Howard Holtzman Collection on Isadora Duncan - Calisphere

Isadora Duncan 1905-1977
Material about Isadora Duncan 1898-1977
Finding Aid for the <strong>Howard</strong>
<strong>Holtzman</strong> <strong>Collection</strong> on Isadora
Duncan, ca. 1878-1990
Material about Isadora Duncan 1898-1977
Physical Description: 9 boxes (4.5 linear feet) and 17 oversize boxes.
Scope and Content Note
This subseries includes materials about Isadora Duncan and her work. Dance programs
for performances by Isadora Duncan, 1906-1927, and by "The Isadorables" and "The
Isadora Duncan Dancers of Moscow," 1919-1929. Most of the original drawings, sketches
and prints of Isadora Duncan, 1905-1952, are framed or in portfolios. There are works by
many artists, including Edward Gordon Craig, Raymond Duncan, Jules Grandjouan, Jose
Clara, Dunoyer De Segonzac, Valentine Lecomte, Abram Walkowitz, Leon Bakst, Berthe
Martinie, Myron Nutting, and Van Saanen Algi. Also included are three-dimensional works
by Antoine Bourdelle, Marcel Sprank and Lare Hayman. Writings about Isadora Duncan,
primarily magazine articles from 1900-1987, are organized chronologically. <strong>Howard</strong>
<strong>Holtzman</strong> also researched and typed citations about Isadora Duncan, organized by works,
and corresponded with Irma Duncan from 1974 until her death in 1977. Many of the oral
history interviews on reel-to-reel tape and cassette, with Ruth St. Denis, Hedwig Reicher
and Cornelia Lysight, a childhood friend of Isadora Duncan, were conducted by <strong>Howard</strong>
<strong>Holtzman</strong>. Two oral histories created by radio station KPFK are also included.
Box 2, Folder 23 Correspondence between Irma Duncan and <strong>Howard</strong> <strong>Holtzman</strong> and related material
1976-1977
Box 2, Folder 23 [Account of his visit with Grace Duncan] 1975 March 11
Creator/Collector: Creator: [John Dougherty, Los Angeles]
Physical Description: 7 leaves (7 pages), typescript (carbon).
Language of Material: Material is in English.
Scope and Content Note
With undated photocopy of article by James Bacon, "Redgrave Won't Attend the
Academy Awards" which mentions Grace Duncan.
Box 2, Folder 22 Letter to Mme. Duncan Rogers 1974 September 4
Creator/Collector: Creator: <strong>Howard</strong> <strong>Holtzman</strong>, Hollywood
Physical Description: 4 leaves (4 pages), photocopy of typescript.
Language of Material: Material is in English.
Scope and Content Note
<strong>Holtzman</strong> describes in detail the highlights of his Isadora Duncan collection and
some of the circumstances in which he acquired certain items.
Box 2, Folder 22 Letter to Mr. <strong>Holtzman</strong> 1974 September 7
Creator/Collector: Creator: Irma Duncan Rogers, Santa Barbara
Physical Description: 1 leaf (1 page), typescript, signed.
Language of Material: Material is in English.
Box 2, Folder 22 Letter to Mme. Duncan Rogers 1974 September 11
Creator/Collector: Creator: <strong>Howard</strong> <strong>Holtzman</strong>, Hollywood
Physical Description: 2 leaves (2 pages), typescript.
Language of Material: Material is in English.
Box 2, Folder 22 Letter to Mme. Duncan Rogers 1974 September 28
Creator/Collector: Creator: <strong>Howard</strong> <strong>Holtzman</strong>, Hollywood
Physical Description: 1 leaf (1 page), photocopy of typescript, one line marked
out with ink.
Language of Material: Material is in English.
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