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| Creator: | Soby, James Thrall, 1906-1979 | |
| Title: | James Thrall Soby Papers | |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1930-1979 | |
| Quantity: | 52 document boxes with 3 flat oversize boxes, 4 boxes of 3"×5"index cards, diaries |
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Arrangement |
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| 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 | ||
James Thrall Soby (1906-1979) was an author, critic, connoisseur, collector and patron of the arts. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Charles Soby (d. 1921) and Anna Hazelwood (1877-1956), and had one brother, Ralph Soby (1903-1956). He attended the Kingswood School, the Taft School (class of 1924) and Williams College (1924-26). In autumn 1925 he bought his first picture, a color reproduction of two nudes by Maxfield Parrish. While at Williams, Soby became interested in illustrated books, especially those by artists of the School of Paris. Leaving Williams in 1926 at the end of his sophomore year, he went to Paris, where he began collecting contemporary pictures. Upon returning to Hartford he became interested in the activities of the Wadsworth Atheneum, working under A. Everett ("Chick") Austin from 1928 to 1938 when that museum, the oldest in America, was in the vanguard of the modern movement. During this period he continued to collect modern art and began to write articles and books about contemporary artists. Soby was married three times: in 1930, to Elmina N. Underwood; February 1938, to Eleanor ("Nellie") Howland, who is now Mrs. John L. Bunce and with whom he adopted a son, Peter Allyn; and in April 1952, to Melissa Wadley Childs.
Soby lived in Connecticut, although beginning in 1940 he also maintained a residence in New York City. In November 1940 he was appointed to The Museum of Modern Art's Acquisitions and Photography committees. From February 1942 throughout the Second World War he directed the Museum's Armed Services Program. He served as Director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture from October 27, 1943, through January 1, 1945, and as Chairman of that department on an interim basis during 1947 and 1957. Soby's principal roles at the Museum were as Trustee (1942-79); advisor to its Committee on the Museum Collections, 1940-67 (of which he was Chairman, 1944-45, 1950-67, and Vice Chairman, 1946-50); and director of over fifteen major exhibitions. In June 1985 the James Thrall Soby Gallery, which was devoted largely to the work of Giorgio de Chirico, was dedicated on the second floor of the Cesar Pelli designed Museum.
One of Soby's primary activities was writing. For some years he wrote a monthly art column for The Saturday Review of Literature and was editor of Magazine of Art; his principal books include Arp (1958), Balthus (1956-1957), Contemporary Painters (1948), Dali (1941, rev. 1946), de Chirico (1941 and 1955), Gris (1958), Miró (1959), Modern Art and the New Past (1957), Modigliani (1951), Romantic Painting in America (with Dorothy C. Miller, 1943), Rouault (1945, rev. 1947), Shahn (1947 and 1957), Tanguy (1955), Tchelitchew (1942) and XXth Century Italian Art (with Alfred H. Barr, Jr., 1949). These books, many of which accompanied Museum of Modern Art exhibitions, are models of scholarship combined with a sympathetic stance toward the modern idiom that was based on personal acquaintance with the artists.
The processed Soby Papers include 24 linear feet of correspondence, research notes, ephemera and photographs of works by artists about whom Soby wrote, transcripts, an unpublished manuscript titled "French Romantic Art" (written in 1959), records relating to The Museum of Modern Art, the Smith College Museum of Art, Williams College, the disposition of the Kay Sage Tanguy estate, travel notebooks, diaries, family papers and photographs. They occupy 63 document boxes, 3 albums and 3 record cartons (each measuring 11"x5x3").
The Soby Papers arrived at the Museum in no discernible order. In the case of the gift from the estate, Soby's file drawers appeared to have been emptied into large grocery boxes and the contents of the file folders had been separated from the original folders. In addition, it was suspected that the estate invited book dealers to purchase selected items; for example, correspondence with the Neo-Romantics and a letter from Francis Bacon to Soby are missing. We consulted Alicia Legg, who retired in 1987 as Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum and who had worked with Soby and seen his papers neatly organized in file cabinets in his home in New Canaan, Connecticut. She also recalled seeing framed photographs there by Soby of artists Jean Arp, Balthus, Peter Blume, Reg Butler, Alexander Calder, Lynn Chadwick, Grace Hartigan, Loren MacIver, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Ben and Bernarda Shahn, Yves Tanguy and Pavel Tchelitchew hanging in his New Canaan house; none of these portraits were among the papers that came to the Museum, and their present whereabouts are unknown.
The papers were processed so that they could be microfilmed; they are cataloged in the RLIN database and the New York State Historical Documents Inventory.
The Soby Papers are of importance to historians involved in advanced research in 20th century art. Soby was influential, for example, in making Surrealism widely known to the American public; his notes, transcripts, early documentation (photographs, printed matter and ephemera) and correspondence with Gala Dali, Man Ray, André Breton, Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage (whose estate he administered), among others, constitute an important source for scholars, as does his extensive documentation on Bacon, Balthus, Giorgio de Chirico, Miró and Shahn.
These papers are also of sociological importance, for as art critic of the Saturday Review of Literature, a periodical of the American intelligentsia during the1940s and 1950s, Soby wrote with a liberal mind untainted by politics. Typescripts and notes for many of these articles are included in Series 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.
The records are open for research and contain few restricted materials.
The James Thrall Soby Papers are the physical property of The Museum of Modern Art. Literary rights, including copyright belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with The Museum of Modern Art. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archivist.
Index Terms |
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| This collection is indexed under the following headings in the library catalog of The Museum of Modern Art. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings. | ||
| Persons and Organizations: | ||
| Arp, Jean, 1887-1966 -- Archives | ||
| Art critics | ||
| Art museum directors | ||
| Art museums -- New York (N.Y.) | ||
| Art, Modern -- 20th century | ||
| Authors | ||
| Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992 -- Archives | ||
| Balthus, 1908-2001 -- Archives | ||
| Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989 -- Archives | ||
| De Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978 -- Archives | ||
| Gris, Juan, 1887-1927 -- Archives | ||
| Miró, Joan, 1893-1983 -- Archives | ||
| Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Sources | ||
| Sage, Kay -- Archives | ||
| Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969 -- Archives | ||
| Soby, James Thrall, 1906-1979 | ||
| Soby, James Thrall, 1906-1979 -- Archives | ||
| Subjects: | ||
| Arp, Jean, 1887-1966 -- Archives | ||
| Art critics | ||
| Art museum directors | ||
| Art museums -- New York (N.Y.) | ||
| Art, Modern -- 20th century | ||
| Authors | ||
| Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992 -- Archives | ||
| Balthus, 1908-2001 -- Archives | ||
| Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989 -- Archives | ||
| De Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978 -- Archives | ||
| Gris, Juan, 1887-1927 -- Archives | ||
| Miró, Joan, 1893-1983 -- Archives | ||
| Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Sources | ||
| Sage, Kay -- Archives | ||
| Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969 -- Archives | ||
| Soby, James Thrall, 1906-1979 -- Archives | ||
| Document Types: | ||
| Photonegatives | ||
| Photoprints | ||
Related collections of Soby material can be found in the records of the Museum's departments of Painting and Sculpture, Drawings and Photography; in the Registrar exhibition files; in the International Council Records, which includes records of exhibitions Soby organized under its auspices; and in the Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Papers. Specifically, in the Barr Papers, see file folders #198 (Archives of American Art microfilm roll 21 76:frame 822); #256 (AAA 2181:79); #538 (AAA 2198:948); #539 (AAA 2198:978); #540 (AAA 2198: 1029); Series #10, filing unit #69 (AAA 3265:323).
Additional Soby papers can be found in the Archives of the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut.
When James Thrall Soby died on January 29. 1979, he bequeathed to The Museum of Modern Art his art collection. For a description of this collection see The James Thrall Soby Collection of works of art pledged or given to The Museum of Modern Art: exhibited for the benefit of the library of the Museum…as a contribution to the Museum's 30th Anniversary Fund (at) M. Knoedler; New York. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961.
In 1980, a year after Soby's death, the Museum received gifts of his papers from two sources: his estate and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Cohen, antiquarian booksellers. 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.
Published citations should take the following form:
James Thrall Soby Papers, [series.folder]. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
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.
Series I: Subject Interest Material: Artists and Movements 1930s-1960s |
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Titles in quotation marks refer to JTS-labeled folders; alphabetical arrangement of subject matter in which Soby was particularly interested; much of the material in this series resulted in MoMA exhibitions, including Arp, Dali, Gris, Klee, Miró, Shahn, Tanguy, Tchelitchew; includes ephemera from late 1930s, 1940s. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| I.1 | A "Miscellaneous" 17 items |
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| I.2 | AFA American Exh., Wildenstein's Includes lists and letters |
1953 |
| I.3 | "American 20th Century" printed matter |
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| I.4 | John Armstrong 5 photographs |
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| I.5 | Jean Arp: "Hagenbach-Arp" 45+ items 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 |
Nov.-Feb. 1958, ca. Jan. 1959 |
| I.7 | Jean Arp: Correspondence for Arp Exh. 0.5" |
July-Dec. 1958 |
| I.8 | Jean Arp: Correspondence for Arp Exh. 0.75" |
ca. 1957-June 1958 |
| I.9 | Jean Arp: Arp Catalog and Exh. Notes 23 items |
1958 |
| I.10 | "Art of This Century (Peggy Guggenheim)" 41 items |
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| I.11 | R. Kirk Askew, Jr. 4 items |
ca. 1944-1945 |
| I.12 | A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr.: Austin and Trinity College 7 items |
1960s |
| I.13 | A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr.: Austin Memorial Exh., Wadsworth Atheneum 26 items |
ca. 1957-58 |
| I.14 | A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr.: Wadsworth Atheneum 6 items |
1950s |
| I.15 | A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr.: Ringling Museum 8 items |
1946-48 |
| I.16 | A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr.: Wadsworth Atheneum 28 items |
1940s |
| I.17 | A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr.: Wadsworth Atheneum 5 items |
1930s |
| I.18 | A. Everett ("Chick") Austin, Jr.: Photographs 49 items |
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| I.19 | General "B" ca. 30 items |
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| I.20 | Francis Bacon: "Bacon: JTS Typescript" 10 items |
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| I.21 | Francis Bacon: "Bacon: General Correspondence" 65 items NOTE: includes "Bacon: Recent Letters," ca. 1963 Oct-1959 Nov. |
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| I.22 | Francis Bacon: "Bacon: [H. R.] Fis[c]her" 73 items |
Nov. 1959-Jan.1964 |
| I.23 | Francis Bacon: "Bacon: [Erica] Brausen" 20 items |
Dec. 1959-Sept.1962 |
| I.24 | Francis Bacon: Robert Melville 12 items |
March 1959-January 1962 |
| I.25 | Francis Bacon: "Bacon: D[avid] Sylvester Correspondence and Notes" 10 items |
July 10- August 1962 |
| I.26 | Francis Bacon: "Bacon: Blake Series" 23 items |
Dec. 1961-Nov. 1963 |
| I.27 | Francis Bacon: "Bacon: Source Material" 38 items |
1962 July-ca. 1959 |
| I.28 | Francis Bacon: JTS Notes 9 items |
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| I.29 | Francis Bacon: "Brausen Photos Studied" 83 items |
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| I.30 | Francis Bacon: "Duplicate and Rejected Plates" 8 items |
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| I.31 | Francis Bacon: Photographs and Lists 41 items |
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| I.32 | Francis Bacon: Photographs 178 items |
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| I.33 | Francis Bacon: "Bacon: Catalogs" 18 items |
ca. 1949-1965 |
| I.34 | Francis Bacon: Clippings, 1960s 114 items |
ca. 1960-1965 |
| I.35 | Francis Bacon: Tate Clippings 45 items |
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| I.36 | Francis Bacon: 1950s 13 items |
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| I.37 | Balthus (Baltusz Klossowski de Rola) 2 items 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) |
ca. 1950-1957 |
| I.39 | Balthus: Exh. Correspondence 23 items |
1957 |
| I.40 | Balthus: Bibliog. 25 items |
ca. 1938-1957 |
| I.41 | Balthus: Reviews 15 items |
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| I.42 | Balthus: Photographs 36 items |
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| I.43 | Balthus: Magazine Articles 2 items |
1956 |
| I.44 | Balthus: Pierre Matisse Photographs, postmarked 51 items |
June 15, 1956 |
| I.45 | Max Beckmann ca. 8 items |
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| I.46 | Christian Bérard 23 items |
ca. 1942-56 |
| I.47 | Eugene Berman 17 items |
ca. 1946-1969 |
| I.48 | Peter Blume 29 items |
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| I.49 | Louis-Léopold Boilly | |
| I.50 | Richard Parks Bonington | |
| I.51 | "[Pierre] Bonnard" 6 sheets |
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| I.52 | "Boston Institute" 0.5" |
1946-1949 |
| I.53 | Constantin Brâncuși 17 items |
ca. 1955 |
| I.54 | Georges Braque 12 items. |
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| I.55 | Emily Bronte | |
| I.56 | Reg Butler and Lynn Chadwick | |
| I.57 | "[Alexander] Calder" 16 items |
ca. 1958-1963 |
| I.58 | "Caravaggio" | |
| I.59 | Carnegie Jury 15 articles |
1952, 1953 |
| I.60 | "Catalogs - C" 43 items |
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| I.61 | Paul Cézanne 3 items |
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| I.62 | "Jean Cocteau" 2 items |
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| I.63 | "Cecil Collins" 10 items |
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| I.64 | "William Colquhoun" 13 items |
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| I.65 | "Constructivists" 1 MoMA press release |
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| I.66 | "Camille Corot" 4 printed matter |
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| I.67 | "Cosimo-Piero de"(sic) 2 printed matter |
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| I.68 | "Francesco del Cossa and Cosimo Tura" 6 photographs |
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| I.69 | "Gustave Courbet" 23 photographs |
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| I.70 | General-D 4 items |
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| I.71 | Salvador Dali: "Dali II"; General Correspondence 22 items Includes 4 ALS Gala Dali-JTS |
ca. 1944, 1947, 1950, 1957 |
| I.72 | Salvador Dali: "Dali II"; JTS Correspondence with A. Reynolds Morse 37 items |
1944-1947, 1955 |
| I.73 | Salvador Dali: "Dali I"; Exh. and Correspondence 70+ items |
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 |
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| I.77 | "Honoré Daumier" 5 photographs |
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| I.78 | "Jacques-Louis David" 50 items NOTE: Material on Giorgio de Chirico, originally included in Series I, has been separated and described as Series II due to it's extent. |
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| I.79 | "Edgar Degas" 14 items |
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| I.80 | Willem de Kooning 25 items |
ca 1953-ca. 1944 |
| I.81 | "Eugène Delacroix" 38 items |
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| I.82 | "Charles Demuth" 47 items |
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| I.83 | "André Derain" 6 items |
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| I.84 | "Charles Despiau" 1 photograph |
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| I.85 | "Arthur Dove" 3 items |
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| I.86 | "Jean Dubuffet" 4 items |
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| I.87 | "Marcel Duchamp" 17 items |
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| I.88 | "Dutch" 6 photographs |
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| I.89 | "Catalogs"-E 7 items |
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| I.90 | "Paul Eliasberg" 25 photographs |
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| I.91 | "English-Buffalo Show" 10 items |
1946 Dec |
| I.92 | "English-Miscellaneous" 16 items correspondence |
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| I.93 | "Max Ernst" 28 items |
ca. 1943-1962 |
| I.94 | "Jan van Eyck" 9 items |
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| I.95 | "Catalogs-F" 21 items |
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| I.96 | "William Fett" printed matter |
1943-46 |
| I.97 | "Leonor Fini" 27 items |
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| I.98 | "Flemish 15th Century" 3 items |
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| I.99 | "Fontainebleau Mannerists" 13 items |
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| I.100 | "Frick" | |
| I.101 | Walter Friedlander ca. 9 items |
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| I.102 | "G-Catalogs-Miscl" 48 items |
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| 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 |
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| I.104 | Théodor Géricault: "Géricault" correspondence Includes TLS César De Hauke-AHB (1952) NOTE: only 3 file folders found among JTS's papers |
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| I.105 | Théodor Géricault: "Géricault" 115 photographs |
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| I.106 | "Giacometti, Alberto" 8 items |
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| I.107 | "[Morris] Graves" 58 items |
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| I.108 | "Greene, Stephen" 7 photographs |
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| I.109 | "Musée de Grenoble" 16 photographs |
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| I.110 | Juan Gris: Exh. and Book Correspondence post-fire, MoMA, 1958 Aug.-Apr. |
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| I.111 | Juan Gris: "Gris": Exh. and Book Correspondence Pre-fire, 4/1958-5/1957 Description includes material in this and the following folder, I.112. |
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| I.112 | Juan Gris: "Gris"; Exh. and Book Correspondence Content split from previous folder, I.111. |
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| I.113 | Juan Gris: Douglas Cooper Correspondence 10 items |
1958, 1957, ca. 1939 |
| I.114 | Juan Gris: Text pp. 1-2, 18-79 |
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| I.115 | Juan Gris: "Dedication, Acknowledgments" 18 items |
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| I.116 | Juan Gris: "Gris: Lists" 44 items |
1958-57 |
| I.117 | Juan Gris: "Gris"; Photographs and Printed Matter 8 items |
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| I.118 | Juan Gris: "Gris: Duplicates and Refused"; Photographs 70 items |
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| I.119 | "[A.J.] Gros" ca. 47 items |
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| I.120 | "H-General" 27 items |
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| I.121 | "Hartigan, Grace" 6 items |
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| I.122 | "Harvard" 3 sheets |
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| I.123 | "[Barbara] Hepworth" 31 items |
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| I.124 | "[Anthony] Hill" 2 photographs |
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| I.125 | "Tristam Hillier" 10 photographs |
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| I.126 | "Hitchcock, Henry-Russell" ca. 15 items |
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| I.127 | "Winslow Homer" ca. 3 items |
ca. 1932-1968 |
| I.128 | "Hopper, Edward" ca. 20 items |
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| I.129 | "Hugo, Jean" 4 photographs |
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| I.130 | "Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres" 15 items |
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| 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 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 |
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| 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 |
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| I.137 | Italian Art - Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. # 413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949]: "Italian Addresses" 9 items |
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| I.138 | Italian Art - Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. # 413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949]: "[Umberto] Boccioni" 6 photographs |
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| I.139 | Italian Art - Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. # 413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949]: "[Renato] Guttuso (show)" 9 items |
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| I.140 | Italian Art - Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. # 413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949]: Maria Mancusa 27 items |
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| I.141 | Italian Art - Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. # 413, June 28-Sept. 18, 1949]: "Scuola Metafisica" 9 photographs |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
1949-50 |
| I.148 | Paul Klee: Correspondence 76 items |
ca. 1945-1950 |
| I.149 | Paul Klee: "Klee: Foreword" 13 items |
1945 |
| I.150 | Paul Klee: Printed Matter and Photographs 51 items |
1941-1950 |
| I.151 | Henry Koerner ca. 8 items. |
ca. 1940 |
| I.152 | "[William] Koslek" 10 photographs |
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| 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 |
ca. 1959-ca. 1951 |
| I.156 | "C. N. LeDoux" 4 photographs |
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| I.157 | "[Fernand] Léger" 6 items ephemera |
ca. early 1 940s |
| I.158 | Leonid Berman: Correspondence 20 items |
ca. 1948-1951, (most 1949) |
| I.159 | Leonid Berman: "Leonid, 1940-1950" 28 items |
1940-1950 |
| I.160 | Leonid Berman: "Leonid 1935-40" 31 items |
1935-1940 |
| I.161 | Leonid Berman: "Leonid 1930-35" 34 items |
1930-1935 |
| I.162 | Leonid Berman: "Leonid 1925-30" 12 items |
1925-1930 |
| I.163 | "Jack Levine" 14 items |
ca. mid-late 1940s |
| I.164 | "Lewis, Wyndham" 10 items |
ca. 1947 |
| I.165 | "Life Symposium" ca. 62 sheets |
1948 |
| I.166 | "Lotto" 2 photographs |
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| I.167 | "M-General" 80 items |
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| I.168 | Loren MacIver 27 items |
ca. 1950-1963 |
| I.169 | Man Ray 23 items |
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| I.170 | "Andrea Mantegna" 1 photograph |
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| I.171 | "Marino Marini" 81 items |
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| I.172 | "Henri Matisse" 19 items |
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| I.173 | "Matta" 10 items |
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| I.174 | "Hans Memling" 1 photograph |
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| I.175 | Joan Miró: "Miró: 1965 Daniel Goldreyer Restoration,"Portrait of Mistress Mills" 12 items |
ca. 1957-1974 |
| I.176 | Joan Miró: Galleys, Text, Acknowledgments 9 items |
1959 |
| I.177 | Joan Miró: "Miró": Correspondence 92 items |
1958-1959 |
| I.178 | Joan Miró: Lists re: Book and Exh. 14 items |
1959 |
| I.179 | Joan Miró: "Miró: Ernest Hemingway, Farm" 60+ items |
1957-1959 |
| I.180 | Joan Miró: "Miró: Loan Requests" Includes TL (carbons) to lenders and replies |
Oct 1958- Feb 1959 |
| I.181 | Joan Miró: "Murals" 13 items |
ca. 1947-1958 |
| I.182 | Joan Miró: Photographs 75 items |
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| I.183 | Joan Miró: Printed Matter 24 items |
ca. 1928-1959 |
| I.184 | "Miscellaneous" 33 items |
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| I.185 | "Catalogs-Miscellaneous" 20 items |
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| I.186 | "Amedeo Modigliani" 7 items |
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| I.187 | "Henry Moore" 16 items |
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| I.188 | "Giorgio Morandi" 40 items |
ca. 1905-1955 |
| I.189 | "Walter Tandy Murch" 13 items |
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| I.190 | N-General 3 items |
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| I.191 | Paul Nash 17 items |
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| I.192 | Ben Nicholson 6 items |
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| I.193 | N.Y. State Arts Program: Printed Matter 3.25" |
1945-1947, 1948, 1960 |
| I.194 | "O-Genl" 6 items |
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| I.195 | "Georgia O'Keeffe" ca. 8 items |
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| I.196 | "P-Genl" 39 items |
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| I.197 | "Palladio" 4 postcards |
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| I.198 | "Samuel Palmer" ca. 5 items |
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| I.199 | "[Joachim] Patinir" 1 photograph |
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| I.200 | "Photography" 16 items |
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| I.201 | Pablo Picasso 10 items |
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| I.202 | Alton Pickens 8 items |
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| I.203 | "Piero della Francesca" 27 items |
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| I.204 | "Antonio Pollaiuolo" 1 photograph |
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| I.205 | Walter Quirt ca. 5 items |
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| I.206 | "R-General" 16 items |
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| I.207 | "Raphael" 4 photographs |
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| I.208 | "Auguste Renoir" 13 items |
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| I.209 | "Larry Rivers" 5 items |
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| I.210 | Romantic/Romanticism: "Romantic" Includes notes and typescript for American Romantic Paintings |
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| I.211 | Romantic/Romanticism: "English Romantic-Misel" Includes photographs and reproduction from variety of art historical periods |
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| I.212 | Romantic/Romanticism: "French Romantic" Includes typescript (29 sheets) |
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| I.213 | Mark Rothko 18 items |
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| I.214 | Georges Rouault 44 items |
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| I.215 | "Henri Rousseau" 2 photographs |
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| I.216 | "Pierre Roy" 2 items |
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| I.217 | "S-General" 42 items |
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| I.218 | "S-Miscellaneous" 20 items |
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| I.219 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Kay-Will and Letters" 7 items |
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| I.220 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Kay's Pics at Viviano" 9 items |
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| I.221 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Unidentified, Kay Sage-Viviano List" 8 items |
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| I.222 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): "'The Minutes' by Kay" 26 items |
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| I.223 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Sage Retrospective" 20 items |
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| I.224 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Spec. Bequests in Will" 10 items |
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| I.225 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Tanguy Drawings and Gouaches Assigned" 5 items |
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| I.226 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Tanguy Oils at Pierre Matisse Gallery" 7 items |
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| I.227 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Mongan", John S., Kay Sage's lawyer 80 items |
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| I.228 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Kay's Own Pics, Waterbury Vault" 6 items |
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| I.229 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): "Paintings Not Assigned,"; "Kay Sage Objects" File folders found empty. |
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| I.230 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Albany Institute" 45 institutions, alphabetically arranged in individual file folders by JTS. |
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| I.231 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Andover" 4 items |
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| I.232 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Baltimore Museum" 6 items |
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| I.233 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Boston Museum" 6 items |
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| I.234 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Brandeis" 5 items |
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| I.235 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "California Palace of Legion of Honor" 3 items |
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| I.236 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Chicago Art Institute" 5 items |
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| I.237 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Cleveland Museum" 4 items |
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| I.238 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Colby College Art Museum" 3 items |
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| I.239 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Colorado Springs" 2 items |
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| I.240 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Corcoran" 6 items |
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| I.241 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Currier Gallery (Manchester, NH)" 5 items |
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| I.242 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Dartmouth" 5 items |
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| I.243 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Denver Art Museum" 2 items |
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| I.244 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Fogg Museum" 5 items |
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| I.245 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Guggenheim" 5 items |
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| I.246 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Guild Hall, Easthampton, U" 3 items |
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| I.247 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Indiana University" 3 items |
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| I.248 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Kansas City" 2 items |
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| I.249 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Los Angeles" 5 items |
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| I.250 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Metropolitan" 3 items |
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| I.251 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Mt. Holyoke" 3 items |
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| I.252 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "MoMA" 15 items |
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| I.253 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Newark Museum" 4 items |
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| I.254 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Notre Dame Art Gallery" 2 items |
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| I.255 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Oberlin" 2 items |
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| I.256 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Philadelphia Museum" 4 items |
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| I.257 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Princeton" 14 items |
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| I.258 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Richmond" 4 items |
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| I.259 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "St. Louis" 4 items |
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| I.260 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Santa Barbara" 4 items |
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| I.261 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Sarasota Museum" 14 items |
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| I.262 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Smith" 10 items |
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| I.263 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "University of Arizona, Tucson" 8 items |
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| I.264 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "U. of Michigan" 4 items |
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| I.265 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "U. of Nebraska" 2 items |
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| I.266 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Wadsworth" 13 items |
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| I.267 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Walker Art Center" 2 items |
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| I.268 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Waterbury Museum" 12 items |
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| I.269 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Wellesley College" 5 items |
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| I.270 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Whitney Museum" 8 items |
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| I.271 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Williams College" 9 items |
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| I.272 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Worcester" 3 items |
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| I.273 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Vassar College" 5 items |
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| I.274 | Kay Sage (Tanguy): Museums Assigned Sage Works; "Yale" 14 items |
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| 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 |
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| I.281 | "Kurt Schwitters" 2 items |
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| I.282 | "André Dunoyer de Segonzac" 7 items |
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| I.283 | "Ramon Senabré" 11 photographs |
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| I.284 | "Gino Severini" 2 sheets |
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| 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 |
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 |
1963 |
| I.289 | Ben Shahn: Material for Braziller Book; "Late Rejects" 13 items |
1963 |
| I.290 | Ben Shahn: Material for Braziller Book; "Braziller Rejects 1940-50" 36 items |
1940-1950 |
| I.291 | Ben Shahn: Material for Braziller Book; Braziller-Shahn Photographs Includes 3 JTS folder titles |
1920s-1960s, 1963 |
| I.292 | Ben Shahn: ICE 13 items |
Dec. 1961. |
| I.293 | Ben Shahn: Correspondence with Philadelphia Museum of Art re: Soby Lectures 3 items |
Nov. 6-7, 1961 |
| I.294 | Ben Shahn: Miscellaneous 5 items |
1960s |
| I.295 | Ben Shahn: Braziller; "Braziller Lists Completed" 3 copies each |
1959 |
| I.296 | Ben Shahn: Braziller; "Shahn Braziller Correspondence" 33 items |
1957-1959 |
| I.297 | Ben Shahn: "Shahn Abrahms"(sic) 32 items |
1958 |
| I.298 | Ben Shahn: Abrams 29 items |
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| I.299 | Ben Shahn: Graphics, ICE Exh. 5 items |
1957 |
| I.300 | Ben Shahn: Miscellaneous 30 items |
1950s |
| I.301 | Ben Shahn: Graphics article 6 items |
1947-1948 |
| I.302 | Ben Shahn: Penguin Publication 58 items |
1947 |
| I.303 | Ben Shahn: Ben Shahn [MoMA Exh. #358, Sept. 30, 1947-Jan. 4, 1948] 1" |
1947 |
| I.304 | Ben Shahn: "Shahn Social Security Murals 1940-42" 12 items |
1940-1942 |
| I.305 | Ben Shahn: Miscellaneous 27 items |
1940s |
| I.306 | Ben Shahn: "Hightstown Murals 1935-38" 2 items |
1935-1938 |
| I.307 | Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Prison Murals 1934-35" 10 items |
1934-1935 |
| I.308 | Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Sacco-Vanzetti" 19 items |
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| I.309 | Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Mooney Series: 1933" 19 items |
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| I.310 | Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Levana Series, 1931-32" 11 items |
1931-1932 |
| I.311 | Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Haggadah Summer 1930" 14 items |
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| I.312 | Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Posters" 6 items |
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| I.313 | Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Photos" 72 items |
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| I.314 | Ben Shahn: "Shahn-Drawings" 40 items |
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| I.315 | Ben Shahn: Photographs of the Artist 3 items |
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| I.316 | Ben Shahn: Miscellaneous 7 items |
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| I.317 | "Luca Signorelli" 6 items |
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| I.318 | Matthew Smith 12 photographs |
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| I.319 | Smith College Museum of Art: Correspondence 34 items 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" 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 NOTE: JTS was involved in activities of the Smith College Museum of Art Visiting Committee and the Board of Counselors in the mid 1950s. |
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| I.322 | Southampton: Parrish Art Museum 19 sheets |
1952-1953 |
| I.323 | Chaim Soutine 4 photographs |
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| I.324 | Stanley Spencer 23 items |
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| I.325 | Theodoros Stamos 14 items |
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| I.326 | "George Stubbs" 3 items |
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| I.327 | Walter Stuempfig 12 items |
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| I.328 | "Surrealism" 19 items |
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| I.329 | "Graham Sutherland" 12 items |
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| I.330 | T-General 15 items |
ca. 1947-1948 |
| I.331 | Yves Tanguy: "Tanguy" 83 items 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 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. |
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| I.333 | Pavel Tchelitchew: Correspondence 21 items |
ca. 1947-1950 |
| I.334 | Pavel Tchelitchew: Lincoln Kirstein Drawing Book 7 items |
1947 |
| I.335 | Pavel Tchelitchew: Printed Matter 14 items |
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| I.336 | Pavel Tchelitchew: Sculpture and Drawings 7 items |
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| I.337 | Pavel Tchelitchew: Photographs 1" |
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| I.338 | Pavel Tchelitchew: Tchelitchew: Paintings and Drawings [MoMA Exh. #203, October 28-November 29, 1942] Includes notes dictated by the artist (21 sheets) |
1942 |
| I.339 | "[Jacopo Robutsi] Tintoretto" 7 photographs |
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| I.340 | "[Kristians] Tonny" 28 photographs |
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| I.341 | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 5 items |
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| I.342 | John Tunnard 6 photographs |
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| I.343 | Joseph Mallord William Turner 1 photograph |
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| I.344 | U, V, W-Miscellaneous Includes 3 catalogs |
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| I.345 | "[Paolo] Uccello" 1 photograph |
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| I.346 | "[Maurice] Utrillo" 8 items |
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| I.347 | Rogier van der Weyden 1 photograph |
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| I.348 | Franklin Chenault Watkins 5 photographs |
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| I.349 | Max Weber 8 items |
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| I.350 | Frank Lloyd Wright 4 items |
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| I.351 | "Yale" ca. 11 items |
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| I.352 | "X- Y -Z General" 6 items |
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| I.353 | Index cards, "A"-"de Chirico" One 11x3x5" box |
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| I.354 | Index cards, "[Charles] Demuth"-"XYZ" One 11x3x5" box |
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Series II: Giorgio de Chirico ca. 1935-1970s |
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The de Chirico papers of James Thrall Soby were bequeathed to The Museum of Modem Art upon his death on January 29, 1979. They were received from his estate in July 1980.
These papers were received in no discernible order and in deplorable condition: correspondence, notes, photographs and ephemera were separated from their file folders; many of the file-folder tabs had been broken off. Thus, original order was in many instances difficult to determine. Filing units in quotation marks indicate that these folders were thus marked by JTS.
Soby's interest in de Chirico and in modern Italian painting and sculpture began in the early 1940s with the publication of The Early Chirico (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1941) and continued throughout his life. His personal collection of works by this artist was bequeathed to the Museum.
Related Information: JTS was involved in the following exhibitions:
Related publications by JTS include: |
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Subseries II.A: Catalogs and Gallery Announcements |
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| 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 1955-1960, 1970s |
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In 1955, Soby wrote Giorgio de Chirico (New York: MoMA). This subgroup consists of the many letters from collectors and museums to JTS asking him to authenticate their de Chirico paintings, following the publication of Soby's 1955 book. The correspondence discloses a number of authentic works not included in the 1955 book; however, the majority of the works were judged by Soby to be not from de Chirico's metaphysical period. Correspondents include The Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cé De Hauke, John de Menil, Stanley Marcus and Gordon Onslow- Ford. |
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| II.B.1 | A-D Alsdorf, J. W. [5 items] |
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| II.B.2 | René Bérger 7 items |
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| II.B.3 | Margit Winter Chanin 6 items |
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| II.B.4 | "Nathan Cummings" 26 items |
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| II.B.5 | "[Mrs. Walter] Davis-de Chiricos New Orleans" 11 items |
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| II.B.6 | "[John] De Menil" 8 items |
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| II.B.7 | "Owen Elliott" 7 items |
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| II.B.8 | F-I Fearing, Mrs. Constance McCormick [1 item] |
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| II.B.9 | Marie-Suzanne Feigel 5 items |
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| II.B.10 | "[Mrs. Edwin] E. Hokin de Chirico" 4 items |
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| II.B.11 | J-N Janis, Sidney [1 item] |
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| II.B.12 | Stanley Marcus 8 items |
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| II.B.13 | Arnold H. Maremont 8 items |
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| II.B.14 | P-Z Paris: Galerie de Seine I item Picollo, Renato [1 item] |
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Subseries II.C: 1955 de Chirico Book: Giorgio de Chirico |
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This subgroup includes items related to the production and publication of the book. Correspondence reveals Soby the scholar/connoisseur establishing criteria for the identification and dating of works from de Chirico's metaphysical period, 1911-19. |
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Correspondence indicates that de Chirico made copies and variations of his metaphysical works and then back-dated them as if they were done in his metaphysical period; that de Chirico altered the dates on his metaphysical works, making them earlier than they really were; that de Chirico wrote many authentication letters to dealers and collectors, falsely claiming that works not from the metaphysical period were; and that there was a group of forgers who imitated de Chirico's metaphysical period works. |
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For the importance of technical data in the determination of authenticity, see folder II.C.2.22, correspondence with Caroline Keck. |
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Correspondents include: Mme. Guillaume Apollinaire, Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Henry Clifford, René Gaffé, Giovanni Girardon, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, H. W. Janson, Arthur Jeffress, Marianne W. Martin, Samuel A. Marx, Le Vicomte de Noailles, Roland Penrose, Roger Shattuck and Romeo Toninelli. |
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Subseries II.C.1: Production and Publication |
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| Folder | Title | |
| II.C.1.1 | Typescript: Final carbon | |
| II.C.1.2 | Typescript: Preliminary mss with AHB's corrections | |
| II.C.1.3 | Acknowledg., Foreword, Footnotes | |
| II.C.1.4 | Appendices | |
| II.C.1.5 | Bibliog. | |
| II.C.1.6 | "Translations by Marga" 0.5"Rref. Margaret Scolari Barralso includes "Italian Quotes"and translations by Edith Weinberger |
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| II.C.1.7 | Plates: Captions | |
| II.C.1.8 | Plates: Correspondence | |
| II.C.1.9 | Plates: Text plates in book | |
| II.C.1.10 | Plates: End plates in book | |
| II.C.1.11 | Plates: Cuts 4"×5" | |
| II.C.1.12 | Dating of Works 10 itemsoriginal JTS file folders labeled by date and containing photos. |
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| II.C.1.13 | Distribution | |
Subseries II.C.2: Book Correspondence ca. 1948-1955 |
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| II.C.2.1 | American Correspondence: A-L | |
| II.C.2.2 | American Correspondence: Barr, Alfred H., Jr. | |
| II.C.2.3 | American Correspondence: M-Z | |
| II.C.2.4 | American Correspondence: Marx, Samuel A. | |
| II.C.2.5 | Foreign Correspondence: "Letters England", A-Z | |
| II.C.2.6 | Foreign Correspondence: "Letters England", Mesens, Edward L.T. | |
| II.C.2.7 | Foreign Correspondence: "Letters England", Penrose, Roland | |
| II.C.2.8 | Foreign Correspondence: "Letters France", A-Z | |
| II.C.2.9 | Foreign Correspondence: "Letters France", "Breton Letters" 13 itemsIncludes photostats of de Chirico/André Breton correspondence |
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| II.C.2.10 | Foreign Correspondence: "Letters France", de Lanux, Mme. Eyre | |
| II.C.2.11 | Foreign Correspondence: "Letters France", "Jean Paulhan" | |
| II.C.2.12 | Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", A-Z | |
| II.C.2.13 | Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Apollonio, Umbro: Venice Biennale | |
| II.C.2.14 | Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Bragaglia, Anton Giulio | |
| II.C.2.15 | Broglio, Mme. Mario | |
| II.C.2.16 | Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Ghiringhelli, Peppino: II Milione Galleria d'Arte | |
| II.C.2.17 | Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Toninelli, Romeo | |
| II.C.2.18 | Foreign Correspondence: "Letters to/from Italian Artists/Dealers", Vitali, Lamberto | |
| II.C.2.19 | Foreign Correspondence: "Letters Switzerland, Germany", A-Z | |
| II.C.2.20 | Hector and Andromache | |
| II.C.2.21 | "Italian Letters-Chirico" | |
| 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 | 7/15/1945-4/12/1949 |
Subseries II.D: De Chirico Exhibition, MoMA Exh. #583 Sept. 6-Oct. 30, 1955 |
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This exhibition coincided with the publication of Soby's 1955 de Chirico book. As late as May 11, 1955, it was planned as a joint de Chirico- Tanguy exhibition. The Tanguy exhibition (MoMA exhibition #584) ran concurrently. |
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| II.D.1 | Correspondence 8 items |
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| II.D.2 | Loan Requests 27 items |
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Subseries II.E: Clippings ca. 1949-1960 |
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This subgroup contains many fascinating articles by and about de Chirico that reveal his public attempts to expose forgeries of his work and his ambivalent attitude toward his metaphysical period, as shown in his suit against the 1949 Venice Biennale for not exhibiting his current work. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| II.E.1 | 1949 Venice Biennale 30 items |
1949 |
| II.E.2 | 1949 Venice Biennale 9 items |
1949 |
| II.E.3 | 1946: Galerie Allard Exh., Paris 4 items |
1946 |
| II.E.4 | Reviews of Exhs. 3 items |
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| II.E.5 | Miscellaneous 15 items |
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Subseries II.F: Manuscripts |
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This subgroup contains published and unpublished miscellaneous writings by de Chirico and de Chirico scholars, as well as the court transcripts of a suit brought against the artist by a Los Angeles collector for falsely authenticating a work. |
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| II.F.1 | Spring 1958: Sloane, Joseph, "Giorgio de Chirico and Italy," The Art Quarterly 0.5" |
1958 |
| II.F.2 | Unpublished Papers by Jerry Caurana 0.5" |
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| II.F.3 | 1949: Dario Sabatello v. de Chirico Lawsuit, Rome and Milan 0.5" |
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| II.F.4 | Writings by de Chirico 0.5" |
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Subseries II.G: 1940s de Chirico Material 1940s |
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This subgroup includes items related to The Early Chirico: reviews, the contract with the publisher and a copy of the book annotated by the author. See also, Series 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. |
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| II.G.1 | Correspondence: Miscellaneous 10 items |
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| II.G.2 | 1942: de Chirico Drawings, Ex. Coll. Mario Girardon 1" |
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 |
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| II.G.4 | The Early Chirico Correspondence 6 items |
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| II.G.5 | The Early Chirico Reviews 16 items |
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Subseries II.H: Photographs 1940s-1960s |
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Collected by JTS from the 1940s through the 1960s. Photographic documentation is extensive. |
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| II.H.1 | Albert C. Barnes Collection 19 items |
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| II.H.2 | Gianbellino Collection, Photostats 20 items |
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| II.H.3 | Bernard Possionner Collection, Negatives and Photographs 10 items |
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| II.H.4 | Carrà, Carlo 33 items |
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| II.H.5 | "[Alberto] Savinio" 5 items |
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| II.H.6 | "Possible" 19 items |
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| II.H.7 | "Duplicates" 82 items |
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| II.H.8 | Pittori ltaliani Contemporanei, Giampiero Giani, ed. 20 items |
1942 |
| II.H.9 | Bulletin de L'Effort Moderne 6 photostats |
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| II.H.10 | "Installation Photographs" 9 items |
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| II.H.11 | Comparative Material 8 items |
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| II.H.12 | Miscellaneous 47 items |
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Series III: Writings |
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See also, Series I: Subject Interest Material for correspondence, photographs, ephemera on individual artists about whom JTS wrote. |
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Subseries III.A: JTS Bibliog. by JTS 1960 |
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| Folder | Title | |
| III.A.1 | JTS Bibliography by JTS | |
Subseries III.B: Typesrcipts |
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| Folder | Title | |
| III.B.1 | Typescripts | |
| III.B.2 | Typescripts | |
| III.B.3 | Typescripts | |
Subseries III.C: Non-Museum |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| III.C.1 | 1963, 1964, 1970 11 items |
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| 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 |
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 |
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| III.C.10 | The Saturday Review of Literature: Related art articles JTS was art critic for SRL 1946-57 and wrote a monthly column. |
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| III.C.11 | The Saturday Review of Literature: Typescripts 11 items |
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| III.C.12 | The Saturday Review of Literature: Mail re: SRL 45 items |
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| III.C.13 | "Leonid" for Horizon 5 items |
1949 |
| III.C.14 | Dodd, Mead & Co. 44 items |
1935, 1937-1948 |
| III.C.15 | "Writing 1947-1948" Includes correspondence re: articles for Vogue |
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| III.C.16 | Transatlantic Article on Museum 7 items |
1946 |
| III.C.17 | Ladies Home Journal: "American Romantic Painting" 6 items |
1944 |
| III.C.18 | Miscellaneous 5 items |
1930, 1950, 1956 |
| III.C.19 | Requests to Write and Fan Mail 19 items |
ca. 1935-1937 |
Subseries III.D: Museum Matters 1970s-1990s |
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See also Subseries I for additional material relevant to JTS's writings. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| III.D.1 | Miscellaneous Includes royalty statements |
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| III.D.2 | 1958, 1959, 1960 16 items |
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. |
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| III.D.15 | Paris: Musée de l'Orangerie: De David a Toulouse-Lautrec: Correspondence and clippings 5 items |
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| III.D.16 | Venice: XXVII Biennale: "Ben Shahn" 1 item |
1954 |
| III.D.17 | "Paintings from Museum Collections Book" 4 items |
1953-1954 |
| III.D.18 | MoMA Exhibition #381: New York Private Collections 9 items |
1948-1949 |
| III.D.19 | Contemporary Painters: General: Correspondence and galley (New York: MoMA, 1948) |
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 |
1948 |
| III.D.25 | "Elodie Sculpture Book" 27 sheets |
1947 |
| III.D.26 | Circulating Exhibition: Mystery in Paint 26 sheets |
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Subseries III.E: Pocket Diaries |
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| 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 |
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| Folder | Title | |
| III.F.1 | Notebook 1 combination notebook/address book, 10×7.25"; includes many inserts, most arranged alphabetically. Please handle carefully. |
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| III.F.2 | Notebook 1 black-leather loose-leaf notebook, 10×7.25". |
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| III.F.3 | Notebook 1 black-leather loose-leaf notebook, 10×7.25". |
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Subseries III.G: Speeches and/or Talks |
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| Folder | Title | |
| III.G.1 | Speeches and/or Talks 7 items, 37 sheets |
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Series IV: Museum Matters 1940s-1970s |
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Chronological arrangement of material related to JTS's activity most of these items received as a gift to MoMA from Arthur Cohen in 3" and 5" letterboxes.
Original order can be observed in 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. |
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Subseries IV.A: Chronological Files |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| IV.A.1 | 1970s 5 items |
1970s |
| IV.A.2 | 1969 10 items |
1969 |
| IV.A.3 | 1965 17 items |
1965 |
| IV.A.4 | 1963-1964 36 items NOTE: from 3" letterbox labeled by JTS "MoMA 1963-4." |
1963-1964 |
| IV.A.5 | 1961-1962 27 items |
1961-1962 |
| IV.A.6 | 1960 60 items |
1960 |
| IV.A.7 | 1959 45 items |
1959 |
| IV.A.8 | 1958 "MUSEUM GENERAL" 53 items |
1958 |
| IV.A.9 | 1958 24 items |
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 |
1957 |
| IV.A.12 | 1955-1956 74 items |
1954-1956 |
| IV.A.13 | 1953, General 10 items |
1953 |
| IV.A.14 | 1953 13 items |
1953 |
| IV.A.15 | 1952 19 items |
1952 |
| IV.A.16 | 1951 32 items |
1951 |
| IV.A.17 | 1951 11 items |
1951 |
| IV.A.18 | 1950 48 items |
1950 |
| IV.A.19 | 1950 27 items |
1950 |
| IV.A.20 | 1950 55 items |
1950 |
| IV.A.21 | 1949, General 26 items |
1949 |
| IV.A.22 | 1949 21 items |
1949 |
| IV.A.23 | 1949 14 items |
1949 |
| IV.A.24 | 1949 13 items |
1949 |
| IV.A.25 | 1948 24 items |
1948 |
| IV.A.26 | 1948, Acquisitions 30 items |
1948 |
| IV.A.27 | 1948 49 items NOTE: 1948 Museum items found in estate boxes. |
1948 |
| IV.A.28 | 1947, "A = Acquisitions Com" 30 items |
1947 |
| IV.A.29 | 1947, "E = Exec. Com. & Exhib. Com." 75 items |
1947 |
| IV.A.30 | 1947, "G = General" 19 items |
1947 |
| IV.A.31 | 1947, "M = Met Agreement"/"MUSEUM AND MET" 40 items |
1947 |
| IV.A.32 | 1947, "P = Dept. of Ptg & Sculpture" 26 items |
1947 |
| IV.A.33 | 1947 16 items |
1947 |
| IV.A.34 | 1946, "MUSEUM 1946" 14 items |
1946 |
| IV.A.35 | 1946 77 items |
1946 |
| IV.A.36 | 1946 23 items |
1946 |
| IV.A.37 | "Museum General-1945" 41 items |
1946 |
| IV.A.38 | 1944 16 items |
1944 |
| IV.A.39 | 1944 17 items |
1944 |
| IV.A.40 | 1944 6 items |
1944 |
| IV.A.41 | 1943 9 items |
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 |
1941 |
Subseries IV.B: Agendas and Reports |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| IV.B.1 | 1961-1969 Post 1969 Ad Hoc Committee [1 item] |
1961-1969 |
| IV.B.2 | 1960 12/8 Agenda from Executive Committee [3 items] |
1960 |
| IV.B.3 | 1956-1959 6/11 Agenda for the Committee on Museum Collections [3 items] |
1956-1959 |
| IV.B.4 | 1950-1955 11/23 Agenda for the Committee on the Museum Collections [11 items] |
1950-1955 |
| IV.B.5 | 1942-1949 1949 Fundraising [1 item] |
1942-1949 |
Subseries IV.C: Addenda |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| IV.C.1 | Barry, Iris 14 items |
ca. 1946-1975 |
| IV.C.2 | MoMA Photography Department 58 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 |
1942-1947 |
| IV.C.5 | MoMA and World War II: "ARMY-1945" 44 items |
1945 |
| IV.C.6 | MoMA and World War II: Miscellaneous material 25 items |
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Series V: JTS Collection |
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For additional information about these artists see Series I. A major portion of this collection was bequeathed to MoMA in 1979. |
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Subseries V.A: Miscellaneous Late Items |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| V.A.1 | Miscellaneous Late Items 3 items |
1960-1961, 1974 |
Subseries V.B: Insurance: Collection Inventory |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| V.B.1 | Insurance: Collection Inventory 13 items |
1939-1970 |
Subseries V.C: Correspondence with Artists 1932-1970 |
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Alphabetically arranged by artist. Includes loan conservation reports, published accounts, receipts. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| V.C.1 | A-D 105 items Material added to this folder in 2022. |
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| V.C.2 | de Chirico, Giorgio 21 items |
1944-1973 |
| V.C.3 | E-M 73 items Note: Max Ernst correspondence not present as of November 8, 2017. |
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| 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 |
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| V.C.7 | Shahn, Ben 38 items |
1944-1978 |
Subseries V.D: Correspondence with Dealers 1930s-1940s |
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Alphabetically arranged by dealer. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| V.D.1 | A-Z 47 items |
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| V.D.2 | "Matisse" [Pierre Matisse Gallery] 29 items |
1930s, 1940s, 1956 |
Subseries V.E: Exhibition Catalogs |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| V.E.1 | Exhibition Catalogs 14 items |
1930-1980 |
Subseries V.F: Visitors to JTS Collection |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| V.F.1 | Visitors to JTS Collection 12 items |
1945-1968 |
Subseries V.G: 1930s |
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| Folder | Title | |
| V.G.1 | Early Collecting Includes 1 ALS Valentine Dudensing-JTS (5/30/31 3 sheets) |
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| V.G.2 | Book Purchases Includes 5 TLS Éditions des Quatre Chemins (Paris)-JTS (1932, 1931 10 sheets) |
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Subseries V.H: Photographs |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| V.H.1 | JTS Residences Ref. 29 Mount Spring Road, Farmington, Conn. |
1936-1947 |
| V.H.2 | JTS Collection: Photographs and Negatives 0.5" |
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| V.H.3 | JTS Collection: Photographs and Negatives 2" |
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| V.H.4 | "Greek Revival Houses" 7 items |
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Series VI: Personal/Family |
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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. |
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Subseries VI.A: Financial Data |
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Includes bank statements and leases. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| VI.A.1 | Financial ca. 1971-70, 1972, 1978 |
1971-1978 |
| VI.A.2 | Financial Sarasota, Fla., home |
1969-70 |
| VI.A.3 | Financial 1962, 1963, 1967, 1968, 1969 |
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 |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| VI.B.1 | Correspondence honorary degree items |
1962, 1969, 1978 |
| VI.B.2 | Printed Material 50 items |
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| VI.B.3 | Kingswood School Rec'd 9/4/1991 from K. Clark |
1917, 1918, 1919 |
Subseries VI.C: JTS Family |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| VI.C.1 | Miscellaneous Biographical Data on JTS Stationery |
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| VI.C.2 | JTS's Wills Includes TLS (carbons) |
1953, 1963, 1968 |
| VI.C.3 | "Mother" Anna Hazelwood Soby | 1877-1956 |
| VI.C.4 | Family Includes items concerning Katie Hazelwood (1855-1957) |
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| VI.C.5 | Melissa Childs Soby Includes material re: divorce, custody fight |
1961, 1953, 1952 |
| VI.C.6 | Divorce from Eleanor Howland Soby ["Nellie"] | 1951-52 |
| VI.C.7 | 1948, 1947, 1946, 1945 "House" Farmington, Conn. |
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| VI.C.8 | 1940s Corresp 2 items |
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| VI.C.9 | "1938" "1937" "1936" dated from disintegrated album |
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| VI.C.10 | 1938, 1937, 1936 Eleanor Howland, later Soby |
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| VI.C.11 | 1936, 1935 Elmina N. Underwood [later Soby] Trust |
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| VI.C.12 | Peter Allyn Soby Includes 1960 ALS to JTS |
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| VI.C.13 | Correspondence 3 items |
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Subseries VI.D: Thomas S. Childs, Jr. 1950s-1960s |
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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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| VI.E.6 | Photographs of Houses by JTS 3 plans for addition to JTS house (1970) |
1946; 1970 |
| VI.E.7 | Photographs from a Costume Party Photographs include James Thrall Soby, Eleanor ("Nellie") Howland, Thomas Childs, and Melissa Childs. This folder was added in 2022. |
Late 1940s |
Subseries VI.F: Miscellaneous |
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| Volume | Title | |
| VI.F.1 | 1 address book black |
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| VI.F.2 | 1 address book brown |
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| VI.F.3 | 1 address book red |
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| VI.F.4 | 2 leather books with some notes on Italy |
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| VI.F.5 | 1 notebook 8"×5.5" |
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| Folder | Title | |
| VI.F.6 | 1 cigar box cover 8.875"× 5.5" |
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| VI.F.7 | 1 valentine 8.675"sq. |
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| VI.F.8 | 1 mss book 7.875"× 6.5" |
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Subseries VI.G: Melissa Jane Wadley [later Childs] |
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All ALS undated; however, many have envelopes with legible postmarks. |
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| 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. |
1929-32 |
| VI.G.2 | ALS and TLS to Wadley 1938, 1937, 1935(2), 1933(1), 1932(10) |
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) |
1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1931 |
Subseries VI.H: Negatives |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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Subseries VI.I: Oversized Photographs |
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| Folder | Title | |
| VI.I.1* | 4 photographs JTS dining room (with Berman paintings) in Connecticut |
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| VI.I.2* | 6 photographs Peter Allyn Soby |
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| VI.I.3* | 4 photographs Eleanor Howland Soby |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| Album | Title | |
| VII.1* | 1940s Material assembled and mounted by JTS. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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NOTE: The material contained in this series was received from various sources after the initial processing of the collection. |
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Subseries VIII.A: Soby Autobiographical Memoir |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| VIII.A.3 | Soby Autobiographical Memoir: Related Correspondence | |
Subseries VIII.B: James Thrall Soby Bequest |
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This material was transferred from the Department of Painting & Sculpture, Alicia Legg's office, April 1990. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| VIII.B.1 | Marie-Louise Jeanneret Hommage á James Thrall Soby |
1980 |
| VIII.B.2 | JTS Bequest Exhibition MoMA exhibition # 1255a |
1979 |
| VIII.B.3 | JTS Bequest Exhibition Correspondence w. family and others |
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| VIII.B.4 | JTS Collection lists |
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| VIII.B.5 | JTS Bequest general |
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| VIII.B.6 | JTS Bequest Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT |
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| VIII.B.7 | JTS Bequest books, papers, photos |
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Subseries VIII.C: Photographs by James Thrall Soby |
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Photocopies of photographs. Gift of Jo. C. Tartt, Tartt Gallery, Washington, DC, 2/7/1992; purchased by Tartt from an unknown dealer. |
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| Folder | Title | |
| VIII.C.1 | Photocopies of JTS photographs Photocopies of photographs that were obtained from JTS estate |
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Subseries VIII.D: James Thrall Soby Correspondence |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Gift of William O'Reilly, Jan. 28, 1993 who purchased it from Estate Liquidators, Norwalk, CT. |
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Subseries VIII.E.1: Photographs |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| VIII.E.1.1 | Matisse | |
| VIII.E.1.2 | Friends 8 photographs"Nellie" Soby (later Bunce), dog, and friendsIncludes Eugene Berman, and others |
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| VIII.E.1.3 | Alexander Calder 19 photographsworks and photos or the artistphotographed by Herbert Matter |
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| VIII.E.1.4 | Cecill Beaton/Francis Rose | 1974 |
| VIII.E.1.5 | Artists | 1937, 1947, 1958, n.d. |
| VIII.E.1.6 | Nakamura, Japan | 1945 |
| VIII.E.1.7 | Salvador Dali | 1939 |
| VIII.E.1.8 | Museum of Modern Art reception1 photographJTS and Calder photographed by Eliot Elisofon |
May, 1939 |
| VIII.E.1.9 | Friends | 1936 |
| VIII.E.1.10 | Friends | 1936 |
| VIII.E.1.11 | General photographs | 1932-36, n.d. |
| VIII.E.1.12 | [style of?] Walker Evans | 1934, n.d. |
| VIII.E.1.13 | Wadsworth Atheneum ["Avery Memorial"] | 1934 |
| VIII.E.1.14 | Elmina Soby 6 photographsFirst wife of JTSIncludes 1 photo of Pierre Matisse and Elmina. |
1932-1934, n.d. |
| VIII.E.1.15 | Gemma de Chirico | 1927 |
| VIII.E.1.16 | Miscellaneous photographs 13 itemsTaken by and/or collected by JTSTrans. to Photo Study Center, 2/25/93. |
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Subseries VIII.E.2: Correspondence |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| VIII.E.2.1 | General Correspondence | 1950-1963 |
| VIII.E.2.2 | S.W. Hayter | 1950 |
| VIII.E.2.3 | Ben Shahn: Correspondence | 1945-1950s |
| VIII.E.2.4 | Ben Shahn: Printed matter 11 items1945, 1947, 1948, 1950sIncludes 1 grceeting card Shahn-JTS (n.d.) |
1945-1950s |
| VIII.E.2.5 | Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy | 1942-1957 |
Subseries VIII.E.3: Library |
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| VIII.E.3.1 | Library | |
Subseries VIII.E.4: De Chirico Iconography |
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Documentation collected by JTS for research. |
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| Folder | Title | |
| VIII.E.4.1 | Photographs | |
| VIII.E.4.2* | unbound folio | |
Subseries VIII.E.5: Drawings, prints, reproductions and oversized photographs |
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| 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 |
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Each sketchbook cover inscribed with Hilla von Rebay's signature. |
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| 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 | 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* |