Neil E. Matthew collection
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Not requestable
Scope and Contents
Series one of the Neil E. Matthew Collection contains biographical materials separated into seven folders within Box 1. The series has notes and course outlines for multiple courses taught by himself and Michael A. Smith, Robert Forth’s essays “Toward a Critical Vocabulary” and “The Third Mode of Documentary”, articles and exhibition announcements regarding Matthew, as well as correspondences.
Series two contains photographic materials of Matthew including a “Retrospective Portfolio” of 358 prints and 4 pages of slides dated circa 1940 to 1995, Matthew’s resume, albums of negatives corresponding to the included album “Photographic Contact Album” containing approximately 630 prints from the fall of 1953 to summer 1957. A list of portrait sitters is in the inventory section of the finding aid.
Dates
- 1953-1995
Creator
- Matthew, Neil E. (1925-2010) (Person)
Language of Materials
Material in English
Conditions Governing Access
To access materials from this collection, please contact CCP-RefDesk@email.arizona.edu
Conditions Governing Use
Duplication of unpublished material is prohibited without permission. Other restrictions may apply. See the Archivist for information.
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Biographical Note
Neil E. Matthew was born in 1925 in Anderson, Indiana and graduated from Anderson High School in 1943. He worked at a bank for two years before going to Arizona State College where he studied Art Education from 1945-1949. Moving back to Indiana he taught art and U.S. before being drafted into the Korean War in 1950. After returning from the Korean War he received his MFA in painting at Indiana University in 1955. He continued to teach art and U.S. history at various high schools while studying printmaking at the University of Iowa in 1957-1958 and painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart (where he received a Student Fulbright Grant) in 1959-1960. He taught introductory art classes at the Kokomo Campus of Indiana University in 1960 Matthew married librarian and archivist Jeannette Morrow in 1963, and in 1964 taught in a full-time position at I.U. Indianapolis, where he remained until his retirement in 1987. Matthew and his wife moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1989 and traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. Matthew died in 2010.
Extent
1.5 Linear Feet
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
This collection contains materials documenting the career and life of Neil E. Matthew (1925 - 2010), photographer, printmaker, and Associate Professor Emeritus, Herron School of Art, Indiana University. The collection consists primarily of materials relating to the period of time Matthew was a student of Henry Holmes Smith at Indiana University in the 1950s. The collection also includes 2 essays written in March, 1963, by Robert Forth, who was a student of Henry Holmes Smith, which Matthew acquired from Smith in 1963. Photography periodicals donated by Matthew have been transferred to the CCP Library. The collection is active.
Arrangement
The Collection is arranged into the following series:
- Series 1: Biographical materials, n.d., 1953-1980s, 1 box
- Series 2: Photographic materials, n.d., circa 1940-1995, 1 box
- Appendix A: Index to portraits in the album
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Neil and Jeannette Morrow Matthew, 1990, 2006, 2007.
Bibliography
Neil E. Matthew.
Legacy.com, Arizona Daily Star, 07 January 2010, www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/tucson/name/neil-matthew-obituary?pid=138253012. Accessed 03 November 2020.
Processing Information
Finding aid updated by A. Rule on 9/27/07, by Meghan Jordan in May 2016, and by Tai Huesgen in November 2020.
- Title
- Neil E. Matthew collection 1953-1995
- Author
- Finding aid created by CCP Archives Staff
- Date
- © 2020
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Dacs (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English
Repository Details
Part of the Center for Creative Photography Archives Repository
