James Thrall Soby (1906-1979) was an author, critic, connoisseur, collector and patron of the arts. He was born in Hartford,
Connecticut, to Charles Soby (d. 1921) and Anna Hazelwood (1877-1956), and had one brother, Ralph Soby (1903-1956). He attended
the Kingswood School, the Taft School (class of 1924) and Williams College (1924-26). In autumn 1925 he bought his first picture,
a color reproduction of two nudes by Maxfield Parrish. While at Williams, Soby became interested in illustrated books, especially
those by artists of the School of Paris. Leaving Williams in 1926 at the end of his sophomore year, he went to Paris, where
he began collecting contemporary pictures. Upon returning to Hartford he became interested in the activities of the Wadsworth
Atheneum, working under A. Everett ("Chick") Austin from 1928 to 1938 when that museum, the oldest in America, was in the
vanguard of the modern movement. During this period he continued to collect modern art and began to write articles and books
about contemporary artists. Soby was married three times: in 1930, to Elmina N. Underwood; February 1938, to Eleanor ("Nellie")
Howland, who is now Mrs. John L. Bunce and with whom he adopted a son, Peter Allyn; and in April 1952, to Melissa Wadley Childs.
Soby lived in Connecticut, although beginning in 1940 he also maintained a residence in New York City. In November 1940 he
was appointed to The Museum of Modern Art's Acquisitions and Photography committees. From February 1942 throughout the Second
World War he directed the Museum's Armed Services Program. He served as Director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture
from October 27, 1943, through January 1, 1945, and as Chairman of that department on an interim basis during 1947 and 1957.
Soby's principal roles at the Museum were as Trustee (1942-79); advisor to its Committee on the Museum Collections, 1940-67
(of which he was Chairman, 1944-45, 1950-67, and Vice Chairman, 1946-50); and director of over fifteen major exhibitions.
In June 1985 the James Thrall Soby Gallery, which was devoted largely to the work of Giorgio de Chirico, was dedicated on
the second floor of the Cesar Pelli designed Museum.
One of Soby's primary activities was writing. For some years he wrote a monthly art column for
The Saturday Review of Literature and was editor of
Magazine of Art; his principal books include
Arp (1958),
Balthus (1956-1957),
Contemporary Painters (1948),
Dali (1941, rev. 1946),
de Chirico (1941 and 1955),
Gris (1958),
Miró (1959),
Modern Art and the New Past (1957),
Modigliani (1951),
Romantic Painting in America (with Dorothy C. Miller, 1943),
Rouault (1945, rev. 1947),
Shahn (1947 and 1957),
Tanguy (1955),
Tchelitchew (1942) and
XXth Century Italian Art (with Alfred H. Barr, Jr., 1949). These books, many of which accompanied Museum of Modern Art exhibitions, are models of
scholarship combined with a sympathetic stance toward the modern idiom that was based on personal acquaintance with the artists.
The processed Soby Papers include 24 linear feet of correspondence, research notes, ephemera and photographs of works by artists
about whom Soby wrote, transcripts, an unpublished manuscript titled "French Romantic Art" (written in 1959), records relating
to The Museum of Modern Art, the Smith College Museum of Art, Williams College, the disposition of the Kay Sage Tanguy estate,
travel notebooks, diaries, family papers and photographs. They occupy 63 document boxes, 3 albums and 3 record cartons (each
measuring 11"x5x3").
The Soby Papers arrived at the Museum in no discernible order. In the case of the gift from the estate, Soby's file drawers
appeared to have been emptied into large grocery boxes and the contents of the file folders had been separated from the original
folders. In addition, it was suspected that the estate invited book dealers to purchase selected items; for example, correspondence
with the Neo-Romantics and a letter from Francis Bacon to Soby are missing. We consulted Alicia Legg, who retired in 1987
as Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum and who had worked with Soby and seen his papers neatly organized in file
cabinets in his home in New Canaan, Connecticut. She also recalled seeing framed photographs there by Soby of artists Jean
Arp, Balthus, Peter Blume, Reg Butler, Alexander Calder, Lynn Chadwick, Grace Hartigan, Loren MacIver, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso,
Ben and Bernarda Shahn, Yves Tanguy and Pavel Tchelitchew hanging in his New Canaan house; none of these portraits were among
the papers that came to the Museum, and their present whereabouts are unknown.
The papers were processed so that they could be microfilmed; they are cataloged in the RLIN database and the New York State
Historical Documents Inventory.
The Soby Papers are of importance to historians involved in advanced research in 20th century art. Soby was influential, for
example, in making Surrealism widely known to the American public; his notes, transcripts, early documentation (photographs,
printed matter and ephemera) and correspondence with Gala Dali, Man Ray, André Breton, Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage (whose estate
he administered), among others, constitute an important source for scholars, as does his extensive documentation on Bacon,
Balthus, Giorgio de Chirico, Miró and Shahn.
These papers are also of sociological importance, for as art critic of the
Saturday Review of Literature, a periodical of the American intelligentsia during the1940s and 1950s, Soby wrote with a liberal mind untainted by politics.
Typescripts and notes for many of these articles are included in Series II.
The Soby Papers are important for an understanding of the Museum's history. For example, memoranda and correspondence in Series
III clarify Soby's role in the reorganization of the Museum in the 1940s, when his sensitivity and expertise were crucial.
The records are open for research and contain few restricted materials.
The James Thrall Soby Papers are the physical property of The Museum of Modern Art. Literary rights, including copyright belong
to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides
with The Museum of Modern Art. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum
Archivist.
Related collections of Soby material can be found in the records of the Museum's departments of Painting and Sculpture, Drawings
and Photography; in the Registrar exhibition files; in the International Council Records, which includes records of exhibitions
Soby organized under its auspices; and in the Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Papers. Specifically, in the Barr Papers, see file folders
#198 (Archives of American Art microfilm roll 21 76:frame 822); #256 (AAA 2181:79); #538 (AAA 2198:948); #539 (AAA 2198:978);
#540 (AAA 2198: 1029); Series #10, filing unit #69 (AAA 3265:323).
Additional Soby papers can be found in the Archives of the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut.
When James Thrall Soby died on January 29. 1979, he bequeathed to The Museum of Modern Art his art collection. For a description
of this collection see
The James Thrall Soby Collection of works of art pledged or given to The Museum of Modern Art: exhibited for the benefit of
the library of the Museum…as a contribution to the Museum's 30th Anniversary Fund (at) M. Knoedler; New York. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961.
In 1980, a year after Soby's death, the Museum received gifts of his papers from two sources-his estate and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
A. Cohen, antiquarian booksellers.
James Thrall Soby Papers, [series.folder]. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
| Series I: Subject Interest Material: Artists and Movements
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Titles in quotation marks refer to JTS-labeled folders; alphabetical arrangement of subject matter in which Soby was particularly
interested; much of the material in this series resulted in MoMA exhibitions, including Arp, Dali, De Chirico, Gris, Klee,
Miró, Shahn, Tanguy, Tchelitchew; includes ephemera from late 1930s, 1940s.
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| Subseries 1: "A"
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.1.1 |
"Misc." 17 items
Incl. 11 printed matter
5 photographs
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| I.1.2 |
AFA American Exh., Wildenstein's Incl. lists and letters
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1953 |
| I.1.3 |
"American 20th Century" printed matter
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| I.1.4 |
Armstrong, John 5 photographs
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| I.1.5 |
"Art of This Century (Peggy Guggenheim)" 41 items
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| I.1.6 |
Askew, R. Kirk, Jr. 4 items
Incl. 1 ALS
1 TLS
2 gallery announcements
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ca. 1944-1945 |
| Subseries 2: Jean Arp
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5 folders. 2.5"document box.
Includes correspondence from Arp, Maquerite Hagenbach Arp and material re: MoMA Exh. #631
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.2.1 |
"Hagenbach-Arp" 45+ items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
1 1969 typescript ("Arp As I Knew Him" by Marguerite Hagenbach Arp")
2 typescripts
6 TL Hagenbach-JTS
13 TLS Hagenbach-JTS
10 JTSHagen JTS-Hagenbach
3 TL JTS-Arp
3 TLS Arp-JTS
JTS photograph (missing)
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ca. 1957-1959 |
| I.2.2 |
Richard Hamilton's Damaged Arp 16 items
Incl. 4 TLS
1 Arp-JTS
10 TL
1 letter fragment
statement
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Nov.-Feb. 1958, ca. Jan. 1959 |
| I.2.3 |
Corresp. for Arp Exh. 0.5"
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
50 TL
4 TLS
55 carbons to donors
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Dec.-July 1958 |
| I.2.4 |
Corresp. for Arp Exh. 0.75"
Incl. 140 TL
25 TLS
3 ALS
6 photographs
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ca. 1957-June 1958 |
| I.2.5 |
Arp Cataolg and Exh. Notes 23 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
2 photographs
catalog
list of works in U.S. collections
bibliog.
source lists
acknowledge.
2 typescripts
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1958 |
| Subseries 3: A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr., and Wadsworth Atheneum
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7 folders; 5"document box.
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Title |
Date |
| I.3.1 |
Austin and Trinity College 7 items
Incl. 2 TLS
5 clippings
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1960s |
| I.3.2 |
Austin Memorial Exh., Wadsworth Atheneum 26 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder
4 TL
1 TLS
2 lists of clippings re: Wadsworth Atheneum
list of purchases by Austin
2 typescripts "A. Everett Austin and Modern Art"by JTS
1 clipping
list of Diagilew-Lifar Collection
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ca. 1957-58 |
| I.3.3 |
Austin: Wadsworth Atheneum 6 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
1 clipping
1 annual report
3 bulletins
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1950s |
| I.3.4 |
Austin: Ringling Museum 8 items
Incl. 1 TLS
1 clipping
6 pamphlets
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1946-48 |
| I.3.5 |
Austin: Wadsworth Atheneum 28 items
Incl. 1 TL
1 TLS
1 photograph
21 bulletins
1 clipping
1 annual report
1 budget report
TLS copy JTS-Austin re: gift to Wadsworth Atheneum
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1940s |
| I.3.6 |
Austin: Wadsworth Atheneum 5 items
Incl. 2 clippings
1 catalog
2 bulletins
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1930s |
| I.3.7 |
Austin: Photographs 49 items
Incl. 1 photograph of Austin
ca. 10 photographs of Austin's paintings
2 catalogs of Austin's shows
1 program with Austin sets and costumes (n.d.)
1 JTS folder title
30 photographs of work by other artists
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| Subseries 4: "B"
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.4.1 |
General "B" ca. 30 items
Incl. 1 ALS , Hyman Bloom-JTS (9/22/48)
printed matter and ephemera (ca. 1940s)
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| I.4.2 |
Beckmann, Max ca. 8 items
Incl. 1 TLS Curt Valentin-JTS (1937)
printed matter
photographs
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| I.4.3 |
Bérard, Christian 23 items
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ca. 1942-56 |
| I.4.4 |
Berman, Eugene 17 items
Incl. 1 TLS (1969) re: Berman mss
2 TLS JTS-Wadsworth Atheneum re: JTS pictures (1969)
3 ALS Waldemar George-JTS (1946)
7 JTS negatives of Berman works
3 photographs
1 ALS invitation (n.d.)
1 TLS JTS-Berman (1969)
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ca. 1946-1969 |
| I.4.5 |
Blume, Peter 29 items
Incl. photographs
1 envelope, inscribed "Hair of Robert Cowley, Robert Coates, Peter Blume"
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| I.4.6 |
Boilly, Louis-Léopold |
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| I.4.7 |
Bonington, Richard Parks |
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| I.4.8 |
"[Pierre] Bonnard" 6 sheets
Incl. 1 ALS Bernard Karpel-JTS (1946)
3 ALS John RewaldJTS (1947)
1 TLS JTS-Rewald
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| I.4.9 |
"Boston Institute" 0.5"
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1946-1949 |
| I.4.10 |
Brancusi, Constantin 17 items
Incl. 15 photographs
printed matter
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ca. 1955 |
| I.4.11 |
Braque, Georges 12 items
See also, Series III.1947, exhs.
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| I.4.12 |
Bronte, Emily |
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| I.4.13 |
Butler, Reg, and Chadwick, Lynn |
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| Subseries 5-6: Francis Bacon
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17 folders. 2 parts; two 5" document boxes
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.5.1 |
"Bacon: JTS Typescript" 10 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
4 pp. JTS handwritten notes
2 ALS AHB-JTS; 3 copies typescript; "Barr copy," "Bond copy final & original" an another copy
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| I.5.2 |
"Bacon: General Correspondence" 65 items
Note: incl. "Bacon: Recent Letters," ca. 1963 Oct-1959 Nov.
12 TL; 24 TLS; 3 ALS; 1 clipping; 3 photographs; 1 list of preliminary selections for exh.; 1 ALS AHB-JTS; 3 postcards AHB-JTS;
2 TL JTS-Bacon; 1 handwritten note Bernard Karpel-JTS; 3 TL JTS-John Rothenstein; 1 ALS and 3 TLS Rothenstein-JTS; 2 JTS folder
titles
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| I.5.3 |
"Bacon: [H. R.] Fis[c]her" 73 items
Incl. 1 copy letter Bacon-JTS
27 TLS, 3 ALS and 1 telegram Fischer-JTS
2 TLS and 14 TL JTS-Fischer
4 photographs
11 TL
5 TLS
itinerary of traveling exh.
1 JTS folder title
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Nov. 1959-Jan.1964 |
| I.5.4 |
"Bacon: [Erica] Brausen" 20 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
1 TL JTS-Monroe Wheeler
2 ALS Brausen-JTS
2 TLS JTS-Brausen
6 TLS Brausen-JTS
6 TL JTS-Brausen
list of photographs (1959 Dec.)
1 TLS
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Dec. 1959-Sept.1962 |
| I.5.5 |
Bacon: Robert Melville 12 items
Incl. 1 handwritten JTS note
3 TL JTS-Melville
1 copy telegram JTS-Melville
2 TLS, 3 ALS and 1 telegram Melville-JTS
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March 1959-January 1962 |
| I.5.6 |
"Bacon: D[avid] Sylvester Correspondence and Notes" 10 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
3 pp. JTS handwritten notes
3 TLS Sylvester-JTS
3 TL JTS-Sylvester
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July 10- August 1962 |
| I.5.7 |
"Bacon: Blake Series" 23 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
5 ALS Ronald Alley-JTS
2 TLS Lawrence Alloway-JTS
1 TL JTS-Alloway
2 TL JTS-Alley
1 TL Sir John Rothenstein-JTS
1 telegram
10 photographs
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Dec. 1061-Nov. 1963 |
| I.5.8 |
"Bacon: Source Material: 1962 July-ca. 1959 38 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
1 handwritten JTS note
1 printed matter
1 postcard Alicia Legg-JTS
15 TL
1 handwritten note (2 pp.) AHB-JTS
10 photographs
4 pp. "[Eadweard] Muybridge" corresp.
1 TL
1 postcard
1 clipping
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| I.5.9 |
Bacon: JTS Notes 9 items
Incl. questionnaire for Bacon
1 pocket calendar (1960, 48 pp.) with "Bacon Notes"
7 pp. handwritten JTS notes
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| I.6.10 |
Bacon: "Brausen Photos Studied" 83 items
Incl. 57 photographs
1 JTS folder title
25 titles saved from damaged Bacon transparencies
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| I.6.11 |
Bacon: "Duplicate and Rejected Plates" 8 items
Incl. 6 photographs
1 TLS
1 JTS folder title
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| I.6.12 |
Bacon: Photographs and Lists 41 items
Incl. "Bacon: Photos: Brausen: Lists"and "Photos: Reconsider: Brausen: Fischer."
Incl. 36 photographs
1 ALS
revised list of nos. for Bacon paintings
30 pp. list of Bacon paintings
2 JTS folder titles
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| I.6.13 |
Bacon: Photographs 178 items
Incl. 152 photographs of Bacon's work
1 photograph of Bacon
12 photographs of work by other artists (see also folder 8, "Bacon: Source Material")
1 ALS
7 notes
1 TL
1 JTS folder title
1 list from Marlborough Gallery
1 slide
1 JTS handwritten note
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| I.6.14 |
"Bacon: Catalogs" 18 items
Incl. "Catalogs and Articles-Recent"Incl. 1 TLS John S. Mongan-JTS
13 catalogs
1 article (offprint from Quadrum)
1 press release
2 JTS folder titles
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ca. 1949-1965 |
| I.6.15 |
Bacon: Clippings, 1960s 114 items
Incl. "Clippings on Bacon Shows in England and Europe"
Incl. 1 handwritten note René d'Harnoncourt-JTS and AHB
1 TLS
1 JTS folder title
clippings: English (23), Flemish (2), German (48), Italian (49)
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ca. 1960-1965 |
| I.6.16 |
Bacon: Tate Clippings 45 items
Incl. 1 TLS
44 clippings
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| I.6.17 |
Bacon: 1950s 13 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
1 handwritten JTS note re: clippings
1 transcript of BBC radio broadcast "Robert Melville Talks About an Exhibition of Paintings by Francis Bacon" aired 3/1957.
1 copy
Magazine of Art, 1/1952
1 copy
Art Digest, 10/15/1953
7 clippings
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| Subseries 7: Balthus (Baltusz Klossowski de Rola)
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8 folders. 2.5"document boxes.
For additional information see MoMA Registrar Exh. file #611.
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Title |
Date |
| I.7.1 |
Balthus 2 items
Incl. press release (draft) for 1961 MoMA circulating exhibition
1 TL
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1960s |
| I.7.2 |
Balthus: Corresp. Incl. corresp. re: Balthus-Cyril Connolly matter (Incl. 5 ALS Balthus-JTS)
requests for loans for exh.
1 JTS folder title
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ca. 1950-1957 |
| I.7.3 |
Balthus: Exh. Corresp. 23 items
Incl. 6 TL and TLS re: damage to Larchant
9 installation photographs
loan requests
1 JTS folder title
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1957 |
| I.7.4 |
Balthus: Bibliog. 25 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
1 bibliog. (draft)
1 TL
printed matter
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ca. 1938-1957 |
| I.7.5 |
Balthus: Reviews 15 items
Incl. 6 photographs
1 JTS folder title
printed matter
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| I.7.6 |
Baithus: Photographs 36 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
35 photographs
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| I.7.7 |
Balthus: Magazine Articles 2 items
Incl. issues
L'Oeil, 1956 Mar.
ArtNews, 1956 Dec.
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1956 |
| I.7.8 |
Balthus: Pierre Matisse Photographs, postmarked 51 items
Incl. 1 envelope
50 photographs
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June 15, 1956 |
| Subseries 8: "C"
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.8.1 |
"Catalogs-C" 43 items
Incl. 4 photographs
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| I.8.2 |
Carnegie Jury 15 articles
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1952, 1953 |
| I.8.3 |
"[Alexander] Calder" 16 items
Incl. 4 TL
12 photographs
See also O'Reilly Addenda: 19 Motte, n.d. photos
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ca. 1958-1963 |
| I.8.5 |
Cézanne, Paul 3 items
Incl. 2 photographs
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| I.8.6 |
"Jean Cocteau" 2 items
Incl. 1 photograph
1 memo Bernard Karpel-JTS
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| I.8.7 |
"Cecil Collins" 10 items
Incl. 4 ALS (cc: to JTS 1948, 1947, 1946)
6 photographs
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| I.8.8 |
"William Colquhoun" 13 items
Incl. 2 ALS Duncan Macdonald-JTS
10 photographs
catalog (prices marked)
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| I.8.9 |
"Constructivists" 1 MoMA press release
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| I.8.10 |
"Camille Corot" 4 printed matter
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| I.8.11 |
"Cosimo-Piero de"(sic) 2 printed matter
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| I.8.12 |
"Francesco del Cossa and Cosimo Tura" 6 photographs
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| I.8.13 |
"Gustave Courbet" 23 photographs
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| Subseries 9: "D"
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| Folder |
Title |
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| I.9.1 |
General-D 4 items
Incl. 2 gallery announcements
1 TLS Albert Lewin-JTS
(7/15/54)
1 Bulletin
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| I.9.2 |
"Honoré Daumier" 5 photographs
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| I.9.3 |
"Jacques-Louis David" 50 items
Incl. 7 negatives
ca. 42 photographs
1 TLS Paul M. Byk-JTS
(12/11/49)
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| I.9.4 |
"Edgar Degas" 14 items
Incl. 9 announcements
5 photographs
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| I.9.5 |
de Kooning, Willem, ca 1953-ca. 1944 25 items
Incl. 23 photographs
2 announcements
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| I.9.6 |
"Eugène Delacroix" 38 items
Incl. 32 photographs
5 ephemera
1 mss, "On Art Criticism"
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| I.9.7 |
"Charles Demuth" 47 items
Incl. 1 TLS JTS-Richard Weyand (1949)
44 photographs
2 articles
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| I.9.8 |
"André Derain" 6 items
Incl. 4 photographs
2 catalogs
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| I.9.9 |
"Charles Despiau" 1 photograph
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| I.9.10 |
"Arthur Dove" 3 items
Incl. 2 photographs
1 clipping
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| I.9.11 |
"Jean Dubutfet" 4 items
Incl. 3 clippings
1 photograph
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| I.9.12 |
"Marcel Duchamp" 17 items
Incl. 1 typescript
10 photographs
1 ALS Katherine Dreier-
JTS (2/14/42)
5 ephemera
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| I.9.13 |
"Dutch" 6 photographs
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| Subseries 10: Salvador Dali
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6 folders. 2.5"document boxes
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.10.1 |
"Dali II": General Corresp. 22 items Incl. 4 ALS Gala Dali-JTS
bibliog.
transcript of Edward James notes, dictated at MoMA (1949)
1 TL JTS-Dali
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ca. 1944, 1947, 1950, 1957 |
| I.10.2 |
"Dali II": JTS Corresp. with A. Reynolds Morse 37 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
text of radio talk by Morse
11 photographs
8 TL
9 TLS
5 ALS
printed matter
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1944-1947, 1955 |
| I.10.3 |
"Dali I": Exh. and Corresp. 70+ items
Incl. 20 TL
33 TLS
1 ALS
chron.
list of exhs.
exh. notes
catalog notes
2 JTS folder titles
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1941 |
| I.10.4 |
Dali: Printed Matter 43 items
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ca. 1940-1950 |
| I.10.5 |
Dali: Reviews of JTS Books printed matter
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1940s |
| I.10.6 |
Dali: Photographs 70 items
Incl. 4 negatives
8 exh. shots
48 photographs
5 printed reproductions
1
Playbill
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Note: Material on Giorgio de Chirico, originally Subseries 11-16, is described as a separate series due to it's extensive
nature. See Series VII.
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| Subseries 17: "E, F"
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.17.1 |
"Catalogs"-E 7 items
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| I.17.2 |
"Paul Eliasberg" 25 photographs
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| I.17.3 |
"English-Buffalo Show" 10 items
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1946 Dec |
| I.17.4 |
"English-Miscl. " 16 items corresp.
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| I.17.5 |
"Max Ernst" 28 items
Incl. 2 TLS JTS-Ernst re: Lunar Asparagus (1943)
1 ALS
Ernst-JTS (6/14/43)
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ca. 1943-1962 |
| I.17.6 |
"Jan van Eyck" 9 items
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| I.17.7 |
"Catalogs-F" 21 items
photographs H. Ferber [9 photos, 1 envelope)
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| I.17.8 |
"William Fett printed matter
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1943-46 |
| I.17.9 |
"Leonor Fini" 27 items
Incl. photographs
printed matter
TLS
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| I.17.10 |
"Flemish 15th Century" 3 items
Incl. 1 typescript
2 photographs
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| I.17.11 |
"Fontainebleau Mannerists" 13 items
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| I.17.12 |
Friedlander, Walter ca. 9 items
Incl. handwritten and mimeographed notes
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| Subseries 18: "G, H"
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.18.1 |
"G-Catalogs-Miscl" 48 items
incl. 31 printed matter
17 photographs
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| I.18.2 |
"Giacometti, Alberto" 8 items
incl. photographs
printed matter
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| I.18.3 |
"[Morris] Graves" 58 items
incl. photographs
printed matter
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| I.18.4 |
"Greene, Stephen" 7 photographs
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| I.18.5 |
"Musée de Grenoble " 16 photographs
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| I.18.6 |
"[A.J.] Gros" ca. 47 items
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| I.18.7 |
"H-General" 27 items
incl. announcements (most 1940s)
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| I.18.8 |
"Hartigan, Grace" 6 items
incl. I TL (1/3/56)
2 ALS (10/2, 9/26/57)
3 photographs
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| I.18.9 |
"Harvard" 3 sheets
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| I.18.10 |
"[Anthony] Hill" 2 photographs
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| I.18.11 |
"[Barbara] Hepworth" 31 items
incl. 28 photographs
3 ephemera
printed matter
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| I.18.12 |
"Tristam Hillier" 10 photographs
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| I.18.13 |
"Hitchcock, Henry-Russell" ca. 15 items
incl. 7 ALS: 7/31/46, 7/27/46, 7/3/46, 5/22/46, 4/23/46, 2/6/46, 1/3/45
ca. 35 sheets
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| I.18.14 |
"Winslow Homer" ca. 3 items
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ca. 1932-1968 |
| I.18.15 |
"Hopper, Edward" ca. 20 items
incl. I TL WLS-JTS
gallery announcements
articles
photographs
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| I.18.16 |
"Hugo, Jean" 4 photographs
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| Subseries 19: Théodor Géricault
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3 folders. 2" document box.
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| Folder |
Title |
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| I.19.1 |
"Géricault Material for J. T. Soby" Incl. material which dates from 1930s and 1920s, possibly given to JTS by Beaumont Newhall: TLS
research and bibliog. notes, typed and in JTS's hand
photographs and ephemera.
|
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| I.19.2 |
"Géricault" corresp. Incl. TLS César De Hauke-AHB (1952)
ALS Meyer Schapiro-JTS (1945)
JTS's notes
ephemera
14 photographs
4 JTS "Géricault" file folder labels Note: only 3 file folders found among JTS's papers
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| I.19.3 |
"Géricault" 115 photographs
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| Subseries 20: Juan Gris
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8 folders. 5"document box.
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| Folder |
Title |
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| I.20.1 |
Gris: Exh. and Book Corresp. post-fire, MoMA, 1958 Aug.-Apr.
90+ items
Incl. 58 JTS carbons to lenders
19 copies letters from lenders
2 TLS (originals from Grace McCann Morley, Michael Greenwood)
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| I.20.2 |
"Gris": Exh. and Book Corresp. Pre-fire, 4/1958-5/1957
Incl. ca. 30 carbons of Sam Hunter
ca. 25 carbons of Alicia Legg
ca. 45 carbons of JTS standard loan letters
ca. 25 copies of letters from lenders of paintings
ca. 15 copies of letters from lenders re: plates for book
ca. 1 items clipped together and labeled by JTS "Foreign Loans René d'Harnoncourt"
4 copies AHB/Mauricette Fallek exchange
ca. 25 carbons JTS to Sam Hunter
ca. 20 carbon copies of JTS letters written on his Conn. letterhead, Incl. to Man Ray, Clive Bell (9/25/57), Jacques Lipchitz
(9/20/57), Alicia Legg (9/22/57), Daniel Henri Kahnweiler (8/21/57), Sidney Janis (8/21/57), Lincoln Kirstein (8/17/57), James
Johnson Sweeney (8/16, 8/14, 7/10, 7/9/57), Duncan Phillips (8/14/57), Alice B. Toklas (8/12/57), Marie Harriman (7/14/57),
G. David Thompson (7/8/57)
1 ALS Carla Giedion-Welcker-JTS (12/6/57)
1 TLS Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.-JTS (11/27/57)
1 TLS Harold (?) Hecht's secretary-JTS (11/6/57). Incl. other original corresp. to JTS from Germain Seligmann (10/2/57)
Kahnweiler (10/16, 10/8, 10/3/57)
Ralph Colin (8/29/57)
William S. Lieberman (8/21/57)
Margaret Miller (8/15, 7/21/57)
Petronel Lutkens Art Inst. of Chicago (8/5/57)
Jack Sweeney (7/7/57)
Hanover Gallery, London (7/13/57)
AHB (handwritten in pencil), "Greensboro, Vt., late June '57" AHB's reply to JTS letter of 6/22/57
carbon of latter incl.
Monroe Wheeler (5/27/57) re: Gris color plates and 2 JTS replies (carbons Incl.)
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| I.20.3 |
Gris: Douglas Cooper Corresp., 1958, 1957, ca. 1939 10 items
Incl. 4 ALS Cooper-JTS
2 copies letter Cooper-JTS re: Gris chron.
1 TL JTS-Cooper
1 TL JTS-G. David Thompson
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| I.20.4 |
Gris: Text pp. 1-2, 18-79
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| I.20.5 |
Gris: "Dedication, Acknowledgments" 18 items
incl. press release and draft
acknowledg.
5 pp. notes in JTS's hand
1 JTS folder title
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| I.20.6 |
"Gris: Lists," 1958-57 44 items
incl. 1 JTS folder title
George Gonzales-Gris's and Josette Gris's addresses
works for sale in exh.
dinners given before the opening
Gris chron. (typed)
color plates and relevant corresp.
exh. lists (several vers.)
bibliog. (tentative)
list of signed dates on Gris paintings
Gris captions
original corresp. re: Gris loans, Incl. letter AHB-JTS (8/12/57), postcard AHB-JTS (7/16/57), letter JTS-AHB (7/13/57)
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| I.20.7 |
"Gris": Photographs and Printed Matter 8 items
Incl. 1 catalog
6 photographs
1 JTS folder title
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| I.20.8 |
"Gris: Duplicates and Refused": Photographs 70 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
5 color postcards
37 black-and-white photographs
21 proofs
1 color sketch, handmade
Time article (8/6/56)
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| Subseries 21: "I, J, K, L"
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.21.1 |
"Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres" 15 items
Incl. 14 photographs
1 clipping (11/11/49)
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| I.21.2 |
"International Art Critics 41 sheets
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ca. 1949-1958 |
| I.21.3 |
"Italian Baroque/Erwin Panofsky" 13 sheets
Incl. notes written in JTS's hand (n.d.)
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| I.21.4 |
J-General and Miscl. printed matter
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ca. 1943-ca. 1948 |
| I.21.5 |
"K-General 10 items
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ca. 1943-1956 |
| I.21.6 |
Kirstein, Lincoln 6 items
Incl. 5 TLS LK-JTS
1 ALS JTS-LK
|
1950-49 |
| I.21.7 |
Koerner, Henry ca. 8 items
See also, Series III., Acq.
|
ca. 1940 |
| I.21.8 |
"[William] Koslek" 10 photographs
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| I.21.9 |
"L-General Incl. printed matter and ephemera
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ca. 1940s-1950s |
| I.21.10 |
2. "[Marie] Laurencin 2 photographs
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ca. 1930s |
| I.21.11 |
"Rico LeBrun 17 items
Incl. 1 ALS Mrs. Joseph S. Hollister-JTS
1 TLJTS-LeBrun
1 TL JTS-August Fruge
press releases, photographs and articles
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ca. 1959-ca. 1951 |
| I.21.12 |
"C. N. LeDoux" 4 photographs
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| I.21.13 |
"[Fernand] Léger 6 items ephemera
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ca. early 1 940s |
| I.21.14 |
"Jack Levine 14 items
Incl. 1 TLS Charles Alan-JTS
1 typescript for The Saturday Review of Literature
12 photographs
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ca. mid-late 1940s |
| I.21.15 |
"Lewis, Wyndham 10 items
Incl. 2 TLS Lewis-JTS (9/20, 4/9/47)
1 TLS JTS-Lewis (8/13/47)
5 photographs
1 article by Lewis (1949)
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ca. 1947 |
| I.21.16 |
"Life Symposium" ca. 62 sheets
Incl. transcripts and JTS's notes
|
1948 |
| I.21.17 |
"Lotto" 2 photographs
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|
| Subseries 22: Italian Art
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| Subseries 22.A: Arte Italiana del XX Secolo in Collezioni Americane
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|
Exh. organized under the auspices of MoMA's International Council for showing in Milan, Palazzo Reale, 30 Apr.-26 June 1960,
and in Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 16 July-15 Sept. 1960. JTS selected exh. and wrote intro. to catalog.
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.22.A.1 |
Reviews, Press Release JTS's typed "Preface"to catalog
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1960 |
| I.22.A.2 |
"Italian Show" material re: loans
Incl. 2 TLS Frank O'Hara-JTS
lists
|
1960 |
| I.22.A.3 |
Damaged Corresp. These items received in almost illegible condition
|
1960 |
| Subseries 22.B: Twentieth Century Italian Art
|
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MoMA Exh. #413 (June 28-Sept. 1949); catalog by JTS and AHB.
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| Folder |
Title |
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| I.22.B.1 |
Exh. Corresp. I Incl. MoMA press releases
corresp.
installation photographs
2 notebooks, one labeled "Rome,"the other "Milan II-X"
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| I.22.B.2 |
"Italian Corr.-Miscl." Incl. letters from Giulio Carlo Argan, Giacoma Balla, Pietro Feroldi, Gianni Mattioli, Carlo L. Ragghianti, Leone Traverso,
and Alberto Viani
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| I.22.B.3 |
"Italian Addresses" 9 items
Incl. list of names and addresses of artists JTS planned on visiting in Italy
|
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| I.22.B.4 |
"Umberto Boccioni" 6 photographs "
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| I.22.B.5 |
Renato Guttuso (show)" 9 items
Incl. 3 ALS from Guttuso with translations
photographs
ephemera
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| I.22.B.6 |
Mancusa, Maria 27 items
Incl. publicity materials and photographs supplied by the magazine Arte Contemporanea
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| I.22.B.7 |
"Scuola Metafisica" 9 photographs
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| I.22.B.8 |
Photographs: Miscl. Italian Late 19th Century Works of Art 9 items
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| I.22.B.9 |
Reproductions: Italian Works of Art |
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| Subseries 23: Paul Klee
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3 file folders 2.5"document box
See also, Soby Album: 1940s.
|
| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.23.1 |
Klee: Corresp. 76 items
Incl. JTS corresp. with Curt Valentin re:
Prints of Paul Klee exh. (1945, Buchholz Gallery) and corresp. re: MoMA exh. #433,
Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Paul Klee from The Klee Foundation, Berne, Switzerland
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ca. 1945-1950 |
| I.23.2 |
"Klee: Foreword" 13 items
Incl. 1 draft and 1 final typescript
5 reviews
1 JTS folder title
|
1945 |
| I.23.3 |
Klee: Printed Matter and Photographs 51 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
8 catalogs
1 press release
1 clipping
39 photographs
|
1941-1950 |
| Subseries 24: Leonid (Leonid Berman)
|
|
5 file folders 2.5" document box
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.24.1 |
Leonid Corresp. 20 items
Incl. 1 postcard Leonid-JTS
3 ALS Leonid-JTS (1 is autobiography)
2 autochronologies
1 map
1 typescript
1 TLS JTS-Leonid
5 ALS Leonid-JTS
4 postcards Leonid-JTS
|
ca. 1948-1951, (most 1949) |
| I.24.2 |
"Leonid, 1940-1950" 28 items
incl 1 JTS folder title
2 JTS dividers
17 photographs (1949-48)
8 printed matter
|
1940-1950 |
| I.24.3 |
"Leonid 1935-40" 31 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
4 JTS dividers
26 photographs (1939-36)
|
1935-1940 |
| I.24.4 |
"Leonid 1930-35" 34 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
1 printed matter
3 JTS dividers
26 photographs (1935, 1931)
|
1930-1935 |
| I.24.5 |
"Leonid 1925-30" 12 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
11 photographs
|
1925-1930 |
| Subseries 25: "M"
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.25.1 |
"M-General" 80 items
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| I.25.2 |
Loren MacIver 27 items
Incl. ALS MacIver-JTS (12/3/63)
ca. 15 photographs (1947-45)
6 gallery bulletins
clippings, press releases
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ca. 1950-1963 |
| I.25.3 |
Man Ray 23 items
Incl. 1 ALS Nell Bunce-JTS (10/25/72)
2 TLS Man Ray-JTS (12/9/57, 8/7/36)
clippings
gallery bulletins
2 TLS Man Ray-JTS, 1/22/1934, 1/22/1934
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| I.25.4 |
"Andrea Mantegna" 1 photograph
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| I.25.5 |
"Marino Marini" 81 items
Incl. 1 ALS Lamberto Vitali-JTS (7/30/48)
3 ALS Marini-JTS (4/27/48, 12/31/48, 2/21/49)
3 TLS JTS-Marini (9/8, 5/5/, 5/16/49)
53 photographs
ca. 20 ephemera
|
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| I.25.6 |
"Henri Matisse" 19 items
Incl. 11 photographs
8 gallery announcements/articles
|
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| I.25.7 |
"Matta" 10 items
Incl. TLS William Rubin-JTS
gallery announcements
clippings
|
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| I.25.8 |
"Hans Memling" 1 photograph
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| I.25.9 |
"Catalogs-Miscl." 20 items
|
|
| Subseries 26: "Miscl." - "Murch"(M cont'd)
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.26.1 |
"Miscl." 33 items
Incl. photographs and printed matter
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| I.26.2 |
"Amedeo Modigliani" 7 items
Incl. 1 TLS Klaus Perls-JTS (8/25/66)
1 TLS Emilio Ribas-Monroe Wheeler (8/1/61), 1 TLS Wheeler-AHB (12/29/60) Note: these incl. 2 refs. to MoMA exh. in 1962?
3 photographs
1 article
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| I.26.3 |
"Henry Moore" 16 items
|
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| I.26.4 |
"Giorgio Morandi" 40 items
incl. 38 photographs
1 postcard
1 gallery announcement
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ca. 1905-1955 |
| I.26.5 |
"Walter Tandy Murch" 13 items
|
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| Subseries 27: Joan Miró
|
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9 file folders 5" document box
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.27.1 |
"Miró: 1965 Daniel Goldreyer Restoration,"Portrait of Mistress Mills" 12 items
Incl. photographs
1 JTS folder title
4 TLS
2 TL
1 telegram Miró-JTS
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ca. 1957-1974 |
| I.27.2 |
Miró: Galleys, Text, Acknowledgments 9 items
Incl. 2 TLS
galleys
2 typescripts
1 JTS folder title
acknowledg.
|
1959 |
| I.27.3 |
"Miró": Corresp. 92 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
1 catalog
49 TL (5 JTS-Miró, 1 Miró-JTS)
19 TLS
2 color transparencies
1 ALS
1 press release
3 telegrams (1 original)
6 items re: Modesto Urgell
|
1958-1959 |
| I.27.4 |
Miró: Lists re: Book and Exh. 14 items
Incl. list of lenders
checklist
captions
checklist of John J. Reiss collection
list of plates
|
1959 |
| I.27.5 |
"Miró: Ernest Hemingway,
Farm" 60+ items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
23 TL (3 JTS-Hemingway, 1 AHB Hemingway)
3 TLS (1 Hemingway-JTS, 1 JTS-AHB)
23 telegrams (5 original)
|
1957-1959 |
| I.27.6 |
"Miró: Loan Requests" Incl. TL (carbons) to lenders and replies
3 TLS
1 JTS folder title
|
Oct 1958- Feb 1959 |
| I.27.7 |
Miró: "Murals" 13 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
2 TLS
9 printed matter (4 clippings, 2 press releases)
|
ca. 1947-1958 |
| I.27.8 |
Miró: Photographs 75 items
Incl. 9 installation photographs
1 JTS folder title
|
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| I.27.9 |
Miró: Printed Matter 24 items
Incl. 18 announcements
5 clippings
1 press release
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ca. 1928-1959 |
| Subseries 28: "N, O, P, Q"
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.28.1 |
N-General 3 items
|
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| I.28.2 |
Nash, Paul 17 items
2 TLS James Thurber-JTS (1948)
1 ALS (postcard, 1951)
3 photographs
1 gallery announcement
|
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| I.28.3 |
Nicholson, Ben 6 items Incl. 1 TLS E. C. (Peter) Gregory-JTS (1948)
1 ALS (postcard, 1951)
3 photographs
1 gallery announcement
|
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| I.28.4 |
N.Y. State Arts Program: Printed Matter 3.25"
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1945-1947, 1948, 1960 |
| I.28.5 |
"O-Genl" 6 items
|
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| I.28.6 |
"Georgia O'Keeffe" ca. 8 items
Incl. printed matter
1 TLS James Johnson Sweeney-JTS (8/16/46)
|
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| I.28.7 |
"P-Genl" 39 items
Incl. photographs and printed matter
|
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| I.28.8 |
"Palladio" 4 postcards
|
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| I.28.9 |
"Samuel Palmer" ca. 5 items
|
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| I.28.10 |
"[Joachim] Patinir" 1 photograph
|
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| I.28.11 |
"Photography" 16 items
Incl. 4 JTS 5x7" notecards
1 ALS Henri CartierBresson-JTS (2/1/57)
1 ALS Paul Strand-JTS (8/22/55)
1 TLS Victor Kraft-JTS (10/10/47)
printed matter
|
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| I.28.12 |
Picasso, Pablo 10 items
|
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| I.28.13 |
Pickens, Alton 8 items
Incl. 4 ALS Pickens-JTS (11/2/50, 9/23/48, 10/27/46, n.d.)
1 TLS Pickens-Curt Valentin (6/8/50)
3 photographs
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| I.28.14 |
"Piero delia Francesca" 27 items
Incl. 23 postcard reductions
2 photographs
printed matter
|
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| I.28.15 |
"Antonio Pollaiuolo" 1 photograph
|
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| I.28.16 |
Quirt, Walter ca. 5 items
Incl. 1 photograph
Printed matter
|
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| Subseries 29: "R"
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| Folder |
Title |
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| I.29.1 |
"R-General" 16 items
Incl. 1 ALS André Racz-JTS
1 photograph
12 catalog/announcements
1 memo re: Racz (biographical)
1 envelope of notes in JTS's hand (n.d.)
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| I.29.2 |
"Raphael" 4 photographs
|
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| I.29.3 |
"Auguste Renoir" 13 items
|
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| I.29.4 |
"Larry Rivers" 5 items
Incl. 3 clippings
1 photograph
1 TLS JTS-Rivers (1955)
|
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| I.29.5 |
Rothko, Mark 18 items
Incl. 12 photographs
5 catalog/announcements
1 bio sheet (typed)
|
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| I.29.6 |
Rouault, Georges 44 items
Incl. 36 photographs
1 announcement
3 clippings
1 TLS Mimi Catlin-JTS (6/25/45)
1 TLS JTS-William R. Jack (7/5/49)
1 TL JTS-John Rewald (12/12/49)
1 ALS Rewald-JTS (12/19/49)
See also, Soby Album: 1940s
|
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| I.29.7 |
"Henri Rousseau" 2 photographs
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| I.29.8 |
"Pierre Roy" 2 items
Incl. 1 photograph
1 catalog
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| Subseries 30: Romantic; Romanticism
|
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3 file folders 2.5"document box
See also, Soby Album: 1940s re: Romantic Painting in America.
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| Folder |
Title |
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| I.30.1 |
"Romantic" Incl. notes and typescript for
American Romantic Paintings
53 sheets
1 photograph
|
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| I.30.2 |
"English Romantic-Misel" Incl. photographs and reproduction from variety of art historical periods
40 photographs
|
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| I.30.3 |
"French Romantic" Incl. typescript (29 sheets)
58 photographs
3 TLS to JTS from Paul Rosenberg, Felix Wildenstein and Beaumont Newhall
see also, Series II.D.3.
|
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| Subseries 31: "S"
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.31.1 |
"S-General " 42 items
Incl. 36 catalog/announcements
1 copy of The Saturday Review of Literature
1 press release
1 postcard
3 clippings
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| I.31.2 |
"S-Miscl." 20 items
Incl. 12 catalog/announcements
2 photographs
4 clippings
2 press releases
|
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| I.31.3 |
San Zeno Maggiore 5 items
Incl. 4 postcards
1 JTS folder title
|
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| I.31.4 |
"Kurt Schwitters" 2 items
Incl. 1 catalog
1 biographical sketch
|
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| I.31.5 |
"André Dunoyer de Segonzac" 7 items
Incl. 6 photographs
1 copy Carnegie Magazine
|
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| I.31.6 |
"Ramon Senabré" 11 photographs
|
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| I.31.7 |
"Gino Severini" 2 sheets
Incl. JTS's handwritten notes
|
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| I.31.8 |
"Luca Signorelli" 6 items
Incl. 4 photographs
2 postcards
|
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| I.31.9 |
Smith, Matthew 12 photographs
|
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| I.31.10 |
Southampton: Parrish Art Museum 19 sheets
Incl. TL corresp.
|
1952-1953 |
| I.31.11 |
Soutine, Chaim 4 photographs
|
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| I.31.12 |
Spencer, Stanley 23 items
Incl. 21 photographs
2 TLS JTS-Arthur Tooth (4/20/46)
|
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| I.31.13 |
Stamos, Theodoros 14 items
Incl. 12 photographs
1 catalog
1 sheet of biographical data
|
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| I.31.14 |
"George Stubbs" 3 items
Incl. 2 photographs
1 postcard
|
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| I.31.15 |
Stuempfig, Walter 12 items
Incl. 2 clippings
2 catalogs
8 photographs
|
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| I.31.16 |
"Surrealism" 19 items
Incl. 1 handwritten journal entry
1 photocopied page of reviews (1944)
5 clippings
12 catalogs/announcements"
|
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| I.31.17 |
"Graham Sutherland" 12 items
Incl. 1 ALS
1 telegram Sutherland-JTS
8 photographs
1 TLS Arthur Jeffries-JTS
1 brochure
|
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| Subseries 32-34: Kay Sage (Tanguy)
|
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Two 5"document boxes and one 2.5"document box
Original order strictly maintained.
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.32.1 |
"Kay-Will and Letters" 7 items
|
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| I.32.2 |
"Kay's Pics at Viviano" 9 items
|
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| I.32.3 |
"Unidentified, Kay Sage-Viviano List" 8 items
|
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| I.32.4 |
"'The Minutes' by Kay" 26 items
|
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| I.33.5 |
"Sage Retrospective" 20 items
|
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| I.33.6 |
"Spec. Bequests in Will" 10 items
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| I.33.7 |
"Tanguy Drawings and Gouaches Assigned" 5 items
|
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| I.33.8 |
"Tanguy Oils at Pierre Matisse Gallery" 7 items
|
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| I.34.9 |
"Mongan", John S., Kay Sage's lawyer 80 items
|
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| I.34.10 |
"Kay's Own Pies, Waterbury Vault" 6 items
|
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| I.34.11 |
"Ptgs Not Assigned,"; "Kay Sage Objects" File folders found empty.
|
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| I.34.12.[1] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Albany Institute" 45 institutions, alphabetically arranged in individual file folders by JTS.
5 items
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| I.34.12.[2] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Andover" 4 items
|
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| I.34.12.[3] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Baltimore Museum" 6 items
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| I.34.12.[4] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Boston Museum" 6 items
|
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| I.34.12.[5] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Brandeis" 5 items
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| I.34.12.[6] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "California Palace of Legion of Honor" 3 items
|
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| I.34.12.[7] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Chicago Art Institute" 5 items
|
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| I.34.12.[8] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Cleveland Museum" 4 items
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| I.34.12.[9] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Colby College Art Museum" 3 items
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| I.34.12.[10] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Colorado Springs" 2 items
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| I.34.12.[11] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Currier Gallery (Manchester, NH)" 5 items
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| I.34.12.[12] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Dartmouth" 5 items
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| I.34.12.[13] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Denver Art Museum" 2 items
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| I.34.12.[14] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Fogg Museum" 5 items
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| I.34.12.[15] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Guggenheim" 5 items
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| I.34.12.[16] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Guild Hall, Easthampton, U" 3 items
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| I.34.12.[17] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Indiana University" 3 items
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| I.34.12.[18] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Kansas City" 2 items
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| I.34.12.[19] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Los Angeles" 5 items
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| I.34.12.[20] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Metropolitan" 3 items
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| I.34.12.[21] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Mt. Holyoke" 3 items
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| I.34.12.[22] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "MoMA" 15 items
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| I.34.12.[23] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Newark Museum" 4 items
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| I.34.12.[24] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Notre Dame Art Gallery" 2 items
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| I.34.12.[25] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Oberlin" 2 items
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| I.34.12.[26] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Philadelphia Museum" 4 items
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| I.34.12.[27] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Princeton" 14 items
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| I.34.12.[28] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Richmond" 4 items
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| I.34.12.[29] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "St. Louis" 4 items
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| I.34.12.[30] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Santa Barbara" 4 items
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| I.34.12.[31] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Sarasota Museum" 14 items
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| I.34.12.[32] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Smith" 10 items
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| I.34.12.[33] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "University of Arizona, Tucson" 8 items
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| I.34.12.[34] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "U. of Michigan" 4 items
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| I.34.12.[35] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "U. of Nebraska" 2 items
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| I.34.12.[36] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Wadsworth" 13 items
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| I.34.12.[37] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Walker Art Center" 2 items
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| I.34.12.[38] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Waterbury Museum" 12 items
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| I.34.12.[39] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Wellesley College" 5 items
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| I.34.12.[40] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Whitney Museum" 8 items
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| I.34.12.[41] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Williams College" 9 items
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| I.34.12.[42] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Worcester" 3 items
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| I.34.12.[43] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Vassar College" 5 items
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| I.34.12.[44] |
Museums Assigned Sage Works: "Yale" 14 items
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| I.34.13 |
Photographs 5.5"
8"× 10"black-and-white photographs of Kay Sage's work 1933(?)-1950
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1933(?)-1950 |
| Subseries 35-36: Ben Shahn
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|
32 file folders; two 5"document boxes.
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.35.1 |
Shahn: Transcript for NBC- TV's "The Open Mind," 36 sheets
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January 17, 1965 |
| I.35.2.A |
Shahn Material for Braziller Book: Braziller Corresp. incl. "Irene Gordon/Shahn " 18 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
11 TLS
5 TL
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1963 |
| I.35.2.B |
Shahn Material for Braziller Book: Braziller Text and List of Plates 11 items
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1963 |
| I.35.2.C |
Shahn Material for Braziller Book: Shahn Bibliog. 3 items
Incl. 2 copies biliog. (ea. 37 sheets)
1 JTS folder title
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1963 |
| I.35.2.D.i |
Shahn Material for Braziller Book: "Late Rejects" 13 items
Incl. 12 photographs
1 JTS folder title
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1963 |
| I.35.2.D.ii |
Shahn Material for Braziller Book: "Braziller Rejects 1940-50" 36 items
Incl. 35 photographs
1 JTS folder title
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1940-1950 |
| I.35.2.E |
Shahn Material for Braziller Book: Braziller-Shahn Photographs Incl. 3 JTS folder titles
photographs
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1920s-1960s, 1963 |
| I.35.3 |
Shahn: ICE 13 items
Incl. 5 TLS
5 TL
reviews
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Dec. 1961. |
| I.35.4 |
Shahn: Corresp. with Philadelphia Museum of Art re: Soby Lectures 3 items
Incl. transcript
2 TLS
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Nov. 6-7, 1961 |
| I.35.5 |
Shahn: Miscl. 5 items
Incl. 1 TLS
4 printed matter
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1960s |
| I.35.6.A |
Shahn: Braziller: "Braziller Lists Completed" 3 copies each
7 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
2 ALS Shahn-JTS
2 TL
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1959 |
| I.35.6.B |
Shahn: Braziller: "Shahn Braziller Correspondence" 33 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
typescript (rough)
list of drawings
signed contract
3 ALS Shahn-JTS
13 TLS (1 Shahn-JTS)
11 TL (1 JTS-Shahn)
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1957-1959 |
| I.35.7.A |
"Shahn Abrahms"(sic) 32 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
negatives
reviews
unsigned contract
17 TLS (1 Shahn-JTS)
5 TL
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1958 |
| I.35.7.B |
Shahn: Abrams 29 items
Incl. photographs
list of plates
1 TL
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| I.35.8 |
Shahn Graphics, ICE Exh. 5 items
Incl. press release
checklist
2 TLS
reviews
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1957 |
| I.35.9 |
Shahn: Miscl. 30 items
Incl. 2 JTS folder titles
2 ALS (1 Shahn-JTS)
4 TLS (1 Shahn-JTS)
2 TL
chron.
19 printed matter
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1950s |
| I.35.10 |
Shahn:
Graphics article 6 items
Incl. 4 TLS
1 TL
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1947-1948 |
| I.35.11 |
Shahn: Penguin Publication 58 items
Incl. text
1 ALS and 2 postcards AHB-JTS
list of plates
reviews
2 JTS folder titles
TL, TLS
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1947 |
| I.35.12 |
Shahn Exh. (#358) 1"
Incl. 10 "Shahn installation shots"
chron.
list of lenders
TL and TLS to and from lenders, incl. Duncan Phillips, Edith Halpert, Charles Alan
typescript for MoMA
Bulletin
press release
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1947 |
| I.36.13 |
"Shahn Social Security Murals 1940-42" 12 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
3 photographs
1 bldg. plan
3 TL
3 TLS
1 printed matter
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1940-1942 |
| I.36.14 |
Shahn: Miscl. 27 items
Incl. 9 printed matter
2 ALS
1 TL re: Shahn magazine
1 TL Shahn-Walter Chrysler
1 TL JTS-Shahn
1 ALS Shahn-JTS
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1940s |
| I.36.15 |
"Hightstown Murals 1935-38" 2 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
1 note
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1935-1938 |
| I.36.16 |
"Shahn-Prison Murals 1934-35" 10 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
1 printed matter
6 photographs
1 TLS
list, "Prohibition Series 1933-34(?)"
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1934-1935 |
| I.36.17 |
"Shahn-Sacco-Vanzetti" 19 items
Incl. 8 photographs
1 JTS folder title
1 TL
2 TLS
reviews
printed matter
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| I.36.18 |
"Shahn-Mooney Series: 1933" 19 items
Incl. 14 photographs
1 JTS folder title
2 postcards Shahn-JTS
reviews
printed matter
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| I.36.19 |
"Shahn-Levana Series, 1931-32" 11 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
10 photographs
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1931-1932 |
| I.36.20 |
"Shahn-Haggadah Summer 1930" 14 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
10 photographs
1 TL
1 TLS
1 postcard Shahn-JTS
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| I.36.21 |
"Shahn-Posters" 6 items
Incl. 5 photographs
1 JTS folder title
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| I.36.22 |
"Shahn-Photos" 72 items
Incl. 3 JTS folder titles
67 photographs
2 printed matter
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| I.36.23 |
"Shahn-Drawings" 40 items
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
1 list of drawings
38 photographs
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| I.36.24 |
Shahn: Photographs of the Artist 3 items
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| I.36.25 |
Shahn: Miscl. 7 items
Incl. "Shahn out, unidentified."
Incl.
Harper's illus.
2 photograph labels
1 JTS folder title
3 printed matter
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| Subseries 37: Smith College Museum of Art
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3 folders; 2.5"document box.
JTS was involved in activities of the Smith College Museum of Art Visiting Committee and the Board of Counselors in the mid
1950s.
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.37.1 |
Smith College: Corresp. 34 items
Incl. many TLS (several from Georgia Colin)
1 TLS AHB-JTS re: honorary degree for Dorothy C. Miller (Nov. 1957)
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ca. 1946, 1957-1959, 1960, 1978 |
| I.37.2 |
Smith College Visiting Committee 1.25"
Mimeographed material
Not on microfilm
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ca. 1953-1969 |
| I.37.3 |
Printed Matter ca. 12 items
Incl. 6 bulletins
5 catalogs
1 directory
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| Subseries 38: "T-Z"
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.38.1 |
T-General 15 items
Incl. catalog/announcements
clippings
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ca. 1947-1948 |
| I.38.2 |
"[Jacopo Robutsi] Tonny" 7 photographs
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| I.38.3 |
"[Kristians] Tonny" 28 photographs
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| I.38.4 |
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de 5 items
Incl. 4 photographs
1 gallery announcement
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| I.38.5 |
Tunnard, John 6 photographs
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| I.38.6 |
Turner, Joseph Mallord William 1 photograph
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| I.38.7 |
U, V, W-Miscl. Incl. 3 catalogs
1 clipping
1 ALS postcard Curt Valetin-JTS (1/12/1947)
1 ALS letter Elbert Weinberg-JTS (4/17/1955)
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| I.38.8 |
"[Paolo] Uccello" 1 photograph
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| I.38.9 |
"[Maurice] Utrillo" 8 items
Incl. 3 photographs
3 catalogs
1 clipping
1 TLS Dalzell Hatfield to JTS (1949)
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| I.38.10 |
van der Weyden, Rogier 1 photograph
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| I.38.11 |
Watkins, Franklin Chenault 5 photographs
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| I.38.12 |
Weber, Max 8 items
Incl. 7 photographs
1 clipping (11/19/46)
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| I.38.13 |
Wright, Frank Lloyd 4 items
Incl. 1 clipping
1 TL JTS-Zoning Board of West Hartford (7/11/50)
1 typed letter
1 TLS (1950)
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| I.38.14 |
"Yale" ca. 11 items
Incl. 4 TLS
3 TL
4 ALS
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| I.38.15 |
"X- Y -Z General" 6 items
ephemera
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| I.38.16 |
Empty File Folders 8 folders, found empty, labeled by JTS as follows:
"Andrieu"
"French Postwar"
"Whistler"
"Installation Photographs"
"Fouquet"
"Insurance"
"Miscl. "
"Masereel"
"Leonardo"
"Inactive"
"Vermeer"
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| Subseries 39: Yves Tanguy
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2 folders 2.5"document box
JTS wrote catalog for MoMA exh. #584,
Yves Tanguy, 6 Sept.-30 Oct. 1955, which ran concurrently with MoMA exh. #583, JTS's de Chirico exh. (see Appendix).
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.39.1 |
"Tanguy" 83 items
Incl. ALS, TLS re: 1955 exh.
Correspondents incl. André Breton, Paul Gatson, Marcel Jean, Edward L.T. Mesens, Jean Paulhan, Roland Penrose, Charles Ratton,
Kay Sage, Lydia K. Winston, Enrique Zafiartu
alphabetically arranged
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1955 |
| I.39.2 |
Tanguy Catalog 40 items
Incl. lists and other details re: catalog
26 items corresp.
7 photographs
3 articles
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| Subseries 40: Pavel Tchelitchew
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6 file folders 2.5"document box
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.40.1 |
Tchelitchew: Corresp. 21 items
Incl. 2 JTS folder titles
1 essay re: Tchelitchew's
Hide and Seek
3 ALS and 1 postcard Tchelitchew-JTS
4 photographs
1 TL
1 TLS
list of ownership of Tchelitchew's work
1 ALS AHB-JTS
"New Russian Word,"review (1942)
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ca. 1947-1950 |
| I.40.2 |
Tchelitchew: Lincoln Kirstein Drawing Book 7 items
Incl. 3 TLS Kirstein-JTS
1 TL JTS-Kirstein
list of Tchelitchew drawings owned by JTS
tent. list of drawings for book
draft of text
|
1947 |
| I.40.3 |
Tchelitchew: Printed Matter 14 items
Incl. review of JTS Tchelitchew book
obituary
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| I.40.4 |
Tchelitchew: Sculpture and Drawings 7 items
6 photographs found separately, therefore kept separately.
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
6 photographs
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| I.40.5 |
Tchelitchew: Photographs 1"
Incl. 1 JTS folder title
2 negatives
62+ annotated photographs
56+ unannotated photographs
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| I.40.6 |
Tchelitchew: MoMA 1942 Exh. Incl. notes dictated by the artist (21 sheets)
1 postcard Tchelitchew-JTS (9/42)
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1942 |
| Subseries 41: Index cards, A-I
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| Box |
Title |
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| I.41 |
Index cards, A-I One 11x3x5" box
"A"
"America as Arcadia"
"American"
"Abstract"
"Artists and Past"
"B"
"[Max] Beckmann"
"[Peter] Blume"
"[Pierre] Bonnard"
"[Carlo] Carrà" (Incl. information re: Max Klinger, Giorgio Morandi, Paul Nash possible exh. [.75"]
"C"
"Constructivists" "Cubism"
"D", 0.75"
"[Salvador] Dali" [1"]
"[Giorgio] de Chirico" [3.5"]
"[Charles] Demuth"
"[Otto] Dix"
"[Eugène] Delacroix"
"Delacroix's Writings"
"Delacroix's Sales"
"Delacroix's Exhibitions"
"Delacroix misc."
"E"
"English"
"[Max] Ernst"
"Expressionism"[0.5"]
"F"
"Flemish: [Erwin] Panofsky"
"[Henry Fuseli"
"Futurists"
"G"
"General"
"[Theodore] Geriault"
"[Morris] Graves"
"[Juan] Gris"
"H"
"[Edward] Hopper"
"I"
"Italians"
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| Subseries 42: Index cards, "Italians"-"XYZ"
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| Box |
Title |
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| I.42 |
Index cards, "Italians"-"XYZ" One 11x3x5" box
"K"
"[Paul] Klee"
"L"
"M"
"N"
"O"
"P"
"Q"
"R"
"Romantic"
"S"
"Ben Shahn"[2"]
"Georges-Pierre Seurat"
"Sculptors"
"James Thrall Soby"
"[Chaim] Soutine"
"[Gertrude] Stein"
"Surrealism"
"T"
"Three Comedies 2 Tragedies"
"Yves Tanguy"
"U"
"V"
"W"
"XYZ"
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| Series III: Museum Matters
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Chronological arrangement of material related to JTS's activity most of these items received as a gift to MoMA from Arthur
Cohen in 3" and 5" letterboxes.
Original order can be observed in Subseries III.52.4-9, the only one in which JTS's detailed filing system has survived intact.
Confidential Museum minutes, which exist in duplicate form elsewhere in the Museum, have been removed. Typed agendas and other
sensitive material can be found in Box 54.
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| Subseries A: 1955-1970s
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| III.A.1 |
1970s 5 items
Incl. 1 TLS Bernard Karpel-JTS
1 TLS Betsy Jones-JTS
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1970s |
| III.A.2 |
1969 10 items
Incl. 3 TLS William S. Paley-JTS
1 TLS JTS-Paley
1 TLS William A.M. Burden-JTS
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1969 |
| III.A.3 |
1965 17 items
re: organization of Committee on Museum Collections
Incl. TLS AHB-JTS
ALS AHB-JTS
TLS (carbons) JTS-AHB
René d'Harnoncourt memos
Samuel A. Marx's Moroccans
TLS memo AHB-JTS
competition for purchasing works of art
TLS copy Charles Cunningham-JTS
AHB memo (carbon)
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1965 |
| III.A.4 |
1963-1964 36 items
Note: from 3" letterbox labeled by JTS "MoMA 1963-4"
provenance Arthur Cohen.
re: Museum Collections, i.e., acquisitions and/or gifts
Incl. carbons Dorothy C. Miller-AHB (1964)
3 TLS AHB-JTS
Josten Redon Gift (1964)
carbons AHB-Miller (1963)
4 TLS AHB-JTS (1963)
1 TLS William S. Lieberman-JTS (1963)
1 TLS Betsy Jones-JTS re: Larry Aldrich (1963)
1 TLS Grace M. Mayer-JTS (1963)
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1963-1964 |
| III.A.5 |
1961-1962 27 items
Incl. 1 TLS Bernard Karpel-JTS (1962)
1 TLS Frances Pernas-JTS (1961)
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1961-1962 |
| III.A.6 |
1960 60 items
Incl. 1 TLS (carbon) re: acquisitions
12 TLS AHB-JTS
1 TLS William S. Lieberman-JTS
1 TLS Betsy Jones-JTS
1 TLS Monroe Wheeler-JTS
1 ALS Dorothy C. Miller-JTS
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1960 |
| III.A.7 |
1959 45 items
Contents of this folder and folders 1958.a-c arrived at the Museum in a 5" letterbox labeled in JTS's hand "MUSEUM 1958-9"
order of material so unintelligible that the present arrangement was deemed necessary for accessibility.
Incl. TLS (carbons) re: gifts, acquisitions, space needs, loans
11 TLS AHB-JTS
1 TLS Elizabeth Shaw-JTS
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1959 |
| III.A.8 |
1958 "MUSEUM GENERAL" 53 items
Incl. AHB TLS (carbons) re: gifts, purchases, acquisitions
I1 TLS AHB-JTS
7 items re: Peter Selz Incl. TLS William A.M. Burden-JTS
1 TLS Ralph Colin-JTS
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1958 |
| III.A.9 |
1958 24 items
re: Works of Art Given and Promised and Philip L. Goodwin Bequest, MoMA exhs. #632, #633
Incl. material deemed "confidential" re: collections of William A.M. Burden, William S. Paley, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3d,
Nelson A. Rockefeller, JTS, Louise Smith
3 TLS AHB-JTS
2 ALS AHB-JTS
1 ALS Betsy Jones-JTS
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1958 |
| III.A.10 |
1958 "Husted" 24 items
Note: ref. James Husted, who was responsible for drafting pledge agreement for works of art entering Museum Collections. See
also, 1958.b.
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1958 |
| III.A.11 |
1957 "Museum" 73 items
All items from a 3" letterbox, provenance Arthur Cohen
Incl. carbons of AHB TLS re: loans, possible purchases (Incl. Jackson Pollocks)
acquisitions (Piet Mondrian's
Trafalgar Square), Edward M.M. Warburg and G. David Thompson collections
lists re: Museum Collection of Masterworks (Nelson A. Rockefeller, John Hay Whitney, Frances Spingold)
2 TLS Dorothy C. Miller-JTS
11 TLS AHB-JTS re: Museum Collections
Incl. TLS re: Ernest Hemingway /Miró, David Smith
TLS re: Andrew Ritchie (William A.M. Burden, JTS, Nelson A. Rockefeller)
TLS JTS-Burden re: Émile Bernard painting
|
1957 |
| III.A.12 |
1955-1966 74 items
Contents of a 3" letterbox labeled in JTS's hand "Museum 1955-56."
Chronologically arranged
Incl. 7 TLS AHB-JTS (1 an annotated carbon)
corresp. re: donations to Museum Collection of Masterworks (Samuel A. Marx, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Walter Chrysler)
8 memos AHB-JTS
1954
No museum-related JTS papers received from this year; mimeographed material removed.
|
1954-1956 |
| Subseries B: 1949-1953
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| III.B.1 |
1953, General 10 items
Incl. data on "Pledged Pictures" exh. proposal
lists of desirability of certain Trustees' collections (TLS Stephen C. Clark-JTS, 12/9/53)
Policy Committee for Museum Collection of Masterworks (TLS John Hay Whitney-JTS)
confidential minutes and agendas
|
1953 |
| III.B.2 |
1953 13 items
re: acquisitions and collection matters
Incl. 1 TLS AHB-JTS
|
1953 |
| III.B.3 |
1952 19 items
Incl. general acquisition and collection material
3 TLS AHB JTS
A. Conger Goodyear resignation from Committee on Masterworks Collection
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1952 |
| III.B.4 |
1951 32 items
re: acquisitions and collectors such as Stephen C. Clark, Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, A Conger Goodyear, Walter Chrysler, Samuel
A Lewisohn
AHB corresp. (carbons)
1 TLS AHB-JTS re: Clark resignation from Committee on Museum Collections
|
1951 |
| III.B.5 |
1951 11 items
Incl. TLS Prof. Rodolfo Palluccini-JTS re: Venice Biennale
|
1951 |
| III.B.6 |
1950 48 items
Incl. 1 TLS JTS- William S. Lieberman re: Modigliani exh.
1 item AHB corresp. (carbon)
|
1950 |
| III.B.7 |
1950 27 items
Incl. 8 memos (carbons) to Committee on Museum Collections
ca. 15 carbons re: storage/safeguarding collections in case of war
2 TLS Nelson A. Rockefeller-JTS re: chairmanship of Committee on Museum Collections (10/3/50)
2 TLS William A.M. Burden re: Committee on Museum Collections policy
|
1950 |
| III.B.8 |
1950 55 items
Incl. corresp. and memos re: acquisitions, collections, loans, memos
|
1950 |
| III.B.9 |
1949, General 26 items
Incl. TLS JTS-Nelson A. Rockefeller re: Georges Rouault stained glass windows
fundraising
Emily Genauer
TriMuseum Agreement
ALS approving Philip Johnson as director of the Department of Architecture and Design
|
1949 |
| III.B.10 |
1949 21 items
Incl. 5 TLS (carbons) re: Museum Collections
6 ALS AHB-JTS (n.d., except 1 dated 9/11/49)
3 postcards (9/1 5, 9/15, 9/14/49)
5 TLS AHB-JTS re: acquisitions and collections about politics (3/17, 3/29, 10/10, 10/28/49)
1 TL carbon re: JTS resignation as Chairman of the Department of Painting and Sculpture (6/6/49, + 2 memos)
1 TL (carbon) re: Junior Council representation on Auxiliary Committee (8/16/49)
|
1949 |
| III.B.11 |
1949 14 items
Incl. corresp. re: Balla, Blume, Grosz, Matisse's Studio, Picasso's
Three Musicians
mostly JTS's copies of AHB corresp.
|
1949 |
| III.B.12 |
1949 13 items
See also, Series I., Italian Art, Box 22
Series I., Paul Klee, Box 23
Incl. TL JTS-Monroe Wheeler (9/17/49)
2 TL Wheeler-JTS (10/26, 9/15/49) re: Rouault, Kokoschka, Brancusi: Walter Arensberg Collection
|
1949 |
| Subseries C: 1947-1948
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| III.C.1 |
1948 24 items
Incl. material re: fundraising and membership publications
corresp. re: Terance Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings's book
Mona Lisa's Moustache
|
1948 |
| III.C.2 |
1948, Acquisitions 30 items
Incl. AHB TLS (carbons
Incl. memos on Matisse's Studio. 1911
10 TLS (carbons) AHB-Monroe Wheeler, -William A.M. Burden re: Frank Church Bequest
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1948 |
| III.C.3 |
1948 49 items
Note: 1948 Museum items found in estate boxes.
Incl. corresp. re: Braque exh.
other exh. matters, Incl. press release for MoMA exh. #381, New York Private Collections, and TLS Stephen C. Clark-JTS (3/17/48)
1948
1 letterbox: original order found and maintained; information from estate boxes relevant to this order can be found in folder
3.
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1948 |
| III.C.4 |
1947, "A = Acquisitions Com" 30 items
re: Committee on Museum Collections
acquisitions corresp. re: Picasso's
First Steps
much of this incl. TLS AHB-JTS or copies of AHB's carbons with handwritten notes
1947: 1 letterbox: original order found and maintained
information from estate boxes relevant to this order can be found in
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1947 |
| III.C.5 |
1947, "E = Exec. Com. & Exhib. Com." 75 items
Will be found in folder labeled "Museum-1947"
Incl. corresp. re: various exhs.
Incl. Bonnard exh.
2 TLS AHB-JTS (3/27, 4/18/47)
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1947 |
| III.C.6 |
1947, "G = General" 19 items
Incl. 1 TLS Philip Johnson-JTS (5/8/47)
1 TLS carbon JTS-Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (10/16/47)
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1947 |
| III.C.7 |
1947, "M = Met Agreement"/"MUSEUM AND MET" 40 items
Incl. Tri-Museum Agreement corresp.
2 TLS
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1947 |
| III.C.8 |
1947, "P = Dept. of Ptg & Sculpture" 26 items
re: reorganization of the department, Nov.-Apr. 1947
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1947 |
| III.C.9 |
1947 16 items
Incl. information re: selection of director of Department of Painting and Sculpture
material alphabetically arranged by candidate: Lane Faison, Henry R. Hope, Douglas MacAgy, Richard McLanathan
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1947 |
| Subseries D: 1940-1946
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| III.D.1 |
1946, "MUSEUM 1946" 14 items
re: reorganization of Museum departments
Incl. 10pp. ALS (5 sheets AHB-JTS 9/23/46 "confidential")
many TLS
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1946 |
| III.D.2 |
1946 77 items
Exhibitions Committee agendas removed and placed in Series VI.
Incl. 1 TLS Naum Gabo-JTS
2 TLS AHB-JTS
corresp. (carbons) James Johnson Sweeney-AHB, Sweeney-JTS
2 ALS
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1946 |
| III.D.3 |
1946 23 items
Incl. TLS AHB-Dorothy C. Miller, -Margaret Miller, -Nelson A. Rockefeller
Report on the Department of Architecture (1946-43)
TLS AHB-JTS (6/13/46)
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1946 |
| III.D.4 |
"Museum General-1945" 41 items
re: acquisitions, collections, policy, and corresp., James Johnson Sweeney-JTS-AHB
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1946 |
| III.D.5 |
1944 16 items
50 sheets
re: general Museum matters
Incl. typed reports on "General Administration of Museum: general exh. policy, "Status of Director of Collections"
AHB's The Museum Collections: A Brie/Report (1/15/44)
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1944 |
| III.D.6 |
1944 17 items
Incl. defense of MoMA v. Emily Genauer's 7/44
Harper's article
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1944 |
| III.D.7 |
1944 6 items
Incl. 1 ALS Dorothy C. Miller-JTS (8/1/44)
2 TLS JTS-Miller (8/2, 7/28/44)
1 TLS JTS-Stephen C. Clark (7/19/44)
1 TLS Charles Goodwin-JTS (6/17/44)
1 ALS Lincoln Kirstein-JTS (6/14/44)
JTS autobiographical sketch (n.d.)
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1944 |
| III.D.8 |
1943 9 items
Incl. data re: Morris Hirshfield exh., Joe Milone's shoeshine stand
carbon of TLS JTS-Stephen C. Clark (10/29/43) re: staff changes
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1943 |
| III.D.9 |
1940-1941 Incl. typed reports re: a permanent Museum collection, acquisitions (in photography, German and Mexican art)
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1940-1941 |
| III.D.10 |
1941 re: "Exh. X,"
For Us the Living
See also, AHB Papers, 6.13.1.e.
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1941 |
| Subseries E: Agendas and Reports
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| III.E.[1] |
1969 Post 1969 Ad Hoc Committee [1 item]
2/14 MoMA Finances [2 items]
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1969 |
| III.E.[2] |
1966 6/7 New Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture [8 items]
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1966 |
| III.E.[3] |
1965 3/9 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [7 items]
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1965 |
| III.E.[4] |
1964 6/15 New Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture [6 items]
4/16 Agenda for Board of Trustees [4 items]
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1964 |
| III.E.[5] |
1963 11/12 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [10 items]
4/9 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [11 items]
3/12 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [5 items]
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1963 |
| III.E.[6] |
1962 1/9 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [9 items]
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1962 |
| III.E.[7] |
1961 12/13 Agenda for the Committee on'the Museum Collections [16 items]
10/10 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [3 items]
10/10 New Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture [6 items]
2/7 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [8 items]
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1961 |
| III.E.[8] |
1960 12/8 Agenda from Executive Committee [3 items]
11/30 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [20 items]
11/16 New Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture [16 items]
6/6 Tentative Exhibition Schedule 2
5/26 New Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture [11 items]
5/24 Agenda for the 30th Anniversary Committee [5 items]
5/2 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [15 items]
4/6 New Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture [12 items]
2/15 Report from Program Committee [2 items]
2/10 Report from Committee on Museum Collections [9 items]
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1960 |
| III.E.[9] |
1959 6/11 Agenda for the Committee on Museum Collections [3 items]
5/22 Minutes from the Committee on the Museum Collections [7 items]
5/22 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [9 items]
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1959 |
| III.E.[10] |
1958 12/19 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [36 items]
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1958 |
| III.E.[11] |
1957 12/4/ New Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture [13 items]
1l/4 Recent Sculpture-USA Preliminary Budget [3 items]
10/15 Budget Report 1956-57 [l item]
2/27 New Acquisitions in Painting, Sculpture and Drawings [5 items]
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1957 |
| III.E.[12] |
1956 12/19 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [12 items]
12/19 Report to the Trustees [3 items]
11/30 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [1 item]
10/25 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [10 items]
10/9 New Acquisitions [5 items]
5/8 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [4 items]
4/17 Agenda for the Policy Committee [3 items]
4/4 New Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture [2 items]
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1956 |
| III.E.[13] |
1955 11/12 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [11 items]
10/10 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [11 items]
4/46 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [17 items]
3/14 Committee on the Museum Collections Speaker [2 items]
1/20 MoMA Art Exhibitions [3 items]
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1955 |
| III.E.[14] |
1953 1/30 New Acquisitions [8 items]
1/15 Agenda for Board of Trustees [2 items]
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1953 |
| III.E.[15] |
1951 11/14 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [10 items]
6/14 Agenda for Board of Trustees [1 item]
May Department of Architecture and Design [13 items]
5/24 Report on Committee on the Museum Collections [2 items]
5/23 Report on the Exhibitions Committee [3 items]
2/8 Agenda for Board of Trustees [7 items]
1951 Tentative Exhibitions Schedule [1 item]
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1951 |
| III.E.[16] |
1950 Nov. Acquisitions List [4 items]
11/15 Department of Architecture and Design [1 item]
10/19 Agenda for Board of Trustees [2 items]
6/6 Purchase Fund Report [2 items]
3/17 TLS Emily Woodruff-JTS [1 item]
3/15 TLS Woodruff-JTS [1 item]
2/17 TLS Woodruff-Lee A. Ault [1 item]
2/10 1 TLS Woodruff-JTS [2 items]
1/23 TL William A.M. Burden-Ault [1 item]
1/22 Purchase Funds [2 items]
1/6 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [8 items]
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1950 |
| III.E.[17] |
1949 1949 Fundraising [1 item]
12/31 Comparative Operating Statement [4 items]
10/31 Report of the Treasurer [6 items]
5/26 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [13 items]
4/28 Agenda for Exhibitions Committee [1 item]
1/1 Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions [11 items]
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1949 |
| III.E.[18] |
1948 1948 Possible Acquisitions [5 items]
10/6 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [12 items]
10/6 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [12 items]
10/6 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [2 items]
10/4 Item 7 on the Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [2 items]
3/17 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [14 items]
2/5 Agenda for the Exhibitions Committee [1 item]
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1948 |
| III.E.[19] |
1947 12/19 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [6 items]
6/17 Department ofIndustrial Design [8 items]
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| III.E.[20] |
1946 1946 Budget Summary and Comparison [5 items]
12/31 Purchase Fund Accounts [1 item]
12/14 Agenda for Board of Trustees [1 item]
12/5 Report on Exhibitions Committee [1 item]
10/10 Agenda for Exhibitions Committee [2 items]
5/7 The Museum Collection Acquisitions [9 items]
5/1 Assistant Treasurer Report [4 items]
4/24 Departmental Committee Meeting [5 items]
4/16 Report on Exhibitions Committee [1 item]
5/27 Departmental Committee Meeting [1 item]
1946 2 Comparative Operating Statements [2 items]
1946 Department Head and Curator Salaries [2 items]
1946 Expenditures and Income [1 item]
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1946 |
| III.E.[21] |
1945 12/17 2 Agendas for the Committee on the Museum Collections [6 items]
12/10 Departmental Committee Meeting [2 items]
12/10 Report from the Acquisitions Committee [2 items]
11/30 Departmental Committee [2 items]
6/13 Committee on Painting and Sculpture Meeting [2 items]
4/19 Committee on Painting and Sculpture Meeting [2 items]
1945 Press Release [2 items]
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1945 |
| III.E.[22] |
1944 5/26 Budget 1944-45 for Painting and Sculpture [1 item]
2/14 Purchase Funds [l item]
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1944 |
| III.E.[23] |
1943 10/29 Meeting of the Acquisitions Committee [1 item]
|
1943 |
| III.E.[24] |
1942 9/4 TLS Monroe Wheeler-JTS [1 item]
|
1942 |
| Subseries F: Addenda
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| III.F.1 |
Barry, Iris 14 items
Incl. 2 TLS Iris Barry-JTS
1 ALS (postcard) AHB-JTS
1 TLS Tom Braden-JTS
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ca. 1946-1975 |
| III.F.2 |
MoMA Photography Department 58 items
Incl. many carbons of TLS Edward Steichen-JTS, Steichen-Henry Moe, Steichen-Beaumont Newhall (Incl. his resignation, 3/7/46),
Steichen-Nancy Newhall
1 TLS Moe-JTS
1 TLS Steichen-JTS
1 TLS Grace M. Mayer-JTS
5 TLS N. Newhall-JTS
2 ALS N. Newhall-JTS
1 TLS Philip L. Goodwin-JTS
3 TLS N. Newhall-JTS
1 TLS Stephen C. Clark-JTS
ephemera 10 items
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ca. 1940s-1970s |
| III.F.3.a |
MoMA and World War II: Army JTS was director of MoMA's Armed Services Program and a member of the Civilian Committee of the Army's Arts and Crafts Section,
Special Services Division
18 items
Incl. 1 TLS James Johnson Sweeney-JTS re:
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller prints
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1942-1947 |
| III.F.3.b |
MoMA and World War II: "ARMY-1945" 44 items
Incl. material re: Army Arts Contest
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1945 |
| III.F.3.c |
MoMA and World War II: Miscl. material 25 items
re: sections marked "ARMY" removed from 2 JTS address books
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| Series VII: Giorgio de Chirico
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The de Chirico papers of James Thrall Soby were bequeathed to The Museum of Modem Art upon his death on January 29, 1979.
They were received from his estate in July 1980.
These papers were received in no discernible order and in deplorable condition: correspondence, notes, photographs and ephemera
were separated from their file folders; many of the file-folder tabs had been broken off. Thus, original order was in many
instances difficult to determine. Filing units in quotation marks indicate that these folders were thus marked by JTS.
Soby's interest in de Chirico and in modern Italian painting and sculpture began in the early 1940s with the publication of
The Early Chirico (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1941) and continued throughout his life. His personal collection of works by this artist was
bequeathed to the Museum.
Related Information: JTS was involved in the following exhibitions:
1960:
Arte Italiana del XX Secolo in Collezioni Americane, exhibition organized under the auspices of The Museum of Modern Art's International Council in cooperation with the Ente
Manifestazioni Milanesi, shown at the Palazzo Reale, Milan, April 30-June 26, 1960, and at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Modema,
Rome, July 16-Sept. 16, 1960.
1949:
Twentieth Century Italian Art. MoMAexh. #413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949 (see also, AHB Papers 6.B.8).
Related publications by JTS include:
1960: Introduction to
Arte Italiana del XX Secolo in Collezioni Americane. Milan: "Silvana" Editoriale d'Arte, 16-18, 22-23. [A separate catalog, with slight variations, was printed for the Rome
showing.]
1955: "De Chirico: Case History of the Metaphysician,"
ArtNews 54(5): 33-35.
1954: "Man in the Frock Coat:
The Saturday Review of Literature37(14): 56-57, April 3.
1950: "Guillaume Apollinaire: The Wedding of the Arts,"
The Saturday Review of Literature 33(40), 66-68, October 7.
1946: Letter to the editor, "Chirico v. Chirico:
Time48(12): II, Sept. 16.
1946: "Italy: Two Movements and Two Paintings,"
Magazine of Art 39(2): 49-51, 76-79, Feb.
For additional information on de Chirico's
Song of Love, see Series III.1950.b.
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| Subseries I: Catalogs and Gallery Announcements
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| VII.I |
Catalogs and Gallery Announcements This subseries consists of 9 items relating to de Chirico assembled by JTS during his lifetime.
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1935-1964 |
| Subseries II: Postpublication Material: Corresp.
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In 1955, Soby wrote
Giorgio de Chirico (New York: MoMA). This subgroup consists of the many letters from collectors and museums to JTS asking him to authenticate
their de Chirico paintings, following the publication of Soby's 1955 book. The correspondence discloses a number of authentic
works not included in the 1955 book; however, the majority of the works were judged by Soby to be not from de Chirico's metaphysical
period. Correspondents include The Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cé De Hauke, John de Menil, Stanley
Marcus and Gordon Onslow- Ford.
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| Folder |
Title |
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| VII.II.1 |
A-D Alsdorf, J. W. [5 items]
The Art Institute of Chicago 4 Ash, Isaac [7 items]
Ault, Lee A. [2 items]
Baker, Keith [3 items]
Bakish, Robert l items]
Baron, Carmen [1 item]
Basel: Kunstmuseum [2 items]
Berri Lardy & Cie., Paris [3 items]
Bruni, Claudio [3 items]
Cardazzo, Carlo [3 items]
Caruana, Jerry [4 items]
Castelfranco Giorgio [1 item]
Castelli Leo [3 items]
Chicago: Main Street Gallery [5 items]
Cleveland Museum of Art: Edward B. Henning [3 items]
Cumins, S. J. [2 items]
de Chirico, Giorgio [l item]
De Hauke, Cé l items]
Diamond, Harold [2 items]
Dorazio, Piero [1 item]
Dreibelbies, Eleanore [1 item]
Dusanne, Zoe [2 items]
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| VII.II.2 |
Bérger, René 7 items
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| VII.II.3 |
Chanin, Margit Winter 6 items
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| VII.II.4 |
"Nathan Cummings" 26 items
Incl. 2 de Chirico ALS and I ALS from Mme. de Chirico
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| VII.II.5 |
"[Mrs. Walter] Davis-de Chiricos New Orleans" 11 items
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| VII.II.6 |
"[John] De Menil" 8 items
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| VII.II.7 |
F-I Fearing, Mrs. Constance McCormick [1 item]
Feigen, Richard L. [1 item]
Fetscherin, Hans [2 items]
Field, Henry [3 items]
Fink, Mrs. Nathan H. [2 items]
Flatow, William, Jr. [3 items]
Fox, Milton S. [2 items]
Fradkin, Samuel A. [2 items]
Fried, Rose [2 items]
Freeman, Mrs. Stanley M. (Betty) [3 items]
Garda-Beraza, Felipe [1 item]
Gerd Hatje Verlag, Stuttgart [1 item]
Gordon, Jack [3 items]
Incl. de Chirico ALS (photostat) items]
Haftmann, Werner [4 items]
Indiana University, Bloomington: Henry R. Hope [2 items]
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| VII.II.8 |
"Owen Elliott" 7 items
Incl. de Chirico ALS (photostat)
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| VII.II.9 |
Feigel, Marie-Suzanne 5 items
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| VII.II.10 |
"[Mrs. Edwin] E. Hokin de Chirico" 4 items
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| VII.II.11 |
J-N Janis, Sidney [1 item]
Jones, Betsy (1970) [1 item]
Josten, Werner [1 item]
Knorr, Clement [1 item]
Lefevre, André [1 item]
Levy, Julien [1 item]
Levy, Mrs. Robert [1 item]
Llarens, Jean: Paris Art Gallery, New York [1 item]
Mattioli, Gianni [1 item]
Incl. 1 ALS de Chirico-Pierre Roy (photostat)
Miller, N. Richard [4 items]
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Sam Hunter [5 items]
Munich: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung [2 items]
Nazzi, Vinicio [2 items]
New Gallery, New York: Eugene Victor Thau [1 item]
New York Graphic Society [1 item]
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| VII.II.12 |
Marcus, Stanley 8 items
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| VII.II.13 |
Maremont, Arnold H. 8 items
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| VII.II.14 |
P-Z 8 items
Paris: Galerie de Seine I item Picollo, Renato [1 item]
Rainey, John [2 items]
Rice, Marcus [5 items]
Sage (Tanguy), Kay 1 ALS Schectman
Sidney Paul [1 item]
Scherer, Margaret R.[2 items]
Shachaub, Gertrude E. [1 item]
Sotheby's of London, Ltd., New York [2 items]
Stockholm: Moderna Museet [3 items]
Toninelli, Romeo [2 items]
Vienna: Museum des [20 items]
Jahrhunderts [2 items]
Wilder, Clinton [2 items]
Worcester Art Museum [4 items]
Zeisler, Richard S. [1 item]
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| Subseries III: 1955 de Chirico Book:
Giorgio de Chirico
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This subgroup includes items related to the production and publication of the book. Correspondence reveals Soby the scholar/connoisseur
establishing criteria for the identification and dating of works from de Chirico's metaphysical period, 1911-19.
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Correspondence indicates that de Chirico made copies and variations of his metaphysical works and then back-dated them as
if they were done in his metaphysical period; that de Chirico altered the dates on his metaphysical works, making them earlier
than they really were; that de Chirico wrote many authentication letters to dealers and collectors, falsely claiming that
works not from the metaphysical period were; and that there was a group of forgers who imitated de Chirico's metaphysical
period works.
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For the importance of technical data in the determination of authenticity, see folder VII.III.B.5.a, correspondence with Caroline
Keck.
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Correspondents include: Mme. Guillaume Apollinaire, Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Henry Clifford, René Gaffé, Giovanni Girardon,
Henry-Russell Hitchcock, H. W. Janson, Arthur Jeffress, Marianne W. Martin, Samuel A. Marx, Le Vicomte de Noailles, Roland
Penrose, Roger Shattuck and Romeo Toninelli.
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| Subseries III.A: Production and Publication
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| Folder |
Title |
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| VII.III.A.1.a |
Typescript: Final carbon 1"
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| VII.III.A.1.b |
Typescript: Preliminary mss with AHB's corrections 1"
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| VII.III.A.2 |
Acknowledg., Foreword, Footnotes 0.5"
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| VII.III.A.3 |
Appendices 0.5"
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| VII.III.A.4 |
Bibliog. 0.5"
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| VII.III.A.5 |
"Translations by Marga" 0.5"
Rref. Margaret Scolari Barr
also incl. "Italian Quotes"and translations by Edith Weinberger
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| VII.III.A.6.a |
Plates: Captions |
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| VII.III.A.6.b |
Plates: Corresp. 16 items
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| VII.III.A.6.c |
Plates: Text plates in book not complete
0.5"
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| VII.III.A.6.d |
Plates: End plates in book not complete 0.5"
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| VII.III.A.6.e |
Plates: Cuts 4"×5" perhaps used for dummy
37 items
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| VII.III.A.7 |
Dating of Works 10 items
original JTS file folders labeled by date and containing photos.
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| VII.III.A.8 |
Distribution 4 items
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| VII.III.A.9 |
JTS-labeled Folders 6 items
received empty from the estate
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| Subseries III.B: Book Correspondence
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| VII.III.B.1.a |
American Correspondence: A-L Acquavella, Nicholas M. [2 items]
Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo [2 items]
Art Institute of Chicago [3 items]
Beres, Pierre [1 item]
Bill, Max [1 item]
Buchholz Gallery, New York: Curt Valentin [1 item]
Canevaro di Zoagli, Count Raffaele [1 item]
Carstairs Gallery, New York [3 items]
Claflin, Agnes Rindge: Vassar College, Poughkeepsie [2 items]
Clifford, Henry: Philadelphia Museum of Art [1 item]
Cole, Andrew W. [3 items]
Cumming, Burton [1 item]
Duveen, Albert [3 items]
Girardon, Giovanni [6 items]
Goodwin, Philip L. [1 item]
Hamilton, George Heard [1 item]
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell [3 items]
Hodges, Alicia Baur [1 item]
Hugo Gallery, New York [2 items]
Janis, Sidney [2 items]
Janson, H. W. [2 items]
Johnson, Phili [2 items]
Kaufman, Emil [3 items]
M. Knoedler & Co., New York: Carman Messmore [2 items]
Levin, Harold [1 item]
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| VII.III.B.1.b |
American Correspondence: Barr, Alfred H., Jr. 18 items
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| VII.III.B.1.c |
American Correspondence: M-Z Marianne Winter Martin: Philadelphia Museum of Art [7 items]
Marymount College, Tarrytown-on-Hudson [1 item]
Matisse, Pierre [3 items]
Mayers, John J. [1 item]
Millar, Mrs. Robert Wyness (Anne) [1 item]
Mongan, Agnes [1 item]
Morse, A. Reynolds [2 items]
New Gallery, New York: Eugene Victor Thau [3 items]
Onslow-Ford, Gordon/Howard Putzel [18 items]
Incl. installation photographs, de Chirico exh., New School for Social Research
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York: Carla Steen [2 items]
Piper, Raymond F. [2 items]
Resor, Mrs. Stanley [1 item]
Gisela Richter: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [3 items]
Rothschild, Herbert [6 items]
Rubin, William S. [5 items]
Schneider, Robert [3 items]
Shattuck, Roger [8 items]
Stendahl, Earl [1 item]
Transco Trading Corp., New York: A. Breschi I van Vechten, Carl [2 items]
Walker Art Center [4 items]
Winston, Harry Lewis [4 items]
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| VII.III.B.1.d |
American Correspondence: Marx, Samuel A. 9 items
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| VII.III.B.2.a.i |
Foreign Correspondence: "Letters England", A-Z Incl. JTS corresp. with English artists, dealers, collectors.
Cooper, Douglas [3 items]
Grigson, Geoffrey [1 item]
James, Edward F. W.[5 items]
Jeffress, Arthur [11 items]
Lewis, Wyndham [2 items]
Watson, Peter [6 items]
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| VII.III.B.2.a.ii |
Foreign Correspondence: "Letters England", Mesens, Edward L.T. 19 items
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| VII.III.B.2.a.iii |
Foreign Correspondence: "Letters England", Penrose, Roland 12 items
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| VII.III.B.2.b.i |
Foreign Correspondence: "Letters France", A-Z Incl. JTS corresp. with French artists, dealers, collectors.
Adema, Marcel [6 items]
Apollinaire, Mme. Guillaume [3 items]
Boissonnas, Edith [2 items]
Dausset, Nina [2 items]
Delbos, Yvon [2 items]
Dllry, Baron Louis [4 items]
Eluard, Paul [1 item]
Evrard-Bornibus, Mrs. Michelle [1 item]
Fallek, Mauricette [1 item]
Gille-Delafon, Mme. S. [2 items]
Kahnweiler, Daniel H.: Galerie Louise Leiris [3 items]
Noailles, Le Vicomte de [7 items]
Poissonner, Bernard [3 items]
Pieyre de Mandiargues, André [2 items]
Raval, Marcel [6 items]
Roché, Henri Pierre [2 items]
Sanlazzaro, Gualtieri di [4 items]
Collinet, Mme. Simone [2 items]
Vitrac, Roger [1 item]
Vaux, Marc [3 items]
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| VII.III.B.2.b.ii |
Foreign Correspondence: "Letters France", "Breton Letters" 13 items
Incl. photostats of de Chirico/André Breton corresp.
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| VII.III.B.2.b.iii |
Foreign Correspondence: "Letters France", de Lanux, Mme. Eyre 16 items
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| VII.III.B.2.b.iv |
Foreign Correspondence: "Letters France", "Jean Paulhan" 8 items
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| VII.III.B.2.c.i |
Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", A-Z Fratelli Alinari, Florence [2 items]
Balistreri, Guido [1 item]
Cantoni Libreria di Cultura, Milan I Carrieri, Raffaele [2 items]
Castelfranco, Giorgio [4 items]
del Corso, Gaspero [2 items]
Faldi, Italo [2 items]
Fohn, Mrs. Sofie [2 items]
Guggenheim, Peggy [3 items]
Nucci, Silvana [4 items]
Ragghianti, Carlo L. [2 items]
Scheiwiller, Giovanni [4 items]
Ungaretti, Giuseppe [1 item]
Venturi, Lionello [1 item]
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| VII.III.B.2.c.ii |
Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Apollonio, Umbro: Venice Biennale 10 items
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| VII.III.B.2.c.iii |
Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Bragaglia, Anton Giulio 6 items
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| VII.III.B.2c.iv |
Broglio, Mme. Mario 9 items
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| VII.III.B.2.c.v |
Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Ghiringhelli, Peppino: II Milione Galleria d'Arte 12 items
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| VII.III.B.2.c.vi |
Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Toninelli, Romeo 16 items
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| VII.III.B.2.c.vii |
Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Vitali, Lamberto 8 items
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| VII.III.B.2.d.i |
Foreign Correspondence: "Letters Switzerland, Germany", A-Z IncI. JTS corresp. with artists, dealers and collectors in Austria, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland.
Bak / Basel, Switzerland [8 items]
Decleva, Hubert [6 items]
Feigel, Marie-Suzanne: Galerie d'Art Modeme, Basel I Gaffé, René [12 items]
Graindorge, Femand C. [5 items]
Heyligers, Dr. J. C.: Boymans Museum, Rotterdam [2 items]
Horodisch, Abraham [3 items]
Kubin, Alfred [3 items]
Munich: Bayerischen Staatsgem'idesammlungen [1 item]
Salon d'Art Wolfsberg, Zurich [2 items]
Sidra, Albert[2 items]
Trachsel, Albert [2 items]
Meyer Schapiro suggests influence on de Chirico
Zumsteg, Gustav [3 items]
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| VII.III.B.3 |
Hector and Andromache 5 items
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| VII.III.B.4 |
"Italian Letters-Chirico" 1 item
Incl. de Chirico ALS (photostat)
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| VII.III.B.5.a |
Conservation Incl. TLS from Sheldon and Caroline Keck, Charles Uht, Jean Volkmer, Daniel Goldreyer.
29 items
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8/2/1949-1/31/1967 |
| VII.III.B.5.b |
Conservation 8 items
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7/15/1945-4/12/1949 |
| Subseries III.C: Index card file
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Title |
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| III.C |
Index card file Index File of 3x5" cards. Used by JTS for preparation of book. Includes quotations, bibliography list of works; notes from
May 1, 1948, talk with Alberto Savinio, de Chirico's brother, and May 14, 1948, talk with Castelfranco.
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| Subseries IV: De Chirico Exhibition, MoMA Exh. #583
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This exhibition coincided with the publication of Soby's 1955 de Chirico book. As late as May 11, 1955, it was planned as
a joint de Chirico- Tanguy exhibition. The Tanguy exhibition (MoMA exh. #584) ran concurrently. See JTS letter to Margaret
Miller in folder 4.A.
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Title |
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| VII.IV.1 |
Correspondence 8 items
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| VII.IV.2 |
Loan Requests 27 items
Incl. 1 André Breton AL
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| Subseries V: Clippings
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This subgroup contains many fascinating articles by and about de Chirico that reveal his public attempts to expose forgeries
of his work and his ambivalent attitude toward his metaphysical period, as shown in his suit against the 1949 Venice Biennale
for not exhibiting his current work.
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| VII.V.1 |
1949 Venice Biennale 30 items
photostats of 30 articles in Italian, provided by the Biennale
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1949 |
| VII.V.2 |
1949 Venice Biennale 9 items
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1949 |
| VII.V.3 |
1946: Galerie Allard Exh., Paris 4 items
de Chirico calls the works in this exh. fakes
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1946 |
| VII.V.4 |
Reviews of Exhs. 3 items
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| VII.V.5 |
Miscl. 15 items
incl. feature articles on de Chirico
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| Subseries VI: Manuscripts
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This subgroup contains published and unpublished miscellaneous writings by de Chirico and de Chirico scholars, as well as
the court transcripts of a suit brought against the artist by a Los Angeles collector for falsely authenticating a work.
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| VII.VI.1 |
Spring 1958: Sloane, Joseph, "Giorgio de Chirico and Italy,"
The Art Quarterly 0.5"
Incl. corresp.
text; photographs
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1958 |
| VII.VI.2 |
Unpublished Papers by Jerry Caurana 0.5"
"Giorgio de Chirico: The Prodigal Son: "Nihilism in the Romantic Art of Giorgio de Chirico"
CANNOT BE MICROFILMED OR PHOTOCOPIED
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| VII.VI.3 |
1949: Dario Sabatello v. de Chirico Lawsuit, Rome and Milan 0.5"
Incl. court transcripts
corresp. with Renée S. Neu, sister of Dario Sabatello
translation of an article by Neu for JTS
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| VII.VI.4 |
Writings by de Chirico 0.5"
"Una Gita Il Lecca:
Area d'Italia, no. 2, May 1940 (photostat)
"Brevis pro Plastica Oratis,"
Area d'Italia, no. 4, Dec. 1940 (photostat)
"We Metaphysicians, Declarations by Giorgio de Chirico"
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| Subseries VII: 1940s de Chirico Material
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This subgroup includes items related to The Early Chirico: reviews, the contract with the publisher and a copy of the book
annotated by the author. See also, Series II: Writings for records of royalty payments. Correspondence reveals that Soby wanted
to revise this book immediately after it was published. Also included is material related to the acquisition in 1942 by MoMA
of a set of drawings that later proved to be false.
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| VII.VII.1 |
Corresp.: Miscl. 10 items
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| VII.VII.2 |
1942: de Chirico Drawings, Ex. Coll. Mario Girardon 1"
Purchased by MoMA through Georgette Passedoit
drawings deaccessioned because they are not authentic, but they remain in MoMA possession
incl. memo (1958)
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1942 |
| VII.VII.3.a |
1941:
The Early Chirico by James Thrall Soby (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.) copy purchased by MoMA from ExLibris, Aug. 1980
annotated by JTS
1 item
See also, Soby Album: 1940s
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| VII.VII.3.b |
The Early Chirico Corresp. 6 items
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| VII.VII.3.c |
The Early Chirico Reviews 16 items
Incl. reviews by de Chirico and Umbra Apollonio
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| Subseries VIII: Photographs
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Collected by JTS from the 1940s through the 1960s. Photographic documentation is extensive.
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| VII.VIII.1 |
Albert C. Barnes Collection 19 items
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| VII.VIII.2 |
Gianbellino Collection, Photostats 20 items
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| VII.VIII.3 |
Bernard Possionner Collection, Negatives and Photographs 10 items
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| VII.VIII.4 |
Carrà, Carlo 33 items
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| VII.VIII.5 |
"[Alberto] Savinio" 5 items
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| VII.VIII.6 |
"Possible" 19 items
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| VII.VIII.7 |
"Duplicates" 82 items
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| VII.VIII.8 |
Pittori ltaliani Contemporanei, Giampiero Giani, ed. 20 items
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1942 |
| VII.VIII.9 |
Bulletin de L'Effort Moderne 6 photostats
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| VII.VIII.10 |
"Installation Photographs" 9 items
incl. first (1935) and second (1940) Pierre Matisse exhs. and MoMA exh.
Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism Dec. 9, 1936-Jan. 17, 1937
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| VII.VIII.11 |
Comparative Material 8 items
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| VII.VIII.12 |
Miscl. 47 items
many annotated on verso in JTS's hand
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In Series I, the Subseries number indicates the box number of those files. The box list below lists folder locations for the
other series.
