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Archives related to: Winthrop, Grenville Lindall, 1864-1943
| title | Papers of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1885-1943 (inclusive). | repository | Harvard Art Museum Archives |
| description | Includes the correspondence of Grenville Winthrop, patron of the Fogg Art Museum; his class notes, 1885-1886, for Harvard Fine Arts courses taught by Professor Charles E. Norton; account books, 1927-1942, documenting the purchase of works of art by Winthrop; photographs of the Winthrop residence at E. 81st Street in New York City and of Groton Place in Lenox, MA; clippings; and appointment calendars, 1931-1936. Significant correspondents include Bernard Berenson, Martin Birnbaum (Martin Birnboym), Frederick Rathbone, Paul J. Sachs, Royal Cortissoz, S.C. Bosch-Reitz, Paul Manship, Albert Sterner, and Augustus Vincent Tack. Also included are three card indexes containing Winthrop’s own catalog of his collection. History notes : Lawyer and art connoisseur. Educated at Harvard (Class of 1886). Maintained residences in New York and Lenox, Mass. Made many gifts to the Fogg Art Museum during his lifetime, and left his entire collection to the Museum in 1943. Cite as : Grenville L. Winthrop Papers, Fogg Museum Archives, Harvard University. |
| extent | ca. 5 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Ephemera |
| access | Unrestricted. Access to qualified researchers by appointment only. |
| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| finding aid | Unpublished index available in repository. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:57 |
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| title | John Angel James Wilcox [Portraits] [graphic] | repository | Houghton Library |
| description | Collection of prints of portraits of famous men, with engraving by Wilcox. Subject: Portraits of Robert Browning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Alexander Pope, George Washington, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Cite as : MS Am 2394. Houghton Library, Harvard University. Location : Houghton f MS Am 2394 |
| extent | 9 prints : 30 x 23 cm |
| formats | Engravings |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, 1943. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:08 |
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| title | Martin Birnbaum papers, 1862-1967, bulk 1920-1967 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | The papers of New York art dealer, critic, and author Martin Birnbaum measure 3.2 linear feet and date from 1862-1967, with the bulk of the material dating from 1920-1967. The papers document Birnbaum's association with the firm of Scott and Fowles, the lives and activities of his friends and colleagues, and his literary work, through biographical material, correspondence, writings and notes, business records, printed material, a scrapbook, scattered artwork, and photographs of Birnbaum, friends and colleagues, and artwork. REELS N698, N698A, and N698B: Correspondence primarily reflecting his association with the firm of Scott & Fowles, but also including details about lives and activities of his correspondents, among them Edward Bruce, Grover Cleveland, Norman Douglas, Rockwell Kent, Paul Manship, Upton Sinclair, Maxfield Parrish, Bernard Berenson, Augustus E. John, Jules Pascin, Carl Van Vechten, Hamilton Easter Field, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Gari Melchers, William Hunt Diederich, Elie Nadelman, Childe Hassam, John Quinn, Charles Ricketts, Nicholas K. Roerich, and Charles H. Shannon. REEL 108: Primarily letters received by Birnbaum in New York, and throughout Europe from 1917-1943. Correspondents include Grenville L. Winthrop, Gisela Richter, Stevenson Scott, Paul Manship, Maurice Sterne, Edward Bruce, and Maxfield Parrish, Upton Sinclair, George Bellows, John Gregory, Augustus John, Ivan Mestrovic, Elizabeth Winthrop Miles, Robert McIntyre, Georgia O'Keeffe, Joseph Pennell, John Quinn, Charles Ricketts, William Rothenstein, Albert Rutherston, Pamela Colman Smith, Carl Sprinchorn, Pavel Tchelitchew, Schofield Thayer, T. Zoumpoulakis, and family members. Subject matter includes business concerns, art concerns, travel, and family affairs. REELS 1023-1025: Over 1600 letters received. Correspondents include: Cecelia Beaux, Sven Berg, Gutzon Borglum, Edward Bruce, Lodewyk Bruckman, Beniamino Bufano, Mabel Choate, Stephen C. Clark, Royal Cortissoz, Walter Damrosch, Edmund Davis, Reginald Davis, Louise Dillingham, Edmund Dulac, Anne Goldthwaite, Magnus Gross, Herbert Haseltine, Malvina Hoffman, Jan Hoowij, Benjamin Javits, Rockwell Kent, Lenard Kester, Paul Manship, Elisabeth Marbury, Henry McIlhenny, Gari Melchers, Houghton P. Metcalf, Emily Winthrop Miles, Kate Morse, Georgia O'Keeffe, James Parmelee, Maxfield Parrish, Harold Woodbury Parsons, Jules Pascin, Albin Polasek, Alfred B. Potterton, Edward G. Robinson, J. F. Rock, John D. Rockefeller, Emanuel G. Romano, John Rothenstein, John Singer Sargent, Stevenson Scott, Janet Scudder, Carl Sprinchorn, Maurice Sterne, Albert Sterner, R.A. Walker (Georges Derry), Elsie Weil, Carl N. Werntz, Millicent Werntz, Edith Wetmore, Thornton Wilder, Ellis Wilson, Stanley Wilson, Grenville Lindall Winthrop, and Carl Zigrosser. REELS 1025-1026: Business and financial documents; legal documents, certificates, and passports; writings by Birnbaum and others including a manuscript for Birnbaum's book The Last Romantic, with notes by Upton Sinclair; one scrapbook of clippings, loose clippings regarding Edward Dulac, and other printed material; sketches; bookplates; notes, letters, and printed material relating to Aubrey Beardsley; lists and descriptions of works of art; a notebook of addresses; travel itineraries and maps; and programs. REEL 1027: 287 photographs of Birnbaum, and art related people, including Maurice Sterne, Edward Bruce, Leo Stein and Alfred Potterton at Anticoli Corrado, and Cecilia Beaux, Robert Chanler, Philip de Laszlo, Despiau, Norman Douglas, Lord Duveen, Herbert Haseltine, Augustus John by Arnold Genthe, Paul Manship by De Witt Ward, Gari Melchers, Elie Nadelman, Mrs. Gustave Radeke, William Rothenstein, Stevenson Scott, Clare Sheridan, Albert Sterner, Abraham Walkowitz, Mrs. Leonard Volkman Webb, and Grenville Lindall Winthrop; 82 travel photographs primarily of Greece; and 142 photographs of works of art. UNMICROFILMED: Three tape recordings, two containing information about The Last Romantic, dictated in 1952, and one unidentified. Co-Creator: Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898 Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942 Bellows, George, 1882-1925 Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 Berg, Sven Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941 Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943 Bruckman, Lodewyk Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970 Chanler, Robert Winthrop, 1872-1930 Choate, Mabel, 1870-1958 Clark, Stephen C. (Stephen Carlton), b. 1882 Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948 Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950 Davis, Reginald De Laszlo, Philip A., 1869-1937 Derry, Georges, 1886- Despiau, Charles, 1874-1946 Diederich, William Hunt, 1884-1953 Dillingham, Louise Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952 Dulac, Edmund, 1882-1953 Duveen, Joseph Duveen, Baron, 1869-1939 Field, Hamilton Easter Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942 photographer. Goldthwaite, Anne, 1869-1944 Gregory, John, 1879-1958 Gross, Magnus Haseltine, Herbert, 1877-1962 Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935 Hoffman, Malvina, 1887-1966 Hoowij, Jan, 1907- Javits, Benjamin A. (Benjamin Abraham), 1894-1973 John, Augustus, 1878-1961 Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971 Kester, Lenard, 1917- Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962 Manship, Paul, 1885-1966 Marbury, Elisabeth, 1856-1933 McIlhenny, Henry P. McIntyre, Robert G. Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932 Meštrovi?, Ivan, 1883-1962 Metcalf, Houghton P. Miles, Emily Winthrop, 1893-1962 Morse, Kate Nadelman, Elie, 1882-1946 O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986 Parmelee, James Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 Parsons, Harold Woodbury, 1883-1967 Pascin, Jules, 1885-1930 Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 Polasek, Albin, 1879-1965 Potterton, Alfred B. Quinn, John, 1870-1924 Radeke, Eliza G., 1855-1931 Rerikh, Nikolai Konstantinovich, 1874-1947 Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972 Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931 Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973 Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962 Rockefeller, John D., 1906- Romano, Emanuel, 1897?-1984 Rothenstein, John, Sir, 1901- Rothenstein, William, Sir, 1872-1945 Rutherston, Albert Daniel, 1881-1953 Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 Scott, Stevenson Scudder, Janet, b. 1873 Shannon, Charles Hazelwood, 1863-1937 Sheridan, Clare, 1885-1970 Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 Smith, Pamela Colman Sprinchorn, Carl, 1887-1971 Stein, Leo, 1872-1947 Sterne, Maurice, 1878-1957 Sterner, Albert, 1863-1946 Tchelitchew, Pavel, 1898-1957 Thayer, Scofield, b. 1889 Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 Walkowitz, Abraham, 1880-1965 Ward, De Witt photographer. Webb, Leonard Volkman, Mrs Weil, Elsie Werntz, Carl N. (Carl Newland), 1874-1944 Werntz, Millicent Wetmore, Edith Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 Wilson, Ellis, 1899-1977 Wilson, Stanley Winthrop, Grenville Lindall, 1864-1943 Zigrosser, Carl, 1891- Zoumpoulakis, T. Berlin Photographic Company (New York, N.Y.) Fogg Art Museum Scott & Fowles (Firm) |
| extent | 4.3 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 9 microfilm reels) reels N698, N698a, N698b, 108, and 1023-1027 |
| formats | Correspondence Financial Records Photographs Electronic Resource Notes |
| access | Use requires an appointment. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm copy. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.birnmart.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/martin-birnbaum-papers-8888 |
| acquisition information | Donated/lent 1967-1975 by Birnbaum and his great-nephew, Jerome Ziegler. Material reel 108 donated anonymously. |
| updated | 06/09/2023 15:39:52 |
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| title | Paul J. Sachs Papers, 1903-2005. | repository | Harvard Art Museum Archives |
| description | These papers of Fogg Art Museum associate director Paul J. Sachs document his administration of the museum, his teaching career at Harvard, and related professional activities. The papers consist primarily of correspondence and also include photographs, printed material, clippings, architectural drawings, reports, financial records, letters of introduction, insurance records, maps, funding appeals, minutes, memoranda, exhibition brochures, page proofs and press releases. |
| extent | 99 files boxes + oversize materials |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Printed Materials Drawings Ephemera |
| access | Unrestricted. |
| record link | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUAM:art00010 |
| record source | http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu//?itemid=%7clibrary%2fm%2faleph%7c011763842 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:12 |
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| title | General information about gifts to Harvard from Grenville L. Winthrop. | repository | Harvard University Archives |
| description | Location : Harvard University Archives HUB 2879 |
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| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:12 |
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| title | Bernard and Mary Berenson Papers, 1880-2002 (bulk 1880-1959) | repository | Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti |
| description | Includes Bernard Berenson and Mary Berenson's published and unpublished manuscripts, notes, diaries, letters, offprints of articles, surplus volumes of published books, biographical material, and personal photographs. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters to Bernard Berenson, but also some letters by the Berensons and Nicky Mariano. Among the correspondents included are: Baroness Alda Anrep, Margaret Scolari Barr, Robert Woods Bliss, Jacqueline Onassis, Kenneth Clark, Cass Canfield, John Coolidge, Duveen Brothers, William G. Constable, Charles H. Coster, Katherine Dunham, Max Eastmen, Henry Sayles Francis, Edward Waldo Forbes, Felix Frankfurter, Helen C. Frick, Isabella S. Gardner, Martha Gellhorn, J. Paul Getty, Bella da Costa Greene, Hamish Hamilton, Learned Hand, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Hofer, Robert Lehman, Walter Lippmann, Mary McCarthy, Agnes Mongan, Walter Pach, Harold W. Parsons, Carlo Placci, Arthur Kingsley Porter, Paul J. Sachs, Jacques Seligmann, King Gustaf Adolf VI of Sweden, Grenville L. Winthrop, and Edith Wharton. Cite as: Cite as: Bernard and Mary Berenson, Papers, 1880-2002, Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. |
| extent | 72.0 Linear feet |
| formats | Correspondence Notes Photographs Subject Files |
| access | Contact Ilaria Della Monica the archivist at the Berenson Library for restrictions and appointments. |
| record link | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:VIT.BB:ber00008 |
| bibliography | Published finding aid: The Berenson archive : an inventory of correspondence. Compiled by Nicky Mariano. Florence : Villa I Tatti, 1965. |
| record source | http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu/?itemid=|library/m/aleph|000603714 |
| contact information | Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi: Agnes Mongan Curator of the Fototeca Berenson; Curator of the Berenson Collection and Archive |
| finding aid | Available in the Berenson Library: Bernard and Mary Berenson, Papers (1880-2002, bulk 1880-1959) : A Finding Aid. See also The Berenson Archive : An Inventory of Correspondence, compiled by Nicky Mariano (Florence : Villa I Tatti, 1965). |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:12 |
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| title | Papers of Edward Waldo Forbes, 1856-1971 (inclusive). | repository | Harvard University Archives |
| description | These papers document the personal and professional life of Edward Waldo Forbes (EWF) and the lives of members of the Forbes family. They include EWF’s personal and professional correspondence and papers, diaries and calendars, writings, acccount books, school papers, lecture notes, and memorabilia. Of note are the manuscript of EWF’s history of the Fogg Art Museum, papers relating to Gerry’s Landing (a riverfront site in Cambridge), papers relating to Harvard Riverside Associates, and papers relating to EWF’s World War I Red Cross service. Included are diaries belonging to Margaret Laighton Forbes and Sarah Forbes. History notes : Edward Waldo Forbes (1873-1969) was director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, an accomplished artist, and a world traveler. He was born into a prominent family (his parents being William Hathaway Forbes and Edith Emerson Forbes, his maternal grandfather being Ralph Waldo Emerson) in 1873 on the family-owned Naushon Island in Massachusetts. In 1907, Forbes married Margaret Laighton, a notable watercolorist and gardener; they had five children. Forbes relationship with Harvard and the arts began when he earned his Harvard A.B. 1895. He continued his studies at Oxford University, and returned to Massachusetts to form the Charles River Association, an organization dedicated to preserving Harvard’s landscape. He became a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1903 and served in that capacity for 63 years. He acquired art, particularly Italian paintings; his gifts and loans to the Fogg Art Museum contributed significantly to the museum’s eventual rise to worldwide prominence. In 1909, Forbes became Director of the Fogg Art Museum. During his 35 years there, he and his assistant director, Paul Sachs, oversaw the impressive growth of the Museum’s collections, staff, property, and reputation. Forbes also served as a lecturer in Fine Arts at Harvard from 1909 to 1935. He was named the Martin A. Ryerson Lecturer in Fine Arts. From 1945 to 1957, Forbes was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers. Notes : Collection re-organized and re-numbered in 1998; it contains material formerly numbered HUG 4401.xx and HUH 403. Cite as : Edward Waldo Forbes Papers, Harvard University Archives. Notes : In the Harvard University Archives: Records of Harvard Riverside Associates (HUD 3748), Records of the Fogg Art Museum (HUF 401.xxx), and historical records relating to Harvard’s curriculum (HUC 8xxx). Location : Harvard Archives Harvard Depository HUGBF 656.x Location : Harvard Archives Harvard Depository HUGFP 139.xx |
| extent | 38 cubic feet in 111 containers. |
| formats | Personal Papers Business Papers Correspondence Diaries Financial Records |
| access | Access may be restricted. Consult reference staff in the Harvard University Archives for details. |
| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:12 |
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| title | M. Knoedler & Co. records, approximately 1848-1971 | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | The records of M. Knoedler & Co. document the business of the prominent American art dealer from the mid-19th century to 1971, when the Knoedler Gallery was acquired by Armand Hammer. The archive traces the development of the once provincial American art market into one of the world's leading art centers and the formation of the private art collections that would ultimately establish many of the nation's leading art museums, such as the Frick Collection and the National Gallery of Art. It brings to the foreground the business side of dealing as artworks shuttled back and forth among Knoedler, fellow dealers, and collectors, documenting developments in art connoisseurship, shifting tastes, the changing role of art in American society, and the essential role of private collectors in the formation of public American art collections. The records provide insight into broader economic, social and cultural histories and the nation's evolving sense of place in the world. The Knoedler Gallery became one of the main suppliers of old master and post-Impressionist paintings in the United States. Financial records of the firm provide crucial provenance information on the large number of artworks in American museums that were sold by the gallery. The archive includes stock books, sales books and commission books; correspondence with collectors, artists, art dealers and other associates; photographs of the artworks sold by the gallery; records from the firm's offices in London, Paris and other cities; exhibition files; framing and restoration records, and records of the firm's Print Department. Selected portions of the archive have been digitized and made available online. Connect to selected digitized portions of the archive. Arranged in 14 series: Series I. Stock books; Series II. Sales books; Series III. Commission books; Series IV. Inventory cards; Series V. Receiving and shipping records; Series VI. Correspondence; Series VII. Photographs; Series VIII. Exhibition files; Series IX. American Department records; Series X. Framing and restoration records; Series XI. Print Department records; Series XII. Other financial records; Series XIII. Library cards, scrapbooks, and research materials; Series XIV. Knoedler family papers Biographical/Historical Note: M. Knoedler & Co. was a successor to the New York branch of Goupil & Co., an extremely dynamic print-publishing house founded in Paris in 1827. Goupil's branches in London, Berlin, Brussels, and The Hague, as well as New York, expanded the firm's market in the sale of reproductive prints. The firm's office in New York was established in 1848. In 1857, Michael Knoedler, an employee of Goupil and a manager for the firm, bought out the interests in the firm's New York branch, conducted the business under his own name, and diversified its activities to include the sale of paintings. Roland Knoedler, Michael's son, took over the firm in 1878 and with Charles Carstairs opened galleries in Paris and London. In 1928, the management of the firm passed to Roland's nephew Charles Henschel, Carman Messmore, Charles Carstairs and Carstairs' son Carroll. In 1956 Henschel died, and E. Coe Kerr and Roland Balaÿ, Michael Knoedler's grandson, took over. In 1971 the firm was sold to businessman and collector Armand Hammer. The gallery closed in November 2011. |
| extent | 3042.6 linear feet (5550 boxes, 17 flat file folders). |
| formats | Auction Catalogs Business Records Correspondence Financial Records Ephemera |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers, with the following exceptions. Boxes 77, 262-264, 1308-1512, 1969-1974, 3592-3723 are restricted due to fragility. Box 4468 is restricted until 2075. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2012m54 |
| record source | https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21129976460001551 |
| contact information | Contact gallery's archivist |
| finding aid | At the Getty Research Institute and over their website. |
| acquisition information | Acquired in 2012. |
| updated | 07/28/2023 16:33:46 |
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