Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Mont, Frederick
| title | NGA curatorial files: *only* to objects in the Gallery's collection. | repository | National Gallery of Art |
| description | They had business with the Kress Foundation in New York beginning at least in 1948. See copies of their correspondence in NGA curatorial files: *only* to objects in the Gallery's collection. (National Gallery of Art Provenance Search, retrieved, 23 April, 2008, |
| extent | See Repository for details |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| finding aid | Please note that these are curatorial files and only relate to works of art in the Gallery's collection. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:45 |
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| title | Letter to Jacob Epstein from A.F. Mondschein, November 16, 1940 (EP1.10.19) | repository | Baltimore Museum of Art |
| description | Art dealer and gallery owner, A. F. Mondschein, wrote to Jacob Epstein after visiting The Baltimore Museum of Art and recognizing the Portrait of Emilia Pia da Montefeltre. After detailing the provenance in this letter of November 16th, Mondschein laments the painting slipped through his fingers in Vienna. While Mondschein stated in this letter that he performed the conservation himself, a much earlier New York Times article of March 6, 1927 states that the conservation was performed by Professor Sykora of Vienna. The article does lend some support to Mondschein’s claim that he purchased the portrait in Vienna in 1925 and sold the work with an attribution to the less notable artist Francia to an American businessman named Schwaball. |
| extent | 2 pages |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Available online via the Baltimore Art Museum's Library Diginal Collections |
| record source | http://cdm16075.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:16 |
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| title | William Suhr papers, ca. 1846-2003, bulk 1928-1982 | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | The collection provides fairly comprehensive coverage of Suhr’s activities and achievements as a paintings conservator including documentation on the most notable paintings that Suhr treated. The restoration photographs of many paintings in American museums (especially in Cincinnati, Cleveland, San Francisco, and Toledo) and private collections are frequently annotated with restoration information, and Suhr’s original treatment notes are also integrated with these photographs. The photographs are followed by clippings files. The collection also contains business papers, including correspondence, account ledgers, goods received receipts, date books, and the log of his photographer, Mr. Gray, in New York; articles about Suhr, a sound recording of a biographical interview of Suhr, and a filmed interview with Suhr made for the Detroit Institure of Arts; personal papers including documentation about Suhr’s family, his efforts to formalize his immigration status and his activities during World War II; and documentation of Suhr’s own art work in the form of photographs, transparencies and exhibition notices. Biographical or Historical Notes: An American paintings conservator trained in Berlin, William Suhr was conservator for the Detroit Institute of Arts for seven years, and for the Frick Collection for over 40 years. |
| extent | 97.5 linear ft. (169 boxes) |
| formats | Photographs Correspondence Financial Records Ephemera Notes |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers, except for unreformatted audio visual materials. |
| record link | http://archives2.getty.edu:8082/xtf/view?docId=ead/870697/870697.xml |
| record source | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat132939 |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid; available in the repository; folder-level control. Preliminary inventory available in the repository; folder-level control. Online inventory, SUHR, available on the repository’s STAR system for item-level access to negatives. |
| acquisition information | Accession Number: 870697 |
| updated | 07/25/2017 15:26:26 |
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| title | Julius S. Held papers, 1918-1999. | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | The material provides a broad and detailed study of Held's professional life, his scholarly development, and his working methods. A major portion comprises scholarly correspondence with other art historians, including numerous prominent American and European scholars as well as young colleagues and post-graduate students. Also present is professional correspondence with art dealers, auction houses, museums, and publishing firms, and a large body of occasional correspondence with private collectors. Letters by Held are particularly valuable for their frank assessments of art objects. Included is material documenting Held's research for essays, reviews and articles, his many teaching and lecturing activities, as well as his involvement as an art expert in legal cases. The archive also contains extensive travel notes. A distinct group of material details Held's role in building the collection of Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. A very large portion of the archive consists of study photographs and other visual documentation of artwork by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Rembrandt, and a vast number of other artists, mainly Dutch and Flemish from the 15th to 18th centuries. Bio./Hist. Note: The American art historian Julius Samuel Held (1905-2002) was renowned for his scholarship in 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art, and an authority on the works of Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. Educated in pre-war Germany, Held emigrated in 1934 to the United States where he pursued an academic career at Barnard College, Columbia University. Held also lectured and taught at other colleges and art institutions in the United States. |
| extent | 70 linear ft. (168 boxes) + ADDS (30 boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Research Files Writings Photographs |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://archives2.getty.edu:8082/xtf/view?docId=ead/990056/990056.xml;query=;brand=default |
| record source | http://primo.getty.edu/GRI:GETTY_ALMA21128935310001551 |
| finding aid | Online and in repository. |
| acquisition information | Acquired by the repository in 1999 from Julius Held. Some letters and Held's library list were received in 2003 from Held's family. Seven boxes of Held material were received from the National Gallery in late 2004. |
| updated | 01/11/2016 12:57:56 |
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