Elaine Levin collection on American ceramics, bulk 1950s-2000s

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Summary

Creators:
Levin, Elaine
Abstract:
This collection consists of artist files and exhibition catalogs collected by Elaine Levin, art historian, writer, lecturer, and curator in ceramics.
Extent:
23.6 Linear Feet 43 boxes
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder no. or item name], Elaine Levin collection on American ceramics, Collection no. 4007, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of artist files and exhibition catalogs collected by Elaine Levin, art historian, writer, lecturer, and curator in ceramics. This includes ceramic exhibition catalogs from the 1950s to the 2000s, as well as alphabetized folders of ceramic artists' work via resume, clippings, slides, and recorded interviews. See series and file scope and content notes for more information about the slides in this collection. Boxes 42 and 43 also include inventories of contents.

Biographical / historical:

Elaine Levin is an art historian, writer, lecturer, and curator in ceramics. She received her undergraduate degree in history from Grinnell College and her master's in art history at the California State University, Northridge. Levin began teaching courses in American ceramic history as a lecturer in 1985 at the University of California, Los Angeles, at Otis College of Art and Design, and at the California State University, Long Beach, and taught intermittently until 1993.

Elaine Levin has lectured on ceramics at colleges, galleries, art schools, and conferences around the U. S, as well as in Norway, Finland, and Canada. She has curated or co-curated fourteen ceramic exhibits and has served as moderator or panel member for twelve symposia and conferences. She has participated in three documentary films on ceramic artists. Levin has served as a juror for eight art exhibits. Her essays on ceramics have been published in twenty-three catalogs, and her articles have been published in ceramic magazines in the U.S., Australia, Great Britain, Greece, Switzerland, and Spain.

Processing information:

This collection is unprocessed.

The USC Libraries Architecture & Fine Arts Library transferred custody of the Elaine Levin collection on American ceramics to the USC Libraries Special Collections unit on April 19, 2024. The collection's box labels still list the Architecture & Fine Arts Library as the holding repository.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Restrictions:

Advance notice required for access.

Terms of access:

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Box/folder no. or item name], Elaine Levin collection on American ceramics, Collection no. 4007, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

Location of this collection:
Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Room 209
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189, US
Contact:
(213) 740-5900
specol@usc.edu
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