Finding aid for the Elaine Levin collection on American ceramics 4007
Marissa Chavez and Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
USC Libraries Helen Topping Architecture & Fine Arts Library
2023 April
Watt Hall B-4
850 Bloom Walk
Los Angeles, California 90089-0294
afa@usc.edu
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Helen Topping Architecture & Fine Arts Library
Title: Elaine Levin collection on American ceramics
Creator:
Levin, Elaine
Identifier/Call Number: 4007
Physical Description:
23.6 Linear Feet
43 boxes
Date (bulk): 1950s-2000s
Abstract: This collection consists of artist files and exhibition catalogs collected by Elaine Levin, art historian, writer, lecturer,
and curator in ceramics.
Language of Material:
English.
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.
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.
Advance notice required for access.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
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 the Architecture & Fine Arts
Library at afa@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Architecture & Fine Arts Library 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.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Elaine Levin collection on American ceramics, Collection no. 4007, Helen Topping Architecture
and Fine Arts Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
This collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art -- History -- Archival resources
Ceramics -- Study and teaching -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Clippings
Correspondence
Exhibition catalogs
Magazines (periodicals)
Photographs
Resumes (Employment) -- Archival resources
Slides (photographs)
Levin, Elaine -- Archives
Box 1, Box 2, Box 3, Box 4, Box 5, Box 6, Box 7, Box 8, Box 9, Box 10, Box 11, Box 12, Box 13, Box 14, Box 15, Box 16, Box 17, Box 18, Box 19, Box 20, Box 21, Box 22, Box 23, Box 24, Box 25, Box 26, Box 27, Box 28, Box 43
Unprocessed materials
Box 29, Box 30, Box 31
Box 31, Box 32, Box 33
Box 33, Box 34, Box 35
Box 36, Box 37, Box 38
Box 38, Box 39
Box 40, Box 41