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Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. Lecture Notes Collection, 1792-1976.

Title: Lecture Notes Collection, 1792-1976.

This collection contains student notes taken from lectures given by members of Princeton's faculty. They represent the broad range of courses taught at Princeton University and include the works of numerous famous faculty and students.

ArchivalResource: 50.1 linear ft. (86 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84675127 View

Erwin Panofsky letters

Title: Erwin Panofsky letters

Letters from Erwin Panofsky to art historians Wolfgang Stechow (1930-1931) and Lili Fröhlich-Bum (1931); and to art librarian at the Brooklyn Museum, William B. Walker (1960). The letters to Stechow were written as Stechow was preparing a review of Panofsky's book, Hercules am Scheidewege und andere anitike Bildstoffe inder neueren Kunst, and provide additional information not found in the book itself.

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c807c67b-12ce-4510-bf0e-65ecac2bc7b6 View

Steinberg, Leo, 1920-2011. Leo Steinberg research papers, 1945-1996 (bulk 1950-1993).

Title: Leo Steinberg research papers, 1945-1996 (bulk 1950-1993).

The Leo Steinberg Research Papers consist of research notes, correspondence relating to his lectures and essays, papers written by his students, several versions of some of his essays, an abandoned dissertation project, and many of his notebooks from courses he took at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. The archive reflects Steinberg's career as an art critic, lecturer and teacher from ca. 1945-ca.1996. The research notes and course notebooks give a clear picture of Steinberg's fields of interest, as well as his association with many distinguished art historians. Included are Steinberg's unpublished research on Borromini, his work on Rodin and Titian in the form of notes, photographs, lectures in typescript with notes; a few essays by others; his dissertation on Borromini, and professional correspondence such as with Rudolf Wittkower about Borromini. Correspondence about Steinberg's lecture series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and elsewhere includes letters from scholars such as Gerson Cohen, Rene d'Harnoncourt, John Canaday, Margaret Scolari Barr, André Chastel, Julius Held, H.S. Janson, Irving Lavin, Annette Michelson and Phil Leider. Also, there is correspondence with art critic Hilton Kramer about Steinberg's column in the magazine Arts; articles and letters about his essay on Jasper Johns and lecture "Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion," and reviews and versions of several essays from Steinberg's book Other criteria. The Papers also contain research notes, illustrations and several chapters for his abandoned dissertation "Afterlife of Romanesque." Includes notebooks, many with photographs and illustrations, for courses Steinberg took when he attended the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU from 1950-1963. Professors include Harry Bober, Robert Goldwater, Ernst Kitzinger, Richard Krautheimer, Karl Lehmann, Wolfgang Lotz, Bates Lowry, Erwin Panofsky, Alfred Salmony, Charles Sterling and Herbert Weissberger.

ArchivalResource: ca. 12 linear ft. (28 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84394874 View

Harris, Norman Wait, 1846-1916. Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation lectures records, 1906-1972.

Title: Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation lectures records, 1906-1972.

Series announcements (1907-1971), financial records (1949-1970), general correspondence (1938-1957), and correspondence with individual lecturers (1906-1972).

ArchivalResource: 1.7 cubic feet (5 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76952278 View

J. G. (Jan Gerrit) van Gelder papers, circa 1906-1981

Title: J. G. (Jan Gerrit) van Gelder papers circa 1906-1981

Dutch art historian. Correspondence, notes, photographs, offprints, and annotated books and journals, the bulk organized according to the historical period or artist to which the material pertains. The largest single group of material belongs to the re-publication project of J. B. de la Faille's catalogue raisonné of the work of Vincent van Gogh.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear feet; (37 boxes)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt7w1038qz View

Getty Research Institute. Study photographs of Flemish paintings and drawings (post-1600, pre-1800).

Title: Study photographs of Flemish paintings and drawings (post-1600, pre-1800). 19--?

This assembled collection of photographs covers Flemish painting and drawing from the 17th through the 18th centuries. Seventeenth-century paintings are particularly well documented, through images of works in private collections and small museums as well as major public collections. The work of approximately 700 artists is represented, with strong holdings for Jan Brueghel I, Jan Brueghel II, Pieter Brueghel II, Anthony van Dyck, Jan Fyt, Jacob Jordaens, Joos II de Momper, David Teniers II, and Peter Paul Rubens. The collection contains photographs from the archives of a number of scholars and conservators, including J.G. van Gelder, Jaap Bolten (Dutch and Flemish drawings, including photographs from the collection of J.Q. van Regteren Altena), Neil MacLaren, Sophus Michaëlis, Giannino Marchig, Mauro Pellicioli, and Erwin Panofsky. A part of the repository's Honnef Archive has also been integrated with this collection. Other scholarly sources include photographs acquired from Pomona College. Art dealers' archives constitute another source of the images in this collection. Photographs and auction catalog clippings come from the Amsterdam dealer P. de Boer and from Douwes Fine Art Gallery and Duits in London. The Flemish school is also illustrated by photographs from French & Company, Julius Weitzner, and David Koetser, as well as by duplicates of prints also found in the repository's Heim Gallery archive (Special Collections accn. no. 910004). Copy prints represent works held in public and private collections and at auction (particularly Sotheby's and Christie's), including Flemish works in the Ashmolean Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the national galleries in Dublin, London, and Washington D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; copy prints were also acquired through a campaign to document the holdings of French provincial collections. Commercial vendors and photographers include Bulloz, Photographie Giraudon, Fratelli Alinari, Bruckmann, Saskia, and Gernsheim's Corpus photographicum of drawings.

ArchivalResource: 594 boxes (ca. 49,000 photographic prints) : b&w ; 35 cm. and 47 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79880959 View

Oral history interview with Linda Nochlin

Title: Oral history interview with Linda Nochlin

An interview of Linda Nochlin conducted 2010 June 9-30, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art's Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts project at Nochlin's home in New York, N.Y.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording, master: 3 memory cards (3 hr., 51 min.) secure digital; 1.25 in.

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9403a84b5-0856-4a17-b8f9-cafb611d60e6 View

Henry-Russell Hitchcock papers

Title: Henry-Russell Hitchcock papers

The papers of architectural historian, author, critic, teacher, and museum director, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, date from 1919-1987 and measure 24.8 linear feet. Almost all of the collection is comprised of Hitchcock's correspondence files relating to academic research, teaching, curatorial interests, and professional associations. Letters are from prominent architectural historians, architects, artists, preservationists, museum directors and curators, and family and friends. Also found are two feet of writings by Hitchcock and others, scattered biographical information, miscellaneous records, printed material, and photographs of Hitchcock and architecture.Among the biographical documents are Hitchcock's birth certificate, passport, and wills. Awards, citations, honorary degrees and commendations are from the University of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan University, the Friends of Cast Iron Architecture, National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Victorian Society in America.Chronological name and subject files consist mostly of correspondence and printed material along with a small number of photographs. They include personal and professional correspondence and subject files relating to academic research, teaching, curatorial interests, and professional associations. The correspondence includes large numbers of letters from prominent architectural historians, architects, artists, preservationists, museum directors and curators. Also included are students, friends, relatives, publishers, and representatives of organizations and institutions. Among those of note are: Jere Abbott, Everett A. (Chick) Austin, Alfred H. Barr, Bernard Berenson, Eugene Berman, Leonid Berman, Lyonel Feininger, Henry (Harry) Sayles Francis, Brendan Gill, Robert Goldwater, George Howe, Philip C. Johnson, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Lincoln Kirstein, Thomas J. McCormick, Lewis Mumford, J.J.P. Oud, Erwin Panofsky, Nikolaus Pevsner, Kingsley Porter, Paul J. Sachs, R. M. Schindler, Vincent Scully, Jr., Theodore Sizer, E. Baldwin Smith, Peter van der Meulen Smith, James Soby, Victor Spark, Harold Sterner, John Summerson, Virgil Thomson, Paul Vanderbilt, Theo Van Doesburg, Helmut von Erffa, Gordon Washburn, Rudolf Wittkower, and Frank Lloyd Wright.Writings by Hitchcock consist of manuscripts and drafts of numerous published and unpublished articles, book chapters, and his masters thesis. Other writings by Hitchcock include lecture notes and texts, book reviews, notes, outlines, photo lists, and a bibliography. Among the other authors represented in this series are John Coolidge and Sir Wilfred Green.Miscellaneous records consist of the alien registration card of Hitchcock's friend Peter van der Meulen Smith, architectural drawings by Hitchcock, book contracts, and a small number of receipts and invoices.Printed material consists of articles about, by, or mentioning Henry-Russell Hitchcock, along with advertisements for his books, and postcards of architectural subjects.Photographs are of architecture, art work, events, people, places, and miscellaneous subjects; also included are color slides, negatives, and transparencies. Architectural subjects include the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and Gaudi, as well as interior and exterior views of buildings identified only by location. Photographs of people include Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Chick Austin and Ernestine Carter, Alexander Dorner, Tammy Grimes, Lincoln Kirstein, the Steinway family, and Edgar Tafel. Events recorded include the Society of Architectural Historians at the Newport Casino, Hitchcock receiving honorary degrees at the University of Glasgow and Wesleyan University, and a high tea sponsored by the Victorian Society in America. Family houses and views of Greece are among the photographs of places. Miscellaneous subjects include exhibition installations and family heirlooms.

ArchivalResource: 24.8 linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9cb624d3d-e380-4dcf-859e-da6a6a651b2c View

Walter Friedlaender Collection, 1900-1966, bulk 1930-1960

Title: Walter Friedlaender Collection 1900-1966 bulk 1930-1960

The Walter Friedlaender Collection describes the professional life of this art historian. The major focus of the collectionis his work on sixteenth and seventeenth century artists. It includes correspondence, a few published works, photographs, lecture and manuscript notes, art reference files, newspaperclippings, and poetry.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet + 1 oversized folder

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=163100 View

Bollingen Foundation Records, 1927-1981, (bulk 1945-1973)

Title: Bollingen Foundation Records 1927-1981 (bulk 1945-1973)

Endowment established in 1942 by Paul and Mary Mellon to fund scholarly research and publication in the humanities. Correspondence, memoranda, bylaws, minutes, reports on publications and projects, grant applications, financial statements, and other records concerning the genesis and administration of the foundation. Translations of literary works, editorial correspondence, and production records document publications in the Bollingen Series

ArchivalResource: 117,000 items; 460 containers plus 2 oversize; 184 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011077 View

Julius S. Held papers, ca. 1918-1999

Title: Julius S. Held papers ca. 1918-1999

Research papers of Julius Samuel Held, American art historian renowned for his scholarship in 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art, expert on Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. The ca. 70 linear feet of material, dating from the mid-1920s to 1999, includes correspondence, research material for Held's writings and his teaching and lecturing activities, with extensive travel notes. Well documented is Held's advisory role in building the collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. A significant portion of the ca. 29 linear feet of study photographs documents Flemish and Dutch artists from the 15th to the 17th century.

ArchivalResource: 168 boxes; (ca. 70 lin. ft.)

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Milton Wolf Brown papers

Title: Milton Wolf Brown papers

The papers of art historian and educator Milton Wolf Brown date from 1908 to 1998 and measure 25.8 linear feet and 0.225 GB. The collection documents Brown's career through scattered biographical material, correspondence with friends, publishers, colleagues, artists, museums, and art organizations, travel journals, files for the Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project, exhibition, research, teaching, and organization files, printed and digital material, and scattered photographs. A large portion of this collection consists of writings by Brown including notebooks, draft writings for books and other publications, lectures, and his writings as a student. Biographical material includes academic records, travel documents, financial documents, Brown's military records, and a transcript of a 1997 interview. Correspondence is with students, museums, universities, publishers, art organizations, and others. The bulk of these letters document Brown's professional activities, but also found are scattered letters from friends, artists, and colleagues such as Russell Lynes, Stanley Meltzoff, Louis Lozowick, Erwin Panofsky, and Paul Sachs. This collection also contains 33 detailed travel journals written primarily by Milton Brown's wife, Blanche, documenting their travels in Europe, the United States, and other parts of the world. Within the writings series are notebooks from the period that Brown was a student and while traveling in Europe in 1959 and 1960; book project files, which include draft writings as well as related correspondence, research material, notes, photographs and other material. Files are found for <emph render="italic">American Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts, Photography </emph>(1979), <emph render="italic">American Painting, From the Armory Show to the Depression </emph>(1955), <emph render="italic">The Story of the Armory Show </emph>(1963, 1988 2nd ed.), and other books. Among the writings are files for lectures written by Brown; essays, articles, and scripts written for various publications; general research notes and student writings; and writings by others sent to Brown for review and feedback. Brown maintained a set of files documenting his work on the Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project, which consist of correspondence, drafts, reports, and research materials, including notes on twenty meetings with Mrs. Prendergast. Exhibition files document Brown's work as curator on several major exhibitions, including a Jacob Lawrence exhibition at the Whitney Museum, and his contributions to others. Also found here are three interviews of Milton Brown and Marcel Duchamp concerning the 50th Anniversary of the Armory Show and anniversary exhibition. Research files include notes, research material, and printed material on various art-related subjects that were maintained by Milton and Blanche Brown for regular use for lectures, teaching, and writing projects. Brown's teaching files contain scattered lecture notes, syllabi, correspondence, faculty records, and other materials from his time at CUNY, Brooklyn College, and other visiting professorships. Organization Files contain correspondence, reports, planning documents, and event materials. These records document his membership or advisory role in various organizations such as the Archives of American Art and Century Association. This collection also contains printed material, such as exhibition announcements, newsletters, brochures, journals, event programs, and magazine and newspapers clippings compiled by Brown. Scattered photographs include nine photographs of Milton Brown, a few photographs of friends, and photographs of artwork.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 linear ft.