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Zoe Dusanne papers, 1930-1987

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Dusanne, Zoe,  -1977
Title
Zoe Dusanne papers
Dates
1930-1987 (inclusive)
Quantity
6.43 cubic feet (13 boxes)
Collection Number
2430 (Accession No. 2430-004)
Summary
Correspondence, press releases, photographs, exhibit catalogs, ephemera, sales records, scrapbooks, and clippings relating to gallery owner of Seattle
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to all users, except for customer purchase records, which are closed until 2045.

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Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Zoe Dusanne was born in Kansas, but divided her adult life between Seattle and New York, pursuing her love of art in both places. She lived in Seattle 1915-1929, then was a singer and costume designer, and worked in a gallery in New York City, 1929-1942. Returning to Seattle in 1942, she established a gallery in her home on Lakeview Place in 1950. She exhibited the work of Northwest artists who later became famous and showed other modern artisits through her contacts in New York and Europe. When freeway construction claimed her home, she moved her gallery to 532 Broadway East in 1959. She retired because of illness in 1964 and died in Seattle in 1972. Dusanne's daughter, Theodosia Young studied theater and dance at the Cornish School and performed in New York and New England in the 1930s. She returned to Seattle in 1950.

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Content Description

Correspondence, press releases, photographs, exhibit catalogs, ephemera, sales records, scrapbooks, and clippings relating to Dusanne's Seattle art gallery and personal friends.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Zoe Dusanne's rights transferred to UW Libraries in 1994.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Donated by Acc. No. 2430-3, Partners in Care, for Theodosia Young, gift; Acc. No. 2430 and 2430-2 transferred from Archives of Northwest Art, received 6/23/75, 1983, 2/3/1994

Processing Note

This collection is a merger of three accessions. The first, 2430-001, was donated in 1975 as part of the Archives of Northwest Art, a project begun by the University of Washington's Henry Gallery. The second, 2430-002; also from the Archives of Northwest Art, was donated in 1983. The third and largest, 2430-003, was donated in 1994 by Partners in Care, for Theodosia Young, Ms. Dusanne's daughter. Young, who was a singer and an actress and extremely close to her mother, cooperated with the Seattle Art Museum in developing an exhibition in tribute to Dusanne in 1977. The collection was processed in July 1994. Theodosia Young papers and photographs removed to form separate collections in 2014.

Postcards, originally with the papers, have been transferred to the Visual Materials collection in Special Collections, UW Libraries.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

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Subject Terms

  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Alps, Glen
  • Anderson, Marian
  • Bayley, Mrs. Frank Sawyer
  • Bucholz, Erich
  • Burri, Alberto
  • Dahlquist, Paul
  • Davis, Stuart and Roselle
  • Delaunay, Sonia
  • Dusanne, Zoe,  -1977--Archives
  • Everett, Al
  • Fraser, Vera
  • Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979
  • Götz, K. O. (Karl Otto), 1914-
  • Haller, Vera
  • Hixson, William J
  • Horiuchi, Pau
  • Hyde, B. L
  • Kanemitsu, Matsumi
  • Koenig, John Franklin, 1924-2008
  • Kusama, Yayoi
  • Looten, Emmanuel
  • Matta, Matitte
  • McGrath, James A
  • Meitzler, Neil, 1930-
  • Michaux, Henri
  • Nobles, Orre Nelson
  • Patterson, Ambrose, 1877-1966
  • Patterson, Viola, 1898-1984
  • Robbins, Tom
  • Sargeant, Winthrop
  • Schultze, Bernard, 1915-2005
  • Shadbolt, Jack
  • Steadman, William E
  • Tapie, Michel
  • Torres, Marilia G
  • Tsutakawa, George
  • Utley, Windsor

Corporate Names

  • Allied Arts of Seattle, Inc
  • Ets Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Bowen, Betty, 1919-1977 (creator)
    • Callahan, Kenneth, 1905-1986 (creator)
    • Doesburg, Nelly van, 1899-1975 (creator)
    • Forrester, John (creator)
    • Graham, John, 1908-1991 (creator)
    • Graves, Morris, 1910-2001 (creator)
    • Hallsten, Pehr, d. 1965 (creator)
    • Hauberg, Anne Gould (creator)
    • Jager, Leonard (creator)
    • Keen, Helen (creator)
    • Krauss, Sophie Marks (creator)
    • Magnuson, Warren G. (Warren Grant), 1905-1989 (creator)
    • Marks, Royal S (creator)
    • Mathieu, Georges (creator)
    • McClintock, James (creator)
    • Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl, 1903-1971 (creator)
    • Pillet, Edgard, 1912-1996 (creator)
    • Rockefeller, Jeannette (creator)
    • Schottlander, Gertrud (creator)
    • Schulman, Eleanor (creator)
    • Sieberling, Dorothy (creator)
    • Stella, Joseph, 1877-1946 (creator)
    • Stimson, Douglas (creator)
    • Truax-Albert, Sarah (creator)
    • Willard, Marian, 1904- (creator)

    Corporate Names

    • Boe-Arts Club (creator)
    • Carnegie Institute (creator)
    • Galerie Beyeler (creator)
    • Henry Art Gallery (creator)
    • Howard Wise Gallery (creator)
    • Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (creator)
    • Rome-New York Art Foundation (creator)
    • San Francisco Museum of Art (creator)
    • Seattle Art Museum (creator)
    • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (creator)


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