Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Acquavella Galleries
title | Acquavella, William: Art World Personality Files. | repository | Whitney Museum of American Art |
description | For further information see http://library.whitney.org/ |
extent | 1 folder |
formats | Ephemera |
access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. To use the Library, patrons are required to please state their request in the body of an email, in advance, and send the message to library@whitney.org. |
record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:59 |
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title | Subject file : ACQUAVELLA GALLERIES: miscellaneous uncataloged material. | repository | The Museum of Modern Art |
description | The folder may include announcements, clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, and other ephemeral material. Location MoMA Queens Subject Files Call Number ACQUAVELLA GALLERIES |
extent | 1 folder |
formats | Ephemera |
access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991010160269707141 |
updated | 11/29/2022 15:49:51 |
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title | Philippe de Montebello reader files, 1969-1973. | repository | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
description | The Reader Files of Philippe de Montebello contain carbon copies of the Director's daily outgoing correspondence and largely concern administrative affairs, proposed exhibitions, possible accessions, his current research, and travel arrangements. The papers illustrate the Director's activities as a museum administrator and art collector, and include frequent corrrespondence with art dealers concerning pieces the Director had earmarked for the MFA,H collection. Frequent correspondents include Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki, Director of Heim Gallery, London; Klaus Herding of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin; Colin T. Eisler; Addison Franklin Page; Annemarie Pope of the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service; Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving; John and Dominique de Menil; Miss Ima Hogg; Josep Grau-Garriga; Pierre Rosenberg; Peter Selz; Walter Hopps; and Houston architect S. I. Morris. Biographical and Historical Notes Philippe de Montebello was raised in Southern France and educated at Harvard and New York University. He became Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in September 1969, formerly having been Associate Curator of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Under his direction the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston expanded its collections, placing emphasis on the acquisition of antiquities and masterpieces of European painting and drawing. De Montebello remained Director until December 1973. |
extent | 1.5 linear ft. |
formats | Correspondence Administrative Records Exhibition Files |
access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
record link | https://hirsch.mfah.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=112623 |
record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
finding aid | Unpublished finding aid in repository: each month's correspondence is accompanied, in most cases, by an index of correspondents. |
acquisition information | Found In:Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.Office of the Director. Records, 1924-[ongoing] (CStRLIN)TxHA90-A0 |
updated | 08/25/2017 16:05:48 |
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title | Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive - Subject Files | repository | The Frick Collection and Frick Art Research Library |
description | 1956-1988 Subject file from the Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. records. Files may include correspondence, invoices, statements, agreements, photographs, and printed material. |
extent | 1 folder |
access | Material related to transactions after 1969 is subject to restrictions. |
updated | 10/28/2024 10:34:46 |
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