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Rapoport (Sonya) Pictorial Material from the Sonya Rapoport Papers
BANC PIC 2015.038
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Pictorial material from the Sonya Rapoport papers
Creator:
Rapoport, Sonya
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 2015.038
Physical Description:
2700 items
in 5 boxes and 2 oversize folders
: chiefly b&w safety film and gelatin silver prints
; 57 x 77 cm or smaller
Date (inclusive): approximately 1950-2010
Abstract: Chiefly photographs pertaining to Rapoport's various conceptual art projects. Some portraits and snapshot photographs of the
artist are included throughout files. Also includes selections of Rapoport's artist's books and a small number of early drawings.
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the library's online catalog.
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be submitted to The Bancroft Library via the Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form. See catalog record for details.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Pictorial material from the Sonya Rapoport papers collection was given to The Bancroft Library by Sonya Rapoport in 2014.
Organized by media type. Arranged chiefly by project, as received from the artist.
Sonya Rapoport was an American conceptual/digital artist. Rapoport was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 6, 1923. She
studied at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston University and New York University, where she earned a B.A. in Labor Economics
in 1946. She and her husband Henry Rapoport moved to Berkeley, California in 1947. She then continued her education, earning
a masters in art practice in 1949 from the University of California. In the 1970s Rapoport turned her artistic focus to electronic
media, a medium in which she worked until her death in 2014.
[Identification of item], Pictorial material from the Sonya Rapoport papers, BANC PIC 2015.038, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
File descriptions transcribed directly from folder labels created by Rapoport.
Sonya Rapoport papers (BANC MSS 2014/220).
Chiefly photographs pertaining to Rapoport's various conceptual art projects. Some portraits and snapshot photographs of the
artist are included throughout files. Also includes selections of Rapoport's artist's books and a small number of early drawings.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Rapoport, Sonya -- Pictorial works
Women artists -- California
Conceptual art
Drawings
Artists' books
Rapoport, Sonya