Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Root, Edward Wales, -1956
| title | Edward Wales Root papers, 1896-1968. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Biographical material; files on Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, George Luks, Peppino Mangravite, Henry Lee McFee, Maurice Prendergast, Eugene Speicher, Theodoros Stamos, and others whose work Root collected, containing correspondence, catalogs, checklists, clippings, receipts, and notes; correspondence with Harris K. Prior and Joseph Trovato of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Lydia Powell, William Roerick, Carl Zigrosser, galleries, dealers, and museum officials; inventories, correspondence, notes, catalogs, and clippings relating to Root's collection; writings; diaries; sketches by Root; files on the Utica Art Society; and photographs of Root, his home, his art collection and exhibitions. Co-Creator: Prendergast, Maurice Brazil, 1858-1924 Prior, Harris King, 1911-1975 Speicher, Eugene E. (Eugene Edward), 1883-1962 Stamos, Theodoros, 1922- Trovato, Joseph S., 1912-1983 Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980 Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967 Luks, George Benjamin, 1867-1933 Mangravite, Peppino, 1896- McFee, Henry Lee, 1886-1953 Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. Museum of Art |
| extent | Ca.3500 items (on 3 microfilm reels) reels 2376-2378 |
| formats | Diaries Artist Files Inventories Correspondence Ephemera |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/edward-wales-root-papers-13449 |
| acquisition information | Lent for microfilming by the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1981. Originals in the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute,Utica, New York. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:30 |
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| title | Edward Wales Root letters from Louis Eilshemius, [ca. 1930]. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Two letters to Root from Louis Michel Eilshemius. Eilshemius discusses a small oil painting purchased by Root that he admirers, his interest in art, the "struggle against irrecognition", his animosity toward the National Academy of Design, views on intellect, and his work other than painting. Co-Creator: Eilshemius, Louis M. (Louis Michel), 1864-1941 |
| extent | 2 items (on 1 partial microfilm reel) reel 3471 |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/edward-wales-root-letters-louis-eilshemius-5681 |
| acquisition information | Donated by Mrs. Edward Root, 1964. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:30 |
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| title | Guy Irving Anderson letters, 1940-1979. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Letters recieved, from Albert Einstein, Morris Graves, Edward W. Root, Otto Seligman, Mark Tobey, Wesley C. Wehr and others. Also includes handmade Christmas cards from Walter Isaacs (linocut) and Ambrose Patterson (woodcut). Bio / His Notes: Painter; Seattle, Washington. |
| extent | 32 items (on partial microfilm reel) reel 2786 (frames 392-449) |
| formats | Correspondence Ephemera |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/guy-irving-anderson-letters-5777 |
| acquisition information | Donated 1979 by Wesley Wehr, a friend of Anderson. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:30 |
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| title | Aline and Eero Saarinen papers, 1906-1977 |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Personal papers of Aline and Eero Saarinen, and Aline Saarinen papers relating to her unpublished biography of architect Stanford White, her published book The Proud Possessors, and her work as an NBC Television correspondent. Papers relating to Stanford White and to Proud Possessors contain primary source material gathered by Saarinen during her research on White and collectors Edward Wales Root and John Quinn. REELS 2074-76, and 2064 (photos): Biographical material; Eero Saarinen's sketches, notes and letters; correspondence between Aline and Eero; Aline Saarinen's correspondence, including letters from John McAndrews, Clifford Odets, Robert Osborne, Frank Lloyd Wright, Joseph Louchheim, and her children; awards; files on her involvement with the Fine Arts Commission, Yale University, and the Design Advisory Committee of the Federal Aviation Agency; speeches, articles on art and architecture; television scripts; clippings and printed material; notes; and photographs and slides of the Saarinens (2 copyprints are also microfilmed on reel 1817 fr. 1054-1058), Charles Alan, and other family members, friends, works of art, and architecture. REELS 2069-2072 and 2084 (photos): Research material, 1903-1960, relating to Saarinen's book The Proud Possessors (1958). Included are notes, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and printed material on art collectors Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Dr. Claribel and Etta Cone, Katherine Sophie Dreier, Charles Lang Freer, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Thomas Gilcrease, Peggy Guggenheim, Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Havemeyer, Joseph Hirshhorn, R. Sturgis Ingersoll, John G. Johnson, J. Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. Potter Palmer, John Quinn, the Rockefeller family, Edward Wales Root, Gertrude, Leo, Michael and Sarah Stein, and Electra Havemeyer Webb. Among the correspondents is Bernard Berenson. The material on Edward Root contains letters to Saarinen from Grace Cogswell Root; correspondence between Root and his father Elihu, 1903-1936; one or more letters to Root, 1909-1936, from Charles Culver, Robert De Forest, Frederick James Gregg, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Duncan Phillips, and Grace Root; copies of 2 letters to Edward Christiana, 1949; a catalog for a Root memorial exhibition, 1957; Saarinen's notes; and a photograph of Root, one of his home, and photographs of works of art in his collection. Copyrpints also available. Material on John Quinn includes correspondence between Saarinen and Jeanne Robert Foster; letters to Foster from Quinn and his sister, Julia Anderson; a copy of a letter to Foster from William B. Yeats and a drawing of Quinn possibly by Yeats; material relating to Roger Casement; and photographs of Quinn and Foster, and Quinn with Constantin Brancusi, Picasso and Mme. Picasso, Henri Pierre Roche, and Erik Satie. REELS 2072-2073 and 2064 (photos): Research material for Saarinen's unpublished biography of Stanford White. Included are: notes, drafts; correspondence with her publisher, scholars, friends and relatives of White, architects, and others; printed material, 1896-1968; McKim, Mead and White memoranda and correspondence, 1887-1906, much of it with Whitelaw Reid; a letter from Charles Lang Freer, 1900; contracts; architectural descriptions and copies of blueprints; a record book; and miscellaneous letters and documents. Letters from White's father, Richard Grant White, to his daughter-in-law Bessie, Bessie White's reminiscenses of Stanford, and her scrapbook on the Washington Centennial and White's Washington Arch are also included. Photographs include over 300, 1878-ca. 1970, of White, his wife; his father and mother; Evelyn Nesbit; his clients, Anne, Louise and Robert Cheney; and 280 photographs of buildings and residences designed by White or McKim, Mead and White, many photographed by Wayne Andrews. UNMICROFILMED: Primarily papers kept by Aline Saarinen while a NBC television correspondent reporting on mainly art related topics. Included are correspondence, printed material, notes, scripts, clippings, kinescope motion picture film, including "Eyes Opening", transferred to VHS, and photographs. Also included are printed material on Eero Saarinen, and photographs of his work. ADDITION: Notebooks containing Aline Saarinen's notes on architecture, art collectors and Stanford White; printed material; Saarinen's journal, 1928-1932; a guest book; photographs; scripts for Venus in Venice (1964), The American Image and other writings. Three phonograph recordings (33 1/3) of a discussion on opera between Eero Saarinen, Professor H. Ingham Ashworth and Professor Leslie Martin on the Australian Braodcasting Commission, January 29, 1957 are not available for research use. |
| extent | 13.5 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 10 reels) |
| formats | Correspondence Notes Sketches Photographs Clippings |
| access | Collection is being processed and digitized, and is closed to researchers. Access is to microfilmed material only. NBC TV material: Authorization to quote from scripts or film prepared for television must be cleared for rights with: NBC Studios, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.saaralin.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/aline-and-eero-saarinen-papers-5589 |
| acquisition information | Donated in 1973 by the Aline Saarinen estate via Charles Alan, art dealer and brother of Saarinen. The NBC TV material was donated 1974 by NBC Studios. Additional material donated 1991 by the Parrish Art Museum, who had received it from Aline Saarinen. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:31 |
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| title | Edward Wales Root Papers |
| repository | Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute |
| description | Chiefly letters from painters, dealers, and curators; together with a few bills. Correspondents include Alexander Brook, Charles Daniel, Arthur B. Davies, George Luks, Henry Lee McFee, and Maurice Prendergast. Biographical Note Art collector and lecturer on art at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y. Related Materials Root left his art library to the institute and in 2005 they began compiling a list which can be found at: http://www.mwpai.org/assets/museum/docs/EdwardRootsArtLibrary.pdf Many of the books have notations in the margins. The Archives of American Art has a microfilm copy of 54 letters in this collection, made in 1964. |
| extent | 57 items |
| formats | Correspondence Financial Records |
| access | Information on literary rights available in the library. |
| record source | http://www.mwpai.org/museum-of-art/library/ |
| finding aid | Itemized list in the repository. |
| acquisition information | Gift of Mrs. Root, Clinton, N. Y., 1960. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:44 |
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