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Oral history interview with Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 1964 Apr. 13-Sept. 16
BH: Did you have anything to do with the Art Association Annual Shows here, were you active in those?
SM: The Los Angeles Art Association?
BH: Yes.
SM: No. That was run by a woman by the name of Wurdemann . . . .
BH: Helen Wurdemann is still there.
SM: Under the advice of Feitelson. I never had anything to do with it.
BH: Well, I just wondered if you had exhibited work by many of the people from the Project during 1940’s and ’50’s.
SM: I don’t think so. I was a member of the thing for some time but I was a member of a lot of things, most of which I never went to.
BH: If you went to all of them you wouldn’t have time to paint.
SM: I think that in the course of the years that they have exhibited, my pictures, some pictures, in that place. I know that Miss Wurdemann owns one or more pictures because I remember distinctly her coming down here once and buying one. But outside of that I know nothing about it.
BH: She told me she had two or three of your pictures that she’s very fond of. She’s very proud of the fact that she has them.
SM: She was at that opening the other night in La Cienega Blvd., I think.
BH: Yes. She said she closed her gallery early to go over to it . . . asked if I’d been there. And of course we had. And she was telling me something about, and asked if you remembered the times that you had luncheon at sidewalk tables near the old Stendahl Galleries which are now I believe where Town House is on Wilshire Boulevard …
SM: Yes, right opposite the Town House. Yes I remember it very well.
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lorser feitelson and the invention of hard edge painting 1945-1965
chronology
1939
Lithograph, Reading, is included in the New York World’s Fair. Begins directing exhibitions
with Helen Wurdemann at the Los Angeles Art Association. Lithograph, Post-Surrealist Configuration:
Biological Symphony is exhibited at the Whitney Annual, New York.
lorser feitelson selected bibliography
Wurdemann, Helen. “Variety in the Los Angeles Area.” Art in America, Fall 1959, p. 129. Review.
Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Fishes in the National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution, 2: Blenniidae
Blennius multifilis Girard, 1858:169.
[Syntypes]
USNM [8168 (17)], “specimens collected at SL Joseph’s Island, Texas, by G. Wurdemann.” Remarks: Girard (1858) neither indicated the number of specimens nor a catalog number for his syntypes. Girard (1859:27-28), in reporting on the same specimens, provided a table of specimens for Blennius multifilis in which he twice listed the catalog number 649. Beside the first 649 he indicated “1 adult” and beside the second 649, “17 young.” The USNM catalog ledger, appropriately, indicates the presence of 18 specimens in USNM 649, together with the correct collection data, but there is no indication that these specimens are types (other lots, pertaining to different species, with adjacent catalog numbers are indicated as types). We were unable to locate a lot bearing USNM 649. A search of the collection, however, showed that USNM 8168, Hypleurocheilus geminatus (Wood) (a senior synonym of Blennius multifilis), comprising 17 specimens (23.4-65.9 mm SL), had the same collection data as USNM 649. This suggests strongly that the 17 specimens reported by Girard (1859:28) were assigned a new catalog number, and that the single specimen has been lost. Accordingly, we consider the specimens in USNM 8168 to be syntypes. Bath (1976:183), understandably unaware of the circumstances, reported that there was no type material for Blennius multifilis
Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Fishes in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 3: Beloniformes (Teleostei)
Belone scrutator Girard, 1858:170. Lectotype: USNM 834 (198 mm BL). Texas, St. Joseph’s Island; Gustav Wurdemann; 1853. Designated herein by Collette. D 14, A 18, Pt 12-12; vertebrae 45 + 26 =
71; predorsal scales 245; female with only right ovary. Paralectotype: USNM 309268 (212). Collected with the lectotype
Gustavus Wurdemann was commissioned by the Smithsonian Institute to perform coastal surveys in Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. United States Coastal Survey. 1854-1858
List of Expeditions (Smithsonian and Non-Smithsonian), 1849-1877
He also submitted specimens to the National Anthropological Archives
United States Army Medical Museum Anatomical Section, Records Relating to Specimens Transferred to the Smithsonian Institution
Was searching the Minnesota State Historical Society site for birth and death records and I thought I would check and see what else was there… I was very surprised to see this:
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Pardon Applications: 1983-1987 (bulk 1984-1987) OPEN
Arranged in chronological order by year; thereunder, in alphabetical order by applicant’s name.
Location Box
108.I.8.1B 197 1983. Harding. 1 folder.
1984. Barrett – Ziebell. 40 folders.
1985. Arbuckle – Larson. 15 folders.
108.I.8.2F 198 1985. McFarlane – Zirbes. 16 folders.
1986. Brannan – Kremer. 21 folders.
108.I.8.3B 199 1986. Fritz – Wulf. 27 folders.
1987. Anthony – Johnson. 13 folders.
108.I.8.4F 200 1987. Kirksy – Wurdeman. 19 folders.
Hello,
I am the daughter of Anna Mary Auslander, granddaughter of Audrey May Wurdemann. My father actually found this site and sent it to me. It’s great to see family! My mom’s parents died when she was young so I have no memory of them myself, but it prompts me even more to try and know who they were and understand our family heritage. I have some pictures of the Wurdemann mansion (Lake Forest Park, WA), Dr. Harry Vanderbilt Wurdemann, his wife May and their daughter Audrey (my grandmother). I will try to scan them into my computer and send them to you to add to the site.
Thanks,
Angela Morgan Crain
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DIRECTORY OF Scientific Societies OF WASHINGTON
COMPRISING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL, BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES
1889
Published by the Joint Commission FEBRUARY, 1889
WURDEMANN, Dr. H.V. (Harry Vanderbilt), Philosophical Society
Geological Survey. 1115 O Street, Washington, DC
805 Grand Ave. , Milwaukee, Wis.
I thought I might add bit to your search
Marianne Hendrika Antonia Wurdemann – born 11.3.1954 Durban South African.
Daughter of Wilhelm Ernst August Wurdemann – born 25.3.1925 Amsterdam Holland
Son of Wilhelm Ernst August Born Holland or Germany 1900
I had a brother – Robert Wurdemann ( seems to be a popular Wurdemann name) born 27.11.1957 Durban South Africa died 2.9.1988
He has a son Ryan Wurdemann born 9.12.1983 in Durban South Africa who now has a son Troy Wurdemann born 16.1.2009
My father was an only child. I know his father was from a large family, although not many survived WW 1
Have always searched high and low for other members of the Wurdemann family without much success.
I currently live in Melbourne Australia..
Hope this is of interest
Marianne Fox
Hello! My name is Lew Wurdeman and I more or less took over the family tree work when my aunt passed away. Others have done work on it took, but none of the work is consolidated.
This project began on wurdeman.org, but I thought migrating to wurdemann.org would be more inclusive of all the various variations of the name. We are aware of Würdemann, Wuerdemann, and Wurdeman. Are their other variations? I heard there was a Woerdemann or Wördemann but I have never encountered one.
Over the years I have had this site online, I have received emails from a wide variety of people. The problem is, most of their questions and information ended up in my mailbox, not on the web site. I thought I would put this blog up and try to encourage people to contribute to the photo gallery.
Please help gather various genealogy information for the various arms of the family to save what we have in our quest to find out more!
Hopefully over time we can put all the pieces together of this diverse, creative, inventive, and marvelous family!
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