Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Pulitzer, Joseph, 1913-1993
| title | Oral history interview with Joseph Pulitzer, 1985 July 9 |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Joseph Pulitzer conducted by Sue Ann Kendall for the Archives of American Art. |
| extent | 2 sound cassettes (27 p. transcript) |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-joseph-pulitzer-12399 |
| acquisition information | This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:29 |
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| title | Joseph Pulitzer lecture, 1988 Apr. 16. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others. |
| extent | 1 sound cassette. |
| formats | Sound Recording |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/joseph-pulitzer-lecture-10361 |
| acquisition information | 1 sound cassette. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:29 |
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| title | Oral history interview with Joseph Pulitzer, 1978 Jan. 11 |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Interview of Joseph Pulitzer conducted by Dennis Barrie for the Archives of American Art. |
| extent | 2 sound cassettes (27 p. transcript) |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_212143 |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-joseph-pulitzer-12419 |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:29 |
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| title | Stephen Greene papers, 1945-1969. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Painter; New York. Died Nov. 18, 1999, at age 82. Studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League and with Philip Guston. Taught at Princeton Univ., Tyler School of Art of Temple Univ., and the Art Students League. Students included Frank Stella. Spent four years at the American Academy in Rome. Letters, including those received from R. Kirk Askew, Perry Rathbone, Joseph Pulitzer, and Lillian Hellman; material concerning exhibitions such as catalogs, notices, and lists of collections; photographs and slides; articles and addresses by Greene. |
| extent | 125 items (on partial microfilm reel). |
| formats | Microfilm Ephemera |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/stephen-greene-papers-8265 |
| acquisition information | Originals returned to lender, Stephen Greene, after microfilming./ Lent for microfilming 1970 by Stephen Greene. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:29 |
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| title | American Committee of the Statue of Liberty records, 1875-1901. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | American Committee of the Statue of Liberty records, 1875-1901. Correspondence between Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and members of the committee including Richard Butler, William M. Evarts, and Henry F. Spaulding. Also, a few letters from Joseph Pulitzer and J. W. Pinchot. In addition, there is a proposal for the erection of the statue, and clippings and miscellany relating to the project. Co-Creator: Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901 Pinchot, James W., 1831-1908 Pulitzer, Joseph, 1913- Spaulding, Henry F. Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste, 1834-1904 Butler, Richard |
| extent | ca. 150 items (on partial microfilm reel) reel N24 (frames 163-562) |
| formats | Correspondence Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/american-committee-statue-liberty-records-9909 |
| acquisition information | Microfilmed 1956 by the Archives of American Art with other art-related papers in the Manuscript Division of the New York Public Library. Included in the microfilming project were selected papers of the Art Division and the Prints Division. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:29 |
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| title | Papers of Joseph Pulitzer, 1897-1958 (bulk 1925-1955). |
| repository | Library of Congress |
| description | Family and general correspondence, subject and business files, and personal financial papers relating primarily to Pulitzer’s editorship of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and contain material on nearly every aspect of the operation and production of the newspaper, including its working philosophy, internal business management, and editorial policies. Includes extensive files of correspondence between Pulitzer and his editorial and reporting staffs and other journalists, as well as his correspondence with local St. Louis and national government officials. There is also extensive material relating to his personal and family life and to his great interest in hunting and fishing. Other topics include Pulitzer’s interest in Nazi concentration camps, Joseph Pulitzer, Sr., the Pulitzer estate, and the administration of the Pulitzer Prize. Correspondents include Paul Y. Anderson, Bernard M. Baruch, Oliver Kirby Bovard, Raymond P. Brandt, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Norman Chandler, Marquis William Childs, James Bryant Conant, Raymond L. Crowley, Dwight Filley Davis, Frederick Trubee Davison, Irving Dilliard, Cyrus Stephen Eaton, Ernest Gruening, Jesse H. Jones, David Lawrence, Walter Lippmann, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst Meyer, Eugene Meyer, Ogden Livingston Mills, Charles Nagel, Adolph S. Ochs, Joseph Medill Patterson, Benjamin Harrison Reese, Charles G. Ross, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wesley Winans Stout, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Herbert Bayard Swope, Stuart Symington, Norman Thomas, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Oswald Garrison Villard, Sumner Welles, and John N. Wheeler. Biographical and Historical Notes Newspaper editor and publisher. |
| extent | 67,500 items, 193 containers, 163 microfilm reels. |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Business Papers Subject Files Financial Records |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://lccn.loc.gov/mm76075797 |
| record source | http://catalog.loc.gov |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. |
| acquisition information | Gift, Elizabeth Edgar Pulitzer, 1974. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:36 |
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| title | Otto and Ilse Gerson papers, 1933-1980. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Records relating to galleries owned and operated by the Gersons, including Fine Arts Associates, Gerson Gallery, and the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. Among the correspondence with clients, museums, dealers and artists are a 1937 letter from Ernst L. Kirchner to dealer Curt Valentin, letters from Gerhard Marcks, a 1962 letter from Otto to Ilse about improving their life together, a letter detailing cash flow of the estate, and congratulatory letters to Ilse on her retirement from Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. Also includes estimates and invoices for sales of art works, as well as files on Paul Cezanne, Fernand Leger, Jacques Lipchitz, David Smith, Joseph M. Turner, and Fritz Wotruba containing correspondence, financial and sales records and printed material. The Lipchitz file includes a 1942 letter from Lipschitz to Joseph Hirshhorn. Files on collectors Walter Bareiss, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, Ralph F. Colin, Joseph Hirshhorn, Herbert Klotz, the Georg-Kolbe Museum, Alvin S. Lane, John A. MacAulay, May D. Morton, Joseph Pulitzer, and the Uris Brothers Foundation contain correspondence, purchase invoices, market value affidavits, photographs of works, and a list of collectors of Georges Braque bronzes. A file on the Dina Vierny Gallery (Paris) contains correspondence relating to sales of works by Constantin Brancusi, Fernand Leger, Aristide Maillol and others. Additional business records include certificates of authenticity for works by Georges Braque, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, and others; purchase and sale records (1948-1963); a sales ledger; balance sheets; audit reports for Fine Arts Associates and Otto Gerson Gallery; merger agreement and related correspondence between Gerson Gallery and Marlborough Gallery; tax return for XYZ Liquidating Corporation; inventories; a stock book; stock lists; and stock cards recording the names of buyers, sellers, and prices. Photographs show the galleries, art works, and the Gersons. Other materials consist of exhibition catalogues, clippings and Ilse Gerson's will. Language Note: Letters from Marcks and Kirchner are in German. Correspondence in the Dina Vierny Gallery file is mainly in French. Co-Creator: Smith, David, 1906-1965 Bareiss, Walter Bradley, Harry Lynde, Mrs Colin, Ralph F., 1900-1985 Hirshhorn, Joseph H. Klotz, Herbert, 1917-1986 Lane, Alvin S. MacAulay, John A., b. 1895 May, Morton D., 1914- Pulitzer, Joseph, 1913- Gerson, Ilse, 1901-1980 |
| extent | 2.8 linear ft. reels 4049-4053 |
| formats | Business Records Photographs Financial Records Exhibition Catalogs |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.gersotto.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/otto-and-ilse-gerson-papers-8763 |
| acquisition information | Laurence Schmeckebier, who appraised Ilse Gerson's estate for Indian Head Bank North, suggested that the papers be given to the Archives of American Art. Some artists' files appear to be missing as only six files have been located. The bank's representative has no knowledge of the whereabouts of any additional material. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:37 |
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| title | Richard Serra lecture, 1988 Apr. 16. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | A lecture delivered by Richard Serra at the Fogg Art Museum in conjunction with the opening of its exhibition of the Joseph Pulitzer Collection. Bio / His Notes: Sculptor; New York, N.Y. |
| extent | 1 sound cassette. |
| formats | Sound Recording |
| access | Untranscribed; use requires an appointment. ACCESS RESTRICTED; written permission required. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated 1988 by Richard Serra |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:37 |
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| title | The Fototeca Berenson (Villa I Tatti Photo Archives) |
| repository | Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti |
| description | The collection contains about 300,000 photographs, many of them collected by Berenson himself from the 1880s until the time of his death in 1959. Many have notes on the back in his handwriting. Many show works of art before restoration, and others show images since destroyed. An important section, "Homeless paintings", contains photographs of works whose current location is unknown. The photographs are almost exclusively black and white in a variety of photographic media, such as albumen, gelatine, or carbon. About 3000 large-format photographs are stored separately. In addition, there is a considerable amount of documentary material in the form of clippings, notes and printed reproductions. The photographs are arranged according to Berenson's original scheme, by school: Florence, Siena, Central Italy, Northern Italy, Lombardy, Venice, Southern Italy. Within each school they are arranged by artist, then by topography, followed by homeless. Paintings and drawings are arranged separately. The main focus of the collection is on Italian painting and drawing from the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. This part of the collection continues to be developed through the acquisition of new materials and through photographic campaigns. Later periods are also represented but in smaller scale, without systematic updating. There is also material on medieval painting, arranged topographically; manuscript illumination, arranged according to present location; archeology; Byzantine art and architecture, arranged both by artist and by location; and non-Italian art, arranged by country. Finally a section of 8000 photographs is devoted to the art of the Far East, India and Islam. In addition to the original Berenson nucleus, collections of prints, glass plates, negatives and transparencies have entered the Fototeca. These include the collections of Emilio Marcucci (nineteenth-century projects for the completion of various Florentine monuments), George Kaftal (representations of saints in Italian painting of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries), Henry Clifford (painting thirtheenth to seventeenth centuries), Giorgio Castelfranco (Italian art thirteenth to twentieth centuries), Giannino Marchig (restoration), Frederick Hartt (Michelangelo, Giulio Romano), Giuseppe Marchini (Italian art and stained glass), and Craig H. Smyth (Renaissance painting and drawing). There is a small collection of micropublications and microfiche (162,386 frames): L=index photographique de l'art en France (95,648); Sotheby's Pictorial Archive - Old Master Paintings (45,472); Christie's Pictorial Archive Italian School (9,898); Christie's Pictorial Archive - New York 1977-95 Old Master Paintings & Drawings (11,368). The microfilm of the Bartsch Corpus comprises about 42,000 frames. Notes Most photographers not identified. |
| extent | 300,000 + photographs |
| formats | Photographs Reproductions Microfilm Artist Files |
| access | Contact Ilaria Della Monica the archivist at the Berenson Library for restrictions and appointments. |
| record link | http://via.lib.harvard.edu/via/deliver/advancedsearch?_collection=via |
| record source | http://itatti.harvard.edu/ |
| finding aid | Currently, there is no catalog of the photographs at Villa I Tatti. In some cases, Artist Files, can be found school (i.e. Venetian, Lombard, Northern Italy, Central Italy, etc. . .) and some are cataloged in Harvard's online catalog, HOLLIS. |
| acquisition information | Originally formed by Bernard Berenson the Library continues to add to the file. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:44 |
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