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Jerome Mellquist papers, 1918-1963

Title: Jerome Mellquist papers 1918-1963

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Jerome Mellquist. Correspondence includes letters between Mellquist and family, friends, writers, artists, musicians, and cultural critics in the United States and Europe from 1918 to 1962, with the bulk dating from the early 1930s to early 1960s. Correspondence dating from 1946 to 1948 relates chiefly to the journalist and music critic Paul Rosenfeld (1890-1946), for whom, along with Lucie Wiese, Mellquist compiled a memorial volume entitled Paul Rosenfeld: Voyager in the Arts (1948). Correspondence is chiefly in English, but letters can also be found in French, Spanish, and German. Writings include drafts of numerous short articles and essays, materials relating to published and unpublished book projects, and unsorted writings. Articles and essays relate chiefly to modern art and aesthetics. Book projects include research materials, plans, and drafts for the following: Mellquist's memorial volume to his friend Paul Rosenfeld; a book relating to French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel; another relating to a 1962 colloquium; and one, entitled "World Art in War", on heroism in pictures. Unsorted writings and materials include short works, plays, and a novel. Personal Papers include address books, agenda books, diaries, journals, notebooks, photographs, printed ephemera, and scrapbooks.

ArchivalResource: 9.27 linear feet (21 boxes)

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Mary Bartlett Cowdrey papers

Title: Mary Bartlett Cowdrey papers

The Mary Bartlett Cowdrey papers measure 6.9 linear feet and date from 1830-1960. Included is material relating to her involvement with the National Academy of Design

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Mellquist, Jerome. Letters, 1944-1951, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1944-1951, to Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 23 items (23 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155872570 View

Mellquist, Jerome. Jerome Mellquist letters to Lucie Wiese, 1939-1948.

Title: Jerome Mellquist letters to Lucie Wiese, 1939-1948.

Letters from Mellquist to Lucie Wiese (also spelled Weiss) document a personal relationship and collaboration from 1939 to 1948. Letters discuss modern art, particularly American and French painting and painters, but also photography and criticism, mentioning, for example, James McNeill Whistler, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Camille Pissaro, Edgar Degas, Emil Zoler, Alfred Stieglitz, Thomas Craven, and Leo Stein. Letters also discuss writing and book projects, including Paul Rosenfeld: Voyager in the Arts (1948), co-edited by Mellquist and Wiese. Accompanied by a biographical statement for Mellquist, book outline, printed ephemera, and a draft of an essay by Mellquist entitled "What Role the Museum?"

ArchivalResource: 1.46 linear feet (4 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702188675 View

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1911-1958.

Title: Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1911-1958.

Stieglitz' original letters to Carl Zigrosser are interleaved with typed copies of some of the letters. Topics covered in Stieglitz' letters to Carl Zigrosser include John Marin and his work; the disposition of Camera Work; life and the weather at Lake George; Stieglitz' health and his work; Georgia O'Keeffe and her work; invitations to Lake George; Wanda Gàg; purchases from the Weyhe Gallery; details of an exhibition of the work of Arthur Dove; arrangements for Stieglitz' collection of early photographs to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1933; the state of Stieglitz' commercial galleries; compliments on Zigrosser's writing; a 1937 letter that complains that he (Steigliz) has done no new work in 2 years; a brief history of "291;" congratulations on Zigrosser's 1944 catalog of the Stieglitz Collection for an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and a letter from Jerome Mellquist informing Zigrosser of the stroke Stieglitz experienced before his death. Included with the correspondence from Alfred Stieglitz is a quantity of printed matter and correspondence from others. The printed matter includes exhibition catalogs and announcements for exhibitions of the work of Stieglitz and other artists; a brochure for Camera Work printed in 1924 by the Weyhe Gallery; an appreciation of O'Keeffe by Oscar Bluemner; a copy of hte 1934 December issue of Wings featuring Stieglitz; clippings and magazine articles about Stieglitz; drafts and notes for Zigrosser's catalog of the Stieglitz Collection exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; obituaries for Stieglitz; a 1949 press release annoucing the Philadelphia Museum of Art receiving a portion of the Stieglitz Collection; material concerning the Stieglitz Collection's tour to Fisk University and the Taft Museum; an issue of Camera Work inscribed to Carl Zigrosser by Alfred Stieglitz; and a folder of checklists and drafts for the Philadelphia Museum of Art's catalog of the Steiglitz Collection. Interleaved with the Stieglitz correspondence are letters from other people: drafts of Zigrosser's letters, drafts of Zigrosser's essays about Stieglitz, letters from Dorothy Norman (some concerning a special issue of Twice A Year to be devoted to Stieglitz), and letters from Georgia O'Keeffe and others concerning the tour of the Stieglitz Collection.

ArchivalResource: 222 items (462 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/192002727 View

Henry McBride papers, 1863-1962 (inclusive), 1901-1962

Title: Henry McBride papers 1863-1962 (inclusive), 1901-1962

The papers contain correspondence, writings, and printed ephemera about art documenting McBride's career as an art critic. Major correspondents include Mildred Aldrich, Malcolm MacAdam, Maximilian Mitzlaff, Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz, and Carl Van Vechten.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 40; Other Storage Formats: Oversize; Linear Feet: 18.5

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Mellquist, Jerome. Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1935-1955.

Title: Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1935-1955.

ArchivalResource: 26 items (35 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182552866 View