Rose Graubart Ignatow Papers, 1937-1989 (MSS 202)

OFF-SITE STORAGE: COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.

Extent: 2.3 Linear feet (6 archives boxes, 1 oversize folder)

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.

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.

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.

Container List

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE: Contains materials related to Rose Graubart Ignatow's activities as an artist and author, especially from subjects of her drawings. Also included is a small file of letters in a from David Ignatow to Rose.

Box 1 Folder 1
Unidentified correspondents
Box 1 Folder 2
A -miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 3
Ai, 1985 - 1986
Box 1 Folder 4
Alkalay-Gut, Karen, 1986 - 1987
Box 1 Folder 5
Appleman, Philip & Marjorie, 1982
Box 1 Folder 6
Atheneum Publishers, 1986
Box 1 Folder 7
Augustine, Jane, 1984 - 1985
Box 1 Folder 8
Axelrod, David & Joan, 1986
Box 1 Folder 9
B - miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 10
Barkan, Stanley, 1984 - 1989
Box 1 Folder 11
Baruch, Elaine, 1969 - 1987
Box 1 Folder 12
Benedict, Michael, 1974 - 1986
Box 1 Folder 13
Benson, Elaine, 1973 - 1983
Box 1 Folder 14
Bergman, Pearl, 1973
Box 1 Folder 15
Berry, Tanya & Wendell, 1967 - 1987
Box 1 Folder 16
Berson, Miriam, 1965
Box 1 Folder 17
Blackburn, Sarah, 1970
Box 1 Folder 18
Bly, Robert & Carol, 1962 - 1981
Box 1 Folder 19
Boss, Laura, 1986
Box 1 Folder 20
Boundry 2, 1973 - 1974
Box 1 Folder 21
Boychuk, Bohdan, 1981 - 1986
Box 1 Folder 22
Boyd, Megan, 1980 - 1985
Box 1 Folder 23
Brand, Millen, 1969 - 1973
Box 1 Folder 24
Braude, Michael, 1973 - 1986
Box 1 Folder 25
Braughton, Shirley, 1986
Box 1 Folder 26
Brower, Millicent, 1985
Box 1 Folder 27
Bueno, Emily & Bill, 1972
Box 1 Folder 28
Butsher, Paula, 1978- 1989
Box 1 Folder 29
C - miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 30
Canio's Books, 1981 - 1989
Box 1 Folder 31
The Carrleton Miscellany, 1966 - 1973
Box 1 Folder 32
Chaskey, Scott, 1986 - 1987
Box 1 Folder 33
Cohen, Lisa, 1972 - 1978
Box 1 Folder 34
Confrontation, 1973 - 1986
Box 1 Folder 35
Copper Beach Press, 1979 - 1985
Box 1 Folder 36
Cross, Jennifer, 1985 -1987
Box 1 Folder 37
Cummings, Richard, 1979 - 1985
Box 1 Folder 38
D - miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 39
Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1966 - 1967
Box 1 Folder 40
Dugan, Alan, undated
Box 2 Folder 1
E - miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 2
East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, 1987
Box 2 Folder 3
Eberhart, Richard, 1986
Box 2 Folder 4
Edwards, Bob, 1973 - 1974
Box 2 Folder 5
Edwards, Norma, 1980
Box 2 Folder 6
Ernest, Dallas, 1985 - 1988
Box 2 Folder 7
Everett / Edwards, Inc., 1975 - 1978
Box 2 Folder 8
F - miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 9
Fichera, Harriet, 1969 - 1970
Box 2 Folder 10
Fox, Siv Cedering, 1973 - 1988
Box 2 Folder 11
G - miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 12-13
Giop, Sonia, 1956 - 1986
Box 2 Folder 14
Gioseffi, Daniela, 1970 - 1989
Box 2 Folder 15
Gladys, 1962 - 1963
Box 2 Folder 16
Graybart, Lois & Frank, 1963 - 1984
Box 2 Folder 17
Guippy, 1976 - 1977
Box 2 Folder 18
H - miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 19
Hall, Donald, 1970 - 1986
Box 2 Folder 20
Halman, Talai, 1986
Box 2 Folder 21
Hand, J.C., 1979 - 1986
Box 2 Folder 22
Harper and Row Publishers, Inc., 1969 - 1980
Box 2 Folder 23
Hays, H.R. & Julie, 1971 - 1975
Box 2 Folder 24
Heller, Doris, 1937 - 1987
Box 2 Folder 25
Herrmann, Diana Chang, 1973 - 1988
Box 2 Folder 26
Hindus, Eva and Milton, 1956 - 1988
Box 2 Folder 27
Hinman, Myra, 1968
Box 2 Folder 28
Hoffman, Gloria, 1969 - 1989
Box 2 Folder 29
Holmes, Doloris, 1965 - 1988
Box 3 Folder 13
Jacobson, Josephine, 1986 - 1987
Box 3 Folder 14
Jacqueny, Mona, 1971 - 1982
Box 3 Folder 15
Jordan, June, 1971 - 1976
Box 3 Folder 16
K - miscellaneous
Box 3 Folder 17
Keisen, Krisse, 1976 - 1988
Box 4 Folder 1
Kessler, Milton, 1972 - 1986
Box 4 Folder 2
Klein, Frank &Lois, 1968
Box 4 Folder 3
Koch, Kenneth, 1986
Box 4 Folder 4
Koffman, Natalie, 1944 - 1948
Box 4 Folder 5
Krampf, Francoise, 1977 - 1986
Box 4 Folder 6
Kunitz, Stanley, 1986 - 1989
Box 4 Folder 7
L-miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 8
Lazzard, Naomi, 1966 - 1986
Box 4 Folder 9
Leverton, Denise, 1983
Box 4 Folder 10
Li - Lan - miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 11
Lima, Bob, 1966 - 1990
Box 4 Folder 12
Lipari, Joe, 1980
Box 4 Folder 13
Long, Robert, 1977 - 1987
Box 4 Folder 14
Lubin, Ernest, 1951 - 1954
Box 4 Folder 15
M - miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 16
Mazarro, Jerome, 1966 - 1989
Box 4 Folder 17
McCord, Howard, 1973
Box 4 Folder 18
McKenzie, Michael, 1974
Box 4 Folder 19
Mexner, Susan & John, 1988
Box 4 Folder 20
Mills, Ralph & Helen, 1975 - 1988
Box 4 Folder 21-22
Mooney, Steve, 1968 - 1973
Box 4 Folder 23
Moore, Debbie, undated
Box 4 Folder 24
Myric, Gertrude, 1969 - 1973
Box 4 Folder 25
N - miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 26
O - miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 27
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1986
Box 4 Folder 28
Oppen, Mary, 1985 - 1986
Box 4 Folder 29
P - miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 30
Parlatore, Anselm, 1983 - 1986
Box 4 Folder 31
Patterson, Raymond, 1978 - 1989
Box 4 Folder 32-33
Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1969 - 1974
Box 5 Folder 1
Perchick, Simon, 1968 - 1988
Box 5 Folder 2
Perspectives, 1950 - 1972
Box 5 Folder 3
Petrosky, Patti, 1973 - 1974
Box 5 Folder 4
Planz, Allen, 1981
Box 5 Folder 5
Pomerance, Murray, 1972
Box 5 Folder 6
R - miscellaneous
Box 5 Folder 7
Ray, David & Judy, 1972 - 1989
Box 5 Folder 8
Ridland, John & Muriel, 1969 - 1973
Box 5 Folder 9
Rosenblatt, Joe, 1972 - 1986
Box 5 Folder 10
Roskolenko, Harry, 1975 - 1976
Box 5 Folder 11
Rosten, Norman, 1969 - 1986
Box 5 Folder 12
Rothenberg, Jerome, 1969 - 1986
Box 5 Folder 13
S - miscellaneous
Box 5 Folder 14
Schoffner, Perdita, 1986 - 1987
Box 5 Folder 15
Schulman, Grace, 1986
Box 5 Folder 16
Schultz, Phil, 1983
Box 5 Folder 17
Schwartz, Joan, 1978 - 1979
Box 5 Folder 18
Schwerner, Armand, 1986
Box 5 Folder 19
Seidman, Hugh, 1985 - 1986
Box 5 Folder 20
Shapiro, Edna, 1960 - 1988
Box 5 Folder 21
Soreff, Helen, 1979 - 1987
Box 5 Folder 22
Stafford, William, 1986
Box 5 Folder 23
Steele, Frank, 1969 - 1979
Box 5 Folder 24
Stern, Jerry, 1986
Box 5 Folder 25
Stones, Terry & Rochelle, 1970
Box 5 Folder 26
Swarm, Brian, 1986
Box 5 Folder 27
T - miscellaneous
Box 5 Folder 28
Tarn, Nathaniel, 1986
Box 5 Folder 29
Tillich, Hannah, 1983 - 1984
Box 5 Folder 30
U - miscellaneous
Box 5 Folder 31
V - miscellaneous
Box 5 Folder 32
W - miscellaneous
Box 5 Folder 33
Wakoski, Diane, undated
Box 5 Folder 34
Weber, Jean, 1966 - 1986
Box 5 Folder 35
Weber, R.B., 1968 - 1989
Box 5 Folder 36
Weis, Theodore, 1986
Box 5 Folder 37
Wesleyan University Press, 1961 - 1986
Box 5 Folder 38
Whipple, Enez, 1970 - 1989
Box 6 Folder 1
Whyatt, Frances, 1981 - 1985
Box 6 Folder 2
Williams, Galen, 1984 - 1988
Box 6 Folder 3
Williams, Hatie, 1969 - 1977
Box 6 Folder 4
Williams, W.C., 1954 - 1973
Box 6 Folder 5
Wright, Annie & Jim, 1970 - 1986
Box 6 Folder 6
Y - miscellaneous
Box 6 Folder 7
Youngerman, Soloman, 1974 - 1977
Box 6 Folder 8
Z - miscellaneous
Box 6 Folder 9
Zukofsky, Loius & Celia, 1956 - 1966
Box 6 Folder 10
Zweig, Paul, 1986

MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS: Relates to Ignatow's career as an artist and includes photocopies of drawings, newspaper clippings, and programs for art exhibits.

Box 6 Folder 11
Broadside poems by others
Box 6 Folder 12
Newspaper clippings - Legal size
Oversize MC-048-02
Newspaper clippings
Box 6 Folder 14
Photocopies of drawings by Rose Graubart
Box 6 Folder 15
Photographs
Box 6 Folder 16
Portraits of Poets II miscellaneous materials
Oversize MC-048-02
Poster entitled "Some Poets and Painters of the Hampton Landscape"
Box 6 Folder 18
Programs for exhibits by Rose Graubart
Box 6 Folder 19
Published poems and drawings by Rose Ignatow
Box 6 Folder 20
William Carlos Williams: An Exhibition, October 16, 1978-February 1, 1979. Introduction by David Ignatow (inscribed to Rose)
Box 6 Folder 21
Originals of Preservation Photocopies