Descriptive Summary
Scope and Content of Collection
Biography
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
OFF-SITE STORAGE
Descriptive Summary
Languages:
English
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Rose Graubart Ignatow Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0202
Physical Description:
2.3 Linear feet
(6 archives boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1937-1989
Abstract: Papers of Rose Graubart Ignatow, artist, poet and author. Materials include correspondence with friends and subjects of her
drawings; letters from her husband, poet David Ignatow; and materials reflecting her career in art.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Rose Graubart Ignatow papers are arranged in two series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE and 2) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS.
The CORRESPONDENCE series contains materials related to Rose Graubart Ignatow's activities as an artist and author, especially
from subjects of her drawings. Also included is a small file of letters in a from David Ignatow to Rose.
The MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS series relates to Ignatow's career as an artist and includes photocopies of drawings, newspaper
clippings, and programs for art exhibits.
Biography
Rose Graubart Ignatow studied art at Cooper Union and at the Art Students League in New York; attended Philip Evergood's
Artist Equity class; and worked with Jack Levine. She has exhibited paintings and drawings in shows at the Philadelphia Museum
of Art (1951-53), the Flordia Museum (1952), the West Virginia Museum (1953), the Baltimore Museum "Seaport Show" (1954),
and the Jewish Museum in New York. She has also had one-person exhibits at the Tribune Art Gallery (1946), Carlebach Galley
(1948), Morris Gallery (1954), and the Panoras Galley (1966).
Rose Graubart Ignatow has published four books:
Drawings 1952-1965 (1965);
Portraits of Poets (1970);
Surplus love and other stories (1985); and
Portraits III (1988). She has also illustrated the work of other authors including her husband David's book of poems
Sunlight: a sequence for my daughter (1979) and
Whisper to the earth: new poems (1981); Philip Schultz's
My guardian angel Stein (1986); and Sonia Raiziss'
Bucks County blues (1977).
Rose Graubart married David Ignatow in 1937.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Preferred Citation
Rose Graubart Ignatow Papers, MSS 202. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1990.
OFF-SITE STORAGE
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American poetry -- 20th century
Ignatow, Rose Graubart -- Archives
Augustine, Jane -- Correspondence
Oppen, Mary, 1908-1990 -- Correspondence
Perchik, Simon -- Correspondence
Ray, David, 1932- -- Correspondence
Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931- -- Correspondence
Shapiro, Edna K., 1925-2005 -- Correspondence
Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978 -- Correspondence
Zukofsky, Celia Thaew -- Correspondence
Hall, Donald, 1928-2018 -- Correspondence
Hindus, Milton -- Correspondence
Honig, Edwin -- Correspondence
Jordan, June, 1936-2002 -- Correspondence
Ignatow, David, 1914-1997
Benedikt, Michael, 1935-2007 -- Correspondence
Bly, Robert -- Correspondence
Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.). Press
Mazzaro, Jerome -- Correspondence
Copper Canyon Press