Yaddo: Making American Culture
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Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY © 2008 Brian Vanden Brink Photographs	Milton Avery. Sail Loft and Sand Spit. Watercolor on paper, 1957. The Corporation of Yaddo. © 2008 Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
William Gass painted by Philip Guston, 1969. Photographer unknown. Collection of Tom and Musa Mayer.	Louis Comfort Tiffany. View of the White Mountains Through the Yaddo Rose Garden Portico. Stained-glass window, ca. 1900. The Corporation of Yaddo. Photograph by Emma Dodge Hanson.
Philip Reisman. The South. Etching and drypoint, 1934. © and reproduced courtesy of the Estate of Louise K. Reisman.	Ruth Gikow. Flood. Color silkscreen, ca. 1936. The New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Print Collection.
Louis Lozowick. Roofs and Sky. Silkscreen, ca. 1939. The New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Print Collection.	Writer John Cheever (third from left), with, at his right, Yaddo Executive Director Elizabeth Ames (with her dog, Brownie); others unidentified, ca. 1937. Photographer unknown.
Nan Lurie. Art Colony Preview. Lithograph, n.d. The New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Print Collection.	1942 Yaddo guests. Standing: Newton Arvin, Nicholas Marsicano, Nathan Asch, Philip Rahv, Michael Seide, Karol Rathaus, Carson McCullers, Malcolm Cowley, unidentified man, Langston Hughes, Kenneth Fearing, unidentified man, Leonard Ehrlich, Jean Liberté. Seated: Mrs. Asch, Frances Mingorancz, Merle Marsicano, Katherine Anne Porter, Helena Kuo, Juan Mingorancz, Nathalie Rahv, Elizabeth Ames. The New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Yaddo Records.
1943 Yaddo guests. Seated: Isabella Howland, Margaret Walker, Jean Stafford, Harold Shapero, Tamaras Kerr, Agnes Smedley, Karin Michaëlis, Carson McCullers, Alfred Kantorowicz. Standing: Kappo Phelan, Elizabeth Ames, Rebecca Pitts, Paul Zucker, Hans Sahl, Langston Hughes. The New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Yaddo Records.	Detail of Yaddo Admissions Committee note regarding Truman Capote, 1946. The New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Yaddo Records.
John Kirkpatrick, Frederick Fennell, and an unidentified woman rehearsing for 1952 Music Festival. Photograph by H.B. Settle. The New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Yaddo Records.	Program, first Festival of Contemporary American Music, April 30 and May 1, 1932. The Corporation of Yaddo.
Daybook of Elizabeth Ames, open to entries for March 27 and 28, 1949. The New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Yaddo Records.	James Baldwin. Detail of Go Tell It on the Mountain, inscribed to Elizabeth Ames. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. The Corporation of Yaddo.
Elizabeth Ames, George Foster Peabody, and Marjorie Peabody Waite, 1928. Photographer Unknown. The New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Yaddo Records.	Philip Reisman. Yaddo Map. Ink and watercolor on paper, 1934. © and reproduced courtesy of the Estate of Louise K. Reisman.
Jacob Lawrence. Confrontation at the Bridge. Silkscreen on paper, 1975. The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division. © 2008 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.	Mary Frank. Man in the Water. Color lithograph, 1987. The New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Gift of Mrs. Lucien Goldschmidt.