Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Roché, Henri Pierre, 1879-1959
| title | Henri Pierre Roché Papers, 1886-1971. |
| repository | University of Texas, Austin |
| description | The Henri Pierre Roché Papers consist of manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, notes, clippings, correspondence, printed material, diaries, and financial and legal documentation. The papers were originally acquired from Henri Pierre Roché's widow, Denise Roché. Roché's works, both published and unpublished, are well represented in this group of papers. Material relating to the novels Jules et Jim and Deux anglaises et le continent is present and includes the correspondence and diaries of some of the individuals who later appeared as characters in the novels. For the most part, the correspondence in Series II is between Henri Pierre Roché and his two wives, Germaine Bonnard and Denise (Renard) Roché; however, other correspondents are also represented, such as Georges Braque, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Marie Laurencin, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, and Gertrude Stein. Series III contains Roché's daily agendas and diaries (referred to herein as "carnets"), which begin in 1901 and end in 1959, and document various aspects of his personal and professional life. Transcriptions of several carnets, through 1945, commissioned by film director François Truffaut, as well as a photocopy of one carnet, accompany the collection. Roché's interests in art, real estate, and his autobiography are well documented in the Personal and Legal Papers series. The last series contains materials relating to Roché's family. Journals, correspondence, works, financial, legal, and medical records, and printed material document the lives of Roché's mother Clara, his second wife, Denise, and his son Jean-Claude. Bio/History: French journalist; author; art collector, advisor, and dealer. Language: Some correspondence and journal entries in English; small amount of material in German; all other material in French. |
| extent | 47 boxes, 2 oversize folders (19.74 linear feet) |
| formats | Writings Correspondence Diaries Journals |
| access | Open for research; curatorial permission required for access to original carnets for which transcriptions exist. Permission from copyright holders must accompany photoduplication requests for Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Helen Hessel, Henri Pierre Roché, and Erik Satie materials. |
| record source | http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00113/hrc-00113.html |
| finding aid | An unpublished finding aid with folder-level control is available in the repository and on the Internet |
| acquisition information | Forms part of the Carlton Lake Collection of French Manuscripts. Gifts of Carlton Lake and purchase, 1981, 1995, 1996 (G10713, R13533) |
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| title | John Quinn papers, 1901-1926 (MssCol 2513 *ZL-355). |
| repository | New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division |
| description | Collection consists mainly of correspondence, with writings, printed matter and photographs that document Quinn's artistic and political interests. Correspondence, 1901-1924, is with artists, art dealers, critics, poets, playwrights, booksellers, publishers, and members of his family. Files of letters and letterbooks contain correspondence relating to his interest in the artistic and literary scene in America and abroad, events in Ireland especially during the Home Rule movement, his purchase of paintings, sculpture, first editions and manuscripts of contemporary literature, and the sale of his library and manuscript collection. Also includes typescripts of literary works, typescript of the catalog of Quinn's art collection, ledgers, sales and exhibition catalogs, periodicals, and photographs of Quinn with individual artists and group portraits. |
| extent | 46 linear feet (72 boxes, 41 letterbooks, 3 v.). |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Photographs |
| access | Microfilm must be used in lieu of orginal manuscript. |
| record link | http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/quinn.pdf |
| record source | http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b11635618~S1 |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in repository and on internet. |
| acquisition information | Gift of Mrs. Thomas f Conroy (neice and goddaughter of John Quinn), 1962; estate of John Quinn, 1936; later additions were received from Jeanne Robert Foster (1970), Thomas F. Conroy (1986) and Richard and Janis Londraville (1990). |
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| title | Gloria de Herrera papers, 1936-1996 (bulk 1947-1985). |
| repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | The papers consist of ca. 750 items documenting De Herrera’s milieu and activities. Series I. Correspondence: ca. 180 letters and related items, of De Herrera or of James Byrnes acting on her behalf. Correspondents include Heinz Berggruen, James and Barbara Byrnes, Dominique Darbois, Lydia Delectorskaya, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, Françoise Gilot, Adolfo Kaminsky, Edouard Loeb, Henri and Amélie Matisse, Pierre Matisse, Franz Meyer, Wolfgang Paalen and Man Ray. The series also contains letters by William Nelson Copley, as well as some from Russian correspondents whom De Herrera met in the Soviet Union in 1957. Series II. Documents: ca. 170 items, comprising De Herrera’s writings, records of her Matisse work and her work on Darbois’s Enfants du monde series, newspaper clippings, arrest records, passport fragments detailing her travels, medical reports and records from the end of her life. Of interest are drafts of ten short essays by William Nelson Copley regarding life in France in 1951, including a visit to Picasso’s studio in Vallauris. Series III. Artworks: 22 artworks, 68 photographs of artworks and 7 exhibition announcements. Includes drawings by Victor Brauner, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Roberto Matta and Bernard Pfriem, a watercolor by Françoise Gilot, and a very small oil painting by William Nelson Copley. Of particular interest are the Échantillons Matisse, a set of 72 fragments of unfaded gouached paper left over from her Matisse work, along with 10 full-sized gouached sheets. Photographs of artworks and exhibition announcements document works by Brauner, Calder, Copley, Joseph Cornell, Max Ernst, Gilot, Ynez Johnston, Henri Matisse, Matta, Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy and Dorothea Tanning. Series IV. Photographs: 244 photographs, 37 photocopies and 1 related item documenting De Herrera’s friendships, activities and interests, predominantly in Los Angeles and France. Most notably represented are Man Ray and his wife Juliet, William Nelson Copley, Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning; also included are Victor Brauner, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Eluard, Alberto Giacometti, Françoise Gilot, Wolfgang Paalen, Valentine and Roland Penrose, Pablo Picasso, Henri-Pierre Roché, Yves Tanguy, and Marcel Zerbib. Of special interest is De Herrera’s scrapbook, documenting her life from ca. 1950 to 1953, with views of Max Ernst’s homes in Sedona and St. Martin d’Ardèche, and snapshots from the visit to Picasso in Vallauris. Also of interest are photographs taken by De Herrera at a 1947 Just Jazz concert in Pasadena, featuring Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and other jazz musicians. Further included are a picture of De Herrera working on a Matisse collage, and images from De Herrera’s 1957 trip to the Soviet Union. Photographs documenting the Algerian revolution were likely taken by Dominique Darbois. Series V. Oversize materials: 7 items, including an oil painting by Copley entitled Gloria, a photographic reproduction of a Matisse drawing, and printed documents including a transcript of George Dondero’s 1949 Senate address, Modern art shackled to Communism. Series VI. Audiovisual materials: 3 items, a taped 1983 interview of De Herrera conducted by James B. Byrnes and a videotaped 1996 interview of Byrnes conducted by Dickran Tashjian. 1 computer disc contains the transcript of Byrnes interview with De Herrera. |
| extent | ca. 3 linear ft. (11 boxes) + ADDS (2 boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Sound Recording Clippings Ephemera |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa980024 |
| record source | https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21115829510001551 |
| finding aid | Available online and unpublished finding aid available in the repository: folder level control. |
| acquisition information | James and Barbara Byrnes. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:38 |
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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. |
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| title | Bifur archive 1921-1930. |
| repository | University of Tulsa |
| description | Includes 34 letters from various authors such as Richard Aldington, Sherwood Anderson, Sylvia Beach, Countee Cullen, John Dos Passos, Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, Paul Eluard, Caradoc Evans, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Waldo David Frank, Joe Gould, Ernest Hemingway, Georges Hugnet, William Kirkpatrick Magee, Hamish Miles, Eugene O'Neill, Henri Pierre Roch’e, Jean Toomer, Tristan Tzara, and others, to Nino Frank. The Ernest Hemingway material includes 1 ALS from Hemingway to Nino Frank, 1929 Jul. 22, concerning two stories from, Men without women. Bio/History: Small Paris literary periodical of which only eight issues were published between the years 1929-1931. LOCATION McF Special Coll. CALL # Coll. No. 1979-011 |
| extent | 34 items. |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://library.utulsa.edu/ |
| finding aid | Guide to the Bifur Archive is available in the Department of Special Collections. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent. |
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| title | Beatrice Wood papers, 1852-1998. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence; biographical material; photographs; writings; financial material; art work; and printed material. REEL 1236: 338 letters, many illustrated by Wood; 68 p. of diary entries, 1916-1954; 10 manuscripts of articles on art, and of stories and reminiscences; 4 watercolor sketches; a few snapshots of Wood's work and of friends; exhibition announcements and miscellaneous printed items, including a copy of The Blind Man, May 1917, and Rogue, 1916; and lists of food and clothing sent to friends in Paris. Among the correspondents are Denise and Henri-Pierre Roche, Marcel and Teeny Duchamp, and Louise and Walter Arensberg. REELS 3483-3500: Papers of Wood, her husband Stephen Asa Hoag, 1878-1961, and her aunt, Esther Rosencrantz, 1876-1950, including baptismal certificates, passports, and wills; photographs, 1894-1971 & undated, of Wood, her family, friends and works of art; correspondence, 1906-1983 and undated; notes; writings, 1912-1975 and undated, including 4 drafts of Wood's autobiography; financial records, 1909-1974, including inventories and price lists for Wood's work, account books, and receipts; printed material; and art work, 1852-1959 and undated, including Esther Rosencrantz's collection of ca. 500 bookplates. UNMICROFILMED: Correspondence files on John Waller of the Zachary Waller Gallery, 1972-1977, and John Waller, Fine Ceramics, 1978-1981; Garth Clark of the Garth Clark Gallery, 1986-1989; art historian and Wood agent Francis Naumann, 1976-1990, containing correspondence with Nauman, some illustrated, letters to museums regarding exhibitions of Wood's drawings and ceramics, and to publishers regarding publication of her writings; and general correspondence files, 1975-1990, containing letters from admirers, from friends on topics such as nuclear disarmament, the philosophies of Krishnamurti, and India, and from art historians, journalists and filmmakers, artists, and potters, among them Anna Bing Arnold, Ecko Bok, Robert A. Bryan, Rhea Case, Roger Conover, Ruth Dayan, Tom and Marge Dove, Teeny (Mrs. Marcel) Duchamp, Victor Erazo, Michael Hathaway, Stephen Huyler, Guy Murchie, Robert D. Murphy, Geesche Ninke, Col. Frank E. Noyes, and Hall Powell. Several of the copies of letters sent contain original drawings by Wood, added after photocopying. Also included are drafts of Wood's manuscripts, "A Torch in the Dark," "The Angel Who Wore Black Tights," and Indian Diary, 1972, containing 11 drawings and 2 lithographs; notes for her autobiography; and a file on the Museum and Library of World Folk Art, 1973-1977. ADDITION: Diaries/line-a-day journals, 31 vol., 1915-1998, as well as typescripts of the diaries in 3-ring binders, 17 v.; drafts mss., galleys, notes and other material for Wood's autobiographies, "33rd Wife of a Maharajah," "I Shock Myself," "Pinching Spaniards: Letters to Steve," "Torch in the Dark," and "No Longer Shy: The Diary of Beatrice Wood"; other writings and publications; correspondence, 1939-1990 and 1997-1998, with Jack and Rhea Case, the Garth Clark Gallery, the Oakland Museum, and others; glaze log books, 1933-1998; printed material; calendars; and a drawing by Wood, "Brancusi and Bea in New York," ca. 1945 (misdated 1917), pencil, ink and watercolor wash on paper. Beatrice Wood, Ojai, California Bio / His Notes: Ceramist, educator, artist, and writer; b. 1893; d. 1998. Organization: Chronological within record type. |
| extent | 15.6 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 20 reels) Addition: 27.5 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Writings Photographs Financial Records Artwork |
| access | Microfilmed portions must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed material requires an appointment. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | Reels 3483-3500: Preliminary inventory, list of correspondents, and list of Rosencrantz's bookplate collection available in Washington, D.C. office. |
| acquisition information | Papers on reel 1236 were lent for microfilming in 1977, and subsequently donated 1978-1982 with additional material which was filmed on reels 3483-3500 in 1990. Further additions were donated 1986-1995 and in 1999 a final installment was received from the Beatrice Wood Personal Property Trust. Wood donated photocopies of many letters, and retained the originals; it is yet to be determined if any of the photocopies were returned in subsequent donations. The drawing, "Branscui and Bea" and the manuscript "Indian Diary" were received by Francis Naumann, who received them from Wood. Location of Original: Many letters: Originals in the possession of Beatrice Wood. Reproduction: Many letters are photocopies. |
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