INVENTORY OF THE THEODORE ROSZAK PAPERS, 1926-1994, bulk
1930-1980
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INVENTORY OF THE THEODORE ROSZAK PAPERS, 1926-1994, bulk
1930-1980
Accession no. 960023
Finding aid prepared by Laura Schroffel
Getty Research Institute
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Theodore Roszak papers
Dates: 1926-1994
Dates: 1930-1980
Collection Number: 960023
Creator:
Roszak,
Theodore, 1907-1981
Extent:
137 linear
ft.
(68 boxes, 4 rolls, 9 flat file folders, 1
portfolio)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: Papers of sculptor,
painter, and designer Theodore Roszak include the artist's photographs of his
work and installations, correspondence and documents relating to public and
private commissions, lectures and teaching notes, 55 sketchbooks, working and
presentation drawings, and newspaper and journal clippings, some collected in
scrapbooks.
Language: Collection material is in
English
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers. Audio visual material not
available until reformatting is complete.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Theodore Roszak papers, 1926-1994, bulk 1930-1980. Research Library,
The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 960023
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1996.
Separated Material
Ten monographs, most of them exhibition catalogs, were transferred to
the Library's general collections.
Relation Material
Theodore Roszak papers, 1928-1981. Archives of American Art,
Smithsonian. Some of the materials microfilmed by the Archives were returned to
Roszak and, consequently, form part of the papers acquired by Getty Research
Institute.
Theodore Roszak interview, 1963. Archives of American Art,
Smithsonian.
Biographical/Historical Note
Theodore Roszak was born May 1, 1907 in Poznan, Poland. Roszak's
mother was an accomplished fashion designer and his father was a organist and
prolific composer. The Roszak family emigrated to the United States in 1909 and
settled in Chicago. Roszak began drawing at the age of seven; by the age of
fifteen he was attending evening sessions at the Art Institute of Chicago
Professional School. In 1925 he entered the Art Institute as a full-time
student.
In 1929 Roszak received the Anna Louise Raymond Fellowship for
European Study. He discovered the avant-garde movement abroad and was
especially attracted to surrealism, particularly the work of Giorgio de
Chirico. He returned to America and settled in New York in 1931 and was awarded
a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship. Throughout the 1930s to the mid 1940s, Roszak
produced mostly drawings, yet he was also experimenting with the extension of
those drawings as manifested in paintings and sculpture. At this time he was
influenced by constructivism and the machine aesthetic. His interests shifted
subsequently and from 1946 onward he primarily produced sculpture in the
abstract expressionist style. Roszak returned to drawing in the 1970s when illness prevented him from welding.
Throughout his life, Roszak maintained an interest in photography. He created
photograms until 1947. He also meticulously photographed his projects: his
works in progress and the finished pieces.
Roszak is well known for his collaborations with Eero Saarinen, which
include the spire and bell tower at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1956, and the Eagle for the United States Embassy in London, 1960. In 1956 a
major traveling retrospective of his work was organized at the Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis. He also had several important exhibitions at the Pierre
Matisse Gallery and Hirschl and Adler Galleries, both in New York City. He held
teaching positions at the Laboratory School of Industrial Design, New York, and
Sarah Lawrence College. Roszak served on several government-sponsored
committees, including the Advisory Committee on Cultural
Presentations Program, Advisory Board of National Committee of Arts and
Government, and the Fine Arts Commission, Washington D.C. and New York.
Scope and Content of the Collection
The Theodore Roszak papers document Theodore Roszak's artistic career,
based predominantly in New York, from 1926 to 1981. The material was generated
and collected by Theodore Roszak, with additional materials added by his wife
Florence and his daughter Sarah Jane Roszak, some of which date to 1994. The
collection contains about 137 linear feet of personal papers, photographs,
business correspondence, press clippings, drawings, architectural and
engineering plans and audio recordings. Media in the collection include
drawings (pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, etc.), photographs, printed matter,
painting, audio tapes, teaching notes, and small number of transparencies and
35 mm slides.
The collection documents Roszak's artistic processes from the
sketching of an idea to the construction of the object, to its packaging and
exhibition. The Roszak papers also document preservation, and logistical and
financial details regarding the sale and exhibition of his artwork.
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Roszak, Theodore,
1907-1981
Roszak, Theodore,
1933-
Saarinen, Eero,
1910-1961
Moholy-Nagy, László,
1895-1946
Subjects - Topics
Abstract
expressionism—United States
Constructivism (Art)—United
States
Public art—Designs and plans
Public art—United States
Sculptors—United States
Sculpture, Abstract
Sculpture, American
Genres and Forms of Material
Photograms
Photographic
prints
Drawings
Blueprints
Series I.
Personal and family papers
1930-1981
Physical Description:
1.7 linear feet
4 boxes
Scope and Content Note
The Personal series contains invitations, financial information,
address lists, and Roszak family correspondence, the bulk of which is between
Roszak and his nephew, also named Theodore Roszak. Roszak collected clippings about his nephew and those about himself.
The clippings in this series are general clippings about
Roszak as an artist. Clippings more specificially about his work and commissions can be found in Series II, Business papers.
This series also contains publications and transcripts of
lectures by Roszak and transcripts of interviews with Roszak.
Box 1, Folder 1-2
Financial
1946-1987,
undated
Box 1, Folder 1
Financial papers
1959-1987
Physical Description:
14 items
Scope and Content Note
Six returned checks, one letter regarding an insurance policy,
one hospital bill, two Internal Revenue Services tax forms, one letter
regarding taxes from Stuart L. Weiss, three notes tracking finances.
Box 1, Folder 2
Shopping lists
undated
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
Two shopping lists are illustrated.
Box 1, Folder 3-8
Family correspondence
1958-1984,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Letters to and from relatives as well as invitations to and from
the Roszaks. The content of these letters generally does not relate to Theodore
Roszak's artistic career.
Box 1, Folder 3
Request letters
1957-1968
Physical Description:
13 items
Scope and Content Note
Letters requesting recommendations from Roszak, with responses
by Roszak.
Box 1, Folder 4-5
Invitations
1958-1973
Physical Description:
89 items
Scope and Content Note
Invitations and cards. The bulk is invitations to museum
events and presidential or federal events. Includes invitation to the
inauguration of Lyndon Johnson, 1965. 47 items are undated.
Box 1, Folder 6-8
Family correspondence
1951-1984
Physical Description:
119 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes one copy of chapter one of
The Prologue to Violence by Theodore Roszak
[nephew].
Box 1, 23*
Clippings relating to Theodore Roszak [nephew]
1962-1980,
undated
Box 1, Folder 9-10
Clippings, regular size
1962-1980,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Clippings consist of articles by, and reviews of Theodore
Roszak [nephew]
Includes clippings from
Liberation,
The Nation,
The New York times, and
The Los Angeles times. Also includes 17 issues of
Peace news for which Theodore Roszak [nephew] was
a writer and editor.
Box 23*, Folder 1
Clippings, oversize
1968-1978
Physical Description:
16 items
Box 2-3, 23*
Assorted Roszak clippings
1929-1987,
undated
Box 2, Folder 1-4
Loose clippings
1940-1987
Physical Description:
111 items
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies and clippings from
The Pittsburgh press,
Art digest,
Magazine of art,
Polish Review,
Look,
Journal of the American association of University of
women
,
Saturday review,
Time,
Arts,
Art in America,
The New York times,
Christian Science monitor,
New York world telegram,
New York herald tribune,
Art voices,
ARTnews,
Newsweek, as well as some unknown sources.
Box 2, Folder 5
Clippings album
1929-1935
Physical Description:
1 album
Scope and Content Note
One album probably assembled by Roszak. Includes clippings
corresponding to institutions listed in series IIB.
Box 3, Folder 1-2
Clippings albums
1937-1950
Physical Description:
2 albums
Scope and Content Note
Albums probably assembled by Roszak, one is dated 1937-1947,
the second, 1946-1950. They contain clippings corresponding to institutions
listed in series IIB.
Box 23*, Folder 2
Oversize clippings
1950-1964
Physical Description:
17 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes clippings from
The New York times,
Look,
Chicago sun-times,
Chicago daily news,
Engineering,
Art in America,
Washington post,
Providence Sunday journal, and
Peace news.
Box 4, Folder 1-4
Roszak interview with James Elliot
1956
Physical Description:
338 items
Scope and Content Note
Three copies and one original 84 page transcript from
interview with James Elliot of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Box 4, Folder 5
Roszak interview with Arlene Francis
1956
Physical Description:
2 items
Box 4, Folder 6
Roszak interview with Mr. Pawkoicz
1963
Physical Description:
6 items
Scope and Content Note
One letter and one annotated transcript.
Box 4, Folder 7-13
Lectures
1952-1963
Scope and Content Note
Venues and lecture titles provided.
Box 4, Folder 7
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
1952
Physical Description:
11 items
Scope and Content Note
Two copies of "The New Sculpture."
Box 4, Folder 8
Whitney Museum of American Art
1953
Physical Description:
36 items
Scope and Content Note
Four copies and one partial copy of "Modern Sculpture and
American Legend."
Box 4, Folder 9-10
Art Institute of Chicago
1955
Physical Description:
125 items
Scope and Content Note
11 copies of "In Pursuit of an Image."
Box 4, Folder 11
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
1957
Physical Description:
31 items
Scope and Content Note
Two copies and 1 partial copy of "Present Trends in Modern
Art"/"On Aspects of Contemporary American Art."
Box 4, Folder 12
Oberlin College
1958
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes two copies of slide list for lecture.
Box 4, Folder 13
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
1963
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
Lecture titled "Mass Culture and the Artist."
Box 4, Folder 14
Magazine of art
1949
Physical Description:
14 items
Scope and Content Note
One letter, 4 complete copies, and 1 partial copy of clipping
of article "Some Problems of Modern Sculpture."
Box 4, Folder 15
Quadrum
1956
Physical Description:
28 items
Scope and Content Note
Four copies of article titled "In pursuit of an Image." See
lecture at Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.
Box 5, Folder 1-8
Curriculum vitae, artist statements, and personal
documents
1936-1981
Box 5, Folder 1-6
Curriculum vitae
1936-1981
Physical Description:
208 items
Box 5, Folder 7-8
Curriculum vitae: partial copies
undated
Physical Description:
55 items
Box 5, Folder 9
Cumbustible permits
1946-1952
Physical Description:
7 items
Box 35* , Folder 1
Diplomas
1921-1932
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes diplomas from Monroe School, and Hoffman Preparatory
School.
Box 5, Folder 10-13
Ledgers, calendars, address books and lists
1957-1974
Box 5, Folder 10
Ledgers
1967-1974
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
2 bound personal account books, one book documenting Pierre
Matisse Gallery exhibition sales.
Box 5, Folder 11
Calendar
1957
Physical Description:
5 items
Scope and Content Note
Contents of one 1957 desk calendar.
Box 5, Folder 12
Address book
undated
Physical Description:
29 items
Scope and Content Note
Contents of one address book.
Box 5, Folder 13
Loose address lists
undated
Physical Description:
61 items
Box 5, Folder 14
Theodore Roszak memorial ephemera
1981
Box 5, Folder 14
Eulogies, obituaries
1981
Physical Description:
29 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes clippings from
The New York times,
Time, and
The Los Angeles times.
Series II.
Business papers
1930-1990
Physical Description:
6.6 linear feet
16 boxes
Scope and Content Note
The Business series is composed of three subseries, all relating
to the creation, exhibition and publication, installation and care, and sale of
Roszak's work. Series II contains correspondence regarding his work and
artistic career, and other materials related
to Roszak's business relationships with companies and institutions. Unidentified business correspondence is filed at the
end of the series.
Series IIA.
Business papers with individuals
1930-1981
Physical Description:
0.8 linear feet
2 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series IIA deals with Roszak's business relationships with
individuals. The papers regard reviews, requests for photography, the sale of art, as well as instructions to
patrons on installation and care for works of art, among other topics. The subseries includes correspondence with
Eero Saarinen related to sculptural projects commissioned to complement
Saarinen's architecture.
Box 6, Folder 1
Miscellaneous A-K
1930-1981
Physical Description:
70 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence from: Albright; Andrews; Aranson;
Berk; Berman; Bille-de-Mot; Bojko; Brown; Carrie; Cherney; Clemens; Cooke;
Cooper; Cornell; Davis; Drazen; Drexler; Dwyer; Eckbert; Edelman; English;
Fiedling; Fite; Geller; Goldwater; Gostri; Gresser; Griesman; Hamilton;
Hirschorn; Hofmann; Jones; Kagan; Karsh; Kaufman; Kelley; Killian; Kronberg;
Krakover; Kuh; Kwialkowski.
Box 6, Folder 2-4
Amsden, Floyd
1973-1981,
undated
Physical Description:
275 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters from Floyd Amsden (owner of Song of a Moth
(drawing); Singing Heart (sculpture); Forms within an Oval (construction);
Papillon (lithograph); Sisyphus (lithograph)) and his wife Barbara, as well as
letters and drafts of letters from Roszak to Amsden. Includes ephemera from
Floyd Amsden's memorial service. See Wichita State University, Box 21.
Box 6, Folder 5
Anderson, Wayne
1957-1959
Physical Description:
8 items
Scope and Content Note
Requests regarding photography for two books by Anderson,
New sculpture in the U. S. and
American sculpture in process.
Box 6, Folder 6-7
Erpf family
1963-1974
Physical Description:
129 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Anguish (sculpture). Correspondence regarding
Night Flight (sculpture) commission, for the Armand G. Erpf memorial. Includes
cards and clippings. See boxes 27 and 31* for drawings of Night Flight.
Box 6, Folder 8
Canady, John
1968-1975
Physical Description:
10 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence regarding Canady's review of
Roszak's Sentinel in
The New York times.
Box 6, Folder 9
Gold, Arnold
1969-1978
Physical Description:
45 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Surveyor and Moonlight Tryst. Includes
correspondence regarding commission of Indian Sun Rite (sculpture).
Box 6, Folder 10
Goodwin family
1970-1974
Physical Description:
18 items
Box 6, Folder 11
Kind, Joshua
1978-1979
Physical Description:
16 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence regarding possible book about
Roszak.
Box 6, Folder 12
Klein, Henry
1962-1970
Physical Description:
6 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding purchase of Bursting Star, drawing.
Box 7, Folder 1
Miscellaneous L-Z
1953-1981
Physical Description:
37 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence from: Lewis; Liberman; Martinelli;
Masters; Meisner; Meyers; Moe; Montgomery; Moore; O'Brien; O'Connor; Palmer;
Pancher; Pines; Pollack; Ribicoff; Ritchie; Robinson; Roesch; Rood; Rosenthal;
Seuphor; Steinberg; Surek; Thompson; Urbanowicz; Van Veen; Zimmerman.
Box 7, Folder 2
Lane, Alvin
1962-1968
Physical Description:
17 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Flying Fish drawings, and Spectre of Kitty Hawk,
drawing.
Box 7, Folder 3
Maremont, Arnold
1956-1962
Physical Description:
19 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Cradle Song (sculpture).
Box 7, Folder 4
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo
1945
Physical Description:
13 items
Scope and Content Note
Moholy-Nagy is a former colleague from the Laboratory
School of Industrial Design, New York. See also box 14.
Box 7, Folder 5
Reder
1961-1963
Physical Description:
7 items
Box 7, Folder 6
Correspondence and papers not related to specific
projects
1954-1961
Physical Description:
16 items
Box 7, Folder 7-8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spire and bell tower
1953-1959
Physical Description:
99 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and clippings regarding plans,
construction, and installation of the spire and bell tower designed by Roszak for the
Saarinen-designed chapel at MIT. Contains clippings from
Progressive architecture - news survey,
The Architectural forum,
Christian register,
Technology review, and
New York herald tribune. For photographs and
drawings of the spire and bell tower see boxes 27, 30*, 49 and 69*.
Box 7, Folder 9-11
United States. Embassy (Great Britain)
1957-1969
Physical Description:
154 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and clippings regarding plans,
construction, and installation of the Eagle sculpture on Eero Saarinen's United
States Embassy, London building. Includes clippings from
New York herald tribune,
The New York times,
New York post,
Chicago tribune,
Washington post,
Saturday evening post,
Aluminum. For photographs and drawings of
Eagle see boxes 28, 50-52 and 69*, and flat file folder 2**. For oversize clippings see box 24*.
Box 7, Folder 12
Seeman, Joan
1976-1980
Physical Description:
15 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence regarding a critical essay by
Seeman for a Roszak show at Pelhan-von Stoffler Gallery.
Box 7, Folder 13
Steinberg, Harris
1962
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Night Flight, drawing.
Box 7, Folder 14
Vanderwoude, Suzanne
1981
Physical Description:
5 items
Box 24*
Last names A-Z oversize
1956-1960
Box 24*, Folder 1
Maremont, Arnold
1957
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
Two copies of clipping from
Chicago Sunday tribune.
Box 24*, Folder 2
Saarinen, Eero - Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
1956
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
One clipping from
ARTnews.
Box 24*, Folder 3
Saarinen, Eero - United States. Embassy (Great
Britain)
1960
Physical Description:
12 items
Scope and Content Note
Clippings regarding Roszak's eagle sculpture for the Embassy
from the
The New York times,
Evening standard,
New York herald tribune, and
Chicago sun-times.
Series IIB.
Business papers with companies and institutions
1930-1992
Physical Description:
5.8 linear feet
14 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series IIB contains materials from Roszak's business
interactions with companies and institutions. The bulk relate to the
development of exhibitions, the commissioning of works of art, and the process
of maintaining, transferring and selling works of art.
Box 8, Folder 1
Miscellaneous A
1940-1973
Physical Description:
37 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and papers from: Albany Institute of
History and Art, Albany Museum of Art, Albrecht Art Museum, Albright Art
Gallery, Allan Frumkin Gallery, America-Israel Cultural Foundation Inc.,
American Academy in Rome, American Iron and Steel Institute, Arizona Art
Foundation, Arnstadt, Artists' Gallery.
Box 8, Folder 2
American Battle Monuments Commission
1965-1969
Physical Description:
72 items
Scope and Content Note
For commission of Guam memorial, never executed project.
See flat file folder 6** for site plans.
Box 8, Folder 3
American Federation of Arts
1957-1963
Physical Description:
28 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes clipping and correspondence regarding the Roszak
Forged in Fire exhibition.
Box 8, Folder 4-5
American National Exhibition (1959 : Moscow, Russia)
1959
Physical Description:
107 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes official press release, transcript of Radio Free
Europe broadcast, and clippings from:
Christian Science monitor,
New York herald tribune,
The New York times,
New York post,
New Yorker. See box 24* for oversize
clippings.
Box 8, Folder 6
Archives of American Art
1964-1984
Physical Description:
8 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes deeds and acknowledgement of acquisitions of the
Roszak papers. See Related Material note at the beginning of this finding
aid.
Box 8, Folder 7
Art in America
1962-1965
Physical Description:
6 items
Box 8, Folder 8-9
Art Institute of Chicago
1930-1979
Physical Description:
95 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Recollection of the Southwest, and Whaler of
Nantucket (sculptures). Correspondence and clippings covering exhibitions,
juries, and fellowships. See box 24* for oversize clippings.
Box 8, Folder 10
Arts Club of Chicago
1975-1976
Physical Description:
73 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding exhibition: Recent Works. Two
copies of exhibition catalog are included with six copies of clipping from
New art examiner.
Box 9, Folder 1
Miscellaneous B
1962-1964
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence and papers from: Ball State
Teachers College, Banfer Gallery, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Boston
Arts Festival.
Box 9, Folder 2
Baltimore Museum of Art
1960-1962
Physical Description:
57 items
Scope and Content Note
The Baltimore Museum of Art exhibited Roszak's work at the
Biennale di Venezia (30th : 1960). Includes correspondence regarding serving as
juror for exhibitions.
Box 9, Folder 3
Brooklyn Museum
1954,
1985-1987
Physical Description:
9 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence relating to the exhibition The Machine Age:
The Americanization of art, including a clipping from the
The New York times and a clipping from an
unknown publication.
Box 10, Folder 1
Miscellaneous C-D
1941-1983
Physical Description:
22 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and papers from: Clay Club
Sculpture Center, Coe College, Columbia University, Congress of Racial Equity
(CORE), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Daedalus, Delehanty Institute, Du.
Box 10, Folder 2
Cantor Art Gallery
1984-1985
Physical Description:
12 items
Scope and Content Note
Papers relating to the exhibition, Flying Tigers: Painting
and Sculpture in New York 1939-1946.
Box 10, Folder 3
Carnegie Institute
1958-1964
Physical Description:
21 items
Scope and Content Note
Papers relating to the Pittsburgh International Exhibition
of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture and jurorship for the Society of
Sculptors Annual Show.
Box 10, Folder 4
Century 21 Exposition (1962: Seattle, Wash.)
1961-1962
Physical Description:
10 items
Scope and Content Note
Hound of Heaven (sculpture), was exhibited at the Seattle
World's Fair.
Box 10, Folder 5
Century Association
1967-1978
Physical Description:
23 items
Scope and Content Note
Papers regarding donation of Light of the Moon, high relief
sculpture.
Box 10, Folder 6
Cleveland Museum of Art
1964
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Mandrake, drawing and sculpture.
Box 10, Folder 7
College of Fine and Applied Arts
1952-1967
Physical Description:
6 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding exhibition and acquisition of The Migrant
(sculpture), as well as requests for photographic reproductions for a
publication.
Box 10, Folder 8
Contemporary Arts Association of Houston
1957
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Content Note
Papers relating to exhibition of Recollection of the
Southwest (sculpture).
Box 10, Folder 9
Council on Higher Education on American Republics
1964
Physical Description:
27 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes minutes and report from conference in Lima
(Peru).
Box 10, Folder 10
Department of Public Works (New York, N.Y.)
1965-1968
Physical Description:
84 items
Scope and Content Note
Papers regarding commission of Sentinel (sculpture), at the
Public Health Laboratory building. See also box 16. See boxes 29, 33, 54,
69*, and flat file folder 7** for drawings and photographs.
Box 10, Folder 11
Documenta 2
1959-1960
Physical Description:
16 items
Scope and Content Note
Exhibition of Invocation I and Recollection of the
Southwest at Documenta 2. Includes press release for the exhibition.
Box 10, Folder 12
Drawing Society
1961-1988
Physical Description:
38 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes three copies of
Drawing 1987.
Box 10, Folder 13
Drexel Institute of Technology
1966-1967
Physical Description:
8 items
Scope and Content Note
Exhibition of Invocation #5 (sculpture). Includes catalog
for Art 75 exhibition.
Box 11, Folder 1
Miscellaneous E
1956-1969
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and papers from: Editorial Labor,
Edward MacDowell Association, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Engineering.
Box 11, Folder 2
Expo 67 (Montréal, Québec)
1966-1968
Physical Description:
22 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes Expo exhibiting policies as well as correspondence
regarding the display of Fledgling (sculpture) and damages incurred to the
work.
Box 11, Folder 3
Exposition universelle et internationale (1958 :
Brussels, Belgium)
1956-1958
Physical Description:
30 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and clipping from
Life regarding exhibition
of Cradle Song (sculpture).
Box 12, Folder 1
Miscellaneous F
1953-1969
Physical Description:
12 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and papers from: Far Gallery,
Faukner Kingsbury and Stenhouse, Felix Landau Gallery, Flint Institute of Arts,
Forum Gallery, Fourth National Bank and trust, Fort Worth Art Association,
Fratelli Fabbri Editori.
Box 12, Folder 2
Fairmount Park Art Association
1964
Physical Description:
32 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding jurorship for a competition for design of a
monumental fountain on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. Includes
copies of reproductions of plan, program of competition, and
correspondence.
Box 12, Folder 3-4
Fairweather Hardin Gallery
1955-1985
Physical Description:
108 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 24* for oversize clippings.
Box 12, Folder 4-10
Ford Foundation
1958-1969
Physical Description:
290 items
Scope and Content Note
Roszak received a Ford Foundation grant, attended
conferences and served as juror for various Ford Foundation purchases.
Box 12, Folder 11
Frank Perle Gallery
1957
Physical Description:
2 items
Box 13, Folder 1
Miscellaneous G-H
1958-1979
Physical Description:
11 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and papers from: Galerie T, Gelman
Construction Company, George C. Miller and Son Inc., George Peabody College for
Teachers, Grolier Incorporated, Hawaii Statuary Hall Commission, HemisFair
(1968 : San Antonio, Tex.).
Box 13, Folder 2
General Motors Corporation
1955
Physical Description:
14 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding commission of Sundial sculpture, in association
with Eero Saarinen Associates, to be erected on General Motors Technical
Center. See boxes 27, 30* and flat file folder 1** for drawings of project.
Box 13, Folder 3-4
Harold Ernst Gallery
1973
Physical Description:
83 items
Box 13, Folder 5
Hirschl and Adler
1992
Physical Description:
30 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes one clipping and 29 copies of
The New York times article.
Box 13, Folder 6
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
1977-1984
Physical Description:
39 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding Roszak's work in the exhibition Utopian Visions
in Modern Art: Dreams and Nightmares, 1983-1984. See box 24* for oversize
clippings.
Box 14, Folder 1
Miscellaneous I-L
1935-1987
Physical Description:
46 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and papers from: International Art
Center, International Communication Agency, John Barnes Foundation, John Davis
Gallery, Kent Fine Art, Krannert Art Museum, Kunsthistorische Musea, Lerner
Publications Company, The Little Gallery; McGraw Hill, Marie Bergson
Associates, Marisa del Re Gallery, Marlborough Gallery, Methodist Publishing
House; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miami Dade Community College, Munson
Williams Proctor Institute, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Muzeum Nardowe
w Poznaniu; Muzeum Tel Aviv, The Mytholympic Center.
Box 14, Folder 2
Illinois State Museum
1969-1975
Physical Description:
14 items
Box 14, Folder 3
Institute of Contemporary Art
1953
Physical Description:
11 items
Scope and Content Note
Papers regarding the international sculpture competition for
the Unknown Political Prisoner.
Box 14, Folder 4
John Carl Warnecke and Associates
1966
Physical Description:
6 items
Scope and Content Note
Architecture firm worked with Roszak on several projects
including: United States Naval Academy fountain, John F. Kennedy gravesite
font, and the United States General Services Administration Federal Office
Building 7 (Washington, D. C.) fountain. See boxes 19 and 20 for further
correspondence on the individual projects.
Box 14, Folder 5
Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture
1980-1981
Physical Description:
10 items
Scope and Content Note
Bronze casting company where Raven and Hound pieces were
cast.
Box 14, Folder 6
Julien Levy Gallery
1940-1949
Physical Description:
32 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes drawing of gallery for Roszak Constructions
exhibition.
Box 14, Folder 7
Laboratory School of Industrial Design
1937-1940
Physical Description:
83 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes class schedules, syllabi, and teaching materials.
At the Laboratory School Roszak developed a relationship with Moholy-Nagy, who
influenced Roszak's interest in geometrical abstraction. His placement at the
Laboratory School of Industrial Design was facilitated by the United States,
Work Projects Administration (WPA). See box 7 for correspondence with
Moholy-Nagy and see box 20 papers related to the WPA.
Box 14, Folder 8
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1957
Physical Description:
11 items
Scope and Content Note
Papers regarding traveling retrospective exhibition. See
box 24* for oversize clippings.
Box 14, Folder 9
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
1964-1976
Physical Description:
6 items
Box 15, Folder 1
Miscellaneous M
1935-1987
Physical Description:
46 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and papers from: McGraw Hill, Marie
Bergson Associates, Marisa del Re Gallery, Marlborough Gallery, Methodist
Publishing House, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miami Dade Community College,
Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Muzeum
Nardowe w Poznaniu; Muzeum Tel Aviv, The Mytholympic Center.
Box 15, Folder 2
Maremont Automotive Products
1957
Physical Description:
10 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Invocation No. 3 (sculpture). See Arnold Maremont
Box 6. See box 27 for drawing.
Box 15, Folder 3
MIT Committee on the Visual Arts
1976-1986
Physical Description:
54 items
Scope and Content Note
Papers related to exhibition called Drawings, Sculpture and
Models, for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spire and bell tower, designed by Roszak for the MIT chapel (designed
by Saarinen). See
also box 6 for additional papers related to project.
Box 15, Folder 4
Michigan State University
1956-1968
Physical Description:
4 items
Box 15, Folder 5
Modern Art Foundry Inc.
1974-1980
Physical Description:
10 items
Scope and Content Note
Bronze casting company where Mandrake, Sky Lark and Hound
of Heaven pieces were cast.
Box 15, Folder 6-7
Museum of Art (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
1980-1986
Physical Description:
80 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes clippings and correspondence regarding two Roszak
exhibitions. See box 24* for oversize clippings.
Box 15, Folder 8-9
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
1946-1983
Physical Description:
219 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes clippings and correspondence regarding donation of
Hound of Heaven, damages to Spectre of Kitty Hawk, and Roszak exhibitions. See
box 24* for oversize.
Box 16, Folder 1
Miscellaneous N-O
1956-1987
Physical Description:
30 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and papers from: National Gallery
of Art (U.S.), National Gallery of Canada, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, New
Jersey State Museum, New York Commission of Fine Arts, New York Public Library,
New York Studio School of Drawing Painting and Sculpture, Northern Arizona
University, Old American Insurance Company, Old Dartmouth Historical Society,
Old Westbury Gardens.
Box 16, Folder 2
National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.)
1959-1983
Physical Description:
33 items
Box 16, Folder 3
Newark Museum
1960-1980
Physical Description:
8 items
Box 16, Folder 4
New York (N.Y.). Board of Education
1973-1976
Physical Description:
48 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding commission of steel relief, Cityscape, for P.S.
182, Bronx. See roll 1** and box 71.
Box 16, Folder 5
New York, City of
1965-1968
Physical Description:
37 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding commission of Sentinel (sculpture), for the
forecourt of the Public Health Laboratory Building. Includes six copies of
brochure, eight copies of clipping from
The New York times, and two contracts. See boxes
10, 29, 33*, 54, 69*, and flat file folder 7** for drawings, photographs and plans of the
project.
Box 16, Folder 6-7
New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation
1962-1964
Physical Description:
89 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding commission of Forms in Transit (sculpture), also
referred to as Flight, and Spirit of Transportation. Includes invoices,
correspondence, and clippings from
The New York times. See box 24* for oversize
clippings. For photographs and drawings see boxes 28, 31*, 53, 68*,
69*, and flat file folder 3**.
Box 16, Folder 8
Norton Gallery and School of Art
1985-1988
Physical Description:
10 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Sea Quarry (sculpture).
Box 16, Folder 9
Oberlin College
1957-1959
Physical Description:
18 items
Box 17, Folder 1
Miscellaneous P
1949-1969
Physical Description:
13 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and papers from: Park College,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Prentice Hall Inc., and Public Education
Association.
Box 17, Folder 2
Pembroke Gallery
1984
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains clippings, press release, and brochure for
exhibit.
Box 17, Folder 3-4
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1955-1969
Physical Description:
81 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Ariadne (sculpture). Includes correspondence
regarding exhibitions, lectures, and jurorship. Sara Jane Roszak attended the
Pennsylvania Academy. See box 24* for oversize clippings.
Box 17, Folder 5
Philadelphia City Planning Commission
1965
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding possible commission for sculpture for
Philadelphia Municipal Services building.
Box 17, Folder 6
Philbrook Art Center
1967-1978
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding exhibition and possible commission for sculpture
for Oklahoma civic center.
Box 17, Folder 7
Phoenicia Forge
1977
Physical Description:
6 items
Box 17, Folder 8
Phoenix Art Museum
1963-1981
Physical Description:
8 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Tri-Circle Construction.
Box 17, Folder 9-12
Pierre Matisse Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
1950-1975
Physical Description:
292 items
Scope and Content Note
Gallery represented Roszak for almost 25 years. Includes
artist statements, clippings, designs for exhibitions, brochures and general
correspondence. See boxes 24* for oversize clippings, see box 43 for
photographs of gallery.
Box 17, Folder 13
Polish institute of arts and letters (New York,
N.Y.)
1935
Physical Description:
32 items
Box 18, Folder 1
Miscellaneous Q-T
1935-1976
Physical Description:
37 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and papers from: Rose Art Museum,
San Francisco Museum of Art, Segy Gallery; Skidmore Owings & Merrill,
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Slater Memorial Museum (Norwich,
Conn.), Smith College, Smithsonian Institution, South Bend Lathe Works,
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, State University of Iowa, and Tyler
School of Art.
Box 18, Folder 2
Queens Museum
1988-1990
Physical Description:
16 items
Box 18, Folder 3
Reynolds Metals Company
1957-1967
Physical Description:
20 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Invocation. Commissioned R.S. Reynolds Memorial
Award. Includes three copies of the
Reynolds Review. See box 27 for drawings, and
boxes 46 and 67* for photographs of the award.
Box 18, Folder 4
Rutgers University
1979-1980
Physical Description:
15 items
Box 18, Folder 5
Saint Paul Art Center
1961-1966
Physical Description:
11 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Ballerina.
Box 18, Folder 6
Sarah Lawrence College
1941-1968
Physical Description:
77 items
Scope and Content Note
Roszak was teaching faculty at Sarah Lawrence from
1940-1955. Includes teaching contracts, directories, and syllabi.
Box 18, Folder 7
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1956-1978
Physical Description:
51 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Cradle Song (sculpture). Roszak participated in
coin design exhibit for the Guggenheim. See box 24* for oversize clippings. See
box 28 for coin drawings.
Box 18, Folder 8
Southern Association of Sculptors
1967
Physical Description:
21 items
Box 18, Folder 9-10
Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association
1961-1969
Physical Description:
128 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding commission of design of sundial sculpture,
Fountain of Time, for confederate memorial in association with the University
of Georgia. Includes 7 transparencies and six photographs of site and proposed
plans, contract and artist statement. Project was cancelled. See boxes 28, 31*,
35*, and flat file folder 1** for drawings of project.
Box 18, Folder 11
Syracuse University
1951-1970
Physical Description:
11 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding symposium and conference on creative arts
education.
Box 18, Folder 12
Tate Gallery
1953
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Unknown Political Prisoner (maquette).
Box 19, Folder 1
Miscellaneous Ua-Unit
1935-1964
Physical Description:
9 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and papers from: Unesco, United Bank
of Denver, and United States Dept. of the Treasury.
Box 19, Folder 2-3
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Norfolk
District
1964-1966
Physical Description:
59 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding commission for design of font for John F.
Kennedy's gravesite. Contract was terminated. Includes one sketch and 11
photographs. See box 53 for photographs. See flat file folder 1** and roll 2** for plan and
drawings of project.
Box 19, Folder 4-5
United States. Commission of Fine Arts
1962-1968
Physical Description:
252 items
Scope and Content Note
Roszak was a member from 1962-1966 under president John F.
Kennedy and was reappointed from 1966-1968 by president Lyndon Johnson.
Includes telegram from president John F. Kennedy. Also referred to as Advisory
Committee on the Arts. See box 24* for oversize clippings.
Box 19, Folder 6
United States. Dept. of State. Advisory Committee on
the Arts
1957-1960
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
Roszak was a member from 1956-1958.
Box 19, Folder 7-9
United States. Dept. of State. Cultural
Presentations Program
1963-1968
Physical Description:
336 items
Scope and Content Note
Roszak was a member of the Cultural Presentations Program
from 1961-1967. Bulk of papers is meeting minutes.
Box 20, Folder 1
United States. General Services Administration:
United States. Customs Court (New York, NY)
1966-1971
Physical Description:
62 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding commission of Eagle Sculpture to be placed above
judge's dais. Includes clipping from the
The New York times. Includes 6 photographs and
negatives of model. See boxes 29, 35* and roll 4** for drawings of project.
Box 20, Folder 2-3
United States. General Services Administration:
Federal Office Building 7 (Washington, D. C.)
1965-1970
Physical Description:
179 items
Scope and Content Note
Commission of fountains for the courtyards of the Federal
Office Building and Court of Claims at Lafayette Square. Includes photocopies
of contracts and fountain schematics. See box 29 for drawings and box 31*,
flat file folders 4-5**, and roll 3** for oversize drawings. See box 53 for photographs.
Box 20, Folder 4
United States Naval Academy
1965-1968
Physical Description:
19 items
Scope and Content Note
Commission of fountain for Science Building. See boxes 29,
32* and 35* for drawings.
Box 20, Folder 5
United States. Work Projects Administration
1934-1936
Physical Description:
28 items
Box 20, Folder 6
Miscellaneous Univ-Uz
1935-1985
Physical Description:
19 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and papers from: University of
California, Los Angeles; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of
Houston; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Kansas;
University of Michigan; University of Minnesota; University of Notre Dame;
University of Pennsylvania; University of Rhode Island; Uptown Gallery;
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Box 20, Folder 7
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
1970-1971
Physical Description:
18 items
Box 20, Folder 8
University of Oregon
1961-1962
Physical Description:
19 items
Box 20, Folder 9
University of Wisconsin, Madison
1967-1968
Physical Description:
17 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Great Moth (sculpture).
Box 21, Folder 1
Miscellaneous W
1957-1976
Physical Description:
13 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and other papers from: Washington Gallery of Modern Art (Washington,
D.C.); Werk; Westchester Art Society; Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg; and
William Beadleston, Inc.
Box 21, Folder 2-3
Walker Art Center
1955-1981
Physical Description:
116 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding development of retrospective
exhibition. Includes two copies of museum calendar, six copies of invitation to
opening, clippings from the
Minneapolis Sunday tribune, and the
Star tribune. Owner of Cradle Song.
Box 21, Folder 4
Washburn Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
1976-1980
Physical Description:
14 items
Box 21, Folder 5-12
Whitney Museum of American Art
1932-1987
Physical Description:
409 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Fisherman's Bride (painting), Portrait (the
Artist's Wife) (drawing), Invocation V (sculpture), Bi-polar in Red
(construction), Sea Sentinel (sculpture), Thistle in a Dream (sculpture), the
Great Moth (drawing), Vertical Construction (construction), and several study
drawings.
Correspondence and clippings related to donations and
acquisitions as well as exhibitions, including work exhibited in the first
Whitney Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American painting, 1932; and a
Roszak Retrospective, 1956. See box 24* for oversize clippings and box 43 for
photographs of the museum.
Box 22, Folder 1
Who’s Who – The Art Trade Press Ltd
1941-1967
Physical Description:
11 items
Box 22, Folder 2
Wichita Art Museum
1977-1987
Physical Description:
30 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding planning of exhibition and
catalog. See box 24* for oversize clippings.
Box 22, Folder 3-5
Wichita State University, Ulrich Museum of Art
1973-1988
Physical Description:
148 items
Scope and Content Note
Owner of Icarus (Skylark)
(sculpture). See box 24* for oversize clippings. See box 43 for photographs of
Ulrich gallery. See boxes 45 and 66* for photographs of sculpture. See box 30*
for drawing.
Box 22, Folder 6
Miscellaneous X-Z
1967,
undated
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and papers from: Yale University,
and Youth.
Box 22, Folder 7
Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company
1956
Physical Description:
14 items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding commission of lever handle and escutcheon.
Includes catalog and 4 copies of clipping from
Time. See boxes 27, 30* and portfolio 1** for
drawings.
Box 22, Folder 8-10
Zabriskie Gallery
1977-1986
Physical Description:
168 items
Scope and Content Note
Gallery represented Roszak from 1978. Includes log of
sales, clippings and originals as well as photocopies of illustrated
descriptions of objects from exhibits. See box 43 for photographs of
gallery.
Box 22, Folder 11
Zeugnisse der angst in der moderne kunst
1962-1963
Physical Description:
14 items
Box 24*
Institutions A-Z oversize
1951-1987
Box 24*, Folder 4
Various oversize clippings
1960-1994
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes clippings from:
Peace news,
The New York times, the
Eugene register, and
Oregonian.
Box 24*, Folder 5
American National Exhibition (1959 : Moscow, Russia)
1959
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 8.
Box 24*, Folder 6
Art Institute of Chicago
undated
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 8.
Box 24*, Folder 7
Fairweather Hardin Gallery
1958-1960
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 12. Includes one poster and clippings from the
Chicago sun-times.
Box 24*, Folder 8
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
1984
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
Clippings from the
The New York times. See box 13.
Box 24*, Folder 9
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1957
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 14. Clipping from
The Los Angeles times.
Box 24*, Folder 10
Museum of Art (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
1981-1986
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
Clippings from
Miami herald and the
Hi-Riser. See box 15.
Box 24*, Folder 11
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
1953-1959
Physical Description:
12 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 15. Clippings from
The New York times,
New York herald tribune, and
Journal de Paris. Includes clipping regarding
Museum of Modern Art's exhibition at the Bienal Internacional de Saõ Paulo,
which included a piece by Roszak.
Box 24*, Folder 12
New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation
1964-1975
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 16. Clippings from
Design news and
The New York times.
Box 24*, Folder 13
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1956
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 17. One clipping from the
Sunday bulletin.
Box 24*, Folder 14
Philadelphia Museum of Art
1956
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 17.
Box 24*, Folder 15
Pierre Matisse Gallery
1951-1974
Physical Description:
9 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 17. Clippings from
The New York times, the
Christian Science monitor,
New York post and
ARTnews.
Box 24*, Folder 16
United States. Commission of Fine Arts
1963
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes one clipping from
The New York times and one letter from the White
House. See box 19.
Box 24*, Folder 17
Whitney Museum of American Art
1956-1966
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes clippings from the
The New York times and
The Villager. See box 11.
Box 24*, Folder 18
Wichita Art Museum
1987
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 21. Includes one photocopy of a clipping from the
Wichita eagle-beacon.
Series IIC.
Unidentified correspondence with companies,
institutions, and individuals
1954-1981
Physical Description:
0.4 linear feet
Box 22, Folder 12-13
Unidentified correspondence
1954-1981
Physical Description:
60 items
Series III.
Art work
1926-1993
Physical Description:
129 linear feet
48 boxes, 4
rolls, 9 flat file folders, 1 portfolio
Scope and Content Note
Series contains inventories, drawings, photographs, preliminary drawings and
plans for Roszak's art work, primarily sculpture. Arranged in three subseries.
Series IIIA.
Reports and inventories
1956-1981,
1993
Physical Description:
0.8 linear feet
2 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series IIIA contains reports printed from a computer database
as well as inventories compiled by Roszak at various points in his career. The
data was entered into the computer database in 1993. The reports are organized
by type and include data for title, medium, date, size and provenance.
Box 25, Folder 1
Various lists
1956-1981
Physical Description:
78 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes exhibition and catalogue lists of art pieces, some
annotated, for known and unknown exhibitions. Also includes provenance lists as
well as lists of unknown origin.
Box 25, Folder 2
Inventories with price listings
1956,
undated
Physical Description:
8 items
Box 25, Folder 3
Inventories organized by owner
undated
Physical Description:
78 items
Series IIIB.
Drawings
1930-1978
Physical Description:
52 linear feet
9 boxes, 4
rolls, 9 flat file folders, 1 portfolio
Scope and Content Note
Series IIIB contains original drawings by Roszak,
covering ephemera related to art pieces including packing or assembly
instructions, preliminary drawings for larger works, presentation drawings and
unidentifiable drawings.
Box 27
Assembly and packing instructions drawings
1956-1978,
undated
Box 27, Folder 1
Roszak retrospective packing instructions
1956
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Content Note
Illustrated instructions for: Monument to Lost Dirigible,
Bi-polar in Red, and Aerial Construction.
Box 27, Folder 2
Tri-circle Construction packing
instructions
1978
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
Probably for 1978 exhibition at Zabriskie Gallery.
Box 27, Folder 3
Cradle Song assembly instructions
undated
Physical Description:
5 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 66* for photographs of sculpture.
Box 27, Folder 4
Unidentified assembly and construction drawings
undated
Physical Description:
13 items
Box 27-29
Drawings
1930-1976
Scope and Content Note
In chronological order.
Box 27, Folder 5
Study for Cubist Head
1930
Physical Description:
1 item
Box 27, Folder 6
Study for Composition Alastor
1932
Physical Description:
3 items
Box 27, Folder 7
Studies for Man Sewing
1932-1936
Physical Description:
3 items
Box 27, Folder 8
Sight and Sound
1932-1936
Physical Description:
1 item
Box 27, Folder 9
Studies for On the Beach and Boaters
1933
Physical Description:
2 items
Box 27, Folder 10
Studies for Fisherman Bride
1934
Physical Description:
2 items
Box 27, Folder 11
Study for Girl at Piano
1934-1935
Physical Description:
1 items
Box 27, Folder 12
Cards
1935-1940
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes greeting cards and seasonal holiday cards designed
by Roszak.
Box 27, Folder 13
Study for Bi-polar Construction
1937
Physical Description:
2 items
Box 27, Folder 14
Unidentified sketches
1930s
Physical Description:
2 items
Box 27, Folder 15
Study for Sea Quarry
1949
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
See boxes 45 and 66* for photographs of sculpture.
Box 27, Folder 16
Studies for Monument to Unknown Political Prisoner
1952
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
Also known as Triumph. See boxes 45 and 66* for photographs
of sculpture.
Box 27, Folder 17
Studies for Whaler of Nantucket
1952-1953
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 45 for photographs of sculpture.
Box 27, Folder 18
Study for Fledgling
1953
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 45 for photographs of sculpture.
Box 27, Folder 19
Study for Thistle in a Dream
1955-1956
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 66* for photographs of sculpture.
Box 27, Folder 20
Drawings, possibly for Sundial project
1955
Physical Description:
21 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by General Motors. See box 13 for papers
regarding project. See box 30* and flat file folder 1** for oversize drawings.
Box 27, Folder 21
Studies for Cradle Song
1956
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
See boxes 46 and 66* for photographs of sculpture.
Box 27, Folder 22
Studies for Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective
exhibition cards
1956
Physical Description:
6 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 11.
Box 27, Folder 23
Studies for Escutcheon
1956
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
Commission for Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company, See
boxes 22, 30*, and portfolio 1** for drawings, and box 66* for photographs.
Box 27, Folder 24
Studies for Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
spire and bell tower
1956
Physical Description:
27 items
Scope and Content Note
See boxes 7 and 15 for papers related to project. See boxes
30*, 49 and 69* for photographs and drawings.
Box 27, Folder 25
Studies for Invocation
1957
Physical Description:
3 items
Box 27, Folder 26
Studies for R.S. Reynolds Memorial Award
1957
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Content Note
See boxes 18 for papers related to project. See boxes 46
and 67* for photographs.
Box 27, Folder 27
Study for Invocation no. 3
1958
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
Super-structure. See box 47 for photographs of
sculpture.
Box 27, Folder 28
Study for Veronica
1958
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 47 for photographs of sculpture.
Box 27, Folder 28a
Night Flight
1958-1962
Physical Description:
14 items
Scope and Content Note
Possibly a commission for Erpf Family, see box 6 for papers
related to project. See box 33* for oversize drawings.
Box 27, Folder 29
Unidentified studies for Eagle
1960-1971
Physical Description:
9 items
Scope and Content Note
Unclear if eagle studies are for the United States Embassy
or Customs Court.
Box 28, Folder 1-2
Studies for Eagle
1960
Physical Description:
75 items
Scope and Content Note
Eagle sculpture for the United States. Embassy (Great
Britain). In association with Eero Saarinen, architect of the building. See box
7 for papers regarding project. See boxes 50-52, and 69*, and flat file folder 2** for drawings and
photographs.
Box 28, Folder 3
Explorer 1
1960
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 47 for photographs of sculpture.
Box 28, Folder 4
Explorer 2
1961-1962
Physical Description:
6 items
Box 28, Folder 5
Studies for Fountain of Time
1961-1969
Physical Description:
24 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental
Association. See box 18 for papers regarding project and see boxes 31* and 35*, and flat file folder 1**
for drawings.
Box 28, Folder 6
Studies for Forms in Transit
1964-1965
Physical Description:
23 items
Scope and Content Note
Also referred to as Flight, and Spirit of Transportation.
Commissioned for New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation. See box 16 for
papers regarding project, see boxes 31, 53, 68* and 69*, and flat file folder 3** for photographs
and drawings.
Box 28, Folder 7
Studies for Guggenheim Museum coin exhibition
1965
Physical Description:
9 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 18 for papers related to project.
Box 28, Folder 8
Personage Monument
1965
Physical Description:
32 items
Scope and Content Note
Possibly also called Prometheus, Big Boy or Study for a
Monument.
Box 29, Folder 1-3
Study for Fountains
1965-1967
Physical Description:
65 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by United States. General Services
Administration: Federal Office Building 7 (Washington, D. C.). See box 20 for
papers regarding project and see boxes 31*, 53, flat file folders 4-5** and roll 3** for drawings
and photographs.
Box 29, Folder 4
Studies for Eagle
1966-1971
Physical Description:
16 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by United States. General Services
Administration: United States. Customs Court (New York, NY). Includes
presentation drawings and sketches. See box 20 for papers regarding project.
See box 35* and roll 4** for drawings..
Box 29, Folder 5
Submissions
1967
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
Drawing of submissions for Expo 67 (Montréal, Québec).
Possibly drawings of Invocation, Solar Antennae and Fledgling. See box 11 for
papers related to project.
Box 29, Folder 6
Studies for Fountain
1966-1967
Physical Description:
27 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by United States Naval Academy. See boxes 20
for papers regarding project, see boxes 32* and 35* for drawings.
Box 29, Folder 7
Studies for Sentinel
1968
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by city of New York. See boxes 10 and 16 for
papers regarding project. See boxes 33, 54 and 69*, and flat file folder 7** for drawings and
photographs.
Box 29, Folder 8
Study for Physicists
1972
Physical Description:
2 items
Box 29, Folder 9
Studies for Cityscape
1973-1976
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
Commission of steel relief for New York (N.Y.). Board of
Education, for P.S. 182 in the Bronx. Contains 3 different versions of the
sculpture represented in photo collage. See box 16 for papers regarding
project. See roll 1** and boxes 72*-73* for drawings and photographs.
Box 29, Folder 10
Self-portrait
undated
Physical Description:
1 items
Box 29, Folder 11
Drawings, possibly for American Monarch
undated
Physical Description:
2 items
Box 29, Folder 12-14
Unidentified drawings
undated
Physical Description:
71 items
Box 29, Folder 15
Photocopies of drawings
undated
Physical Description:
8 items
Box 30*-35*
Oversize drawings
1950-1971
Scope and Content Note
In chronological order.
Box 30*, Folder 1
Icarus
1950-1951
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
One mounted presentation drawing. See boxes 45 and 66* for
photographs.
Box 30*, Folder 2
Invocation II
1950-1951
Physical Description:
1 items
Box 35*, Folder 2
Invocation II
1950-1951
Physical Description:
1 items
Box 30*, Folder 3
Possibly studies for Hound of Heaven
1953-1954
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
See box 65* for oversize photographs of sculpture.
Box 30*, Folder 4
Guardian of the Sea
1955
Physical Description:
1 items
Box 30*, Folder 5
Drawings, possibly for Sundial project
1955
Physical Description:
6 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by General Motors. See box 13 for papers
regarding project. See box 27 and flat file folder 1** for drawings.
Box 30*, Folder 6-7
Studies for Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
spire and bell tower
1956
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Content Note
See boxes 7 and 15 for papers related to project. See boxes
27, 49 and 69* for photographs and drawings. Includes a drawing on board.
Box 30*, Folder 8
Studies for Escutcheon
1956
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company. See
box 22 for papers regarding project, box 27, and portfolio 1** for drawings. See box 66*
for photographs
Box 31*, Folder 1
Night Flight
1958-1962
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
Possibly commissioned by Erpf Family. See box 6 for papers
relating to Erpf Family. See box 27 for drawings.
Box 31*, 35*
Studies for Eagle
1960-1971
Scope and Content Note
Unclear if eagle studies are for the United States Embassy
or Customs Court.
Box 31*, Folder 1a
Studies for Eagle
1960-1971
Physical Description:
5 items
Box 35*, Folder 3
Studies for Eagle
1960-1971
Physical Description:
14 items
Box 31*, Folder 2
Steel Tower
1960
Physical Description:
1 items
Box 31*, 35*
Study for Fountain of Time
1961-1969
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental
Association. See box 18 for papers relating to project. See box 28 and flat file folder 1**
for drawings.
Box 31*, Folder 3
Study
1961-1969
Physical Description:
1 items
Box 35*, Folder 4
Study
1961-1969
Physical Description:
5 items
Box 31*, Folder 4-5
Tower of Steel
1964
Physical Description:
8 items
Scope and Content Note
Presentation drawings for competition.
Box 31*, Folder 6-10
Studies for Forms in Transit
1964-1965
Physical Description:
33 items
Scope and Content Note
Also referred to as Flight, and Spirit of Transportation.
Commission for New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation. Includes
reprographic copies and original drawings. See box 16 for papers regarding
project, see boxes 28, 53, 68*, 69*, and flat file folder 3** for photographs and drawings.
Box 31*, Folder 11-15
Studies for Fountain
1965-1967
Physical Description:
16 items
Scope and Content Note
Possibly for United States General Services Administration
Federal Office Building 7 (Washington, D. C.). Includes presentation drawings
and sketches. See box 20 for papers regarding project. See box 29, flat file folders 4-5** and
roll 3** for drawings; see box 53 for photographs.
Box 32*, Folder 1-2
Personage monument
1965
Physical Description:
19 items
Scope and Content Note
Possibly also called Prometheus, Big Boy, or Study for a
Monument.
Box 32*, 35*
Studies for Fountain
1966-1967
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by United States Naval Academy. See box 20 for
papers regarding project and see box 29 for drawings. Includes reprographic
copies and presentation drawings.
Box 32*, Folder 3-8
Studies for Fountain
1966-1967
Physical Description:
16 items
Box 35*, Folder 5
Studies for Fountain
1966-1967
Physical Description:
6 items
Box 35*, Folder 6
Studies for Eagle
1966-1971
Physical Description:
6 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by United States. General Services
Administration: United States. Customs Court (New York, NY). See box 20 for
papers regarding project. See box 29 and roll 4** for drawings.
Box 33*, Folder 1-3
Studies for Sentinel
1968
Physical Description:
16 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by city of New York. See boxes 10 and 16 for
papers regarding project. See boxes 29, 54, 69*, and flat file folder 7** for drawings and
photographs.
Box 34*, Folder 1
Didactic drawings
undated
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Content Note
Possibly to be used for welding instruction lecture. See
box 70 for accompanying slides.
Box 34*, Folder 7
Photocopies of drawings
undated
Physical Description:
6 items
Box 34*, Folder 2-6
Unidentified drawings
undated
Physical Description:
14 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes presentation drawings for unknown projects.
Flat file folder 1-9**
Oversize drawings
1950-1971
Scope and Content Note
In chronological order.
Flat file folder 1**
Miscellaneous plans
1955-1969
Physical Description:
6 items
Scope and Content Note
Plans for the General Motors Sundial (see boxes 13, 27 and
30*), the John F. Kennedy gravesite (see boxes 19 and roll 2**), and Stone
Mountain Fountain of Time (see boxes 18, 28, 31* and 35*).
Flat file folder 2**
Eagle studies and plans
1960
Physical Description:
6 items
Scope and Content Note
Eagle sculpture for the United States. Embassy (Great
Britain). In association with Eero Saarinen, architect of the building.
Contains three eagle studies and three plans. See box 7 for papers regarding
project. See boxes 28, 50-52, 69*, and flat file folder 2** for drawings and photographs.
Flat file folder 3**
Forms in Transit
1964-1965
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Content Note
Also referred to as Flight, and Spirit of Transportation.
Commissioned by New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation. Contains six plans
of the sculpture and one plan of site. See box 16 for papers regarding project,
see boxes 28, 31, 53, 68* and 69* for photographs and drawings.
Flat file folder 4-5**
Fountain
1965-1967
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by the United States General Services
Administration: Federal Office Building 7 (Washington, D. C.). Contains eight
plans of the fountain and five plans of site. See box 20 for papers regarding
project. See boxes 29, 31 and roll 3** for drawings and see box 53 for
photographs.
Flat file folder 6**
Guam Memorial plans
1965-1968
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by the American Battle Monuments Commission,
but never completed. See box 8 for papers regarding project.
Flat file folder 7**
Sentinel
undated
Physical Description:
10 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by the city of New York. See boxes 10 and 16
for papers regarding project. See boxes 29, 33*, 54 and 69* for drawings and
photographs.
Flat file folder 8**
Unidentified drawings
undated
Physical Description:
2 items
Flat file folder 9**
Miscellaneous plans
undated
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Content Note
Plans for Philadelphia court house and Washington D.C. Air
Force base. It is unknown which projects they relate to.
Roll 1**-4**
Oversize drawings on rolls
1950-1971
Scope and Content Note
In chronological order.
Roll 1**
Miscellaneous drawings
1973-1976,
undated
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains two plans for steel relief, Cityscape, for P.S.
182, the Bronx. See box 16. One Eagle reprographic copy, and one unknown plan.
Roll 2**
Drawing of Font
1964-1966
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by the United States. Army. Corps of
Engineers. Norfolk District for the John F. Kennedy gravesite. See box 19 for
papers regarding project. See boxes 1** and 53 for plan and photographs.
Roll 3**
Fountain
1965-1967
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by the United States General Services
Administration: Federal Office Building 7 (Washington, D. C.). See box 20 for
papers regarding project. See boxes 29, 31 and 1** for drawings and see box 53
for photographs.
Roll 4**
Letters for Eagle sculpture
1966-1971
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by United States General Services
Administration: United States. Customs Court (new York, NY). Letters to read:
equal justice under law. See box 20 for papers regarding project. See box 29
and 35* for drawings.
Roll 1**
Oversize portfolio drawings
1950-1971
Portfolio 1**
Escutcheon drawing
1956
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company. See
box 22 for papers regarding project and 27 and 30* for drawings. See box 66*
for photographs.
Series IIIC.
Sketchbooks
1932-1981
undated
Physical Description:
2.1 linear feet
5 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series IIIC contains sketchbooks, used by Roszak throughout his
career, that include drawings of themes he developed into formal artworks. None
or very few of the drawings are dated. Drawings are in various medium: pencil,
pen, ink, and wash. Arranged in chronological order with undated items at the
end.
Box 36-37
Sketchbooks
1932-1981
Scope and Content Note
Dates were retrieved from years written on the cover or on
individual pages of the sketchbooks.
Box 36, Folder 1-8
Sketchbooks
1932-1942
Physical Description:
225 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains pages from eight sketchbooks. Includes drawings
possibly for various constructions and Mechanical Man/The Last Tycoon.
Box 36, Folder 9-14
Sketchbooks
1959-1972
Physical Description:
46 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains pages from six sketchbooks. Includes drawings
possibly for various constructions, Moon Child/Lunar Birth, Naval Academy
Fountain, Federal Office Building 7 (Washington, D. C.) fountain, Forms in
Transit and lithographs from the 1970s.
Box 37, Folder 1-5
Sketchbooks
1973-1981
Physical Description:
32 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains three bound sketchbooks and pages from two
sketchbooks. Includes drawings possibly for lithographs from the 1970s.
Box 37-40
Undated sketchbooks
undated
Box 37, Folder 6-8
Bound sketchbooks
Physical Description:
8 items
Scope and Content Note
Eight sketchbooks. Includes drawings possibly for the Great
Moth, Portrait of Florence, Invocation II, Sea Quarry and constructions.
Box 38, Folder 1-6
Unbound sketchbooks
Physical Description:
114 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains pages from six sketchbooks. Includes drawings
possibly for Nautilus, Man Sewing, constructions, including Bi-polar form and
Monument to a Lost Dirigible.
Box 39, Folder 1-5
Unbound sketchbooks
Physical Description:
110 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains pages from five sketchbooks. Includes drawings
possibly for Recording Sound, 42nd Street, Airport structure, Physicist and
constructions.
Box 40
3.5x6 Bound sketchbooks
Physical Description:
21 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains 21 sketchbooks that are 3.5x6 or smaller.
Series IIID.
Photography
1926-1981
Physical Description:
70 linear feet
29 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series IIID contains photographs, the bulk of which were taken
by Roszak. The series contains Roszak's photograms from the 1930s, as well as
cityscapes of New York City. The cityscape photographs served as aide-mémoire
alternatives to sketching for his visual research. The bulk of the series
comprises documentation of Roszak's art work including sculpture, drawings, and
lithography. Also included are portraits of Roszak, and documentation of his
studio space, installations, and exhibitions. Some photographs portray work
that is no longer extant.
Box 41-63, 77
Photographs
1926-1981
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs 8x10 and smaller.
Box 41
Personal Photographs
1930s
Physical Description:
174 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Various size prints. Includes New York City scenes and
Rockport, Massachusetts scenes.
Box 42
Portraits and studio interiors
1926-1979
Physical Description:
54 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Various size prints. Includes pictures of Roszak teaching
at Sarah Lawrence College, group portrait of class at the Art Institute,
portraits of Theodore Roszak and possibly Florence Roszak, group portrait of
Fine Arts Commission with President Johnson, portraits of Roszak working in the
studio. See box 64* for oversize prints and box 70 for color.
Box 77, Folder 1-2
Portraits, mounted
1935-1956
Physical Description:
2 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Two prints mounted on board.
Box 43
Exhibition photographs
1939-1981
Physical Description:
93 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Various size prints. Contains photographs from exhibitions
at Julian Levy Gallery, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, Galerie
Claude Bernard, Zabriskie Gallery, Wichita State University - Edwin A. Ulrich
Museum. See box 64* for oversize prints.
Box 44
Photograms and early sculptural work
1931-1946
Physical Description:
77 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Various size prints. Includes photograms, and images of
early plasters and constructions.
Box 45-48
Sculptures
1946-1979,
undated
Physical Description:
294 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Contains various size photographs of Roszak's sculptures.
Includes 5 cards with written descriptions of work. See boxes 65*-68* for
oversize prints.
Box 49-54
Large scale sculptures and installations
1956-1968
Box 49
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spire and
bell tower
1956
Physical Description:
116 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Photographs documenting the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, spire and bell tower through models, construction processes, and
installation. See boxes 7 and 15 for papers related to project. See boxes 27,
30* and 69* for photographs and drawings.
Box 50-52
Eagle
1958-1960
Physical Description:
353 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Contains various size photographs documenting the eagle
commissioned for the United States. Embassy (Great Britain) through models,
construction processes, and installation. Commissioned in association with Eero
Saarinen, architect of the building. Includes portraits of Eero Saarinen and
Roszak and his family with the sculpture. See box 7 for papers regarding
project. See boxes 28, and 69*, and flat file folder 2** for drawings and photographs.
It is possible some of the eagle models are for the United
States. Customs Court (New York, NY) sculpture.
Box 53
Forms in Transit
1963-1965
Physical Description:
66 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Commission for New York World's Fair 1964-1965
Corporation. Forms in Transit is also referred to as Flight, and Spirit of
Transportation. Includes photographs of model for Forms in Transit, sometimes
called Airbourne. Photographs document the sculpture in progress and during
installation. See box 16 for papers regarding project. See boxes 28, 31, 53,
68* and 69*, anf flat file folder 3** for photographs and drawings.
Box 53
Kennedy Font
1964-1966
Physical Description:
2 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by the United States. Army. Corps of
Engineers. Norfolk District for the John F. Kennedy gravesite. See box 19 for
papers regarding project. See flat file folder 1** and roll 2**.
Box 53
Fountain
1965-1967
Physical Description:
12 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by the United States General Services
Administration: Federal Office Building 7 (Washington, D. C.). Includes
photographs of model, of the fountain in progress and fully installed. See box
20 for papers regarding project. See boxes 29, 31, flat file folders 4-5** and roll 3** for
drawings.
Box 54
Sentinel
1968
Physical Description:
97 b/w prints; 23 35mm b/w negatives, in
strips
Scope and Content Note
Commission for city of New York. Includes photographs of
model titled Crescent Construction. Also contains photographs of the sculpture
in progress, during installation, and fully installed. See boxes 10 and 16 for
papers regarding project. See boxes 29, 33*, and 69*, and flat file folder 7** for drawings and
photographs.
Box 55-56
Sculptural drawings
1945-1974,
undated
Physical Description:
90 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Includes various size photographs of studies for sculpture
as well as drawings after sculpture.
Box 57-63
Photographs of drawings, paintings and lithographs
not related to sculpture
1929-1981
Scope and Content Note
Drawings organized by type chronologically. Some
unidentified photographs include Roszak key system notations. Roszak's key
system uses an alphabetic code to describe the work. It is possible that
numbers included with the alphabetic code refer to the date of execution.
Photographs are organized first by the alphabetic code and then by presumed
date. Unidentified photographs that do not include the Roszak key system codes
are found at the end.
Box 57
Early works
1929-1937
Physical Description:
91 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of various size of early drawings and
paintings, studies for paintings;, early lithographs, and pouchoir.
Box 58
Drawings and paintings
1940-1965
Physical Description:
58 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Includes various size photographs of gouaches, drawings,
and studies for drawings.
Box 59-60
Drawings and lithographs
1971-1981
Physical Description:
83 b/w prints
Box 61
Drawings DA-DE
1970s
Physical Description:
56 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Drawings are organized by Roszak key system. Contains
abstract drawings, cosmic figures, landscapes, and drawings for drawing. Folder
includes Roszak's photography key system definitions.
Box 62
Drawings DI-SB
1960-1975
Physical Description:
53 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Drawings are organized by Roszak key system. Contains
drawings of insects, fantasy drawings, multiple portrait drawings, portraits,
and scratchboard drawings.
Box 63
Drawings unknown
undated
Physical Description:
38 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Drawings that do not include Roszak key system codes.
Box 64*-70*
Oversize photographs
1945-1968
Box 64*
Portraits and exhibition photographs
1956
Box 64*, Folder 1
Portraits
1956
Physical Description:
17 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Five photographs are mounted. Portraits are of Roszak
with R.S. Reynolds memorial sculpture, with Surveyor sculpture, or with his
Escutcheon. See box 42 and 77 for not oversized portraits and see box 70 for
color portraits.
Box 64*, Folder 1
Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition
1956
Physical Description:
4 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
See box 43.
Box 65*, Folder 1
Forms in Transition I
1945
Physical Description:
2 b/w prints
Box 65*, Folder 2
Forms in Transition II
1945
Physical Description:
1 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Photograph is mounted.
Box 65*, Folder 3
Invocation I
1946
Physical Description:
2 b/w prints
Box 65*, Folder 4
Raven
1946-1947
Physical Description:
2 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Also known as Symbol of Poetry. One print is mounted. See
box 45 for photographs.
Box 65*, Folder 5-6
Scavenger
1946-1947
Physical Description:
4 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Two mounted prints. See box 45 for photographs.
Box 65*, Folder 7-8
Spectre of Kitty Hawk
1946-1947
Physical Description:
6 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Four mounted prints. See box 45 photographs.
Box 65*, Folder 9-10
Anguish
1947
Physical Description:
7 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
One mounted print. See box 45 for photographs.
Box 65*, Folder 11
Surge
1947
Physical Description:
2 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
One mounted print.
Box 66*, Folder 1
Recollection of the Southwest
1948
Physical Description:
2 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Two mounted prints. See box 45 for photographs.
Box 66*, Folder 2
Thorn Blossom
1948
Physical Description:
3 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
One mounted print.
Box 66*, Folder 3-4
Sea Quarry
1949
Physical Description:
3 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
One mounted print. See box 27 for drawings and see box 45
for photographs.
Box 66*, Folder 5
Firebird
1950-1951
Physical Description:
2 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
See box 45 for photographs.
Box 66*, Folder 6
Icarus (Skylark)
1950-1951
Physical Description:
2 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
See box 30* for drawings and box 45 for photographs.
Box 66*, Folder 7
Monument to Unknown Political Prisoner
1952
Physical Description:
6 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Two mounted prints. Also referred to as Triumph. See box
27 for drawings and box 45 for photographs.
Box 66*, Folder 8
Hound of Heaven
1954-1955
Physical Description:
8 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Includes one annotated folder. See box 30* for
drawing.
Box 66*, Folder 9
Cradle Song
1955-1956
Physical Description:
6 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Two different versions of sculpture. See box 27 for
drawings and box 46 for photographs.
Box 66*, Folder 9a
Escutcheon
1955-1956
Physical Description:
6 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Commissioned by Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company.
See box 22 for papers regarding project and 27, 30* and portfolio 1** for drawings.
Box 66*, Folder 10
Summer Forms
1956
Physical Description:
2 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Two mounted prints.
Box 66*, Folder 11
Thistle in a Dream
1956
Physical Description:
1 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
One mounted print. See box 27 for drawings.
Box 67*, Folder 1
R.S. Reynolds Memorial Award
1957
Physical Description:
4 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Two mounted prints. See boxes 18 for papers regarding
project, see box 27 for drawings, and see box 46 for photographs.
Box 67*, Folder 2
Bursting Pod
1958
Physical Description:
2 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Two mounted prints. See box 47 for photographs..
Box 67*, Folder 3-4
Invocation Variation no. 3
1958
Physical Description:
13 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Seven mounted prints. See box 47 for photographs.
Box 67*, Folder 5
Night Flight
1958-1962
Physical Description:
9 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
See box 27 and 31 for drawings.
Box 68*, Folder 1
Kopernicus
1958-1959
Physical Description:
2 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Two mounted prints.
Box 68*, Folder 2
Kopernicus [small]
1958-1959
Physical Description:
8 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
See box 47 for photographs.
Box 68*, Folder 3
Iron Throat
1959
Physical Description:
1 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
See box 47 for photographs.
Box 68*, Folder 4
Floating Tower
1960
Physical Description:
2 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Two mounted prints. Also known as Scaffold Tower.
Box 68*, Folder 5
Forms in Transit
1964-1965
Physical Description:
4 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Commission for New York World's Fair 1964-1965
Corporation. See box 16 for papers regarding project. Forms in Transit is also
referred to as Flight, and Spirit of Transportation. Model for Forms in Transit
sometimes called Airbourne. Four mounted prints. See boxes 28, 31, 53, 69* and flat file folder 3**
for photographs and drawings.
Box 68*, Folder 6
Kopernicus II
1964
Physical Description:
5 b/w prints
Box 68*, Folder 7-8
Relief
1968
Physical Description:
14 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Five mounted prints. Possibly called Vector.
Box 68*, Folder 9
American Monarch
undated
Physical Description:
1 b/w prints
Box 69*
Large scale sculptures and installations
1955-1968
Box 69*, Folder 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spire and
bell tower
1955
Physical Description:
9 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Photographs documenting studies of embossing models for
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spire and bell tower. Includes one
annotated envelope. See boxes 7 and 15 for papers related to project. See boxes
27, 30* and 49* for photographs and drawings.
Box 69*, Folder 2
Sundial
1955
Physical Description:
3 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of model for General Motors commission. See
box 13 for papers regarding project. See boxes 27, 30* and flat file folder 1** for
drawings.
Box 69*, Folder 3
Eagle
1960
Physical Description:
9 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs documenting the eagle commissioned
for the United States Embassy (Great Britain) through models, construction
processes, and installation. In association with Eero Saarinen. Includes
portraits of Roszak with sculpture. Prints are mounted. See box 7 for papers
regarding project. See boxes 28, 50-52, and flat file folder 2** for drawings and
photographs.
Box 69*, Folder 4
Forms in Transit
1964-1965
Physical Description:
1 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
Forms in transit is also referred to as Flight, and
Spirit of Transportation. Commissioned by New York World's Fair 1964-1965
Corporation. See box 16 for papers regarding project. See boxes 28, 31, 53, 68*, and flat file folder 3**
for photographs and drawings.
Box 69*, Folder 5
Crescent Construction
1966
Physical Description:
4 b/w prints
Scope and Content Note
For city of New York. Model for Sentinel sculpture.
Prints are mounted. See boxes 10 and 16 for papers regarding project. See boxes
29, 33*, 54, and flat file folder 7** for drawings and photographs. See boxes.
Box 70-71
Color photographic materials
1943-1974
Box 70
Portraits
1956-1962
Physical Description:
1 35 mm slide, 1 color transparency, 1 color
photographic print
Scope and Content Note
See boxes 42 and 64* for black and white photographs.
Box 70
Exhibitions
1956
undated
Physical Description:
58 35mm slides
Scope and Content Note
Slides from Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition and possibly other
unknown exhibition spaces.
Box 70
Welding lecture
undated
Physical Description:
45 35mm slides
Scope and Content Note
See box 34* for accompanying drawings.
Box 70
Art
1943-1974
Physical Description:
20 polaroids, 44 35mm slides, 11 color
negatives, 7 color photographic prints
Scope and Content Note
Contains: Composition Alastor, The Raven, Invocation II,
Iron Throat, Forms in Transit, Curtain call, Sentinel, Physicist, and some
unknown work.
Box 71*, Folder 1
Sea Sentinel
1956
Physical Description:
3 color transparencies
Scope and Content Note
Transparencies are mounted and show three different views of
sculpture.
Series IIIE.
Other art
1973-1976
undated
Physical Description:
4 linear feet
3 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series IIIE contains art works by Roszak that are not photography or
drawings.
Box 72*-73*
Photo collages: Cityscape
1973-1976
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
For New York (N.Y.). Board of Education who commissioned the
steel relief, for P.S. 182, Bronx. Contains 3 different versions of sculpture
represented in photo collage. See roll 1** and boxes 16 and 29.
Box 74*
Painting
undated
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Content Note
Painting on board. In the same style as the gouaches that
Roszak executed in the 1940s.
Series IV.
Audio recordings
undated
Physical Description:
0.4 linear feet
4 items
Scope and Content Note
Series IV comprises four reel-to-reel sound recordings, all but
one of which are unidentified at this date. Recordings are unavailable until reformatting is complete.
Box 75
R1: Peter Pollack and Theodore Roszak, Chicago
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (27 min, 15 sec) : analog, 7 ½ ips. ; 7 in.,
original. Includes original box with annotations.
Box 75
R2: Unidentified audio
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel ; 5 in., original.
Box 76
R3: Unidentified audio
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel ; 5 in., original.
Box 76
R4: Unidentified audio
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel ; 7 in., original.
