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New blog post on the Smithsonian Archives of American Art website on John Vassos and Television Design

4/28/2016

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Recently, I wrote here about the Advanced Design Center at RCA. There is more on it and Vassos's contribution to television design at the 1939/1940 New York World's Fair in this blog post on the Smithsonian Archives of American Art website. Click here to read the post. I am grateful for the incredible assistance of the Archives of American Art staff, especially curator Liza Kirwin and Elizabeth Botten as well as the newly retired Darcy Tell. My project owes a lot to their kind persistence as I worked my way through the archives over a period of ten years! There is a lot of material there, over 20 boxes, and since it is uncatalogued, I had to revisit the archives many, many times. I also had a Douglass Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research in 2005 and 2006 and was able to devote my time to work in the archives as well as share my work with other fellows and scholars at the Smithsonian Institution. 
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    Danielle Shapiro, is a writer and author of the first biography of John Vassos, modernist Greek-American industrial designer - John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life. 

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