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Kalish, Max [Photographs from the Max Kalish papers].
BANC PIC 2017.141--PIC
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Title:
[Photographs from the Max Kalish papers]Creator/Contributor:
Kalish, Max, 1891-1945, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Calder, Alexander Stirling, 1870-1945, Correspondent.Abstract:
Includes a portrait of Max Kalish; scenes of Kalish working on or posing with sculpture created for the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition; a view of Nations of the East sculptural group inside of an Exposition palace prior to its installation atop the
Arch of the Rising Sun; and a portion of a 1914 panoramic group portrait taken at the First Annual Banquet of the Sculptors
Department of the P.P.I.E. that depicts Kalish seated second from right. Also includes a photocopy of a 1915 letter written
by Alexander Stirling Calder, the chief of the Exposition's sculpture program, to C. Grant La Farge, recommending Kalish based
on the sculptor's work for the Exposition.
Date:
1913 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caKalish, Max -- 1891-1945 -- Photographs
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) -- Photographs
Sculptors -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers unknown. 3 photographs dated 1913-1914. Portrait dated "about 1930-1935".
Pencil annotation on back of one print (:2): Figure of Labor. Part of the Fountain of Life in the Court of the Universe. One
of 24 figures. Return to Max Kalish, 2417 E 59th, Cleveland, Ohio.
Photographs from the Max Kalish papers, BANC PIC 2017.141, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Transfer ; Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life ; 2016.
Transferred from the Max Kalish papers of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and History (WJHC 2000.001).
Type:
graphicPanoramic photographs.
Physical Description:
photoprint
6 photographs in 1 folder : gelatin silver prints ; 21 x 13 cm or smaller
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2017.141--PIC