Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Fenollosa, Ernest, 1853-1908
| title | Correspondence to Brenda Fenollosa Biddle, 1901. | repository | University of Pennsylvania |
| description | Correspondence to Brenda Fenollosa Biddle, 1901. Description: Mixed Material Contained in: Van Wyck Brooks Papers. Folder 941 Summary: Copy of letter between Fenollosa and his daughter, Brenda, collected by Brooks for his work on Fenollosa. Notes: Letter is a photocopy. Other Contributors: Biddle, Brenda Fenollosa, 1883-, recipient. |
| extent | 1 item |
| formats | Reproductions Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions |
| record source | http://www.franklin.library.upenn.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Found In: Van Wyck Brooks Papers. Folder 941 |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:56 |
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| title | Ernest Francisco Fenollosa papers, 1881-1952 (inclusive),1881-1909 (bulk). | repository | Houghton Library |
| description | Includes six lectures on Japanese art, 1881, and other lectures and writings on Japanese art and art education; notebook, 1884, containing descriptions of Japanese paintings and art objects; sketchbook; and diary. Also includes some of Fenollosa’s correspondence as well as some correspondence of his widow Lizzie Goodhue Fenollosa, photographs, scrolls, and printed material. History notes : Fenollosa was a poet and student of Oriental art. He taught at the Imperial University of Tokyo (1878-1886) and was manager of the Tokyo Fine Arts Academy and the Imperial Museum. From 1890 to 1897 he was curator of Oriental art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University Location: b, pf Call No.: MS Am 1759 Call No.: MS Am 1759.1 Call No.: MS Am 1759.2 Call No.: MS Am 1759.3 Call No.: MS Am 1759.4 |
| extent | 3 v., 6 boxes (5 linear ft). |
| formats | Correspondence Diaries Writings Sketchbooks Printed Materials |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions |
| record link | nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00842 |
| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| finding aid | Online and unpublished printed finding aid available in the Houghton Accessions Records, 1963-1964, 1965-1966, 1971-1972, 1978-1979, under *63M-220, *65M-157, *71M-24, *78M-19. |
| acquisition information | *63M-220. Gift of Dr. E.G. Stillman; received: 1901. Manuscripts transferred from Widener Library. *65M-157. Bequest of Dr. E. G. Stillman; received: 1966 March. Manuscripts transferred from Widener Library. *71M-24. Manuscripts transferred fromWidener Library; received: 1971 July. These Fenollosa manuscripts were purchased by Dr. Ernest Goodrich Stillman at the Walpole Galleries in January 1920. Many of the manuscripts carry a bookplate indicating they belonged to Dr. Stillman's Japanese Collection in the Harvard College Library. *78M-19. Gift of Mr. Owen Biddle, 1025 Old Gulph Road, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010; received: 1979 March. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:54 |
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| title | Seals and signatures of old Japanese paintings ; two lectures on art : manuscript, 1884, 1885 and undated. | repository | Houghton Library |
| description | Two items bound together. The first, undated, consists of printed line-reproductions of seals and signatures of Japanese artists, in black, the pairs numbered 1-976 in blue with a numbering stamp. (There is no key.) The second item consists of notes apparently taken at two lectures by Fenollosa, "Remarks on art-method" dated Apr. 1885, and "Varios [sic] uses of drawing" dated Dec. 1884. Notes : On spine: "Kana & Kose schools Old Japanese paintings Seals & signatures Proof sheets of tracings made by E. F. Fenollosa in Tokyo with manuscripts Remarks on art methods by E. F. Fenollosa April, 1885." Title from slip pasted onto a front flyleaf by E. G. Stillman. |
| extent | 1 v. (71, 23 leaves) ; 31 cm. |
| formats | Printed Materials Notes |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions |
| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| acquisition information | From the Japanese collection of E. G. Stillman, ’08, M.D. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:54 |
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| title | Kano School artists : manuscript, undated. | repository | Houghton Library |
| description | The ca. 275 tracings are on small thin paper slips mounted in groups on most of the leaves (some are blank). There are no numbers or legend. Some tracings are noted "K.B." The album consists of accordion-folded leaves between boards covered with gold brocade cloth. The leaves are partly disjoined and detached from the boards. Title from pencil note on f. 2. In a brown cloth protective case. |
| extent | 1 v. (28 leaves) ; 31 cm. |
| formats | Drawings Notes |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions |
| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Bookplate: "From the Library of Ernest F. Fenollosa at ’Kobinata,’ Southern Alabama" signed "Mary Alice Fenollosa (Sidney McCall)." From the Japanese collection of E. G. Stillman, ’08, M.D. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:54 |
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| title | Charles Lang Freer Papers 1876-1931 | repository | Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives |
| description | Summary: The personal papers of Charles Lang Freer, the industrialist and art collector who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. The papers include correspondence, diaries, art inventories, scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeil Whistler and other press clippings, financial material, architectural drawings, and photographs. Correspondence, ca. 1860-1921, includes Freer's correspondence, 1876-1920, with artists, dealers, collectors, museums, and public figures; letterpress books contain copies of Freer's outgoing letters, 1892-1910; correspondence collected by Freer of James McNeill Whistler, and his wife Beatrix, 186?-1909, with Lady Colin Campbell, Thomas R. Way, Alexander Reid, Whistler' mother, Mrs. George W. Whistler, and others; correspondence of Whistler collector Richard A. Canfield, 1904-1913, regarding works in Canfield's collection; and correspondence of Freer's assistant, Katharine Nash Rhoades, 1920-1921, soliciting Freer letters and regarding the settlement of his estate. Also included are twenty-nine pocket diaries, 1889-1890, 1892-1898, 1900-1919, recording daily activities, people and places visited, observations, and comments; a diary kept by Freer's caretaker, Joseph Stephens Warring, recording daily activities at Freer's Detroit home, 1907-1910. Inventories, n.d. and 1901-1921, of American, European, and Asian art in Freer's collection, often including provenance information; vouchers, 1884-1919, documenting his purchases; five volumes of scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeill Whistler, 1888-1931, labeled "Various," "Peacock Room," "Death, etc.," "Paris, etc.," and "Boston...London" ; three volumes of newsclippings, 1900-1930, concerning Freer and the opening of the Freer Gallery of Art. Correspondence regarding Freer's gift and bequest to the Smithsonian Institution, 1902-1916; and photographs, ca. 1880-1930, of Freer, including portraits by Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edward Steichen, Freer with others, Freer in Cairo, China and Japan, Freer's death mask, and his memorial service, Kyoto, 1930; photographs of artists and others, including Thomas Dewing, Ernest Fenellosa, Katharine Rhoades taken by Alfred Stieglitz, Rosalind B. Philip, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Abbott H. Thayer, Dwight Tryon, and Whistler; and photographs relating to Whistler, including art works depicting him, grave and memorial monuments, works of art, the Peacock Room, and Whistler's memorial exhibition at the Copley Society. Co-Creator: Bacher, Otto H. (Otto Henry), 1856-1909 Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 Bing, Siegfried, 1838-1905 Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943 Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931 Bosch-Reitz, Sigisbert Chretien, 1860- Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918 Campbell, Colin, Lord, 1853-1895 Campbell, Colin, Lady, 1857-1911 Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916 Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924 Churchill, Alfred Vance, 1864-1949 Canfield, Richard A. (Richard Albert), 1855-1914 Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966 Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, 1851-1938 Dow, Arthur W. (Arthur Wesley), 1857-1922 Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco, 1853-1908 Gallatin, A. E. (Albert Eugene), 1881-1952. Gellatly, John, 1853-1931 Gookin, Frederick William Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1867-1944 Hecker, Frank J. (Frank Joseph), 1846-1927 Kelekian, Dikran, 1868-1951 Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 McCormick, Frederick, 1870- Matsuki, Bunkio, 1867-1940 Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932 Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, 1887- Meyer, Eugene, 1875-1959 Moore, Charles, 1855-1942 Nomura, Yozo Philip, Rosalind Birnie, 1873-1958 Reid, Alexander Rhoades, Katharine N., 1885-1965 Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933 Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907 Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973 Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921 Tryon, Dwight William, 1849-1925 Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927 Warring, Joseph Stephens, 1863?-1944 Way, Thomas R. (Thomas Robert), 1861-1913 Whistler, Beatrix Philip Godwin, d. 1896 Wong, K. T. Yue, Seaouke M. Knoedler & Co. Yamanaka & Company |
| extent | 145 linear feet |
| formats | Personal Papers Correspondence Photographs Diaries Financial Papers |
| access | Access is by appointment only, Monday through Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Please contact the Archives to make an appointment. |
| record link | http://www.asia.si.edu/archives/finding_aids/freer.html |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | Online and in repository. |
| acquisition information | Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:54 |
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| title | Saul Zalesch collection of artists' letters, 1834-1973. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | REEL 3097: Twenty-six letters (1845-1973) written by George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Isabel Bishop, Frederick Stuart Church, Thomas Doughty, Ernest Fenollosa, Ben Foster, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, John La Farge, Homer Dodge Martin, Joseph Pennell, Edward Willis Redfield, John Rogers, John Singer Sargent, Richard Stankiewicz, Thomas Sully, and Elihu Vedder. Also included are a Harvard University bond for William Wetmore Story's tuition signed by Franklin H. Story (1834) and a biographical questionnaire completed by John La Farge for THE CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY (1925). UNMICROFILMED: Letters to Saul Zalesch from Roy Lichtenstein, William Gropper, Gluyas Williams, Ordway Partridge, Frederick Burr Opper, James Wells Champney, C. Gray Parker, Ben Foster, Louis Betts, Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge, Richard Lippold, Romare Bearden , Isabel Bishop, Thomas Hart Benton, Richard Stankiewicz, and others; a brochure for a work of art by Robert Indiana; a certificate from The Brooklyn Art Association for one share of capital stock in the name of William Potter Lage. Bio / His Notes: Zalesch, a graduate student in Art History at the University of Delaware, began collecting artists' letters around 1981. |
| extent | 56 items (portions microfilmed on 1 reel) |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed portion requires an appointment. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Letters on reel 3097 were lent for microfilming by Zalesch, 1984. He donated an additional three letters in 1993 and 25 in 1999. Reel 3097: Originals returned to Zalesch after microfilming. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:54 |
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| title | Records of the Director's Office: Frederic Allen Whiting, 1913-1930 | repository | The Cleveland Museum of Art |
| description | The records of the Director's Office are the primary source for understanding the decisions made and actions taken at the highest level of the museum's administration. In addition, the records constitute one of the most valuable, unified resources for researching the early history of the museum and its art collection; initial construction and expansion of the museum building; changes in the museum's administrative hierarchy; personalities and activities of individual staff members; artistic and social movements of the first half of the twentieth century; and the museum's relationship with civic, cultural, and educational institutions throughout the country and the world. The records from Frederic Allen Whiting's tenure as director are divided into four main series: I. Numbered Administrative Correspondence, II. Unnumbered Administrative Correspondence, III. Biographical Materials, and IV. Index to Numbered Administrative Correspondence. Citation: The Cleveland Museum of Art Archives, Records of the Director's Office: Frederic Allen Whiting, date and short description of document [e.g., letter from Whiting to Kent, 6 June 1916]. |
| extent | 22.6 cubic feet, 72 boxes |
| formats | Administrative Records Writings Correspondence Notes |
| access | At the end of the restricted period, the records will still be subject to the review of the archivist before access is granted. |
| record link | http://library.clevelandart.org/museum_archives/finding_aids/whiting/index.php |
| record source | http://library.clevelandart.org/museum_archives/finding_aids/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:11 |
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| title | Series 12.1, Box 212: Fenollosa memorial service (artists & colleagues) undated | repository | Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives |
| description | Photographs of Ernest Fenellosa's memorial service, some buildings, and an altar. |
| extent | 1.5 linear feet |
| formats | Ephemera Photographs |
| access | Access is by appointment only, Monday through Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Please contact the Archives to make an appointment: AVRreference@si.edu. |
| record link | http://www.asia.si.edu/archives/finding_aids/Freer.html |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | Electronic finding aid available. |
| acquisition information | Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:11 |
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