Robert Sully papers
Scope and Contents
Photographs, letters, interview transcripts, and typescripts, of and about musicians for a planned photographic essay on concert artists.
Dates
- Creation: 1970s-1997
Creator
- Sully, Robert (Person)
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Conditions Governing Use
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Conditions Governing Use
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Biographical note
Robert Sully was born on November 20, 1918 in New York City. He was an actor, known for his roles in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Love Letters (1945) and The Heavenly Body (1944). After his acting career, Sully worked in the area of design. He owned Sully Engineering from 1944-1949; became an executive with Raymond Loewy Associates from 1951-1953; and worked as a designer at Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall from 1953-1961. In 1961, he founded the Argonaut Company, specializing in design and planning for commercial, industrial and residential projects. He earned a Masters and Ph.D from Claremont Graduate School. After moving to Santa Barbara in 1992, he taught courses at UC Santa Barbara on advertising and culture. Sully died on May 15, 2007 in Santa Barbara.
Extent
4.42 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Robert Sully was an actor and a designer. In addition to working for such well known firms as Raymond Loewy Associates, he also founded his own design firm, the Argonaut Company. He earned a Masters and Ph.D from Claremont Graduate School, and taught at UC Santa Barbara on advertising and culture. The papers include photographs, typescripts, interview transcripts, and letters for a planned photographic essay on concert artists.
Acquisition
Donated by Peter Williams, July 2, 2010.
Subject
- Sully, Robert -- Archives (Person)
- American Ballet Theatre -- Photographs (Organization)
- Ashkenazy, Vladimir -- Photographs (Person)
- Bennett, Tony -- Photographs (Person)
- Kipnis, Igor -- Photographs (Person)
- Marceau, Marcel -- Photographs (Person)
- Menuhin, Yehudi -- Photographs (Person)
- Ormandy, Eugene -- Photographs (Person)
- Piatigorsky, Gregor -- Photographs (Person)
- Rampal, Jean-Pierre -- Photographs (Person)
- Rostropovich, Mstislav, 1927-2007 -- Photographs (Person)
- Rubinstein, Artur -- Photographs (Person)
- Segovia, Andrés -- Photographs (Person)
- Sills, Beverly -- Photographs (Person)
- Stern, Isaac -- Photographs (Person)
- Sutherland, Joan -- Photographs (Person)
- Title
- Finding aid for the Robert Sully papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Sue Luftschein
- Date
- 2014 March
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2022 August: Finding aid updated by Sue Luftschein to include individual container instances, reordered agent links, and to be DACS compliant.
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Music Library Repository
Doheny Memorial Library, G-24
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-1822 United States
music@usc.edu