Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Acton, Harold, 1904-1994
| title | Acton Archive | repository | New York University, Villa La Pietra |
| description | Family papers there is certainly documentation of visits of various people in the art collecting and art history worlds to the Acton family home here at Villa La Pietra. Family correspondence also contains references to US collectors, for example Bernard Berenson, Charles Loeser, Guy Mitchell (owner of Vills Passerini), Lawrence Sickman (of the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City), James Deering and Paul Chalfin. |
| extent | Unprocessed |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:57 |
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| title | Villa La Pietra | repository | National Gallery of Art, Image Collection |
| description | 15th century. Rebuilt from designs by Carlo Fontana, ca.1697. Interior photographs of Villa La Pietra. |
| extent | 11 digital images |
| formats | Photographs |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies |
| record source | http://library.nga.gov/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:03 |
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| title | William Jay Smith Papers, 1924-1985 | repository | Washington University Libraries |
| description | William Jay Smith's papers include manuscripts and editorial matter toward nearly all of his published and unpublished work; correspondence with literary figures dating back to the 1940's, including a substantial group of letters from Russian, Hungarian, and other Eastern European authors; a vast collection of miscellaneous matter relating to specific writing projects, academic work, literary awards panels, travel, family and other personal papers; and material relating to Smith's work as a translator Correspondents include Harold Acton, Leonie Adams, Dore Ashton, Jacques Barzun, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Witter Bynner, Cid Corman, Malcolm Cowley, James Gould Cozzens, Hubert Creekmore, J.V. Cunningham, Babette Deutsch, Richard Eberhart, Paul Engle, Wallace Fowlie, Isabella Gardner, George Garrett, Daniel Hoffman, Barbara Howes, László Kéry, Howard Nemerov, Katherine Anne Porter, F.T. Prince, Edouard Roditi, Leif Sjoberg, Stephen Spender, Enid Starkie, Allen Tate, Louis Untermeyer, Miklós Vajda, István Vas, Andrei Voznesenskii, Derek Walcott, Eudora Welty, Richard Wilbur, Thornton Wilder, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and others. Historical and Biographical Note Note American author and Washington University alumnus. |
| extent | ca. 16,000 items (120 boxes) |
| formats | Manuscript Correspondence Ephemera Personal Papers |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1139171~S2 |
| record source | http://catalog.wustl.edu |
| finding aid | Register and index available in the repository |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:03 |
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| title | Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers, 1837-1961 | repository | Yale University Library |
| description | The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers contain manuscripts of writings, letters, clippings, photographs, artworks, and personal papers relating to the life and work of Gertrude Stein and her companion, Alice B. Toklas, and to Gertrude's brother, Leo Stein, an artist and writer. As well as holding the bulk of Stein's literary output (often described as "experimental" or "cubist" writing), the materials document Stein and Toklas' involvement with the literary and art scene in Paris during the first half of the 20th century. Series I, Writings, contains holograph and typescript drafts of the majority of Gertrude Stein's writings, including "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas," "The Making of Americans" (complete with a quantity of notes, or "studies"), "Tender Buttons" and a group of unpublished fragments and carnets, notebooks kept by Stein with preliminary drafts of writings. Series II, Correspondence of Gertrude Stein, contains letters sent from a wide variety of Stein's friends: artists such as Georges Bracque, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso; writers such as Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and Thornton Wilder; and acquaintances through many years such as Mildred Aldrich, Etta and Claribel Cone, Robert Haas, Mabel Dodge Luhan,Sir Francis Rose, Virgil Thomson, and Carl Van Vechten. Series III,Third Party Letters and Series IV, Alice B. Toklas Correspondence, contain letters from many of the same people, the latter group containing Alice Toklas's correspondence following Gertrude Stein's death. Series V, Personal Papers, and Series VI, Clippings, gather together various personal affects of Stein and Toklas as well as documentation of Stein's life as reported during her lifetime. Series VII, Photographs, show Stein from early childhood through 1946, the year she died. Prints showing Alice Toklas, various friends, artworks, and locales are included in this series, as are several volumes of prints made by Carl Van Vechten. Series VIII and IX contain numerous artworks and objects given by Stein and Toklas. Included here are a painting by Pablo Picasso and a sketch by Henri Matisse. Bio/History: Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), writer, art collector, and salonniste./ Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), companion and secretary to Gertrude Stein, and writer./ Leo Stein (1872-1947), artist and writer. Location: BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) Call Number: YCAL MSS 76 |
| extent | 93 linear ft. (173 boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Personal Papers Photographs Printed Materials Artwork |
| access | This collection is open for research. Restricted Fragile Papers in box 173 may only be consulted with permission of the appropriate curator. Preservation photocopies for reference use have been substituted in the main files. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.stein |
| record source | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3839424 |
| finding aid | online and in repository |
| acquisition information | Bequest of Gertrude Stein, 1946, with subsequent gifts from Alice B. Toklas, ca. 1946-67. |
| updated | 12/07/2018 10:50:43 |
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| title | Papers of Arthur Parsons Bean, 1948-1981, Accession # 10480-c | repository | University of Virginia Library |
| description | The fifty-five items found in this collection are a result of Arthur P. Bean, Jr.'s great interest in "Sitwelliana." Correspondence, 1948-1979, between Bean and members of the Sitwell family, Francis T.S., Osbert, Reresby, and Sacheverell, is concerned with Bean's collection of Sitwelliana and the exhibition of his material at the University of Virginia in September 1978. Bean's correspondence, ca. 1948-1981, with various authors, editors, and professors also pertains to his collection of Sitwelliana as well as the Sitwells' lecture itinerary and requested statements on the Sitwells to be used in the keepsake for the exhibition. Statements are included from John Lehmann, Harold Acton, Kenneth Clark, and Stephen Spender. There are also fourteen photographs of the Tuscan castle of Montegufoni in Italy, which was bought in 1909 by Sir George Sitwell in Osbert's name. Some of the courtyards and terraces, several statues, a fountain, and the central bell-tower, as well as different views of the main residence are pictured. A signed photograph of Edith Sitwell, inscribed to Evelyn Weil, and a framed photograph of Osbert, Edith, and Sacheverell Sitwell are also included. |
| extent | 55 items |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs |
| access | There are no restrictions. |
| record link | http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/viu01935.xml.frame |
| record source | http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/ |
| finding aid | See repository and online guide |
| acquisition information | This collection was a gift to the Library by Arthur P. Bean, Jr., of Washington, D.C. on November 5, 1985. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:03 |
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