The Re'eh Series

]> pc_kremen_irwin Finding Aid of the Irwin Kremen Exhibition Catalogs, 1966 - 2000 Processed by: George Stevenson; machine-readable finding aid created by: Ashley Yandle &hdrNcDncsa; 2007 Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: March, 2007 Description is in English Finding Aid of the Irwin Kremen Exhibition Catalogs, 1966 - 2000 State Archives of North Carolina. Western Regional Archives &tpNcDncsa; Descriptive Summary State Archives of North Carolina. Western Regional Archives. Kremen, Irwin. Irwin Kremen Exhibition Catalogs, 1966 - 2000 PC.1824 Materials in English ca. 50 For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Western Regional Archives. Irwin Kremen (1925- ), a native of Chicago, commenced his liberal education at Northwestern University in 1945, and in 1946 was admitted to study writing at Black Mountain College. After taking his bachelor's degree at the New School for Social Research, he moved into the field of clinical psychology, trained at Harvard University (PhD, 1961), and joined the faculty of Duke University in 1963. In 1966 Dr. Kremen began making the collages, constructions, and paintings that are comprised in the body of his work. The collection includes printed catalogs and exhibition brochures, many illustrated and some in color, which accompanied exhibitions of Dr. Kremen's work. It also contains autographed covers, associated materials, Barbara H. Kremen materials, and proof sheets. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], PC.1824, Irwin Kremen Exhibition Catalogs, State Archives of North Carolina, Western Regional Archives, Asheville, NC, USA.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Dr. Kremen, Dept. of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, N.C., 1980, 1985; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1997; 1998; 2001. During March-April, 2012, these records were moved from the State Archives building in Raleigh to the Western Regional Archives, Asheville, N.C.

Processing Information

Processed by George Stevenson, January, 1995; March, 1998; July, 1999; December, 2001.

Encoded by Ashley Yandle, May, 2002; March, 2007.

Biographical Note Irwin Kremen (1925- ), a native of Chicago, commenced his liberal education at Northwestern University in 1945, and in 1946 was admitted to study writing at Black Mountain College. After taking his bachelor's degree at the New School for Social Research, he moved into the field of clinical psychology, trained at Harvard University (PhD, 1961), and joined the faculty of Duke University in 1963. In 1966 Dr. Kremen began making the collages, constructions, and paintings that are comprised in the body of his work. Collection Overview

This collection of catalogs to accompany exhibitions of Dr. Kremen's work is divided into five groups. The first includes the un-autographed catalogs for The Re'eh Series of collages memorializing the victims of the Holocaust, especially the Jews. The second group includes the autographed catalogs commencing with a 1978 exhibition of Dr. Kremen's collages. The third group includes autographed publications the covers of which are illustrated with one of Dr. Kremen's works. The fourth group includes works by Mrs. Kremen, and the fifth, oversized proof sheets illustrating his.

Collection Arrangement

Arranged into series by subject matter or type of material. Series include: The Re'eh Series, 1985-1991; Autographed Exhibition Catalogs, 1966-2000; Autographed Covers, 1980-1998; Associated Material, 2000; Barbara H. Kremen Material, 1966-1985; Autographed Proof Sheets, 1996.

Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Subject Terms Art--Exhibitions--Catalogs. Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) Collages (visual works) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art. Kremen, Barbara H. Kremen, Irwin. Related Collections

Additional information on topics found in this collection may be found in the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS) http://www.ncarchives.dcr.state.nc.us.

See also: List of Black Mountain College collections at the State Archives of North Carolina. Black Mountain College Records, 1933-1956, Western Regional Archives, Asheville, N.C. Martin Duberman Collection, 1933-1980, PC 1678, State Archives of North Carolina Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina Museum of Art, Black Mountain College Research Project, 1933-1973, Western Regional Archives, Asheville, N.C. Container List The Re'eh Series, 1985-1991 The Re'eh Series by Irwin Kremen: A Special Showing.

Exhibition checklist in the form of an unillustrated brochure. Exhibition held at Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, Oct. 31 - Nov. 7, 1985.

Exhibition held at Wichita Art Museum, Jan. 14 - Feb. 25, 1990.

Irwin Kremen: The Re'eh Series Exhibition folder, illus. (b&w), with checklist.

Exhibitions held at Ackland Art Museum, Univ. of N.C. at Chapel Hill, Sept. 22 - Nov. 24, 1991; and at Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Univ. of Texas at Austin, April 3 - May 10, 1992.

The Re'eh Series: Collages by Irwin Kremen in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. Durham, NC: c1985, 1987, 1990, by Irwin Kremen.Illus. (col.), 6 pages.

Essay and catalog for exhibition at Telfair Museum of Art, September 14 - November 18, 1999. Includes folding program for the comprehensive program of exhibitions, lectures, concerts, dances, readings, and events associated with the Museum's program, Witness and Legacy: Contemporary Art About the Holocaust.

Autographed Exhibition Catalogs, 1966-2000 Collages by Irwin Kremen, pub. for National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1978. 48p., illus. (col.) Word and Collage, by Irwin Kremen, an Essay to Accompany the Exhibition: 53 Collages by Irwin Kremen, East Lansing, Mich.: Kresege Art Gallery, ©1979.[21]p., illus. (b&w) Works and Ways: Irwin Kremen. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Museum of Art, ©1981. 31p., illus. (col.) Collages by Irwin Kremen, 1976-1983. Pittsburg, Penn.: Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, 1983. Folder. Illus. (col.) The Black Mountain Connection: John Cage; Merce Cunningham; Irwin Kremen; and M. C. Richards. Tampa, Fla.: Tampa Museum of Art, 1992.56p., illus. (col.) SEE: Collages by Irwin Kremen. Designed and published by The Brooklyn Museum, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York16p., ports., illus. (b&w)

Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, March 15-May 14, 1985; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., June 4-July 28, 1985; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., Sept. 8-Oct. 27, 1985; Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, Nov. 10, 1985-Jan. 5, 1986.

In Plain View. The Collages of Irwin Kremen organized by J. Richard Gruber [and] William Heidrich, with an essay by Irwin Kremen. ©1987 by Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.16p., illus., covers and fold-out (col.)

Exhibition at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Sept. 27-Nov. 5, 1987.

per se: Collages & Other Works [by] Irwin Kremen. ©1988, The University of Illinois at Chicago; ©1988, illustrations and I & K: The Third Dialogue-a Reminiscence, by Irwin Kremen.16p., illus., port., bibliography.

Exhibition at Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Feb. 17 --March 19, 1988.

Exhibition at the Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, May 13-June 11, 1988.

From the 2nd Decade: Collages by Irwin Kremen, 1979-1989. ©1989, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art; and Out of the Cookie Box into the Frame, c1989 by Irwin Kremen.11p., illus. (col.) on cover and p.7, port., inserted Sculpture Checklist.

Exhibitions at Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 8-Nov. 26, 1989; Wichita Art Museum, Kansas, Jan. 14-Feb. 25, 1990; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, N.C., May 5-July 15, 1990.

Exhibition at Wichita Art Museum, Jan. 14-Feb. 25, 1990.

The Art of Irwin Kremen. Introduction by Richard Shiff. [Durham]: Duke University Museum of Art, 1990.26p. illus. (col. and b&w), port.

Exhibitions at Duke University Museum of Art, Nov. 16-Dec. 30, 1990; Toyama Citizens' Plaza, Inc., Toyama, Japan, April 10-May 6, 1991.

[Brochure with Checklist (in Japanese) for the exhibition at Toyama, Japan, April 10-May 6, 1991.]trifold, 8 1/2 x 33. SEE: Collages by Irwin Kremen, Including the Re'eh Series. trifold, 11 x 15 1/2. illus. (b&w).

Exhibition at Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., Sept. 8-Oct. 27, 1985.

C#: Collage & Sculpture by Irwin Kremen. Organized by Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, N.C. [1966].28p., illus. (col.), port. (b&w).

Contains essays, Thirty Years of Play Against a Darker Ground: Notes on Irwin Kremen and His Art, by Tom Patterson; I & K: The Fourth Dialogue [for Barbara], by Irwin Kremen. (Exhibitions at Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, N.C., Sept. 8-Oct. 27, 1996; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, Dec. 10, 1996-Feb. 9, 1997; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Ark., May 2-June 20, 1997; Contemporary Arts Center, Little Rock, Ark., May 2-June 20, 1997; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, La., Oct. 4-Nov. 16, 1997.) NOTE: printer's color proofs of catalog plates are double folio in size and are maintained separately in a flat file map case.

Brochure announcing exhibition at Green Hill Center for North Carolina Arts of C#: Collage and Sculpture by Irwin Kremen, including The Re'eh Series, Sept. 8-Oct. 27, 1996.1 sheet front and back

Illus. with color reproduction of As Such.

Works, vol.2, Issue 6 (May/June 1997) by Arkansas Art Center.7 p.

Announcing forthcoming exhibition of C#: Collage & Sculpture by Irwin Kremen, May 2-June 20, 1997.

Printed invitation to reception to celebrate exhibition of C#: Collage & Sculpture by Irwin Kremen at Arkansas Art Center, May 22, 1997. Folding brochures announcing forthcoming exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, including C#: Collage & Sculpture by Irwin Kremen, Oct. 4-Nov. 16, 1997.2 items Trifold catalog and card announcement for Metal Forms, an exhibition at the Central Carolina Bank Gallery in the Durham Arts Council Building to be open from Sept. 28-Oct. 27, 1997, which included as no.20 a work by Irwin Kremen and William Noland in steel, aluminum, and wood, Still [untitled]. Israel/North Carolina Culture Exchange: A Visitor's Guide. N.C. Dept. of Cultural Resources and Israel/North Carolina Cultural Exchange Task Force, 1996.48p. illus. (col.)

Exhibitions in the exchange included Irwin Kremen's The Re'eh Series on exhibition Sept. 8-Oct. 27, 1996, at the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro.

High C: Collages by Irwin Kremen. The Figure You & Clouds: Monotypes by Wendy Mark. ACA Galleries, New York [1998].Small trifold. illus. (col.) 2 copies

Invitation to opening reception for an exhibition to run from September 10 to October 3, 1998, at the ACA Galleries, 41 East 57th Street, New York. In addition to the autographed copy, there is a second copy mailed to the Archives by the gallery.

Seescape: Collages by Irwin Kremen. Materials relating to an exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art, October 24, 1998, to January 17, 1999.

(a) Illustrated folder with biographical information, introductory statement by Irwin Kremen, and exhibition checklist; (b) small trifold mailer announcing forthcoming exhibitions at the Mississippi Museum of Art, including Seescape; (c) November/December 1998 issue of the museum's newsletter, Museum Matters, illustrated by a photograph of the collage Reclaim, 1969/1989/1993.

Autographed postcard announcing Spring Group Show, May 17-June 26, 1999 (including works by Irwin Kremen) from ACA Galleries, 41 East 57th Street, New York. Michigan Avenue Galleries, Chicago Cultural Center. Illustrated trifold brochure on forthcoming exhibitions, including As Such: Collage and Sculpture by Irwin Kremen, 1975-2000, to be on exhibit from May 13 to July 9, 2000.

Also included in the May 2000 issue of the Chicago Cultural Center's Calender of Events, as well as a xerox copy of a brief review of Dr. Kremen's work at the Chicago exhibition by Garrett Holg.

Autographed Covers, 1980-1998 The Archive (Duke University, Durham, N.C.), vol.99, no.2 [1987?]

Cover illustrated with color reproduction of the collage entitled still i(x) from the Reva K. Series.

America Illustrated [English title], no.285 (August, 1980). illus. (part col.)

Inside and outside back cover illustrated with collages by Irwin Kremen. Text in Russian.

The Eighteenth Annual Sam Ragan Fine Arts Awards, September 24, 1998, St. Andrew's Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina.

(a) Invitation to the awards ceremony; (b) program for the awards ceremony.

Associated Material, 2000 "Life as a Collage," by Tom Patterson, in Duke Magazine (vol.86, no.6), September-October 2000 Pages 2-7. illus. (col.), port. (col.)

Essay on Irwin Kremen and his art.

Northwestern University, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art. Sculpture at the Block Museum of Art. [Evanston, Ill: 2000].illus., 7 pages. Barbara H. Kremen Material, 1966-1985 Out of [poems by] Barbara Kremen. Lucini, Italy: printed by Officina e'Arte Grafica, 1966.66p.

Limited to 300 numbered copies of which this is no.9.

Tree Trove, by Barbara H. Kremen. Laurinburg, N.C.: Saint Andrew's Presbyterian College [1985].

Published in Saint Andrew's Review, no.28 (1985), "Black Mountain Issue."

Autographed Proof Sheets, 1996 Original proof on white stock (printed in color) - first and second states on a single sheet, front and back, of Dr. Kremen's design for the cover of Vol.II, no.2, of The North Carolina Literary Review (Black Mountain College issue) Corrected proof, in color, on printer's stock, of The North Carolina Literary Review (Black Mountain College issue) Four sheets of white stock with color proofs printed on seven sides for the catalog to accompany the exhibition of C#: Collage & Sculpture by Irwin Kremen [1996].