| LC control no. | n 50039039 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Delano, Jack, 1914-1997 |
| Variant(s) | Joaquín, 1914-1997 Ovcharov, Jacob, 1914-1997 Ovcharov, Jascha, 1914-1997 |
| Other standard no. | 15606251 Q639121 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Philadelphia (Pa.) Puerto Rico |
| Birth date | 1914-08-01 |
| Death date | 1997-08-13 |
| Place of birth | Ukraine |
| Place of death | San Juan (P.R.) |
| Field of activity | Photography Graphic arts Music Motion pictures--Production and direction |
| Affiliation | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Puerto Rico. División de Educación de la Comunidad |
| Profession or occupation | Composers Photographers Motion picture producers and directors Graphic artists Illustrators |
| Found in | His Sonatina, for flute and piano, 1965. Far from Main street, c1994: CIP t.p. (Jack Delano; Depression-era photographer) In search of maestro Rafael Cordero, c1993: CIP t.p. (text and illus. by Jack and Irene Delano) That's life, 1995: CIP t.p. (Jack Delano; Joaquín) galley, etc. (pseud. Joaquín; b. 1914, Kiev, Ukraine; photographer, film maker, classical music composer, and book illustrator) N.Y. times, Aug. 15, 1997 (Jack Delano; photographer with Farm Security Administration in 1930s and 1940s, d. Aug. 12 at age 83 in Puerto Rico where he had lived since 1946; b. Aug. 1, 1914 in Ukraine as Jacob Ovcharov; came to U.S. at age 5; grew up in Philadelphia) Grove music online, January 26, 2015 (Delano, Jack (Ovcharov, Jascha); born near Kiev, Ukraine, August 1, 1914, died August 13, 1997, San Juan, Puerto Rico; American composer) Artist Directory. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Viewed July 7, 2022: (Jack Delano ; b. in Kiev, Ukraine, 1914 ; d. in San Juan, PR, 1997.Photographer, filmmaker, graphic designer, illustrator, and composer. Delano's family came to Philadelphia in 1923 after fleeing the chaos of the Russian Revolution in 1917. He studied music at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and later studied illustration and design at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he received a grant to travel to Europe. There, he became interested in photography, and when he returned to Philadelphia he was hired by the Federal Art Project, the arts division of the Works Progress Administration. Master photographer Paul Strand saw an exhibition of Delano's photographs and urged him to move to New York, where he met Irene (soon to be his wife), with whom he traveled, eventually, in 1941, to Puerto Rico for a documentary project with the Farm Security Administration, which had hired him on Roy Stryker's recommendation. In 1946 he settled on the island definitively. His great contribution to art in Puerto Rico occurred when he took part in the organization of the Cinema and Graphics Unit (CGU) of the Commission of Parks and Recreation (the CGU later becoming the Division of Community Education); he was ever-active in producing documentaries, films, and photographs, and took part in the island's first years of television and radio. In the late eighties, the Smithsonian Institution published a book of his photographs titled Puerto Rico Mio: Four Decades of Change.) <https://www.mapr.org/en/museum/proa/artist/delano-jack> Jack Delano. Wikipedia entry. viewed July 7, 2022: (Jack Delano (born Jacob Ovcharov; August 1, 1914 - August 12, 1997) was a Ukrainian immigrant who became an accomplished photographer for the Works Progress Administration, United Fund, and most notably, the Farm Security Administration (FSA). He wore many hats as he also was a composer known for his use of Puerto Rican folk material, started a television production company, and was a cartoonist, poet, moviemaker, professor, and architectural designer.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Delano&oldid=1089588582> |
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