Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Rose Graubart Ignatow Papers
- Dates:
- 1937-1989
- Creators:
- Ignatow, Rose Graubart
- 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.
- Extent:
- 2.3 Linear feet (6 archives boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Rose Graubart Ignatow Papers, MSS 202. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
Arranged in two series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE and 2) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS.
- Biographical / historical:
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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 Floridia 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. She died in 1985.
- Acquisition information:
- Acquired 1990.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- American poetry -- 20th century
- Names:
- Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.). Press
Copper Canyon Press
Ignatow, Rose Graubart -- Archives
Augustine, Jane -- Correspondence
Oppen, Mary, 1908-1990 -- Correspondence
Perchik, Simon -- Correspondence
Ray, David, 1932- -- Correspondence
Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931- -- Correspondence
Shapiro, Edna K., 1925-2005 -- Correspondence
Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978 -- Correspondence
Zukofsky, Celia Thaew -- Correspondence
Hall, Donald, 1928-2018 -- Correspondence
Hindus, Milton -- Correspondence
Honig, Edwin -- Correspondence
Jordan, June, 1936-2002 -- Correspondence
Ignatow, David, 1914-1997
Benedikt, Michael, 1935-2007 -- Correspondence
Bly, Robert -- Correspondence
Mazzaro, Jerome -- Correspondence
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-03-24 22:33:41 +0000 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW TWO TO THREE (2-3) WEEKS FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
- Terms of access:
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Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
- Preferred citation:
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Rose Graubart Ignatow Papers, MSS 202. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
- Location of this collection:
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9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0175La Jolla, CA 92093-0175, US
- Contact:
- (858) 534-2533