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Rose Graubart Ignatow Papers
MSS 0202  
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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Access
  • Acquisition Information
  • Preferred Citation
  • Publication Rights
  • Biography
  • Scope and Content of Collection
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Creator: Ignatow, Rose Graubart
    Title: Rose Graubart Ignatow Papers,
    Date (inclusive): 1937-1989
    Extent: 2.30 linear feet (6 archives boxes, 1 oversize folder)
    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. The collection is arranged in two series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE and 2) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS.
    Repository: University of California, San Diego. Geisel Library. Mandeville Special Collections Library.
    La Jolla, California 92093-0175
    Collection number: MSS 0202
    Language of Material: Collection materials in English

    Access

    Collection is open for research.

    Acquisition Information

    Not Available

    Preferred Citation

    Rose Graubart Ignatow Papers, MSS 0202. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.

    Publication Rights

    Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

    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.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    Accession Processed in 1992
    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.

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

    Subjects

    Ignatow, Rose Graubart -- Archives
    Ignatow, David, 1914-
    Copper Canyon Press
    Wesleyan University (Middleton, Conn.). -- Press
    American poetry -- 20th century

    Contributors

    Augustine, Jane
    Benedikt, Michael, 1935- -- correspondent
    Bly, Robert, -- correspondent
    Hall, Donald, 1928- -- correspondent
    Hindus, Milton, -- correspondent
    Honig, Edwin, -- correspondent.
    Jordan, June, 1936- -- correspondent
    Mazzaro, Jerome, -- correspondent
    Oppen, Mary, 1908- -- correspondent
    Perchik, Simon, -- correspondent
    Ray, David, 1932- -- correspondent
    Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931- -- correspondent
    Shapiro, Edna Kaufman, 1925- -- correspondent
    Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978, -- correspondent
    Zukofsky, Celia Thaew, -- correspondent