The Philip I. and Muriel M. Berman Papers: Collection I
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SERIES I.G Wenz
In 1993 Philip Berman and an international group of ten sculptors organized the Lehigh Valley's first sculpture workshop, using the facilities and expertise of the Wenz Co. stone works in Allentown and of the L&M Fabrication and Machine Inc. metal fabricators in Bath. The resulting sculptures were then offered by the Bermans as gifts to various institutions; recipients include the Lehigh Valley Hospital, where the Berman Sculpture Park was dedicated in 1994; several of the Pennsylvania State University campuses; the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg; Ursinus College; Lehigh University; and the sculpture park Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey.
Series I.G contains correspondence with individual artists, sketches and photographs of their work, and biographical information about them. Documentation of the evolution of the workshop is supplied by various letters, financial records, and printed articles by Myra Yellin Goldfarb and others. Some information on an annual workshop in New York City, the Triangle Artists' Workshop, is found in Box 90 Folder 13 as well as in Box 91 Folder 24. The printed catalog for an important show at Grounds for Sculpture in 1995 is in Box 91 Folder 23. Further documentation of the various gifts of sculpture will be found in Series IV.H (Art Gifts).
Box 90
Folders
8 Biographies (a): [1993?]
9 Biographies (b): [1993?]
10 Catalogs: [1993?]
11 Correspondence -- General: 1979-1992
12 Correspondence -- General: [1993?]
13 Correspondence -- General: 1993 Jan.-Aug.
14 Correspondence -- General: 1993 Sept.-Dec.
15 Correspondence -- General: 1994-1995
16 Correspondence -- General: 1995 Jan.-Feb.
17 Correspondence -- General: 1995 Aug.-1996
18 Miscellaneous Printed: 1993-1996
19 Photos: 1995
Box 91
Folders
1 Work Orders: 1991-1992
2 Work Orders: 1992-1993
3 Various Artists: 1989-1995
4 Cognet, Roland: 1993
5 Ellis, Clay: 1993
6 Foster, John: 1992
7 Foster, John: 1993-1995
8 Garofalo, Mark: 1992-1995
9 Hide, Peter: 1993
10 Hock, John M.: 1990-1995
11 Isherwood, Jon: 1992-1994
12 Kainz, Daniel: 1994-1997
13 Shaffer, Mary: 1993-1997
14 Shaw, Ernest: 1994
15 Smith, Leon: 1993
16 Sternal, Thomas: 1989, 1993
17 Stirner, Karl: 1993-1994
18 Tobin, Steve: 1992-1996
19 Witkin, Isaac: 1993-1996
20 Zweygardt, Glenn: 1992
21 Gifts: 1989-1993 Aug.
22 Gifts: 1993 Sept.-1996
23 Grounds for Sculpture: 1994-1996
24 Triangle Artists' Workshop: 1995-1997
SERIES I.H Get Well Cards and Condolences
Philip Berman's illness in the spring of 1997 occasioned a large number of get well cards and letters. His death on November 26, 1997, brought an outpouring of memorial gifts and condolence cards and letters from friends and admirers in many walks of life and in many parts of the world. This important correspondence, including copies of a few of the acknowledgements from Muriel Berman and Janet Heffner, has been arranged, to the extent practicable, in chronological order as a separate subseries, having been received as a distinct file. Letters from many of the Bermans' close friends and associates will be found here. Since a full indexing of these friends is not possible, the names of a few have been added to the folder listings as a minimal guide to the researcher.
Box 92
Folders
1 Get Well Cards: Spring 1997 (a)
2 Get Well Cards: Spring 1997 (b)
3 Get Well Cards: Spring 1997 (c)
4 Get Well Cards: Spring 1997 (d)
5 Get Well Cards: Spring 1997 (e)
6 Get Well Cards: Spring 1997 (f)
7 Acknowledgments to Get Well Cards: Spring 1997
8 Condolences Recording Gifts to Hadassah: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (a)
(Includes an acknowledgement letter by Muriel Berman)
9 Condolences Recording Gifts to Hadassah: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (b)
10 Condolences Recording Gifts to Hadassah: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (c)
11 Condolences Recording Gifts to Hadassah: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (d)
12 Condolences Recording Gifts to Hadassah: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (e)
13 Condolences Recording Gifts to Hadassah: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (f)
14 Condolences Recording Gifts to Hadassah: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (g)
15 Condolences Recording Gifts to Hadassah: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (h)
16 Condolences Recording Gifts to Hadassah: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (i)
17 Condolences Recording Gifts to Hadassah: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (j)
Box 93
Folders
1 Condolences Recording Gifts to Various Organizations: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (a)
2 Condolences Recording Gifts to Various Organizations: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (b)
3 Condolences Recording Gifts to Various Organizations: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (c)
4 Condolences Recording Gifts to Various Organizations: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (d)
5 Condolences Recording Gifts to Various Organizations: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (e)
6 Condolences Recording Gifts to Various Organizations: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (f)
7 Condolences Recording Gifts to Various Organizations: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (g)
8 Condolences Recording Gifts to Various Organizations: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (h)
9 Condolences Recording Gifts to Various Organizations: 1997 Dec.-1998 Feb. (i)
10 Cards Accompanying Flowers and Gift Baskets (a)
11 Cards Accompanying Flowers and Gift Baskets (b)
12 Condolence Letters: 1997 Nov.
13 Condolence Letters: 1997 Dec.1
14 Condolence Letters: 1997 Dec.2
15 Condolence Letters: 1997 Dec.3
16 Condolence Letters: 1997 Dec.4-5
17 Condolence Letters: 1997 Dec.7-9
18 Condolence Letters: 1997 Dec.10-12
(Includes acknowledgment letter and printed card by Muriel Berman)
Box 94
Folders
1 Condolence Letters: 1997 Dec.14-31
2 Condolence Letters: 1998 Jan.1-20
3 Condolence Letters: 1998 Jan.21-April
4 Condolence Cards: [n.d.] (a)
5 Condolence Cards: [n.d.] (b)
6 Condolence Cards: 1997 Oct.-Nov.28
7 Condolence Cards: 1997 Nov.28
8 Condolence Cards: 1997 Nov.29
9 Condolence Cards: 1997 Nov.29-30
10 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.1 (a)
11 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.1 (b)
12 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.1 (c)
13 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.1 (d)
14 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.1 (e)
15 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.1 (f)
16 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.1 (g)
17 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.1 (h)
Box 95
Folders
1 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.2 (a)
2 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.2 (b)
3 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.2 (c)
4 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.2 (d)
5 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.3 (a)
6 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.3 (b)
7 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.3 (c)
8 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.3 (d)
9 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.4 (a)
10 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.4 (b)
11 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.4 (c)
12 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.4 (d)
13 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.5 (a)
14 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.5 (b)
Box 96
Folders
1 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.6
2 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.6-7
3 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.8 (a)
4 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.8 (b)
5 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.8 (c)
6 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.9 (a)
7 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.9 (b)
8 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.10
9 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.11-12
10 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.13-14
11 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.15
12 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.16
13 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.17
14 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.18
15 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.20-21
16 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.22
Box 97
Folders
1 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.23-24
2 Condolence Cards: 1997 Dec.26-31
3 Condolence Cards: 1998 Jan.1-6
4 Condolence Cards: 1998 Jan.8-12
5 Condolence Cards: 1998 Jan.13-April 20
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