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Will South papers, 1955-2017

Overview of the Collection

Creator
South, Will
Title
Will South papers
Dates
1955-2017 (inclusive)
Quantity
23 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 3058
Summary
The Will South papers contain writings and lecture notes. Also included are research materials focused on individual artists. Will South is an artist and American art historian. South's research focused extensively on Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Guy Rose, James Taylor Harwood, Conrad Buff, and other topics in American art.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Will South received his doctorate in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1994, where he was the Henry R. Luce Fellow for 1991. He served as the Curator of Collections for the Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro from 2000 until 2008. He currently serves as the Chief Curator for the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio.

South published several books including In Nature's Temple: The Life and Art of William Wendt for the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, California; A Seed of Modernism: The Art Students League of Los Angeles for the Pasadena Museum of Art; Color, Myth & Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism for the North Carolina Museum of Art; California Impressionism for Abbeville Press; and Guy Rose: American Impressionist for the Oakland Museum of Art. His article, "The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner" for Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide was nominated for the American Art Museum Curators' award for the outstanding scholarly article of the year.

He is married to Allison South. For further information regarding Will South, please refer to his website at willsouth.org

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Content Description

The papers of Will South papers date from 1955 to 2017. The papers highlight his expertise regarding specific American artitsts and the Californian art movement and document's South's career as a writer and museum curator through writings, exhibition catalogs, research materials, and correspondence.

Correspondence within the collection focuses on his research projects and includes correspondence to and from South. The series containing correspondence is rather limited and general in scope. The majority of correspondence was filed within the research materials and maintained in original order.

Writings are arranged alphbetically by title and include published articles, book reviews, and exhibition reviews. Included in the writings are several exhibition catalogs for exhibits either curated or containing content contributed by South. The majority of the exhibittion catalogs were produced for the Columbia Museum of Art, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake Art Center, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Along with South's writing are his lecture notes for various events.

The majority of the collection focuses on South's collected research materials. This series is arranged alphabetically according to the last name of person or by topic. These materials include correspondence with individuals regarding specific artists and their artwork, reproductions of primary source materials from various archives, collected news clippings, and articles. South's research focused extensively on Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Guy Rose, James Taylor Harwood, Conrad Buff, and other topics in American art.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

This collection has been organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Writings; III. Lecture notes and announcements; IV. Research materials; V. Coursework; and VI. General materials.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Will South in 2017.

Processing Note

Processed by Betsey Welland in 2024.

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Separated Materials

Photographs and audio-visual materials have been tranferred to the Multimedia Division in Special Collecions.

Related Materials

See also the James Taylor Harwood papers and the Ruth Harwood papers.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Correspondence

    For further correspondence please refer to research materials within individual topics.

    • Description: Correspondence
      Dates: 1986; 1989-2003; 2008-2009; 2015
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
      Location: Correspondence
    • Description: Correspondence with William H. Gerdts
      Dates: 1990-1994
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
      Location: Correspondence

  • Writings

    Writings have been organized alphabetically by title.

    • Description: 100 Years of Drawing in Utah: A Tribute to Alvin Gittins

      Exhibition catalog for The Bountiful/Davis Art Center.

      Dates: 1995
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Abstract Impressions"

      Article about Conrad Buff published in Southwest Art.

      Dates: 2000 May
      Container: Box 2, Folder 2
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "All's Right with the World: The J. T. Harwood Retrospective"

      Published in Utah Holiday.

      Dates: 1988 February
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Alvin Gittins and the Figurative Motif

      Exhibition catalog for The Bountiful/Davis Art Center.

      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
      Location: Writings
    • Description: American Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1900-1960

      Exhibition catalog for the Weatherspoon Art Museum

      Container: Box 2, Folder 5
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Americans in Paris"

      Article about James T. Harwood and Guy Rose published in Southwest Art.

      Dates: 1987 November
      Container: Box 2, Folder 6
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Anton J. Rasmussen"

      Article published in Southwest Art.

      Dates: 1989 September
      Container: Box 2, Folder 7
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Artspecs"

      "Artspecs" are informational pamphlets, created for the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, regarding specific artwork in the collection. This folder contains pamphlets regarding Sonia Gechtoff, Knud Merrild, Jay DeFeo and Lorser Feitelson.

      Dates: circa 2003
      Container: Box 2, Folder 8
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "The Art Students League of Los Angeles: A Brief History"
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 2, Folder 9
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Birth of the American Modern: Selected Works from the Weatherspoon Art Museum

      Exhibition catalog for the Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum.

      Dates: 2002
      Container: Box 2, Folder 10
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Blue

      Exhibition catalog for the Salt Lake Art Center. This folder also contains an opening reception invitation.

      Dates: 1998
      Container: Box 2, Folder 11
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "A Brief History of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts"
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 2, Folder 12
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "California Impressionism: In Praise of Nature"

      Article published in Southwest Art.

      Dates: 1998 December
      Container: Box 2, Folder 13
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Charles Darwin and the Nineteenth Century Art Critic"

      Written for the graduate course, Art U876 Early American Art Criticism, taught by William H. Gerdts.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 2, Folder 14
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Close Relations: Works of Art, Their Preparatory Studies and Alternative Versions

      Exhibition catalog for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

      Dates: 1998
      Container: Box 2, Folder 15
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Color, Myth, and Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism

      Exhibition catalog. The exhibit was held at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 2, Folder 16
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "David Baddley"

      Exhibition review published in Artweek.

      Dates: 1992 January 16
      Container: Box 3, Folder 1
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "David Dornan"

      Essay written for the exhibition catalog entitled, A View of Four, 1987-1988 created for the Utah Arts Council.

      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Depression-era Printmakers of Utah

      Exhibition catalog for the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art.

      Dates: 1999
      Container: Box 3, Folder 3
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Distinctions Between Grandeur and Genre"

      Essay for the exhibition catalog entitled, California Grandeur and Genre for the Palm Springs Desert Museum. Included in the folder is a thank you letter for South's participation and also an exhibition review.

      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box 3, Folder 4
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Earl Jones: Natural Rhythms"

      Article published in Southwest Art.

      Dates: 1987 September
      Container: Box 3, Folder 5
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Elihu Vedder's Memory: An American Symbolist Painting"

      Written for the graduate course, Art U-771.02 Selected Topics in American Art, taught by Barbara Weinberg.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Enduring Spirit: The Art of Tyrone Geter, by Will South and Porchia Moore

      Exhibition catalog for the Columbia Museum of Art.

      Dates: 2017
      Container: Box 3, Folder 7
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "The Federal Art Project in Utah: Out of Oblivion or More of the Same?"

      This article was published in the Utah Historical Quarterly, but was initially written for the graduate course, Art U871.01 The 1930s in American Art. This folder contains the original essay, the published version, and correspondence related to the publication.

      Dates: 1988-1990
      Container: Box 3, Folder 8
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "A Fortuitous Juxtaposition of Accident and Plan"

      E. David Dornan exhibition review published in Utah Holiday.

      Dates: 1988 April
      Container: Box 3, Folder 9
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Frank Anthony Smith"

      Essay written for the exhibition catalog entitled, A View of Six for the Utah Arts Council.

      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box 3, Folder 10
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Frederic Remington: Artist of Epic Artifice"

      This folder also contains research materials, correspondence regarding the article and the essay, "Observations on the Painting and Sculpture of Frederic Remington" written for the graduate course American Neo-classical Sculpture taught by William H. Gerdts.

      Dates: 1990; 2000
      Container: Box 3, Folder 11
      Location: Writings
    • Description: George Dibble Drawings

      Exhibition catalog for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

      Dates: 1994
      Container: Box 3, Folder 12
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "The Great Salt Lake: Artists Reflect on a Dead Sea"

      Article published in Southwest Art

      Dates: 1996
      Container: Box 3, Folder 13
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Gregory D. Ivy: Making North Carolina Modern

      Exhibition catalog created for the Weatherspoon Art Museum.

      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 4, Folder 1
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Guy Rose, an American Impressionist"

      Article published in American Art Review.

      Dates: 1995
      Container: Box 4, Folder 2
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Guy Rose: California's Premier Impressionist"

      Article published in Southwest Art.

      Dates: 1995 August
      Container: Box 4, Folder 3
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Images of the Great Salt Lake by Will South and Dean L. May

      Exhibition catalog for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

      Dates: 1996
      Container: Box 4, Folder 4
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Impressionism from Monet to Matisse

      Exhibition overview published in Collections newsletter for the Columbia Museum of Art.

      Dates: 2013
      Container: Box 4, Folder 5
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Invention and Imagination: Stanton Macdonald-Wright's Santa Monica Library Mural"

      Article published in Archives of American Art Journal.

      Dates: 1999
      Container: Box 4, Folder 6
      Location: Writings
    • Description: James Taylor Harwood, 1860-1940

      Exhibition catalog for the James T. Harwood retrospective exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 4, Folder 7
      Location: Writings
    • Description: John Graham: Drawings from the Claribel and Etta Cone Collection at the Weatherspoon Art Museum

      Exhibtion catalog.

      Dates: 2002
      Container: Box 4, Folder 8
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Joseph Cornell and the Clay Pipe"

      Essay written for the graduate course Art U755:10 Dada and Surrealism taught by Robert Pincus-Witten.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 4, Folder 9
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Laguna Beach: The Spirit of an Art Colony"

      Essay written for the exhibition catalog, Colonies of American Impressionism: Cos Cob, Old Lyme, Shinnecock and Laguna Beach for the Laguna Art Museum. Included in the folder is a review of the exhibition and a Printed email from Deborah Epstein Solon to South.

      Dates: 1999
      Container: Box 5, Folder 1
      Location: Writings
    • Description: A Legacy in Line: Matisse and American Drawing

      Exhibition catalog for the Weatherspoon Art Museum.

      Dates: 2004
      Container: Box 5, Folder 2
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Lenoir C. Wright: Professor, Patron, and Connoisseur"

      Essay written for the exhibition catalog, Inside the Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Lenoir C. Wright Collection for the Weatherspoon Art Museum. This folder also contains news clippings regarding the exhibition, come correspondence, and some essays written about Lenoir C. Wright.

      Dates: 2002
      Container: Box 5, Folder 3
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Letter written to the editor of The New York Times entitled, "It's Not News."

      Included in the folder are news clippings of the articles and correspondence to and from South regarding his letter to the editor.

      Dates: 2002-2004
      Container: Box 5, Folder 4
      Location: Writings
    • Description: The Life and Art of James Taylor Harwood, 1860-1940

      Thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Utah for a Master of Art.

      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 5, Folder 5
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Mabel Alvarez: A Retrospective

      Exhibition catalog prepared for the Laband Art Galley, Loyola Marymount Univeristy and Orange County Museum of Art. Included in the folder is an announcement for the exhibition.

      Dates: 1999
      Container: Box 5, Folder 6
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Making and Breaking Tradition: A History of the Salt Lake Art Center

      Exhibition catalog prepared for the 60th anniversary of the Salt Lake Art Center. Included in the folder are two newsletter articles regarding the exhibit.

      Dates: 1991-1992
      Container: Box 5, Folder 7
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Making Sense of the Senses: The Body, the Brain and Modern Art

      Exhibition catalog created for the Sheldon Memorial Art Museum. Included in the folder is correspondence to and from South and an exhibtion announcement.

      Dates: 2001-2005; 2009
      Container: Box 6, Folder 1
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Making Waves: Controversial Art in Utah

      Exhibition catalog for the Salt Lake Art Center. Also included is a folder of visitor remarks and a booklet of gallery labels and selected newspaper articles.

      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 6, Folder 2-4
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Matisse and More

      Exhibition catalog for the Weatherspoon Art Museum.

      Dates: 2002
      Container: Box 6, Folder 5
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Mt. Ben Lomond and the Foothills"

      Newsletter article prepared for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box 6, Folder 6
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "NEA, Art Groups Play Vital Role in Utah"

      Letter to the editor of the Deseret News.

      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 6, Folder 7
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Nudity Versus Lewdity -- The Denuded Figure in Art"

      Article for The Art Magazine. Included in the folder is a letter and draft version.

      Dates: 1993
      Container: Box 6, Folder 8
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Observations on the Painting and Sculpture of Frederic Remington"

      Essay written for the graduate course American Neo-Classical Sculpture taught by William H. Gerdts.

      Dates: 1990 Spring
      Container: Box 6, Folder 9
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Ogden Scenes: The 12th Annual LeConte Stewart Festival

      Exhibition catalog prepared for the Bountiful/Davis Art Center.

      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 6, Folder 10
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Oscar Wilde in Salt Lake City"

      Article published in The Arts Magazine.

      Dates: 1992 December
      Container: Box 6, Folder 11
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "The Painterly Pen"

      Essay regarding Guy Rose published in Antiques & Fine Art.

      Dates: 1992 April
      Container: Box 6, Folder 12
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Paintings in the Fine Art Collection of Snow, Christensen & Martineau"

      Includes a collected catalogue raisonné created by South for the collection.

      Dates: 1988-1989 Summer
      Container: Box 6, Folder 13-14
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "The Participatory Nature of Early California Art"

      Essay for the exhibition catalog In and Out of California: Travels of American Impressionists, prepared for the Laguna Art Museum.

      Dates: 2002
      Container: Box 7, Folder 1
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Paul H. Davis: Recent Work

      Exhibtion catalog prepared for the Salt Lake Art Center.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 7, Folder 2
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Photography by Jim Frankoski: The Restoration of the Cathedral of the Madeleine

      Exhibition catalog prepared for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 7, Folder 3
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Picturing Salt Lake City, Past and Present"

      Essay for the exhibition catalog This is the Place: Views of Salt Lake City from its Foundation to the Present, prepared for The Hippodrome Galleries. Includes essay drafts.

      Dates: 1993-1994
      Container: Box 7, Folder 4
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Pompeo Batoni and the Livingston Portrait"

      Brief catalog regarding the Marriner S. Eccles Collection held at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box 7, Folder 5
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "A Piece of the Garment: The Art of Earl Jones"

      Essay for the exhibition catalog Earl Jones prepared for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

      Dates: 1995
      Container: Box 7, Folder 6
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Power in the Visual Narrative"

      Essay published in Utah Holiday.

      Dates: 1988 August
      Container: Box 7, Folder 7
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Robert Henri's Mary Ann MacNamara"

      Article written for the newsletter Collections published by the Columbia Museum of Art.

      Dates: 2016 Spring
      Container: Box 7, Folder 8
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Seeing the Lake Again (and Again)"

      Article published in Friends of the Great Salt Lake newsletter.

      Dates: 2003 Spring
      Container: Box 7, Folder 9
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Stanton Macdonald-Wright & Synchromism"

      Article published in American Art Review.

      Dates: 2001 April
      Container: Box 7, Folder 10
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Stanton Macdonald-Wright's Seated Woman: Classical and Modern"

      Essay regarding permanent artwork in the collection held at the Elvehjem Museum of Art.

      Dates: 2002
      Container: Box 7, Folder 11
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Thoughts on Maynard Dixon"

      Essay for the exhibition catalog prepared for the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts.

      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 7, Folder 12
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Today's Regard of Modern Art Proves Beauty is in the Eye of the Enlightened Beholder"

      Essay published in Latitude.

      Dates: 2007 June
      Container: Box 7, Folder 13
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Utah Art: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography"
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 8, Folder 1
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Utah Art from the Permanent Collection: An Exhibition Honoring the Utah Statehood Centennial 1896-1996

      Exhibition catalog created for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

      Dates: 1996
      Container: Box 8, Folder 2
      Location: Writings
    • Description: The Utah Museum of Fine Arts: Selected Works

      Artwork for the catalog was selected by Frank Sanguinetti. Entries by Will South. Catalog created for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. This folder also includes draft versions.

      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 8, Folder 3
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Utah Perspectives"

      Exhibition catalog prepared for the Salt Lake Art Center.

      Container: Box 8, Folder 4
      Location: Writings
    • Description: The Val A. Browning Memorial Collection of 500 Years of European Masterworks

      Collection catalog created for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

      Dates: 1995
      Container: Box 8, Folder 5
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "When it Comes to Designations in the Art World and Beyond, Icons Don't Need Defining"

      Essay published in Latitudes.

      Dates: 2007 December
      Container: Box 8, Folder 6
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Book reviews by South
      Dates: 1997-1998
      Container: Box 8, Folder 7
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Exhibition reviews by South
      Dates: 1990; 1998
      Container: Box 8, Folder 8
      Location: Writings

  • Lecture notes and announcements

    • Description: "American Art Colonies East and West"

      Lecture held at Laguna Art Museum.

      Dates: 1999 January 17
      Container: Box 9, Folder 1
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Andy Warhol Slept Here? Famous and Infamous Visitors to Utah"

      Lecture presented to the Friends of the Marriott Library.

      Dates: 1998 December 06
      Container: Box 9, Folder 2
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Blue Thoughts"
      Dates: 1998
      Container: Box 9, Folder 3
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "California Impressionism"

      Lecture held at Brigham Young University.

      Dates: 1997 June 05
      Container: Box 9, Folder 4
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Continuing Landscape Traditions"

      Lecture held for the Tanner Symposium held at Utah State University.

      Dates: 1997 May 01
      Container: Box 9, Folder 5
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Definitions of Realism in Art in Utah Compared with National Definitions in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century"

      Lecture presented to the Utah Academy spring meeting held at Weber State University.

      Dates: 1987 May 08
      Container: Box 9, Folder 6
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Depression-era Printmakers of Utah"

      Lecture held at the Nora Eccles Harrison Art Museum.

      Dates: 1999 November 10
      Container: Box 9, Folder 7
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Expressions of Great Salt Lake: The Art and Science of Our Inland Sea"

      Keynote lecture for the Great Salt Lake Issues Forum held at the Salt Lake City Public Library.

      Dates: 2003-2004
      Container: Box 9, Folder 8
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "General Utah Art"
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 9, Folder 9
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "George Dibble"

      Lecture presented in Logan, Utah and at the University of Utah.

      Dates: 1993 December 07
      Container: Box 9, Folder 10
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Guy Rose in France"

      Lecture held at the Oakland Museum.

      Dates: 1995 August 20
      Container: Box 9, Folder 11
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "In and Out of California: Travels of American Impressionists" lecture announcement
      Dates: 2003
      Container: Box 9, Folder 12
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Mabel Alvarez (1891-1985)"

      Lecture presented to the California Art Club held at the Laband Art Gallery.

      Dates: 1999 April 11
      Container: Box 9, Folder 13
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Making and Breaking Tradition: A History of the Salt Lake Art Center"
      Dates: 1991 May 06
      Container: Box 9, Folder 14
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Making Waves: Controversial Art in Utah"
      Dates: 1997 October 29
      Container: Box 9, Folder 15
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Modes of Modernism"

      Lecture held at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

      Dates: 1997 March 02
      Container: Box 9, Folder 16
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "The Not-so-cosmopolitan Guy Rose"

      Lecture for the Crocker Museum Symposium.

      Dates: 1997 September 13
      Container: Box 9, Folder 17
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Overview of American Art in the Permanent Collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts"

      Docent lecture.

      Dates: 1996 March 14
      Container: Box 9, Folder 18
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Painters of Paradise: An Overview of California Impressionism"

      Lecture to the Sotheby's Educational Studies Program.

      Dates: 1995 March 22
      Container: Box 9, Folder 19
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Putting America into American Impressionism: Unraveling the Terminology of Limitation"

      South served as chair of this conference session. This folder contains a bound copy of the abstracts of the conference for the College Art Association.

      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 9, Folder 20
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Reflections on a Dead Sea: Images of the Great Salt Lake"

      Lecture for the exhibition, Images of the Great Salt Lake.

      Dates: 1996 February 11
      Container: Box 9, Folder 21
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Rodin, Time and Place"
      Dates: 1998 January 15
      Container: Box 9, Folder 22
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements
    • Description: "Stanton Macdonald-Wright: European Sources and American Innovations"

      Lecture held at the San Diego Museum of Art.

      Dates: 1998 January 09
      Container: Box 9, Folder 23
      Location: Lecture notes and announcements

  • Research materials

    The materials in this series have been arranged alphabetically by either organization, topic, or by the last name of artist or person.

    • Mabel Alvarez

      Mabel was a student of Stanton Macdonald-Wright's and became a confidante of Morgan Russell's.

      • Description: Correspondence to and from South
        Dates: 1992; 1998-2000
        Container: Box 10, Folder 1
        Location: Research materials / Mabel Alvarez
      • Description: "Mabel Alvarez (1891-1985): A Biographical Sketch by Her Friend Glenn Bassett"
        Container: Box 10, Folder 2
        Location: Research materials / Mabel Alvarez
      • Description: Exhibition announcements
        Dates: 1994-1999; 2003
        Container: Box 10, Folder 3
        Location: Research materials / Mabel Alvarez
      • Description: Notes by South
        Dates: 1998
        Container: Box 10, Folder 4
        Location: Research materials / Mabel Alvarez
      • Description: Archives of American Art: Diaries [photocopies]

        The original diaries are part of the Mabel Alvarez papers, 1898-1987, located in the American Art Archives, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. The photocopied diaries are dated from 1917-1939. Copies are prohibited of the materials in this collection. Please contact the original owning institution for copies.

        Container: Box 10, Folder 5-6
        Location: Research materials / Mabel Alvarez
      • Description: Archives of American Art: Research materials [photocopies]

        The photocopied material in these folders are from the Mabel Alvarez papers, 1898-1987, located in the American Art Archives, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. Copies are prohibited of the materials in this collection. Please contact the original owning institution for copies.

        Container: Box 10, Folder 7-8
        Location: Research materials / Mabel Alvarez
    • Description: Art Barn

      This folder contains photocopies of historical news clippings (1938-1987), articles of incorporation (1932-1961), "Art Barn Artists: The First 35 Years" (1989), and an introduction to the book written by John Franklin White entitled, Art in Action: American Art Centers and the New Deal.

      Container: Box 11, Folder 1
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Art Students League of Los Angeles
      Dates: 1996; 2000-2008
      Container: Box 11, Folder 2-4
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Asian artists exhibitions
      Dates: 1982; 1993; 1997-1998
      Container: Box 11, Folder 5
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Lucy Bacon

      This folder contains a genealogical chart, correspondence to South, notes, and photocopies archival material (circa 1893-1930) regarding Lucy Bacon.

      Dates: 1996-1997
      Container: Box 11, Folder 6
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Glenn Bassett

      This folder contains correspondence to and from South and Bassett mostly discussing topics regarding Mabel Alvarez. Included are transcribed notes by Alzarez.

      Dates: 2000-2003
      Container: Box 12, Folder 1
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Thomas Hart Benton

      This folder contains an exhibition announcement along with photocopies from two books, Thomas Hart Benton: Artist, Writer and Intellectual (1989) and An American in Art: A Professional and Technical Autobiography (1969).

      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box 12, Folder 2
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Nicholas Brigante

      This folder contains articles about Brigante, exhibition information, news clippings (1921), and an oral history transcript [photocopy] of Brigante (1964).

      Dates: 1992; 2005
      Container: Box 12, Folder 3
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Stan Brodsky

      This folder contains correspondence between South and Brodsky, exhibition announcments and catalog, and news clippings.

      Dates: 1999-2004
      Container: Box 12, Folder 4
      Location: Research materials

    • Conrad Buff

      • Description: A Singular Vision: The Art and Life of Conrad Buff, by South

        These folder contain a manuscript draft.

        Dates: 1999
        Container: Box 13, Folder 1-2
        Location: Research materials / Conrad Buff
      • Description: Correspondence to and from South
        Dates: 1998-2000; 2003
        Container: Box 13, Folder 3
        Location: Research materials / Conrad Buff
      • Description: Notes
        Dates: 1998-1999
        Container: Box 13, Folder 4
        Location: Research materials / Conrad Buff
      • Description: Exhibition catalogs and announcements
        Dates: 1983; 2000-2005
        Container: Box 13, Folder 5
        Location: Research materials / Conrad Buff
      • Description: University of California, Los Angeles: Oral history transcript [photocopy]

        Oral history with Buff was completed in 1968. Copies are prohibited of the materials in this collection. Please contact the original owning institution for copies.

        Container: Box 13, Folder 6-7
        Location: Research materials / Conrad Buff
      • Description: Research materials

        Includes collected photocopied materials related to Buff such as correspondence, news clippings, exhibition announcement, etc.

        Container: Box 14, Folder 1-2
        Location: Research materials / Conrad Buff

    • California art history

      • Description: Marilyn Wyman, A New Deal for Art in Southern California: Murals and Sculpture Under Government Patronage [photocopy]

        Dissertation published in 1982.

        Container: Box 15, Folder 1
        Location: Research materials / California art history
      • Description: American Art Archives : Work Projects Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project handbooks and requirements for allocations [photocopies]

        Copies are prohibited of the materials in this collection. Please contact the original owning institution for copies.

        Container: Box 15, Folder 2-3
        Location: Research materials / California art history
      • Description: California Art Club [photocopies]

        Photocopied items include correspondence, minute meetings, and bulletins. Original materials are from 1906-1966 Copies are prohibited of the materials in this collection. Please contact the original owning institution for copies.

        Container: Box 15, Folder 4
        Location: Research materials / California art history
      • Description: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Scrapbook [photocopy]

        The photocopied scrapbook consists of news articles circa 1913-1939. Copies are prohibited of the materials in this collection. Please contact the original owning institution for copies.

        Container: Box 16, Folder 1
        Location: Research materials / California art history
      • Description: Los Angeles Times: News clippings [photocopies]

        The photocopied news clippings are from 1905-1943.

        Container: Box 16, Folder 2-3
        Location: Research materials / California art history
      • Description: Research materials

        These folders contain photocopied reserach materials originally held in a binder. Topic include Henrietta Shore, The World of Abstract Art, article by Matthew Baigell, A Survey of Art Work in the City and County of San Francisco, Los Angeles Painters of the Nineteen-twenties, general articles, exhibition catalogs and news clippings. Original materials are dated from 1902 to 1975.

        Container: Box 17, Folder 1-4
        Location: Research materials / California art history
    • Description: California impressionism

      This folder contains materials pertaining to the book written by William H. Gerdts and Will South entitled, California Impressionism. Included in the folder are book reviews, correspondence regarding the book, articles, and news clippings.

      Dates: 1996-2001; 2011
      Container: Box 18, Folder 1
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Herman Cherry

      This folder contains a letter written by South, an exhibition catalog, an obituary, and an oral history transcript [photocopy] of Cherry (1989) located in the Archives of American Art.

      Dates: 1989; 2000
      Container: Box 18, Folder 2
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Henry A. Clausen

      This folder contains an obituary and an archival letter [photocopy] from 1950.

      Dates: 2000
      Container: Box 18, Folder 3
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Hideo Date

      This folder contains correspondence between South and Date. Also included are photocopies of archival material regarding Date, such as correspondence and exhibition information.

      Dates: 1993-1995; 2003
      Container: Box 18, Folder 4-5
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: James Daugherty

      This folder contains exhibition announcements and catalogs, newsletters, a few artwork data sheets, article, and a Sotheby's catalog.

      Dates: 1971-2001
      Container: Box 18, Folder 6
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Arthur B. Davies

      This folder contains photocopied artwork data sheets, articles, and biographical information.

      Container: Box 19, Folder 1
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: George Dibble

      This folder contains biographical information, news clippings, drafts for George Dibble Drawings, exhibition catalog, and other items.

      Container: Box 19, Folder 2
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Maynard Dixon

      This folder contains materials related to South's involvement with Maynard Dixon Country and the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts.

      Dates: 1997-2005
      Container: Box 19, Folder 3
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: David Dornan

      This folder contains a letter from Dornan and biographical information.

      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 19, Folder 4
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Louisa Etcheverry

      This folder contains a transcript of an oral history interview [photocopy] of Etcheverry by Betty Hoag from 1964.

      Container: Box 19, Folder 5
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Loser Fettelson

      This folder contains exhibition announcements and news clippings.

      Dates: 1990; 1992
      Container: Box 19, Folder 6
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Norma Flynn

      This folder contains correspondence and biographical information.

      Dates: 2000-2001
      Container: Box 19, Folder 7
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Yun Gee

      This folder contains exhibition catalogs and biographical information.

      Dates: 2002; 2005
      Container: Box 19, Folder 8
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: John Gerrity

      This folder contains a transcript of an oral history interview [photocopy] of Gerrity by Mary McChesney from 1965.

      Container: Box 19, Folder 9
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Alvin Gittins

      This folder contains correspondence and biographical information.

      Dates: 1955-1957; 1978; 1996
      Container: Box 19, Folder 10
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Joseph Greenbaum

      This folder contains biographical information.

      Container: Box 19, Folder 11
      Location: Research materials

    • The Hands of Rodin exhibition controversy

    • James Taylor Harwood

      Will South had obtained archival materials from the family while researching his dissertation. He had requested that those items be added to the Hardwood collections.

      See the following collection for further information regarding James T. Harwood and the Harwood family.

    • Description: Charles Hess

      This folder contains exhibition announcements, correspondence, and photocopied archival items.

      Dates: 1988 1990 1996-1997; 1990; 1996-1997
      Container: Box 25, Folder 1
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Robert Hughes

      This folder contains new and article clippings.

      Dates: 1997-2000
      Container: Box 25, Folder 2
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Gregory Ivy

      These folders contain correspondence, exhibition announcements, biographical information and news clipping related to Ivy and the exhibition Gregory D. Ivy: Making North Carolina Modern.

      Dates: 2002-2008
      Container: Box 25, Folder 3-4
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Dorothy Jeakins

      This folder contains a transcript of an oral history interview [photocopy] of Jeakins by Betty Hoag from 1964.

      Container: Box 25, Folder 5
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Clifton Karhu

      This folder contains correspondence and articles.

      Dates: 1999-2000
      Container: Box 25, Folder 6
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Albert Henry King

      This folder contains a transcript of an oral history interview [photocopy] of King by Betty Hoag from 1964.

      Container: Box 25, Folder 7
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Barry King

      This folder contains correspondence.

      Container: Box 25, Folder 8
      Location: Research materials

    • Stanton Macdonald-Wright

    • Description: Ben Messick

      This folder contains a transcript of an oral history interview [photocopy] of Etcheverry by Betty Hoag.

      Container: Box 48, Folder 1
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Arthur Millier

      This folder contains a transcript of an oral history interview [photocopy] of Millier by Betty Hoag in 1965.

      Container: Box 48, Folder 2
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Archie L. Musick

      This folder contains a transcript of an oral history interview [photocopy] of Musick by Sylvia Loomis in 1964.

      Container: Box 48, Folder 3
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Georgia O'Keeffe

      This folder contains correspondence regarding an exhibition. Included is the exhibition catalog Georgia O'Keeffe: Her Carolina Story.

      Dates: 2001-2003; 2015
      Container: Box 48, Folder 4
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Jules Pages

      This folder contains articles and biographical information.

      Container: Box 48, Folder 5
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Guy Rose

      This folder contains correspondence, articles, drafts, and notes. Also included is a draft for an article about Rose and James T. Harwood.

      Dates: 1985-1995 ; 2001
      Container: Box 48, Folder 6
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Morgan Russell

      These folders contain photocopied archival materials and articles from the Montclair Art Museum.

      Dates: 2005-2006
      Container: Box 49, Folder 1-3
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Paul Sample

      This folder contains a transcript of an oral history interview [photocopy] of Sample by Robert Brown in 1971.

      Container: Box 49, Folder 4
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Michael Seuphor

      This folder contains correspondence with Seuphor and includes photocopies of his archival materials.

      Dates: 1993
      Container: Box 49, Folder 5
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Rex Slinkard

      This folder contains an artist file from William H. Gerdts.

      Dates: 1994
      Container: Box 49, Folder 6
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Ida Solem

      This folder contains correspondence.

      Dates: 2000
      Container: Box 50, Folder 1
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Trevor Southey

      This folder contains correspondence and a news clipping.

      Dates: 1990; 1995-1996
      Container: Box 50, Folder 2
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Carl Sprinchorn

      This folder contains photocopied archival materials and a gallery catalog.

      Dates: 2002
      Container: Box 50, Folder 3
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Frank Stevens

      This folder contains a transcript of an oral history interview [photocopy] of Stevens by Betty Hoag from 1964.

      Container: Box 50, Folder 4
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: LeConte Stewart

      This folder contains a list of artwork for the LeConte Stewart Festival.

      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box 50, Folder 5
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Minerva Kohlhepp Teichert

      This folder contains biographical information.

      Container: Box 50, Folder 6
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Utah early art history

      This folder contains collected articles.

      Container: Box 50, Folder 7
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Utah Museum of Art

      This folder contains correspondence, drafts, articles, and other items.

      Dates: 1966; 1985-2004
      Container: Box 50, Folder 8-9
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Helen Votichenko

      This folder contains correspondence.

      Dates: 2001-2002
      Container: Box 50, Folder 10
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Andy Warhol

      This folder contains news clippings collected by South.

      Dates: 1998-2003
      Container: Box 50, Folder 11
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: William Wendt

      This folder contains materials related to an exhibition regarding Wendt.

      Dates: 2003-2009; 2016
      Container: Box 50, Folder 12
      Location: Research materials
    • Description: Tyrus Wong

      This folder contains a transcript of an oral history interview [photocopy] of Wong by Betty Hoag from 1965. Also included is an exhibition catalog.

      Dates: 2004
      Container: Box 50, Folder 13
      Location: Research materials

  • Course materials

    • Description: Early American Art Criticism
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 51, Folder 1
      Location: Course materials
    • Description: The Emergence of American Modernism, 1900-1930
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 51, Folder 2
      Location: Course materials
    • Description: Historical Scholarship in American Art
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 51, Folder 3
      Location: Course materials
    • Description: Method and Historiography
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 51, Folder 4
      Location: Course materials
    • Description: Introduction to the History of Art, AH250

      Course taught by South at the University of Utah

      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 51, Folder 5
      Location: Course materials

  • General materials

    • Description: Resume
      Container: Box 51, Folder 6
      Location: General materials
    • Description: Working record notebooks
      Dates: 1990; 2001
      Container: Box 51, Folder 7-8
      Location: General materials
    • Description: Materials about South

      This folder contains exhibition catalogs that contain art by South and articles.

      Dates: 1983-2006
      Container: Box 51, Folder 9
      Location: General materials
    • Description: General museum and art materials

      This folder contains collected articles, announcements, and news clippings.

      Dates: 1987-2013
      Container: Box 51, Folder 10
      Location: General materials

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