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| Creator: | Barr, Alfred H., Jr. (Alfred Hamilton), 1902-1981 | |
| Title: | Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Papers | |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1891-1982 | |
| Bulk Dates: | 1923-1967 | |
| Quantity: | 117 linear feet | |
| Abstract: | The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Papers encompass the personal and professional papers of MoMA's founding director. The collection documents the establishment of the Museum, its early years, and the rise to prominence of modern art in the United States during the twentieth century; as such, it is one of the most important collections in MoMA Archives. Composed of materials from Barr's childhood and school years through his retirement from the Museum, the papers provide a comprehensive picture of this prominent life and career in the arts. Included are professional correspondence with Museum officials, curators, art historians, critics, magazine editors, artists, and collectors, as well as personal correspondence with family and friends. Files also cover MoMA staff, exhibitions, publications, lectures, and collections. A substantial amount of the documents and ephemera found in the collection pertain to the subjects of modern and abstract art generally; to artistic movements such as Cubism and Futurism; and to individual artists, in particular Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Lyonel Feininger. | |
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. was born in Detroit, MI in 1902 and was raised in Baltimore, MD. His father, Alfred Sr., was a Presbyterian minister and his mother, Annie Elizabeth Wilson Barr, was a homemaker. He began his art historical training at Princeton University, where he studied with Charles Rufus Morey, who shaped Barr's understanding of traditional historiography and iconography; and Frank Jewett Mather, who introduced him to modern art and the work of the European avant-gardes. Barr completed his B.A. in 1922 and his M.A. the following year. In 1924, Barr traveled to Europe for the first time (he referred to it as his "Grand Tour"), with his friend Edward King; and soon after returning enrolled in a doctoral program in art history at Harvard University. While there, Barr studied connoisseurship and Museum studies under Paul J. Sachs at Harvard's Fogg Museum, and Sachs would remain an influential figure in Barr's career for the next forty years.In 1925, Barr was asked to deliver several lectures and to curate an exhibition on modern prints and drawings at the Fogg. According to art historian Sybil Kantor, Barr's first foray into independent curating was a critical moment in his developing career, as it was his first opportunity to articulate publicly his evolving ideas about modern art. As Kantor writes, "his message was clear: modern art can be approached rationally, objectively, and without hysteria or (his favorite word) prejudice." (Kantor, 83)
After completing his oral examinations in 1925, Barr took a teaching position at Princeton, where he began formulating a course on artistic modernism. His first opportunity to teach the course—Tradition and Revolt in Modern Painting—came at Wellesley College in 1927, where it became the first class on modern art to be offered in America. During this time, Barr was also cultivating relationships in the Boston and New York areas with people who were similarly inclined toward the promotion of European modern art in the United Stated. These relationships—with people like Jere Abbott, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Lincoln Kirstein, Frank Crowninshield and Katherine Dreier—would prove critical to the later founding and development of MoMA. With the help of Dreier, Barr mounted an exhibition at Wellesley titled Exhibition of Progressive Modern Painting: From Daumier to Corot to Post-Cubism, which organized paintings not by chronology or geography, but rather by visual similarities. Paintings were grouped together based on common formal techniques, putting Barr's emergent commitment to formalism and formal analysis on view even at this early moment.
In 1927, Barr returned to Europe. On this trip, Barr collected books, photographs, and other information on modern art, paying particular attention to art coming out of Germany, the Netherlands, and Russia. It was a formative trip for Barr in that it allowed him to observe first-hand the artists aligned with de Stijl, the Bauhaus, and the Constructivists. Upon returning to Wellesley, Barr used the material and experiences gathered on his trip to create new courses on modernism.
In the late 1920s, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie P. Bliss, and Mary Quinn Sullivan, devoted patrons of the arts, had begun work to establish what would become the Museum of Modern Art in New York, alongside other influential art world contemporaries like A. Conger Goodyear, Frank Crowninshield, and Paul Sachs. After Barr received a Carnegie Foundation grant in 1929, to support the completion of his dissertation at New York University, Sachs contacted him to ask if he would become the founding director of the Museum. Barr replied, "This is something I could give my life to." (Kantor, 189) Barr would become instrumental in establishing and implementing the Museum's founding mission, which he envisioned as open-ended and multidisciplinary, with departments dedicated to disciplines beyond painting and sculpture. As Barr wrote in a brochure announcing the Museum's founding, "[T]he ultimate purpose of the Museum will be to acquire, from time to time (either by gift or by purchase) a collection of the best modern works of art. The possibilities of The Museum of Modern Art are so varied that it has seemed unwise to the organizers to lay down a definite program for it beyond the present one of a series of frequently occurring exhibitions during a period of two and a half years." (The Museum of Modern Art brochure, II.C.2)
Barr helped to organize and write the exhibition catalogue for the Museum's inaugural exhibition, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh [MoMA Exh. #1, November 7–December 7, 1929]. The show was considered a huge success and set the standard for exhibitions moving forward. In this exhibition, Barr traced the stylistic intersections that defined and unified the artists' work, showcasing what has come to be understood as Barr's deeply formalist art historical and curatorial methodology. In 1931, Barr curated another important exhibition, Henri Matisse [MoMA Exh. #13, November 3–December 6, 1931], which allowed him to synthesize his extensive research on the life and work of the French painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker. Many art historians consider this exhibition and its corresponding catalog to be the predecessor to what is perhaps thought of as Barr's most seminal piece of scholarship, Matisse: His Art and His Public, published twenty years later in 1951.
In 1930, Barr married his wife, the Italian art historian Margaret "Marga" Scolari Barr, who would be both his companion and collaborator for the rest of his life. They would have one daughter, Victoria, born in 1937. (For more on Scolari Barr, see the finding aid for her papers.)
After an incredibly prolific period during the Museum's earliest years—in which time Barr also curated such important shows as—German Painting and Sculpture (MoMA Exh. #11, March 12–April 26, 1931)—Barr took a sabbatical from his position as director of the Museum in 1932. Alfred and Margaret traveled to Europe, where among other things they witnessed the censorship of modern art by the Nazis. In 1933, Barr returned to the Museum and resumed his position as director.
In 1936, Barr prepared the exhibition and catalogue for the groundbreaking show Cubism and Abstract Art (MoMA Exh. #46, March 2-April 19, 1936). This exhibition is particularly notable because it marks the implementation and use of Barr's famous chart, which illustrated the genealogy of modern art from Cézanne and Gauguin to Surrealism and the Bauhaus (Barr had been working on the chart for nearly a decade before it was included in the exhibition catalogue). As Barr wrote in the exhibition's catalogue, Cubism and Abstract Art was "intended as an historical survey of an important movement in modern art." It was the first in a series of exhibitions, curated between 1936 and 1943, devoted to the principal movements in modern art, which included Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism (MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937); Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America (MoMA Exh. #76, April 27–July 24, 1938); Americans 1943: Realists and Magic-Realists (MoMA Exh. #217, February 10–March 21, 1943); and Romantic Painting in America (MoMA Exh. #246, November 11, 1943-February 6, 1944). During this time, Barr also had the opportunity to mount a retrospective exhibition on the work of Pablo Picasso. Picasso: Forty Years of His Art [MoMA Exh. #91] opened to the public on November 15, 1939, in MoMA's new "International Style" building, designed by Philip L. Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone. The show contained ninety-five pieces lent by the artist himself, including the large-scale mural Guernica.
In 1939, Stephen Clark, a newspaper publisher and prominent collector, was appointed chairman of MoMA's board of trustees. Clark and Barr were prone to disagreements over curatorial and administrative matters, and that same year Clark asked Barr for his resignation. In 1943 Barr was relieved of his directorial duties and spent the next four years at the Museum focusing on scholarship rather than Museum operations, before he was appointed, in 1947, to the position of director of collections, which he held until his retirement in 1967. During this period, Barr worked closely with the Museum's new director, René d'Harnoncourt, and their relationship was perhaps the defining one of Barr's later career. Anne d'Harnoncourt commented on her father's relationship with Barr in an oral history in which she said that "He [René d'Harnoncourt] wanted to make things work, and he believed in the Modern and its mission. He believed very profoundly in Alfred Barr. He told me and my mother a number of times that he believed his mission at the Museum was to make it possible for Alfred Barr to do what needed to be done." (Oral History Program, interview with Anne d'Harnoncourt, September 11, 2003, p. 11. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.)
Barr remained very productive during his last decades at MoMA, continuing to write and organize exhibitions related to Matisse and Picasso. In 1946, he was finally awarded his Ph.D., after the publication of Picasso: 50 Years of His Art. Barr also worked tirelessly to assemble the Museum's permanent collection, amassing a world-class collection of modern and abstract art through acquisitions from Museum trustees and other figures with longstanding relationships to the Museum, such as Philip Johnson and Olga Hirsch Guggenheim. Barr's last publication, published in 1977, reflected his longstanding work at the Museum as a curator and a collector: a partial catalogue of the Museum's holdings titled Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, 1929-1967.
In 1960, thirty-one years after MoMA's founding, John Canaday of the New York Times referred to Barr as "the most powerful tastemaker in American art today." While Barr himself may have resented the label, it nevertheless accurately spoke to Barr's enduring legacy as one of the foremost defenders of modern art in America during the twentieth century.
After suffering from Alzheimer's disease for many years, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. died in 1981 in Connecticut.
The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Papers document the life and career of one of the most notable art historians and curators of the twentieth century. The records date from 1891to 1982 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1923 to 1967. Included are personal and professional correspondence, teaching and lecture notes, research materials, drafts and completed publications, photographs, travel notebooks, newspaper clippings, as well as materials relating to personal interests and hobbies including bird-watching, travel, and church activities. Taken together these materials present a comprehensive view of Barr's personal and professional lives, and those researchers, curators, and scholars who take as their subject the rise of modernism in the United States, and the critical role played therein by the Museum of Modern Art, will find this collection to be an essential trove of primary source material. The new material added to the collection through the reprocessing project may also open new avenues of research into the history of the Museum, its founding director, and the history of modern art in America.
The collection provides access to the research material Barr drew upon in producing original scholarship, which included notable publications such as Matisse: His Art and His Public as well as exhibitions such as Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937]. Also documented in the collection is the vast network of artists, art historians, critics, curators, gallerists, and Museum administrators Barr interacted with over the course of his forty-year long career. Key figures associated with Barr who are well represented in the collection include: Jere Abbott, James Thrall Soby, Dorothy Miller, A. Conger Goodyear, Monroe Wheeler, René d'Harnoncourt, Agnes Mongan, Henri Matisse, Constantin Brâncuși, among others.
Nowhere are these relationships better represented than in the largest series in the collection, Series I: Correspondence, which is comprised of close to 850 folders and is divided into three subseries. The thousands of letters found in Subseries I.A: General Correspondence primarily document Museum operations, both curatorial and administrative, from the institution's founding in 1929 through Barr's retirement in 1967. Notable correspondents identified in this series include: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Paul J. Sachs, Philip Johnson, Margaret Scolari Barr, William A.M. Burden, Meyer Schapiro, Giacomo Balla, Kurt Schwitters, Amédée Ozenfant, and Sonia Delaunay. In addition to correspondence and memos, Subseries I.A also contains a large amount of newspaper clippings and photographs, and as such some of the files operate like subject or artist files rather than traditional correspondence files. Additional materials included in files are noted in the file descriptions. Subseries I.B: Professional Correspondence from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers were given to MoMA Archives with the personal papers of Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s wife, Margaret Scolari Barr. They were added to the collection in 2016 and for this reason they remain their own distinct subseries. Important files in Subseries I.B include those that document Barr's salary and position as director (I.B.16) and letters of congratulations after his appointment to this position (I.B.17). These materials are significant not only because they confirm crucial details about Barr's role in the development of MoMA, but also because they shed some light on the exciting, revolutionary, and at times precarious climate that defined the Museum's early years. Subseries I.B is arranged alphabetically. Subseries I.C: Personal Correspondence contains, as the title suggests, personal letters. Many of these predate Barr's time at MoMA; letters to and from his parents and his brother, Andrew Barr, comprise a majority of the subseries. Letters with his wife, Margaret Scolari Barr, and other close friends are also present. These important correspondence that relate to Barr's biography and help to present a fuller picture of Barr as a son, a brother, a husband, and a father. Subseries I.C is arranged alphabetically.
Series II: Museum Matters is divided into four subseries. Many of these subseries reflect distinct folder runs from the initial Barr collection. However, they have now been unified in a single series pertaining to MoMA's business operations. Subseries II.A includes administrative files, press releases, and clippings. Researchers interested in MoMA's bureaucratic and operational workings, especially during the Museum's early years, will find this subseries of interest and use. The art press' reactions-both positive and negative-to MoMA and its programming over the years is also well documented in newspaper clippings found in Subseries II.A. Subseries II.B: From Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s Personal Desk is a very important subseries in the collection. It is comprised of items removed from Barr's desk at the Museum at 29 West 53rd Street. The original order of files found in the desk has been strictly maintained and quotation marks in the folder titles reflect the terminology used by Barr himself. These files are important because they offer a unique glimpse into Barr's work method. Subseries II.B is arranged alphabetically. Subseries II.C: "Chronicles," Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art contains material, chronologically arranged, used by Barr in writing Chronology of Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art (PASITMOMA). Important documents related to the development of MoMA's curatorial identity and permanent collection are found in this subseries. Among them are a brochure from 1929 that explains the purpose and mission of a Museum devoted to modern art (II.C.2); annual reports from 1929 to 1932 (II.C.6-II.C.8, II.C.10); and a statement titled "Present Status and Future Direction of The Museum of Modern Art," which came to define the Museum's policies after 1933 (II.C.18). Subseries II.C is arranged chronologically. Subseries II.D: Defending Modern Art is also a significant subseries, especially from an art historical perspective, as it documents through correspondence and miscellaneous printed matter the struggles that Barr and his compatriots and contemporaries faced as evangelists of modern art in the mid-twentieth century. Many documents attack MoMA and its programming, reflecting the dominant political and cultural attitudes of the country through the 1950s. Several documents in Subseries II.D highlight Barr's active defense of modern artists and their work, especially against those who accused them of being communists or inspired by communism. Subseries II.D is arranged chronologically.
Series III: Exhibitions and Catalogues contains various material related to MoMA publications and exhibitions, primarily from the 1930s through the 1960s. Among the exhibitions particularly well represented in this series are Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937] and Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. #413, June 28-September 18, 1949]. Other noteworthy material present in this series relates to "Exhibition X" (also known as "For Us the Living"), a proposed exhibition conceived in response to the Nazi occupation of Paris in 1940. While the exhibition never happened, this material will nevertheless be of interest to those scholars and curators working on the complicated politics surrounding modern art during the rise of Fascism in midcentury Europe. The arrangement of this series largely reflects the order of the original collection; however, several folders formerly contained in the Photographic Archive have been integrated. Most other accretions and transfers from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers have been added to the end of the series. Researchers should refer to folder notes for provenance details. The series is primarily arranged in reverse chronological order.
Series IV: Writings works in tandem with that material found in Series III: Exhibitions and Catalogues. It is divided into two subseries. Subseries IV.A is devoted to Barr's contribution to Penquin's Modern Painters Series, which included texts on American artists like Ben Shahn, Edward Hopper, and Stuart Davis. These files predominantly contain correspondence, research photographs, and reproductions. Subseries IV.A was arranged as a distinct series in the original collection and has remained as such during reprocessing. It is arranged in reverse chronological order. Subseries IV.B: Other Publications is a very important subseries in the collection. Many types of writings, spanning Barr's long career, are included in this series-from travel notes from the 1920s to articles in published in popular periodicals during the Cold War. As such, the subseries reflects Barr's prolific work as a writer and provides a lens on the evolution of his thinking on modern art in America. Noteworthy files in Subseries IV.B include those related to Barr's contributions to The Hound & Horn, the avant-garde literary magazine founded by Lincoln Kirstein and Varian Fry while at Harvard University in 1927 (IV.B.111 & IV.B.112); and research materials related to Barr's important didactic text, What is Modern Painting? Subseries IV.B contains collection accretions as well as materials transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers. It is arranged in reverse chronological order.
Series V: Lectures, Speeches, and Eulogies is comprised of nearly seventy files of research material and typescripts that pertain to Barr's public speaking engagements. Lecture and speech topics range in subject-from Pablo Picasso (V.2-V.4) to "Art Under Totalitarian Governments" (V.30). Yet, the most important files contained within this series are arguably those related to his "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art" lectures, which Barr delivered in 1946 at Bryn Mawr College as part of the Mary Flexner Lecture Series (V.32-V.46). These files contain documents including research notes, diagrams, typescripts, posters and announcements. Also contained in Series V is a eulogy typescript and memorial service excerpts for Lyonel Feininger (V.47) and Piet Mondrian (V.1) respectively. Some files from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers have been integrated into the series, but the arrangement largely reflects that of the original collection. Again, researchers should refer to specific file descriptions for provenance information. Series V is arranged in reverse chronological order.
Series VI: Subject Interest and Research Files is divided into four subseries. Subseries VI.A: Personal Desk is comprised of important research files that Barr kept at in his office. They are arranged alphabetically and their order reflects how MoMA staff found them in 1978. Original folder titles have also been maintained. Many files pertain to specific artists such as Pierre Bonnard (VI.A.13), Marc Chagall (VI.A.20), Salvador Dalí (VI.A.21), and David Alfaro Siqueiros (VI.A.84), while others reflect subject interests that were important to Barr throughout his career. Notable subjects include: German Expressionism (VI.A.29), Nationalism (VI.A.58), Post-Impressionism (VI.A.69), and Surrealism and Dada (VI.A.87 and VI.A.88). Another essential file in Subseries VI.A is that titled "Barr's Ism Dictionary" (VI.A.38). This file includes significant art historical material such as charts as well as Barr's own handwritten glossary of significant movements and terms (what he called "isms", i.e. romanticism, expressionism, etc.). The documents found in this file are noteworthy and will be of use to many researchers and scholars as they elucidate Barr's working method-namely his linear conceptualization of the development of artistic movements and styles over time. Subseries VI.B: General Subject and Artist Files contains some materials from the original Barr collection, but it is largely comprised of collection accretions and materials transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. Subseries VI.B predominantly contains notes on artists and press clippings on said artists and their related movements. Subseries VI.C: Northern European Art contains material on the subject from Barr's time as a student at Princeton through the early years of his career. Files VI.C.1 through VI.C.5* contain several handwritten charts that trace the progression and currents that defined Northern Renaissance Art (these charts date from 1923 to 1927). While these files may not pertain to modern art directly they are nevertheless of the utmost significance in that they can be considered the prototypes for Barr's famous charts on Cubism and abstract art that followed over a decade later and therefore reveal something of Barr's working method over time. Subseries VI.D: Printed Matter - Books contains books-many with inscriptions-that were transferred to MoMA library 1985. Also included are several files that contain photocopies of title pages from books that Alfred and Margaret Scolari Barr had in their personal library. The texts and title pages represented in this subseries provide researchers with a holistic view of the Barr library and as such offer a glimpse into the varied sources that informed his scholarly and curatorial practices. Subseries VI.D is arranged chronologically.
Series VII: Abstract Art, Cubism, and Futurism is divided into three subseries. Subseries VII.A: General Interest Files replicates a distinct subseries found in the original collection. Folders are predominately arranged according to artist or subject, and folder titles range from the general to the specific-for example, from "Architecture" (VII.A.3) to "Synchronism" (VII.A.35). File contents vary in their scope and include correspondence, clippings, photographs, notes, exhibition announcements, and catalogues. Subseries VII.A is arranged alphabetically. Subseries VII.B: Cubism and Abstract Art encompasses publication and research material related to the groundbreaking exhibition and catalogue of the same name. It comprises correspondence, handwritten notes, page proofs, and a catalogue typescript. Of particular significance is folder VII.B.5, which contains the original catalogue jacket that reproduced Barr's famous flow chart. While the history of this exhibition has been widely examined by historians and curators the material found in Subseries VII.B nevertheless remains essential-not only because it marks a high point in Barr's career, but also because Cubism and Abstract Art is central to MoMA's history as an institution devoted to presenting modern and abstract art to the Museum-going public. Researchers may note that Subseries VII.B may pertain more appropriately to that material covered in Series III: Exhibitions and Catalogues; however, it remains here in order to better reflect the order of the original collection. Subseries VII.B is arranged in reverse chronological order. Subseries VII.C: Italian Futurism is a small subseries that contains correspondence with important figures from the avant-garde movement, such as Benedetta Marinetti and Giacomo Balla. Also included in this subseries is publication documentation pertaining to Barr's contribution to the catalogue for Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. #413, June 28-September 18, 1949]. Subseries VII.C is arranged neither alphabetically nor chronologically, but reflects the collection's original arrangement.
Series VIII: Feininger Material is a small series that has been divided into two subseries: Subseries VIII.A: Lyonel Feininger and Subseries VIII.B: Lux Feininger. Subseries VIII.A contains a typescript of the eulogy that Barr delivered at Lyonel Feininger's funeral, as well as autobiographical writings by Feininger. Both series are arranged in reverse chronological order.
Series IX: Russian Matters is comprised of five subseries all of which reflect Barr's lifelong interest in the art and culture of Russia. Subseries IX.A: Correspondence is loosely arranged in reverse chronological order. Subseries IX.B: Publications contains dozens of folders marked as "Russian Pamphlets, Books, Catalogues, and Guides" (IX.B.3-IX.B.63). Barr amassed this collection between the years 1927 and 1929, with the majority of the publications having been collected during his 1927 trip to the former Soviet Union. Researchers should note that nearly all the included publications are in Russian. Also included in this series are twelve folders of Russian children's books as well as publication material pertaining to Barr's essay on Russian icons published in The Arts in February 1931. Also included in Subseries IX.B are four issues of VOKS Bulletin (IX.B.149)-a periodical that aimed to promote international cultural contact between Soviet writers, artists, musicians, and critics and their Western counterparts-as well as at least two copies of News from Behind the Iron Curtain (IX.B.150-IX.B.151), a Cold War publication that reported on life in the Soviet Union. Both of these publications are considered by historians to be works of propaganda and as such they are important cultural artifacts that speak to the fluctuating and at times tenuous relationship political relationship between the United States and Europe. Furthermore, in addition to displaying Barr's deep curiosity about all things Russian, the diversity of publications and related ephemera contained in Subseries IX.B may also be of use to those scholars and researchers who are concerned with the cultural production of Russia and the former Soviet Union more generally. The order of Subseries IX.B reflects that of the original collection and is neither entirely alphabetical nor chronological. Subseries IX.C: "Soviet Exhibition" contains correspondence, photographic reproductions of Russian works of art, and exhibition lists for an exhibition that was never realized. However, the Museum did loan Edward Steichen's Family of Man to the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959. Subseries IX.C is loosely arranged in reverse chronological order. Subseries IX.D: Clippings and Ephemera represents a distinct series from the original collection with accretions added to the end. Folders are arranged by subject, with titles such as "Art," "Film," "Design & Fashion." Subseries IX.D further underscores the way Barr kept his finger on the pulse of cultural output in Russia throughout his life. It is arranged in reverse chronological order. Subseries IX.E: Miscellaneous largely reflects a subseries from the original collection with some transfers from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers. Noteworthy material found in this series include pressed leaves from today's St. Petersburg (IX.E.9-IX.E.10); photographs of the illustrator Orest Vereisky (IX.E.8); Barr's notes on Russian theater (IX.E.11); and an original copy of "Mass Movies," by Sergei Eisenstein, published in The Nation on November 9, 1927 (IX.E.16).
Series X: Henri Matisse is divided into five subseries. While the arrangement of this series largely reflects folder runs found in the original collection there are a few integrations added from the Photographic Archive included. The processing archivist also performed minimal series reorganization, in the interest of enhancing researcher ease-of-use and discoverability. Subseries X.A through Subseries X.C pertains to Barr's influential 1951 publication Henri Matisse: His Art and His Public. The text remains an essential one, as it marks the first full-scale monograph on Matisse published in English. Henri Matisse was widely celebrated for offering readers both a biographical study of the artist as well as a comprehensive visual analysis of his oeuvre. Subseries X.A: Henri Matisse: His Art and His Public: Correspondence includes letters with noteworthy correspondents, including Clive Bell, Bernard Berenson, Albert Landsberg, Grete Moll, Hans Purrman, Edward Steichen, Nelson A. Rockefeller; as well as the Matisse family, including Henri and his son Pierre. Although most correspondence is in English, researchers should note that there are also letters in French and German present. Subseries X.A is arranged loosely alphabetically. Series X.B: Henri Matisse: His Art and His Public: Research, Notes, and Photographs is comprised of a substantial amount of pre-publication material. Some of the most significant files contained within this subseries are those folders titled "Artist's Questionnaire" (X.B.2-XI.B.9). The documents contained within these files pertain to a series of questions mailed to and completed by Matisse (as well as by those close to him), the responses to which served as the core of much of Barr's text. These unique documents are an invaluable resource for researchers because they provide important insights on Matisse's life and work, in the artist's own words. Also included in Subseries X.B are notes, photographs, and additional correspondence. Subseries X.C Henri Matisse: His Art and His Public: Post-Publication Material is primarily composed of correspondence, reviews, and press clippings that were either published in the art press or sent to Barr personally after the publication of Henri Matisse. A substantial amount of printed matter collected by Barr and pertaining to the life and career of Matisse is also present, including obituary clippings following the death of the artist (X.C.26-X.C.28). Subseries X.C is arranged loosely in reverse chronological order and reflects the original collection. Subseries X.D: Other Publications and Related Material contains secondary source material on the life and work of Matisse. Subseries X.E: Henri Matisse [MoMA Exh. #492, November 13, 1951-January 13, 1952] contains just three files and includes press releases, correspondence, and a transcript of remarks delivered by Barr at the exhibition opening. It is arranged chronologically.
Series XI: Pablo Picasso is one of the largest series in the Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Papers and is divided into ten subseries. While some runs of folders have been merged together under new and improved subseries titles, their original order remains largely unchanged. Subseries XI.A: Catalogues is comprised of nine files, each of which contains various exhibition catalogues related to the work of Picasso. Many of the catalogues are annotated in Barr's hand and as such shed light on the portions of Picasso's work that were of greatest interest to Barr. As a result, the catalogues and the accompanying notes contained within this subseries will be useful to those researchers and scholars concerned with the historiography of modern art in general and with Picasso studies in particular. Subseries XI.B: Correspondence and Research Materials contains several files dedicated to Picasso's controversial anti-war mural Guernica (1937), which was on loan to MoMA until 1981 (XI.B.10-XI.B.16). File XI.B.22 titled The Sculpture of Picasso [MoMA Exh. #841, October 11, 1967-January 1, 1968] is also significant largely due to the fact that its contents-which include translations and catalogue drafts-reveal the collaborative relationship that existed between Barr and his wife, the art historian Margaret Scolari Barr. Barr notoriously struggled with foreign languages; but Scolari Barr was multilingual, and so she often served as an interpreter and intermediary between Barr and European artists during exhibition preparation. Subseries XI.C: Materials for an Unpublished Monograph contains research materials for what Barr designated as his "Picasso Book." Most files have nonspecific titles such as "Correspondence and Printed Matter" or "Photographs," but important materials can nevertheless be identified; these include notes by Barr and Scolari Barr after their visits with Pablo Picasso and Marie Cuttoli in 1952 (XI.C.25) and nine photographs of the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris Expo in 1937 taken by James Thrall Soby (XI.C.32). Both of these files are important in that they speak to the cross-continental relationships that Barr and his colleagues fostered and reveal how those relationships helped to fuel much of MoMA's programming during the twentieth century.
Subseries XI.D: Picasso in the Museum of Modern Art: 80th Birthday Exhibition [MoMA Exh. #705, May 14-September 18, 1962] is a small subseries comprised of just six files that contain an array of material including memos, notes, catalogue drafts, and exhibition labels. It is arranged in reverse chronological order. Subseries XI.E: Picasso 75th Anniversary Exhibition [MoMA Exh. #619, May 4, 1957-August 25, 1957; May 22, 1957-September 8, 1957] includes material related to the important retrospective of the same name. Picasso 75th Anniversary Exhibition was a record-breaking exhibition, as more than 100,000 visitors came to MoMA to see the show in its first month alone. Subseries XI.E mostly contains materials that are typical of exhibition research files, such as correspondence, lists of lenders, travel documentation and expenses, and photographs. However, non-typical material is also present in this subseries-most notably three paper neckties designed and decorated by Picasso, which were sent to Barr at the time of the exhibition (XI.E.1*). Subseries XI.E is arranged by subject or type of material, with some accretions added to the end. Subseries XI.F: "Picasso 60" contains research materials for an exhibition and catalogue that never came to fruition. It is arranged in reverse chronological order. Subseries XI.G: Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art contains documents and ephemera related to Barr's important publication of the same name. The book was an expanded version of the catalogue published six years earlier in conjunction with the exhibition Picasso: Forty Years of His Art (MoMA Exh. #91, November 15, 1939-January 7, 1940). The publication of this important monograph marks a momentous occasion in Barr's career because it earned him his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Included in Subseries XI.G are correspondence, artist questionnaires, and notes. It is largely arranged chronologically and includes additions from the Photographic Archive. Subseries XI.H: MoMA Bulletin contains an essay typescript, correspondence, and photographs. It is arranged in reverse chronological order. Subseries XI.I: Picasso: Forty Years of His Art (MoMA Exh. #91, November 15, 1939-January 7, 1940) includes exhibition material-correspondence, an annotated catalogue, and a list of lenders-for the first retrospective of Picasso's work in the United States. The show was organized in collaboration with The Art Institute of Chicago. Subseries XI.J: Exhibition Proposed is a useful subseries in that it reveals that Barr began conceiving of a Picasso exhibition at MoMA as early as 1931, just three years after the Museum's founding. When the entirety of Series XI is examined as a whole it is apparent that Barr worked assiduously throughout his career to bring the work of Picasso to the American public. He was far and away one of the artist's biggest champions in the United States and that is made apparent by the material contained within this series.
Series XII: Honors, Awards, and Tributes is separated into three subseries: Subseries XII.A: Certificates, Subseries XIII.B: Honors (Plaques & Medals), and Subseries XII.C: Birthday and Retirement Tributes. These files include honorary degrees from Yale University, Columbia University, and the University of Buffalo as well as awards from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Award), and the French Government (the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor). All of the materials contained within this series-from the European honors to the retirement tributes-display how deeply Barr's colleagues and contemporaries respected him during his own lifetime. Each series is arranged in chronological order.
Series XIII: Notebooks contains fifty-three folders. Various kinds of notebooks are distinguishable in this series, including address books (XIII.1-XIII.9), travel notebooks (XIII.10-XIII.39), daily calendars and agendas (XIII.41-XIII.48), and diaries (XIII.49-XIII.52). All of the items contained within Series XIII should be treated as important primary source documents, most of which offer an intimate view into how Barr organized his life. The address books and travel notebooks are of particular importance because they reveal the vast international network of artists, curators, dealers, and critics with whom Barr worked closely over the course of his long career. Calendars and agendas are illustrative of the day-to-day activities that governed Barr's time, both personal and professional. The series is arranged by type of notebook and includes some transfers from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers and some additional accretions, which are noted in the folder descriptions.
Series XIV: Outside Activities is divided into four subseries that represent Barr's involvement in extracurricular activities, unconnected to MoMA. Subseries XIV.A: Foundation for the Arts, Religion, and Culture (ARC) contains primarily correspondence as well as other documents that shed light on Barr's lifelong interest in the relationship between religion and art. According to its "Certificate of Incorporation" (XIV.A.11) the purpose of the ARC was "to initiate and foster collaboration between religion and the arts in contemporary life." Barr served as president of the foundation from its inception in 1962 through 1965 and he continued to support its activities until 1973. Subseries XIV.A is arranged in reverse chronological order. Subseries XIV.B: Harvard Board of Overseers primarily contains administrative material pertaining to Barr's position on the Board of Overseers from 1964-1970. The Board is one of two governing bodies at the University and its membership is comprised entirely of alumni. A file list did not exist in the original collection, but one was created during the 2016 reprocessing project. Subseries XIV.B contains reports and correspondence as well as documentation relating to the Visiting Committee at Harvard's Fogg Museum. It is arranged in reverse chronological order. Subseries XIV.C: Emergency Rescue Committee is a small but important subseries in the collection. It is primarily composed of Western Union telegrams regarding the procurement of affidavits of support and sponsorship for European artists seeking asylum in the United States during World War II. Barr and the Museum were affiliated with these activities, but the largest burden of the work fell on outside individuals such as Varian Fry and Margaret Scolari Barr. Subseries XIV.C is arranged chronologically and includes transfers from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers. Subseries XIV.D is comprised entirely of letters of recommendations. Given the sensitive nature of its contents, this subseries is restricted.
Series XV: takes as its subject Nelson A. Rockefeller and his relationship with Barr with respect to Museum operations. Rockefeller served as a trustee of MoMA from 1932 to 1979. He served as treasurer from 1937 to 1939, and as president from 1939 to 1941 and again from 1946 to 1953. Following in the footsteps of his mother, Abby Aldrich, Nelson Rockefeller was a noted collector and patron of modern art and committed to the success of MoMA. Series XV is divided into three subseries. Subseries XV.A is comprised almost entirely of letters between Barr and Rockefeller between 1947 and 1971. Subseries XV.B: Windows at Union Church at Pocantico Hills, NY contains only one file of plans, photographs, and correspondence pertaining to the stained glass windows designed by Marc Chagall and Henry Matissse at the Rockefeller chapel. Subseries XV.C: New York State Council on the Arts contains one file.
Series XVI: Biographical and Personal Material is divided into five subseries and contains a substantial amount of material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. As the title suggests, Subseries XVI.A: Early and Family Life contains documents and ephemera related to Barr's life as a child growing up in Baltimore. The material included in this series conveys the close family relationships Barr maintained throughout his life, both with his parents and siblings as well as with his wife Margaret and their daughter Victoria. Subseries XVI.A includes a copy of Barr's birth certificate (XVI.A.2), numerous family photographs (XVI.A.7-XVI.9), and three files of clippings collected by his father, Alfred H. Barr, Sr., pertaining to Alfred Jr.'s professional successes over the years (XVI.A.5-XVI.A.7). Subseries XVI.B: Education: Boys' Latin School, Princeton University, and Harvard University encompasses material from Barr's high school years through his time enrolled as a graduate student in art history at Princeton and Harvard. Notable items contained in Subseries XVI.B include Barr's high school valedictory address (XVI.B.1), a notification of his passing his Ph.D. oral exams at Harvard University (XVI.B.6) and his Carnegie Foundation grant application, which Barr applied for in order "to gather material for a thesis on 'The Machine in Modern Art' to be offered in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Ph.D. at Harvard University" (XVI.B.21). All of this material is noteworthy not only because it helps to flesh out Barr's personal biography, but also because it illustrates how Barr's educational trajectory helped lead to his appointment as director of MoMA in 1929. While much of the material contained within Subseries XVI.C: Teaching: Vassar College, Wellesley College, and Harvard University is focused on the art of the Italian Renaissance, this subseries also contains some very important material that demonstrates Barr's early thinking on and engagement with modern art. This is evident in many of the files labeled "Course Notes" (XVI.C.12-XVI.C.24), as well as in the flyer for Barr's "A Course of Five Lectures on Modern Art" (XVI.C.8). Additionally, those researchers concerned with the history of education and art historical pedagogy will likely find these records of value. Subseries XVI.C is arranged chronologically. Subseries XVI.D: Personal and Hobbies helps to paint a fuller picture of Barr a person, as it includes material related to his love of ornithology, a butterfly notebook, as well as a collection of cigar bands. It is arranged chronologically. Subseries XVI.E: Death and Posthumous material contains just eleven files. They contain tribute materials, cemetery remarks, obituaries, and dozens of condolence letters sent to the Barr family after his death in 1981. Subseries XVI.E is arranged chronologically.
Series XVII: "A Bibliography of Published Writings by Alfred H. Barr, Jr." (Complied by Rona Roob) represents work undertaken by former MoMA archivist Rona Roob for the publication Defining Modern Art: Selected Writings of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (edited by Irving Sandler and Amy Newman, 1986). While most documents contained within this series are photocopies, some original materials are included, such as two original pamphlets advertising "A Course of Five Lectures on Modern Art by Alfred H. Barr, Jr." at Wellesley College (XVII.1) and one original copy of "An Effort to Secure $3,250,000 for the Museum of Modern Art New York City" (XVII.2). While this does not represent a set of records created by Barr himself-nor is it a complete bibliography of Barr's written works-it is nevertheless a useful resource for scholars and researchers.
Subseries XIV.D: Letters of Recommendation is restricted. Otherwise, the records are open for research and contain few restricted materials.
The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. 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.
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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: | ||
| Art -- Exhibitions | ||
| Art -- Exhibitions -- History -- Sources | ||
| Art -- Study and teaching | ||
| Art -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources | ||
| Art historians | ||
| Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Archives | ||
| Art museum directors | ||
| Art museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Archives | ||
| Art, Abstract | ||
| Art, Abstract -- History -- Sources | ||
| Art, Modern -- 20th century | ||
| Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Sources | ||
| Art, Russian | ||
| Art, Russian -- History -- Sources | ||
| Barr, Alfred H., Jr. (Alfred Hamilton), 1902-1981 | ||
| Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981 -- Archives | ||
| Cubism | ||
| Cubism -- History -- Sources | ||
| Foundation for the Arts, Religion, and Culture -- History -- Sources | ||
| Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954 -- Archives | ||
| Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Sources | ||
| Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Archives | ||
| Politics in art | ||
| Politics in art -- History -- Sources | ||
| Subjects: | ||
| Art -- Exhibitions | ||
| Art -- Exhibitions -- History -- Sources | ||
| Art -- Study and teaching | ||
| Art -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources | ||
| Art historians | ||
| Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Archives | ||
| Art museum directors | ||
| Art museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Archives | ||
| Art, Abstract | ||
| Art, Abstract -- History -- Sources | ||
| Art, Modern -- 20th century | ||
| Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Sources | ||
| Art, Russian | ||
| Art, Russian -- History -- Sources | ||
| Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981 -- Archives | ||
| Cubism | ||
| Cubism -- History -- Sources | ||
| Foundation for the Arts, Religion, and Culture -- History -- Sources | ||
| Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954 -- Archives | ||
| Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Sources | ||
| Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Archives | ||
| Politics in art | ||
| Politics in art -- History -- Sources | ||
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| Photographs | ||
| Photoprints | ||
Within MoMA Archives related material can be found in the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers, the James Thrall Soby Papers, the René d'Harnoncourt Papers, the Philip Johnson Papers, the Dorothy C. Miller Papers and The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Records. Because of Barr's unique and paramount position in the Museum's history, materials concerning his activities can be found in numerous additional collections.
The Archives of American Art possess microfilm of much of the Barr papers, particularly the correspondence series, as well as numerous major related collections.
Most of the materials contained within the Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Papers came from either Barr's office at MoMA or his Manhattan apartment and were given to MoMA Archives by his wife, Margaret Scolari Barr. MoMA Archivist, Rona Roob, originally processed the collection between the years 1983 and 1984. However, in subsequent years, the Archives acquired a substantial amount of additional material from various sources as well as transfers from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers. This "new" material—measuring approximately 22 linear feet contained in 33 boxes—required processing, description, and integration into the collection in a logical and coherent manner before it could be made available to researchers. The integration project was completed in 2016. Researchers will note that any additions to the collection have been marked as such in their appropriate individual folder notes.
Published citations should take the following forms:
Long version: Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Papers, [series.folder]. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
Short verision: AHB, [series.folder]. MoMA Archives, NY.
The bulk of the collection is in good condition. All materials have been rehoused in archival folders and, depending on the level of paper degradation, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other fragile documents have been encapsulated in polyester sleeves or placed between archival buffered paper to stave off any future discoloration of neighboring records.
Series I: Correspondence 1913-1989 |
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This series is the largest series in the collection and is comprised of close to 850 folders. It is divided into three subseries. This correspondence reveals Barr's close relationships with key figures such as: Jere Abbott, James Thrall Soby, Dorothy Miller, A. Conger Goodyear, Monroe Wheeler, René d'Harnoncourt, Agnes Mongan, Henri Matisse, Constantin Brâncuși, among others. They also speak to MoMA's development and operations during the mid-twentieth century. |
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Subseries I.A: General Correspondence 1927-1985 |
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The thousands of letters found in Subseries I.A primarily document Museum operations, both curatorial and administrative, from the institution's founding in 1929 through Barr's retirement in 1967. Notable correspondents identified in this series include: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Paul J. Sachs, Philip Johnson, Margaret Scolari Barr, William A.M. Burden, Meyer Schapiro, Giacomo Balla, Kurt Schwitters, Amédée Ozenfant, and Sonia Delaunay. In addition to correspondence and memos, Subseries I.A also contains a large amount of newspaper clippings and photographs, and as such some of the files operate like subject or artist files rather than traditional correspondence files. The subseries reflects the collections original arrangement, which is both chronological and alphabetical. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| I.A.1; mf 2164:41 | Katherine Dreier and Societé Anonyme Includes items from and pertaining to Yale University. |
1927 |
| I.A.2; mf 2164:46 | Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Includes correspondence with Anna L. Kelly and Alan R. Backburn. |
1929-1932 |
| I.A.3; mf 2164:218 | Correspondence A-L Includes correspondence with: |
1930-1931 |
| I.A.4; mf 2164:450 | Correspondence M-Z Includes correspondence with: |
1930-1931 |
| I.A.5; mf 2164:605 | Correspondence A-K Includes correspondence with: |
1932 |
| I.A.6; mf 2164:760 | Correspondence L-Z Includes correspondence with: |
1932 |
| I.A.7; mf 2164:906 | Correspondence A-L Includes correspondence with: |
1933 |
| I.A.8; mf 2164:1264 | Correspondence M-Z Includes correspondence with: |
1933 |
| I.A.9; mf 2165:4 | Europe and Greensboro, VT Includes correspondence with: |
1933 |
| I.A.10; mf 2165:163 | MoMA Includes correspondence with: |
1934 |
| I.A.11; mf 2165:211 | Correspondence A-M Includes correspondence with: |
1934 |
| I.A.12; mf 2165:440 | Correspondence N-Z Includes correspondence with: |
1934 |
| I.A.13*; mf 2165:440 | Correspondence N-Z | 1934 |
| I.A.14; mf 2165:626 | Association of Museum Directors Includes correspondence with: |
1935-1937 |
| I.A.15; mf 2165:725 | Correspondence A-L Includes correspondence with: |
1935 |
| I.A.16; mf 2165:882 | Correspondence M-Z Includes correspondence with: |
1935 |
| I.A.17; mf 2165:1014 | MoMA Includes correspondence with: |
1935 |
| I.A.18; mf 2165:1142 | MoMA Includes correspondence with: |
1936 |
| I.A.19; mf 2165:1201 | "May, June, July" Includes correspondence with: Minutes of the Meeting of the Finance Committee on May 13, 1936 were removed from this folder and re-filed in the collection Committee Minutes. |
1936 |
| I.A.20; mf 2166:112 | Correspondence A-L Includes correspondence with: |
1936 |
| I.A.21; mf 2166:246 | Correspondence M-Z Includes correspondence with: |
1936 |
| I.A.22; mf 2166:340 | Correspondence A-L Includes correspondence with: |
1937 |
| I.A.23*; mf 2166:340 | Correspondence A-L | 1937 |
| I.A.24; mf 2166:523 | Correspondence M-Z Includes correspondence with: |
1937 |
| I.A.25; mf 2166:9 | MoMA Includes correspondence with Ione Ulrich and Elodie Courter. |
1937 |
| I.A.26; mf 2166:919 | Building Lighting Includes correspondence with: |
1939 |
| I.A.27; mf 2166:668 | Miscellaneous A-Z Includes correspondence with: 1 letter to Walter C. Hill, 1 letter from Walter C. Hill, 1 letter from Chauncey J. Hamlin, 1 letter to Gordon Washburn, and 1 letter from Gordon Washburn were added to this folder in 2023 and do not appear on the microfilm. |
1938-1940 |
| I.A.28; mf 2166:956 | Personal Correspondence Includes correspondence with: |
1941 |
| I.A.29; mf 2166:1003 | Theater Art Department Includes correspondence with: |
1939-1942 |
| I.A.30; mf 2166:1078 | Space Needs: Figures | 1941 |
| I.A.31; mf 2166:1097 | Lectures Includes correspondence with: |
1941 |
| I.A.32; mf 2166:1113 | Correspondence A Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.33; mf 2166:1180 | John E. Abbott Includes correspondence with Heads of Deptarments and Lincoln Kirstein. |
1942 |
| I.A.34; mf 2166:1210 | Arcrhitectural Department and Industrial Design Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.35; mf 2166:1242 | Association of Museum Directors and American Association of Museums Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.36; mf 2166:1294 | Advisory Committee Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.37; mf 2166:1311 | Correspondence B Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.38; mf 2167:136 | Stephen C. Clark | 1942 |
| I.A.39; mf 2167:176 | Correspondence C Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.40; mf 2167:257 | College Art Association Includes correspondence with William Sener Rusk (Wells College). |
1942 |
| I.A.41; mf 2167:262 | Department of State Releases | 1942 |
| I.A.42; mf 2167:278 | Correspondence D Includes corrrespondence from: |
1942 |
| I.A.43; mf 2167:338 | Philip Goodwin | 1942 |
| I.A.44; mf 2167:372 | Correspondence G Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.45; mf 2167:408 | Correspondence F Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.46; mf 2167:512 | Film Library Includes correspondence with Iris Barry |
1942 |
| I.A.47; mf 2167:522 | Correspondence H Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.48; mf 2167:645 | Frances Hawkins Includes correspondence with Mark Ash, II and Betty Chamberlain. Hawkins was a MoMA secretary. |
1942 |
| I.A.49; mf 2167:663 | Invitations Includes invitations from: |
1942 |
| I.A.50; mf 2167:732 | Industrial Designs Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.51; mf 2167:744 | Correspondence K Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.52; mf 2167:790 | Correspondence L Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.53; mf 2167:917 | Music Committee Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.54; mf 2167:946 | Inter-Office Memoranda Includes correspondence with and memos from: |
1942 |
| I.A.55; mf 2167:1188; mf 2168:5 | Correspondence M Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.56*; mf 2167:1188; mf 2168:5 | Correspondence M | 1942 |
| I.A.57; mf 2168:46 | Correspondence N Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.58; mf 2168:99 | Correspondence O Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.59; mf 2168:113 | Correspondence P Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.60; mf 2168:219 | Correspondence Q Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.61; mf 2168:229 | Correspondence R Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.62*; mf 2168:229 | Correspondence R Russian War Relief: "The Golden Age of the Russian Icon at Baltimore," press clippings (in Russian), and memos. |
1942 |
| I.A.63; mf 2168:328 | Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller) Primarily correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Elizabeth Phillips, Rockefeller's secretary. |
1942 |
| I.A.64; mf 2168:384 | Nelson Rockefeller Contains correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Nelson Rockefeller, unless otherwise noted. Also includes correspondence between Ira V. Morris and Barr and an invitation to showing of Cândido Portinari murals at Library of Congress. |
1942 |
| I.A.65; mf 2168:401 | Correspondence S Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.66; mf 2168:637 | James Thrall Soby Contains various correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Soby. Also includes: a telegram from Beaumont Newhall to Soby; an Alfred Stieglitz label; a letter from Nancy Newhall to Barr; and a letter to Isabel Paterson (Andrew Furuseth Club). |
1942 |
| I.A.67; mf 2168:698 | Correspondence T Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.68*; mf 2168:698 | Correspondence T Editorial proofs of Klaus Mann's "Don't Let it Fool You" in Town & Country. |
1942 |
| I.A.69; mf 2168:754 | Correspondence U No Description. |
1942 |
| I.A.70; mf 2168:759 | Correspondence V Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.71; mf 2168:800 | E. M. M. Warburg Contains correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Warburg, and Frieda Levine, Warburg's secretary. |
1942 |
| I.A.72; mf 2168:806 | WPA Committees Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.73; mf 2168:827 | Monroe Wheeler File primarily contains inter-office memoranda between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Wheeler. Includes a letter from Wheeler to André Gloeckner (Hyperion Press); a letter from Wheeler to Francis H. Taylor (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Also includes correspondence between Horace H. F. Jayne (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Wheeler. |
1942 |
| I.A.74; mf 2168:942 | Correspondence W Includes correspondence with: |
1942 |
| I.A.75; mf 2168:1032 | Correspondence X-Z | 1942 |
| I.A.76; mf 2168:1056 | Circulating Exhibitions | 1943 |
| I.A.77; mf 2168:1107 | Complaints Regarding the Museum Includes correspondence from: |
1943 |
| I.A.78; mf 2168:1141 | Correspondence A Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.79; mf 2168:1201 | John E. Abbott & Agnes Rindge File contains mostly correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr, John Abbott, and Agnes Rindge. Also includes a memo from Dorothy Miller to Barr. |
1943 |
| I.A.80 | Dick Abbott Contains an 8 page handwritten letter from Alfred H. Barr to John Abbott, which has been retyped. |
1943 |
| I.A.81; mf 2168:1221 | Architecture Department Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.82; mf 2168:1253 | Personal and Resignation Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.83; mf 2168:1300 | Personal Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.84; mf 2168:1320 | Invitations Includes invitations from: |
1943 |
| I.A.85; mf 2169:4 | Correspondence B Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.86; mf 2169:41 | Pictures from Brazil and New York Dealers | 1943 |
| I.A.87; mf 2169:43 | Cuba Trip Includes correspondence with: |
1942-1943 |
| I.A.88; mf 2169:300 | "Blue Cards: Answers" Includes handwritten letter from Edward Weston |
1943 |
| I.A.89; mf 2169:303 | Correspondence C Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.90; mf 2169:402 | Department of State Releases File includes the following releases: |
1943? |
| I.A.91; mf 2169:417 | Director's Office Primarily contains correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and James Thrall Soby. |
1943-1947 |
| I.A.92; mf 2169:482 | Correspondence D Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.93; mf 2169:521 | Education Department Includes correspondence with Victor D'Amico and Alice Otis. |
1943 |
| I.A.94; mf 2169:537 | Proposed Exhibitions, Exhibition Schedules, and Lists File includes: |
1943 |
| I.A.95; mf 2169:563 | Correspondence F Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.96; mf 2169:612 | Correspondence G Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.97; mf 2169:678 | Correspondence H Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.98; mf 2169:723 | Industrial Design Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.99; mf 2169:725 | Office Memos Includes memos from: |
1943 |
| I.A.100; mf 2169:768 | Correspondence I Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.101; mf 2169:808 | Correspondence J Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.102; mf 2169:849 | Lincoln Kirstein File mostly contains correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Kirstein. |
1943-1948 |
| I.A.103; mf 2169:923 | Correspondence K File mostly contains correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. |
1943 |
| I.A.104; mf 2169:1063 | Latin American Correspondence Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.105*; mf 2169:1063 | Latin American Correspondence | 1942 |
| I.A.106; mf 2169:1152 | "Latin American Exhibition" Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.107; mf 2169:1186 | Library Primarily contains correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Bernard Karpel. Also Includes correspondence with Hannah B. Muller and Helmut von Erffa. |
1943 |
| I.A.108; mf 2169:1214 | Correspondence L Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.109; mf 2169:1256 | Magazine of Art Includes correspondence with: |
1942-1943 |
| I.A.110; mf 2169:1328; mf 2170:4 | Correspondence M Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.111; mf 2170:22 | Correspondence N Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.112; mf 2170:41 | Office of War Information Includes correspondence with: |
1942-1943 |
| I.A.113; mf 2170:59 | Correspondence O Includes correspondence with Elizabeth Okerbloom |
1943 |
| I.A.114*; mf 2170:59 | Correspondence O | 1943 |
| I.A.115; mf 2170:66 | Painting and Sculpture Correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Dorothy Miller and Elise Van Hook |
1943 |
| I.A.116; mf 2170:74 | Photography Department Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.117; mf 2170:115 | Publications Department and Monroe Wheeler Primarily contains correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Wheeler. |
1943 |
| I.A.118; mf 2170:208 | Correspondence P Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.119; mf 2170:263 | Correspondence Q | 1943 |
| I.A.120; mf 2170:273 | Correspondence R Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.121; mf 2170:292 | Registrar Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.122; mf 2170:308 | Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Contains correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Rockefeller, |
1943 |
| I.A.123; mf 2170:314 | Frances Hawkins Mostly contains correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Hawkins |
1943 |
| I.A.124; mf 2170:380 | Correspondence S Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.125; mf 2170:415 | Correspondence T Includes correspondence with: |
1942-1943 |
| I.A.126; mf 2170:437 | Correspondence U-V Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.127; mf 2170:444 | Correspondence W Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.128; mf 2170:475 | Correspondence X-Z Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.129; mf 2170:484 | Memos or Memoranda Includes memos from: |
1943-1944 |
| I.A.130; mf 2170:503 | Correspondence A-D Includes correspondence with: |
1944 |
| I.A.131; mf 2170:596 | Correspondence E-K Includes correspondence with: |
1944 |
| I.A.132; mf 2170:697 | Correspondence L-Q Includes correspondence with: |
1944 |
| I.A.133; mf 2170:748 | Correspondence R-Z Includes correspondence with: |
1944 |
| I.A.134; mf 2170:865 | Personal Correspondence A-Z Includes correspondence with: |
1946-1951 |
| I.A.135; mf 2170:1019 | Correspondence A Includes correspondence with: |
1947-1950 |
| I.A.136; mf 2170:1153 | American Federation of the Arts: Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL Includes correspondence with: |
1949 |
| I.A.137; mf 2170:1217 | American Arts Research Council Includes correspondence with: |
1944-1945 |
| I.A.138; mf 2170:4 | American Council of Learned Societies Includes correspondence with: |
1948-1949 |
| I.A.139; mf 2171:20 | "A Statement on Modern Art" by the Institute of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American
Art. Includes correspondence with: |
1949-1950 |
| I.A.140; mf 2171:235 | Press Clippings Regarding "A Statement on Modern Art" Includes clipping from: |
ca. 1948 |
| I.A.141*; mf 2171:235 | Press Clippings Regarding "A Statement on Modern Art" | 1949-1950 |
| I.A.142; mf 2171:295 | Christmas Cards Includes cards from: |
1938-1951 |
| I.A.143; mf 2171:352 | Correspondence B Includes correspondence with: |
1950-1952 |
| I.A.144; mf 2171:414 | American Federation of Arts Includes correspondence with: 1 clipping was added to this folder in 2023 and does not appear on the microfilm. |
1951 |
| I.A.145; mf 2171:432 | "Refusals" The American Society of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (Thomas Munro) |
ca. 1948-1950 |
| I.A.146; mf 2171:556 | "Refusals" (to Lecture) Includes correspondence with: |
1945-1948 |
| I.A.147; mf 2171:606 | Books for Europe Includes correspondence with: |
1946-1948 |
| I.A.148; mf 2171:797 | European Exhibition Requests 1953: |
1948-1953 |
| I.A.149; mf 2171:907 | Correspondence B Restricted material removed: Reports from the Treasurer. |
1944-1950 |
| I.A.150*; mf 2171:907 | Correspondence B | 1944 |
| I.A.151; mf 2171:1206; mf 2172:4 | Correspondence Cm-Cz Includes correspondence with: |
1944-1950 |
| I.A.152; mf 2172:23 | Correspondence Ca-Cm Includes correspondence with: |
ca. 1944-1950 |
| I.A.153; mf 2172:247 | The Chicago Art Institute (58th Annual American Exhibition: Abstract and Surrealist Art) Includes correspondence with: |
1947-1948 |
| I.A.154; mf 2172:284 | Circulating Exhibitions | 1944-1950 |
| I.A.155; mf 2172:373 | Stephen C. Clark Includes correspondence with: |
1943-1949 |
| I.A.156; mf 2172:405 | College Art Association: Committee on American Art History Includes correspondence with: |
1944-1946 |
| I.A.157; mf 2172:500 | College Art Association: Microfilm Slide Set Includes correspondence with: |
1947 |
| I.A.158; mf 2172:524 | College Art Association: Minutes and Correspondence Includes correspondence with: |
1944-1949 |
| I.A.159; mf 2172:644 | Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion Includes correspondence with: |
1946-1959 |
| I.A.160; mf 2172:791 | Correspondence D Includes correspondence with: |
ca. 1944-1950 |
| I.A.161; mf 2172:912 | Domus Includes correspondence with: |
1949-1952 |
| I.A.162; mf 2172:968 | Katherine Dreier and Societé Anonyme Includes correspondence with: |
1940-1951 |
| I.A.163*; mf 2172:968 | Katherine Dreier and Societé Anonyme | 1947 |
| I.A.164; mf 2172:1243 | Correspondence E Includes correspondence with: |
1944-1950 |
| I.A.165; mf 2173:4 | Film Library Includes correspondence with: |
1947-1949 |
| I.A.166; mf 2173:20 | Fundraising Includes correspondence with: |
1946-1950 |
| I.A.167; mf 2173:127 | Correspondence F Includes correspondence with: |
1949-1950 |
| I.A.168; mf 2173:314 | Emily Genauer's "Fur-lined Museum" Includes correspondence with: |
1944 |
| I.A.169; mf 2173:391 | German Pictures Includes correspondence with: |
1945-1948 |
| I.A.170*; mf 2173:391 | German Pictures | ca. 1945-1948 |
| I.A.171*; mf 2173:448 | Emily Genauer Primarily newspaper clippings. |
ca. 1947-1953 |
| I.A.172; mf 2173:453 | Germany: General Requests for Materials and Photographs Includes correspondence with: |
1946-1948 |
| I.A.173*; mf 2173:453 | Germany: General Requests for Materials and Photographs | 1946-1948 |
| I.A.174; mf 2173:491 | Philip L. Goodwin Includes correspondence with E. Friedrich (some pertaining to "Braque still life"). |
1947-1951 |
| I.A.175; mf 2173:514 | Correspondence G Includes correspondence with: 1 letter to Louise Goldwater was added to this folder in 2023 and does not appear on the microfilm. |
1946-1950 |
| I.A.176; mf 2173:713 | Alfred Frankenstein-William Harnett Article | 1946-1955 |
| I.A.177*; mf 2173:713 | Alfred Frankenstein-William Harnett Article | 1946-1955 |
| I.A.178; mf 2173:833 | New York Herald Tribune: Geoffrey Parsons Includes correspondence with: |
1945-1946 |
| I.A.179; mf 2173:852 | Correspondence H Includes correspondence with: 1 letter from Ethel M. Hoffman (Buffalo Evening News) was added to this folder in 2023 and does not appear on the microfilm. |
1946-1951 |
| I.A.180; mf 2173:1052 | Industrial Design Includes correspondence with: |
1946-1948 |
| I.A.181; mf 2173:1151 | Jewish Museum Includes correspondence with: |
1947-1948 |
| I.A.182; mf 2173:1185 | Correspondence I-J Includes correspondence with: |
1944-1951 |
| I.A.183; mf 2173:1272; mf 2174:5 | Library Books Includes correspondence with: |
1946-1950 |
| I.A.184; mf 2174:89 | Correspondence K Includes correspondence with: |
1944-1951 |
| I.A.185; mf 2174:239 | Look: Poll on American Artists Includes correspondence with: |
1947-1948 |
| I.A.186; mf 2174:275 | Aline Louchheim Includes clipping from The New York Times and Peter Blake correspondence |
1948-1951 |
| I.A.187*; mf 2174:275 | Aline Louchheim | 1948-1951 |
| I.A.188; mf 2174:317 | Correspondence L Includes correspondence with: |
1944-1951 |
| I.A.189; mf 2174:520 | Magazine of Art Includes correspondence with: |
1944-1947 |
| I.A.190; mf 2174:687 | Magazine of Art Includes correspondence with: |
1948-1952 |
| I.A.191; mf 2174:883 | MoMA Membership Includes correspondence with: |
1950-1951 |
| I.A.192; mf 2174:956 | Miscellaneous Memos Includes memos from: |
1947-1950 |
| I.A.193; mf 2174:1061 | Conference on Studies in Latin-American Art Includes correspondence with: |
1945 |
| I.A.194; mf 2174:1135 | The Miller Company Includes correspondence with: |
1948 |
| I.A.195; mf 2174:1196 | Roberto Rosselini's The Miracle Includes correspondence with: |
1951-1952 |
| I.A.196*; mf 2174:1196 | Roberto Rosselini's The Miracle | 1951-1952 |
| I.A.197; mf 2175:138 | Robert Motherwell Symposium Includes correspondence with Robert Goodnough and notes written in Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s hand. |
1950 |
| I.A.198; mf 2175:153 | Correspondence M Includes correspondence with: |
1941-1952 |
| I.A.199; mf 2175:562 | Lydia Nadejena Includes correspondence with: |
1945-1952 |
| I.A.200; mf 2175:633 | Correspondence N Includes correpondence from: |
1944-1951 |
| I.A.201; mf 2175:702 | Office of War Information Includes correspondence with: |
1945 |
| I.A.202; mf 2175:756 | Dr. Odegaard: Federal Relief Administration Includes correspondence with: |
1949 |
| I.A.203; mf 2175:824 | Correspondence O Includes correspondence with: |
1944-1950 |
| I.A.204; mf 2175:887 | Pepsi-Cola Company: Paintings of the Year Includes correspondence with Roland McKinney |
1947 |
| I.A.205*; mf 2175:887 | Pepsi-Cola Company: Paintings of the Year | 1947 |
| I.A.206; mf 2175:952 | Photography Includes correspondence with: |
1947-1950 |
| I.A.207; mf 2175:964 | Publications Includes correspondence with: |
1945-1950 |
| I.A.208; mf 2175:1047 | Correspondence P-Q Includes correspondence with: |
1944-1951 |
| I.A.209; mf 2175:1168 | Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Includes correspondence with: |
1944-1951 |
| I.A.210; mf 2175:1262; mf 2176:4 | Nelson Rockefeller Includes correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Rockefeller regarding: the opening of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Print Room; Diego Rivera works for Abby Aldrich Rockefeller collection at MoMA; "Mona Lisa's Mustache"; Sicre Gomez; Guggeheim
Purchase Fund; the directorship of Museum collections; Life symposium |
1947-1950 |
| I.A.211; mf 2176:62 | Correspondence R Includes correspondence with: 2 letters to and from Selden Rodman (Haitian Art Center) and several letters to and from Francesco Rosso (Medardo Rosso's son) were added to this folder in 2023 and do not appear on the microfilm. |
1948-1960 |
| I.A.212; mf 2176:245 | Correspondence S File Includes correspondence with: |
1938-1952 |
| I.A.213; mf 2176:625 | "Alfred H. Barr, Jr.: Summer 1950" Includes correspondence with: Olive Bragazzi, James Thrall Soby, Monroe Wheeler, and Jean Stapleton (from Greensboro, VT). |
1950 |
| I.A.214; mf 2176:708 | "Alfred H. Barr, Jr.: Summer 1949" Includes correspondence with: Olive Bragazzi, James Thrall Soby, Monroe Wheeler, and Jean Stapleton (from Greensboro, VT). |
1949 |
| I.A.215; mf 2176:826 | Temptation of St. Anthony Competition Includes correspondence with: |
1945-1946 |
| I.A.216; mf 2176:882 | James Thrall Soby Files also Includes correspondence with: |
1947-1950 |
| I.A.217; mf 2176:1043 | Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Correspondence Includes correspondence regarding objections to transfer of Gertrude Stein portrait by Pablo Picasso from Metropolitan Museum
of Art to MoMA. |
1947-1949 |
| I.A.218; mf 2176:1087 | Correspondence T Includes correspondence with: |
1947-1951 |
| I.A.219; mf 2176:1200 | Theatre Arts Includes correspondence and memoranda, |
1945-1949 |
| I.A.220; mf 2176:1247 | Ione Ulrich File also includes: monthly comparison report (November 1951); The Museum News, (September 15, 1950); memoranda regarding Seven Arts Book Society; fees for lending works from the collection; a preliminary income report; and "Procedures For Effecting Sales and Purchases of Works or Art for Trustees and Friends of the MoMA." |
1947-1951 |
| I.A.221; mf 2177:6 | Correspondence U-W Includes correspondence with: Restricted material removed: Memo titled "Vandalism in exhibitions" |
1946-1951 |
| I.A.222; mf 2177:244 | Worcester Art Museum: Proposed Lecture Series Includes correspondence with: |
1946-1947 |
| I.A.223; mf 2177:274 | Miscellaneous X-Z Includes correspondence with: |
1941-1952 |
| I.A.224; mf 2178:4 | Correspondence A Includes correspondence with: |
1946-1955 |
| I.A.225; mf 2178: [126] | American Federation of the Arts Includes correspondence with: |
1952 |
| I.A.226; mf 2178:146 | American Committee for Cultural Freedom Includes correspondence with: |
1952-1956 |
| I.A.227; mf 2178:340 | Correspondence B Includes correspondence with: |
1953-1955 |
| I.A.228; mf 2178:456 | Trip to Europe File also includes clippings, handwritten notes, and a report on trip to Europe which was given at a Trustees meeting on October 9, 1952. |
1952 |
| I.A.229; mf 2178:476 | Sicily Includes correspondence with: Betsy Jones, Marie Alexander, Dorothy Miller, Nathan M. Pusey as well as clippings. |
1953-1954 |
| I.A.230; mf 2178:502 | Greensboro, VT Includes correspondence with: Betsy Jones, Dorothy Miller, Marie Alexander and clippings. |
1954 |
| I.A.231; mf 2178:556 | Europe Includes correspondence with: |
1955 |
| I.A.232; mf 2178:603 | Birds: Central Park Ramble Includes correspondence with: |
1955 |
| I.A.233*; mf 2178:603 | Birds: Central Park Ramble | 1955 |
| I.A.234; mf 2178:737 | Invitations Includes invitations from: |
1953-1955 |
| I.A.235 | Petitions Includes correspondence with: |
1948-1949 |
| I.A.236; mf 2178:796 | William A.M. Burden Also Includes correspondence with: |
1952-1955 |
| I.A.237*; mf 2178:796 | William A.M. Burden | 1950-1951 |
| I.A.238; mf 2178:889 | Correspondence C Includes correspondence with: |
1951-1955 |
| I.A.239; mf 2178:1003 | Stanton L. Catlin Includes correspondence with: |
1946-1955 |
| I.A.240; mf 2178:1155 | CBS & NBC Programs: 25th Anniversary Year Includes "Dimension" CBS transcript (October 16, 1954) and memoranda. |
1954 |
| I.A.241; mf 2178:1185 | NBC Televison Includes correspondence with: |
1955 |
| I.A.242; mf 2178:1219 | Ceremonies: 25th Anniversary Year Includes correspondence with: |
1954 |
| I.A.243; mf 2178:1291 | Circulating Exhibitions Includes correspondence with: |
1950-1955 |
| I.A.244; mf 2178:1316 | Correspondence D Includes correspondence with: |
1952-1955 |
| I.A.245; mf 2178:1400 | Dartmouth University Includes correspondence with: |
1946-1951 |
| I.A.246; mf 2178:1449; mf 2179:4 | Correspondence E Includes correspondence with: |
1951-1955 |
| I.A.247; mf 2179:28 | MoMA Exhibitions: Master List Includes correspondence regarding: |
1950-1952 |
| I.A.248; mf 2179:49 | Correspondence F Includes correspondence with: |
1950-1951 |
| I.A.249; mf 2179:73 | Correspondence F Includes correspondence with: |
1955 |
| I.A.250; mf 2179:138 | Luis Finkelstein: Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion at the Jewish Theological Seminary Includes correspondence with: |
1953 |
| I.A.251; mf 2179:228 | Correspondence G Includes correspondence with: |
1951-1955 |
| I.A.252; mf 2179:402 | Correspondence H Includes correspondence with: |
1951-1955 |
| I.A.253; mf 2179:551 | Lecture Invitations: Refusals Includes correspondence with: |
1952-1954 |
| I.A.254; mf 2179:661 | International Sculpture Competition [MoMA Exh. #529] Includes correspondence with: |
1953 |
| I.A.255 | International Sculpture Competition [MoMA Exh. #529] File includes: |
1953 |
| I.A.256; mf 2179:984 | International Sculpture Competition (Unknown Political Prisoner) [MoMA Exh. #529] Includes correspondence with: |
1953 |
| I.A.257 | International Sculpture Competition [MoMA Exh. #529] | ca. 1953-1958 |
| I.A.258 | International Sculpture Competition: Clippings [MoMA Exh. #529] | 1953 |
| I.A.259* | International Sculpture Competition: Clippings [MoMA Exh. #529] | 1953 |
| I.A.260 | International Sculpture Competition: Photo Album of Prize Winners [MoMA Exh. #529] | 1953 |
| I.A.261; mf 2179:1187 | London Trip: ICA Includes correspondence with: |
1953 |
| I.A.262; mf 2179:1193 | Correspondence I Includes correspondence with: |
1951-1955 |
| I.A.263; mf 2179:1260 | Correspondence K Includes correspondence with: |
1951-1955 |
| I.A.264; mf 2179:1329 | Correspondence L Includes correspondence with: |
1951-1955 |
| I.A.265; mf 2179:1387 | Samuel A. Lewisohn Includes correspondence with Samuel A. Lewisohn and newspaper clippings. |
1944-1953 |
| I.A.266; mf 2179:1414; mf 2180:4 | Correspondence M Includes correspondence with: |
1952-1955 |
| I.A.267; mf 2180: [180] | Magazine of Art Includes correspondence with: |
1952-1953 |
| I.A.268; mf 2180:200 | Miscellaneous N File also includes: |
1952-1955 |
| I.A.269; mf 2180:444 | National Council of the Churches of Christ: Life Article | 1952-1955 |
| I.A.270 | National Council of the Churches of Christ: General Correspondence Includes correspondence with: |
1953-1954 |
| I.A.271 | National Council of the Churches of Christ: Related Articles Includes correspondence with: |
ca. 1950-1955 |
| I.A.272* | National Council of the Churches of Christ: Related Articles | ca. 1950-1955 |
| I.A.273; mf 2180:521 | Jury: National Gallery of Canada File includes correspondence with: |
1952-1953 |
| I.A.274; mf 2180:678 | New Yorker profile by Dwight MacDonald File includes draft of typescript of profile with Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s annotations and answers to questionnaire. |
1953 |
| I.A.275; mf 2180:837 | Correspondence O File Includes correspondence with: |
1951-1955 |
| I.A.276; mf 2180:864 | Exhibition of 19th Century French Paintings from American Collections at the Orangerie, Paris (Spring 1955). File Includes correspondence with: |
1954-1955 |
| I.A.277; mf 2180:963 | Correspondence P Includes correspondence with: |
1954-1955 |
| I.A.278; mf 2180:1166 | Correspondence R File includes correspondence with: |
1951-1954 |
| I.A.279 | Correspondence S Inlcudes correspondence with: |
1951-1952 |
| I.A.280; mf 2180:1333; mf 2181:4 | Correspondence S Includes correspondence with: |
1950-1954 |
| I.A.281mf 2181:59 | George Schmidt Includes correspondence with William A. M. Burden and Simon Guggenheim. |
1955 |
| I.A.282; mf 2181:79 | James Thrall Soby Includes correspondence with: |
1949-1955 |
| I.A.283; mf 2181:271 | The Studio Limited, James Thrall Soby Includes correspondence with G.S. Whittet and article draft. |
1955 |
| I.A.284; mf 2181:299 | Tate Gallery, London Includes correspondnce with Porter A. McCray and Norman Reid. |
1955 |
| I.A.285; mf 2181:323 | Correspondence T Includes correspondence with: |
1947-1954 |
| I.A.286 | Correspondence U-V Includes correspondence with: |
1953 |
| I.A.287; mf 2181:461 | UNESCO Includes correspondence with: |
1946-1953 |
| I.A.288; mf 2181:535 | Correspondence W Includes correspondence with: |
1953-1954 |
| I.A.289; mf 2181:605 | Correspondence X-Z Includes correspondence with: |
195-1954 |
| I.A.290; mf 2181:656 | Correspondence A Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.291mf 2181:740 | Barcelona Trip Includes correspondence with: |
1955 |
| I.A.292; mf 2181:786 | Lecture Invitations Includes invitations from: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.293; mf 2181:873 | Greensboro, NC Includes correspondence with: |
1956-1957 |
| I.A.294 | Greensboro, VT Correspondence with Marie Alexander and Betsy Jones. |
1957 |
| I.A.295; mf 2181:994 | Letters from Europe Correspondence with Marie Alexander, Betsy Jones, and Dorothy C. Miller. |
1955-1958 |
| I.A.296; mf 2181:1124 | Correspondence B Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.297; mf 2181:1316 | Charleroi and Brussels: Art & Labor File includes notes regarding Art and Labor exhibition, two black-and-white photographs, and clippings. |
1957-1958 |
| I.A.298; mf 2181:1354 | Correspondence C Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.299*; mf 2181:1354 | Correspondence C CBS poster |
Undated |
| I.A.300; mf 2182 | Correspondence D Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.301; mf 2182:116 | Marcel Duchamp Includes correspondence with: |
1947-1955 |
| I.A.302mf 2182:195 | Marcel Ducamp: St. Anthony Competition Includes black-and-white photogaphs and clippings. |
1947-1955 |
| I.A.303; mf 2182:251 | Correspondence E Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.304; mf 2182:292 | Correspondence F Includes correpsondence with: |
1954-1957 |
| I.A.305; mf 2182:382 | Eugéne Gerlötei Includes correspondence with: |
ca. 1954-1957 |
| I.A.306*; mf 2182:382 | Eugéne Gerlötei Les Beaux-Arts (June 25, 1948) and Le Jardin Des Arts (October 20, 1957). |
1948-1957 |
| I.A.307; mf 2182:552 | Correspondence G Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.308; mf 2182:620 | Correspondence I Includes correspondence with the Institute for Religious and Social Studies (Jessica Feingold) and "Israel" (Herbert H. Lehman, American Committee for Israel's Tenth Anniversary Collection). |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.309; mf 2182:635 | Correspondence J Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.310; mf 2182:728 | Correspondence K Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.311; mf 2182:795 | Correspondence M Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.312; mf 2182:1014 | Correspondence N Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.313; mf 2182:1055 | Correspondence O Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.314; mf 2182:1085 | Correspondence P Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.315; mf 2182:1308 | Correspondence Q Quarterlies, Inc. (Reinhold Niebuhr; Union Theological Seminary; John I. Shields) |
1956-1957 |
| I.A.316; mf 2183:1332 | Correspondence R Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.317; mf 2183:99 | São Paulo Bienal Includes correspondence with: |
1957 |
| I.A.318; mf 2183:133 | São Paulo (September 1957) Includes correspondence regarding IV Bienal de São Paulo. |
1957 |
| I.A.319*; mf 2183:133 | São Paulo (September 1957) Diario de S. Paulo (September 24, 1957) and other clippings. |
1957 |
| I.A.320; mf 2183:209 | Paul J. Sachs | 1955 |
| I.A.321; mf 2183:220 | Correspondence S Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.322; mf 2183:367 | Correspondence T Includes correspondence with: |
1954-1957 |
| I.A.323; mf 2183:444 | Correspondence U-V Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.324; mf 2183:518 | Wildenstein: Knoedler Includes correspondence with: |
1956 |
| I.A.325; mf 2183:557 | Correspondence W Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.326; mf 2183:709 | Correspondence X-Z Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.327; mf 2183:844 | Correspondence A Includes correspondence with: |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.328; mf 2183:844 | Correspondence B Includes correspondence with: |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.329*; mf 2183:844 | Correspondence B Newspaper clippings. |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.330; mf 2183:988 | Correspondence C Includes correspondence with: |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.331mf 2183:1086 | Correspondence D Includes correspondence with: |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.332; mf 2183:1147 | Correspondence E Includes correspondence with: |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.333; mf 2183:1227 | Correspondence F Includes correspondence with: |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.334; mf 2183:1292; mf 2184:4 | MoMA Fire Includes correspondence with: Restricted material removed: Condition correspondence. |
1958 |
| I.A.335*; mf 2183:1292; mf 2184:4 | MoMA Fire Newspaper clippings. |
c. 1958 |
| I.A.336; mf 2184:71 | Correspondence G Includes correspondence with: |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.337; mf 2184:141 | Correspondence H File includes correspondence with: |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.338; mf 2184:344 | Correspondence I Includes memo regarding Dora Donner Ide. |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.339; mf 2184:356 | Correspondence J Includes correspondence with: |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.340; mf 2184:424 | Correspondence K Includes correspondence with: |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.341; mf 2184:517 | Correspondence L Includes correspondence with: |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.342; mf 2184:577 | Lecture Invitations Includes invitations from: |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.343; mf 2184:635 | Correspondence L Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.344; mf 2184:737 | Ella Burr McManus Estate and Project Includes correspondence with: Restricted material removed: Correspondence with the Ella Burr McManus Estate/Trust and its Board of Trustees. |
1955-1959 |
| I.A.345; mf 2184:815 | Masters of Modern Art Revisted File incudes handwritten notes by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., memos, a short history of the Film Department, possible changes for print captions, revisions in print statistics, and draft of meeting minutes. |
1958 |
| I.A.346; mf 2184:844 | "Conference on American Values and American Performance" (M.I.T.) Includes correspondence with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Max F. Millikan). File also includes Elting Morison "The Course of Discussion" draft." |
1958 |
| I.A.347; mf 2184:930 | Correspondence M Includes correspondence with: |
1958-1959 |
| I.A.348 | Correspondence N Includes correspondence with: |
1958-1959 |
| I.A.349; mf 2184:1112 | National Council of the Churches of Christ: Correspondence Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1960 |
| I.A.350 | National Council of the Churches of Christ: Miscellaneous | 1955-1960 |
| I.A.351; mf 2184:1337 | Correspondence P Includes correspondence with: |
1958-1959 |
| I.A.352; mf 2184:1388; mf 2185:4 | Correspondence R Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1959 |
| I.A.353; mf 2184:63 | Correspondence S Includes correspondence with: |
1958-1959 |
| I.A.354 | Edgar B. Stern Family Fund | 1959-1960 |
| I.A.355; mf 2185:250 | Correspondence T Includes correspondence with: |
1958-1959 |
| I.A.356; mf 2185:282 | Correspondence U-W Includes correspondence with: |
1957-1959 |
| I.A.357; mf 2185:400 | Correspondence X-Z Includes correspondence with: |
1956-1959 |
| I.A.358; mf 2185:435 | Iceland Includes correspondence with: |
1959-1962 |
| I.A.359; mf 2185:588 | Summer 1962 Includes correspondence with: |
1962 |
| I.A.360; mf 2185:690 | Summer 1963 Includes correspondence with: |
1963 |
| I.A.361; mf 2185:736 | Summer 1964 Includes correspondence with: |
1964 |
| I.A.362; mf 2185:783 | Summer 1965 and Florida, December 1965 Includes correspondance with Amry Fera. |
1965 |
| I.A.363; mf 2185:1054 | Correspondence A Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.364; mf 2185:838 | Correspondence B File includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.365; mf 2185:1242; mf 2186:5 | Correspondence C Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.366; mf 2186:126 | Ralph F. Colin File contains correspondence with Alfred H. Barr, Jr. as well as: Restricted material removed: Correspondence with Ralph F. Colin. Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee on September 22, 1961 were removed from this folder and re-filed in the collection Committee Minutes. |
1960-1967 |
| I.A.367; mf 2186:172 | Congress for Cultural Freedom: Berlin File includes correspondence with: |
1960 |
| I.A.368; mf 2186:258 | Egidio Constatini (Glass Sculpture) File includes correspondence with: |
1964-1965 |
| I.A.369 | "Russian Cards" | 1965 |
| I.A.370; mf 2186:356 | Cards: Christmas and New Years ("Russian Cards") File Includes correspondence with: |
1965 |
| I.A.371; mf 2186:462 | Correspondence D Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.372; mf 2186:462 | Correspondence E Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.373; mf 2186:683 | Correspondence F Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.374; mf 2186:875 | Correspondence G Includes correspondence with: |
1956-1965 |
| I.A.375; mf 2186:1051 | Correspondence H Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.376*; mf 2186:1051 | Correspondence H | 1961 |
| I.A.377; mf 2186:1203 | Correspondence I Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.378; mf 2186:1310 | Correspondence J Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.379; mf 2187:109 | Correspondence K Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.380; mf 2187:188 | Correspondence L Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.381; mf 2187:336 | Correspondence M Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.382; mf 2187:603 | Correspondence N Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.383; mf 2187:661 | Correspondence O Includes correspondence with: |
1959-1965 |
| I.A.384; mf 2187:715 | Correspondence P Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.385; mf 2187:850 | Correspondence Q File includes correspondence with: |
1958-1961 |
| I.A.386; mf 2187:860 | Correspondence R File includes correspondence with: |
1960-1961 |
| I.A.387; mf 2187:1040 | James Thrall Soby In addition to correspondence between Soby and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., file also includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.388; mf 2187:1180; mf 2188:5 | Correspondence S File includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.389; mf 2188:173 | Toronto, Canada Includes correspondence with: |
1961 |
| I.A.390*; mf 2188:173 | Toronto, Canada Newspaper clippings. |
1961 |
| I.A.391 | Trip to Toronto | 1961 |
| I.A.392; mf 2188:341 | Correspondence T Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.393; mf 2188:391 | Correspondence U-V Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.394; mf 2188:439 | Correspondence W Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.395; mf 2188:617 | Correspondence X-Z Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.396; mf 2189:5 | Correspondence A Includes correspondence with: |
ca. 1966-1967 |
| I.A.397; mf 2189:165 | American Academy Arts and Sciences Includes correspondence with: |
1952-1966 |
| I.A.398; mf 2189: [229] | American Federation of Arts Includes correspondence with: |
1956-1959 |
| I.A.399; mf 2189: [260] | Art in America Magazine Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1971 |
| I.A.400; mf 2189: [293] | Art News Magazine Includes correspondence with: |
1954-1961 |
| I.A.401; mf 2189: [387] | Artists Club Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1965 |
| I.A.402; mf 2189: [430] | Association of Art Museum Directors Includes correspondence with: |
1946-1967 |
| I.A.403; mf 2189: [481] | Correspondence B Includes correspondence with: |
1963-1977 |
| I.A.404; mf 2189: [607] | Vico Baer In addition to correspondence with Baer, file includes correspondence with: |
1960-1965 |
| I.A.405*; mf 2189: [607] | Vico Baer "Marinetti e il Futurismo nell Storia delle Avanguardie Letterarie" newspaper. |
1964 |
| I.A.406; mf 2189: [651] | Giacomo Balla In addition to correspondence with Balla, file includes correspondence with: |
1953-1972 |
| I.A.407; mf 2190:6 | Barnes Foundation Includes correspondence with: |
1932-1963 |
| I.A.408*; mf 2190:6 | #REF! Newspaper clippings. |
1932-1963 |
| I.A.409; mf 2190:225 | Miscellaneous Includes correspondence Monawee A. Richards, Margaret Scolari Barr, and Rona Roob. |
1972-1977 |
| I.A.410; mf 2190:288 | Notes | 1929 |
| I.A.411; mf 2190:291 | Biographical Material and Miscellaneous Includes correspondence with: |
1941-1954 |
| I.A.412; mf 2190:384 | Biographical Press Releases Includes correspondence with: |
1970-1971 |
| I.A.413; mf 2190:450 | Articles Concerning Alfred H. Barr, Jr. File incudes Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s answers to Katherine Kuh's questions for article in the Saturday Review; a draft with handwritten notes; and a copy of Katherine Kuh article in the Saturday Review (September 30, 1967); and biographical notes regarding Barr from (May 1969). |
1967-1969 |
| I.A.414*; mf 2190:450 | Articles Concerning Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Newspaper and magazine clippings. |
1967-1969 |
| I.A.415; mf 2190: [516] | The International Who's Who Includes correspondence with: |
1967-1969 |
| I.A.416; mf 2190:576 | Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Biography | 1979 |
| I.A.417; mf 2190:608 | Birds Includes correspondence with: |
Undated |
| I.A.418; mf 2190:695 | Christmas and New Years Includes correspondence with: |
ca. 1970-1979 |
| I.A.419; mf 2190:706 | Family Includes correspondence with: |
ca. 1960-1969 |
| I.A.420; mf 2190:773 | Financial Includes correspondence with: |
1963 |
| I.A.421; mf 2190:952 | Grand Jury Includes correspondence with: |
Undated |
| I.A.422; mf 2190:1015 | Medical Includes correspondence with: Restricted material removed: Correspondence from Otto Garthe. |
Undated |
| I.A.423; mf 2190:1039 | Personal and General Correspondence Includes correspondence with: |
Undated |
| I.A.424; mf 2190:1118 | Retirement Includes correspondence with: |
1967 |
| I.A.425; mf 2190:1164 | Retirement: 27 Building Study Correspondence with Thomas C. Flank. Also includes suggested layout and third floor plan. |
1967 |
| I.A.426 | Dedication of the Galleries | 1975 |
| I.A.427; mf 2190:1172 | Travel Includes correspondence with: |
c. 1965-1975 |
| I.A.428; mf 2190:1198 | Travel: London and Henri Matisse Exhibition Includes correspondence with: |
1968 |
| I.A.429; mf 2190:1226 | Travel: Australia Includes correspondence with: Maie Casey (includes draft and handwritten notes) and Eric Westbrook (National Gallery of Victoria). |
1968 |
| I.A.430; mf 2190:1238 / 1.388; mf 2190:1241 | Travel: Portugal & Spain | 1968 |
| I.A.431mf 2190:1262 | Travel: International Council, Montreal Includes correspondence with: |
1967 |
| I.A.432; mf 2190:1277 | Travel: "Summer" Includes correspondence with Margaret Scolari Barr. |
1967 |
| I.A.433; mf 2190:1279 | Greensboro, VT and Stockbridge, MA Includes correspondence with Betsy Jones. |
1966 |
| I.A.434; mf 2190:1316; mf 2190:6 | International Council Spring Meeting: San Francisco Includes correspondence with: |
1965 |
| I.A.435; mf 2191:34 | Travel: Key West, FL Includes memos and notes. |
1966 |
| I.A.436; mf 2191:54 | Travel: Salisbury 1 of 2 folders. |
1962 |
| I.A.437; mf 2191:54 | Travel: Salisbury 2 of 2 folders. Black-and-white photographs, newspaper clippings, and catalogues. |
1962 |
| I.A.438; mf 2191:439 | A Tribute to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and a Special Viewing of the Painting and Sculpture Collection: A New Perspective. Includes correspondence with: |
1973 |
| I.A.439; mf 2191:495 | Honors and Awards Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1974 |
| I.A.440; mf 2191:545 | College Art Association Award Includes correspondence with: |
1980 |
| I.A.441; mf 2191:551 | European Art Dealers Association Includes correspondence with: |
1974 |
| I.A.442; mf 2191:561 | Columbia University: Doctor of Humane Letters (Lt.D) Includes correspondence with: |
1969 |
| I.A.443; mf 2191: [585] | New York State Award Includes correspondence with: |
1968 |
| I.A.444; mf 2191:619 | National Institute of Arts and Letters Award Includes correspondence with: |
1968 |
| I.A.445; mf 2191:650 | Yale University: Doctor of Fine Arts Includes correspondence with: |
1967 |
| I.A.446; mf 2191:662 | Distinguished New York Medal Correspondence with Stanley Turkel (The City Club of New York). |
1967 |
| I.A.447; mf 2191:665 | Brandeis University: Creative Arts Award Includes correspondence with: |
1965 |
| I.A.448; mf 2191:687 | American Institutes of Architects Award of Merit (Honorary Association, 1955) Includes correspondence with Harmon H. Goldstone and Geoffry N. Lawford. |
1964 |
| I.A.449; mf 2191:690 | Adelphi College: Doctorate of Fine Arts Correspondence with Paul Dawson Eddy. |
1963 |
| I.A.450; mf 2191:696 | Star of Italian Solidarity Includes correspondence with Ruggero Farace and Ramiro Ruggiero (The Italian Consulate). |
1963 |
| I.A.451mf 2191:704 | Art in America Annual Award Includes correspondence with Jean Lipman and clippings and press release. |
1962 |
| I.A.452; mf 2191:713 | University of Buffalo: Doctorate of Fine Arts and Buffalo Fine Arts Academy: Honorable Member Includes correspondence with: |
1962 |
| I.A.453*; mf 2191:713 | University of Buffalo: Doctorate of Fine Arts and Buffalo Fine Arts Academy: Honorable Member The Buffalo Courier Express, January 21. 1962. |
1962 |
| I.A.454; mf 2191:774 | University of Bonn Honorable Degree Includes correspondence with: |
1960 |
| I.A.455; mf 2191:842 | Philadelphia Museum College of Art Includes correspondence with E. M. Benson. |
1960 |
| I.A.456; mf 2191:853 | Royal Society of Arts of England Includes correspondence with David Sarnoff. |
1960 |
| I.A.457; mf 2191: [861] | Germany: Commander's Cross Includes correspondence with Haide Russell and Bruno E. Werner as well as a black-and-white photograph and clippings. |
1959 |
| I.A.458; mf 2191:868 | American Federation of Arts Includes correspondence with Harris K. Prior as well as Fiftieth Anniversary Award citation with draft. |
1959 |
| I.A.459; mf 2191:877 | Legion of Honor Includes correspondence with: |
1959 |
| I.A.460; mf 2191:909 | Princeton University: Doctorate of Letters Includes correspondence with: |
1949 |
| I.A.461; mf 2191:942 | Lord and Taylor Award Includes correspondence with: One clipping from The New York Times from April 18, 1947 was added to this folder in 2023. This clipping is not on microfilm. |
1947 |
| I.A.462; mf 2191:992 | Photographs Includes correspondence with: |
Undated |
| I.A.463 | Biographical Material, Clippings, Articles Includes correspondence with Phyllis Freeman (Harry N. Abrams). File also includes seven black-and-white photographs by Tony Vaccaro of Alfred H. Barr, Jr.; clippings; and a program for the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 28th Anniversary Awards Dinner. |
1932-1967 |
| I.A.464; mf 2191:1033 | Requests to Quote Includes correspondence with: |
Undated |
| I.A.465; mf 2191:1276 | Brandeis Overseers Includes correspondence with A.L. Sachar. File also includes handwritten notes and a program for Creative Arts Award (1957-1966). |
1965 |
| I.A.466; mf 2191:1295; mf 2192:6 | William A.M. Burden File predominately includes correspondence between Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Burden. |
1953-1968 |
| I.A.467; mf 2192:116 | Correspondence C Includes correspondence with: |
1965-1975 |
| I.A.468; mf 2192:312 | John Canada Includes correspondence with: |
1961 |
| I.A.469*; mf 2192:312 | John Canada Newspaper clippings. From I.A.468 and I.A.470. |
1960-1971 |
| I.A.470; mf 2192:478 | John Canada Includes correspondence with: |
1960 |
| I.A.471*; mf 2192:551 | John Canada: Clippings Includes clippings from The New York Times. |
1960 |
| I.A.472; mf 2192:605 | Alexander Calder Includes correspondence with: |
1966-1974 |
| I.A.473; mf 2192:615 | Committee for the Development of Art in Negro Colleges Includes correspondence with Albert Elsen. Also includes CDANC report on projects, report on the meeting of CDANC on Friday and Saturday at Indiana University (November 6-7, 1964), and a list of CDANC members. |
1964 |
| I.A.474; mf 2192:630 | Censorship Includes correspondence with: |
1961 |
| I.A.475; mf 2192:749 | Marc Chagall Notes File includes memo regarding Chagall visit with Alfred H, Barr, Jr. (March 18, 1958), six color photographs, and two black-and-white photographs. |
1958 |
| I.A.476; mf 2192:758 | Chase Manhattan Bank Includes correspondence with: |
ca.1960-1969 |
| I.A.477; mf 2192: [893] | Chicago Art Institute Includes correspondence with: |
1954-1963 |
| I.A.478; mf 2192:904 | College Art Association and Art Journal Includes correspondence with: |
Undated |
| I.A.479; mf 2192:2193 | Columbia University Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1974 |
| I.A.480; mf 2193:52 | William and Noma Copley Foundation Includes correspondence with: |
19541972 |
| I.A.481; mf 2193:150 | Douglas Cooper / Penguin Books, Ltd. In addition to correspondence with Cooper, file includes correspondence with: |
1952-1971 |
| I.A.482; mf 2193:308 | Bienal de Americana de Artre (Córdoba, Argentina): Correspondence Includes correspondence with: |
1966 |
| I.A.483; mf 2193:383 | Bienal de Americana de Artre (Córdoba, Argentina): Transactions & Correspondence Includes correspondence with Mrs. Manuel Ordónez and Christian Sörenson. |
1966 |
| I.A.484; mf 2193:398 | Bienal de Americana de Artre (Córdoba, Argentina): South American Artists Includes a list of Argentines painters and a list of Latin American works acquired since 1963. |
1966 |
| I.A.485; mf 2193:409 | Bienal de Americana de Artre (Córdoba, Argentina): Slides Includes correspondence with John Becker. |
1966 |
| I.A.486; mf 2193:420 | Bienal de Americana de Artre (Córdoba, Argentina): Miscellaneous Includes correspondence with: |
1966 |
| I.A.487; mf 2193:515 | Bienal de Americana de Artre (Córdoba, Argentina): Publicity & Press | 1966 |
| I.A.488; mf 2193: [599] | Critics File includes "A Critic on the Side of History: Notes on Clement Greenberg" by Hilton Kramer in Arts (October 1962). |
1962 |
| I.A.489; mf 2193:605 | Correspondence D Includes correspondence with: |
1966-1974 |
| I.A.490; mf 2193:648 | William Rubin: Dada/Surrealism Includes correspondence with William S. Rubin as well as a draft of "Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage" by William Rubin (July 1966). |
1966 |
| I.A.491; mf 2193:661 | Marcel Duchamp Includes correspondence with Cleve Gray and John Limpert, Jr as well as clippings and a list of lectures during Marcel Duchamp exhibition. |
1968-1974 |
| I.A.492; mf 2193:687 | Correspondence E Includes correspondence with: |
1966-1973 |
| I.A.493; mf 2193:707 | E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology., Inc.) Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1970 |
| I.A.494; mf 2193:804 | Esso Salon of Young Artists Jury Includes correspondence with: |
1965-1968 |
| I.A.495; mf 2193:830 | Exhibition Proposals Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1966 |
| I.A.496; mf 2193:869 | 1967 Montreal Expo Includes correspondence with: |
1967 |
| I.A.497; mf 2193:903 | Correspondence F Includes correspondence with: |
1966-1970 |
| I.A.498; mf 2193:942 | Fakes and Frauds Includes correspondence with: |
1956-1966 |
| I.A.499; mf 2193:974 | Dada: Fantastic Art Includes correspondence with: |
1949-1971 |
| I.A.500; mf 2193:1009 | Society for the Family of Man Includes correspondence with: |
1966-1967 |
| I.A.501; mf 2193:1169 | Helen Franc Includes correspondence and memos. |
1966 |
| I.A.502; mf 2193:1174 | Correspondence G Includes correspondence with: |
c. 1966 |
| I.A.503; mf 2193:1237 | Ziuta Gertenzang In addition to correspondence with Gerstenzang, file includes correspondence with: |
1962-1964 |
| I.A.504 | Vincent Van Gogh Film Includes correspondence with: |
Undated |
| I.A.505; mf 2193:1365; mf 2194:6 | José Gómez-Sicre In addition to correspondence with Gómez, file includes correspondence with: |
Undated |
| I.A.506; mf 2194:50 | A. Conger Goodyear In addition to correspondence with Goodyear, file contains correspondence with Gordon M. Smith (Albright-Knox Gallery; regarding The Buffalo Fine Art Academy Goodyear Fund) and James Thrall Soby. File also includes clippings, press release, and a handwritten draft of letter from Alfred H. Barr, Jr. to Goodyear. |
1942 |
| I.A.507; mf 2194:104 | Camilla Gray In addition to correspondence with Gray, file also contains correspondence with: |
1957-1972 |
| I.A.508; mf 2194:226 | Peggy Guggenheim In addition to correspondence with Guggenheim, file includes correspondence with: |
c. 1960 |
| I.A.509; mf 2194:402 | Mrs. Simon Guggenheim (Olga Guggenheim) In addition to correspondence with Guggenheim, file includes correspondence with: |
1939-1970 |
| I.A.510; mf 2194:648 | Guggenheim Monographs Includes correspondence with: |
1967-1968 |
| I.A.511; mf 2194:688 | Correspondence H Includes correspondence with: |
1961--1973 |
| I.A.512; mf 2194:807 | René d'Harnoncourt Also includes correspondence with: |
196-1970 |
| I.A.513; mf 2194:913 | Huntington Hartford Includes correspondence with: |
1950-1965 |
| I.A.514; mf 2195:6 | Heller Catalogue Includes correspondence with: |
1961-1963 |
| I.A.515; mf 2195:43 | Hirshhorn Museum File includes a refusal of invitation for dinner at the opening of the Hirshorn museum. |
1974 |
| I.A.516; mf 2195:46 | Correspondence I Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1974 |
| I.A.517; mf 2195:85 | International Association of Art Critics Includes correspondence with: |
c. 1960-1969 |
| I.A.518; mf 2195:184 | International Institute of Contemporary Arts Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1959 |
| I.A.519; mf 2195:218 | Institute of Contemporary Arts Includes correspondence with: |
1937-1966 |
| I.A.520; mf 2195:364 | General Invitations Includes invitations from: |
1963-1971 |
| I.A.521; mf 2195:550 | General Invitations Includes invitations from: |
1957-1963 |
| I.A.522; mf 2195:820 | Invitations to Lecture Includes invitations from: |
1961 |
| I.A.523; mf 2195:1024 | Invitations to Write Includes invitations from: |
Undated |
| I.A.524; mf 2195:1124 | Invitations to Jury Includes invitations from: |
Undated |
| I.A.525; mf 2195:1142 | Correspondence J Includes correspondence with: |
Undated |
| I.A.526; mf 2195:1192 | Correspondence K Includes correspondence with: |
Undated |
| I.A.527; mf 2195:1290 | Kinetic Art Invitation to the preview showing Kinetics of Light and Sound by Van Saun at The Castellane Gallery. |
c.1966 |
| I.A.528; mf 2195:1292 | Latin-American Art Includes correspondence with René d'Harnoncourt and David Rockefeller as well as press release and a copy of Brazilian Artists (1966). |
1966-1968 |
| I.A.529; mf 2195:1309 | Adele Levy Playground Includes correspondence with: |
1965-1966 |
| I.A.530; mf 2195:1355; mf 2196:5 | William S. Lieberman In addition to correspondence with Lieberman, file also contains correspondence with: |
1959-1966 |
| I.A.531; mf 2196:64 | Russell Lynes Includes correspondence with John Rewald regarding Rewald's review of Lynes book as well as clippings. |
C.1960-1969 |
| I.A.532; mf 2196:93 | Correspondence L Includes correspondence with: |
C.1960-1969 |
| I.A.533; mf 2196:130 | Gertrud V. Mellon In addition to correspondence with Mellon, file also includes correspondence with Philip S. Broughton and clippings. |
C.1960-1969 |
| I.A.534; mf 2196:196 | Dorothy C. Miller Includes correspondence with Margaret Scolari Barr as well as clippings, a press release, and a c.v. |
C.1960-1969 |
| I.A.535; mf 2196:209 | MoMA: Annual Reports File includes minutes of the annual meeting of the corporation from November 8, 1962 and annual reports from 1969-1971. |
1969-1971 |
| I.A.536; mf 2196:228 | MoMA: Art Workers Coalition Includes correspondence with: |
c. 1969 |
| I.A.537*; mf 2196:228 | MoMA: Art Workers Coalition "Art Group Disrupts Museum Parley" by Grace Glueck (The New York Times,June 4, 1970). |
1970 |
| I.A.538; mf 2196:324 | MoMA: Black Artists Includes correspondence with: |
1963-1970 |
| I.A.539; mf 2196:375 | Information Exhibition [MoMA Exh. #934] Includes correspondence with John B. Hightower and David Rockefeller. File also includes clippings, press release, The MoMA Members Newsletter (November 1970). |
1970 |
| I.A.540; mf 2196:399 | The 1960's: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection [MoMA Exh. #834] File includes catalogue and checklist of the 1960's: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection. |
1967 |
| I.A.541; mf 2196:423 | Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture [MoMA Exh. #197] Includes press release and checklist of recent acquisitions. |
1968 |
| I.A.542; mf 2196:432 | MoMA: Film Department File includes newsletter by Willard Van Dyke (January 1971). |
1971 |
| I.A.543; mf 2196:435 | MoMA: General File includes correspondence with: |
1966-1974 |
| I.A.544; mf 2196:457 | MoMA: John Hightower Includes correspondence with Alan Pifer (The Jeopardy of Private Institutions). File also includes clippings, press releases, Hightower statement re: MI-5 zoning amendment proposed for the Soho district (September 23, 1970), and Hightower's "New Directions for the Future", "Are Art Galleries Obsolete?", "The Future of Ptolemy's Temple." |
1970-1972 |
| I.A.545; mf 2196:538 | MoMA: John Hightower and Alex Gross "New Directions for the Future" by John Hightower and "The Great Cultural Conspiracy" by Alex Gross. |
1942 |
| I.A.546; mf 2196:591 | MoMA: International Study Center Includes correspondence with Mrs. Frank Y. Larkin (includes a review of the Museum's educational facilities, programs, their
use, and proposals to meet educational possibilities) |
1968-1970 |
| I.A.547; mf 2196:691 | MoMA: Richard Koch Includes correspondence with George Loranger. |
1970-1972 |
| I.A.548; mf 2196:699 | MoMA: Library Includes correspondence with: |
1961--1973 |
| I.A.549; mf 2196:71 | MoMA: Bates Lowry File mostly includes correspondence between Lowry and MoMA staff. |
1968-1969 |
| I.A.550 | MoMA: Membership Includes correspondence with: |
1951-1965 |
| I.A.551 | 1964 Reopening Includes correspondence with: |
1964-1972 |
| I.A.552; mf 2196:830 | MoMA: Richard Oldenburg Includes press release, telegram and memo regarding Oldenburg appointment as director of MoMA. |
1972 |
| I.A.553; mf 2196:836 | MoMA: Painting and Sculpture Includes press release, memo regarding discussion of exhibition on January 12, 1970, and a list of members of the Committees of the Curatorial Council. |
1970-1971 |
| I.A.554; mf 2196:848 | MoMA: Personnel Manual File includes copy of the MoMA Personnel Manual. |
1970 |
| I.A.555; mf 2196:891 | MoMA: Staff | 1972 |
| I.A.556 | MoMA: Staff Association Includes correspondence with Eila Kokkinen and Sylvia Milgram. |
c. 1970 |
| I.A.557; mf 2196:1036 | MoMA: Steering Committee-Evaluations Committee Includes correspondence with: Restricted material removed: Correspondence regarding Museum finances. |
1969-1970 |
| I.A.558; mf 2196:1073 | MoMA: Tax Bill Includes correspondence with: |
1969 |
| I.A.559; mf 2196:1158 | Museums Council of New York City File includes membership list and a calendar of press and private previews of exhibitions. |
1971-1975 |
| I.A.560; mf 2196:1179 | Correspondence M Includes correspondence with: |
1952-1979 |
| I.A.561; mf 2197:6 | Correspondence N Includes correspondence with: |
1962-1977 |
| I.A.562; mf 2197:42 | New College, Sarasota, Florida 1 of 2 folders. |
1965-1977 |
| I.A.563; mf 2197:42 | New College, Sarasota, Florida 2 of 2 folders. Original folder divided into two for preservation purposes. For potential contents see I.A.562. |
1965-1977 |
| I.A.564; mf 2197:319 | The New Yorker Magazine Clippings. |
1969-1970 |
| I.A.565; mf 2197:344 | Correspondence O File includes correspondence with: |
1966-1974 |
| I.A.566; mf 2197:379 | Correspondence P Includes correspondence with: |
ca. 1966-1974 |
| I.A.567; mf 2197:452 | William S. Paley | Undated |
| I.A.568; mf 2197:493 | Roland Penrose In addition to correspondence with Penrose, file includes correspondence with: |
1946-1971 |
| I.A.569; mf 2197:659 | Photography Committee Includes correspondence with: |
1964-1973 |
| I.A.570; mf 2197:682 | The Museum of Primitive Art Includes correspondence with Allan D. Chapman and a copy of Vladimir Markov Art of the Negroes title page. |
1973 |
| I.A.571; mf 2197:686 | Princeton: Sculpture Fund Includes correspondence with: |
1968-1971 |
| I.A.572; mf 2197:906 | Princeton University: General Correspondence Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1972 |
| I.A.573; mf 2197:977 | Princeton University: Alumni Collectors Exhibitions Includes correspondence with: |
1970-1972 |
| I.A.574; mf 2197:1011 | Princeton University: Department of Art and Archeology Includes correspondence with: |
1941-1973 |
| I.A.575; mf 2197:1087 | Princeton University: Art Museum Includes correspondence with: |
1963-1972 |
| I.A.576 | Princeton University: Publications Includes copies of the Princeton Alumni Weekly from: |
1952-1973 |
| I.A.577; mf 2197:1111 | Publications Program Includes correspondence with: |
1965 |
| I.A.578; mf 2197:1269 | Publications: Acknowledgments Includes correspondence with: |
1967-1971 |
| I.A.579; mf 2197:1283 | Publicity Includes clippings and press releases. |
c. 1960-1970 |
| I.A.580; mf 2197:1319 | Correspondence R Includes correspondence with: |
1961-1968 |
| I.A.581; mf 2197:119 | Religion and Art Includes correspondence with: |
1961-1968 |
| I.A.582*; mf 2197:119 | Religion and Art "The Times Literary Supplement" March 3, 1966; "Religious Subjects in Graphic Arts Highlighted in Church Exhibition" The Sunday Bulletin (Philadelphia) July 2,1961. |
1961-1966 |
| I.A.583; mf 2197:287 | David Rockefeller Also includes correspondence with: |
1959-1971 |
| I.A.584; mf 2198:304 | J.D. Rockefeller, Jr., etc. Includes correspondence with Rockefeller as well as correspondence with: |
1938-1965 |
| I.A.585; mf 2198:383 | J.D. Rockefeller, III | 1967 |
| I.A.586; mf 2198:392 | Sarah Rubenstein Also includes correspondence with Henry Allen Moe and David Rockefeller. |
Undated |
| I.A.587; mf 2198:402 | William S. Rubin Includes correspondence with Rubin as well as with: |
Undated |
| I.A.588; mf 2198:480 | Correspondence S Correspondence with Peter B. Skator. |
1942 |
| I.A.589; mf 2198:481 | Correspondence S Includes correspondence with: Restricted material removed: Correspondence with executors of Nathan B. and Frances Spingold's estate regarding their bequest to the Museum. |
1934-1967 |
| I.A.590; mf 2198:792 | Sarasota, Florida Includes correspondence with: |
1962-1964 |
| I.A.591; mf 2198:857 | São Paulo, Brazil Includes correspondence with: |
1957 |
| I.A.592; mf 2198:917 | Seventeen Includes correspondence with: |
1955-1957 |
| I.A.593; mf 2198:948 | James Thrall Soby: Francis Bacon Book Includes correspondence with: |
Undated |
| I.A.594; mf 2198:978 | James Thrall Soby Includes correspondence with: |
c. 1970 |
| I.A.595; mf 2198:1029 | James Thrall Soby Includes correspondence with: |
1966-1969 |
| I.A.596; mf 2198:1098 | Correspondence T Includes correspondence with: Restricted material removed: Notes from the Program Policy Committee meeting, April 23, 1969, and correspondence regarding The International Art Foundation, Inc. |
1947-1976 |
| I.A.597; mf 2198:1182 | Thefts Includes "High-Priced Art: It's a Steal" article by Meryle Secrest. |
1970 |
| I.A.598; mf 2198:1190 | Correspondence U Includes correspondence with UNEDI (Aurizio Vitale) and University of California at Los Angeles Art Galleries (Frederick S. Wight). |
c.1970 |
| I.A.599; mf 2198:1209 | Correspondence V Includes correspondence with: |
1969-1976 |
| I.A.600; mf 2198:1220 | David Vance Includes memo draft. |
1969 |
| I.A.601; mf 2198:1229 | Venice Biennale Includes correspondence with: |
1948-1962 |
| I.A.602; mf 2198:1376; mf 2199:6 | Correspondence W File includes correspondence with: |
c.1960-1970 |
| I.A.603; mf 2198:77 | Washington, D.C. Includes correspondence with: |
1961-1964 |
| I.A.604; mf 2198:161 | Washington, D.C. Includes correspondence with: |
1960-1961 |
| I.A.605; mf 2198:203 | White House Art Includes correspondence with: |
1947-1961 |
| I.A.606; mf 2198:283 | White House Festival Includes correspondence with: |
1965 |
| I.A.607; mf 2198:367 | Correspondence X-Z Includes correspondence with: |
c. 1965 |
| I.A.608; mf 2199:408 | MoMA: Reports and Proposed Projects File includes: |
1938-1940 |
| I.A.609; mf 2199:540 | MoMA: Departmental Reports Includes correspondence with: |
1941-1942 |
| I.A.610; mf 2199:785 | Correspondence A-M Includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.611; mf 2199:1079 | Correspondence N-Z File includes correspondence with: |
1943 |
| I.A.612; mf 2199:1206 | MoMA: Exhibitions: Schedules and Lists Correspondence with Monroe Wheeler |
1942 |
| I.A.613; mf 2199:1227 | MoMA: Photography Committee Includes memo regarding David McAlpin talks on photographic project and a report of the Picture Use Sub-Committee of the Advisory
Council (March 12, 1945) |
1943-1945 |
| I.A.614; mf 2199:1249 | Policy Committee Includes correspondence with Elodie Courter and Henry Allen Moe. Also includes "Report on the Policy Committee on Circulating Exhibitions" July 26, 1944; a report of the Officer of Assistant Treasurer and Controller; a report of the Front Desk; a brief definition of the work of the Department of Painting and Sculpture; and a library report (June 1944). |
1944 |
| I.A.615; mf 2199:1302 | MoMA: Life Article File includes information requested from Life for a story on MoMA, including a list of questions asked by Dorothy Seiberling. Also includes a photograph and attendance figures from 1929-1949. |
1950 |
| I.A.616 | Correspondence from Mrs. Stanley B. Resor Includes four photographs of works by Brâncuși. |
1934-1966 |
| I.A.617 | Arthur Cohen Appraisal of letters by Arthur Cohen at Ex Libris. File includes letters from artists including Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Man Ray, Giacomo Balla and others. |
1949-1977 |
| I.A.618 | Susan Wilson Coggeshall Note: Susan Wilson Coogeshall was the daughter of Seely Perkins. |
1933 |
| I.A.619 | Salvador Dalí Postcard | 1959 |
| I.A.620 | Leonor Fini | Undated |
| I.A.621 | Goetz: Authentication of Vincent Gogh painting | 1949 |
| I.A.622 | Peggy Guggenheim Includes printed matter. |
1942-1962 |
| I.A.623 | Henry Russell Hitchcock | 1927-1928 |
| I.A.624 | Wyndham Lewis Includes one sketch. |
1927- 1941 |
| I.A.625 | Jacques Lipchitz | 1944 |
| I.A.626 | Malitta Matta | Undated |
| I.A.627 | Maria Martin | Undated |
| I.A.628 | Marianne Moore | 1942 |
| I.A.629 | Maximillian Mopp | 1941 |
| I.A.630 | Paul J. Sachs | 1925-1926 |
| I.A.631 | Alfred Stieglitz | 1944 |
| I.A.632 | Randall Thompson | 1931 |
| I.A.633 | "Laurence to "Alf" | Undated |
| I.A.634 | Regarding Circulating Exhibitions | 1932-1936 |
| I.A.635 | Jock Truman | 1964-1985 |
| I.A.636 | "VIP Letters" 1 of 2 folders. "Photocopies: VIP letters sold my Mrs. Barr to Arthur A. Cohen (1975)." Includes Ex Libris Sales Catalog. |
1975 |
| I.A.637 | "VIP Letters" 2 of 2 folders. |
1975 |
| I.A.638 | Marie Alexander This folder was added in 2023. |
1956 |
| I.A.639 | Miss Schafer Two letters from AHB to "Miss Schafer." This folder was added in 2024. |
undated |
Subseries I.B: Professional Correspondence Transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers 1929-1986 |
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The correspondence in Subseries I.B was given to MoMA Archives with the personal papers of Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s wife, Margaret Scolari Barr. They were added to the collection in 2016 and for this reason they remain their own distinct subseries. Important files in Subseries I.B include those that document Barr's salary and position as director (I.B.16) and letters of congratulations after his appointment to this position (I.B.17). The subseries is arranged alphabetically. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| I.B.1 | Larry Aldrich Photocopy of letter from 1960 in which Barr thanks Aldrich for his financial support. |
1960-1986 |
| I.B.2 | Giacomo Balla Photocopies of letters regarding the artist's Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (1912). |
1934-1938 |
| I.B.3 | Margaret Scolari Barr Letter to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. from Paris, where Scolari Barr was with the art historian Janice Loeb gathering working on Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism (Ex. # 55, 1837). |
1936 |
| I.B.4 | Bo Beskow Includes correspondence and black-and-white photographs. |
1941 |
| I.B.5 | Bowdoin College Letter inviting Alfred H. Barr, Jr. to deliver a lecture at Bowdoin's Institute of Art and Archeology in 1927. |
1926 |
| I.B.6 | Stanton Catlin | 1944 |
| I.B.7 | Alice Carson Memo regarding MoMA furniture. |
1943 |
| I.B.8 | "Research Chair of Modern Painting and Sculpture" | 1944 |
| I.B.9 | "Research Chair of Modern Painting and Sculpture" | 1944 |
| I.B.10 | Stephen Clark | 1939 |
| I.B.11 | Stephen Clark Correspondence concerning Alfred H. Barr's salary and compensation. |
1944 |
| I.B.12 | Stephen Clark Primarily correspondence concerning the collection. |
1943-1944 |
| I.B.13 | Cologne Bible | 1937 |
| I.B.14 | John Coolidge | 1967 |
| I.B.15 | Douglas Cooper Letter regarding circumstances of World War II, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Joan Miró. |
1944 |
| I.B.16 | Frank Crowninshield Handwritten letter from Alfred H. Barr, Jr. in which he confirms his salary as Director of MoMA. |
1929 |
| I.B.17 | "Early Museum Correspondence" Includes numerous letters of congratulations to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. after the announcement of his appointment as MoMA's director. |
1929 |
| I.B.18 | Elodie Courter | 1946 |
| I.B.19 | Cuban Artists Includes correspondence with Luisillo de Zulueta and a list of "Cuban Pictures Reserved for the Museum." |
1943-1944 |
| I.B.20 | European Masters of Our Time Invitation to European Masters of Our Time at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. |
1957 |
| I.B.21 | "Greensboro, VT" Includes handwritten list of European artworks. |
1927-1935 |
| I.B.22 | A. Conger Goodyear Includes Goodyear's curriculum vitae. |
1935 |
| I.B.23 | Peggy Guggenheim "List of Pictures in the Spring Salon for Young Artists (Under 35 Years Old)" with annotations in Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s hand. |
1943 |
| I.B.24 | René d'Harnoncourt | Undated |
| I.B.25 | Henry-Russell Hitchcock Original folder marked "MoMA Façade." |
1938 |
| I.B.26 | Ragnar Jónsson | 1960 |
| I.B.27 | John F. Kennedy Inauguration Inauguration invitations. |
1961 |
| I.B.28 | Lincoln Kirstein Also includes correspondence concerning Philip Johnson. |
1942-1943 |
| I.B.29 | Mikhail Larionov Includes "A proposal du Rayonnism." Correspondence in French. |
1936 |
| I.B.30 | Catlin Levitt | 1945 |
| I.B.31 | Ernest Lundell, Jr. | 1967 |
| I.B.32 | John McAndrew Regarding McAndrews position at MoMA. Correspondence also include descriptive context notes by Margaret Scolari Barr. |
1941-1944 |
| I.B.33 | Margarita de Mena | 1943 |
| I.B.34 | "Miscellaneous Letters from Barr's Room" | 1945 |
| I.B.35 | "MoMA Defined" Photocopies of correspondence concerning the development of the acronym "MoMA." |
1966 |
| I.B.36 | "MoMA Early History" Includes letter to Barr from A. Conger Goodyear offering him the position of director; letter from Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1929). |
1929-1940 |
| I.B.37 | Agnes Mongan | 1939 |
| I.B.38 | Marianne Moore | 1970 |
| I.B.39 | Charles Rufus Morey | 1943 |
| I.B.40 | George L.K. Morris | Undated |
| I.B.41 | Necco Factory | 1927 |
| I.B.42 | A.G. Ogden Correspondence from the Atlantic Monthly Press |
1939 |
| I.B.43 | "Personal Letters to Alfred" Includes letter from Edgar Kuafmann after hearing the news of Alfred H. Barr's 1943 resignation from MoMA; a card from Francis Strunsky Collins; several letters from Edward King; and a telegram from Robert Motherwell. |
1943-1976 |
| I.B.44 | "Precious Letters" Includes letter to Barr from MoMA's Advisory Committee congratulating him on the success of Picasso: Forty Years of His Art (MoMA Exh. #91). Also includes a copy of Der Führer spricht (The Führer Speaks!) a small flip book animating a speech given by Adolf Hitler at a National Socialist party-rally in 1933. An additional copy can be found in the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers, IX.5. |
1939 |
| I.B.45 | Resignation 1 of 7 folders. |
1943 |
| I.B.46 | Resignation 2 of 7 folders. Includes correspondence with Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. |
1943 |
| I.B.47 | Resignation 3 of 7 folders. Includes draft of announcement of resignation to MoMA staff. |
1943 |
| I.B.48 | Resignation 4 of 7 folders. Letters from colleagues and artists. Including Philip Johnson, Charles Sheeler, and Yasao Kuniyoshi. |
1943 |
| I.B.49 | Resignation 5 of 7 folders. |
1943 |
| I.B.50 | Resignation 6 of 7 folders. Handwritten notes and drafts of correspondence responding to Stephen Clark. |
1943 |
| I.B.51 | Resignation 7 of 7 folders. |
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| I.B.52 | Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Handwritten letter to Margaret Scolari Barr inviting she and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. to lunch to discuss the "interesting things that are going on in the world of contemporary art." |
1931 |
| I.B.53 | Abby Aldrich Rockefeller | 1933-1940 |
| I.B.54 | Paul J. Sachs Photocopy of letter regarding Alfred's resignation and James Thrall Soby's appointment as Director of Painting and Sculpture. |
1943 |
| I.B.55 | Alfred Stieglitz Handwritten letter to Stieglitz from Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Likely unsent. |
Undated |
| I.B.56 | James Thrall Soby Includes fundraising letter for MoMA's Armed Services Program and memo regarding the "exhibition and catalog of Latin American exhibition" |
1944-1945 |
| I.B.57 | Adlai Stevenson | 1961 |
| I.B.58 | James Johnson Sweeney | 1943 |
| I.B.59 | Monroe Wheeler | 1938 |
Subseries I.C: Personal Correspondence 1913-1989 |
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Many of the letters contained within Subseries I.C predate Barr's time at MoMA; letters to and from his parents and his brother, Andrew Barr, comprise a majority of the subseries. Letters with his wife, Margaret Scolari Barr, and other close friends, including Jere Abbott, John McAndrew, Chick Austin, and Edward King are also present. These important correspondence that relate to Barr's biography and help to present a fuller picture of Barr as a son, a brother, a friend, a husband, and a father. Subseries I.C is arranged alphabetically. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| I.C.1 | Jere Abbott Marked as the first letter from Abbott sent to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1925 |
| I.C.2 | Advisory Council of the Democratic National Committee Invitation to an Eleanor Roosevelt tribute. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1959 |
| I.C.3 | "Alicia" Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1927-1929 |
| I.C.4 | Chick Austin Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1945 |
| I.C.5 | Luce Balla Postcard. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1949 |
| I.C.6 | Alfred H. Barr, Sr. 1 of 8 folders. Includes handwritten letters, postcards, and telegrams. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1934-1957 |
| I.C.7 | Alfred H. Barr, Sr. 2 of 8 folders. Includes two small sepia-toned snapshots. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1925-1931 |
| I.C.8 | Alfred H. Barr, Sr. 3 of 8 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1923-1924 |
| I.C.9 | Alfred H. Barr, Sr. 4 of 8 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1921-1922 |
| I.C.10 | Alfred H. Barr, Sr. 5 of 8 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1920 |
| I.C.11 | Alfred H. Barr, Sr. 6 of 8 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1919 |
| I.C.12 | Alfred H. Barr, Sr. 7 of 8 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1919 |
| I.C.13 | Alfred H. Barr, Sr. 8 of 8 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1918 |
| I.C.14 | Alfred H. Barr, Sr. to Annie Elizabeth Wilson Barr | 1923-1924 |
| I.C.15 | Annie Elizabeth Wilson Barr 1 of 9 folders. Letters to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Margaret Scolari Barr. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1930-1952 |
| I.C.16 | Annie Elizabeth Wilson Barr 2 of 9 folder. Letters to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Margaret Scolari Barr. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1933-1936 |
| I.C.17 | Annie Elizabeth Wilson Barr 3 of 9 folders. Letters to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Margaret Scolari Barr. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1934-1936 |
| I.C.18 | Annie Elizabeth Wilson Barr 4 of 9 folders. Letters to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Margaret Scolari Barr. Also includes two letters from Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s aunt Jennie and uncle Bob. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1920-1927 |
| I.C.19 | Annie Elizabeth Wilson Barr 5 of 9 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1943-1945 |
| I.C.20 | Annie Elizabeth Wilson Barr 6 of 9 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1930 |
| I.C.21 | Annie Elizabeth Wilson Barr 7 of 9 folders. Includes tombstone design sketch. Also includes letter from Wilson Barr to her mother (1897). Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1941-1957 |
| I.C.22 | Annie Elizabeth Wilson Barr 8 of 9 folders. Primarily letters to Wilson Barr from Margaret Scolari Barr. Also includes small snapshots of a young Victoria Barr. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1937-1940 |
| I.C.23 | Annie Elizabeth Wilson Barr 9 of 9 folders. Includes condolences sent to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. after the death of his mother. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1961 |
| I.C.24 | Annie Elizabeth Wilson Barr to Roberta C. Barr ("Aunt Bob") | Undated |
| I.C.25 | Letters to Parents | 1961 |
| I.C.26 | Letters to Parents | ca.1950-1959 |
| I.C.27 | Letters to Parents | 1959 |
| I.C.28 | Letters to Parents | 1958 |
| I.C.29 | Letters to Parents | 1957 |
| I.C.30 | Letters to Parents | 1956 |
| I.C.31 | Letters to Parents | 1955 |
| I.C.32 | Letters to Parents | 1954 |
| I.C.33 | Letters to Parents | 1953 |
| I.C.34 | Letters to Parents | 1952 |
| I.C.35 | Letters to Parents | 1951 |
| I.C.36 | Letters to Parents | 1950 |
| I.C.37 | Letters to Parents | 1949 |
| I.C.38 | Letters to Parents | 1948 |
| I.C.39 | Letters to Parents | 1947 |
| I.C.40 | Letters to Parents | 1946 |
| I.C.41 | Letters to Parents | 1944 |
| I.C.42 | Letters to Parents | 1943 |
| I.C.43 | Letters to Parents | 1940-1942 |
| I.C.44 | Letters to Parents | c.1940-1949 |
| I.C.45 | Letters to Parents | 1939 |
| I.C.46 | Letters to Parents | 1938 |
| I.C.47 | Letters to Parents | 1937 |
| I.C.48 | Letters to Parents | 1936 |
| I.C.49 | Letters to Parents | 1931, 1935 |
| I.C.50 | Letters to Parents | 1934 |
| I.C.51 | Letters to Parents | 1931 |
| I.C.52 | Letters to Parents | 1930 |
| I.C.53 | Letters to Parents | Undated |
| I.C.54 | Letters to Parents: "Northern Painting" Course | 1926-1928 |
| I.C.55 | Letters to Parents: "Tentative Thesis Outline" | 1926-1928 |
| I.C.56 | Letters to Parents: Bowdoin College | 1927 |
| I.C.57 | Letters to Parents | 1923-1924 |
| I.C.58 | Letters to Parents | 1923-1924 |
| I.C.59 | Barr Family Letters 1 of 6 folders. Letters sent from Alfred H. Barr, Jr. to his family from Princeton. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1917-1919 |
| I.C.60 | Barr Family Letters 2 of 6 folders. Letters sent from Alfred H. Barr, Jr. to his family from Princeton. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1918 |
| I.C.61 | Barr Family Letters 3 of 6 folders. Letters sent from Alfred H. Barr, Jr. to his family from Princeton. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1919 |
| I.C.62 | Barr Family Letters 4 of 6 folders. Letters sent from Alfred H. Barr, Jr. to his family from Princeton. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1919 |
| I.C.63 | Barr Family Letters 5 of 6 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1920-1959 |
| I.C.64 | Barr Family Letters 6 of 6 folders. Postcards. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1948-1960 |
| I.C.65 | Miscellaneous Family Letters | 1917-1956 |
| I.C.66 | Clippings | Undated |
| I.C.67* | Clippings | Undated |
| I.C.68 | Andrew Barr 1 of 6 folders. Also includes letter to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. From his mother, Annie Elizabeth Wilson Barr. Includes telegram from Andrew Barr to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. announcing the death of their mother. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1919-1961 |
| I.C.69 | Andrew Barr 2 of 6 folders. Includes letters from Margaret Scolari Barr, wedding announcement for Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Margaret Scolari, newspaper clippings, and an announcement for the opening of the Museum of Modern Art. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1929-1992 |
| I.C.70* | Andrew Barr 3 of 6 folders. Includes original newspaper clippings from The Chicago Evening Post, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Sun, regarding the opening of MoMA in 1929. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1927-1929 |
| I.C.71 | Andrew Barr 4 of 6 folders. Includes correspondence with Rona Roob, photocopy of a letter from Ed King, transcript of a "Barr Family Recording" between Alfred. H. Barr and his mother, Annie Wilson Barr, photocopy of telegram from President Kennedy that was sent to 155 writers, artists, musicians, etc. to attend the 1961 inauguration. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1989 |
| I.C.72 | Andrew Barr 5 of 6 folders. Includes letter and flyer to MoMA members about Museum programming (1937). Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1932-1965 |
| I.C.73 | Andrew Barr 6 of 6 folders. Includes letters from Margaret Scolari Barr and early letters from Alfred H. Barr, Jr. to his parents. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. Restricted material removed: Correspondence from MSB and AHB regarding AHB's health. |
1919-1989 |
| I.C.74 | Andrew Barr Letters to parents. |
1940s |
| I.C.75 | Andrew Barr Letters to parents. |
ca. 1923-1927 |
| I.C.76 | Margaret Scolari Barr Includes postcards. |
ca. 1939-1966 |
| I.C.77 | Margaret Scolari Barr Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1945-1946 |
| I.C.78 | Margaret Scolari Barr Some letters discuss MoMA business. Also include letters to Alfred H. Barr Jr.'s mother, Annie Wilson Barr. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1932-1962 |
| I.C.79 | Margaret Scolari Barr Includes letters from Erwin Panofsky and clippings. |
ca.1940-1969 |
| I.C.80 | Margaret Scolari Barr: Notes and Correspondence with John Russell | Undated |
| I.C.81 | Dorothy Bent Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1926 |
| I.C.82 | "Beth" Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1923-1924 |
| I.C.83 | Theolinda Castellini Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1925-1926 |
| I.C.84 | Henry Elizabeth Carey Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| I.C.85 | "Childhood Letters" Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| I.C.86 | Thomas Finletter Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1959 |
| I.C.87 | Cynthia Garnett Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1926 |
| I.C.88 | Christian Gauss Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1926 |
| I.C.89 | Katherine Gauss [Katherine Gauss Jackson] 1 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1921 |
| I.C.90 | Katherine Gauss [Katherine Gauss Jackson] 2 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1922 |
| I.C.91 | Katherine Gauss [Katherine Gauss Jackson] 4 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1922 |
| I.C.92 | Katherine Gauss [Katherine Gauss Jackson] 4 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1923 |
| I.C.93 | Katherine Gauss [Katherine Gauss Jackson] 5 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1923 |
| I.C.94 | Katherine Gauss [Katherine Gauss Jackson] 6 of 11 folders. Includes "AHB" embroidered handkerchief. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1923 |
| I.C.95 | Katherine Gauss [Katherine Gauss Jackson] 7 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1924-1925 |
| I.C.96 | Katherine Gauss [Katherine Gauss Jackson] 8 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1924-1926 |
| I.C.97 | Katherine Gauss [Katherine Gauss Jackson] 9 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1926-1929 |
| I.C.98 | Katherine Gauss [Katherine Gauss Jackson] 10 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1937 |
| I.C.99 | Katherine Gauss [Katherine Gauss Jackson] 11 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1972 |
| I.C.100 | William Grohman Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| I.C.101 | Walter Haring Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| I.C.102 | Alexandre Hogue Christmas card. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1940 |
| I.C.103 | Peggy Horton Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| I.C.104 | Edgar Kaufmann Includes sketches. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1942 |
| I.C.105 | Martha Keller Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1924-1928 |
| I.C.106 | Edward S. King 1 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1925-1927 |
| I.C.107 | Edward S. King 2 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1923-1924 |
| I.C.108 | Edward S. King 3 of 11 folders. Includes loose stamps from Czechoslovakia and letters addressed to Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s parents. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1922-1923 |
| I.C.109 | Edward S. King 4 of 11 folders. Letters from Alfred H. Barr to Edward S. King. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1919-1920 |
| I.C.110 | Edward S. King 5 of 11 folders. Includes numerous pages with pencil sketches and a program for a performance by the Isadora Duncan Dancers. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1919 |
| I.C.111 | Edward S. King 6 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1919 |
| I.C.112 | Edward S. King 7 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1919 |
| I.C.113 | Edward S. King 8 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1919 |
| I.C.114 | Edward S. King 9 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1917-1918 |
| I.C.115 | Edward S. King 10 of 11 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1917-1918 |
| I.C.116 | Edward S. King 11 of 11 folders. Also includes letters from Andrew Barr and others. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1918-1920 |
| I.C.117 | Richard Krautheimer Christmas card from Richard and Trude Krautheimer. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1940 |
| I.C.118 | Letters from Princeton, Vassar, and Harvard Handwritten letters from friends and family. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1918-1926 |
| I.C.119 | "Love Letters" Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1923-1926 |
| I.C.120 | "Love Letters and Letters from Girls" Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1923-1926 |
| I.C.121 | "Unidentified Love Letters and Female Friends" Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1924-1926 |
| I.C.122 | Florence and Samuel Marx Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| I.C.123 | Mary McCall 1 of 1 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1924-1926 |
| I.C.124 | Mary McCall 2 of 2 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1925 |
| I.C.125 | "Miscellaneous" Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1939-1948 |
| I.C.126 | "Miscellaneous" Includes letters and barn photograph from Jere Abbott as well as a letter from Cary Ross. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| I.C.127 | Miscellaneous Cards Postcards, Christmas cards, etc. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
c.1961 |
| I.C.128 | Marjorie McLachlan Includes handkerchief memento and valentine. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1925-1926 |
| I.C.129 | "From Alfred's room, Summer 1945" Includes Christmas note from Edgar Kaufmann, an unidentified tintype; and a letter from Jere Abbott regarding how to use a new camera; and numerous black-and-white snapshots of barns in Vermont. Also included an installation photograph from MoMA; a season's greeting from John Rewald, which is composed a wood engraving reproduction of Paul Gauguin's Nave Fenua. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| I.C.130 | Agnes Mongan Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1944 |
| I.C.131 | Charles Rufus Morey Letter congratulating Alfred H. Barr, Jr. on passing his preliminary examination for his PhD at Harvard University. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1925 |
| I.C.132 | Daphne Phelps Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1959 |
| I.C.133 | Blanchette Rockefeller Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. Material added to this folder in 2023. |
Undated, 1962 |
| I.C.134 | Nelson Rockefeller Invitation to Rockefeller's inauguration as New York governor. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1959 |
| I.C.135 | Nancy Rust 1 of 4 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1925 |
| I.C.136 | Nancy Rust 2 of 4 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1926 |
| I.C.137 | Nancy Rust 3 of 4 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1926 |
| I.C.138 | Nancy Rust 4 of 4 folders. Includes wedding announcement. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1926-1936 |
| I.C.139 | Aline Saarinen Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1961 |
| I.C.140 | Mary (Fitzmaurice) Scolari Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| I.C.141 | Stamps International stamps. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1913-1920 |
| I.C.142 | Social Clubs Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1939 |
| I.C.143 | Mary Sullivan Photocopy of letter. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| I.C.144 | Louise Tanner Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1924-1926 |
| I.C.145 | Bide A. Wee Includes hand painted postcards. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1934-1935 |
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Series II: Museum Matters 1918-1980 |
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Series II is divided into four subseries. Many of these subseries reflect distinct folder runs from the initial Barr collection. However, they have now been unified in a single series pertaining to MoMA's business operations. |
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Subseries II.A: Administrative Files, Press Releases, and Press Clippings 1918-1989 |
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Subseries II.A includes administrative files, press releases, and clippings. Researchers interested in MoMA's organizational and operational workings especially during the Museum's early years, will find this subseries of interest and use. The subseries additionally includes fund raising documentation, press releases, and other internal reports. The art press' reactions-both positive and negative-to MoMA and its programming over the years is also well documented in newspaper clippings found here. The subseries' arrangement reflects that of the collection's original processing in 1983-1984. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| II.A.1; mf 3259:23 | Fundraising: The Rockefeller Foundation Presentation | 1960 |
| II.A.2; mf 3259:116 | Fundraising: The Rockefeller Foundation Drafts | 1960 |
| II.A.3; mf 3259:262 | Fundraising: 30th Anniversary Campaign Fundraising prospectus |
1959 |
| II.A.4; mf 3259:325-368; mf 3260:15-84 | Fundraising: 30th Anniversary Campaign Includes wall labels for gallery reinstallations, drafts, and launching of drive at Northeast Harbor, ME (August 14-17, 1959). |
1959 |
| II.A.5; mf 3260:85 | Fundraising: Notes | 1947 |
| II.A.6; mf 3260:112 | Fundraising: 1938 & 1939 | 1938-1939 |
| II.A.7; mf 3260:296 | Fundraising: "Notes of Departmental Expansion of the Museum" | 1932 |
| II.A.8 | Fundraising: Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Restricted file. |
1942-1943 |
| II.A.9 | Fundraising: Mrs. Victor Reisenfeld Restricted file. |
1961-1965 |
| II.A.10 | Fundraising: John D. Rockefeller, III Restricted file. |
ca. 1948-1964 |
| II.A.11 | Fundraising: Nate B. Spingold Restricted file. |
ca. 1960-1965 |
| II.A.12 | Fundraising: Louise Smith Restricted file. |
ca. 1953-1964 |
| II.A.13 | Fundraising: Louis E. Stern Restricted file. |
ca. 1959-1965 |
| II.A.14 | Fundraising: David G. Thompson Restricted file. |
1959-1963 |
| II.A.15 | Fundraising: Thirty-fifth and Thirtieth Anniversary Campaigns Possible Contributions Restricted file. |
1959-1963 |
| II.A.16 | Fundraising: Thirty-fifth and Thirtieth Anniversary Campaigns: Given Contributions A-K Restricted file. |
1959-1963 |
| II.A.17 | Fundraising: Thirty-fifth and Thirtieth Anniversary Campaigns: Given Contributions L-Z Restricted file. |
1959-1963 |
| II.A.18 | Fundraising: Thirty-fifth and Thirtieth Anniversary Campaigns: Lists, committees, etc. Restricted file. |
1960-1962 |
| II.A.19 | Fundraising: Thirty-fifth and Thirtieth Anniversary Campaigns: Lists, committees, etc. Restricted file. |
1959-1962 |
| II.A.20 | Fundraising: Thirty-fifth and Thirtieth Anniversary Campaigns: Berne Auction Restricted file. |
1961 |
| II.A.21 | Fundraising: Thirty-fifth and Thirtieth Anniversary Campaigns: Par-Bernet Thirtieth Anniversary Auction Restricted file. |
1960 |
| II.A.22 | Fundraising: Thirty-fifth and Thirtieth Anniversary Campaigns: Par-Bernet Thirtieth Anniversary Auction Restricted file. |
c. 1960 |
| II.A.23 | Fundraising: Thirty-fifth and Thirtieth Anniversary Campaigns: Par-Bernet Thirtieth Anniversary Auction Restricted file. |
c. 1960 |
| II.A.24 | Fundraising: Thirty-fifth and Thirtieth Anniversary Campaigns: Par-Bernet Thirtieth Anniversary Auction Restricted file. |
c. 1960 |
| II.A.25 | Fundraising: Thirty-fifth and Thirtieth Anniversary Campaigns: Par-Bernet Thirtieth Anniversary Auction Restricted file. |
c. 1960 |
| II.A.26 | Fundraising: Thirty-fifth and Thirtieth Anniversary Campaigns: Westbury, Long Island Benefit Exhibition Restricted file. |
c. 1960 |
| II.A.27; mf 3260:304 | Wall Labels: Painting and Sculpture Collections | 1964 |
| II.A.28; mf 3260:398 | Wall Labels: Film Library Label for Auditorium | 1964 |
| II.A.29* | Wall Labels: The Dance | 1963 |
| II.A.30; mf 3260:422 | Press Releases Includes press releases from the following years: |
1950-1967 |
| II.A.31; mf 3260:522 | Press Releases Includes press releases from the following years: |
1941-1949 |
| II.A.32; mf 3260:592 | Press Releases Includes press releases from the following years: |
1929-1937 |
| II.A.33; mf 3260:686 | Reports: Relating to MoMA Organizational Structure | 1943-1946 |
| II.A.34; mf 3260:776 | Reports: Report on the Private Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Arranged for the Trustees | 1945 |
| II.A.35; mf 3260:790 | "Reports" Includes Jan. 15, 1944, "The Museum Collections, A Brief Report by Alfred H. Barr, Jr." (January 15, 1944). |
1944 |
| II.A.36; mf 3260:840 | Reports: "Annual Report" | 1942 |
| II.A.37; mf 3260:864 | Reports: MoMA Broadcast | 1939 |
| II.A.38; mf 3260:930 | Reports: The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1936 |
| II.A.39 | "Reports" 1 of 2 folders. Includes museum budgets from 1941 to 1943; correspondence and memoranda; outline of Museum Director duties; report detailing exhibition priorities. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1933-1945 |
| II.A.40* | "Reports" 2 of 2 folders. Handwritten chart, "The Museum of Modern Art: A Coordinate Chart of What it is and How it Works." Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1938 |
| II.A.41* | Press Clippings* Includes newspaper obituaries and tributes for Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1973-1976 |
| II.A.42 | "Press Clippings" 1 of 2 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1943-1974 |
| II.A.43* | "Press Clippings"* 2 of 2 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1929-1974 |
| II.A.44 | "Press Clippings"* 1 of 2 folders. Includes "Their Heart Belongs to Dada," The New Republic (September 15, 1941) and newspaper clippings regarding The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1941-1973 |
| II.A.45* | "Press Clippings"* 2 of 2 folders. Primarily newspaper clippings concerning MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Also includes articles on the death of Mark Rothko. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1969-1973 |
| II.A.46 | "Press Clippings"* 1 of 2 folders. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1946-1962 |
| II.A.47* | "Press Clippings"* 2 of 2 folders. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1962 |
| II.A.48 | "Press Clippings"* 1 of 2 folders. Also includes annotated exhibition pamphlet for "Works of Art: Given or Promised and the Philip L. Goodwin Collection (MoMA, October 8-November 9, 1958); announcement marking the founding of MoMA; and program for the College Art Association's Fifteenth Annual Meeting (1925). Clippings originally collected by Andrew Barr, Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s brother. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1918-1958 |
| II.A.49* | "Press Clippings"* 2 of 2 folders. "Museum of Modern Art Obtains Lizzie P. Bliss Collection," New York Herald Tribune (March 13, 1934) and "New World Prepares to Show its Cultural Achievements to Old World," The New York Times (March 11, 1958). Clippings originally collected by Andrew Barr, Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s brother. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1934-1958 |
| II.A.50 | "Press Clippings"* 1 of 2 folders. Includes MoMA film library brochure and two Bulletins of the Museum of Modern Art (1938). Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1939-1954 |
| II.A.51* | "Press Clippings"* 2 of 2 folders. Includes New York Tribune article with the headline "Barr Quits { at the Museum of Modern Art" (October 28, 1943). Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1943 |
| II.A.52* | "Press Clippings"* Primarily articles on the career and work of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1952-1953 |
| II.A.53* | "Press Clippings"* Includes clipping regarding MoMA's acquisition of the Lille B. Pliss collection and a copy of Gaceta de Arte (May 1932). Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1932-1948 |
| II.A.54* | "Press Clippings"* Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1929-1935 |
| II.A.55* | "Press Clippings"* Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1929 |
| II.A.56 | MoMA Finance and Budgetary Matters Includes handwritten letter by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. in which different salaries are discussed. Restricted material removed: Correspondence regarding trustees and recommendations. Minutes of the Meetings of the Executive Committee on December 19, Committee on The Museum Collection on April 26, 1945, Board of Trustees and The Corporation on November 11, 1943, and Coordinating Committee on October 27, 1943 were removed from this folder and re-filed in the collection Committee Minutes. |
1942-1943 |
| II.A.57 | Regarding the Museum of Modern Art Miscellaneous printed matter. |
1934 |
| II.A.58 | "Miscellaneous Papers" Includes clippings and brochure for "the Museum of Modern Art Publications in Reprint from Arno Press" as well as chronology for Barr's travels created by Olive Bragazzi. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1973-1980 |
| II.A.59 | Business Card Two copies of Alfred H. Barr's MoMA business card for his role as Counselor to the Board of Trustees. Also includes business card for Barr's title of Director of Museum Collection. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1947-1969 |
| II.A.60; mf 3266:163; mf 3266:180-182 | Art Workers' Coalition Includes proclamation and miscellaneous printed matter. |
1969 |
| II.A.61*; mf 3266:163; mf 3266:180-182 | Art Workers' Coalition Printed matter |
1969 |
| II.A.62 | "G. David Thompson Collection" Includes catalogue typescript, correspondence. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1960-1969 |
| II.A.63 | Rona Roob Includes memo to Roob and Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s copy of Arthur Pope's Tone Relations in Painting (1922). Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1922-1962 |
| II.A.64 | "Priority List of Painting and Sculpture in MoMA, 1961" Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1961 |
| II.A.65 | "Acquisitions" Restricted file. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1944 |
| II.A.66 | "Department of Painting and Sculpture" Documentation of departmental activities and "outline of responsibilities" for MoMA Director. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1940 |
| II.A.67 | "Reorganization with Duties of Director" Reorganization Committee report and drafts. Also includes helpful chronology that details the growth of MoMA and its departments during the 1930s. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1937 |
| II.A.68 | Early MoMA Ephemera Includes invitation to MoMA's inaugural exhibition, invitation to become a Museum patron, and original MoMA announcement and mission statement marked "precious." Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1929 |
| II.A.69 | Curatorial notes re: exhibitions from 1941 to 1943 Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| II.A.70 | Film Department | 1956-1974 |
| II.A.71 | Vanity Fair | 1929 |
Subseries II.B: From Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s Personal Desk 1933-1969 |
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Subseries II.B: is a very important subseries in the collection being comprised of items removed from Barr's desk at the Museum at 29 West 53rd Street. They offer a unique glimpse into Barr's work method. The original alphabetical order of files found in the desk has been strictly maintained and quotation marks in the folder titles reflect the terminology used by Barr himself. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| II.B.1 | "Safety" Restricted material removed: Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee on on September 22, 1961 and the Board of Trustees on October 11, 1961. |
1961 |
| II.B.2 | "Classification of Collections for Purposes of Protection in Case of War" | 1961 |
| II.B.3; mf 3265:1102 | "1969: Bates Lowry Resignation: William Paley & Alfred H. Barr, Jr." No Description |
1969 |
| II.B.4; mf 3265:1110 | "1953: Bill of Rights Conference and Emergency Civil Liberties Committee" | 1953 |
| II.B.5; mf 3265:1146 | "1947: Museum Collection-Drawing Exhibition" | 1947 |
| II.B.6; mf 3265:1195 | "Acquisitions" | 1945 |
| II.B.7; mf 3265:1205 | "Collection Installations" | 1945 |
| II.B.8*; mf 3265:1205 | "Collection Installations" | 1945 |
| II.B.9; mf 3265:1227 | "Collection Lists" | 1945 |
| II.B.10; mf 3265:1256 | "Collection-Trustee Opinions" | 1945 |
| II.B.11; mf 3265:1265 | "Time Analysis" | 1945 |
| II.B.12; mf 3265:1277 | Leslie Switzer ("Answered") Correspondence |
1942 |
| II.B.13; mf 3265:1289 | "Garden 1942" | 1942 |
| II.B.14; mf 3265:1297 | "Permanent Collection Installation" | 1941 |
| II.B.15; mf 3265:1306 | "Constitution (as amended Dec. 12, 1939)" | 1939 |
| II.B.16; mf 3265:1316 | The Museum Collections A Brief Report | 1941 |
| II.B.17; mf 3265:1333-1392 | Current Activities and the Future Program of MoMA | 1937 |
| II.B.18; mf 3266:19 | "The Permanent Collection" Includes report by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (October 1933) and materials concerning a loan exhibition. |
1933 |
| II.B.19; mf 3266:81 | "Master copy Loan Exhibition: Ten Year Schedule (complete)" | 1933 |
| II.B.20; mf 3266:120 | "Suggested Exhibitions 1933 & Schemes for MoMA 1933 (Blackburn)" "Exhibition/Lists of suggestions" by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (Ascona, Switzerland, May 27, 1933). "This list was begun in December, 1932, outlined in March 1933 and completed on the above date. Materials very fragile; handle with care. |
1933 |
| II.B.21 | James Thrall Soby Restricted file. |
1971 |
| II.B.22 | Bill Lieberman File not present as of May 2016. |
1950-1953 |
| II.B.23 | Miscellaneous Printed Matter "Claes Oldenburg Notes"; Allan Kaprow exhibition mailer; and ephemera relating to Paul Schatz's "The Invertible Cube." |
Undated |
Subseries II.C: "Chronicles": Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art 1929-1977 |
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Subseries II.C contains material used by Barr in writing Chronology of Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art (PASITMOMA). Important documents related to the development of MoMA's curatorial identity and permanent collection of painting and sculpture are found in this subseries. Among them are: a brochure from 1929 that explains the purpose and mission of a Museum devoted to modern art (II.C.2); annual reports from 1929 to 1932 (II.C.6-II.C.8, II.C.10); and a statement titled "Present Status and Future Direction of The Museum of Modern Art," which came to define the Museum's policies after 1933 (II.C.18). The subseries is arranged chronologically. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| II.C.1 | Selective Chronology of The Museum of Modern Art | 1929-1964 |
| II.C.2 | Brochure: A New Art Museum | 1929 |
| II.C.3 | Brochure: The Museum of Modern Art | 1929 |
| II.C.4 | "Two Drafts for Publicity" Much of draft number one was used in publicity folder; published in late summer and reprinted in the Fall of 1929 with some revisions. See also II.C.2. |
1929 |
| II.C.5 | Annual Report and Statement of Policy 1 of 2 folders. |
1929-1930 |
| II.C.6 | Annual Report and Statement of Policy Photocopies of documents found in II.C.5. |
1929-1930 |
| II.C.7 | Annual Report and Statement of Policy 2 of 2 folders. |
1929-1930 |
| II.C.8 | Annual Report and Statement of Policy Photocopies of documents found in II.C.7. |
1929-1930 |
| II.C.9 | "An Effort to Secure $3,500,000 for The Museum of Modern Art, New York City" Official statement |
1931 |
| II.C.10 | The Museum of Modern Art Annual Report | 1931-32 |
| II.C.11 | "The Museum of Modern Art" by A. Conger Goodyear, in Creative Art | 1931 |
| II.C.12 | "The Public as Artist: The Purpose of the Museum and the Permanent Collection" Brochure |
1932 |
| II.C.13 | Notes on Departmental Expansion of the Museum (Architecture and Film) | 1932 |
| II.C.14 | The Museum of Modern Art Progress Report Concerning the permanent collection, the Bliss collection, and semi-permanent loans. |
1932-1933 |
| II.C.15 | Notes on Departmental Expansion of the Museum (Architecture and Film) | 1932 |
| II.C.16 | The Permanent Collection, Second Draft First detailed report on MoMa's collection. |
1933 |
| II.C.17 | Report on the Permanent Collection Includes second and third (final) draft of report; ("Torpedo Report"), Summer 1933. Also includes report on loan exhibitions from the Spring of 1933. |
1933 |
| II.C.18 | Present Status and Future Direction of The Museum of Modern Art Originally prepared as a confidential report to the Executive Committee. Was accepted by the committee as a fair statement of the principles that define Museum Policies. Drafted by Alan R. Blackburn, Jr., Executive Director. Material added to this folder in 2023. |
1933 |
| II.C.19 | A Museum of Modern Art in New York Includes brochure. |
1934 |
| II.C.20 | Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition [MoMA Exh. #37]: catalogue Foreword | 1934-1935 |
| II.C.21 | Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition [MoMA Exh. #37]: catalogue Introduction | 1934-1935 |
| II.C.22 | Policy of the Museum with Regard to the Status of the Permanent Collection (Report for the Year October 1935-October 1936) | 1936 |
| II.C.23 | Minutes of Executive Committee Meeting Includes MoMA policy with regard to status of the permanent collection. |
1936 |
| II.C.24 | Executive Director's Report for the Period (Thomas Dabney Mabry, Jr.) | 1936-1937 |
| II.C.25 | From Meeting of Trustees: Recommendations Regarding Acquisitions | 1938 |
| II.C.26 | Part Two Supplement to Petition to the Rockefeller Foundation: The Current Activities and Future Program of The Museum of Modern Art | 1938 |
| II.C.27 | Annual Report of the Executive Director to the Trustees and Corporation Members of The Museum of Modern Art | 1937-1938 |
| II.C.28 | Fortune Fortune, December 1938. |
1938 |
| II.C.29 | "The Museum of Modern Art: Notes on its Special Character and Policies for a Possible Publicity Campaign" | 1939 |
| II.C.30 | Painting and Sculpture Collection Purchase Funds Includes information on Abby Aldrich Rockefeller gifts and Lillie P. Bliss bequest and disposals. |
1929-1939 |
| II.C.31 | Painting and Sculpture Collection Primarily correspondence. |
1930s-1940s |
| II.C.32 | Draft of Recommendations of the Advisory Committee with Regard to Permanent Collection of the Museum | 1940 |
| II.C.33 | Annual Report Concerning MoMA's collections. |
1939-1940 |
| II.C.34 | Collection of The Museum of Modern Art: Preliminary List | 1940 |
| II.C.35 | Bulletin of The Museum of Modern Art "American Art and the Museum," in vol. VIII, no.1 (November 1940). |
1940 |
| II.C.36 | The Collection of The Museum of Modern Art Notes on function, space, time, acquisition, installation, publications, and disposal of collection. |
1941 |
| II.C.37 | Annual Report | 1940-1941 |
| II.C.38 | The Museum of Modern Art Advisory Committee Report on Museum Collections | 1941 |
| II.C.39 | The 1929 Multi-Departmental Plan for The Museum of Modern Art Prepared for A. Conger Goodyear. |
1941 |
| II.C.40 | Ideal Collection: Tentative and Hypothetical Layout | 1941 |
| II.C.41 | Bulletin of The Museum of Modern Art "Modern Primitives," vol. IX, no.2 (November 1941). |
1941 |
| II.C.42 | Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art | 1942 |
| II.C.43 | Bulletin of The Museum of Modern Art "The Museum and The War," vol. X, no.1 (October-November 1942). |
1942 |
| II.C.44 | "The Museum of Modern Art: The First Ten Years" By A. Conger Goodyear. |
1943 |
| II.C.45 | "The Museum of Modern Art: The First Ten Years" and "Loan Exhibitions: Ten Year Schedule" | 1943 |
| II.C.46 | The Latin American Collection of The Museum of Modern Art | 1943 |
| II.C.47 | Museum of Modern Art Exhibits New Acquisitions Press Release | 1943 |
| II.C.48 | Minutes of the Meeting of the Advisory Committee of The Museum of Modern Art Includes report of the Committee on the Museum Collections by James Johnson Sweeney. |
1943 |
| II.C.49 | Structural Outline of Museum Staff and Arrangement of the Collection | 1929-1943 |
| II.C.50 | Bulletin of The Museum of Modern Art "New Acquisitions in American Painting," by James Thrall Soby, vol. XI, no.4 (February-March 1944). |
1944 |
| II.C.51 | The Museum News "The Museum of Modern Art Painting and Sculpture," by James Thrall Soby, vol. XXII, no. 4 (June 15, 1944). |
1944 |
| II.C.52 | Art in America "The Collection of The Museum of Modern Art: Four Basic Policies," by James Thrall Soby (October 1944). |
1944 |
| II.C.53 | The Museum Collections: A Brief Report Includes a letter to Philip Goodwin concerning space division and minutes of Meeting of Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Museum concerning creation of a Chair of Modern Painting and Sculpture. |
1944 |
| II.C.54 | Report on the Private Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art | 1945 |
| II.C.55 | Report on the Private Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art | 1945 |
| II.C.56 | Museum Committees Concerned with the Collection of Painting and Sculpture | 1929-1948 |
| II.C.57 | Policy for the Collection of Painting and Sculpture | 1945 |
| II.C.58 | Report to the Trustees in Connection with a Review of the Museum Collection | 1945 |
| II.C.59 | Transatlantic "The Museum of Modern Art" by James Thrall Soby (June 1946). |
1946 |
| II.C.60 | Reports and Brochures for Fundraising | 1946-1947 |
| II.C.61 | Painting and Sculpture Collection Purchase Funds | 1940-1946 |
| II.C.62 | Agreement Between the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art 1 of 3 folders. |
1947 |
| II.C.63 | Agreement Between the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art 2 of 3 folders. |
ca. 1947 |
| II.C.64 | Agreement Between the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art 3 of 3 folders. Also includes "termination of agreement" between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art (October 1, 1948). |
1947-1948 |
| II.C.65 | The Metropolitan Museum and American Art | 1949-50 |
| II.C.66 | Policy on Museum Collections and Termination of Agreement with the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1 of 3 folders. |
1952-1953 |
| II.C.67 | Policy on Museum Collections and Termination of Agreement with the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2 of 3 folders. |
ca. 1952-1953 |
| II.C.68 | Policy on Museum Collections and Termination of Agreement with the Metropolitan Museum of Art 3 of 3 folders. |
ca. 1952-1953 |
| II.C.69 | Policy Committee for the Museum's Collection of Masterworks Meeting minutes from eight meetings. |
1953-1957 |
| II.C.70 | Painting and Sculpture Collection Miscellaneous letters and reports. |
1947-1952 |
| II.C.71 | Painting and Sculpture Collection Miscellaneous memos and press releases. |
1953-1958 |
| II.C.72 | Priority Lists of Paintings and Sculptures Drawn up by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. | 1961 |
| II.C.73 | Painting and Sculpture Collection Includes annual reports and floor plans. |
1959-1963 |
| II.C.74 | Museum Collections Floor Plan (2nd and 3rd Floors) Includes "brochure for the public". |
1964 |
| II.C.75 | Painting and Sculpture Collection | 1969 |
| II.C.76 | Collection Policy Excerpts from "The Chronicle." |
1970 |
| II.C.77 | "Confidential Report to the Trustee ad Hoc Committee to Study Future Policies of The Museum of Modern Art" "The Museum Collections-outline of an appendix and other related material." |
1965 |
| II.C.78 | Artists Represented in MoMA Collections Note: excludes the Department of Painting and Sculpture. |
Undated |
| II.C.79 | "PASITMoMA" Includes memos. |
Undated |
| II.C.80 | Museum of Modern Art Publications on Painting and Sculpture Collection | 1942-1964 |
| II.C.81 | Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art 1929-1967 1 of 2 folders. Includes an outline of illustrations and headings. |
1977 |
| II.C.82 | Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art 1929-1967 2 of 2 folders. Memos regarding catalogue production. |
1977 |
| II.C.83 | "Draft of PASITMoMA Chronicle" 1 of 2 folders. |
Undated |
| II.C.84 | "Draft of PASITMoMA Chronicle" 2 of 2 folders. |
Undated |
| II.C.85 | "Draft of PASITMoMA Chronicle" 1 of 4 folders. |
Undated |
| II.C.86 | "Draft of PASITMoMA Chronicle" 2 of 4 folders. |
Undated |
| II.C.87 | "Draft of PASITMoMA Chronicle" 3 of 4 folders. |
Undated |
| II.C.88 | "Draft of PASITMoMA Chronicle" 4 of 4 folders. |
Undated |
Subseries II.D: Defending Modern Art 1940-1970 |
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Through a compilation of correspondence and miscellaneous printed matter, Subseries II.D documents the struggles that Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and his compatriots and contemporaries faced as evangelists of modern art in the mid-twentieth century. Many documents found in this subseries (particularly press clippings) attack MoMA and its programming, reflecting the dominant political and cultural attitudes of the country through the 1950s. Several documents in the subseries also emphasize Barr's active defense of modern artists and their work, especially against those who accused them of being communists or inspired by communism. This subseries is arranged chronologically. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| II.D.1; mf 3155:895 | Amateur Art and Painting Competitions | ca. 1953 |
| II.D.2; mf 3155:968 | American Artists Congress | 1940-1943 |
| II.D.3; mf 3155:972 | American Civil Liberties Union | ca. 1957-1960 |
| II.D.4; mf 3155:1075 | American Federation of Arts: Artistic Freedom Includes correspondence and meeting minutes. |
ca. 1952-1956 |
| II.D.5; mf 3155:1167 | American Legion Correspondence and selected print matter. |
1955-1956 |
| II.D.6; mf 3155:1261 | American Legion Clippings. |
1955-1956 |
| II.D.7; mf 3155:1284-1375; mf 3156:11-42 | Anti-Modern: A-E Predominately printed matter. |
ca. 1949-1963 |
| II.D.8; mf 3156:43 | Anti-Modern: Chimpanzee | ca. 1949-1963 |
| II.D.9; mf 3156:67 | Anti-Modern: F-P | ca. 1949-1963 |
| II.D.10; mf 3156:218 | Anti-Modern: R-Z | ca. 1949-1963 |
| II.D.11; mf 3156:372 | Anti-Modern: "NUTS" | ca. 1949-1963 |
| II.D.12; mf 3156:434 | Censorship: Books | ca. 1955-1960 |
| II.D.13; mf 3156:557 | Censorship: Books | ca. 1951-1960 |
| II.D.14; mf 3156:617 | Censorship: Films Predominately materials concerning The Miracle. |
ca. 1951-1957 |
| II.D.15; mf 3156:698 | "Dallas: Correspondence" | 1955-1956 |
| II.D.16; mf 3156:819 | "Dallas: Clippings" | 1955-1956 |
| II.D.17; mf 3156:887 | "Dondero: Correspondence" | ca. 1949-1968 |
| II.D.18; mf 3156:1008 | "Dondero: Speeches and Clippings" | 1949-1957 |
| II.D.19; mf 3156:1071 | Margaret Crisson French Regarding American Artist article. |
1955-1956 |
| II.D.20 | "Fur-lined Museum," by Emily Genauer, Harper's Magazine (July 1944) 1 of 4 folders. Includes two original copies of Emily Genauer's essay "The Fur-lined Museum" and a draft of James Thrall Soby's response to her criticism, annotated by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1944 |
| II.D.21 | "Fur-lined Museum," by Emily Genauer, Harper's Magazine (July 1944) 2 of 4 folders. Includes James Thrall Soby's typescript for "Statement in Reference to the "Fur-Lined Museum" (internal MoMA Memo); an annotated copy of Emily Genauer's essay; correspondence; and Daniel Rich's letter to the editor published in Art News, September 1944. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1944 |
| II.D.22 | "Fur-lined Museum," by Emily Genauer, Harper's Magazine (July 1944) 3 of 4 folders. Handwritten notes and correspondence. Also includes several correspondence about and from John McAndrew in Mexico. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1944 |
| II.D.23 | "Fur-lined Museum," by Emily Genauer, Harper's Magazine (July 1944) 4 of 4 folders. Primarily correspondence. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1944 |
| II.D.24; mf 3156:1102 | House Beautiful and Retailing Daily Includes letter to the editor and statement by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. |
1953 |
| II.D.25; mf 3156:1120 | "Houston: Correspondence" | 1958-1959 |
| II.D.26; mf 3156:1129 | "Houston: Documents" Materials relevant to University of St. Thomas, Houston case. |
1958-1959 |
| II.D.27; mf 3156:1131-1318; mf 3157:11-18 | "Humanism" | Undated |
| II.D.28; mf 3157:19 | Eleanor Jewett Regarding Chicago Tribune and supposed Stalin statement on modern ("contemporary") art. |
1953-1956 |
| II.D.29; mf 3157:95 | The Gallery-Katonah Village Library Includes correspondence, clippings, and material concerning the "Gropper controversy." |
1955-1956 |
| II.D.30; mf 3157:185 | Los Angeles: Bernard Rosenthal Includes materials related to a controversy over a Bernard Rosenthal sculpture. |
1955 |
| II.D.31; mf 3157:294 | MoMA: Criticism of Exhibitions and Policies | ca. 1970 |
| II.D.32; mf 3157:356 | MoMA: Pickets & Anti-Abstract Art Comprised of letters and miscellaneous printed matter. |
1960 |
| II.D.33; mf 3157:446 | National Sculpture Society | 1952 |
| II.D.34; mf 3157:521 | "New York Civil Liberties Union: Security" Includes press clippings and printed matter. |
1954-1956 |
| II.D.35; mf 3157:604 | Boris Pasternak Includes press clippings and printed matter. |
1958 |
| II.D.36; mf 3157:643 | "Pro-Modern: General" | ca. 1947-1960 |
| II.D.37; mf 3157:706 | "Pro-Modern: Ammunition" | ca. 1947-1960 |
| II.D.38 | "Pro-Modern: Humor on Modern Art" | ca. 1947-1960 |
| II.D.39; mf 3157:736 | Reality Includes correspondence and printed matter. |
1953-1955 |
| II.D.40; mf 3157:777 | History of San Francisco by Anton Refregier Includes correspondence, clippings, and printed matter. |
1952-1953 |
| II.D.41* | History of San Francisco by Anton Refregier Newspaper clippings. |
1952-1953 |
| II.D.42; mf 3157:871 | T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Includes correspondence and other ephemera regarding anti-modern book, Mona Lisa's Mustache. |
1947-1948 |
| II.D.43; mf 3157:924 | Sir Winston Churchill Exhibition Includes never-sent letter to the editor. |
1958 |
| II.D.44; mf 3157:976 | Ben Shahn 1 of 2 folders. Includes original sketch with the inscription: "Alfred, never take my cynicism seriously. Ben." |
1952-1955 |
| II.D.45*; mf 3157:976 | Ben Shahn 2 of 2 folders. Newspaper clippings. |
1952-1955 |
| II.D.46; mf 3157:1014 | State Department: Policy and Censorship Includes clippings, memos, and correspondence. |
1952-1959 |
| II.D.47; mf 3157:1234 | State Department: Fred Busbey Includes Congressional Record for May 13, 1947. |
1947-1953 |
| II.D.48; mf 3157:1341-1373; mf 3158:11-50 | American National Exhibition in Moscow Predominately press clippings. |
1959 |
| II.D.49; mf 3158:51 | William Zorach: General | ca. 1953-1956 |
| II.D.50*; mf 3158:51 | William Zorach: General | ca. 1953-1956 |
| II.D.51; mf 3158:77-123 | William Zorach, Spirit of the Sea | ca. 1953-1956 |
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Series III: Exhibitions and Catalogues 1934-1986 |
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Series III contains various material related to MoMA publications and exhibitions, primarily from the 1930s through the 1960s. Among the exhibitions particularly well represented in this series are Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937] and Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. #413, June 28-September 18, 1949]. Other noteworthy material present in this series relates to "Exhibition X" (also known as "For Us the Living"), a proposed exhibition conceived in response to the Nazi occupation of Paris in 1940. The reverse chronological arrangement of this series largely reflects the order of the original collection; however, several folders formerly contained in the Photographic Archive have been integrated. Most other accretions and transfers from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers have been added to the end of the series. Again, researchers should refer to folder notes for provenance details. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| III.1 3151:865 | Masters Of Modern Art: Foreign Editions | 1955-1961 |
| III.2; mf 3151:904 | Masters Of Modern Art: Distribution Lists | 1955-1961 |
| III.3; mf 3151:970 | Masters Of Modern Art: Acknowledgements | 1954-1955 |
| III.4; mf 3151:1108 | Masters Of Modern Art: Reviews and Clippings Materials very fragile; handle with care. |
1955-1961 |
| III.5; mf 3151:1105-1305; mf 3152:15-108 | Masters Of Modern Art: Donor List and Back Matter | 1954 |
| III.6; mf 3152:109 | Masters Of Modern Art: General Correspondence | 1952-1953 |
| III.7; mf 3152:181 | Masters Of Modern Art: Manuscript "Painting section text." |
Undated |
| III.8; mf 3152:368 | Masters Of Modern Art: Departmental Prefaces Includes prefaces by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and René d'Harnoncourt as well as a letter of suggestions from James Thrall Soby. |
Undated |
| III.9; mf 3152:617 | Masters Of Modern Art: Final Drafts Materials very fragile; handle with care. |
c. 1955 |
| III.10; mf 3152:1073-1222; mf 3153:14-30 | Masters Of Modern Art: First Drafts "Painting section." |
c. 1950-1955 |
| III.11; mf 3153:31 | Masters Of Modern Art: Correspondence Correspondence with other MoMA departments ("including Film and Architecture and Design"). |
Undated |
| III.12 | Masters of Modern Art, Volume 1 1 of 7 folders. Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1954 |
| III.13 | Masters of Modern Art, Volume 1 2 of 7 folders. Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1954 |
| III.14 | Masters of Modern Art, Volume 1 3 of 7 folders. Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1954 |
| III.15 | Masters of Modern Art, Volume 2 4 of 7 folders. Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1954 |
| III.16 | Masters of Modern Art, Volume 2 5 of 7 folders. Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1954 |
| III.17 | Masters of Modern Art, Volume 2 6 of 7 folders. Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1954 |
| III.18 | Masters of Modern Art, Volume 2 7 of 7 folders. Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1954 |
| III.19; mf 3153:316 | Braun & Cie MoMA Guide Book Braun & Cie MoMA Guide Book |
1950 |
| III.20; mf 3153:401 | Exhibitions and Publications: General | 1946-1950 |
| III.21; mf 3153:828 | Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. #413, June 28-September 18, 1949] 1 of 7 folders. Includes labels, press releases, and lists. |
ca. 1949 |
| III.22; mf 3153:964 | Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. #413, June 28-September 18, 1949] 2 of 7 folders. Exhibition correspondence A-Q. Some correspondence with James Thrall Soby marked as "Catalogue." |
ca. 1949 |
| III.23; mf 3153:1275-1334; mf 3154:14-263 | Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. #413, June 28-September 18, 1949] 3 of 7 folders. Exhibition correspondence R-Z. |
ca. 1949 |
| III.24; mf 3154:264 | Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. #413, June 28-September 18, 1949] 4 of 7 folders. Includes drafts for labels and press releases, installation photographs, and clippings. |
ca. 1949 |
| III.25; mf 3154:422 | Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. #413, June 28-September 18, 1949] 5 of 7 folders. |
ca. 1949 |
| III.26; mf 3154:633 | Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. #413, June 28-September 18, 1949] 6 of 7 folders. Catalogue typescript and galleys. |
ca. 1949 |
| III.27; mf 3154:680 | Twentieth Century Italian Art [MoMA Exh. #413, June 28-September 18, 1949] 7 of 7 folders. Includes correspondence concerning finances and with James Thrall Soby. |
1948 |
| III.28; mf 3154:730 | MoMA Bulletin Vol. 16, no. 4. |
1949 |
| III.29; mf 3154:817 | PASITMOMA II: Post-publication Includes letters from institutions and artists, reviews, and a 1948 edition of the publication. See also III.64 for the 1942 edition of PASITMOMA. |
Undated |
| III.30; mf 3154:1087 | PASITMOMA II: Pre-publication Includes typescript. |
Undated |
| III.31; mf 3154:1258 | The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture | 1945 |
| III.32; mf 3154:1293-1358 | Religious Art Exhibition Proposed Includes pamphlets, correspondence, and photographs. |
1942 |
| III.33; mf 3155:15 | Exhibition "X" ("For Us the Living") 1 of 5 folders. Exhibition proposed, but never held. |
1940 |
| III.34; mf 3155:67 | Exhibition "X" ("For Us the Living") 2 of 5 folders. Includes memos and correspondence. |
c. 1940 |
| III.35; mf 3155:111 | Exhibition "X" ("For Us the Living") 3 of 5 folders. Includes preliminary outlines. |
c. 1940 |
| III.36 | Exhibition "X" ("For Us the Living") 4 of 5 folders. |
c. 1940 |
| III.37; mf 3155:293 | Exhibition "X" ("For Us the Living") 5 of 5 folders. |
c. 1940 |
| III.38; mf 3155:561 | Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art [MoMA Exh. #106, May 15-September 30, 1940] Includes memos, correspondence, and installation plans. |
1940 |
| III.39; mf 3155:713 | Italian Masters [MoMA Exh. #98, January 26-April 7, 1940] Includes telegrams, notes, general lists, and correspondence. |
1939-1940 |
| III.40*; mf 3155:713 | Italian Masters [MoMA Exh. #98, January 26-April 7, 1940] Press clippings. |
1939-1940 |
| III.41; mf 3155:833 | Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America [MoMA Exh. #76, April 27-July 24, 1938] | 1938 |
| III.42; mf 3155:876-882 | Luis Quintanilla Etching: Proposed Exhibition Includes letter from Ernest Hemingway. |
1934 |
| III.43 | The International Surrealists Exhibition London; New Burlington Galleries (1936). |
1936 |
| III.44 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937], Volume 1 Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1936 |
| III.45 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937],Volume 1 Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1936 |
| III.46 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937], Volume 1-2 Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1936 |
| III.47 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937],Volume 2 Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1936 |
| III.48 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937,]Volume 2 Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1936 |
| III.49 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937, Volume 2 Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1936 |
| III.50 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937,]Volume 3 Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1936 |
| III.51 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937],Volume 3 Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1936 |
| III.52 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937], Volume 4 Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1936 |
| III.53 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937], Volume 4 Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1936 |
| III.54 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [MoMA Exh. #55, December 7, 1936-January 17, 1937,]Volume 4 Photographic reproductions. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1936 |
| III.55 | MoMA Pamphlets & Flyers Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1929-1930 |
| III.56 | Vincent van Gogh Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1935-1936 |
| III.57* | Vincent van Gogh Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1935 |
| III.58 | Correspondence Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1939 |
| III.59 | Art in Our Time and the Philip L. Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone Building Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1939 |
| III.60* | Art in Our Time and the Philip L. Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone Building Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1939 |
| III.61 | Bauhaus: 1919-1928 Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1939-1962 |
| III.62 | Correspondence Regarding the Reprinting of Cubism and Abstract Art Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1986 |
| III.63 | "Twenty-Fifth" (25th Anniversary Exhibition) Box of index cards. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| III.64 | PASITMOMA Includes the 1942 edition of PASITMOMA (Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art), annotated with insurance values; several annotated supplementary lists from 1945; and undated drafts of the supplementary lists. Items received from the Office of the Registrar in May 2023. This folder was added in 2023. |
1942-1945 |
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Series IV: Writings 1918-1984 |
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Series IV works hand in hand with that material found in Series III. It is divided into two subseries. |
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Subseries IV.A: Modern Painters Series 1945-1955 |
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Subseries IV.A is dedicated to Barr's contribution to Penquin's Modern Painters Series, which included texts on American artists such as Ben Shahn, Edward Hopper, and Stuart Davis. The files found within this subseries predominantly contain correspondence, research photographs, and reproductions. Subseries IV.A was arranged as a distinct series in the original collection and has remained as such during reprocessing. It is arranged in reverse chronological order. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| IV.A.1; mf 3150:515 | Pelican History of Art Proposed | 1946-1955 |
| IV.A.2; mf 3150:573 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: General Policy-Miscellaneous | 1945-1952 |
| IV.A.3; mf 3150:694 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: Ben Shahn Photographs and plates. |
1946-1947 |
| IV.A.4; mf 3150:748 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: Ben Shahn Correspondence. |
1946-1947 |
| IV.A.5; mf 3150:861 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: Ben Shahn Correspondence. |
1946-1947 |
| IV.A.6; mf 3150:874 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: Ben Shahn Includes captions, forms, and lists. |
1946-1947 |
| IV.A.7; mf 3150:907 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: Ben Shahn | 1946-1947 |
| IV.A.8; mf 3150:936 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: Ben Shahn Manuscript. |
1946-1947 |
| IV.A.9; mf 3150:958 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: Edward Hopper Includes captions, forms, and lists. |
1947-1950 |
| IV.A.10; mf 3150:1006 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: Edward Hopper Includes correspondence with Lloyd Goodrich. |
1947-1950 |
| IV.A.11; mf 3150:1141 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: Edward Hopper Includes photographs and plates. |
1947-1950 |
| IV.A.12; mf 3150:1193 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: Stuart Davis | 1946 |
| IV.A.13; mf 3150:1213 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: Latin America | 1946 |
| IV.A.14; mf 3150:1228 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: Peter Blume Correspondence with Alfred H. Barr, Jr., James Thrall Soby, and Blume. Also includes captions, forms, and lists. |
1945 |
| IV.A.15; mf 3150:1294-1307; mf 3151:16-196 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: Peter Blume | 1945 |
| IV.A.16; mf 3151:32 | Penguin Modern Painters Series: Peter Blume Includes photographs. |
1945 |
Subseries IV.B: Other Publications 1918-1984 |
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Many types of writings spanning Barr's long career are included in Subseries IV.B-from travel notes from the 1920s to articles published in popular periodicals during the Cold War. Noteworthy files in Subseries IV.B include those related to Barr's contributions to The Hound & Horn, the avant-garde literary magazine founded by Lincoln Kirstein and Varian Fry while at Harvard University in 1927 (IV.B.111 & IV.B.112); and research materials related to Barr's important didactic text, What is Modern Painting? Subseries IV.B contains more recent collection accretions as well as materials transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers. It is arranged in reverse chronological order. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| IV.B.1 | "Russian Diary, 1927-1928," October 1 of 9 folders. 1Primarily contains correspondence. Also includes correspondence concerning Alexander Rodchenko exhibition [Exh. #953, 1971]. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1971-1975 |
| IV.B.2 | "Russian Diary, 1927-1928," October 2 of 9 folders. Includes correspondence between Margaret Scolari Barr and Jere Abbott concerning the publication of the diary. Also includes correspondence with art historians John E. Bowlt and Rosiland Krauss. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1977-1978 |
| IV.B.3 | "Russian Diary, 1927-1928," October 3 of 9 folders. Includes correspondence; black-and-white photographs of Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s Greek and Roman icons (marked on back as being at Smith College "for study"); and a photocopy of Jere Abbott's "Notes from a Soviet Diary" published in Hound & Horn (Vol. 2, no. 3, April-June 1929). Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1977-1984 |
| IV.B.4* | "Russian Diary, 1927-1928," October 4 of 9 folders. "In Stuttgart, Renovation of a 1927 Bauhaus Project" in The New York Times, May 17, 1984. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1943-1984 |
| IV.B.5 | "Russian Diary, 1927-1928," October 5 of 9 folders. Includes correspondence concerning the donation of the original library to Harvard University's Houghton Library; correspondence with October editor, Douglas Crimp; and handwritten editorial notes by Margaret Scolari Barr. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1978-1984 |
| IV.B.6 | "Russian Diary, 1927-1928," October 6 of 9 folders. Correspondence. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1979 |
| IV.B.7 | "Russian Diary, 1927-1928," October 7 of 9 folders. Correspondence from Rosiland Krauss and her transcription of Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s "Russian Diary." Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1977 |
| IV.B.8 | "Russian Diary, 1927-1928," October 8 of 9 folders. Three copies of October (Winter 1978). Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1978 |
| IV.B.9 | "Russian Diary, 1927-1928," October 9 of 9 folders. Correspondence. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1984 |
| IV.B.10 | "Russian Diary, 1927-1928," Novgorod Entry 1 of 4 folders. Correspondences and research photocopies on Alfred H. Barr's interest in Russian icons and Novgorod (original material from c.1927). Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1927, 1978 |
| IV.B.11 | "Russian Diary, 1927-1928," Novgorod Entry 2 of 4 folders. Includes photocopies of Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s entries on Novgorod (February 1928); and partial timeline of trip recreated by Margaret Scolari Barr. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1984 |
| IV.B.12 | "Russian Diary, 1927-1928," Novgorod Entry 3 of 4 folders. Includes correspondence and photocopies of original and an accompanying typescript of Novgorod entry (February 25, 1928). Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1984 |
| IV.B.13 | "Russian Diary, 1927-1928," Novgorod Entry 4 of 4 folders. Photocopies of Novgorod entry in his "Russian Diary"; correspondence between Rona Roob and various editors and curators regarding publication of the entry; and research photocopies. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1984-1985 |
| IV.B.14 | "Undated Writings" Unpublished, hand-written writings and notes with headings including: "Appreciation of Poetry as Art," "Imagination IV," "Free Verse," "Etching-G. T. Plowman" and a sonnet. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| IV.B.15; mf 3151:312 | What Is Modern Painting?: Update | 1984 |
| IV.B.16 | What Is Modern Painting?:Regarding Japanese Editions and Translations Added to the collection in November 1984. |
1984 |
| IV.B.17 | What Is Modern Painting?: Correspondence Correspondence concerning reprinting. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1984 |
| IV.B.18; mf 3151:355 | What Is Modern Painting?: 10th Edition Includes revisions, proposed pocket edition, and suggestions for the future. |
ca. 1963-1972 |
| IV.B.19 | What is Modern Painting?: Portuguese Research Photos for the Portuguese language version of What is Modern Painting? Originally in Photographic Archive. Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1953 |
| IV.B.20; mf 3151:436 | What is Modern Painting?: Revised and Foreign Editions | 1952 |
| IV.B.21; mf 3151:603 | What is Modern Painting?: Correspondence | 1940s-1950s |
| IV.B.22; mf 3151:758 | What is Modern Painting?: 1943 Edition Includes correspondence with James Thrall Soby. |
1943 |
| IV.B.23 | "What is Modern Painting and Lists of South American Art" Handwritten notes and correspondence with James Thrall Soby. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1943 |
| IV.B.24* | What is Modern Painting?: Original Transcript | 1943 |
| IV.B.25 | On Frederick Keisler Includes material integrated into the collection as well as material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1952-1972 |
| IV.B.26; mf 3261:807 | "On Nelson Rockefeller and the Arts" Includes transcript. |
1970-1971 |
| IV.B.27; mf 3261:854 | "On Nelson Rockefeller and the Arts" Comprised of "working notes." |
1970-1971 |
| IV.B.28; mf 3261:909 | Simon Rodia Towers, Watts, Los Angeles Includes statement written by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., which was read by René d'Harnoncourt at a meeting of the National Council of the Arts (April 19, 1968). |
1968 |
| IV.B.29; mf 3261:965 | Homage to Willem Sandberg | 1967 |
| IV.B.30; mf 3261:968 | Newsweek "Letter to Editor" | 1967 |
| IV.B.31; mf 3261:980 | "Around the Automobile" | 1965-1966 |
| IV.B.32; mf 3261:984 | Contemporanul, Constantin Brâncu?i | 1966 |
| IV.B.33; mf 3261:995 | Fogg Museum, Harvard University Regarding "primitive". |
1966 |
| IV.B.34; mf 3261:1031 | "Miscellaneous" | 1950-1965 |
| IV.B.35; mf 3261:1041 | Hartford Courant, Letter to the Editor | 1964 |
| IV.B.36; mf 3151:97 | Publications: General | ca.1949-1965 |
| IV.B.37 | "Non-MoMA Related Writings & MoMA-Related Writings (Books & Exhibition Catalogues)" 1 of 3 folders. Includes Magazine of Art, 36.3 (1943) as well as Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s "Review: The Art in Painting by Albert C. Barnes," The Saturday Review of Literature (July 24, 1926) and The Arts. X.6 (1926). Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1926-64 |
| IV.B.38 | "Non-MoMA Related Writings & MoMA-Related Writings (Books & Exhibition Catalogues)" 2 of 3 folders. Includes Walter Blair and John Gerber's Factual Prose: Introduction to Explanatory and Persuasive Writing (1963), which contains a portion of Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s "What is Modern Painting?" Also includes Peggy Guggenheim's Von Kunst besessen (1960) (Peggy Guggenheim's Confessions of an Art Addict, with Introduction by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., translated into German). Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1952-60 |
| IV.B.39 | "Non-MoMA Related Writings & MoMA-Related Writings (Books & Exhibition Catalogues)" 3 of 3 folders. Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s Corot, Daumier (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1930). Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1930 |
| IV.B.40 | "MoMA-Related Writings (Periodicals)" Folder 1 of 5. Includes The American Magazine of Art XXVIII:1 (1935); "The Modern Museum's Anniversary," Art News 5.1 (1962). Also includes A. Romanov's "Mr. Barr's 'abstract souvenir' and Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s "Reply to 'Mr. Barr's 'abstract souvenir' by A. Romanov. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1935-62 |
| IV.B.41 | "MoMA-Related Writings (Periodicals)" Folder 2 of 5. Includes three copies of Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin (April 1946), which contains Joseph C. Sloane, Jr.'s "The Mary Flexner Lectures of 1946." Also includes: Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s "The Researches of Eisenstein," Drawing and Design, IV.24 (1928); "Cezanne: In Letters of Marion to Morstatt, 1865-1868, Chapter I," Magazine of Art (February, 1938) Trans. Margaret Scolari Barr; "Cezanne: In Letters of Marion to Morstatt, 1865-1868, Chapter II," Magazine of Art (February, 1938) Trans. Margaret Scolari Barr; and "Cezanne: In Letters of Marion to Morstatt, 1865-1868, Chapter III," Magazine of Art Trans. Margaret Scolari Barr. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1928-46 |
| IV.B.42 | "MoMA-Related Writings (Periodicals)" Folder 3 of 5. Includes "A Symposium: The State of American Art" with a contribution by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Also includes Barr's "Matisse, Picasso, and the Crisis of 1907," Magazine of Art. 44.5 (1951) and "Letters to the Editor," Magazine of Art. 44.5 (1951) and 42.3 (1949). Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1949-51 |
| IV.B.43 | "MoMA-Related Writings (Periodicals)" Folder 4 of 5. Includes twelve copies of Museum News, 23.13 (1946); Alfred H., Jr.'s "Research and Publications in Art Museums"; The New Yorker from December 12, 1953 and December 19, 1953, which contains profile on Barr in two parts. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1946-53 |
| IV.B.44 | "MoMA-Related Writings (Periodicals)" Folder 5 of 5. Contains Alfred H. Barr. Jr.'s: "Notes on Russian Architecture," The Arts. XV.2 (1929); "Otto Dix," The Arts, XVII.4 (1931); and "Modern Art," Wellesley College Literary Review, IV.3 (1930). Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1929-31 |
| IV.B.45; mf 3261:1043 | Art News | 1962 |
| IV.B.46; mf 3261:1133 | Amerika & Ameryka | 1959-1960 |
| IV.B.47; mf 3153:193 | Publication Proposals: MoMA Booklet | 1959 |
| IV.B.48; mf 3153:213 | Publication Proposals: MoMA Journal | 1959 |
| IV.B.49; mf 3153:218 | Publication Proposals: Collections | 1959 |
| IV.B.50; mf 3261:1218 | "de Stijl" Revised Includes layout dummy in Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s hand. |
1959 |
| IV.B.51; mf 3153:235 | Paintings from The Museum of Modern Art "Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures Series" with introduction by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. |
1956 |
| IV.B.52; mf 3261:1263 | Presbyterian Life | 1955 |
| IV.B.53 | Presbyterian Life "Unto You is Born this Day a Savior: Paintings of the Nativity." Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1955 |
| IV.B.54; mf 3261:1288 | Vogue Includes article pertaining to MoMA's 25th anniversary. |
1954 |
| IV.B.55; mf 3261:1331 | "Preface" to Modern Prints and Drawings by Paul J. Sachs | ca. 1951-1954 |
| IV.B.56; mf 3261:1423 | House & Home: Letter to the Editor | 1953 |
| IV.B.57; mf 3153:254 | Mondrian: Life and Work by Michel Seuphor | 1952 |
| IV.B.58; mf 3261:1451 | National Sculpture Review, Letter to the Editor Regarding Giovanni Papini. |
1952 |
| IV.B.59; mf 3261:1466-1487; mf 3262:16-52 | "Is Modern Art Communistic?" New York Times Magazine | 1952 |
| IV.B.60* | "Is Modern Art Communistic?" New York Times Magazine 1 of 3 folders. Original copies and photocopies of "Is Modern Art Communistic" in The New York Times Magazine (December 14, 1952). Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1952 |
| IV.B.61* | "Is Modern Art Communistic?" New York Times Magazine 2 of 3 folders. Original copies of "Is Modern Art Communistic" in The New York Times Magazine (December 14, 1952). Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1952 |
| IV.B.62* | "Is Modern Art Communistic?" New York Times Magazine 3 of 3 folders. Original copies of "Is Modern Art Communistic" in The New York Times Magazine (December 14, 1952). Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1952 |
| IV.B.63; mf 3262:53 | Manchester Guardian | 1952 |
| IV.B.64; mf 3262:64 | Magazine of Art, Letter to the Editor Regarding "primitive art." |
1951 |
| IV.B.65; mf 3262:68 | Magazine of Art, "Matisse, Picasso, etc." | 1951 |
| IV.B.66; mf 3262:103 | New York Times, Letter to the Editor Regarding Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle. |
1951 |
| IV.B.67; mf 3262:105 | "Art and Perception," trans/formation: arts, communication, environment | 1950 |
| IV.B.68; mf 3262:109 | "Letter to the Editor," College Art Journal Fall, Vol. X, no. 1, 1950; "regarding primitive art." |
1950 |
| IV.B.69; mf 3262:112 | College Art Bulletin "The Money Issue" |
1950 |
| IV.B.70; mf 3262:115 | 7 Kubanska Malare Reprinted in Bulletin (January 1944). |
1949 |
| IV.B.71; mf 3262:122 | "1949" Société Anonyme Entries | 1950 |
| IV.B.72; mf 3262:131 | Cincinnati Modern Art Society Tenth Anniversary Exhibition | 1949 |
| IV.B.73; mf 3262:141 | Uhde Primitive Masters | 1949 |
| IV.B.74; mf 3262:145 | Painting Towards Architecture Includes foreword and typescript. |
1948 |
| IV.B.75; mf 3262:151 | Atlantic Monthly, Letter to the Editor | 1948 |
| IV.B.76; mf 3262:174 | "What is happening to Modern Architecture?" MoMA Bulletin | 1948 |
| IV.B.77; mf 3262:182 | "Modern Drawings," Art News See also: file II.B.5. |
1947 |
| IV.B.78; mf 3262:186 | The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly Spring 1947; regarding What Is Modern Painting? reprint. |
1947 |
| IV.B.79; mf 3262:203 | Art Council of New Jersey, Letter to the Editor Regarding Kazimir Malevich. |
1947 |
| IV.B.80; mf 3262:208 | "Museum News and Chicago Speech" "Research & Publication in Art Museums." |
1944-1946 |
| IV.B.81; mf 3262:226 | "George Pierre Seurat, Fishing Fleet at Port-en-Bessin" | 1945 |
| IV.B.82; mf 3262:235 | "Art in the Third Reich," Magazine of Art See also: IV.B.88, IV.B.113-IV.B.116. |
1945 |
| IV.B.83 | Art News, Letter to the Editor Typescript and correspondence from Alfred H. Barr, Jr. to Stephen Clark. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1945 |
| IV.B.84 | "Paul Klee: Statements by the Artist" Research photos for second revised edition of "Paul Klee: Statements by the Artist." Originally in Photographic Archive. |
ca. 1945 |
| IV.B.85; mf 3262:266 | Norte (July 1944) and Ultra (May 1940). "On Cuban painting." |
1944 |
| IV.B.86; mf 3262:278 | "Mexican Painting Today," Magazine of Art | 1943 |
| IV.B.87; mf 3262:282 | Proposed Short History of Modern Art Includes correspondence. |
1943 |
| IV.B.88 | "Art in the Third Reich--A Preview, 1933," Magazine of Art Three copies of thespecial issue on "Art in the Third Reich." Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1943 |
| IV.B.89; mf 3262:319 | PM | 1942 |
| IV.B.90* | "What Are We Fighting For: What Have the Arts to Do With the War Effort" Original newspaper clipping of Alfred H. Barr's editorial from The Nation, June 10, 1942. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1942 |
| IV.B.91; mf 3262:328 | College Art Journal, "Modern Art Makes Modern History Too" November 1941, Vol. 1, no. 1. |
1941 |
| IV.B.92; mf 3262:371 | General: Refusals to Requests | 1940-1949 |
| IV.B.93; mf 3262:389 | George Grosz | 1940 |
| IV.B.94; mf 3262:391 | "Paul Klee Typescript" | 1940 |
| IV.B.95; mf 3262:397 | Junior League Magazine: "Museums in These Times" | 1940 |
| IV.B.96; mf 3262:404 | "What MoMA Has Done for American Art" Memo | 1940 |
| IV.B.97; mf 3262:407 | "Popular Appreciation of Art," Think | 1940 |
| IV.B.98; mf 3262:416 | "Mexican Catalog" According to Margaret Scolari Barr in May of 1984, there is no definite proof that Alfred H. Barr, Jr. wrote this. |
1940 |
| IV.B.99; mf 3262:422 | "Trois siècles etc..." Jeu de Paume | 1938 |
| IV.B.100; mf 3262:426 | The New York Times "Unpublished letter of a political nature." |
1938 |
| IV.B.101; mf 3262:434 | "Cézanne d'apres les Letters de Marion a Morstatt 1865-1868" Gazette des Beaux-Arts and Carnegie Magazine letter. |
1937-1938 |
| IV.B.102 | "Cézanne d'apres les Letters de Marion a Morstatt 1865-1868" Includes correspondence and notes. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1932-1937 |
| IV.B.103 | "Letter to the Editor," Carnegie Magazine | 1937 |
| IV.B.104; mf 3262:496 | Vincent van Gogh Includes notes. |
1935 |
| IV.B.105; mf 3262:539 | Saturday Review Includes book review by James Thrall Soby. |
1935 |
| IV.B.106; mf 3262:542 | Garden Club of America | 1934 |
| IV.B.107*; mf 3262:544 | Gaceta de arte | 1934 |
| IV.B.108 | "A Brief Survey of Modern Painting" Includes original copy annotated by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. Materials very fragile; handle with care. |
1934 |
| IV.B.109; mf 3262:547 | The World Today (Encyclopedia Britannica): "Vincent Van Gogh" | 1933-1934 |
| IV.B.110 | Hound & Horn Photocopies of Alfred H. Barr's contributions to Hound & Horn. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1930-1934 |
| IV.B.111 | Hound & Horn Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1930-1934 |
| IV.B.112; mf 3262:561 | Park Avenue Social Review | 1933 |
| IV.B.113; mf 3262:568 | Art Under Nazi Germany: Writings and correspondence Includes refusals to publish. |
1933 |
| IV.B.114; mf 3262:698 | Art Under Nazi Germany: "Anti-Nazi" | 1933 |
| IV.B.115; mf 3262:769 | Art Under Nazi Germany: "Nazi Germany" Clippings and pamphlets, many of which are annotated by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. |
1933 |
| IV.B.116; mf 3262:825 | Art Under Nazi Germany: "Nazi Art" Includes illustrations and articles. |
1933 |
| IV.B.117* | "Miscellaneous Writings" Includes "Who is Crazy Now" by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. in the Park Avenue Social Review (1933); Barr's "A Brief Survey of Modern Painting" in Carnegie Review (1933); and page proofs for Barr's article, "An American Museum of Modern Art" in Vanity Fair (Nov. 1929). Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1929-1933 |
| IV.B.118; mf 3262:921 | "Ask Me Again! …" | 1932 |
| IV.B.119; mf 3262:928 | A Brief Survey of Modern Painting | 1932 |
| IV.B.120; mf 3262:939 | Museum der Gegenwart | 1931 |
| IV.B.121; mf 3262:965 | "Postwar Painting in Europe," Parnassus May 1931, Vol.3, no. 5. |
1931 |
| IV.B.122; mf 3262:1001 | "An Effort to Secure…" | 1931 |
| IV.B.123; mf 3262:1003 | "Russian Icons," The Arts | 1931 |
| IV.B.124; mf 3262:1032 | Requests Refused | 1929-1931 |
| IV.B.125 | The Arts Photocopies and originals of Alfred H. Barr's contributions to The Arts magazine, which includes "The Necco Factory," "Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein," and "Russian Icons." Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1928-1931 |
| IV.B.126; mf 3262:1037 | Wellesley College Literary Review Includes typescript. |
1930 |
| IV.B.127 | "Modern Art," Wellesley College Literary Review Vol. 4, no. 3; original copy of "Modern Art" in the Wellesley College Literary Review. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1930 |
| IV.B.128; mf 3262:1055 | "The Modern Chair," Fashions of the Hour Unpublished typescript. |
1930 |
| IV.B.129; mf 3262:1067 | "Disputed Points on Dutch Art," International Studio Book review from September 1929 issue. |
1929 |
| IV.B.130; mf 3262:1070 | The Saturday Review of Literature Book review. |
1929 |
| IV.B.131; mf 3262:1073 | "A New Art Museum: An Institution Which Will Devote Itself Solely to the Masters of Modern Art" | 1929 |
| IV.B.132 | "Understanding Modern Art," The Wellesley Alumnae Magazine Vol. XIII. No. 5. June, 1929. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1929 |
| IV.B.133 | Review of R.H. Wilenski's An Introduction to Dutch Art Essay typescript. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1929 |
| IV.B.134 | "The Museum of Modern Art," Charm 1 of 2 folders. Two copies of Charm (November 1929), which includes essay on MoMA by Alfred H. Barr. Jr. Includes material integrated to the collection and transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1929 |
| IV.B.135* | "The Museum of Modern Art," Charm 2 of 2 folders. Editorial page proofs of Alfred H. Barr's essay in November 1929 issue of Charm. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1929 |
| IV.B.136* | "A New Museum Which Will Devote Itself to the Masters of Modern Art," Vogue Includes editorial page proof for Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s essay from October 1929 issue of Vogue. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1929 |
| IV.B.137 | "Notes on Russian Architecture," The Arts Vol. XV, no.2 (1929). Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1929 |
| IV.B.138; mf 3262:1079 | "Otto Dix and Neue Sachlichkeit" Includes correspondence, two catalogues, and photographs and illustrations. |
1927-1929 |
| IV.B.139; mf 3262:1117 | "Expressionism" Includes definition. |
Undated |
| IV.B.140; mf 3262:1121 | Announcement for Wellesley Course of Five Lectures on Modern Art Includes eight issues of Wellesley College News describing the course. |
1929 |
| IV.B.141; mf 3262:1150 | "Wellesley Courses" Includes a descriptive letter from Alfred H. Barr, Jr. to his parents. |
1926-1929 |
| IV.B.142; mf 3262:1161-1317 | Russian Diary Unpublished diary entry; "copies of notes from 96th st." |
1928 |
| IV.B.143 | Photocopy of Russian Diary Original at Harvard University's Houghton Library. |
1928 |
| IV.B.144; mf 3263:16 | The Arts, "Dutch Letter" 1 of 3 folders. |
1928 |
| IV.B.145 | The Arts, "Dutch Letter" 2 of 3 folders. Typescript of article that appeared in the January 1928 issue of The Arts. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1928 |
| IV.B.146 | The Arts, "Dutch Letter" 3 of 3 folders. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1928 |
| IV.B.147; mf 3263:40 | Dutch Diary Also includes "Russian footnotes and some remarks about the Tate." |
1924-1928 |
| IV.B.148 | "The Researches of Eisenstein," Drawings & Design June 1928, vol. 5, no. 24. Includes photocopy and original copy of Alfred H. Barr's essay, "The Researches of Eisenstein," as well as essay typescript and correspondence. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1928 |
| IV.B.149 | "The LEF," Transition November 1928, no. 14. |
1928 |
| IV.B.150 | "On Stella Simon's film, Hands" Includes English typescript and Russian publication. |
1928 |
| IV.B.151; mf 3263:81 | Exhibition of Progressive Modern Painting: from Daumier to Corot to Post-Cubism Includes wall labels and press clippings. |
1927 |
| IV.B.152; mf 3263:111 | "Wellesley and Modernism," Boston Evening Transcript From April 27, 1927. |
1927 |
| IV.B.153 | "The Exhibition of Modern Art," Wellesley College News Photocopy of article. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1927 |
| IV.B.154 | "A Modern Art Questionary," Vanity Fair Typescript of article that appeared in August 1927 issue of Vanity Fair; includes annotations in Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s hand. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1927 |
| IV.B.155 | "Dutch Diary" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1927 |
| IV.B.156; mf 3263:114 | "Boston is Modern Art Pauper," Harvard Crimson | 1926 |
| IV.B.157* | "Boston is Modern Art Pauper," Harvard Crimson 1 of 2 folders. Clippings. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1926 |
| IV.B.158* | "Boston is Modern Art Pauper," Harvard Crimson 2 of 2 folders. Includes an original copy of the Harvard Crimson (October 30, 1929) and related newspaper clippings. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1929-1961 |
| IV.B.159; mf 3263:165 | "A Drawing by Antonio Pollaiuolo," Art Studies | 1926 |
| IV.B.160 | "A Drawing by Antonio Pollaiuolo," Art Studies 1 of 2 folders. Includes correspondence from Erwin Panofsky and Agnes Mongan. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1926-1933 |
| IV.B.161 | "A Drawing by Antonio Pollaiuolo," Art Studies 2 of 2 folders. Includes handwritten notes and five copies of Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s "A Drawing By Antonio Pollaiuolo" in Art Studies (1926). Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1926 |
| IV.B.162; mf 3263:191 | "The Art in Painting," Saturday Review of Literature | 1926 |
| IV.B.163* | "Evolution in Modern Art," The Saturday Review of Literature Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1926 |
| IV.B.164; mf 3263:195 | "Critical Catalog: Loan Exhibition of Modern Graphic Art" At the Fogg Museum in the Spring of 1925. Includes wall labels and index cards. |
1925 |
| IV.B.165; mf 3263:207 | Annual Catalogue of Vassar College | 1923-1924 |
| IV.B.166; mf 3263:213 | Genoa Notebook Signed and date notebook that also contains seven pages of sketches. |
1924 |
| IV.B.167; mf 3263:221 | "Notes on Ornament-Baldwin Smith" Includes notes and sketches; a letter from Baldwin Smith (who taught Ornament at Princeton University). |
ca. 1923 |
| IV.B.168; mf 3263:371 | "Pome (Sonnet)" Sonnet by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. written to his parents. |
1918 |
| IV.B.169; mf 3263:375-387 | "Notes on Surrealism" No Description |
Undated |
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Series V: Lectures, Speeches, and Eulogies 1924-1969 |
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Series V: Lectures, Speeches, and Eulogies comprises nearly seventy files of research material and typescripts that pertain to Barr's public speaking engagements. The most important files contained within this series are arguably those related to his "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art" lectures, which Barr delivered in 1946 at Bryn Mawr College as part of the Mary Flexner Lecture Series (V.32-V.46). These files contain documents including research notes, diagrams, typescripts, posters and announcements. Also contained in Series V is a eulogy typescript for artist Lyonel Feininger (V.47). Some files from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers have been integrated into the series, but the arrangement largely reflects that of the original collection. Series V is arranged in reverse chronological order. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| V.1; mf 3150:488 | Piet Mondrian Includes published excerpts from "Memorial Service" in Knickerbocker Weekly (3(51):23) and correspondence from 1967-1969. |
1944-1971 |
| V.2 | General Picasso Slide Information Includes lists annotated by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. |
1960-1969 |
| V.3; mf 3149:52 | Trask Lecture at Princeton University, "Picasso: Pillar of Tradition" Includes notes by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Margaret Scolari Barr as well as lecture drafts and typescript. |
1969 |
| V.4; mf 3149:124 | Trask Lecture at Princeton University, "Picasso: Pillar of Tradition" Includes slide information, lists, and index cards. |
1969 |
| V.5; mf 3150:421 | Early Notes | 1964 |
| V.6; mf 3149:408 | "Art in the USSR, Now and Thirty Years Ago-A Traveler's Tales" (Sarasota, FL) Revised from "Art in the USSR, now and 30 years ago-a traveler's tales" (MoMA-15th Annual Convention of the National Committee on Art Education, May 6, 1960. Also related to Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s visit to the USSR and the International Council (1959). Includes correspondence with Cammilla Gray. |
1959-1961 |
| V.7*; mf 3149:408 | "Art in the USSR, Now and Thirty Years Ago-A Traveler's Tales" (Sarasota, FL) | 1959-1961 |
| V.8; mf 3149:158 | University of Iceland, Reykjavik "MoMA Reykjavik 7 July 1961 University of Iceland"; primarily contains lecture notes. |
1961-1962 |
| V.9; mf 3149:210 | University of Iceland, Reykjavik "American Painting Reykjavik 6 July 1961"; includes lecture notes, slide lists, quotes, an annotated typescript of a similar lecture, and information on Jackson Pollack. |
1961-1962 |
| V.10; mf 3149:254 | "Picasso: Pillar of Tradition" (Sarasota, FL) Revised from lecture, "Picasso: The Last Twenty Years" delivered at the University of Chicago (November 27, 1957). |
1957-1961 |
| V.11; mf 3150:202 | "MoMA at the Opening of P.J. Sachs Galleries" | 1961 |
| V.12; mf 3150:224 | "Contributing Members' Opening of 100 Drawings from the Museum Collection [MoMA Exh. #674] and reopening of Drive" | 1960 |
| V.13; mf 3149:582 | "American Painting (17th century to Robert Indiana)" "USSR" |
1959-1961 |
| V.14; mf 3149:615 | "American Painting (17th century to Robert Indiana)" "Copy of USSR lecture (1959) with additional notes (1961)" in Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s hand. |
1958-1959 |
| V.15; mf 3150:249 | The Jewish Museum Dedication of Elbert Weinberg's Procession | 1959 |
| V.16; mf 3150:282 | Brooklyn Museum Seminar: "The Museum and the Private Collector" | 1958 |
| V.17 | On Paul Cézanne Includes exhibition catalog for Paul Cézanne exhibition at Fine Arts Associates. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1956 |
| V.18; mf 3150:474 | Victor Riesenfeld Memorial | 1956 |
| V.19; mf 3149:744 | Eighth Annual Art Symposium at the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL "Painting and Politics I & II." Also includes rough typescript and notes, which contain discussion of Congressman Busbey and rejection of Abstract American art by the State Department in 1946. |
1955 |
| V.20; mf 3149:882 | MoMA's 13th Annual Conference and Committee on Art Education: "Art Under Soviet & Nazi Dictatorships" Includes slide list and printed announcement. |
1955 |
| V.21; mf 3150:296 | Voice of America Interview | 1953 |
| V.22; mf 3149:895 | "Modern Art and Political Oppression," Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. Includes typed notes, slide lists, clippings, and correspondence. |
1953 |
| V.23; mf 3149:961 | Sarah Lawrence Intercollegiate Student Conference: "Art under the Dictatorships" Includes lecture outline. |
1953 |
| V.24; mf 3149:999 | Art under Nazi and Soviet Dictatorships Includes slide list and summaries. |
1952-1953 |
| V.25; mf 3150:209 | WEVD Radop Program: "The World in Books" Includes notes on Henri Matisse. |
1952 |
| V.26; mf 3150:309 | Opening Speech for Henri Matisse (Exhibition no. #492) Also includes "A Matisse Mystery Solved," slide lecture given to MoMA Board of Trustees (November 11, 1951). |
1951 |
| V.27; mf 3149:1040 | Lectures at Brown University, The Renaissance Society of Chicago, and the Palm Beach Society of Art Lectures on "the theme of tyranny." |
1946-1951 |
| V.28; mf 3149:1189 | Lectures at Brown University, The Renaissance Society of Chicago, and the Palm Beach Society of Art | 1946-1951 |
| V.29; mf 3149:1287 | Graduate Fine Arts Club and Contemporary Art Criticism at Columbia University | 1947 |
| V.30; mf 3149:1294 | "Art Under Totalitarian Governments" at the American Federation of the Arts Annual Conference Includes brochure. |
1947 |
| V.31; mf 3149:1297-1353; mf 3150:16-27 | MoMA & the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) | 1946-1961 |
| V.32; mf 3150:28 | Bryn Mawr Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art" Includes Bryn Mawr's Alumnae Bulletin, correspondence, photographs, and illustrations used for slides. |
1942-1946 |
| V.33; mf 3150:110 | Bryn Mawr Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art" Includes correspondence and bibliography. |
1942-1946 |
| V.34; mf 3265:579 | Bryn Mawr Mary Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art": "Miscellaneous" Includes portion of lecture typescript and notes. |
1942-1946 |
| V.35; mf 3265:600 | Bryn Mawr Mary Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art": "General" Includes copy of The College News, lecture announcement and post-lecture correspondence. |
1942-1946 |
| V.36* | Bryn Mawr Mary Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art": "General" Lecture series poster. |
1942-1946 |
| V.37; mf 3265:633 | Bryn Mawr Mary Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art": "Correspondence" | 1945-1946 |
| V.38; mf 3265:702 | Bryn Mawr Mary Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art": "Exhibition" Includes diagrams and lists. |
1942-1946 |
| V.39; mf 3265:718 | Bryn Mawr Mary Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art": "Bryn Mawr" | 1942-1946 |
| V.40; mf 3265:746 | Bryn Mawr Mary Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art": "I Modern ... (machine)" Materials related to "Art should be modern-the rise and decline of the machine" lecture. |
1946 |
| V.41; mf 3265:809 | Bryn Mawr Mary Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art": "February 18, 1946" Materials related to "Art should be pure-with a glance at utilitarian consequences" lecture. |
1946 |
| V.42; mf 3265:875 | Bryn Mawr Mary Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art": "III (Fantastic)" Materials related to "Art should be marvelous-visual poetry of enigma and fantasy" lecture. |
1946 |
| V.43; mf 3265:942 | Bryn Mawr Mary Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art": "IV Intense" Materials related to "Art should be-anxiety, violence, ecstasy" lecture. Includes notes and lists. |
1946 |
| V.44; mf 3265:1000 | Bryn Mawr Mary Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art": "B.M.(Intense)" Includes clippings and various printed matter. |
1949-1950 |
| V.45; mf 3265:1066 | Bryn Mawr Mary Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art": "National V" Materials related to "Art should be National-varieties of racial and regional self-esteem" lecture. |
1946 |
| V.46; mf 3265:1081 | Bryn Mawr Mary Flexner Lectures "Dogma and Practice in Modern Art": "VI Social" Materials related to "Art should be social-the state of the world; propaganda and prophecy" lecture. |
1946 |
| V.47; mf 3150:480 | Lyonel Feininger Eulogy Eulogy was written and read by Alfred H, Barr, Jr. at Feininger's funeral. |
1944 |
| V.48; mf 3150:315 | "Research and Publication in Art Museums," Chicago, IL Annotated draft. |
1944 |
| V.49; mf 3150:347 | Association of Museum Directors, Detroit, MI Includes notes on talk delivered by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. concerning the installation of Italian Masters [MoMA Exh. #98]. |
1940 |
| V.50; mf 3150:377 | Luncheon Given By Abby Aldrich Rockefeller ("On MoMA") No Description |
1935 |
| V.51 | "MoMA Lecture" File not present as of June 2016. |
1934 |
| V.52; mf 3150:386 | NBC Includes material pertaining to a three-minute talk on awarding Carnegie Institute prizes. |
1934 |
| V.53; mf 3150:392 | Broadcast Speech at Opening of MoMA's 53rd Street Building | 1932 |
| V.54; mf 3150:396 | "The Museum of Modern Art and the High Schools" (New York Public High School #59) | ca. 1931 |
| V.55; mf 3150:403 | "Thanksgiving Evening talk at Sam Lewisohn's" | 1930-1931 |
| V.56; mf 3150:164 | "A Course of Five Lectures on Modern Art" at the Farnsworth Museum, Wellesley College Includes announcement with descriptions of lectures and issues of Wellesley College News. |
1929 |
| V.57 | On William Blake Includes lecture typescript and notes. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1928 |
| V.58 | "Modern American Painting" at Bowdoin Institute of Art Includes handwritten lecture transcript, lecture typescript, and photocopies of newspaper clippings. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1927 |
| V.59 | "Apologia," Harvard University Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1927 |
| V.60; mf 3150:181 | "French Painting of the Twentieth Century," Fogg Museum, Harvard University Includes Harvard University Gazette Calendar (Vol. 22, no. 17, January 15, 1927). |
1927 |
| V.61 | "The Aesthetic Attitude in College Art Courses" Includes handwritten transcript for lecture delivered at the Annual Meeting of the College Art Association in 1924. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1924-1926 |
| V.62; mf 3150:183 | Committee on the Fine Arts From Harvard Board of Overseers' Meeting. |
Undated |
| V.63; mf 3150:406 | Early Notes File not present as of June 2016. |
Undated |
| V.64; mf 3150:410 | Early Notes | Undated |
| V.65; mf 3150:421 | Early Notes | Undated |
| V.66 | The College Art Association Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| V.67 | Untitled Lecture on Modern Art Original folder marked as: "lecture? Unpublished?" Includes handwritten lecture transcript. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| V.68 | "Lecture on Modern Woodcuts" Includes handwritten notes. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
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Series VI: Subject Interest and Research Files 1920-1978 |
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Series VI is divided into four subseries that pertain to Barr's scholarly work and interests over the course of his career. |
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Subseries VI.A: From Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s Personal Desk 1920-1973 |
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Subseries VI.A is composed of important research files that Barr kept in his office. They are arranged alphabetically and their order reflects how MoMA staff found them in 1978. Original folder titles have also been maintained. Many files pertain to specific artists such as Pierre Bonnard (VI.A.13), Marc Chagall (VI.A.20), Salvador Dalí (VI.A.21), and David Alfaro Siqueiros (VI.A.84), while others reflect subject interests that were important to Barr throughout his career. Notable subjects include: German Expressionism (VI.A.29), Nationalism (VI.A.58), Post-Impressionism (VI.A.69), and Surrealism and Dada (VI.A.87 and VI.A.88). Another essential file in Subseries VI.A is that titled "Barr's Ism Dictionary" (VI.A.38). This file includes significant art historical material such as charts as well as Barr's own handwritten glossary of significant movements and terms (what he called "isms", i.e. romanticism, expressionism, etc.). |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| VI.A.1; mf 3263:404 | "American" Includes articles and photographs. |
Undated |
| VI.A.2; mf 3263:424 | "Arp Shapes" [Arp forms] | 1940-1949 |
| VI.A.3; mf 3263:451 | "Bauhaus (Bayer, etc.)" | 1940 |
| VI.A.4; mf 3263:462 | "Baumeister-Chadwick" | 1946 |
| VI.A.5; mf 3263:522 | "Baynes" | Undated |
| VI.A.6; mf 3263:538 | "Belgium" | Undated |
| VI.A.7; mf 3263:541 | "Belgium" | Undated |
| VI.A.8; mf 3263:546 | "Biographical" Includes College Art Association program (1926) and a letter to the editor sent to Art News (1926). |
1920-1926 |
| VI.A.9; mf 3263:556 | "Biographical": MoMA AHB Tribute / Evening | 1972-1973 |
| VI.A.10; mf 3263:562 | "Biographical": 60th Birthday Celebration | 1962 |
| VI.A.11; mf 3263:638 | "Biographical": "Biographical Data; Photos" | Undated |
| VI.A.12; mf 3263:782 | "Biographical": "Barr-Ph.D. material" | Undated |
| VI.A.13; mf 3263:784 | "[Pierre] Bonnard" | Undated |
| VI.A.14; mf 3263:801 | "Boston 1948 Manifesto" | 1948 |
| VI.A.15; mf 3263:834 | "Bracelli" | Undated |
| VI.A.16; mf 3263:843 | "British" | Undated |
| VI.A.17; mf 3263:879 | "C" | Undated |
| VI.A.18; mf 3263:888 | "Censorship" Includes exchange between Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and MoMA staff. |
1947 |
| VI.A.19; mf 3263:899 | "Children's Art" Includes letter with reference to Cubism and Abstract Art Chart. |
Undated |
| VI.A.20; mf 3263:914 | "[Marc] Chagall" | Undated |
| VI.A.21; mf 3263:916 | "[Salvadore] Dali" Includes letter to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. as well as photographs and various announcements. |
Undated |
| VI.A.22; mf 3263:973 | "Delmas" | 1944 |
| VI.A.23; mf 3263:978 | "Designs, etc." | 1949-1952 |
| VI.A.24; mf 3263:1023 | "Dream and Dream Art" | Undated |
| VI.A.25; mf 3263:1028 | "[Katherine] Dreier" Correspondence between Dreier and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. |
1927 |
| VI.A.26; mf 3263:1032 | "E" Includes letter from Edouard Léon Théodore Mensens to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. regarding Max Ernst. |
1954 |
| VI.A.27; mf 3263:1039 | "France-Since 1940" Original folder subtitled "Hitler and Art." Includes brief notes on Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. |
c.1940-1950 |
| VI.A.28; mf 3263:1051 | "G" Includes notes on Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler Kahnweiler/Juan Gris lecture and Gottleib gallery announcements. |
Undated |
| VI.A.29; mf 3263:1070 | "German Expressionist" | Undated |
| VI.A.30; mf 3263:1076 | "German Artists 1933-45" | 1933-1945 |
| VI.A.31; mf 3263:1080 | "German-Nazi" | c.1940-1945 |
| VI.A.32; mf 3263:1100 | "German-Neue Sachlichkeit" | c.1940-1945 |
| VI.A.33; mf 3263:1107 | A. Conger Goodyear and Jeu de Paume Exhibition Correspondence. Also includes note from Margaret Scolari Barr that reads: "correspondence handed over by A. Conger Goodyear about exhibition of American Art in Paris, preceding and including the exhibition at J eude Paune 1938." |
1932-1938 |
| VI.A.34; mf 3263:1256 | "H" Includes letter from Edward Hopper to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (dated February 5, 1948). |
c. 1948 |
| VI.A.35; mf 3263:1258 | "Harnett-Peto" See also: I.A.175. |
Undated |
| VI.A.36; mf 3263:1274 | "René d'Harnoncourt" | 1949-1956 |
| VI.A.37; mf 3263:1289 | "Humanism" | Undated |
| VI.A.38; mf 3263:1300 | "Barr 'Ism' Dictionary" Includes three sheets of charts along with Barr's handwritten dictionary comprised for 46 pages "isms." Fragile; handle with care. |
Undated |
| VI.A.39; mf 3263:1367 | "Italian Trip" Clippings. |
Undated |
| VI.A.40; mf 3263:1373-1388 | "K" | Undated |
| VI.A.41; mf 3264:20 | "Lincoln Kirstein" Includes correspondence and information regarding art in the Third Reich. |
1945 |
| VI.A.42; mf 3264:60 | Lincoln Kirstein: "Kirstein Reports on Art and Museum Situation at the End of W.W. II" Items addressed to Monroe Wheeler (in Margaret Scolari Barr's hand). |
1945 |
| VI.A.43; mf 3264:130 | "L" Includes letters from Jean Lurcat to Alfred H. Barr, Jr., notes, and a lecture by Fernand Léger. |
c. 1945 |
| VI.A.44; mf 3264:149 | "Latin American Speech" | Undated |
| VI.A.45; mf 3264:172 | "Chicago Renaissance Society" "Art in Our World" speech, delivered April 17, 1946. See also: V.27 & V.28. |
1946 |
| VI.A.46; mf 3264:186 | "[Bill or William] Lieberman" | Undated |
| VI.A.47; mf 3264:201 | Life Symposium Includes symposium proceedings, articles, and letter to the editor |
1949 |
| VI.A.48; mf 3264:286 | "London" | Undated |
| VI.A.49; mf 3264:304 | "Louchheim" Includes article from The New York Times. |
1953-1956 |
| VI.A.50; mf 3264:339 | "M" | Undated |
| VI.A.51; mf 3264:359 | "[Roberto] Matta: Photos, etc. Important" Includes notes with diagram. |
Undated |
| VI.A.52; mf 3264:366 | "Mexican Report" | 1942 |
| VI.A.53; mf 3264:374 | "Miscellaneous Clippings" | 1949-1953 |
| VI.A.54; mf 3264:439 | "Miscellaneous Photos" | Undated |
| VI.A.55; mf 3264:449 | "Dorothy C. Miller" Regarding Smith College honorary degree. |
ca. 1952-1959 |
| VI.A.56; mf 3264:556 | "N" | Undated |
| VI.A.57; mf 3264:566 | "[Elie] Nadelman" Includes chronology |
Undated |
| VI.A.58; mf 3264:578 | "Nationalism" Clippings |
1945-1948 |
| VI.A.59; mf 3264:582 | "P" Includes catalogue of first Jackson Pollock exhibition at Art of this Century and article from 1940 marked by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. as "postaste." |
1940 |
| VI.A.60; mf 3264:678 | "Paris School-Miscellaneous" | Undated |
| VI.A.61; mf 3264:690 | "Pan American Union" Correspondence with Leslie Switzer. |
Undated |
| VI.A.62; mf 3264:725 | "Penguin-Artists" See also: IV.A.2 - IV.A.16. |
1945 |
| VI.A.63; mf 3264:727 | "Penguin-Blume" See also: IV.A.2 - IV.A.16. |
1945 |
| VI.A.64; mf 3264:755 | "Penguin-Authors and Text" See also: IV.A.2 - IV.A.16. |
1945 |
| VI.A.65; mf 3264:757 | "Penguin-Authors" See also: IV.A.2 - IV.A.16. |
1945 |
| VI.A.66; mf 3264:758 | "Penguin-Lists" See also: IV.A.2 - IV.A.16. |
1945 |
| VI.A.67; mf 3264:788 | "Penguin-Miscellaneous" Includes correspondence with Stephen Clark regarding royalty fees. |
1945 |
| VI.A.68 | "Photographs" | Undated |
| VI.A.69; mf 3264:810 | "Post-Impressionists" Includes letter from Meyer Schapiro (dated July 25, 1935). |
c. 1935 |
| VI.A.70; mf 3264:819 | "Pro-Modern" See also: II.D.7-II.D.11. |
1941-1953 |
| VI.A.71; mf 3264:851 | "Psychological" Printed matter. |
1939-1957 |
| VI.A.72; mf 3264:881 | "R" | Undated |
| VI.A.73; mf 3264:891 | "Religious Art, Modern" See also: III.32. |
ca. 1944-1953 |
| VI.A.74; mf 3264:953 | "Richmond" Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Ross Valentine, and The Richmond Times Dispatch. |
1949-1952 |
| VI.A.75; mf 3264:998 | "Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (From Desk Drawer)" Includes letter regarding the Bliss collection (dated November 6, 1933). |
1934-1958 |
| VI.A.76; mf 3264:1108 | "Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (From Envelope Marked "Confidential")" Includes correspondence A. Conger Goodyear, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and Rockefeller. See also: I.A.2, I.A.63, and I.A.209. |
ca. 1934-1944 |
| VI.A.77; mf 3264:1157 | "Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (From Envelope Marked "Confidential")" | ca. 1929-1933 |
| VI.A.78; mf 3264:1283 | "Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: Gifts of Art" | Undated |
| VI.A.79; mf 3264:1348-1371; mf 3265:19 | "Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: Gifts of Art" | Undated |
| VI.A.80; mf 3265:191 | "Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: Gifts of Art" | Undated |
| VI.A.81; mf 3265:256 | "Romanticism 19th [Century]" | Undated |
| VI.A.82; mf 3265:270 | "[Georges] Rouault" Correspondence with Gordon Washburn. |
Undated |
| VI.A.83; mf 3265:281 | "S" Illustrations and printed matter. |
Undated |
| VI.A.84; mf 3265:297 | "[David Alfaro] Siqueiros" Includes photographs and booklet. |
Undated |
| VI.A.85; mf 3265:323 | "[James Thrall] Soby" Includes Saturday Review pieces and correspondence. |
c. 1947-1951 |
| VI.A.86; mf 3265:364 | "The State and Art" | Undated |
| VI.A.87; mf 3265:417 | "Surrealism, Dada, etc." Includes annotated printed matter, photographs, and a brochure from the Wadsworth Athenaeum. |
c. 1935-1945 |
| VI.A.88; mf 3265:478 | "Insane" This folder, not in alphabetical sequence, might have been kept here because it was related to "Surrealism, Dada, etc." Alfred H. Barr, Jr. included the art of the insane in the Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism exhibition[MoMA Exh. #55]. |
c. 1936 |
| VI.A.89; mf 3265:486 | "Sweeney" | 1946 |
| VI.A.90; mf 3265:498 | "Swiss Booklets" Regarding "AmerVach Verlag of Basel, 1946." |
1946 |
| VI.A.91; mf 3265:506 | "T" Concerning "artists that begin with a 'T'." |
Undated |
| VI.A.92; mf 3265:518 | "Unanswered" | 1946 |
| VI.A.93; mf 3265:526 | "U.S.A." | 1945-1948 |
| VI.A.94; mf 3265:565 | "War and Art" | Undated |
| VI.A.95; mf 3265:569 | "Z" | Undated |
Subseries VI.B: General Subject and Artist Files 1926-1978 |
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Subseries VI.B contains some materials from the original Barr collection, but it is largely composed of collection accretions and materials transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. The subseries predominantly contains notes on artists and press clippings on said artists and their related movements. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| VI.B.1 | The Dial | 1926 |
| VI.B.2 | The Dial Color reproductions. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.B.3 | Handwritten notes on "Dante" "Signed by Alfred H. Barr, Jr." |
Undated |
| VI.B.4 | Constantin Brâncuși 1 of 2 boxes. "cap" signed by the artist, with note of explanation from Margaret Scolari Barr. Mementos of a party in Brâncuși's studio. |
1939 |
| VI.B.5 | Constantin Brâncuși 2 of 2 boxes. "cap" signed by the artist, with note of explanation from Margaret Scolari Barr. Mementos of a party in Brâncuși's studio. |
1939 |
| VI.B.6 | The Chapbook Includes issues from August 1920 as well as February, March, and June 1923; also includes January 1923 issue, which was added to collection in August 2016. |
1920-1923 |
| VI.B.7 | Sonia Delaunay Includes "Apollinaire documents" given to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. from Delaunay. |
1939 |
| VI.B.8 | General 1920s Includes a gallery list for Wellesley students, an unfinished poem, a letter from Fredrick Kiesler, a card from Stefan Hirsch, various letters to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. in London, and a sonnet written by Barr. |
1918-1929 |
| VI.B.9 | Pablo Picasso Includes clipping of "In Paris…Picasso Stll at Work" (Vogue, October 1944). Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1944-1949 |
| VI.B.10 | "Notes found Inside IV Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1957 |
| VI.B.11 | Outside Exhibition Announcements and catalogues Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1959-1960 |
| VI.B.12 | "Office Open Shelves" "Summer 1974 Inventory by Alanna Siegfried To be Evaluated, Set 2." Inventory of the office of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., which consists of a catalogue of index cards with bibliographic information. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1974 |
| VI.B.13 | "Barr Office-Open Shelf Inventory" "Inventory by Alanna Siegfried Summer 1974, Set 1." Inventory of the office of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., which consists of a catalogue of index cards with bibliographic information. Also includes handwritten notes referencing original organization of contents books into "piles," dated 1976. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1974-76 |
| VI.B.14 | "Books from Barr's Office" Index cards with authors and titles. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1978 |
| VI.B.15 | Cinema Includes a booklet from Le Studio des Ursulines. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.B.16 | "The Massacre of the Innocents" by Roland Penrose Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1936 |
| VI.B.17 | "Bibliographical Notes and Artists" Index cards, arranged by subject, which include notes and bibliographic citations. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.B.18 | Artist Files 1 of 2 boxes of ndex cards. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.B.19 | Artist Files 2 of 2 boxes of index cards. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.B.20 | "Painting and Sculpture, 19th and 20th Century Europe & U.S." Handwritten catalogue cards of priority artworks. Also includes two newspaper clippings. Sections include: "19th Century," "20th Century," "American," "Sculpture," "American Painting 19th Century," "American Painting 20th Century," and "European Painting 20th Century." Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.B.21 | "Names and Addresses (Mostly USA)" Index cards with names and addresses of contacts, mostly domestic. Includes folded sheets with list of Consulate Generals (January 1959). Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1959 |
| VI.B.22 | "Names and Addresses Outside United States" Index cards with names and addresses of international contacts. Includes newspaper clippings that list names and addresses of galleries in London, Paris, and New York. Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.B.23* | Autographs Scrapbook Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.B.24* | Autographs Scrapbook Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
Subseries VI.C: Northern European Art 1920-1944 |
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Subseries VI.C contains material on the subject from Barr's time as a student at Princeton through the early years of his career. Files VI.C.1 - VI.C.5* contain several handwritten charts, which trace the progression and currents that defined Northern Renaissance Art (these charts date from 1923 to 1927). These charts can be considered prototypes for Barr's famous charts on Cubism and abstract art that followed over a decade later. Subseries VI.C is arranged chronologically. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| VI.C.1 | "Northern European Painting" 1 of 3 folders. Includes 13 handwritten charts. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. Additional handwritten charts can be found in VI.D.33 and VI.D.34. |
c. early 1920s |
| VI.C.2 | "Northern European Painting" 2 of 3 folders. Includes course booklet and handwritten notes. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. Additional handwritten charts can be found in VI.D.33 and VI.D.34. |
1923 |
| VI.C.3* | "Northern European Painting" 3 of 3 folders. "Comparative Chart -- a possible aid to students and their study of the history of French painting." Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. Additional handwritten charts can be found in VI.D.33 and VI.D.34. |
Undated |
| VI.C.4 | "Charts" 1 of 2 folders. Handwritten notes and flow charts primarily on Italian Renaissance art. Marked in Margaret Scolari Barr hand: "All graphs -- origin of Cubism and Abstract Art graph." Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. Additional handwritten charts can be found in VI.D.33 and VI.D.34. |
c.1924-1927 |
| VI.C.5* | "Charts" 2 of 2 folders. On Italian Renaissance art. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. Additional handwritten charts can be found in VI.D.33 and VI.D.34. |
c.1924-1927 |
| VI.C.6 | "Photos and Notes--Jacob Vrel" Includes two small notebooks. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1928 |
| VI.C.7 | Reproductions Original folder marked as: "Found in Alfred's Room, 1945." Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1944 |
| VI.C.8 | Reproductions Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
Subseries VI.D: Printed Matter 1923-1929 |
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Subseries VI.D contains books-many with inscriptions-that were transferred to MoMA library 1985. Also included are several files that contain photocopies of title pages from books that Alfred and Margaret Scolari Barr had in their personal library. The texts and title pages represented in this subseries provide researchers with a holistic view of the Barr library and as such offer a glimpse into the varied sources that informed his scholarly and curatorial practices. Subseries VI.D is arranged chronologically. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| VI.D.1* | Art Studies "A.H. Barr, Jr./From his Father/Christmas 1924." |
1923-1924 |
| VI.D.2 | Poems, Emily Dickinson Princeton University, 1926. |
1926 |
| VI.D.3 | Handbook of the Art Collections of Smith College | 1925 |
| VI.D.4 | Two Lives, William E. Leonard Princeton, March 1926. |
1926 |
| VI.D.5 | An Approach to Art, Mary Mullen Vassar College, January 1924. |
1924 |
| VI.D.6 | Poems, FrançoisVillon Wellesley College, September 1928. |
1928 |
| VI.D.7* | A Short History of Italian Painting, Alice van Vechter Brown & William Rankin Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Paris, July 12, 1924. |
1924 |
| VI.D.8* | Brummer Gallery Exhibition Catalogues Marked by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. |
1926 |
| VI.D.9 | Auguste Rodin: Art December 1, 1922. |
1922 |
| VI.D.10 | Variety, Paul Valery Contains inscription: "For Alfred from his mother/Jan. 28, 1929." |
1929 |
| VI.D.11 | Du 'Cubisme', A. Gleizes and J. Metzinger File not present as of June 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.12 | The Little Review File not present as of June 2016. |
1929 |
| VI.D.13 | Paul Klee: leben/werk/geist, Leopold Zaho File not present as of June 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.14* | Museum of Modern Art Publications Box Set Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1929-1930 |
| VI.D.15 | "Barr's Books" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.16 | "Barr's Books" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.17 | "Barr's Books" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.18 | "Barr's Books" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.19 | "Barr's Books A-C" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.20 | "Barr's Books E-K" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.21 | "Barr's Books L-N" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.22 | "Barr's Books O-Z" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.23 | Title Pages A-D Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.24 | Title Pages E-K Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.25 | Title Pages L-Q Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.26 | Title Pages R-Z Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.27 | Alfred & Margaret Scolari Barr Library "A-C" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.28 | Alfred & Margaret Scolari Barr Library "D-G" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.29 | Alfred & Margaret Scolari Barr Library H-L" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.30 | Alfred & Margaret Scolari Barr Library "M-P" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.31 | Alfred & Margaret Scolari Barr Library "Q-U" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.32 | Alfred & Margaret Scolari Barr Library "V-Z" Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
Undated |
| VI.D.33 | Inserts Removed from Books in the Barr Library Insert removed from Picasso: His Life and Work by Roland Penrose includes correspondence from Roland Penrose to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. This folder was added in 2023. |
1931-1985 |
| VI.D.34 | Inserts Removed from Books in the Barr Library Inserts removed from Guida d'Italia Roma & Dintorni include clippings regarding Rome. This folder was added in 2023. |
1950-1966 |
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Series VII: Abstract Art, Cubism, and Futurism 1910-1973 |
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Series VII comprises material pertaining to the artistic abstract art, Cubist, and Futurist movements. It is divided into three subseries. |
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Subseries VII.A: General Interest Files 1936-1973 |
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Subseries VII.A replicates a distinct subseries found in the original Barr collection. Folders are predominately arranged according to artist or subject, and folder titles range from the general to the specific-for example, from "Architecture" (VII.A.3) to "Synchronism" (VII.A.35). File contents vary in their scope and include correspondence, clippings, photographs, notes, exhibition announcements, and catalogues. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| VII.A.1; mf 3145:1011 | "American-Early Modern" Includes handwritten notes. |
Undated |
| VII.A.2; mf 3145:1019 | Alexander Archipenko Includes correspondence, photographs, and exhibition announcements. |
1936-1945 |
| VII.A.3; mf 3145:1128 | "Architecture" | 1944 |
| VII.A.4; mf 3145:1143 | "[Jean] Arp" | Undated |
| VII.A.5; mf 3145:1152 | "Biomorphic Abstractions" | 1946 |
| VII.A.6; mf 3145:1162 | "[Paul] Cézanne" Includes one photograph from Bernheim Jeune. |
Undated |
| VII.A.7; mf 3145:1164 | "Delaunay" | |
| VII.A.8; mf 3145:1170 | Theo van Doesburg Includes photographs (some with annotations and one of Georges Vantongerloo), postcard, correspondence, and de Stijl (January 1932). |
Undated |
| VII.A.9; mf 3145:1279 | "[Marcel] Duchamp" Includes Alfred H. Barr's notes from an interview with Duchamp (December 21, 1945) and a copy of the Yale Bulletin (March 1945). |
1945 |
| VII.A.10; mf 3145:1291 | "[Marcel] Duchamp: Duchamp/Sweeney Material" Includes material related to Florine Stettheimer exhibition and Duchamp's visa problems. |
1946 |
| VII.A.11; mf 3145:1335 | "Les Fauves" Catalogue from the Harriman Gallery. |
1941 |
| VII.A.12; mf 3145:1341 | "Film" | Undated |
| VII.A.13; mf 3145:1346 | "[Fritz] Glarner" | 1949 |
| VII.A.14; mf 3145:1358-1381; mf 3146:6-31 | Henry Russell Hitchcock Correspondence. |
1930-1937 |
| VII.A.15; mf 3146:32 | "Philip Johnson" | Undated |
| VII.A.16; mf 3146:36 | "[Wassily] Kandinsky" Includes correspondence. |
1936-1958 |
| VII.A.17; mf 3146:80 | "[František] Kupka" Includes notes, color transparencies, black-and-white photographs, and sketches. |
Undated |
| VII.A.18; mf 3146:188 | "[Wyndham] Lewis" Includes articles from The New Republic. |
c. 1940 |
| VII.A.19; mf 3146:194 | "Machinism" | Undated |
| VII.A.20; mf 3146:208 | Kazimir Malevich: Correspondence and Info | ca. 1967-1973 |
| VII.A.21; mf 3146:208 | Kazimir Malevich: Correspondence and Info | ca. 1967-1972 |
| VII.A.22; mf 3146:208 | Kazimir Malevich: Nadejena Correspondence | Undated |
| VII.A.23; mf 3146:248 | "Mathematics" Includes correspondence concerning the geometry of design. |
1945 |
| VII.A.24; mf 3146:261 | "[Joan] Miró" Includes announcements from Pierre Matisse Gallery concerning Miró's Farm. |
1935 |
| VII.A.25; mf 3146:266 | "László Moholy-Nagy" Includes letter to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Barr's notes on Vision in Motion. |
c. 1939 |
| VII.A.26; mf 3146:272 | "[Wolfgang] Paalen" Includes photographs and announcement for Art of This Century Gallery. |
c. 1945 |
| VII.A.27; mf 3146:291 | "[Antoine] Pevsner" A brief chronology (1888-1926) of Pevsner, perhaps by the artist. |
1926 |
| VII.A.28; mf 3146:295 | "Primitivism" Includes Alfred H. Barr's notes titled "Attitude towards Primitive Art." |
Undated |
| VII.A.29; mf 3146:309 | "Proto-abstract" Includes photographs and illustrations. |
Undated |
| VII.A.30; mf 3146:316 | Hans Richter: Correspondence | 1943-1950 |
| VII.A.31; mf 3146:322 | "Rorschach" Includes notes and drawings. |
Undated |
| VII.A.32; mf 3146:325 | Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Includes letters sent to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. while at Wellesley College. |
c. 1927 |
| VII.A.33; mf 3146:370 | "Science and Art" | Undated |
| VII.A.34; mf 3146:393 | "de Stijl" Includes memos and printed matter. |
Undated |
| VII.A.35; mf 3146:415 | "Synchromism" Includes notes likely on Willard Huntington Wright's Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning (1915). |
Undated |
| VII.A.36; mf 3146:418 | "Frank Lloyd Wright" | Undated |
| VII.A.37 | "Printed Matter" Includes clippings, gallery announcements, copies of letters, and notes. |
Undated |
| VII.A.38; mf 3146:512 | Catalogues Includes Nord-Sud (May 15, 1917) with Pierre Reverdy's "Sur le Cubisme." |
ca. 1917-1955 |
| VII.A.39; mf 3146:732 | "Analogues" Includes handwritten notes by Margaret Scolari Barr. |
Undated |
| VII.A.40; mf 3147:565 | "Miscellaneous" Includes 73 black-and-white photographs. |
Undated |
| VII.A.41; mf 3146:740 | "Theory" Includes printed matter, and articles from The Chapbook and The New Republic. |
Undated |
| VII.A.42; mf 3147:693 | William Burden Black-and-white photographs. |
Undated |
| VII.A.43 | "Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum) and American Abstract Art" Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
1937-1948 |
| VII.A.44 | "Photographs" 1 of 2 folders. Includes black-and-white reproductions from "a Ter-Centenary Exposition of New York City at the John Wannamaker Store"; sepia-toned photographs of the Necco Factory; and photographs of Paul Frankl furniture. Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
Undated |
| VII.A.45* | "Photographs" 2 of 2 folders. "Gravure Supplement, The Detroit Free Press ." Material transferred from the Margaret Scolari Barr Papers in 2016. |
c. 1930s |
| VII.A.46* | Lucrat Toupies Album Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1939 |
| VII.A.47* | Fortune, December 1938 Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1938 |
| VII.A.48* | Roy Lichenstein Serigraphie Material integrated into the collection in 2016. |
1973 |
Subseries VII.B: Cubism and Abstract Art 1933-1958 |
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Subseries VII.B encompasses publication and research material related to the groundbreaking exhibition and catalogue, Cubism and Abstract Art. It contains correspondence, handwritten notes, page proofs, and a catalogue typescript. Of particular significance is folder VII.B.5, which has the original catalogue jacket that reproduced Barr's famous flow chart. Cubism and Abstract Art is central to MoMA's history as an institution devoted to presenting modern and abstract art to the Museum-going public. Researchers may note that Subseries VII.B may pertain more appropriately to that material covered in Series III: Exhibitions and Catalogues; however, it remains here in order to better reflect the order of the original collection. Subseries VII.B is arranged in reverse chronological order. |
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| Folder | Title | Date |
| VII.B.1; mf 3146:764 | Post-Publication Material Includes correspondence with David Burliuk and Louise Bourgeois. Also includes Alfred H. Barr, Jr.'s notes on the origin of the term "Suprematism" (1958). |
ca. 1940-1958 |