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Finding aid prepared by Rona Roob, January 1998. The collection was rehoused, and the finding aid substantially reorganized, by Michelle Harvey, 2010.

Machine-readable finding aid derived from a paper document, 2006.Machine-readable finding aid created by Kathleene Konkle and Jonathan Lill.Description is in English.


Descriptive Summary
	Creator:	Soby, James Thrall, 1906-1979
	Title:	James Thrall Soby Papers
	Dates:	1930-1979
	Quantity:	52 document boxes 3 flat oversize boxes 4 boxes of 3"×5"index cards diaries


Arrangement
	The Soby Papers have been arranged into eight series. This guide provides descriptive summaries of each series. Because of user requests, selected papers have been processed and described down to the file folder unit.


	The Papers are organized into eight Series:

		Series I: Subject Interest Material: Artists and Movements, 1930s-1960s.
		Series II: Giorgio de Chirico ca. 1935-1970s
		Series III: Writings
		Series IV: Museum Matters 1940s-1970s
		Series V: JTS Collection ca. 1930-1979
		Series VI: Personal/Family
		Series VII: Albums ca. 1940-1955
		Series VIII: Addenda to the James Thrall Soby Papers

Biographical Note

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.

Scope and Content Note

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 III.

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.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The records are open for research and contain few restricted materials.

Ownership and Literary Rights

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.


Index Terms
	This collection is indexed under the following headings in DADABASE, the library catalogue of The Museum of Modern Art. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalogue using these headings.
	Persons:
		Soby, James Thrall, 1906-1979
	Subjects:
		Arp, Jean, 1887-1966 -- Archives.
		Art critics.
		Art museum directors.
		Art museums -- New York (N.Y.)
		Art, Modern -- 20th century.
		Authors.
		Bacon, Francis, 1909- -- Archives.
		Balthus, 1908- -- Archives
		Dali´, Salvador, 1904- -- Archives.
		De Chirico, Giorgio, 1888- -- Archives.
		Gris, Juan, 1887-1927 -- Archives.
		Miro´, Joan, 1893- -- Archives.
		Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Sources.
		Sage, Kay -- Archives.
		Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969 -- Archives.
		Soby, James Thrall, 1906- -- Archives.
	Document Types:
		Photonegatives.
		Photoprints.

Related Collections at MoMA and Elsewhere

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.

Administrative Information

Provenance

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. Since then assorted materials have been given to the Museum on various occasions. These later materials have been organized in to Series VIII, Addenda, and the specific provenance of the separate groups of material are noted in the their subseries descriptions.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

James Thrall Soby Papers, [series.folder]. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.

Additional Descriptive Data

Explanation of Abbreviations

ALS is an Autographed Letter Signed.
TLS is a Typed Letter Signed.
TL stands for Typed Letter.
mss. handwritten manuscript(s).
typesript typewritten manuscript(s).
[] dates in brackets were determined from outside source(s).
AAA Archives of American Art.
ICE MoMA International Circulating Exhibition.
MoMA is The Museum of Modern Art.
n.d. stands for no date.
re: stands for regarding.
JTS James Thrall Soby.
AHB Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

Container List

Series I: Subject Interest Material: Artists and Movements 1930s-1960s

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, Gris, Klee, Miró, Shahn, Tanguy, Tchelitchew; includes ephemera from late 1930s, 1940s.
Folder	Title	Date
I.1	A "Miscellaneous" 17 items Includes 11 printed matter 5 photographs
I.2	AFA American Exh., Wildenstein's Includes lists and letters	1953
I.3	"American 20th Century" printed matter
I.4	John Armstrong 5 photographs
I.5	Jean Arp: "Hagenbach-Arp" 45+ items Includes 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 TL Hagen JTS-Hagenbach 3 TL JTS-Arp 3 TLS Arp-JTS JTS photograph (missing) NOTE: Material in this file and the 4 that follow concern Jean Arp: A Retrospective* [MoMA Exh. #631, October 8-November 30, 1958].*	ca. 1957-1959
I.6	Jean Arp: Richard Hamilton's Damaged Arp 16 items Includes 4 TLS 1 Arp-JTS 10 TL 1 letter fragment statement	Nov.-Feb. 1958, ca. Jan. 1959
I.7	Jean Arp: Correspondence for Arp Exh. 0.5" Includes 1 JTS folder title 50 TL 4 TLS 55 carbons to donors	Dec.-July 1958
I.8	Jean Arp: Correspondence for Arp Exh. 0.75" Includes 140 TL 25 TLS 3 ALS 6 photographs	ca. 1957-June 1958
I.9	Jean Arp: Arp Cataolg and Exh. Notes 23 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 2 photographs catalogue list of works in U.S. collections bibliog. source lists acknowledge. 2 typescripts	1958
I.10	"Art of This Century (Peggy Guggenheim)" 41 items
I.11	R. Kirk Askew, Jr. 4 items Includes 1 ALS 1 TLS 2 gallery announcements	ca. 1944-1945
I.12	A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr.: Austin and Trinity College 7 items Includes 2 TLS 5 clippings	1960s
I.13	A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr.: Austin Memorial Exh., Wadsworth Atheneum 26 items Includes 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	ca. 1957-58
I.14	A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr.: Wadsworth Atheneum 6 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 1 clipping 1 annual report 3 bulletins	1950s
I.15	A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr.: Ringling Museum 8 items Includes 1 TLS 1 clipping 6 pamphlets	1946-48
I.16	A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr.: Wadsworth Atheneum 28 items Includes 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	1940s
I.17	A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr.: Wadsworth Atheneum 5 items Includes 2 clippings 1 catalogue 2 bulletins	1930s
I.18	A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr.: Photographs 49 items Includes 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
I.19	General "B" ca. 30 items Includes 1 ALS, Hymann Bloom-JTS (9/22/48) printed matter and ephemera (ca. 1940s)
I.20	Francis Bacon: "Bacon: JTS Typescript" 10 items Includes 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
I.21	Francis Bacon: "Bacon: General Correspondence" 65 items NOTE: includes "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
I.22	Francis Bacon: "Bacon: [H. R.] Fis[c]her" 73 items Includes 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	Nov. 1959-Jan.1964
I.23	Francis Bacon: "Bacon: [Erica] Brausen" 20 items Includes 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	Dec. 1959-Sept.1962
I.24	Francis Bacon: Robert Melville 12 items Includes 1 handwritten JTS note 3 TL JTS-Melville 1 copy telegram JTS-Melville 2 TLS, 3 ALS and 1 telegram Melville-JTS	March 1959-January 1962
I.25	Francis Bacon: "Bacon: D[avid] Sylvester Correspondence and Notes" 10 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 3 pp. JTS handwritten notes 3 TLS Sylvester-JTS 3 TL JTS-Sylvester	July 10- August 1962
I.26	Francis Bacon: "Bacon: Blake Series" 23 items Includes 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	Dec. 1061-Nov. 1963
I.27	Francis Bacon: "Bacon: Source Material" 38 items Includes 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" correspondence 1 TL 1 postcard 1 clipping	1962 July-ca. 1959
I.28	Francis Bacon: JTS Notes 9 items Includes questionnaire for Bacon 1 pocket calendar (1960, 48 pp.) with "Bacon Notes" 7 pp. handwritten JTS notes
I.29	Francis Bacon: "Brausen Photos Studied" 83 items Includes 57 photographs 1 JTS folder title 25 titles saved from damaged Bacon transparencies
I.30	Francis Bacon: "Duplicate and Rejected Plates" 8 items Includes 6 photographs 1 TLS 1 JTS folder title
I.31	Francis Bacon: Photographs and Lists 41 items Includes "Bacon: Photos: Brausen: Lists"and "Photos: Reconsider: Brausen: Fischer." Includes 36 photographs 1 ALS revised list of nos. for Bacon paintings 30 pp. list of Bacon paintings 2 JTS folder titles
I.32	Francis Bacon: Photographs 178 items Includes 152 photographs of Bacon's work 1 photograph of Bacon 12 photographs of work by other artists (see also folder I.27, "Bacon: Source Material") 1 ALS 7 notes 1 TL 1 JTS folder title 1 list from Marlborough Gallery 1 slide 1 JTS handwritten note
I.33	Francis Bacon: "Bacon: Catalogs" 18 items Includes "Catalogs and Articles-Recent"Includes 1 TLS John S. Mongan-JTS 13 catalogs 1 article (offprint from Quadrum) 1 press release 2 JTS folder titles	ca. 1949-1965
I.34	Francis Bacon: Clippings, 1960s 114 items Includes "Clippings on Bacon Shows in England and Europe" Includes 1 handwritten note René d'Harnoncourt-JTS and AHB 1 TLS 1 JTS folder title clippings: English (23), Flemish (2), German (48), Italian (49)	ca. 1960-1965
I.35	Francis Bacon: Tate Clippings 45 items Includes 1 TLS 44 clippings
I.36	Francis Bacon: 1950s 13 items Includes 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
I.37	Balthus (Baltusz Klossowski de Rola) 2 items Includes press release (draft) for 1961 MoMA circulating exhibition 1 TL For additional information see MoMA Registrar Exh. file #611.	1960s
I.38	Balthus: Correspondence Includes correspondence re: Balthus-Cyril Connolly matter (Includes 5 ALS Balthus-JTS) requests for loans for exh. 1 JTS folder title	ca. 1950-1957
I.39	Balthus: Exh. Correspondence 23 items Includes 6 TL and TLS re: damage to Larchant 9 installation photographs loan requests 1 JTS folder title	1957
I.40	Balthus: Bibliog. 25 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 1 bibliog. (draft) 1 TL printed matter	ca. 1938-1957
I.41	Balthus: Reviews 15 items Includes 6 photographs 1 JTS folder title printed matter
I.42	Balthus: Photographs 36 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 35 photographs
I.43	Balthus: Magazine Articles 2 items Includes issues L'Oeil, 1956 Mar. ArtNews, 1956 Dec.	1956
I.44	Balthus: Pierre Matisse Photographs, postmarked 51 items Includes 1 envelope 50 photographs	June 15, 1956
I.45	Max Beckmann ca. 8 items Includes 1 TLS Curt Valentin-JTS (1937) printed matter photographs
I.46	Christian Bérard 23 items	ca. 1942-56
I.47	Eugene Berman 17 items Includes 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)	ca. 1946-1969
I.48	Peter Blume 29 items Includes photographs 1 envelope, inscribed "Hair of Robert Cowley, Robert Coates, Peter Blume"
I.49	Louis-Léopold Boilly
I.50	Richard Parks Bonington
I.51	"[Pierre] Bonnard" 6 sheets Includes 1 ALS Bernard Karpel-JTS (1946) 3 ALS John RewaldJTS (1947) 1 TLS JTS-Rewald
I.52	"Boston Institute" 0.5"	1946-1949
I.53	Constantin Brancusi 17 items Includes 15 photographs printed matter	ca. 1955
I.54	Georges Braque 12 items.
I.55	Emily Bronte
I.56	Reg Butler and Lynn Chadwick
I.57	"[Alexander] Calder" 16 items Includes 4 TL 12 photographs See also O'Reilly Addenda: 19 Motte, n.d. photos	ca. 1958-1963
I.58	"Caravaggio"
I.59	Carnegie Jury 15 articles	1952, 1953
I.60	"Catalogs - C" 43 items Includes 4 photographs
I.61	Paul Cézanne 3 items Includes 2 photographs
I.62	"Jean Cocteau" 2 items Includes 1 photograph 1 memo Bernard Karpel-JTS
I.63	"Cecil Collins" 10 items Includes 4 ALS (cc: to JTS 1948, 1947, 1946) 6 photographs
I.64	"William Colquhoun" 13 items Includes 2 ALS Duncan Macdonald-JTS 10 photographs catalogue (prices marked)
I.65	"Constructivists" 1 MoMA press release
I.66	"Camille Corot" 4 printed matter
I.67	"Cosimo-Piero de"(sic) 2 printed matter
I.68	"Francesco del Cossa and Cosimo Tura" 6 photographs
I.69	"Gustave Courbet" 23 photographs
I.70	General-D 4 items Includes 2 gallery announcements 1 TLS Albert Lewin-JTS (7/15/54) 1 Bulletin
I.71	Salvador Dali: "Dali II"; General Correspondence 22 items Includes 4 ALS Gala Dali-JTS bibliog. transcript of Edward James notes, dictated at MoMA (1949) 1 TL JTS-Dali	ca. 1944, 1947, 1950, 1957
I.72	Salvador Dali: "Dali II"; JTS Correspondence with A. Reynolds Morse 37 items Includes 1 JTS folder title text of radio talk by Morse 11 photographs 8 TL 9 TLS 5 ALS printed matter	1944-1947, 1955
I.73	Salvador Dali: "Dali I"; Exh. and Correspondence 70+ items Includes 20 TL 33 TLS 1 ALS chron. list of exhs. exh. notes catalogue notes 2 JTS folder titles	1941
I.74	Salvador Dali: Printed Matter 43 items	ca. 1940-1950
I.75	Salvador Dali: Reviews of JTS Books printed matter	1940s
I.76	Salvador Dali: Photographs 70 items Includes 4 negatives 8 exh. shots 48 photographs 5 printed reproductions 1 Playbill
I.77	"Honoré Daumier" 5 photographs
I.78	"Jacques-Louis David" 50 items Includes 7 negatives ca. 42 photographs 1 TLS Paul M. Byk-JTS (12/11/49) NOTE: Material on Giorgio de Chirico, originally included in Series I, has been separated and described as Series II due to it's extent.
I.79	"Edgar Degas" 14 items Includes 9 announcements 5 photographs
I.80	Willem de Kooning 25 items Includes 23 photographs 2 announcements	ca 1953-ca. 1944
I.81	"Eugène Delacroix" 38 items Includes 32 photographs 5 ephemera 1 mss, "On Art Criticism"
I.82	"Charles Demuth" 47 items Includes 1 TLS JTS-Richard Weyand (1949) 44 photographs 2 articles
I.83	"André Derain" 6 items Includes 4 photographs 2 catalogs
I.84	"Charles Despiau" 1 photograph
I.85	"Arthur Dove" 3 items Includes 2 photographs 1 clipping
I.86	"Jean Dubuffet" 4 items Includes 3 clippings 1 photograph
I.87	"Marcel Duchamp" 17 items Includes 1 typescript 10 photographs 1 ALS Katherine Dreier-JTS (2/14/42) 5 ephemera
I.88	"Dutch" 6 photographs
I.89	"Catalogs"-E 7 items
I.90	"Paul Eliasberg" 25 photographs
I.91	"English-Buffalo Show" 10 items	1946 Dec
I.92	"English-Miscellaneous" 16 items correspondence
I.93	"Max Ernst" 28 items Includes 2 TLS JTS-Ernst re: Lunar Asparagus (1943) 1 ALS Ernst-JTS (6/14/43)	ca. 1943-1962
I.94	"Jan van Eyck" 9 items
I.95	"Catalogs-F" 21 items photographs H. Ferber [9 photos, 1 envelope)
I.96	"William Fett" printed matter	1943-46
I.97	"Leonor Fini" 27 items Includes photographs printed matter TLS
I.98	"Flemish 15th Century" 3 items Includes 1 typescript 2 photographs
I.99	"Fontainebleau Mannerists" 13 items
I.100	"Frick"
I.101	Walter Friedlander ca. 9 items Includes handwritten and mimeographed notes
I.102	"G-Catalogs-Miscl" 48 items includes 31 printed matter 17 photographs
I.103	Théodor Géricault: "Géricault Material for J. T. Soby" Includes 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.
I.104	Théodor Géricault: "Géricault" correspondence Includes 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
I.105	Théodor Géricault: "Géricault" 115 photographs
I.106	"Giacometti, Alberto" 8 items includes photographs printed matter
I.107	"[Morris] Graves" 58 items includes photographs printed matter
I.108	"Greene, Stephen" 7 photographs
I.109	"Musée de Grenoble" 16 photographs
I.110	Juan Gris: Exh. and Book Correspondence post-fire, MoMA, 1958 Aug.-Apr. 90+ items Includes 58 JTS carbons to lenders 19 copies letters from lenders 2 TLS (originals from Grace McCann Morley, Michael Greenwood)
I.111	Juan Gris: "Gris": Exh. and Book Correspondence Pre-fire, 4/1958-5/1957 Includes 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, Includes 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). Includes other original correspondence 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 includes Monroe Wheeler (5/27/57) re: Gris color plates and 2 JTS replies (carbons Includes) Description includes material in this and the following folder, I.112.
I.112	Juan Gris: "Gris"; Exh. and Book Correspondence Content split from previous folder, I.111.
I.113	Juan Gris: Douglas Cooper Correspondence 10 items Includes 4 ALS Cooper-JTS 2 copies letter Cooper-JTS re: Gris chron. 1 TL JTS-Cooper 1 TL JTS-G. David Thompson	1958, 1957, ca. 1939
I.114	Juan Gris: Text pp. 1-2, 18-79
I.115	Juan Gris: "Dedication, Acknowledgments" 18 items includes press release and draft acknowledg. 5 pp. notes in JTS's hand 1 JTS folder title
I.116	Juan Gris: "Gris: Lists" 44 items includes 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 correspondence exh. lists (several vers.) bibliog. (tentative) list of signed dates on Gris paintings Gris captions original correspondence re: Gris loans, Includes letter AHB-JTS (8/12/57), postcard AHB-JTS (7/16/57), letter JTS-AHB (7/13/57)	1958-57
I.117	Juan Gris: "Gris"; Photographs and Printed Matter 8 items Includes 1 catalogue 6 photographs 1 JTS folder title
I.118	Juan Gris: "Gris: Duplicates and Refused"; Photographs 70 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 5 color postcards 37 black-and-white photographs 21 proofs 1 color sketch, handmade Time article (8/6/56)
I.119	"[A.J.] Gros" ca. 47 items
I.120	"H-General" 27 items includes announcements (most 1940s)
I.121	"Hartigan, Grace" 6 items includes I TL (1/3/56) 2 ALS (10/2, 9/26/57) 3 photographs
I.122	"Harvard" 3 sheets
I.123	"[Barbara] Hepworth" 31 items includes 28 photographs 3 ephemera printed matter
I.124	"[Anthony] Hill" 2 photographs
I.125	"Tristam Hillier" 10 photographs
I.126	"Hitchcock, Henry-Russell" ca. 15 items includes 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
I.127	"Winslow Homer" ca. 3 items	ca. 1932-1968
I.128	"Hopper, Edward" ca. 20 items includes I TL WLS-JTS gallery announcements articles photographs
I.129	"Hugo, Jean" 4 photographs
I.130	"Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres" 15 items Includes 14 photographs 1 clipping (11/11/49)
I.131	"International Art Critics" 41 sheets	ca. 1949-1958
I.132	*Italian Art - Arte Italiana del XX Secolo in Collezioni Americane: Reviews, Press Release* JTS's typed "Preface"to catalogue This exhibition was 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 the works and wrote the introduction to the catalogue.	1960
I.133	*Italian Art - Arte Italiana del XX Secolo in Collezioni Americane: "Italian Show"* material re: loans Includes 2 TLS Frank O'Hara-JTS lists This exhibition was 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 the works and wrote the introduction to the catalogue.	1960
I.134	Italian Art - Arte Italiana del XX Secolo in Collezioni Americane: Damaged Correspondence These items received in almost illegible condition This exhibition was 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 the works and wrote the introduction to the catalogue.	1960
I.135	Italian Art - Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. # 413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949]: Exh. Correspondence I Includes MoMA press releases correspondence installation photographs 2 notebooks, one labeled "Rome,"the other "Milan II-X"
I.136	*Italian Art - Twentieth Century Italian Art* [MoMA Exh. # 413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949]: "Italian Corr.-Miscellaneous"** Includes letters from Giulio Carlo Argan, Giacoma Balla, Pietro Feroldi, Gianni Mattioli, Carlo L. Ragghianti, Leone Traverso, and Alberto Viani
I.137	*Italian Art - Twentieth Century Italian Art* [MoMA Exh. # 413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949]: "Italian Addresses"** 9 items Includes list of names and addresses of artists JTS planned on visiting in Italy
I.138	Italian Art - Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. # 413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949]: "[Umberto] Boccioni" 6 photographs
I.139	*Italian Art - Twentieth Century Italian Art* [MoMA Exh. # 413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949]: "[Renato] Guttuso (show)"** 9 items Includes 3 ALS from Guttuso with translations photographs ephemera
I.140	*Italian Art - Twentieth Century Italian Art* [MoMA Exh. # 413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949]: Maria Mancusa** 27 items Includes publicity materials and photographs supplied by the magazine Arte Contemporanea
I.141	*Italian Art - Twentieth Century Italian Art* [MoMA Exh. # 413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949]: "Scuola Metafisica"** 9 photographs
I.142	*Italian Art - Twentieth Century Italian Art* [MoMA Exh. # 413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949]: Photographs: Miscellaneous Italian Late 19th Century Works of Art** 9 items
I.143	*Italian Art - Twentieth Century Italian Art* [MoMA Exh. # 413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949]: Reproductions: Italian Works of Art**
I.144	"Italian Baroque/Erwin Panofsky" 13 sheets Includes notes written in JTS's hand (n.d.)
I.145	J-General and Miscellaneous printed matter	ca. 1943-ca. 1948
I.146	"K-General" 10 items	ca. 1943-1956
I.147	Lincoln Kirstein 6 items Includes 5 TLS LK-JTS 1 ALS JTS-LK	1950-49
I.148	Paul Klee: Correspondence 76 items Includes JTS correspondence with Curt Valentin re: Prints of Paul Klee exh. (1945, Buchholz Gallery) and correspondence re: MoMA exh. #433, Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Paul Klee from The Klee Foundation, Berne, Switzerland	ca. 1945-1950
I.149	Paul Klee: "Klee: Foreword" 13 items Includes 1 draft and 1 final typescript 5 reviews 1 JTS folder title	1945
I.150	Paul Klee: Printed Matter and Photographs 51 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 8 catalogs 1 press release 1 clipping 39 photographs	1941-1950
I.151	Henry Koerner ca. 8 items.	ca. 1940
I.152	"[William] Koslek" 10 photographs
I.153	"L-General" Includes printed matter and ephemera	ca. 1940s-1950s
I.154	2. "[Marie] Laurencin" 2 photographs	ca. 1930s
I.155	"Rico LeBrun" 17 items Includes 1 ALS Mrs. Joseph S. Hollister-JTS 1 TLJTS-LeBrun 1 TL JTS-August Fruge press releases, photographs and articles	ca. 1959-ca. 1951
I.156	"C. N. LeDoux" 4 photographs
I.157	"[Fernand] Léger" 6 items ephemera	ca. early 1 940s
I.158	Leonid Berman: Correspondence 20 items Includes 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.159	Leonid Berman: "Leonid, 1940-1950" 28 items incl 1 JTS folder title 2 JTS dividers 17 photographs (1949-48) 8 printed matter	1940-1950
I.160	Leonid Berman: "Leonid 1935-40" 31 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 4 JTS dividers 26 photographs (1939-36)	1935-1940
I.161	Leonid Berman: "Leonid 1930-35" 34 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 1 printed matter 3 JTS dividers 26 photographs (1935, 1931)	1930-1935
I.162	Leonid Berman: "Leonid 1925-30" 12 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 11 photographs	1925-1930
I.163	"Jack Levine" 14 items Includes 1 TLS Charles Alan-JTS 1 typescript for The Saturday Review of Literature 12 photographs	ca. mid-late 1940s
I.164	"Lewis, Wyndham" 10 items Includes 2 TLS Lewis-JTS (9/20, 4/9/47) 1 TLS JTS-Lewis (8/13/47) 5 photographs 1 article by Lewis (1949)	ca. 1947
I.165	"Life Symposium" ca. 62 sheets Includes transcripts and JTS's notes	1948
I.166	"Lotto" 2 photographs
I.167	"M-General" 80 items
I.168	Loren MacIver 27 items Includes ALS MacIver-JTS (12/3/63) ca. 15 photographs (1947-45) 6 gallery bulletins clippings, press releases	ca. 1950-1963
I.169	Man Ray 23 items Includes 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
I.170	"Andrea Mantegna" 1 photograph
I.171	"Marino Marini" 81 items Includes 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
I.172	"Henri Matisse" 19 items Includes 11 photographs 8 gallery announcements/articles
I.173	"Matta" 10 items Includes TLS William Rubin-JTS gallery announcements clippings
I.174	"Hans Memling" 1 photograph
I.175	Joan Miró: "Miró: 1965 Daniel Goldreyer Restoration,"Portrait of Mistress Mills" 12 items Includes photographs 1 JTS folder title 4 TLS 2 TL 1 telegram Miró-JTS	ca. 1957-1974
I.176	Joan Miró: Galleys, Text, Acknowledgments 9 items Includes 2 TLS galleys 2 typescripts 1 JTS folder title acknowledg.	1959
I.177	Joan Miró: "Miró": Correspondence 92 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 1 catalogue 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.178	Joan Miró: Lists re: Book and Exh. 14 items Includes list of lenders checklist captions checklist of John J. Reiss collection list of plates	1959
I.179	*Joan Miró: "Miró: Ernest Hemingway, Farm"* 60+ items Includes 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.180	Joan Miró: "Miró: Loan Requests" Includes TL (carbons) to lenders and replies 3 TLS 1 JTS folder title	Oct 1958- Feb 1959
I.181	Joan Miró: "Murals" 13 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 2 TLS 9 printed matter (4 clippings, 2 press releases)	ca. 1947-1958
I.182	Joan Miró: Photographs 75 items Includes 9 installation photographs 1 JTS folder title
I.183	Joan Miró: Printed Matter 24 items Includes 18 announcements 5 clippings 1 press release	ca. 1928-1959
I.184	"Miscellaneous" 33 items Includes photographs and printed matter
I.185	"Catalogs-Miscellaneous" 20 items
I.186	"Amedeo Modigliani" 7 items Includes 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 includes 2 refs. to MoMA exh. in 1962? 3 photographs 1 article
I.187	"Henry Moore" 16 items
I.188	"Giorgio Morandi" 40 items includes 38 photographs 1 postcard 1 gallery announcement	ca. 1905-1955
I.189	"Walter Tandy Murch" 13 items
I.190	N-General 3 items
I.191	Paul Nash 17 items 2 TLS James Thurber-JTS (1948) 1 ALS (postcard, 1951) 3 photographs 1 gallery announcement
I.192	Ben Nicholson 6 items Includes 1 TLS E. C. (Peter) Gregory-JTS (1948) 1 ALS (postcard, 1951) 3 photographs 1 gallery announcement
I.193	N.Y. State Arts Program: Printed Matter 3.25"	1945-1947, 1948, 1960
I.194	"O-Genl" 6 items
I.195	"Georgia O'Keeffe" ca. 8 items Includes printed matter 1 TLS James Johnson Sweeney-JTS (8/16/46)
I.196	"P-Genl" 39 items Includes photographs and printed matter
I.197	"Palladio" 4 postcards
I.198	"Samuel Palmer" ca. 5 items
I.199	"[Joachim] Patinir" 1 photograph
I.200	"Photography" 16 items Includes 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
I.201	Pablo Picasso 10 items
I.202	Alton Pickens 8 items Includes 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
I.203	"Piero della Francesca" 27 items Includes 23 postcard reductions 2 photographs printed matter
I.204	"Antonio Pollaiuolo" 1 photograph
I.205	Walter Quirt ca. 5 items Includes 1 photograph Printed matter
I.206	"R-General" 16 items Includes 1 ALS André Racz-JTS 1 photograph 12 catalogue/announcements 1 memo re: Racz (biographical) 1 envelope of notes in JTS's hand (n.d.)
I.207	"Raphael" 4 photographs
I.208	"Auguste Renoir" 13 items
I.209	"Larry Rivers" 5 items Includes 3 clippings 1 photograph 1 TLS JTS-Rivers (1955)
I.210	Romantic/Romanticism: "Romantic" Includes notes and typescript for American Romantic Paintings 53 sheets 1 photograph
I.211	Romantic/Romanticism: "English Romantic-Misel" Includes photographs and reproduction from variety of art historical periods 40 photographs
I.212	Romantic/Romanticism: "French Romantic" Includes typescript (29 sheets) 58 photographs 3 TLS to JTS from Paul Rosenberg, Felix Wildenstein and Beaumont Newhall.
I.213	Mark Rothko 18 items Includes 12 photographs 5 catalogue/announcements 1 bio sheet (typed)
I.214	Georges Rouault 44 items Includes 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, VII.1*.
I.215	"Henri Rousseau" 2 photographs
I.216	"Pierre Roy" 2 items Includes 1 photograph 1 catalogue
I.217	"S-General" 42 items Includes 36 catalogue/announcements 1 copy of The Saturday Review of Literature 1 press release 1 postcard 3 clippings
I.218	"S-Miscellaneous" 20 items Includes 12 catalogue/announcements 2 photographs 4 clippings 2 press releases
I.219	Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Kay-Will and Letters" 7 items
I.220	Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Kay's Pics at Viviano" 9 items
I.221	Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Unidentified, Kay Sage-Viviano List" 8 items
I.222	Kay Sage (Tanguy): "'The Minutes' by Kay" 26 items
I.223	Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Sage Retrospective" 20 items
I.224	Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Spec. Bequests in Will" 10 items
I.225	Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Tanguy Drawings and Gouaches Assigned" 5 items
I.226	Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Tanguy Oils at Pierre Matisse Gallery" 7 items
I.227	Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Mongan", John S., Kay Sage's lawyer 80 items
I.228	Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Kay's Own Pics, Waterbury Vault" 6 items
I.229	Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Paintings Not Assigned,"; "Kay Sage Objects" File folders found empty.
I.230	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Albany Institute" 45 institutions, alphabetically arranged in individual file folders by JTS. 5 items
I.231	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Andover" 4 items
I.232	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Baltimore Museum" 6 items
I.233	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Boston Museum" 6 items
I.234	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Brandeis" 5 items
I.235	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "California Palace of Legion of Honor" 3 items
I.236	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Chicago Art Institute" 5 items
I.237	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Cleveland Museum" 4 items
I.238	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Colby College Art Museum" 3 items
I.239	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Colorado Springs" 2 items
I.240	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Corcoran" 6 items
I.241	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Currier Gallery (Manchester, NH)" 5 items
I.242	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Dartmouth" 5 items
I.243	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Denver Art Museum" 2 items
I.244	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Fogg Museum" 5 items
I.245	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Guggenheim" 5 items
I.246	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Guild Hall, Easthampton, U" 3 items
I.247	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Indiana University" 3 items
I.248	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Kansas City" 2 items
I.249	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Los Angeles" 5 items
I.250	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Metropolitan" 3 items
I.251	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Mt. Holyoke" 3 items
I.252	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "MoMA" 15 items
I.253	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Newark Museum" 4 items
I.254	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Notre Dame Art Gallery" 2 items
I.255	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Oberlin" 2 items
I.256	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Philadelphia Museum" 4 items
I.257	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Princeton" 14 items
I.258	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Richmond" 4 items
I.259	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "St. Louis" 4 items
I.260	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Santa Barbara" 4 items
I.261	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Sarasota Museum" 14 items
I.262	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Smith" 10 items
I.263	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "University of Arizona, Tucson" 8 items
I.264	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "U. of Michigan" 4 items
I.265	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "U. of Nebraska" 2 items
I.266	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Wadsworth" 13 items
I.267	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Walker Art Center" 2 items
I.268	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Waterbury Museum" 12 items
I.269	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Wellesley College" 5 items
I.270	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Whitney Museum" 8 items
I.271	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Williams College" 9 items
I.272	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Worcester" 3 items
I.273	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Vassar College" 5 items
I.274	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Yale" 14 items
I.275	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Photographs 8"×10" black-and-white photographs of Kay Sage's work 1933(?)-1950	1933(?)-1950
I.276	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Photographs 8"×10" black-and-white photographs of Kay Sage's work 1933(?)-1950	1933(?)-1950
I.277	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Photographs 8"×10" black-and-white photographs of Kay Sage's work 1933(?)-1950	1933(?)-1950
I.278	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Photographs 8"×10" black-and-white photographs of Kay Sage's work 1933(?)-1950	1933(?)-1950
I.279	Kay Sage (Tanguy): Photographs 8"×10" black-and-white photographs of Kay Sage's work 1933(?)-1950	1933(?)-1950
I.280	San Zeno Maggiore 5 items Includes 4 postcards 1 JTS folder title
I.281	"Kurt Schwitters" 2 items Includes 1 catalogue 1 biographical sketch
I.282	"André Dunoyer de Segonzac" 7 items Includes 6 photographs 1 copy Carnegie Magazine
I.283	"Ramon Senabré" 11 photographs
I.284	"Gino Severini" 2 sheets Includes JTS's handwritten notes
I.285	Ben Shahn: Transcript for NBC- TV's "The Open Mind," 36 sheets	January 17, 1965
I.286	Ben Shahn: Material for Braziller Book; Braziller Correspondence includes "Irene Gordon/Shahn " 18 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 11 TLS 5 TL	1963
I.287	Ben Shahn: Material for Braziller Book; Braziller Text and List of Plates 11 items	1963
I.288	Ben Shahn: Material for Braziller Book; Shahn Bibliography 3 items Includes 2 copies biliog. (ea. 37 sheets) 1 JTS folder title	1963
I.289	Ben Shahn: Material for Braziller Book; "Late Rejects" 13 items Includes 12 photographs 1 JTS folder title	1963
I.290	Ben Shahn: Material for Braziller Book; "Braziller Rejects 1940-50" 36 items Includes 35 photographs 1 JTS folder title	1940-1950
I.291	Ben Shahn: Material for Braziller Book; Braziller-Shahn Photographs Includes 3 JTS folder titles photographs	1920s-1960s, 1963
I.292	Ben Shahn: ICE 13 items Includes 5 TLS 5 TL reviews	Dec. 1961.
I.293	Ben Shahn: Correspondence with Philadelphia Museum of Art re: Soby Lectures 3 items Includes transcript 2 TLS	Nov. 6-7, 1961
I.294	Ben Shahn: Miscellaneous 5 items Includes 1 TLS 4 printed matter	1960s
I.295	Ben Shahn: Braziller; "Braziller Lists Completed" 3 copies each 7 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 2 ALS Shahn-JTS 2 TL	1959
I.296	Ben Shahn: Braziller; "Shahn Braziller Correspondence" 33 items Includes 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)	1957-1959
I.297	Ben Shahn: "Shahn Abrahms"(sic) 32 items Includes 1 JTS folder title negatives reviews unsigned contract 17 TLS (1 Shahn-JTS) 5 TL	1958
I.298	Ben Shahn: Abrams 29 items Includes photographs list of plates 1 TL
I.299	Ben Shahn: Graphics, ICE Exh. 5 items Includes press release checklist 2 TLS reviews	1957
I.300	Ben Shahn: Miscellaneous 30 items Includes 2 JTS folder titles 2 ALS (1 Shahn-JTS) 4 TLS (1 Shahn-JTS) 2 TL chron. 19 printed matter	1950s
I.301	*Ben Shahn: Graphics* article** 6 items Includes 4 TLS 1 TL	1947-1948
I.302	Ben Shahn: Penguin Publication 58 items Includes text 1 ALS and 2 postcards AHB-JTS list of plates reviews 2 JTS folder titles TL, TLS	1947
I.303	*Ben Shahn: Ben Shahn* [MoMA Exh. #358, Sept. 30, 1947-Jan. 4, 1948]** 1" Includes 10 "Shahn installation shots" chron. list of lenders TL and TLS to and from lenders, includes Duncan Phillips, Edith Halpert, Charles Alan typescript for MoMA Bulletin press release	1947
I.304	Ben Shahn: "Shahn Social Security Murals 1940-42" 12 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 3 photographs 1 bldg. plan 3 TL 3 TLS 1 printed matter	1940-1942
I.305	Ben Shahn: Miscellaneous 27 items Includes 9 printed matter 2 ALS 1 TL re: Shahn magazine 1 TL Shahn-Walter Chrysler 1 TL JTS-Shahn 1 ALS Shahn-JTS	1940s
I.306	Ben Shahn: "Hightstown Murals 1935-38" 2 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 1 note	1935-1938
I.307	Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Prison Murals 1934-35" 10 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 1 printed matter 6 photographs 1 TLS list, "Prohibition Series 1933-34(?)"	1934-1935
I.308	Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Sacco-Vanzetti" 19 items Includes 8 photographs 1 JTS folder title 1 TL 2 TLS reviews printed matter
I.309	Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Mooney Series: 1933" 19 items Includes 14 photographs 1 JTS folder title 2 postcards Shahn-JTS reviews printed matter
I.310	Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Levana Series, 1931-32" 11 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 10 photographs	1931-1932
I.311	Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Haggadah Summer 1930" 14 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 10 photographs 1 TL 1 TLS 1 postcard Shahn-JTS
I.312	Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Posters" 6 items Includes 5 photographs 1 JTS folder title
I.313	Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Photos" 72 items Includes 3 JTS folder titles 67 photographs 2 printed matter
I.314	Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Drawings" 40 items Includes 1 JTS folder title 1 list of drawings 38 photographs
I.315	Ben Shahn: Photographs of the Artist 3 items
I.316	Ben Shahn: Miscellaneous 7 items Includes "Shahn out, unidentified." Includes Harper's illus. 2 photograph labels 1 JTS folder title 3 printed matter
I.317	"Luca Signorelli" 6 items Includes 4 photographs 2 postcards
I.318	Matthew Smith 12 photographs
I.319	Smith College Museum of Art: Correspondence 34 items Includes many TLS (several from Georgia Colin) 1 TLS AHB-JTS re: honorary degree for Dorothy C. Miller (Nov. 1957). NOTE: JTS was involved in activities of the Smith College Museum of Art Visiting Committee and the Board of Counselors in the mid 1950s.	ca. 1946, 1957-1959, 1960, 1978
I.320	Smith College Museum of Art: Visiting Committee 1.25" Mimeographed material Not on microfilm. NOTE: JTS was involved in activities of the Smith College Museum of Art Visiting Committee and the Board of Counselors in the mid 1950s.	ca. 1953-1969
I.321	Smith College Museum of Art: Printed Matter ca. 12 items Includes 6 bulletins 5 catalogs 1 directory. NOTE: JTS was involved in activities of the Smith College Museum of Art Visiting Committee and the Board of Counselors in the mid 1950s.
I.322	Southampton: Parrish Art Museum 19 sheets Includes TL correspondence	1952-1953
I.323	Chaim Soutine 4 photographs
I.324	Stanley Spencer 23 items Includes 21 photographs 2 TLS JTS-Arthur Tooth (4/20/46)
I.325	Theodoros Stamos 14 items Includes 12 photographs 1 catalogue 1 sheet of biographical data
I.326	"George Stubbs" 3 items Includes 2 photographs 1 postcard
I.327	Walter Stuempfig 12 items Includes 2 clippings 2 catalogs 8 photographs
I.328	"Surrealism" 19 items Includes 1 handwritten journal entry 1 photocopied page of reviews (1944) 5 clippings 12 catalogs/announcements"
I.329	"Graham Sutherland" 12 items Includes 1 ALS 1 telegram Sutherland-JTS 8 photographs 1 TLS Arthur Jeffries-JTS 1 brochure
I.330	T-General 15 items Includes catalogue/announcements clippings	ca. 1947-1948
I.331	Yves Tanguy: "Tanguy" 83 items Includes ALS, TLS re: 1955 exh. Correspondents includes 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. NOTE: JTS wrote catalogue for MoMA exhibition #584, Yves Tanguy, 6 Sept.-30 Oct. 1955, which ran concurrently with MoMA exhibition #583, JTS's de Chirico exhibition.	1955
I.332	Yves Tanguy: Tanguy Catalogue 40 items Includes lists and other details re: catalogue 26 items correspondence 7 photographs 3 articles NOTE: JTS wrote catalogue for MoMA exhibition #584, Yves Tanguy, 6 Sept.-30 Oct. 1955, which ran concurrently with MoMA exhibition #583, JTS's de Chirico exhibition.
I.333	Pavel Tchelitchew: Correspondence 21 items Includes 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)	ca. 1947-1950
I.334	Pavel Tchelitchew: Lincoln Kirstein Drawing Book 7 items Includes 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.335	Pavel Tchelitchew: Printed Matter 14 items Includes review of JTS Tchelitchew book obituary
I.336	Pavel Tchelitchew: Sculpture and Drawings 7 items 6 photographs found separately, therefore kept separately. Includes 1 JTS folder title 6 photographs
I.337	Pavel Tchelitchew: Photographs 1" Includes 1 JTS folder title 2 negatives 62+ annotated photographs 56+ unannotated photographs
I.338	*Pavel Tchelitchew: Tchelitchew: Paintings and Drawings* [MoMA Exh. #203, October 28-November 29, 1942]** Includes notes dictated by the artist (21 sheets) 1 postcard Tchelitchew-JTS (9/42)	1942
I.339	"[Jacopo Robutsi] Tintoretto" 7 photographs
I.340	"[Kristians] Tonny" 28 photographs
I.341	Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 5 items Includes 4 photographs 1 gallery announcement
I.342	John Tunnard 6 photographs
I.343	Joseph Mallord William Turner 1 photograph
I.344	U, V, W-Miscellaneous Includes 3 catalogs 1 clipping 1 ALS postcard Curt Valetin-JTS (1/12/1947) 1 ALS letter Elbert Weinberg-JTS (4/17/1955)
I.345	"[Paolo] Uccello" 1 photograph
I.346	"[Maurice] Utrillo" 8 items Includes 3 photographs 3 catalogs 1 clipping 1 TLS Dalzell Hatfield to JTS (1949)
I.347	Rogier van der Weyden 1 photograph
I.348	Franklin Chenault Watkins 5 photographs
I.349	Max Weber 8 items Includes 7 photographs 1 clipping (11/19/46)
I.350	Frank Lloyd Wright 4 items Includes 1 clipping 1 TL JTS-Zoning Board of West Hartford (7/11/50) 1 typed letter 1 TLS (1950)
I.351	"Yale" ca. 11 items Includes 4 TLS 3 TL 4 ALS
I.352	"X- Y -Z General" 6 items ephemera
Box	Title
I.353	Index cards, "A"-"de Chirico" One 11x3x5" box "A" "America as Arcadia" "American" "Abstract" "Artists and Past" "B" "[Max] Beckmann" "[Peter] Blume" "[Pierre] Bonnard" "[Carlo] Carrà" (Includes information re: Max Klinger, Giorgio Morandi, Paul Nash possible exhibition [.75"] "C" "Constructivists" "Cubism" "D", 0.75" "[Salvador] Dali" [1"] "[Giorgio] de Chirico" [3.5"]. The index cards concerning de Chirico were used by JTS for preparation of his book and include 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.
I.354	Index cards, "[Charles] Demuth"-"XYZ" One 11x3x5" box "[Eugène] Delacroix" "Delacroix's Writings" "Delacroix's Sales" "Delacroix's Exhibitions" "Delacroix misc." "[Charles] Demuth" "[Otto] Dix" "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" "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 II: Giorgio de Chirico ca. 1935-1970s

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. MoMA exhibition #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 catalogue, 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 Literature 37(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.
Subseries II.A: Catalogs and Gallery Announcements
Folder	Title	Date
II.A.1	Catalogs and Gallery Announcements This subseries consists of 9 items relating to de Chirico assembled by JTS during his lifetime.	1935-1964
Subseries II.B: Postpublication Material: Correspondence
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.
Folder	Title
II.B.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]
II.B.2	René Bérger 7 items
II.B.3	Margit Winter Chanin 6 items
II.B.4	"Nathan Cummings" 26 items Includes 2 de Chirico ALS and I ALS from Mme. de Chirico
II.B.5	"[Mrs. Walter] Davis-de Chiricos New Orleans" 11 items
II.B.6	"[John] De Menil" 8 items
II.B.7	"Owen Elliott" 7 items Includes de Chirico ALS (photostat)
II.B.8	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] Includes de Chirico ALS (photostat) items] Haftmann, Werner [4 items] Indiana University, Bloomington: Henry R. Hope [2 items]
II.B.9	Marie-Suzanne Feigel 5 items
II.B.10	"[Mrs. Edwin] E. Hokin de Chirico" 4 items
II.B.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] Includes 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]
II.B.12	Stanley Marcus 8 items
II.B.13	Arnold H. Maremont 8 items
II.B.14	P-Z 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]
Subseries II.C: 1955 de Chirico Book: Giorgio de Chirico
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.
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.
For the importance of technical data in the determination of authenticity, see folder II.C.2.22, correspondence with Caroline Keck.
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.
Subseries II.C.1: Production and Publication
Folder	Title
II.C.1.1	Typescript: Final carbon 1"
II.C.1.2	Typescript: Preliminary mss with AHB's corrections 1"
II.C.1.3	Acknowledg., Foreword, Footnotes 0.5"
II.C.1.4	Appendices 0.5"
II.C.1.5	Bibliog. 0.5"
II.C.1.6	"Translations by Marga" 0.5" Rref. Margaret Scolari Barr also includes "Italian Quotes"and translations by Edith Weinberger
II.C.1.7	Plates: Captions
II.C.1.8	Plates: Correspondence 16 items
II.C.1.9	Plates: Text plates in book not complete 0.5"
II.C.1.10	Plates: End plates in book not complete 0.5"
II.C.1.11	Plates: Cuts 4"×5" perhaps used for dummy 37 items
II.C.1.12	Dating of Works 10 items original JTS file folders labeled by date and containing photos.
II.C.1.13	Distribution 4 items
Subseries II.C.2: Book Correspondence ca. 1948-1955
Folder	Title	Date
II.C.2.1	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]
II.C.2.2	American Correspondence: Barr, Alfred H., Jr. 18 items
II.C.2.3	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] Includes installation photographs, de Chirico exhibition, 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]
II.C.2.4	American Correspondence: Marx, Samuel A. 9 items
II.C.2.5	Foreign Correspondence: "Letters England", A-Z Includes JTS correspondence 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]
II.C.2.6	Foreign Correspondence: "Letters England", Mesens, Edward L.T. 19 items
II.C.2.7	Foreign Correspondence: "Letters England", Penrose, Roland 12 items
II.C.2.8	Foreign Correspondence: "Letters France", A-Z Includes JTS correspondence 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]
II.C.2.9	Foreign Correspondence: "Letters France", "Breton Letters" 13 items Includes photostats of de Chirico/André Breton correspondence
II.C.2.10	Foreign Correspondence: "Letters France", de Lanux, Mme. Eyre 16 items
II.C.2.11	Foreign Correspondence: "Letters France", "Jean Paulhan" 8 items
II.C.2.12	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]
II.C.2.13	Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Apollonio, Umbro: Venice Biennale 10 items
II.C.2.14	Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Bragaglia, Anton Giulio 6 items
II.C.2.15	Broglio, Mme. Mario 9 items
II.C.2.16	Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Ghiringhelli, Peppino: II Milione Galleria d'Arte 12 items
II.C.2.17	Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Toninelli, Romeo 16 items
II.C.2.18	Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Vitali, Lamberto 8 items
II.C.2.19	Foreign Correspondence: "Letters Switzerland, Germany", A-Z IncI. JTS correspondence 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]
II.C.2.20	*Hector and Andromache* 5 items
II.C.2.21	"Italian Letters-Chirico" 1 item Includes de Chirico ALS (photostat)
II.C.2.22	Conservation Includes TLS from Sheldon and Caroline Keck, Charles Uht, Jean Volkmer, Daniel Goldreyer. 29 items	8/2/1949-1/31/1967
II.C.2.23	Conservation 8 items	7/15/1945-4/12/1949
Subseries II.D: De Chirico Exhibition, MoMA Exh. #583 Sept. 6-Oct. 30, 1955
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 exhibition #584) ran concurrently.
Folder	Title
II.D.1	Correspondence 8 items
II.D.2	Loan Requests 27 items Includes 1 André Breton AL
Subseries II.E: Clippings ca. 1949-1960
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.
Folder	Title	Date
II.E.1	1949 Venice Biennale 30 items photostats of 30 articles in Italian, provided by the Biennale	1949
II.E.2	1949 Venice Biennale 9 items	1949
II.E.3	1946: Galerie Allard Exh., Paris 4 items de Chirico calls the works in this exhibition fakes	1946
II.E.4	Reviews of Exhs. 3 items
II.E.5	Miscellaneous 15 items includes feature articles on de Chirico
Subseries II.F: Manuscripts
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.
Folder	Title	Date
II.F.1	Spring 1958: Sloane, Joseph, "Giorgio de Chirico and Italy," The Art Quarterly 0.5" Includes correspondence text; photographs	1958
II.F.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
II.F.3	1949: Dario Sabatello v. de Chirico Lawsuit, Rome and Milan 0.5" Includes court transcripts correspondence with Renée S. Neu, sister of Dario Sabatello translation of an article by Neu for JTS
II.F.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"
Subseries II.G: 1940s de Chirico Material 1940s
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 III: 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.
Folder	Title	Date
II.G.1	Correspondence: Miscellaneous 10 items
II.G.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 includes memo (1958)	1942
II.G.3	*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 VII.1*
II.G.4	The Early Chirico Correspondence 6 items
II.G.5	The Early Chirico Reviews 16 items Includes reviews by de Chirico and Umbra Apollonio
Subseries II.H: Photographs 1940s-1960s
Collected by JTS from the 1940s through the 1960s. Photographic documentation is extensive.
Folder	Title	Date
II.H.1	Albert C. Barnes Collection 19 items
II.H.2	Gianbellino Collection, Photostats 20 items
II.H.3	Bernard Possionner Collection, Negatives and Photographs 10 items
II.H.4	Carrà, Carlo 33 items
II.H.5	"[Alberto] Savinio" 5 items
II.H.6	"Possible" 19 items
II.H.7	"Duplicates" 82 items
II.H.8	Pittori ltaliani Contemporanei, Giampiero Giani, ed. 20 items	1942
II.H.9	*Bulletin de L'Effort Moderne* 6 photostats
II.H.10	"Installation Photographs" 9 items includes first (1935) and second (1940) Pierre Matisse exhibitions and MoMA exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism Dec. 9, 1936-Jan. 17, 1937
II.H.11	Comparative Material 8 items
II.H.12	Miscellaneous 47 items many annotated on verso in JTS's hand

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Series III: Writings

See also, Series I: Subject Interest Material for correspondence, photographs, ephemera on individual artists about whom JTS wrote.
Subseries III.A: JTS Bibliog. by JTS 1960
Folder	Title
III.A.1	JTS Bibliography by JTS
Subseries III.B: Typesrcipts
Folder	Title
III.B.1	Typescripts
III.B.2	Typescripts
III.B.3	Typescripts
Subseries III.C: Non-Museum
Folder	Title	Date
III.C.1	1963, 1964, 1970 11 items Includes items re: JTS autobiography and letters to eds., Herald Tribune, Art in America
III.C.2	*Modern Art and the New Past* Pasted-up dummy	1957
III.C.3	*Modern Art and the New Past* "Eliminated Articles"	1957
III.C.4	"Praeger Book" 31 items Includes ca. 20 items from Arthur Cohen and 11 carbon copies of letters from JTS to artists re: purpose of Leaders of Modern Painting(New York, Praeger, 1954)	1953-1954
III.C.5	Magazine of Art and AFA JTS was Acting Editor, 1950-51, and Chairman, Editorial Bd., 1951-52. Magazine of Art ceased publication with the May 1953 issue; these folders concern business of Magazine of Art/AFA, not JTS articles.	1953
III.C.6	Magazine of Art and AFA	1952
III.C.7	Magazine of Art and AFA	1952
III.C.8	Magazine of Art and AFA	1951
III.C.9	*Good News* Paradoy of an art newsletter 3 sheets paste-up
III.C.10	The Saturday Review of Literature: Related art articles JTS was art critic for SRL 1946-57 and wrote a monthly column. 8 items
III.C.11	The Saturday Review of Literature: Typescripts 11 items Many of these may have been drafts of articles for SRL.
III.C.12	The Saturday Review of Literature: Mail re: SRL 45 items Alphabetically arranged in most instances, except "corres,"which includes all staff SRL letters and "Valentin,"which includes letters re: JTS's memorial column on Curt Valentin.
III.C.13	"Leonid" for Horizon 5 items See also, Series I Includes typescript (9 sheets)	1949
III.C.14	Dodd, Mead & Co. 44 items Includes reports of sales correspondence 11 reviews of After Picasso (1935)	1935, 1937-1948
III.C.15	"Writing 1947-1948" Includes correspondence re: articles for Vogue ArtNews Pelican History of Art Town & Country Harper's Bazaar Harper's Horizon(London) Stamo Papadaki book Century Club exhibition catalogue
III.C.16	Transatlantic Article on Museum 7 items Includes typescript (10 sheets)	1946
III.C.17	Ladies Home Journal: "American Romantic Painting" 6 items 15 sheets	1944
III.C.18	Miscellaneous 5 items	1930, 1950, 1956
III.C.19	Requests to Write and Fan Mail 19 items alphabetically arranged	ca. 1935-1937
Subseries III.D: Museum Matters 1970s-1990s
See also Subseries I for additional material relevant to JTS's writings.
Folder	Title	Date
III.D.1	Miscellaneous Includes royalty statements list
III.D.2	1958, 1959, 1960 16 items Includes material re: Knoedler exhibition Recent Sculpture USA	1958, 1959, 1960
III.D.3	"French Romantic Art" Folders III.D.3 through III.D.13 contain material relating to a book that was, according to correspondence between Monroe Wheeler and JTS, to be published by MoMA.	1959
III.D.4	"French Romantic Art": Typescript, Part I	1959
III.D.5	"French Romantic Art": Typescript, Part II	1959
III.D.6	"French Romantic Art": Ingres	1959
III.D.7	"French Romantic Art": Gericault	1959
III.D.8	"French Romantic Art": "David"	1959
III.D.9	"French Romantic Art": "Courbet-Copy"	1959
III.D.10	"French Romantic Art": "Courbet-Original"	1959
III.D.11	"French Romantic Art": "Delacroix-Pub Carbon"	1959
III.D.12	"French Romantic Art": "Chapter 2 - Antoine-Jean Gros"	1959
III.D.13	"French Romantic Art": "Gros-Final Carbon"	1959
III.D.14	*Paris: Musée de l'Orangerie: De David a Toulouse-Lautrec: Typescript of catalogue entries* 1" NOTE: ref. exhibition of French works from American collections.
III.D.15	*Paris: Musée de l'Orangerie: De David a Toulouse-Lautrec: Correspondence and clippings* 5 items
III.D.16	Venice: XXVII Biennale: "Ben Shahn" 1 item Includes typescript for catalogue (ca. 21 sheets)	1954
III.D.17	"Paintings from Museum Collections Book" 4 items 75 sheets Also referred to as the "Skira Book" never completed	1953-1954
III.D.18	MoMA Exhibition #381: New York Private Collections 9 items JTS wrote intro. to the unpaginated catalogue.	1948-1949
III.D.19	Contemporary Painters: General: Correspondence and galley (New York: MoMA, 1948) with AHB's marginal notes royalty statements clippings/reviews	1948
III.D.20	Contemporary Painters: "English Semi Final"	1948
III.D.21	Contemporary Painters: "Copies Final-I"	1948
III.D.22	Contemporary Painters: "Copies Final-II"	1948
III.D.23	Contemporary Painters: "ENG. FINAL-COPY III"	1948
III.D.24	"Machine v. Nature" 5 sheets "blurb"for an International Council exhibition(?).	1948
III.D.25	"Elodie Sculpture Book" 27 sheets Ref. Osborn, Elodie Courter, Modern Sculpture (New York: MoMA, 1948).	1947
III.D.26	Circulating Exhibition: Mystery in Paint 26 sheets JTS wrote the wall labels Includes correspondence
Subseries III.E: Pocket Diaries
Folder	Title	Date
III.E.1	Pocket Diaries 22 diaries with sporadic entries all 5.25"× 3.25"except for 1949 and 1956, which are 4.5"× 3.5"and 1 travel diary, "Milan": n.d., 4.675"× 3".	1948-1969
Subseries III.F: Notebooks
Folder	Title
III.F.1	Notebook 1 combination notebook/address book, 10×7.25"; includes many inserts, most arranged alphabetically. Please handle carefully.
III.F.2	Notebook 1 black-leather loose-leaf notebook, 10×7.25".
III.F.3	Notebook 1 black-leather loose-leaf notebook, 10×7.25".
Subseries III.G: Speeches and/or Talks
Folder	Title
III.G.1	Speeches and/or Talks 7 items, 37 sheets

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Series IV: Museum Matters 1940s-1970s

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 IV.A.28-33, the only run of folders 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 Series IV.B.
Subseries IV.A: Chronological Files
Folder	Title	Date
IV.A.1	1970s 5 items Includes 1 TLS Bernard Karpel-JTS 1 TLS Betsy Jones-JTS	1970s
IV.A.2	1969 10 items Includes 3 TLS William S. Paley-JTS 1 TLS JTS-Paley 1 TLS William A.M. Burden-JTS	1969
IV.A.3	1965 17 items re: organization of Committee on Museum Collections Includes 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)	1965
IV.A.4	1963-1964 36 items provenance Arthur Cohen. re: Museum Collections, i.e., acquisitions and/or gifts Includes 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) NOTE: from 3" letterbox labeled by JTS "MoMA 1963-4."	1963-1964
IV.A.5	1961-1962 27 items Includes 1 TLS Bernard Karpel-JTS (1962) 1 TLS Frances Pernas-JTS (1961)	1961-1962
IV.A.6	1960 60 items Includes 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	1960
IV.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. Includes TLS (carbons) re: gifts, acquisitions, space needs, loans 11 TLS AHB-JTS 1 TLS Elizabeth Shaw-JTS	1959
IV.A.8	1958 "MUSEUM GENERAL" 53 items Includes AHB TLS (carbons) re: gifts, purchases, acquisitions I1 TLS AHB-JTS 7 items re: Peter Selz Includes TLS William A.M. Burden-JTS 1 TLS Ralph Colin-JTS	1958
IV.A.9	1958 24 items re: Works of Art Given and Promised and Philip L. Goodwin Bequest, MoMA exhibitions #632, #633 Includes 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	1958
IV.A.10	1958 "Husted" 24 items NOTE: ref. James Husted, who was responsible for drafting pledge agreement for works of art entering Museum Collections.	1958
IV.A.11	1957 "Museum" 73 items All items from a 3" letterbox, provenance Arthur Cohen Includes carbons of AHB TLS re: loans, possible purchases (Includes 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 Includes 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
IV.A.12	1955-1956 74 items Contents of a 3" letterbox labeled in JTS's hand "Museum 1955-56." Chronologically arranged Includes 7 TLS AHB-JTS (1 an annotated carbon) correspondence 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
IV.A.13	1953, General 10 items Includes data on "Pledged Pictures" exhibition 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
IV.A.14	1953 13 items re: acquisitions and collection matters Includes 1 TLS AHB-JTS	1953
IV.A.15	1952 19 items Includes general acquisition and collection material 3 TLS AHB JTS A. Conger Goodyear resignation from Committee on Masterworks Collection	1952
IV.A.16	1951 32 items re: acquisitions and collectors such as Stephen C. Clark, Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, A Conger Goodyear, Walter Chrysler, Samuel A Lewisohn AHB correspondence (carbons) 1 TLS AHB-JTS re: Clark resignation from Committee on Museum Collections	1951
IV.A.17	1951 11 items Includes TLS Prof. Rodolfo Palluccini-JTS re: Venice Biennale	1951
IV.A.18	1950 48 items Includes 1 TLS JTS- William S. Lieberman re: Modigliani exhibition 1 item AHB correspondence (carbon)	1950
IV.A.19	1950 27 items Includes 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
IV.A.20	1950 55 items Includes correspondence and memos re: acquisitions, collections, loans, memos	1950
IV.A.21	1949, General 26 items Includes 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
IV.A.22	1949 21 items Includes 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
IV.A.23	1949 14 items Includes correspondence re: Balla, Blume, Grosz, Matisse's Studio, Picasso's Three Musicians mostly JTS's copies of AHB correspondence	1949
IV.A.24	1949 13 items Includes TL JTS-Monroe Wheeler (9/17/49) 2 TL Wheeler-JTS (10/26, 9/15/49) re: Rouault, Kokoschka, Brancusi: Walter Arensberg Collection	1949
IV.A.25	1948 24 items Includes material re: fundraising and membership publications correspondence re: Terance Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings's book Mona Lisa's Moustache	1948
IV.A.26	1948, Acquisitions 30 items Includes AHB TLS (carbons Includes memos on Matisse's Studio. 1911 10 TLS (carbons) AHB-Monroe Wheeler, -William A.M. Burden re: Frank Church Bequest	1948
IV.A.27	1948 49 items Includes correspondence re: Braque exhibition other exhibition matters, Includes press release for MoMA exhibition #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. NOTE: 1948 Museum items found in estate boxes.	1948
IV.A.28	1947, "A = Acquisitions Com" 30 items re: Committee on Museum Collections acquisitions correspondence re: Picasso's First Steps much of this includes 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	1947
IV.A.29	1947, "E = Exec. Com. & Exhib. Com." 75 items Will be found in folder labeled "Museum-1947" Includes correspondence re: various exhibitions Includes Bonnard exhibition 2 TLS AHB-JTS (3/27, 4/18/47)	1947
IV.A.30	1947, "G = General" 19 items Includes 1 TLS Philip Johnson-JTS (5/8/47) 1 TLS carbon JTS-Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (10/16/47)	1947
IV.A.31	1947, "M = Met Agreement"/"MUSEUM AND MET" 40 items Includes Tri-Museum Agreement correspondence 2 TLS	1947
IV.A.32	1947, "P = Dept. of Ptg & Sculpture" 26 items re: reorganization of the department, Nov.-Apr. 1947	1947
IV.A.33	1947 16 items Includes 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	1947
IV.A.34	1946, "MUSEUM 1946" 14 items re: reorganization of Museum departments Includes 10pp. ALS (5 sheets AHB-JTS 9/23/46 "confidential") many TLS	1946
IV.A.35	1946 77 items Exhibitions Committee agendas removed and placed in Series IV.B. Includes 1 TLS Naum Gabo-JTS 2 TLS AHB-JTS correspondence (carbons) James Johnson Sweeney-AHB, Sweeney-JTS 2 ALS	1946
IV.A.36	1946 23 items Includes TLS AHB-Dorothy C. Miller, -Margaret Miller, -Nelson A. Rockefeller Report on the Department of Architecture (1946-43) TLS AHB-JTS (6/13/46)	1946
IV.A.37	"Museum General-1945" 41 items re: acquisitions, collections, policy, and correspondence, James Johnson Sweeney-JTS-AHB	1946
IV.A.38	1944 16 items 50 sheets re: general Museum matters Includes typed reports on "General Administration of Museum: general exhibition policy, "Status of Director of Collections" AHB's The Museum Collections: A Brie/Report (1/15/44)	1944
IV.A.39	1944 17 items Includes defense of MoMA v. Emily Genauer's 7/44 Harper's article	1944
IV.A.40	1944 6 items Includes 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.)	1944
IV.A.41	1943 9 items Includes data re: Morris Hirshfield exhibition, Joe Milone's shoeshine stand carbon of TLS JTS-Stephen C. Clark (10/29/43) re: staff changes	1943
IV.A.42	1940-1941 Includes typed reports re: a permanent Museum collection, acquisitions (in photography, German and Mexican art)	1940-1941
IV.A.43	1941 re: "Exhibition X," For Us the Living See also, AHB Papers, 6.13.1.e.	1941
Subseries IV.B: Agendas and Reports
Folder	Title	Date
IV.B.1	1961-1969 Post 1969 Ad Hoc Committee [1 item] 2/14 MoMA Finances [2 items] 6/7 New Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture [8 items] 3/9 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [7 items] 6/15 New Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture [6 items] 4/16 Agenda for Board of Trustees [4 items] 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] 1/9 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [9 items] 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]	1961-1969
IV.B.2	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]	1960
IV.B.3	1956-1959 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] 12/19 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [36 items] 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] 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]	1956-1959
IV.B.4	1950-1955 11/23 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] 1/30 New Acquisitions [8 items] 1/15 Agenda for Board of Trustees [2 items] 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] 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]	1950-1955
IV.B.5	1942-1949 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] 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] 12/19 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [6 items] 6/17 Department ofIndustrial Design [8 items] 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] 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] 5/26 Budget 1944-45 for Painting and Sculpture [1 item] 2/14 Purchase Funds [l item] 10/29 Meeting of the Acquisitions Committee [1 item] 9/4 TLS Monroe Wheeler-JTS [1 item]	1942-1949
Subseries IV.C: Addenda
Folder	Title	Date
IV.C.1	Barry, Iris 14 items Includes 2 TLS Iris Barry-JTS 1 ALS (postcard) AHB-JTS 1 TLS Tom Braden-JTS	ca. 1946-1975
IV.C.2	MoMA Photography Department 58 items Includes many carbons of TLS Edward Steichen-JTS, Steichen-Henry Moe, Steichen-Beaumont Newhall (Includes 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	ca. 1940s-1970s
IV.C.3	MoMA Photography Department: Michigan Piece	1956
IV.C.4	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 Includes 1 TLS James Johnson Sweeney-JTS re: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller prints	1942-1947
IV.C.5	MoMA and World War II: "ARMY-1945" 44 items Includes material re: Army Arts Contest	1945
IV.C.6	MoMA and World War II: Miscellaneous material 25 items re: sections marked "ARMY" removed from 2 JTS address books

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Series V: JTS Collection

For additional information about these artists see Series I. A major portion of this collection was bequeathed to MoMA in 1979.
Subseries V.A: Miscellaneous Late Items
Folder	Title	Date
V.A.1	Miscellaneous Late Items 3 items	1960-1961, 1974
Subseries V.B: Insurance: Collection Inventory
Folder	Title	Date
V.B.1	Insurance: Collection Inventory 13 items Restricted: See Archivist.	1939-1970
Subseries V.C: Correspondence with Artists 1932-1970
Alphabetically arranged by artist. Includes loan conservation reports, published accounts, receipts.
Folder	Title	Date
V.C.1	A-D 105 items Includes: Francis Bacon Balthus William Baziotes Christian Bérard Eugene Berman Peter Blume Pierre Bonnard Georges Braque Reg Butler Alexander Calder Lynn Chadwick Jean Cocteau Salvador Dali Edgar Degas Charles Demuth André Derain Jean Dubuffet
V.C.2	de Chirico, Giorgio 21 items	1944-1973
V.C.3	E-M 73 items Includes: Max Ernst Alberto Giacometti Juan Gris Stanley Hayter Jean Hugo Jasper Johns Moïse Kisling Paul Klee Marie Laurencin Leonid André Lhote Loren MacIver Marino Marini Includes 4 SL Marini-JTS, André Masson, Matta, Henry Moore, Giorgio Morandi
V.C.4	Lehmbruck, Wilhelm 17 items	1931-1967
V.C.5	Miró, Joan 31 items	1943-1975
V.C.6	N-Z 83 items Includes: Isamu Noguchi Pablo Picasso Larry Rivers Georges Rouault Henri Rousseau Pierre Roy André Dunoyer de Segonzac Louis Soutter Graham Sutherland Yves Tanguy Pavel Tchelitchew Wayne Thiebaud Kristians Tonny Jan Vermeer Vespignani Esteban Vicente
V.C.7	Shahn, Ben 38 items	1944-1978
Subseries V.D: Correspondence with Dealers 1930s-1940s
Alphabetically arranged by dealer.
Folder	Title	Date
V.D.1	A-Z 47 items Includes Durlacher Bros., New York Hanover Gallery, London Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris Julien Levy, New York Valentine Gallery, New York
V.D.2	"Matisse" [Pierre Matisse Gallery] 29 items	1930s, 1940s, 1956
Subseries V.E: Exhibition Catalogs
Folder	Title	Date
V.E.1	Exhibition Catalogs 14 items Catalogs of exhibitions to which Soby lent. Restricted: See Archivist.	1930-1980
Subseries V.F: Visitors to JTS Collection
Folder	Title	Date
V.F.1	Visitors to JTS Collection 12 items JTS opened his house to tour groups and classes. Includes thank-you notes.	1945-1968
Subseries V.G: 1930s
Folder	Title
V.G.1	Early Collecting Includes 1 ALS Valentine Dudensing-JTS (5/30/31 3 sheets) 1 TLS Dudensing-JTS (5/22/30 2 sheets)
V.G.2	Book Purchases Includes 5 TLS Éditions des Quatre Chemins (Paris)-JTS (1932, 1931 10 sheets)
Subseries V.H: Photographs
Folder	Title	Date
V.H.1	JTS Residences Ref. 29 Mount Spring Road, Farmington, Conn. 66 East 79th Street, New York, NY (1946-43) 21 East 79th Street, New York, NY (1942) Includes correspondence and clippings chronologically arranged	1936-1947
V.H.2	JTS Collection: Photographs and Negatives 0.5"
V.H.3	JTS Collection: Photographs and Negatives 2"
V.H.4	"Greek Revival Houses" 7 items

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Series VI: Personal/Family

Personal items of biographical interest. Includes details of finances and activities related to Williams College. Correspondence with and by family members and family photographs. Several hundred negatives, many of which remain unidentified.
Subseries VI.A: Financial Data
Includes bank statements and leases.
Folder	Title	Date
VI.A.1	Financial ca. 1971-70, 1972, 1978	1971-1978
VI.A.2	Financial Sarasota, Fla., home	1970-69
VI.A.3	Financial 1962, 1963, 1967, 1968, 1969 1967 legal summons	1962-1969
VI.A.4	Financial 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957	1951-1957
VI.A.5	Financial: Melissa Childs Soby	1950s, 1962
VI.A.6	Financial 1936, 1938, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1948	1936-1948
Subseries VI.B: Williams College/Early Education
Folder	Title	Date
VI.B.1	Correspondence honorary degree items Includes 9 slides 1950 (Includes 7 ALS Lane Faison-JTS)	1962, 1969, 1978
VI.B.2	Printed Material 50 items
VI.B.3	Kingswood School Rec'd 9/4/1991 from K. Clark	1917, 1918, 1919
Subseries VI.C: JTS Family
Folder	Title	Date
VI.C.1	Miscellaneous Biographical Data on JTS Stationery
VI.C.2	JTS's Wills Includes TLS (carbons) JTS-Arthur Shipman, Jr. (3/21/53) JTS-AHB (3/16/53)	1953, 1963, 1968
VI.C.3	"Mother"Anna Hazelwood Soby	1956-1877
VI.C.4	Family Includes items concerning Katie Hazelwood (1855-1957) Ralph Soby (1903-1956) Charles Soby (d. 1921) possible ancestors
VI.C.5	Melissa Childs Soby Includes material re: divorce, custody fight 9 ALS Melissa Childs Soby-JTS 4 telegrams	1961, 1953, 1952
VI.C.6	Divorce from Eleanor Howland Soby ["Nellie"]	1951-52
VI.C.7	1948, 1947, 1946, 1945 "House" Farmington, Conn. Includes ALS Alexander Calder-JTS
VI.C.8	1940s Corresp 2 items
VI.C.9	"1938" "1937" "1936" dated from disintegrated album
VI.C.10	1938, 1937, 1936 Eleanor Howland, later Soby Includes 1 ALS Howland-JTS (12/21/37) 1 TLS Howland-JTS (10/7/36) 18 telegrams 1936, 1935: Elmina N. Underwood later Soby Trust
VI.C.11	1936, 1935 Elmina N. Underwood [later Soby] Trust
VI.C.12	Peter Allyn Soby Includes 1960 ALS to JTS 31 school essays and exams (1950s 2 clippings (1958, 1951) 2 messages to JTS (1946)
VI.C.13	Correspondence 3 items
Subseries VI.D: Thomas S. Childs, Jr. 1950s-1960s
Nicknamed "Tippy,"; legally adopted by JTS after his marriage to Melissa Wadley Childs in 1952. These items concern his early education, and are mostly school papers written in the 1960s.
Folder	Title	Date
VI.D.1	English Papers	1960-61
VI.D.2	History of Art Papers	1960
VI.D.3	Philosophy Papers	1958
VI.D.4	French Papers
VI.D.5	Miscellaneous School Papers Notebook	1961
VI.D.6	4 ALS TLS to his parents	1950s
Subseries VI.E: Photographs
Folder	Title	Date
VI.E.1	Photographs of JTS and AHB	ca. 1934
VI.E.2	Eleanor Howland, later Soby with JTS: 1936-49	1936-1949
VI.E.3	Soby, Peter Allyn
VI.E.4	Ancestors
VI.E.5	"M.J.W." Melissa Jane Wadley, later Childs 73 items Snapshots
VI.E.6	Photographs of Houses by JTS 3 plans for addition to JTS house (1970)	1946; 1970
Subseries VI.F: Miscellaneous
Volume	Title
VI.F.1	1 address book black looseleaf 7.75"×5.5" in JTS's hand
VI.F.2	1 address book brown looseleaf 8.5"×6" in JTS's hand
VI.F.3	1 address book red looseleaf 9"×6.5" in Melissa Childs Soby's hand
VI.F.4	2 leather books with some notes on Italy 7.75"×5.5" [?]Melissa Childs Soby's hand
VI.F.5	1 notebook 8"×5.5" "Alumnae College-1938" in Melissa Childs Soby's hand
Folder	Title
VI.F.6	1 cigar box cover 8.875"× 5.5" inscribed "C[harles] Soby/Soby's Lover"
VI.F.7	1 valentine 8.675"sq. [?]Eleanor Howland-JTS
VI.F.8	1 mss book 7.875"× 6.5" 9 sheets of writing inscribed "Grace M. Love from George W. Cable"
Subseries VI.G: Melissa Jane Wadley [later Childs]
All ALS undated; however, many have envelopes with legible postmarks.
Folder	Title	Date
VI.G.1	Wadley to Her Family from Smith College Includes 10 ALS to her mother, Mrs. S. C. Wadley, 4646 North Meridan Street, Indianapolis, Ind. 1 ALS to her brother, Morris Scott Wadley	1929-32
VI.G.2	ALS and TLS to Wadley 1938, 1937, 1935(2), 1933(1), 1932(10) Includes 12 from her mother	1932, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1938
VI.G.3	ALS and TLS to Wadley 1931 (4), 1930 (6), 1929 envelope, 1925 (2), 1924 (1), n.d. (3) See also, black album, n.d., "A Child's Book of Events Leading Up to the Shoemaker's Holiday," by JTS for Melissa, VII.4*	1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1931
Subseries VI.H: Negatives
Folder	Title
VI.H.1	Negatives ca. 250 negatives; includes Maine, "Corbusier 1935," "Blumes," "Shahns". Original wrappers/envelopes kept, many of which are labeled and dated by JTS.
VI.H.2	Negatives and Photographs Ca. 70 negatives, many with corresponding prints. Note: Many of the images contained in this file were reproduced in the "Special Section" of The Museum of Modern Art at Mid-Century: Continuity and Change. Studies in Modern Art, no. 5. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995.
Subseries VI.I: Oversized Photographs
Folder	Title
VI.I.1*	4 photographs JTS dining room (with Berman paintings) in Connecticut
VI.I.2*	6 photographs Peter Allyn Soby
VI.I.3*	4 photographs Eleanor Howland Soby
VI.I.4*	2 photographs Both photographs have notes attached with identification as follows: photo 1: (left to right) Mrs. Clarence Lincoln Holland (Nellie's mother), Mrs. Curtis's mother (Nellie's great-grandmother) holding Nellie, Mrs. Curtis (Nellie's grandmother, according to Nellie Bunce 5/3/89; photo 2: Reverend George Preston Mains, "lived in NY, alum of Wesleyan; Trustee of Wesleyan and Syracuse," according to Nellie Bunce 4/3/90.
VI.I.5*	1 photograph Image of the painting: Pavel Tchelitchew, Phenomena, oil, 1936-38.

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Series VII: Albums ca. 1940-1955

Album	Title
VII.1*	1940s Material assembled and mounted by JTS. Biographical (1942-43): clippings and correspondence Arts in Therapy: 1943 "The Early Chirico": clippings and correspondence (1941-42) (inc. TLS from Katherine Dreier) "'Europe' in Artists in Exile" exhibition brochure for Pierre Matisse Gallery: mid-March - 28 March 1942 "Tchelitchew" (1942) "Romantic Ptg. in America" "MoMA 15th Anniv. Exh: Art In Progress": 1944 Contemporary British Artists: Buchholz Gallery exhibition: March -April 14, 1945: review, clippings and correspondence Georges Rouault: MoMA exhibition #284: 1945 April 4-June 3: reviews (clippings) and correspondence Prints of Paul Klee: (1945-46): reviews and correspondence (includes ALS from Henry-Russell Hitchcock)
VII.2*	1940s Items in this album were arranged and collected by JTS; and subsequently transferred from a disintegrating album into this format in June 1989 Correspondence Saturday Review of Literature, 1948-7 Ben Shahn Ben Shahn, MoMA exhibition #358, Sept. 1947 WW II Effort Salvador Dali Salvador Dali, MoMA exhibition #158, Oct. 1941 Eugene Berman Boston Institute of Modern Art exhibition, Oct. 1941 Georgio de Chirico The Early Chirico Biographical Information Misc. Items
VII.3*	1955 Items in this album were arranged and collected by JTS; and subsequently transferred from a disintegrating album into this format in June 1989 Reviews from US and abroad of MoMA exhibition #583: Giorgio de Chirico (6 Sept. - Oct. 23, 1955) and MoMA exhibition #584: Yves Tanguy (6 Sept. - Oct. 23, 1955); both exhibitions directed by James Thrall Soby who also wrote the accompanying catalogs (published by MoMA, 1955)
VII.4*	"A Child's Book of Events Leading Up to the Shoemaker's Holiday" by J.T. Soby An album of pasted-in found images and humorous handwritten text created by JTS for his third wife.

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Series VIII: Addenda to the James Thrall Soby Papers

NOTE: The material contained in this series was received from various sources after the initial processing of the collection.
Subseries VIII.A: Soby Autobiographical Memoir
Folder	Title
VIII.A.1	Soby Autobiographical Memoir: Part I 321-page unpublished manuscript, My Life in the Art World, a JTS autobiography prepared for Knopf. The bulk of pages were transferred from William Rubin's office, 1988; missing sheets were a gift of Nicholas Fox Weber, 3/23/1989.
VIII.A.2	Soby Autobiographical Memoir: Part II 321-page unpublished manuscript, My Life in the Art World, a JTS autobiography prepared for Knopf. The bulk of pages were transferred from William Rubin's office, 1988; missing sheets were a gift of Nicholas Fox Weber, 3/23/1989.
VIII.A.3	Soby Autobiographical Memoir: Related Correspondence
Subseries VIII.B: James Thrall Soby Bequest
This material was transferred from the Department of Painting & Sculpture, Alicia Legg's office, April 1990.
Folder	Title	Date
VIII.B.1	Marie-Louise Jeanneret Hommage á James Thrall Soby Art Moderne Gallery, Geneva, Switz.	1980
VIII.B.2	JTS Bequest Exhibition MoMA exhibition # 1255a wall labels, press release and clippings, photos, details	1979
VIII.B.3	JTS Bequest Exhibition Correspondence w. family and others
VIII.B.4	JTS Collection lists
VIII.B.5	JTS Bequest general
VIII.B.6	JTS Bequest Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
VIII.B.7	JTS Bequest books, papers, photos
Subseries VIII.C: Photographs by James Thrall Soby
Photocopies of photographs. Gift of Jo. C. Tartt, Tartt Gallery, Washington, DC, 2/7/1992; purchased by Tartt from an unknown dealer.
Folder	Title
VIII.C.1	Photocopies of JTS photographs Photocopies of photographs that were obtained from JTS estate
Subseries VIII.D: James Thrall Soby Correspondence
Folder	Title	Date
VIII.D.1	CBS Collection	1963-1964
VIII.D.2	Letters from JTS to Mrs. Bliss Parkinson Received as restricted gift from Mrs. Parkinson 5/78 Includes 9 TLS (1971, 1970, 1968, 1967, 1955)
VIII.D.3	Letter from JTS to Betsy Jones Received as a gift from Ms. Jones, 6/1986.	5/27/1970
VIII.D.4	Letter from JTS to Frances Pernas Received as a gift from Ms. Pernas, January 2010.	12/1/1961
Subseries VIII.E: O'Reilly Gift
Gift of William O'Reilly, Jan. 28, 1993 who purchased it from Estate Liquidators, Norwalk, CT.
Subseries VIII.E.1: Photographs
Folder	Title	Date
VIII.E.1.1	Matisse 2 items 5.75"× 8.5" black and white reproductions of Matisse's Odalisque(1927) and Nude (Pastel)(1925) ex-JTS collection
VIII.E.1.2	Friends 8 photographs "Nellie" Soby (later Bunce), dog, and friends Includes Eugene Berman, and others
VIII.E.1.3	Alexander Calder 19 photographs works and photos or the artist photographed by Herbert Matter
VIII.E.1.4	Cecill Beaton/Francis Rose 2 items 1 photo 1 snapshot with Christmas greeting on verso	1974
VIII.E.1.5	Artists 8 photographs Christian Beard Peter Blume Peter Blume & Yves Tanguy at the Tanguy home in CT Mary Calder Max Ernst with Kachina dolls Joan Miró & Yves Tanguy portrait photo of Kay Sage Tanguy inscribed to JTS portrait photo of Naum Gabo inscribed to JTS	1937, 1947, 1958, n.d.
VIII.E.1.6	Nakamura, Japan 2 photographs	1945
VIII.E.1.7	Salvador Dali 1 photograph photographed at JTS home	1939
VIII.E.1.8	Museum of Modern Art reception 1 photograph JTS and Calder photographed by Eliot Elisofon	May, 1939
VIII.E.1.9	Friends 5 photographs Three guests Includes Eugene Berman, in Soby living room in front of de Chirico The Enigma of a Day (1914)	1936
VIII.E.1.10	Friends 17 photographs 8 night views of Eugene Berman, Alexander Caldcr, and "Nellie" Soby (later Bunce) (?) Includes one photo of JTS with Berman and Calder 9 day views of Soby lawn and installation of a construction by Calder	1936
VIII.E.1.11	General photographs 46 items Landscape, still-life, and candid views taken by JTS Includes images of fruit, plants, tree, haystack, chair, jug Views of CT includes front of Wadsworth house in West Hartford, 1934 Riverton fair, Lewis Street bookshop, a barn and a diner in Farmington Paris quai bookstand, Dresden, Munich portraits of Leslie Scheide, Paul Keyborg, and others	1932-36, n.d.
VIII.E.1.12	[style of?] Walker Evans 3 photographs	1934, n.d.
VIII.E.1.13	Wadsworth Atheneum ["Avery Memorial"] 2 photographs Chick Austin's office men's room	1934
VIII.E.1.14	Elmina Soby 6 photographs First wife of JTS Includes 1 photo of Pierre Matisse and Elmina.	1932-1934, n.d.
VIII.E.1.15	Gemma de Chirico 2 photographs photograph of the artist's mother	1927
VIII.E.1.16	Miscellaneous photographs 13 items Taken by and/or collected by JTS Trans. to Photo Study Center, 2/25/93.
Subseries VIII.E.2: Correspondence
Folder	Title	Date
VIII.E.2.1	General Correspondence 19 items 1950, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1963, n.d. alphabetically arranged Includes greeting cards from the Arensbergs, Cecil Collins, Dorothy Dudley, Albert and Mildred Lewin, Marino Marini Includes 1 TLS Alicia Legg (?)-Melissa Soby (1959) re: JTS collection 1 TL (carbon) JTS-Paley (1963) 1 ALS Roland Penrose-JTS (1956) 1 ALS Larry Rivers-JTS (n.d.) printed matter	1950-1963
VIII.E.2.2	S.W. Hayter 1 item original print/greeting card	1950
VIII.E.2.3	Ben Shahn: Correspondence 11 items 1945, 1947, 1948, 1950s Includes 2 ALS Shahn-JTS (n.d.) 2 ALS postcards Shahn-Soby (1947, 1948) 1 ALS Shahn-JTS (1947) 1 TLS Dorothy Dudley-JTS (1947) 1 ALS Shahn-JTS (1945) 1947 catalogue lists for Shahn exhibition at MoMA	1945-1950s
VIII.E.2.4	Ben Shahn: Printed matter 11 items 1945, 1947, 1948, 1950s Includes 1 grceeting card Shahn-JTS (n.d.)	1945-1950s
VIII.E.2.5	Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy 10 items 1942, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1954-55, 1957 Includes 1 TL copy Yves Tanguy- Time Magazine(1954) 1 TLS Kay Sage Tanguy-JTS (1957) 1963 Tanguy estate appraisal (copy) and printed matter	1942-1957
Subseries VIII.E.3: Library
Box	Title
VIII.E.3.1	Library 3x5" index cards; (complete?) inventory of JTS library.
Subseries VIII.E.4: De Chirico Iconography
Documentation collected by JTS for research.
Folder	Title
VIII.E.4.1	Photographs 46 photos 6 snapshots (& negatives) 2 postcards 3 newspaper clippings Photographs are mostly architectural Snapshot annotated in JTS's hand, "Chirico studio-rue Campagne-Premiere"
VIII.E.4.2*	unbound folio 16× 12.5x2" facsimile reproductions of color drawings by Serge Rovinsky in: L'Espagne: grandiose et fantastque, n.d.
Subseries VIII.E.5: Drawings, prints, reproductions and oversized photographs
Folder	Title	Date
VIII.E.5.1*	Ben Shahn Design (12x15")
VIII.E.5.2*	W.A. Landels Collage (Mounted, 9x12.25")
VIII.E.5.3*	Print (9x11")
VIII.E.5.4*	1944 André Raiz Print (mailed, 10x14")
VIII.E.5.5*	Reproductions of 3 Salvador Dali Works (Mounted, 11.5x14.75")
VIII.E.5.6*	Sketchpad (7.25x11")
VIII.E.5.7*	Painting Sketch (8.5x11")
VIII.E.5.8*	conté Crayon Sketches (on 12.5x17" Folded Sheets)
VIII.E.5.9*	2 Leo Delitz 1945 Portrait Sketches (10.5x14.25")	1945
VIII.E.5.10*	Raphael Soyer Drawing (11.5x15.75")
VIII.E.5.11*	Photograph (Mounted, 11x13") of Elmina Soby
VIII.E.5.12*	Photograph (Mounted, 14x17") of Peter (Blume?)
VIII.E.5.13*	Photographs, Miscellaneous (Various Sizes)
VIII.E.5.14*	Sketch, Oleni K(?), 1962 (11 x 14")	1962
Subseries VIII.III.6: Sketchbooks
Each sketchbook cover inscribed with Hilla von Rebay's signature.
Volume	Title
VIII.E.6.1	Sketchbook
VIII.E.6.2	Sketchbook
VIII.E.6.3	Sketchbook
VIII.E.6.4	Sketchbook
VIII.E.6.5	Sketchbook
VIII.E.6.6	Sketchbook

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Box and Folder List

Box Series Folder

1 I 1-12

2 I 13-21

3 I 22-32

4 I 33-40

5 I 41-58

6 I 59-75

7 I 76-91

8 I 92-102

9 I 103-111

10 I 112-126

11 I 127-141

12 I 142-157

13 I 158-169

14 I 170-181

15 I 182-193

16 I 194-212

17 I 213-237

18 I 238-278

19 I 279-293

20 I 294-307

21 I 308-324

22 I 325-337

23 I 338-352

24 I 353

25 I 354

26 II.A 1

II.B 1-14

II.C.1 1

27 II.C.1 2-12

28 II.C.1 13

II.C.2 1-15

29 II.C.2 16-23

II.D 1-2

II.E 1-5

30 II.F 1-4

II.G 1-5

II.H 1-5

31 II.H 6-12

III.A 1

III.B 1-3

III.C 1

32 III.C 2-10

33 III.C 11-19

III.D 1-5

34 III.D 6-13

35 III.D 14-26

36 III.E 1

37 III.F 1-3

III.G 1

IV.A 1-4

38 IV.A 5-18

39 IV.A 19-30

40 IV.A 31-41

41 IV.A 42-43

IV.B 1-4

42 IV.B 5

IV.C 1-6

43 V.A 1

V.B 1

V.C 1-7

V.D 1-2

44 V.E 1

V.F 1

V.G 1-2

V.H 1-4

45 VI.A 1-6

46 VI.B 1-3

VI.C 1-6

47 VI.C 7-13

VI.D 1-4

48 VI.D 5-6

VI.E 1-4

49 VI.E 5-6

VI.F 1-3

50 VI.F 4-8

VI.G 1-2

51 VI.G 3

VI.H 1-2

52 VIII.A 1-3

VIII.B 1-4

53 VIII.B 5-7

VIII.C 1

VIII.D 1-3

VIII.E.1 1-7

54 VIII.E.1 8-16

VIII.E.2 1-5

55 VIII.E.3 1

56 VIII.E.4 1

VIII.E.6 1-6

57 VI.I 1*-5*

VII 1*-2*

58 VII 3*-4*

59 VIII.E.4 2*

VIII.E.5 1*-14*

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Box	Series	Folder
1	I	1-12
2	I	13-21
3	I	22-32
4	I	33-40
5	I	41-58
6	I	59-75
7	I	76-91
8	I	92-102
9	I	103-111
10	I	112-126
11	I	127-141
12	I	142-157
13	I	158-169
14	I	170-181
15	I	182-193
16	I	194-212
17	I	213-237
18	I	238-278
19	I	279-293
20	I	294-307
21	I	308-324
22	I	325-337
23	I	338-352
24	I	353
25	I	354
26	II.A	1
	II.B	1-14
	II.C.1	1
27	II.C.1	2-12
28	II.C.1	13
	II.C.2	1-15
29	II.C.2	16-23
	II.D	1-2
	II.E	1-5
30	II.F	1-4
	II.G	1-5
	II.H	1-5
31	II.H	6-12
	III.A	1
	III.B	1-3
	III.C	1
32	III.C	2-10
33	III.C	11-19
	III.D	1-5
34	III.D	6-13
35	III.D	14-26
36	III.E	1
37	III.F	1-3
	III.G	1
	IV.A	1-4
38	IV.A	5-18
39	IV.A	19-30
40	IV.A	31-41
41	IV.A	42-43
	IV.B	1-4
42	IV.B	5
	IV.C	1-6
43	V.A	1
	V.B	1
	V.C	1-7
	V.D	1-2
44	V.E	1
	V.F	1
	V.G	1-2
	V.H	1-4
45	VI.A	1-6
46	VI.B	1-3
	VI.C	1-6
47	VI.C	7-13
	VI.D	1-4
48	VI.D	5-6
	VI.E	1-4
49	VI.E	5-6
	VI.F	1-3
50	VI.F	4-8
	VI.G	1-2
51	VI.G	3
	VI.H	1-2
52	VIII.A	1-3
	VIII.B	1-4
53	VIII.B	5-7
	VIII.C	1
	VIII.D	1-3
	VIII.E.1	1-7
54	VIII.E.1	8-16
	VIII.E.2	1-5
55	VIII.E.3	1
56	VIII.E.4	1
	VIII.E.6	1-6
57	VI.I	1-5
	VII	1-2
58	VII	3-4
59	VIII.E.4	2*
	VIII.E.5	1-14

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