Biographical material consists of curriculum vitae, lists of exhibitions and awards.
Letters relating to awards and fellowships received by Twardowicz, in addition to various other biographical materials, are contained in the Scrapbooks (series 3) and Printed Materials and Related Items (series 4).
Series 2 :Writings , 1951-2008 (Box 1; 0.1 linear feet)Writings consist of an unpublished hand-written 70 page autobiographical memoir "A Life with No Tears" by Twardowicz. The file also contains a master's thesis "Stanley Tardowicz, Tracing the Roots of an American Modernist" written by Kim Greer Verzyl in 1978, which includes Verzyl's edited October 30, 1976 interview of Twardowicz. Also found is a writing concerning Twardowicz by Gerald Nicoisa, July 10, 2008.
Scrapbooks (two volumes) mainly consist of exhibition announcements, catalogs, brochures and lists, newspaper and magazine clippings, and letters advising of awards and fellowships. Also found are three ribbons from the Ohio State Fairs of 1949 and 1951.
Both volumes, removed from three-ring binders, retain their original collation.
Printed material and related items consist of exhibition announcements and catalogs, press clippings, and letters from associates and institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Exhibition catalogs are from galleries in Rome, Italy and San Paulo, Brazil as well as local galleries and institutions. There are no files for the years 1971 and 1977.
Also found is an audio cassette recording of a 1974 interview with Twardowicz by Rob Carter done for WHPC radio in New York on the occasion of Twardowicz's exhibition at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, Long Island and a VHS-C video "Stan's Painting Show," September, 1995, Lanning Gallery, Columbus, Ohio.
Of note are the April, 1956 letter advising Tardowicz that he has won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in Creative Painting (1956 file) and photocopies of two drawings of Tardowicz by an unidentified artist (1979 file).
This series retains the chronological order established by the creator.
Description Container Select Chronological files, 1946-1970 Select: Chronological files, 1946-1970(22 folders) Chronological files, 1972-1976 Select: Chronological files, 1972-1976(5 folders) Chronological files, 1978-2009 Select: Chronological files, 1978-2009(4 folders) Chronological files, 1960-1970 Select: Chronological files, 1960-1970(oversized items from box 1, folder 20-21; box 1, folder 23; box 1, folder 29)
The Photographs series consists of 33 photographs, six in color, including artists' portraits taken by Twardowicz, photographs of Twardowicz and other artists, and photographs of friends and family, including a photograph of what is presumably Twardowicz and his younger brother as children. There is one group photograph taken by Dorothy Lichtenstein. Most of the photographs are undated. However, some bear hand written identifications on the reverse sides.
Photographs of artists include: David Smith, Jules Olitski, Roy Lichenstein, and Roy with Dorothy Lichtenstein, Ray Parker and Ray and Lil Parker. Photographs with identified subjects are "Stan and Ann," Kenso Olcata and Betty Parsons, and a group photograph of Bill Shotwell, Jack Kerouac and Lillian Dodson, Twardowicz's wife.
Description Container Select Twardowicz, photographer, photographs of artists, circa 1960-1979 Select: Twardowicz, photographer, photographs of artists, circa 1960-1979 Dorothy Lichtenstein, photographer, group photograph, undated Select: Dorothy Lichtenstein, photographer, group photograph, undated Miscellaneous, undated Select: Miscellaneous, undated