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Erle Loran papers

Title: Erle Loran papers

The papers of California painter and teacher Erle Loran measure 12.6 linear feet and date from 1912 to 1991. Found are biographical materials; two linear feet of personal and professional correspondence; personal business records; writings which include extensive drafts and notes for Loran's book <emph render="italic">Cezanne's Composition</emph>; over 400 items of artwork that include watercolors, drawings, charcoal, and pastel studies; printed materials; photographs of Loran, family, and friends, and artwork; and one audio recording of a lecture by Loran on Cezanne.Biographical materials include biographical sketches, curriculum vita, a will, notes and a notebook, and an appointment book for 1987. Also found is an anniversary invitation, a certificate from the University of California, and the Pepsi-Cola award for 1948.Two linear feet of correspondence is with artists, critics, galleries, and universities. Correspondents inlcude Romare Bearden, Andrew Dasburg, Clement Greenberg, John Haley, Dalzell Hatfield, Hans Hofmann, Harry Levinson (president of Permanent Pigments), Sam Sabean, Bertha Schaefer, Clyfford Still, and Ulfert Wilke. There is also correspondence with the University of California. Personal business records include exhibition files, price and consignment lists, teaching materials, University of California Press records, and records relating to the publication of his book on Cézanne. Some of these records also document Loran's involvement with the Fine Arts Museum, Friends of Ethnic Arts, and the San Francisco Art Institute. In addition, there are records related to Loran's role in a donation of forty-five paintings by Hans Hofmann to the University Art Center. Also found are materials related to Loran's activities as an art collector including sales receipts, auction catalogs, and photographs of artwork owned by Loran.Writings by Loran include a complete manuscript version of <emph render="italic">Cézanne's Composition</emph> along with additional notes and drafts, and numerous other short essays on Cézanne's life and art. Loran's other writings include essays about Hans Hofmann, Marsden Hartley, symbology in abstract art, and contemporary art.Loran's career as an artist is extensively documented by four linear feet of original artwork, mostly preliminary sketches. The work demonstrates a variety of techniques including watercolor, pastel, pencil, pen, gouache, and oil sketches. Content includes landscapes, portraits, fantasy scenes, urban scenes, and rural scenes. Printed materials include extensive newsclippings from seven decades, exhibition announcements, and exhibition catalogs. Photographs are of Loran, his second wife Clyta, the Loran family, friends and colleagues, artwork, and source materials. Also found within the papers is an audio recording on cassette of a lecture by Loran on Cézanne.

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[John Davis Hatch and Henry Francis Taylor] [graphic].

Title: [John Davis Hatch and Henry Francis Taylor] [graphic]. Feb. 1933.

ArchivalResource: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 20 x 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/744434258 View

Papers, 1939-1984

Title: Papers, 1939-1984

These papers of former Fogg Art Museum Director and Harvard University ProfessorJohn Coolidge document a portion of his teaching activities, museum administration, and otherpersonal and professional endeavors and interests. The papers consist primarily of personalcorrespondence, and date largely from 1947-1975. Also included are research materials, teachingmaterials, lecture notes, speeches, reports, resumes, photographs and financial records.

ArchivalResource: 10 file boxes, 1 half-file box + oversize materials

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/art00016/catalog View

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Office of the Secretary. Office of the Secretary records, 1870-[ongoing].

Title: Office of the Secretary records, 1870-[ongoing].

Records comprise correspondence and subject files created by the Secretary and General Counsel, Trustees and several past Directors of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This material relates to all aspects of Museum operations and administration including: acquisition of artworks through purchase, gift and bequest, exhibitions, building maintenance and construction, relations with City and State agencies, drafting and negotiating contracts, managing litigation, cultural property issues, legal and business affairs, grants and corporate donations. Files documenting the tenures of each Secretary of the Museum are included. In addition, there is substantial original documentation created by: former Directors of the Museum, including Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Caspar Purdon Clarke, Edward Robinson, Herbert E. Winlock; past Trustees, including: John Taylor Johnston, Henry Gurdon Marquand, Robert W. De Forest, and J. Pierpont Morgan; and key curatorial and administrative staff.

ArchivalResource: 2500 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/429606137 View

TAYLOR, FRANCIS HENRY. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83932221 View

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

Miscellaneous photographs collection

Title: Miscellaneous photographs collection

Miscellaneous photographs is comprised of photographs that were donated individually and are not part of a larger manuscript or archival collection, or photographs cataloged individually when the provenance is unknown.

ArchivalResource: 311 items

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw950d4fcb7-5438-4fa2-ad1e-6a7cabd07317 View

Rothstein, Irma, 1896-1971. Correspodence between Irma Rothstein and The Metropolitan Museum of Art concerning the viewing of Rothstein's works of art, 1942.

Title: Correspodence between Irma Rothstein and The Metropolitan Museum of Art concerning the viewing of Rothstein's works of art, 1942.

ArchivalResource: 4 sheets.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/750153216 View

William Germain Dooley papers

Title: William Germain Dooley papers

Biographical material; correspondence with friends and colleagues, including Charles W. Green, Marsden Hartley, Homer Eaton Keyes, John Kieran, Ruth Webb Lee, James Roosevelt, Francis Henry Taylor, Bradford Washburn and others; subject files, including one on Castano Galleries in Boston; lecture notes; writings, including typescripts and drafts for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fogg Museum, and the Christian Science Monitor; a typescript of an article by James Duncan Phillips; printed materials; photographs of Dooley and of the U.S. Army's recovery of art objects form the Berlin Museum in 1945; and ephemera.

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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

Remo Farruggio papers

Title: Remo Farruggio papers

Correspondence, mostly from art galleries, but also including letters (some are photocopies) from Francis Henry Taylor, Robert Beverly Hale, Joseph Green Butler, Morris Davidson, Raphael Soyer, Jacob Kainen, and Theodore Roszak; photographs of Farruggio and photographs and slides of his paintings; writings and notes, including Farruggio's "credo"; business records, mostly receipts for works of art; two scrapbooks, containing clippings and other printed items; exhibition catalogs and announcements;

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David E. Finley papers, 1921-1977

Title: David E. Finley papers, 1921-1977

Correspondence, subject files, financial papers, drafts of speeches and writings, family material, printed matter, and scrapbooks relating chiefly to Finley's duties as special assistant to Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew W. Mellon, his role in the founding and his subsequent service as director (1938-56) of the National Gallery of Art, and his activities with numerous artistic and cultural organizations, including the Commission on Fine Arts, the People-to-People program, the National Portrait Gallery, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Specific topics in the papers include the controversy between Mellon and Senator James Couzens over a tax reduction plan; the National Gallery's participation in the art program of UNESCO; architectural development of Washington, D.C.; the furnishing of the White House; and the preservation and restoraton of Cooper Union, Decatur House, and the Wayside Inn. Correspondents include Marie Beale, George Biddle, James Biddle, Helen Bullock, Huntington Cairns, Leonard Carmichael, Clement Conger, Royal Cortissoz, Chester Dale, Lewis W. Douglas, Harry F. du Pont, James Earle Fraser, Edgar W. Garbisch, Gordon Gray, Theodore Francis Green, Walker Hancock, Herbert Hoover, Lady Bird Johnson, Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Lincoln Kirstein, Samuel H. Kress, Wilmarth S. Lewis, Paul Manship, Andrew W. Mellon, Richard K. Mellon, Charles Nagel, Duncan Phillips, S. Dillon Ripley, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Harlan F. Stone, Francis Henry Taylor, Harry S. Truman, Joseph E. Widener, and Andrew Wyeth.

ArchivalResource: 31,000 items. 92 containers. 36 linear feet.

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New York Times Company records. Arthur Hays Sulzberger papers, 1823-1999

Title: New York Times Company records. Arthur Hays Sulzberger papers 1823-1999

Arthur Hays Sulzberger was the publisher of xxThe New York Timesxx from 1935 until 1961 and chairman of the board of The New York Times Company from 1961 until 1968. While he was publisher, circulation of The Times almost doubled; the editorial page developed a reputation for strong opinions; news events were subjected to more analysis and coverage of specialized topics was strengthened; new sections and departments were created for food, fashion, and women; and the overall style of the paper became less rigid and more aesthetically pleasing. The papers document Sulzberger's life and career at xxThe New York Timesxx, with the majority of the collection relating to Sulzberger's 26 years as president and publisher of the paper. Included in the collection are correspondence with family members, friends, colleagues, world leaders, and other dignitaries; memoranda regarding the business of the newspaper, including Sulzberger's notes of praise and criticism to his editors, managers, and writers; reports on his meetings with world leaders, including Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman; and photographs of Sulzberger, his family, business trips, vacations, and The Times' buildings.

ArchivalResource: 129.9 linear feet; 297 boxes, 10 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/17782 View

Lyonel Feininger papers, 1883-1960.

Title: Lyonel Feininger papers, 1883-1960.

Correspondence between American born German artist Lyonel Feininger and his family and other correspondents, as well as musical compositions by him and his father Karl Feininger.

ArchivalResource: 32 boxes and 5 volumes (16 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00818/catalog View

Learned Hand papers

Title: Learned Hand papers

Materials relating to Hand's private and public life, his activities as an alumnus of Harvard University, his friendship with Felix Frankfurter, and to the Hand family. Includes material on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York City; information on the Progressive movement (1909-1914) and the beginnings of the New Republic and its early staff; and transcripts of oral-history interviews conducted by Gerald Gunther of Stanford Law School and others, of Judge Hand, his family and associates.

ArchivalResource: 116 linear feet linear feet (in 235 boxes and 18 paige boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00059/catalog View

Kruse, Alexander Z., 1888-1972. Papers of Alexander Z. Kruse, 1890-1972 (bulk 1930s-1960s).

Title: Papers of Alexander Z. Kruse, 1890-1972 (bulk 1930s-1960s).

The Alexander Z. Kruse papers contain documents relating to Kruse's career as an artist, art critic, and author. The time frame covered is 1890 to 1975 with the bulk of the material originating from the 1930s to 1960s. The material is arranged by functional series and includes: literary manuscripts and notebooks; correspondence; photographic materials--photographs and slides; ephemera--clippings, catalogs, and biographical material; and books. The majority of the collection is in its original format with a few being photocopies. The photographic materials are in good condition. However, much of the ephemera (especially the newspaper clippings) is extremely fragile. Most of the clippings are from Kruse's columns with the Brooklyn Eagle and the New York Post.

ArchivalResource: ca. 3,755 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122510190 View

Stuart Davis correspondence with Francis Henry Taylor

Title: Stuart Davis correspondence with Francis Henry Taylor

Letter, May 19, 1940, from Davis to Francis Henry Taylor, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Davis writes that the "rejection of my work by the acquisitions committee of your museum, followed by Mr. Wehle's explanation of the reason for that rejection, was merely indicative of the fact that work in the style of mine is not usual here." He encloses photographs of his work so that Taylor can "review them and make his own decision ..."; 8 of the 9 photographs are annotated by Davis with title, medium, dimensions, and date. Also included is a carbon of Taylor's acknowledgement, May 22, 1940, and a note, May 23, [1940], enclosing the photos, from Taylor to Metropolitan curator Harry B. Wehle: "Herewith some curious examples of ultra-modern art."

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John Mason Brown papers, 1922-1967.

Title: John Mason Brown papers

Papers of American author and drama critic John Mason Brown.

ArchivalResource: 144 boxes (36 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00655/catalog View

George Sarton additional papers, 1901-1956

Title: George Sarton additional papers

Primarily correspondence of historian of science and Harvard professor George Sarton with professional colleagues about the journal Isis.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (23 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01643/catalog View

Myron Bement Smith collection, circa 1910-1970

Title: Myron Bement Smith collection

The Myron Bement Smith collection consists of two parts, the papers of Myron Bement Smith and his wife Katharine and the Islamic Archives. It contains substantial material about his field research in Italy in the 1920s and his years working on Islamic architecture in Iran in the 1930s. Letters describe the milieu in which he operated in Rochester NY and New York City in the 1920s and early 1930s; the Smiths' life in Iran from 1933 to 1937; and the extensive network of academic and social contacts that Myron and Katharine developed and maintained over his lifetime. The Islamic Archives was a project to which Smith devoted most of his professional life. It includes both original materials, such as his photographs and notes, and items acquired by him from other scholars or experts on Islamic art and architecture. Smith intended the Archives to serve as a resource for scholars interested in the architecture and art of the entire Islamic world although he also included some materials about non-Islamic architecture.

ArchivalResource: 192 Linear feet

https://sova.si.edu/record/FSA.A.04 View

Taylor, Francis Henry : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: Taylor, Francis Henry : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

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

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/198987578 View

Georgina Klitgaard Papers, 1917-1965

Title: Georgina Klitgaard Papers 1917-1965

Correspondence (1917-1965); artwork, including lithographic plates and sketches; photographs and reproductions of paintings; and printed material, including clippings (1928-1965), exhibition catalogs (1927-1965), and reviews. Correspondents include Bill Alexander, the American Artists Group, Inc., Erwin S. Barrie, Ray Bethers, George Biddle, Julius Bloch, Mortimer Borne, W. Sterry Branning, Lucile E. Bush, Millicent Carey, the Carnegie Institute, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Compnay, Van Cort, Russell Cowles, Katharine Day, Dorothy Dehner, Juliana Force, Kathryn Gamble, Daisy Gill, Lloyd Goodrich, Buckner Hollingsworth, Kaj Klitgaard, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Archibald MacLeish, Hughes Mearns, Hermon More, Hobson Pittman, Frances M. Pollak, Henry Varnum Poor, Homer Saint-Gaudens, Silvia Saunders, Jean Paul Slusser, Charles A. Smart, Carl Spaatz, Eugene Speicher, Francis H. Taylor, Zoraida E. Weeks, and William Zorach.

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Francis Henry Taylor papers

Title: Francis Henry Taylor papers

Correspondence concerning the acquisition of Taylor's papers by the Archives; typescripts of "Life Round Table Conference on Modern Art," 1948; and a large file of clippings relating to Taylor's work with the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw93272c2b8-2816-4f6f-9e47-553dce963c80 View

Bach, Richard F. Richard F. Bach records, 1913-1953 (bulk 1939-1953).

Title: Richard F. Bach records, 1913-1953 (bulk 1939-1953).

Correspondence, meeting minutes, and pamphlets related to Bachs activities as Associate in Industrial Arts, Director of Industrial Relations, Dean of Education and Extension, and Consultant in Industrial Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet (6 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/429606051 View

Kristina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689. Autograph draft of a letter : to Pierre Michon, undated [probably late 1684].

Title: Autograph draft of a letter : to Pierre Michon, undated [probably late 1684].

Dealing with a number of topics: recent French diplomatic manoeuvres, the Huguenots in France, the arrival of an ambassador of Siam, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (4to)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270595357 View

Taylor, Francis Henry, 1903-1957. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1940-1957.

Title: Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1940-1957.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (14 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/189647938 View

Correspondence with Charles Sawyer

Title: Correspondence with Charles Sawyer

Correspondence between Francis Henry Taylor, director of the Worcester Art Museum, and Charles Sawyer, curator of the Addison Gallery of American Art regarding the WPA Federal Art Projects in New England. Included are: a letter from Sawyer to Taylor, Sept. 11, 1935, regarding "the Government art projects. ... I am anxious to keep these projects from getting into the wrong hands, but I am not, on the other hand, anxious to get involved in the political complications of the 'New Deal.' In another exchange, Taylor thanks Sawyer for sending him a copy of his letter, July 8, 1937, to Richard Morrison, Ass't to Holger Cahill, in which Sawyer compares the FAP to the PWAP, comments on the organization of the FAP,

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw99e27b37d-4bce-4c99-99ee-82158fd20d51 View

MacAlister, Donald A. Donald A. MacAlister letter to Francis H. Taylor, 1949.

Title: Donald A. MacAlister letter to Francis H. Taylor, 1949.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/707607850 View

Taylor, Francis Henry, 1903-1957. Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1952.

Title: Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1952.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122646617 View

Oral history interview with Charles H. Sawyer

Title: Oral history interview with Charles H. Sawyer

An interview of Charles Henry Sawyer conducted in 1964, by Heyward Ehrlich, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 1 sound tape reel ; 7 in.Transcript 14 p.

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw922085c1d-bf3d-45a2-99ef-75a7fbfb507e View

Burlingham, Charles Culp, 1858-1959. Papers, 1876-1960

Title: Charles Culp Burlingham papers, 1876-1960

Papers of Charles Culp Burlingham (1858-1959), attorney, civic leader, and reformer. Chiefly correspondence, together with writings, speeches, reports, government documents, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, genealogies, photos, and other papers, relating to personal and professional affairs, cultural affairs in New York City, efforts on behalf of civic and judicial reform, alumni activities with Harvard College and Columbia University Law School, espousal of civil liberties causes, and work on behalf of the Episcopal Church.

ArchivalResource: 22 boxes and 1 Paige box

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00016/catalog View

Forbes, Edward Waldo, 1873-1969. Papers, 1867-2005.

Title: Papers, 1867-2005.

These papers of Fogg Art Museum Director Edward Waldo Forbes document his administration of the museum and a wide range of personal and professional activities and interests. The bulk of the collection dates from 1909 to 1944. The papers consist primarily of correspondence, including a series of correspondence with art dealers, and also include photographs, reports, expedition field notes and journals, printed material, newspaper clippings, blueprints, meeting minutes, letters of recommendation, insurance records, invoices, page proofs, telegrams, rubbings, sketches, visiting cards, shipping documents and press releases.

ArchivalResource: 119 boxes + oversize materials.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/422897333 View