WAUDusanneZoe2430.xml Guide to the Zoe Dusanne Papers 1930-1987 Dusanne (Zoe) Papers Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries ©2007 (Last modified: 4/2/2020)
Seattle, WA 98195
Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections 2430 (Accession No. 2430-004) Dusanne, Zoe,  -1977 Zoe Dusanne papers 1930-1987 6.43 cubic feet (13 boxes) Collection materials are in English. Correspondence, press releases, photographs, exhibit catalogs, ephemera, sales records, scrapbooks, and clippings relating to gallery owner of Seattle

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

 Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Dusanne, Zoe,  -1977--Archives Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979 Bowen, Betty, 1919-1977 Callahan, Kenneth, 1905-1986 Forrester, John Graham, John, 1908-1991 Hallsten, Pehr, d. 1965 Jager, Leonard Keen, Helen Krauss, Sophie Marks Marks, Royal S McClintock, James Pillet, Edgard, 1912-1996 Schottlander, Gertrud Schulman, Eleanor Sieberling, Dorothy Stimson, Douglas Truax-Albert, Sarah Willard, Marian, 1904- Mathieu, Georges Rockefeller, Jeannette Doesburg, Nelly van, 1899-1975 Graves, Morris, 1910-2001 Magnuson, Warren G. (Warren Grant), 1905-1989 Hauberg, Anne Gould Stella, Joseph, 1877-1946 Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl, 1903-1971 Hixson, William J Haller, Vera Götz, K. O. (Karl Otto), 1914- Fraser, Vera Everett, Al Delaunay, Sonia Davis, Stuart and Roselle Dahlquist, Paul Burri, Alberto Bucholz, Erich Bayley, Mrs. Frank Sawyer Anderson, Marian Alps, Glen 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 Schultze, Bernard, 1915-2005 Shadbolt, Jack Steadman, William E Tapie, Michel Torres, Marilia G Tsutakawa, George Utley, Windsor Robbins, Tom Sargeant, Winthrop Allied Arts of Seattle, Inc Boe-Arts Club Ets Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet Galerie Beyeler Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Rome-New York Art Foundation San Francisco Museum of Art Howard Wise Gallery Henry Art Gallery Carnegie Institute Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Seattle Art Museum Photographs Scrapbooks Fine Arts

 

1/1 Biographical features undated Incoming letters 1/2 Albert, Sarah Truax 1956-1957 1/3 Boe-Arts Club 1958 1/4 Bowen, Betty 1964 1/5 Callahan, Kenneth 1957 1/6 Forrester, John 1954 1/6 Galerie Beyeler (Basel) 1961-1962 1/7 Graham, John 1946 1/8 Hallsten, Pehr 1958 1/8 Hauberg, Anne undated 1/9 Jager, Leonard 1948 1968 1/10 Jaguer, Edouard 1956 1/11 Keen, Helen 1961-1967 1/11 Krauss, Sophie Marks 1963-1971 1/12 McClintock, James 1966-1969 1/13 Marks, Royal S. 1959 1/14 Pillet, Edgard 1954-1955 1/15 Sawyer, Kenneth B. 1954 1/15 Scottlander, Gertrud 1958-1961 1/15 Schulman, Eleanor 1968 1/16 Sieberling, Dorothy 1952-1960 1/17 Stella, Joseph 1945 1/17 Stimson, Douglas undated 1/18 Thompson, G. David 1956-1959 1/19 W. U. Henry (Horace C.) Gallery 1964 1/20 Weidler, Charlotte 1960-1967 1/21 Willard, Marian 1954 1/22 Young Theodosia Snow 1943-1949 1/23 Miscellaneous A-Z undated General Correspondence 1/24 Carnegie Institute 1960 1/25 Guggenheim (Solomon R.) Museum 1957-1958 1/26 Kaldis, Aristodimos 1960 1/27 Mathieu, Georges 1954 1/28 Museum of Modern Art 1962-1963 1/29 Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl 1960-1961 1/30 Rockefeller, Jeannette 1957-1959 1/31 Rome New York Art Foundation 1959 1/32 San Francisco Museum of Art 1957-1961 1/33 Seattle Art Museum 1958-1966 1/34 Van Doesburg, Nelly 1947-1954 1/35 Wise (Howard) Gallery 1962 1/36 Miscellaneous Galleries A-Z 1950-1967 1/37 Miscellaneous A-Z 1953-1969 1/38 Unidentified 1954-1963 1/39-40 News Releases undated 1/41 Biographies of Artists undated Exhibition Announcements 1/42 Zoe Dusanne Gallery 1954-1956 1962 undated 1/43 Other galleries 1955-1956 1960-1962 undated Speeches and Writings 2/1 Dusanne undated 2/2 Of others undated Catalogs 2/3 Janis (Sidney) Gallery 1952 1954 2/4-5 Miscellaneous 1966-1969 undated 2/6 Exhibit Labels undated Greeting Cards Original Christmas cards 2/7 Paul Horiuchi 1954 undated 2/8 Sidney Janis Gallery 1949 1954-1962 2/9-10 Miscellaneous 1949-1969 2/11 Commercial 1957-1968 2/11 Postcards 1957-1968 11 Sales Records

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 2/12 Loan Records 1953-1963 2/13 Checklists 1953-1960 2/14 Price Lists 1951-1960 2/15 Receipts 1954-1960 2/16 Slides undated Photographs 3/1 Personal 1952 undated 13 Personal 1952 undated 3/1-5 Of artworks undated Subject Series 3/6 Allied Arts of Seattle 1959-1961 Alps, Glen 3/7 News releases undated 3/8 Exhibition announcements 1954 Anderson, Marian 3/9 Incoming letter 1958-1964 3/10 Clippings undated 3/11 Program 1964 Andres, Maria Helena 3/12 Biographical features undated 3/13 Incoming letters 1961-1964 3/14 Outgoing letters undated 3/15 Customs invoice 1961 3/16 Speeches and writings - "Academic Influence" undated 3/17 Interview undated 3/18 Exhibit announcements 1973 13/1 Exhibit announcements - oversize 1967 3/19 Checklist undated 3/20 Clippings undated 3/21 Auction of pictures from Dusanne Gallery undated 11 Auction of pictures from Dusanne Gallery undated

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 Backus, Yvonne 3/22 News releases undated 3/23 Exhibit announcement 1956 Bayley, Mrs. Frank Sawyer 3/24 News releases 1954 3/25 Exhibit announcements 1954 3/26 Bettercourt, Pierre 1964-1967 3/27 Bluhm, Ursula 1959 3/28 Boyce, Richard 1969 3/29 Brauer 1967 Bucholz, Erich 3/30 News releases 1956 3/31 Exhibit announcements 1956 Burri, Alberto 3/32 Incoming letters 1957-1959 3/33 Exhibit announcements 1963 3/34 Burke, Gordon Thomson undated 4/1 Chen, Chi-Kwan 1961 Cornish, Nellie C. 4/2 Clippings 1956 4/3 Remembrances 1956 Dahlquist, Paul 4/4 Biographical features undated 4/5 Incoming letters 1966-1969 4/6 Exhibit announcements 1962 4/7 Daumier, Honore 1965 Davis, Stuart and Roselle 4/8 Biographical features undated 4/9 Incoming letters 1948-1956 4/10 Clippings 1964 4/11 Delaunay, Robert 1961 Delaunay, Sonia 4/12 Biographical features undated 4/13 General correspondence 1956-1964 4/14 Catalogs and exhibit announcements 1956-1962 4/15 Miscellany undated 4/16 Eskridge, Robert Lee undated 4/17 Ets Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet 1953-1954 4/18 Everett, Al 1962 Falkenstein, Claire 4/19 Biographical features undated 4/20 General correspondence 1954-1967 4/21 Exhibit announcements undated 4/22 Clippings undated 4/23 Feininger, Lyonel undated 4/24 Flynn, Robert undated Francis, Sam 4/25 Biographical features undated 4/26-27 Incoming letters 1957-1964 4/28 Catalogs and exhibit announcements 1956-1970 4/29 News releases undated 4/30 Photographs - personal undated 4/31 Clippings undated 4/32 Miscellany undated 4/33 Frank, Arthur 1935 4/34 Fraser, Vera undated 4/35 Fujihara, Jun undated Gotz, Karl Otto 4/36 Biographical features undated 4/37 Exhibit announcements 1954-1956 13/2 Exhibit announcements - oversize 1954 13 Catalogs - oversize 1962 4/38 News releases undated Guggenheim, Peggy 4/39 Incoming letters 1955-1960 4/40 Catalogs and exhibition announcements 1961 4/41 Checklist undated 4/42 Biographical - Louise L. Gilbert 1953 4/43 Clippings undated Haller, Vera 5/1 Biographical features undated 5/2 General correspondence - Vera Haller and James Fitzsimmons (Art International) 1957-1963 5/3 Exhibit announcements 1957-1965 13/3 Exhibit announcements - oversize undated 5/4 Checklist undated 5/5 Hixson, William J. 1955 Holty, Carl 5/6 Biographical features undated 5/7 Incoming letters 1957-1967 Horiuchi, Paul 5/8 Biographical features undated 5/9 General correspondence 1958-1960 5/10 News releases undated 5/11 Insurance policy 1959 5/12 Catalogs and exhibit announcements 1957-1969 5/13 Photographs undated 5/14 Clippings undated Hyde, B. L. 5/15 Biographical features undated 5/16 News releases undated 5/17 Catalog 1949 5/18 List of patrons undated Jenkins, Paul 5/19 Biographical features undated 5/20-21 General correspondence 1954-1963 5/22 Catalogs and exhibit announcements 1955-1961 13/4 Catalogs and exhibit announcements - oversize 1961 undated 5/23 News releases undated 5/24 Photographs - personal undated 5/25 Clippings 1961 Kanemitsu, Matsumi 5/26 Biographical features 1954 5/27 General correspondence 1954-1959 5/28 Exhibit announcements 1954-1957 Koenig, John 5/29 Biographical features undated 6/1 General correspondence 1956-1961 6/2 Catalogs and exhibit announcements 1958 6/3 News releases undated 6/4 Kusama, Yayoi 1958 Looten, Emmanuel 6/5 Biographical features undated 6/6 Incoming letters undated 6/7 Exhibit announcements undated 6/8 Poem undated 6/9 Martin, Andrew 1967 6/10 Martin, Fred T. undated Matta, Matitte 6/11 Incoming letters 1967 6/12 Clippings undated McCracken, Philip 6/13 Incoming letters 1956-1958 13/5 Incoming letters - oversize 1933 6/14 Exhibit announcements 1957-1964 13/6 Exhibit announcements - oversize undated 6/15 Photographs undated McGrath, James A. 6/16 Biographical features 1961 6/17 Incoming letters 1959-1962 Meitzler, Neil 6/18 Biographical features undated 6/19 News releases undated 6/20 Exhibit announcements 1957 1961 6/21 Clippings undated Michaux, Henri 6/22 Biographical features undated 6/23 General correspondence 1954 6/24 News releases undated 6/25 Exhibit announcements 1954-1962 6/26 Reviews 1948-1951 6/27 Clippings undated 6/28 Nobles, Orre N. 1961-1968 6/29 Ohta, Hisashi 1963 Patterson, Ambrose and Viola 6/30 Biographical features undated 6/31 Incoming letters undated 6/32 Exhibit announcements 1961 6/33 News releases undated 6/34 Clippings undated Pegeen 6/35 Biographical features undated 6/36 Outgoing letters 1954 6/37 Exhibit announcements 1949-1950 6/38 News releases undated Peterson, Bia 6/39 Biographical features undated 6/40 General correspondence 1960-1964 6/41 Exhibit announcements 1960 6/42 Invoices 1962 6/43 Photographs undated 6/44 Checklists undated 6/45 Richter, Gerd 1964 6/46 Schultze, Bernard 1968 Shadbolt, Jack 6/47 Biographical features undated 6/48 General correspondence 1959 6/49 Exhibit announcements 1962 Steadman, William E. 6/50 General correspondence 1958-1962 6/51 Checklists undated 6/52 Receipts undated Tapie, Michel 6/53 General correspondence 1953-1955 6/54 Customs documents 1954 Tobey, Mark 6/55 Biographical features undated 6/56 General correspondence 1954-1956 6/57 Catalogs 1951 7/1 Exhibit announcements 1945 7/2 Clippings undated 7/3 Torres, Marilia G. 1963 7/4 Tsutakawa, George undated Utley, Windsor 7/5 Biographical features undated 7/6 Exhibit announcements 1955-1958 7/7 News releases undated 7/8 Lists of patrons undated 7/9 Clippings 1969 7/10 Valade, Pierre 1969 Von Wiegand, Charmion 7/16 Incoming letter 1946-1962 7/17 Photographs undated 7/18 Clippings undated 7/19 Zajac, Jack 1970 12 Scrapbooks - oversize undated Periodicals 7/20 Marchand's Magazine 1930 7/21 Puget Soundings 1954-1958 7/22-8/1 Clippings undated 8/2 Notes undated 8/3 Ephemera undated 8/4 Covers, stationary (for exhibit use) 1947-1968 Theodosia Young papers Incoming letters 8/5 Lodge, Henry Cabot 1961 8/6 Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1960 8/7 Graves, Morris 1974 8/8 Miscellaneous 1961-1977 8/9 Outgoing letters 1934, 1964 1974 General correspondence 8/10 Magnuson, Warren G. 1960 8/11 Nixon, Richard 8/12 List of paintings 1978 8/13 Speeches and writings - "Selling at Sotheby" in Northwest Arts 1980 8/14 Christmas card (original) - Juvonen, Helmi undated 8/15 Greeting cards 1941, undated 8/16-18 Catalogs 1964-1986 8/19 Programs 1934-1976 9/1 Textile art undated 9/2 Symposium, Cornish Institute, "Politics in the Arts" 1979 9/3 Slides 1986-1987 Photographs 9/4 Portraits undated 9/5 Of artworks undated 9/6-7 Clippings undated 9/8 Ephemera 1942-1979 9/9 Miscellany 1986-1988 Subject series 9/10-11 Cornish School of Allied Arts 1978-1979 9/12 Stuart Davis Painting and Seattle Art Museum 1972-1984 9/13 Indian choreography 1978 Jenkins, Paul 9/14 Biographical features 1978 9/15 General correspondence 1978 9/16 Clippings undated 9/17 Sargeant, Winthrop 1978 Tobey, Mark 9/18 Incoming letters 1969-1970 9/19 Catalogs and exhibit announcements undated 9/20 Clippings undated "A Tribute to Zoe Dusanne" - Modern Art Pavilion of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Center, March 24-May 8 10/1 Biographical features 1977 10/2 Newsletters - Northwest Arts and Seattle Art Museum 1977 10/3 Speeches and writings 1977 10/4 Catalogs 1977 10/5 Checklist 1977 10/6 Memorial contributions 1977 10/7 Clippings undated 10/8 United (Airlines) magazine article (correspondents include Tom Robbins) 1983-1984 10/9 Washington Arts Commission 1974-1983 11 Restricted material (as described above)

Restricted until 2045.

 12-13 Oversized material (as described above)