Register of the Anatole Alexandrovich Efimoff papers
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Title: Anatole Alexandrovich Efimoff papers
Date (inclusive): 1909-1981
Collection Number: 2016C20
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
2 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(2.51 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, personal documents, printed matter, photographs, and miscellany relating to art and to Russian émigré affairs.
Creator:
Efimoff, Anatole Alexandrovich, 1897-1981
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2016.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Anatole Alexandrovich Efimoff papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Biographical Note
Russian artist; émigré in China and the United States.
Scope and Content of the Collection
Correspondence, personal documents, printed matter, photographs, and miscellany relating to art and to Russian émigré affairs.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Russians -- China
Art
Biographical File
1937-1981
box 1, folder 1
Addresses of A. A. Efimoff's associates and friends
undated
box 1, folder 2
Brief biographies
1981
Scope and Contents
Contains
The Anatole Efimoff Story, 1897-1981 and
Presenting…The Peking Collection by Anatole A. Efimoff, 1897-1981
box 1, folder 3
Concert programs
1937-1943
Scope and Contents
Contains programs of his solo performances of his "Velikorusskii Orkestr" ("Великкорусский оркестр")
box 1, folder 4-6
Employment records
1949-1959
Scope and Contents
Contains records of his work at the Russian High School for Girls in Shanghai, the Russian Hospital in Shanghai and on Tubabao
Island, and as an art instructor in Los Angeles
box 1, folder 7
Identity papers
1947-1965, undated
box 1, folder 8
Immigation and naturalization records
1941-1956
box 1, folder 9-14
Legal and medical records
1972-1981
Scope and Contents
Advance health directive, death certificate, desposition of his collection, funeral and final expenses, last will and testament,
power of attorney
box 1, folder 15
Letters of appreciation and introduction
1938-1964
box 1, folder 17
Outgoing correspondence
1973-1981, undated
Scope and Contents
Greeting cards and a letter from A. A. Efimoff to James and Eleanor Jacobson
box 1, folder 19
Pacificulture Foundation
1980
box 1, folder 20
Radio and Television Women of Southern California
1965
Scope and Contents
Regarding A. A. Efimoff's portrait of actress Domma Reid
box 1, folder 21
Rosicrucian Egyptian, Oriental Museum
1951
Exhibitions and Shows
1937-1980
box 1, folder 23
List of exhibitions
undated
Scope and Contents
Provides locations and dates from 1937 to 1980
box 1, folder 24
Catalogs, clippings and invitations, Shanghai
1937-1940
box 1, folder 25
"Temples and Palaces of Old Peking"
1951-1952
box 1, folder 26
"Los Angeles Then and Now"
1953
box 1, folder 27
Painting of Chief Justice Earl Warren's birthplace
1954-1959
box 1, folder 29
Women's Club of Hollywood
1955
box 1, folder 30
Still life demonstration, Business Men's Art Institute
1957
box 1, folder 31
"People and Places in the Society Islands"
1965
box 1, folder 32
"Old Peking: Paintings of Palaces, Temples and Street Life in China"
1980
box 1, folder 33
"The Fine Art of Miniature Painting"
undated
box 1, folder 34
Poetry by anonymous author, dedicated to A. A. Efimoff
circa 1937
box 1, folder 35
The Walla Walla U.S. Marine Newsweekly
1938
Scope and Contents
Vol. X, No. 46 (April 23, 1938). Contains photographs of A. A. Efimoff's portraits of Lt. Colonel C. C. Cates (page 16) and
Major G. D. Hamilton (page 18)
box 1, folder 36
Map of Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora
1964
Photographs and Artwork
1909-1966
box 1, folder 37
Caricature of A. A. Efimoff
circa 1940
Scope and Contents
Done for
North-China Daily News by Sapajou (artistic nom de plume of Georgii Avksent'evich Sapozhnikov)
box 1, folder 38
Efimoff family, Ufa, Russia
circa 1910
Scope and Contents
A. A. Efimov is seated second from the left, between his father and his brother and mother
box 2, folder 1
Leonid Alexandrovich Efimoff
1909-1917
Scope and Contents
2 mounted photographs of A. A. Efimoff's brother
box 2, folder 2-3
A. A. Efimoff
undated
Scope and Contents
19 prints, including some passport and I.D. photographs
box 2, folder 4
A. A. Efimoff - 8" x 10" photographs
1961, undated
Scope and Contents
2 enlarged portrait prints and 3 prints depicting A. A. Efimoff instructing an art student, seated in front of his works,
and lecturing in a library
box 2, folder 5
Group photographs with A. A. Efimoff
undated
Scope and Contents
6 prints taken in Harbin and unidentified locations in China
box 2, folder 6-7
A. A. Efimoff and his Russian folk instrument orchestra
circa 1937-1943
Scope and Contents
7 prints
box 2, folder 8
A. A. Efimoff and others, Tubabao Island, Philippines
circa 1950
Scope and Contents
6 prints of A. A. Efimoff with other Russian refugees and Filipinos
box 2, folder 9
A. A. Efimoff and exhibits of his works in Shanghai
circa 1937-1940
Scope and Contents
9 prints and 3 mounted prints
box 2, folder 10
Painting presentation
1954
Scope and Contents
Presentation of Efimoff's painting of Chief Justice Earl Warren's birthplace
box 2, folder 11
Painting demonstration
1957
Scope and Contents
2 prints depicting A. A. Efimoff demonstrating a still life painting
box 2, folder 12
Painting presentation, Los Angeles
1960
Scope and Contents
2 prints depicting A. A. Efimoff presenting his protrait of Mr. and Mrs. Dorn
box 2, folder 13
Painting presentation, Los Angeles
circa 1963
Scope and Contents
2 prints depicting A. A. Efimoff presenting his portrait of former Los Angeles Mayor F. T. Woodman amd 1 print of the portrait
box 2, folder 14
A. A. Efimoff's leaving Tahiti for Los Angeles
circa 1964
Scope and Contents
2 clippings of photographs
box 2, folder 15
A. A. Efimoff at home, Los Angeles
undated
Scope and Contents
12 color prints depicting A. A. Efimoff in his home and garden
box 2, folder 16
A. A. Efimoff at work and with his artworks
undated
Scope and Contents
14 prints
box 2, folder 17
A. A. Efimoff instructing art students, Los Angeles
undated
Scope and Contents
2 prints
box 2, folder 18
Miniatures by A. A. Efimoff
circa 1937
Scope and Contents
6 prints
box 2, folder 19
Paintings by A. A. Efimoff, Tsingtao, China
1932-1935, undated
Scope and Contents
5 prints
box 2, folder 20
Paintings by A. A. Efimoff, Peking, China
1933-1939, undated
Scope and Contents
17 prints
box 2, folder 21
Portraits by A. A. Efimoff, China
1935-1940, undated
Scope and Contents
12 prints
box 2, folder 22
Portraits by A. A. Efimoff, Philippines
1950
Scope and Contents
6 prints
box 2, folder 23
Paintings by A. A. Efimoff
undated
Scope and Contents
2 prints depicting a Russian village scene and a Chinese man
box 2, folder 24
Chinese gate, unidentified location
undated
box 2, folder 25
Iurii Vladimirovich Egeberg
1911
Scope and Contents
1 print of a boxing champion
box 2, folder 26
Gimnaziia imeni A. S. Pushkina (Гимназия имени А. С. Пушкина), Harbin
1930, undated
Scope and Contents
2 small mounted prints depicting staff (including A. A. Efimoff) and students of this Russian high school
box 2, folder 27
Interior of Russian Orthodox chapel , Harbin
circa 1930
box 2, folder 28
"Nicole" and husband, France
1966
Scope and Contents
1 color print
box 2, folder 29
Soldiers and nurse, Ufa, Russia
undated
Scope and Contents
1 mounted print depicting 6 Russian soldiers and a nurse
box 3, folder 1
News clipping with copy of painting, "Temple of the Cypress Grove, Peking"
1938
Scope and Contents
The clipping was taken from the North China Daily News, Magazine Supplement.