kooning, Elaine, correspondent.".
- catalog subject "De Niro, Robert, 1922-1993, correspondent.".
- catalog subject "Freilicher, Jane, 1924- correspondent.".
- catalog subject "Koch, Kenneth, 1925-2002, correspondent.".
- catalog subject "Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997 Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "New York school of art.".
- catalog subject "O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966, correspondent.".
- catalog subject "Painters United States 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002, correspondent.".
- catalog title "Nell Blaine diaries and correspondence, circa 1947-2002.".
- catalog type "Drawings. aat".
- catalog type "Paintings. aat".
- catalog type "text".