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The Ray Yoshida papers have been fully digitized and are available to view online: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/ray-yoshida-papers-16081

Ray Yoshida (1930-2009) was a painter, collagist, and educator in Chicago, Illinois.  The papers include biographical material, personal correspondence, notebooks and writings, teaching records, personal business records, printed material, source material, photographs, sketchbooks, artwork by Yoshida and others, and scrapbooks. Items within the collection also document Yoshida's personal interest in collecting folk art and artifacts.

The business records of gallery director Nathan Halper’s Provincetown galleries have been fully digitized and available to view online: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/nathan-halper-business-records-9671

Nathan Halper (1907-1983) was an art dealer and gallery director from Provincetown, Massachusetts. The collection relates to Kootz Gallery, H-C Gallery, HCE Gallery, and Sun Gallery - all based in Provincetown. The bulk of the papers consists of correspondence with artists, estate executors, collectors, galleries, and museums. Correspondents include Milton Avery, Anthony Caro, John Murray Cuddihy, Marsden Hartley, Hans Hoffman, Samuel Kootz, Robert Motherwell, David Smith, Richard Stankeiwicz, and many others. The records also include business and financial records, photographs, and printed material.

The papers of landscape painter and educator Reuben Tam have been fully digitized and are available to view online: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/reuben-tam-papers-8481

Reuben Tam was born in Hawaii and moved to New York City in 1941.  Tam became affiliated with the Downtown Gallery in 1945 and was a prolific exhibitor in national and regional shows, winning critical praise as an abstract landscape painter.  He taught art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School and other universities and colleges.  

The papers document his career as a painter in New York, Maine, and Hawaii. Tam's work was deeply influenced by coastal landscapes both in Maine and in his native Hawaii.  This rich collection includes biographical material, correspondence, diaries, writings, printed material, sketchbooks, and scrapbooks.

The papers of Reginald A. Gammon have been fully digitized and are available to view online! Reginald A. Gammon (1921-2005) was a painter and art educator, working in New York City, Michigan, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gammon was a founding member of Spiral, an African American artist's collective and member of the New Mexico Afro-American Artist Guild. Gammon also taught in the New York public schools and at Western Michigan University. View the collection online now at our website: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/reginald-gammon-papers-13635 Image citation: Reginald Gammon, circa 1960 / Mary Ellen Andrews, photographer. Reginald Gammon papers, 1927-2007, bulk 1960-2005. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

The papers of Boston art historian and museum curator W. G. Constable have been fully digitized and are available to view online! W.G. Constable (1887-1976) worked as the Assistant Director at the National Gallery and Director of the Courtauld Institute, before becoming the Curator of Paintings at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from 1938 until his retirement in 1957. During WWII, Constable's was a member of the American Defense Harvard Group which led to the formation of the Roberts Commission.