Scope and Contents: This collection provides documentation on the works of Un-ichi Hiratsuka and his family. It also follows his family’s friendship with the art collector Theodore Van Zelst and his family. This collection outlines Hiratsuka’s work in the United States and Japan through multiple exhibition catalogues and correspondence related to these exhibitions. Documents in this collection include press releases, advertisements, catalogues, newspaper articles, posters, books, invitations, and a video tape. There is also some information provided on his daughter, Keiko Moore (also a printmaker), and his granddaughter, Thalia Moore (a cellist). This collection spans from 1959 to 2002.
For more information concerning this collection, please see the Rare Books Van Zelst acquisition file.