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Oral history interviews relating to the arts

Title: Oral history interviews relating to the arts

Selected interviews conducted by Arthur S. Alberts for his research project "French Civilization as Reflected in the Arts," and related lectures. Interviewees include Jean Arp (May 8, 1956); Ada Jean (1956); Andre Masson (Feb. 28, 1956); Xavier Sanchez-Canton (Mar. 15, 1956); and Gino Severini (Mar. 1956) and Man Ray (Feb. 22, 1956).

OralHistoryResource: 5 sound cassettes (100 min. each)Original: 5 sound reels.

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Masson, André, 1896-1987. L'effusion lyrique ou la peinture retrouvée, 1955.

Title: L'effusion lyrique ou la peinture retrouvée, 1955.

The 6 page manuscript in ink and pencil is divided into 3 parts, each on a separate leaf. The first two are dated "printemps 1955," and "hiver 1955." Each part has a title: I. "L'effusion lyrique ou la peinture retrouvée;" II. title illegible; III. "Le Surréalisme." The heavily edited text could be the outline for an article, a study, or just Masson's meditation about his artistic evolution, starting from the present (part I), then retracing his main steps from the past. In part I he notes "l'intuition d'un sens pictural neuf: la technique évolue;" and new ideas, such as "la dilatation par la lumière (et non le retrécissement par le dessin limitateur," or "le départ intuitif et non l'arrivée analytique"; also the need to define Bonnard. In part II the artist quotes from Odilon Redon, and notes the similarities between music and "une peinture totalement affranchie de la représentation intentionelle." Part III retraces his involvment with Surréalism, starting with the painting "4 élements" (1923-1924), then his rejection of an art adorned with literary jewels, and the "tableaux poétiques" (1927). Finally, the rupture in 1929: "Presque aussitôt parti qu'entré. Ainsi pas même un adieu."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 leaves).1 photograph : b&w ; 23 x 17 cm.

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Masson, André, 1896-1987. Mantes.

Title: Mantes.

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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers, 1837-1961

Title: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers 1837-1961

The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers contain manuscripts of writings, letters, clippings, photographs, artworks, and personal papers relating to the life and work of Gertrude Stein and her companion, Alice B. Toklas, and to Gertrude's brother, Leo Stein, an artist and writer. As well as holding the bulk of Stein's literary output (often described as "experimental" or "cubist" writing), the materials document Stein and Toklas' involvement with the literary and art scene in Paris during the first half of the 20th century. Series I, Writings, contains holograph and typescript drafts of the majority of Gertrude Stein's writings, including "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas," "The Making of Americans" (complete with a quantity of notes, or "studies"), "Tender Buttons" and a group of unpublished fragments and carnets, notebooks kept by Stein with preliminary drafts of writings. Series II, Correspondence of Gertrude Stein, contains letters sent from a wide variety of Stein's friends: artists such as Georges Bracque, Jean Cocteau, and Pablo Picasso; writers such as Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and Thornton Wilder; and acquaintances through many years such as Mildred Aldrich, Etta and Claribel Cone, Robert Haas, Mabel Dodge Luhan,Sir Francis Rose, Virgil Thomson, and Carl Van Vechten. Series III, Third Party Letters and Series IV, Alice B. Toklas Correspondence, contain letters from many of the same people, the latter group containing Alice Toklas's correspondence following Gertrude Stein's death. Series V, Personal Papers, and Series VI, Clippings, gather together various personal affects of Stein and Toklas as well as documentation of Stein's life as reported during her lifetime. Series VII, Photographs, show Stein from early childhood through 1946, the year she died. Prints showing Alice Toklas, various friends, artworks, and locales are included in this series, as are several volumes of prints made by Carl Van Vechten. Series VIII and IX contain numerous artworks and objects given by Stein and Toklas. Included here are a painting by Pablo Picasso and a sketch by Henri Matisse.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 173; Other Storage Formats: Oversize, artwork, objects, cold storage; Linear Feet: 93

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Saidie A. May papers, ca. 1880-2002, bulk 1924-1972.

Title: Saidie A. May papers, ca. 1880-2002, bulk 1924-1972.

The Saidie A. May Papers contain the correspondence, art collection related papers, financial papers, and photographs of Saidie Adler May and document her art purchases and donations to the Baltimore Museum of Art as well as other museums. A significant amount of correspondence, research notes, and other material relating to Mrs. May and her collections that was created by BMA staff is also included. The staff continues to add to this collection as materials are found or created that relate to Mrs. May. Series 1, Art Collection, contains correspondence, lists, notes, research materials and other documents relating to Mrs. May's art collections. The Baltimore Museum of Art staff created a significant portion of this material after Mrs. May's death. Series 2, Financial Papers, contains documentation relating to Mrs. May's art purchases from 1919 until her death. A large part of the material consists of receipts and invoices from art dealers. This material is first divided into American Museums and Galleries and Foreign Galleries. Those dealers from whom Mrs. May purchased numerous items are filed separately. A few general receipts for book purchases are filed at the end of the subseries. Series 3, Correspondence, contains correspondence between Mrs. May and various museums, galleries and artists mostly relating to her purchases of artworks and their exhibition and donation to museums. A large amount of the correspondence relates to Mrs. May's dealings with the Baltimore Museum of Art, particularly her donations of the Renaissance Room and the Members' Room for Modern Art and the particulars of their installations. Series 4, Photographs, contains photographs of works in Mrs. May's collection, several of the rooms she donated to the BMA, artists, and Mrs. May herself. Series 5, Paintings, contains three copies by Mrs. May of paintings in the Louvre.

ArchivalResource: 3.2 linear ft.

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Masson, André, 1896-1987. Gouffre, 1955 [Multimédia multisupport].

Title: Gouffre, 1955 [Multimédia multisupport].

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Masson, André, 1896-1987. Gouffre, 1955.

Title: Gouffre, 1955.

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Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948. Letter to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler from Antonin Artaud, 1923.

Title: Letter to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler from Antonin Artaud, 1923.

In this unpublished letter to Parisian art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Artaud compares Kahnweiler's gallery with those of Léonce Rosenberg, Marcel Bernheim, and Paul Guillaume, and praises paintings displayed by Kahnweiler, notably Juan Gris's La fenêtre, André Masson's Le forêt (1922) and the work of Élie Lascaux.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

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Masson, André, 1896-1987. Mantes [Multimédia multisupport].

Title: Mantes [Multimédia multisupport].

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Jane Wade papers regarding Curt Valentin

Title: Jane Wade papers regarding Curt Valentin

The Jane Wade papers regarding art dealer and New York gallery owner Curt Valentin, measure 0.6 linear feet and date from 1903-1971. This small collection consists of papers donated by former Curt Valentin Gallery employee Jane Wade, which provide scattered documentation of Valentin's life and exhibitions at the Buchholz Gallery (renamed Curt Valentin Gallery in 1951) including biographical material, correspondence from artists Valentin represented, writings and notes, lists documenting clients, exhibitions held, and artwork by Picasso sold by the gallery, clippings of obituaries for Valentin, and a complete set of Buchholz Gallery exhibition catalogs from 1937-1948.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 Linear feet

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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Papers: 1873-1993 (inclusive), 1899-1961 (bulk).

Title: Papers: 1873-1993 (inclusive), 1899-1961 (bulk).

The collection includes literary manuscripts, correspondence, personal papers, books, periodicals, artifacts, and ephemera. Over 90% of extant Hemingway literary manuscripts are contained in this collection. Correspondence includes letters to and from family members, friends, and business associates (largely publishers, lawyers, and agents). Correspondents include many important mid-twentieth century writers and intellectuals. Many of the books and periodicals include Hemingway's own annotations. The Hemingway Collection also contains over 10,000 photographs of Hemingway, his family and friends, as well as various subjects of interest to Hemingway: Paris, Spain, Key West, bullfighting, hunting, Cuba, and Fishing. Artifacts include personal possesions and art objects, among these a number of paintings. Correspondents include: Jay Allen, Sherwood Anderson, George Antheil, Louis Aragon, Carlos Baker, Sylvia Beach, Bernard Berenson, William Bird, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, John R. Bone, Harry Brague, Harvey Breit, T. Otto Bruce, Harry Burton, Alexander Calder, Erskine Caldwell, Morley Callaghan, Gregory Clark, Gary Cooper, Malcolm Cowley, Caresse Crosby, Harry Crosby, Rollin Dart, Marlene Dietrich, Eric Dorman-Smith, John Dos Passos, Clifton Fadiman, James Thomas Farrell, William Faulkner, Charles A. Fenton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Carol Hemingway Gardner, Antonio Gattorno, Arnold Gingrich, Zane Grey, John Gunther, Leland Hayward, Nancy Hayward, Lillian Hellman, Anson T. Hemingway, Clarence E. Hemingway, Grace Hall Hemingway, Henrietta Hemingway, Leicester Hemingway, Mary Welsh Hemingway, Pauline Hemingway, Josephine Herbst, Guy Hickock, William D. Horne, A.E. Hotchner, Adriana Ivancich, Gianfranco Ivancich, Joris Ivens, Ursula Hemingway Jepson, Eugène Jolas, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Charles Trueman Lanham, Helen Lerner, Michael Lerner, Sinclair Lewis, Wyndham Lewis, Harold Loeb, Joseph Losey, William Lowe, and Leonard Lyons. Correspondents also include: Archibald Macleish, Andrʹe Malraux, Robert Manning, Jane Mason, Andrʹe Masson, Robert McAlmon, Henry Louis Mencken, Madelaine Hemingway Miller, Joan Mirʹo, Hadley Hemingway Mowrer, Gerald Murphy, Sara Murphy, Morris McNeil Musselman, Joseph North, Sterling North, Antonio Ordʹoñez Araujo, Dorothy Parker, Waldo Peirce, Philip H. Percival, Maxwell Evarts Perkins, Gustavus Pfeiffer, Mary A. Pfeiffer, Paul M. Pfeiffer, Virginia Pfeiffer, George Plimpton, Ezra Pound, Junito Quintana, Luis Quintanilla, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Quentin James Reynolds, Charles Ritz, Edwin Rolfe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harold Ross, Lillian Ross, and Robert Chester Ruark. Correspondents also include: Jerome David Salinger, Lee Samuels, Arnold Samuelson, Marcelline Hemingway Sanford, H.J.J. Sargint, William Saroyan, Charles Scribner, Jr., Charles Scribner, Sr., George Seldes, Evan Shipman, William B. Smith, Maurice Speiser, Stephen Spender, Lincoln Steffens, Gertrude Stein, Donald Stewart, Henry Strater, Virgil Thomson, Gene Tunney, Louis Untermeyer, Peter Viertel, Agnes Von Kurowsky, William Walton, Glenway Wescott, John Neville Wheeler, Thornton Wilder, William Carlos Williams, Edmund Wilson, Ella Winter, Walter Winchell, Owen Wister, Philip Young, Lester Ziffren, Fred Zinneman, Charles Scribner's Sons, Curtis Brown Publishing Company, Jonathan Cape, Ltd., and Time-Life Books.

ArchivalResource: 107 linear feet.

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Eugène and Maria Jolas Papers

Title: Eugène and Maria Jolas Papers

The Eugène and Maria Jolas Papers consist of manuscripts, letters, photographs, and printed materials relating to the work and lives of the two authors, to their publication, Transition magazine, and to their friend, James Joyce.

ArchivalResource: 31.75 Linear Feet (70 boxes)

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Masson, André, 1896-1987. André Masson : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1930?-1990 [graphic] [compiled by staff of The Museum of Modern Art, New York].

Title: André Masson : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1930?-1990 [graphic] [compiled by staff of The Museum of Modern Art, New York]. 1930?-1990

File of color and black and white photographs of work of art, assembled by the staff of The Museum of Modern Art in New York from the museum's establishment until 1990. Items may include full views, details, installations, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 or more folders: ill. (some col.) ; 38 cm.

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Masson, André, 1896-1987. Manuscript, ca. 1945.

Title: Manuscript, ca. 1945.

An autobiographical essay in the form of an interview. Includes a discussion of Surrealism, and Masson's life in the U.S.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82222072 View

Masson, André, 1896-1987. Artist file.

Title: Artist file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/294909159 View

Masson, André, 1896-1987. Les Soupiraux, 1924.

Title: Les Soupiraux, 1924.

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Masson, André, 1896-1987. Les Soupiraux, 1924 [Multimédia multisupport].

Title: Les Soupiraux, 1924 [Multimédia multisupport].

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Masson, André, 1896-1987 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: Masson, André, 1896-1987 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

The folder may include clippings, announcements, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral items.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). André Masson. 1976 : Archives pamphlet file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: André Masson. 1976 : Archives pamphlet file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83820962 View

Masson, André, 1896-1995. [André Masson] : artist file

Title: [André Masson] : artist file 1900-

Assembled file includes clippings, photographs, reproductions from books and auction catalogs, postcards, press releases, slides, resumes, reviews, exhibition ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/611233157 View