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Title: Collection about Barbara Morgan
Date (inclusive): 1960-1972
Collection number: 1112
Creator:
Morgan, Barbara
Extent:
1 box (.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Barbara Brooks Morgan (1900-1992) was an accomplished designer, author, artist, and photographer. She is best known for her
photographs of American modern dancers, among them, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Pearl Primus, Jose Limon, and Charles Weidman.
She attended UCLA and was on the art faculty there. This collection contains exhibit announcements, invitations, catalogs,
price lists at various galleries and museums. It also includes magazine articles about her, miscellaneous brochures, and books
and booklets which include her photographs.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Sukey Garcetti in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Kelley Wolfe Bachli, 2010-2011.
[Identification of item], Collection about Barbara Morgan (Collection Number 1112). Department of Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Barbara Brooks Morgan was born in Buffalo, Kansas on July 8, 1900, but grew up in Los Angeles, CA. She attended UCLA from
1919 to 1923, and later joined the art faculty (1925-30). She married Willard D. Morgan (ca. 1925) and relocated to New York
(1930). After the birth of her two sons, Douglas (1932) and Lloyd (1935), she began to concentrate on her photography career.
An accomplished designer, author, artist, and photographer, she is best known for her photographs of American modern dancers,
among them, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Pearl Primus, Jose Limon, and Charles Weidman. She contributed articles and reviews
to various publications and published several books including,
Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs (1941),
Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp about Camp Treetops (1951), and
A Collection of Material about Barbara Morgan (1972), as well as having a photo in
Family of Man (1955). She died August 18, 1992 in Scarsdale, NY.
This collection contains exhibit announcements, invitations, catalogs, price lists at various galleries and museums. It also
includes magazine articles about her, miscellaneous brochures (including a memorial to her husband, Willard D. Morgan), and
books and booklets which include her photographs.
Arranged in the following series:
- Publications
- Brochures
- Photographs
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Morgan, Barbara Brooks,--1900-
Women photographers.
Women artists.
Barbara Morgan Wight Gallery Collection, 1938-1967. Collection 1872. Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
Barbara Morgan Photographs, 1928-1972. Collection 1873.
Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.