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Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965. Papers, 1903-2005.

Title: Papers, 1903-2005.

These papers of Fogg Art Museum associate director Paul J. Sachs document his administration of the museum, his teaching career at Harvard, and related professional activities. The papers consist primarily of correspondence and also include photographs, printed material, clippings, architectural drawings, reports, financial records, letters of introduction, insurance records, maps, funding appeals, minutes, memoranda, exhibition brochures, page proofs and press releases.

ArchivalResource: 99 files boxes + oversize materials.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/424592354 View

Lugt, Frits, 1884-1970. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1918-1970.

Title: Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1918-1970.

Frits Lugt was preparing his book on collector's marks when he and Zigrosser began corresponding. Lugt's letters ask questions about prominent American collectors. There are no letters between 1922 and 1957, when Lugt's book was reissued. In 1964, Carl Zigrosser and other friends prepared an album of letters in honor of Lugt's 80th birthday. Later letters record the exchange of their books.

ArchivalResource: 26 items (31 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155902065 View

Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars. Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records. 1927-1949.

Title: Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records

The Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars was formed in New York City in 1933 by American academicians for the purpose of employing refugee German scholars in American institutions. Many of these refugee scholars were Jews displaced by the National Socialist government. The collection consists chiefly of grant files on refugee scholars who applied for aid from the Committee. The records also include correspondence with other refugee and philanthropic organizations and with the educational institutions which accepted refugee scholars.

ArchivalResource: 98.46 linear feet (222 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/922 View

Held, Julius S. (Julius Samuel), 1905-2002. Julius S. Held papers, ca. 1918-1999.

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

The material provides a broad and detailed study of Held's professional life, his scholarly development, and his working methods. A major portion comprises scholarly correspondence with other art historians, including numerous prominent American and European scholars as well as young colleagues and post-graduate students. Also present is professional correspondence with art dealers, auction houses, museums, and publishing firms, and private collectors. Letters by Held are particularly valuable for their frank assessments of art objects. Included is material documenting Held's research for essays, reviews and articles, his many teaching and lecturing activities, as well as his involvement as an art expert in legal cases. The archive also contains extensive travel notes. A distinct group of material details Held's role in building the collection of Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. A very large portion of the archive consists of study photographs and other visual documentation of artwork by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Rembrandt, and a vast number of other artists, mainly Dutch and Flemish from the 15th to 18th centuries.

ArchivalResource: 70 linear ft. (168 boxes) + ADDS (30 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84548090 View

Henry Sayles Francis Papers

Title: Henry Sayles Francis Papers

Biographical information, correspondence, subject files, notebooks, photographs, clippings, price lists concern Francis' work at the Cleveland Museum of Art, his friendship with George Kates, and his interest in painter William Sommer. REELS 881-882: Primarily research material compiled by Francis and his wife Frances Merriman Francis for the Ten Thirty Gallery Sommer retrospective in 1946 and the Cleveland Museum of Art's William Sommer Memorial Exhibition, held November 1-December 10, 1950. Included are biographical material; correspondence of Henry Sayles Francis and other museum staff regarding Sommer, and copies and transcripts of Sommer's correspondence (including a few letters from Hart Crane); reminiscences of Sommer from friends and colleagues; exhibition catalogs; notebooks of information on Sommer's works; and a bibliography. REELS 3838-3841: Biographical information; correspondence, arranged chronologically, with colleagues, friends, dealers, collectors, and others; and subject/correspondence files, arranged alphabetically, on colleagues, dealers, exhibitions, and various art topics; photographs of Francis, juries (Charles Sheeler is in one), Matisse in his studio, Somerset Maugham, Frits Lugt, and his wife; and clippings relating chiefly to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Subject/correspondence file titles include: Jere Abbott, Sir Geoffrey Agnew, Winslow Ames, Harry W. Anderson Collection, R. Kirk Askew, Bernard Berenson (ca. 50 letters received), John Bergschneider, Walter Blodgett, Rowland Burdon-Muller, David Carritt, Charles Chetham, Cleveland Museum of Art, John I. Coddington, Ralph Tracy Coe, Contini Collection, Cooper Union, Richard S. Davis, Robert Tyler Davis, Harold S. Ede, Ross Edman, Everett Fahy, Julia Feininger, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Howard C. Hollis, Charles Hopkinson, Michael Jaffeé, Harold Joachim, Lincoln Kirstein, Henry Adams LaFarge, Viktor Langen, Nicky Mariano, William Mathewson Milliken, Agnes Mongan, William Mostyn-Owen, Roger Hale Newton, Benedict Nicolson, Luisa Nicolson, Harold Woodbury Parsons, John Pope-Hennessy, Alan Priest, John Rewald, Marvin C. Ross, Henry Preston Rossiter, Paul Joseph Sachs, Meryle Secrest, Germain Seligman, Peter Shepherd, Theodore Sizer, William Sommer (exhibitions), Frederick A. Sweet, Daviel Varney Thompson, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Gertrude Underhill, Peter Vanderbilt, Langdon Warner, Nancy and William Wixom, and Richard H. Zinser. UNMICROFILMED: Primarily letters from and material on George Norbert Kates, an authority on pre-communist China and Francis's lifetime friend and additional material on William Sommer. Kates material consists of ca. 1000 letters to Francis, ca. 1924-1984, concerning personal affairs, financial ventures, their research efforts and careers, and Kates's research on the 15th century Duchess Eleanor of Scotland. A significant number of letters from 1953 refer to Bernard Berenson and his art research and collection. Also included are a subject file on Kates' interest in Herman Hesse; and a file of Kates' research material on Duchess Eleanor of Scotland. Unmicrofilmed Sommer material includes a letter from Sommer to C.P. Marsh, 1931; a Christmas card from Josephine and Theodor Braasch to Sommer; a page of writings by Sommer; photographs of Sommer and of a studio; several sketches and drawings; and printed material. REEL 440 AND SCANNED One photograph of Sommer, microfilmed under Photos of Artists I, and scanned. The remaining unfilmed material consists of Francis's notebooks (4 v.) primarily about the history of European paintings, drawings and prints, including notes about individual works of art; financial records, including price lists of European works of art, ca. 1930-1969, price list, insurance values and appraisals of two collections from the Cleveland Museum of Art, ca. 1923-1957; and minutes from two accessioning meetings at the Museum, 1930 and 1931.

ArchivalResource: 5 Linear feet, (partially microfilmed on 6 reels)

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9e9de6480-a3b2-4e0a-9322-f75a7474edcb 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.)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3g50355c View

Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006

Title: Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006

These papers of Fogg Art Museum directors John Coolidge and AgnesMongan document their administration of the museum and related professional activities. Mostof Coolidge's papers were created during his administration, from 1948 to 1968; most ofMongan's papers are from her tenure as acting director and then director (1968 to 1971). Thepapers consist primarily of correspondence, including Coolidge's correspondence with artdealers, and also include photographs, memoranda, reports, meeting minutes, blueprints, printedmaterial, letters of recommendation, page proofs, financial documents, sketches and grantproposals.

ArchivalResource: 152 file boxes + oversize materials

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/art00017/catalog View