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 Papers, 1937-1989 (MSS 202)
Extent: 2.3 Linear feet (6 archives boxes, 1 oversize folder)
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.