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    Maryette Charlton papers, 1929-1998.
     
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    Creator: 
    Charlton, Maryette
    Title: 
    Maryette Charlton papers, 1929-1998.
    Phy. Description: 
    32.5 linear ft.
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    Bio / His Notes: 
    Painter, printmaker, photographer, and film maker, Chicago, Ill. and New York, N.Y. Charlton was born in Manchester, Iowa in 1924. She studied in Chicago with Moholy-Nagy at the Institute of Design, and received her B.F.A. at Pratt Institute and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. She has made several films about American artists. She was the cameraman for set designer Frederick Kiesler's "Kiesler's Universal Theater" for CBS in 1962 and collaborated with Kiesler's widow, Lillian, on various projects, especially the film "Kiesler on Kiesler" (housed at the Museum of Modern Art Video and Film Department).
    Summary: 
    Correspondence, photographs, sound recordings, printed materials, business records, and research materials to Charlton's early career in Chicago and New York, her work as a filmmaker documenting the work of several artists, mainly Frederick Kiesler, Dorothy Miller, Lenore Tawney and Loren MacIver, her interest in other artists, her donation of art to the University of Iowa Museum of Art, and her work at the Container Corporation of America.
    Provenance: 
    Donated 1998-2001 by Maryette Charlton.
    Restrictions: 
    Use requires an appointment.
    Material relating to Charlton's films on Dorothy Miller, Lenore Tawney, & Loren MacIver, boxes 19-28 are: ACCESS RESTRICTED: written permission must be obtained from Maryette Charlton prior to use. Restriction terminates March 7, 2010.
    Material relating to Charlton's films on Dorothy Miller, Lenore Tawney, & Loren MacIver, Boxes 19-28: Authorization to publish or reproduce requires written permission of Maryette Charlton, 77 Seventh Ave., Apt. 18J New York, NY 10011 until March 7, 2010.
    Subject-Name: 
    Kiesler, Frederick
    Kiesler, Lillian 1910?-2001
    Varèse, Edgard, 1883-1965
    Form / Genre: 
    Sound recordings
    Interviews
    Repository Loc: 
    Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
    Local Number: 
    aaa
    Co-Creator: 
    Kiesler, Frederick
    Kiesler, Lillian 1910?-2001
    Varese, Louise
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