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[KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner (1897-1961)] – An archive of material related to Enit Kaufman’s artistic career, including ALSs , , photographs, clippings, drafts of written works, costumes, some materials inscribed by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and 27 books.
Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021 4:00AM CT
Lots 308-687
Nov 10, 2021 4:00AM CT
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[KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner (1897-1961)] – An archive of material related to Enit Kaufman’s artistic career, including a group of ALSs from Anton Hanak to Kaufman, ALSs to her husband Edward ca 1944, files of carbon copies, exhibition announcements, official photographs of her paintings and portraits, photographs, press clippings, drafts of written works, costumes, and 27 books. Including a small group of notes and books inscribed by educator and reformer Dorothy Canfield Fisher.

Included are 6 autograph letters signed, from Anton Hanak (1875-1934) to Ernestine Zerner [Enit Zerner Kaufman]. Each 1 page, with original envelope, written in "cryptographic" hand. Hanak was a prominent Austrian sculptor in his day, and was known for his monumental sculptures, tombs and fountain figures of pre-expressionist style. Each letter is written in a distinctive hand to Enit Kaufman, who was born in Vienna, where she would live until 1939.

The archive also includes an album of press clippings and a box of photographs of her paintings and exhibitions, and copies of a dissertation about her work by Cary Cardova, World War II America Through Portraiture: Enit Kaufman's American Portraits.

With a group of 27 books including: CANFIELD, Dorothy (1879-1958). Basque People. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931. -- CANFIELD, Dorothy (1879-1958). Four-Square. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1949. -- RUSKIN, John (1819-1900). Ruskin's Lectures on Art. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1870. -- FISHER, Dorothy Canfield. American Portraits. Pictures by Enit Kaufman. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946. -- Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society. New Haven and London: The Yale Univeristy Press, 1974. 2 Volumes. -- And 23 others. Complete list available on request. 

Property from the Estate of Mr. Curt and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, New York and Snowmass Village, Colorado
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