Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
| title | Artist file: Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 | repository | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library |
| description | Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs. |
| extent | 1+ folders (check with repository) |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Folder(s) do not circulate. Folder(s) available for use only at the holding library |
| record source | http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/Art-Design/artandartistfiles/ |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:00 |
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| title | Artist file: Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 | repository | National Portrait Gallery Library |
| description | Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs. |
| extent | 1+ folders (check with repository) |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Folder(s) do not circulate. Folder(s) available for use only at the holding library |
| record source | http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/Art-Design/artandartistfiles/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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| title | Artist file: Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 | repository | Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives |
| description | Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs. |
| extent | 1+ folders (check with repository) |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Folder(s) do not circulate. Folder(s) available for use only at the holding library |
| record source | http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/Art-Design/artandartistfiles/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:05 |
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| title | Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, Scottsdale, AZ | repository | The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation |
| description | See repository for further details |
| formats | |
| record source | http://www.franklloydwright.org/fllwf_web_091104/Archives.html |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:08 |
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| title | Darwin D. Martin Papers (MO355) | repository | Stanford University Libraries |
| description | Includes more than 200 letters from Wright and over 2,000 letters to Wright from the Martins and other clients in Buffalo. Wright's letters refer to the design and construction of the Larkin building and the Martin homes and discuss his personal life and his philosophy of art and architecture. Also includes several drafts of manuscripts which Wright prepared for publication. Biographical Note Active patron and supporter of Frank Lloyd Wright. Secretary of the Larkin Co. of Buffalo, New York. |
| extent | 4 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Manuscript |
| access | None. |
| record link | http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf2v19n64v |
| bibliography | Frank Lloyd Wright : an index to the Taliesin correspondence / edited with an introduction by Anthony Alofsin. New York : Garland, 1988. [http://library.getty.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=145941] |
| record source | http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2v19n64v |
| acquisition information | Partial gift of Jean and Paul Hanna and the Library Associates, 1982 and 1983. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:08 |
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| title | Frank Lloyd Wright - Darwin D. Martin Papers (MSS. 22.8) | repository | The Buffalo History Museum |
| description | The records of Darwin D. Martin Papers and Larkin Company Inc. consist of Martin's personal papers and the company's activities between 1892 and 1960. Includes incorporation records, correspondence, financial records, sales summaries, advertisements and catalogs, employee guides, publications and inventories of the Larkin Company, Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y.; and a scrapbook documenting the Pan-American Exposition of 1901. Darwin D. Martin Darwin D. Martin worked at the Larkin Company from 1878 to 1925, serving as secretary of the corporation and member of the board of directors. He is noted for his invention of the card ledger system. The Larkin Co. manufactured soap and other household products; it was the first firm to give premiums and was an early user of mail order door-to-door sales, and the installment system. Elbert Hubbard was a partner until 1893. |
| extent | 2.5 linear feet (5 boxes) |
| formats | Business Papers Personal Papers Correspondence Financial Records Scrapbooks |
| access | Darwin D. Martin Papers and Larkin Company Inc. Records, 1892-1960, are open for research. |
| record source | http://purl.org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/bechs/bechs_b76_01.xml |
| finding aid | http://purl.org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/bechs/bechs_b76_01.xml |
| acquisition information | Martin, Darwin R. (deceased); gift; 1976/10/20; 76-40 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:08 |
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| title | Gookin family Papers, 1864-1922. | repository | Newberry Library |
| description | Family correspondence, including letters from Chicago banker, artist, calligrapher, and designer Frederick Gookin to his wife, Marie S. Gookin, 1897-1922, documenting Chicago friends, city life, and sports when Mrs. Gookin was away. Also other family letters, diaries of Mary H. Gookin and her mother Elizabeth A. Gookin, 1864-1896, including one regarding daily attendance at the World's Columbian Exposition. Call Number: Midwest MS Gookin family (formerly Go) Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3 |
| extent | 3 cubic ft. (6 boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Diaries |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.newberry.org/collections/familymss.html |
| finding aid | Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:08 |
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| title | Sound Recordings of Museum-Related Events, 1939- | repository | The Museum of Modern Art |
| description | This Record Group contains recordings of events that either occurred at or are related to Museum of Modern Art activities. Types of events include interviews, lectures, speeches, symposia, panel discussions, and discussions between filmmakers and audience. Forms part of: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Archives. Sound recordings. Includes: Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect (February 16 - May 10, 1994); 2 sound cassettes. Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, four public lectures; 4 sound cassettes. |
| extent | See finding aid for detials |
| formats | Sound Recording |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. MoMA: Duplication not permitted. |
| record link | http://www.moma.org/learn/resources/archives/EAD/SoundRecordingsf |
| finding aid | http://www.moma.org/learn/resources/archives/EAD/SoundRecordingsf |
| updated | 11/29/2022 15:55:33 |
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| title | Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect. 1940-1941: Archives pamphlet file : 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 about this exhibition. Location MoMA Queens Archives Pamphlet File Call Number MoMA 114x |
| extent | 1 folder |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991011491909707141 |
| updated | 11/29/2022 15:49:51 |
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| title | Frank Lloyd Wright, buildings for Johnson's Wax. 1952 : Archives pamphlet file : 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 about this exhibition. Location MoMA Queens Archives Pamphlet File Call Number MoMA 498x |
| extent | 1 folder |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991011496599707141 |
| updated | 11/29/2022 15:49:51 |
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| title | The drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright . 1962 : Archives pamphlet file : 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 about this exhibition. Location MoMA Queens Archives Pamphlet File Call Number MoMA 703x |
| extent | 1 folder |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991011498679707141 |
| updated | 11/29/2022 15:49:51 |
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| title | Carl Zigrosser papers, 1891-1971. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Personal and professional records including correspondence, writings, notes, printed material, subject files, photograph album, and diaries relating to Zigrosser's work as an authority on prints and printmaking and his personal relationships with artists. Included are: correspondence with family and with over 900 printmakers, painters, sculptors, acquaintances, friends, associates, organizations, museums, publishers, and magazines; general correspondence, notes, clippings, and manuscripts pertaining to The Modern School Magazine; files of correspondence from Zigrosser's work at: the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1932-1971; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, 1946-1971, including correspondence with Frank Lloyd Wright concerning the Guggenheim Memorial Museum; Print Council of America, 1954-1971, regarding exhibitions, council meetings and other matters; and the Tamarind Workshop, 1960-1971. Of particular interest is material relating to the 1913 Armory Show, including Zigrosser's annotated catalog, notes and sketches. Also included are speeches and notes, 1930-1968; manuscripts for lectures and unpublished materials; memorabilia; a photo album of sculpture by John B. Flannagan; art work, including prints and drawings by Karig Nalbandian, prints by Rockwell Kent, and oversized works of art on paper by Mabel Dwight, Wanda Gag and Kent; family photograph album; journals and pamphlets (covers only); and diaries, 1916-1971, discussing personal and professional events such as art openings, conversations and activities with Rockwell Kent, Alfred Stieglitz, and Georgia O'Keeffe, among others. Among the correspondents are: the American Artists Group, John Taylor Arms, Art in America magazine, Art Institute of Chicago, Alfred Barr, E. Boyd, Charles Burchfield, Alexander Calder, Fitz Roy Carrington, Federico Castellon, Ed Colker, Howard N. Cook, Crown Publishers, Adolf Dehn, Caroline Durieux, John Bernard Flannagan, Andre Girard, Stanley William Hayter, Edward Hopper, Victoria Hutson Huntley, Independent Citizens Committee for the Arts, Sciences and Professions, R. Sturgis Ingersoll, Frederick Keppel, Rockwell Kent, Fiske Kimball, Misch Kohn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Julius Lankes, Mauricico Lasansky, Merritt Mauzey, Kneeland McNulty, James A. Michener, Marian Mitchell, Museum of Non-Objective Painting (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), Karnig Nalbandian, Dorothy Norman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Walter Pach, Harold Paris, Print Club (Philadelphia), Diego Rivera, Ruth Starr Rose, Arnold Ronnebeck, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Andre Ruellan, Carl Oscar Schniewind, Roderick Seidenberg, William Spratling, Benton Spruance, Alfred Stieglitz, Harry Sternberg, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Kuei Teng, U.S. Office of War Information, Curt Valentin, Heinz Warneke, Edward Weston, Weyhe Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, Harry Wickey, and Adja Yunkers. |
| extent | 30 linear ft. (on 63 microfilm reels) reels 4612-4674 |
| formats | Microfilm |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/carl-zigrosser-papers-10859 |
| finding aid | Finding aid prepared by the University of Pennsylvania, Special Collections Dept, available at AAA offices. |
| acquisition information | Lent for microfilming, 1991, by the University of Pennsylvania Special Collections Department, Van Pelt Library. Zigrosser donated the papers to the University in 1972. Portions of the papers not microfilmed include research files, manuscript materials for published work, family records, and journals. Originals in: University of Pennsylvania, Special Collections, Van Pelt Library. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:11 |
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| title | Walter and Ise Gropius papers, 1883-1981. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Biographical material, correspondence with architects and artists (1903-1978), writings (1923-1969), a diary, an autograph book, subject files, printed material, photographs (1883-1979) and 5 photograph albums reflect the career of Walter Gropius, the activities of his wife Ise, and her recollections of the Bauhaus. Also included are 5 cassette tapes, untranscribed and unmicrofilmed Bio / His Notes: Architect, educator and founder of the Bauhaus school. Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius studied at the University of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich. Following European travel and apprenticeship with Peter Behrens in Berlin, he established his own practice in 1910. After military service in WWI, he became director of the School of Applied Arts and the Academy of Arts, united the two and named the new institute Bauhaus Dessau in 1925. Between 1934 and 1937, he had a private practice in London. From 1938 to 1952, Gropius was chairman of Harvard's Graduate School of Design and maintained a private practice with Marcel Breuer from 1938 to 1941. Gropius married Alma Schindler, Gustav Mahler's widow, in 1915. In 1923, he married Ise (or Ilse) Franck (1897-1983). Language Note: Fifty percent of the collection is in German. Reproduction: Diary is a typescript. Location of Original: Reels 2270-2287a, 2330-2331, 2393, 2764: Originals returned to the lenders, Ise Gropius and Beate Forberg Johansen, after microfilming. Ise Gropius' diary: Original in the Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin, Germany. Loc. of Assoc. Material: Additional photographs of Alma (Schindler) Mahler Werfel located at Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin, Germany. |
| extent | 0.4 linear ft. (24 microfilm reels) reels 2270-2287, 2330-2331, 2393, 2764, 4130 |
| formats | Microfilm Works of Art Diaries Photographs Sound Recording |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/walter-and-ise-gropius-papers-8295 |
| acquisition information | Lent for microfilming by Ise Gropius and her daughter, Beate Gropius Forberg Johansen, 1982-1983, except for selected items on reel 2393, the handwritten translation of Ise's diary on reel 4130 and cassette tapes, which were donated in 1981, 1983 and 1987, respectively. Some photographs from albums on reel 2764 which would not reproduce were not microfilmed. |
| updated | 07/10/2023 11:20:52 |
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| title | Hannes Beckmann papers, 1930-1980. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Biographical sketches and resumes; a list of lectures; correspondence; illustrated notes, typescripts of lectures and other unpublished writings; 21 photographs of Josef Albers; exhibition catalogs; printed material; a subject file on Hilla Rebay containing memos and notes; papers concerning the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, NYC; a photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright, Rebay, and Solomon R. Guggenheim with a model of the Guggenheim Museum; "Hostess Reports"; catalogs, clippings, and other miscellaneous printed material. Bio / His Notes: Painter and lecturer; Boston, Mass. and Hanover, N.H. Born in Germany. Taught at the Bauhaus. |
| extent | ca. 300 items (on 1 microfilm reel) reel 2526 |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Writings Notes Ephemera |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/hannes-beckmann-papers-7198 |
| acquisition information | Lent 1981-1982 by Elsa Beckmann, widow of Hannes Beckmann. Typescripts of lectures were subsequently given by Mrs. Beckmann in 1982. All materials except typescripts of lectures: Originals in the possession of Elsa N. Beckmann, 10 Woodrow Street, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:14 |
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| title | Rudolf Bauer papers, 1918-1983. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Drafts of letters and a few letters received; business records; legal documents; writings; printed material; and photographs primarily regarding Bauer's work as a non-objective painter, and his relationship with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and its first director Hilla Rebay. Included are typescripts of two lengthy, rambling letters (24 p. and 45 p. single spaced) from Bauer to Rebay and two to Frank Lloyd Wright (11 p. and 40 p. single spaced) concerning his relationship with the Guggenheim Foundation and its design; a file on the Foundation, 1938-1945, containing internal reports of activities, memorandum, letters, and documents, some concerning the controversy surrounding efforts to remove Rebay as director; writings and notes by Bauer on his philosophies about contemporary art and museums; writings and lectures by Rebay on non-objective painting, 1941-1942; printed material, 1918-1969, including clippings, exhibition announcements, catalog entries, and reproductions of Bauer's work; photographs of Bauer, his family, friends, home, car, works of art and exhibition installations; scattered business records, including shipping lists for paintings, and tax and immigration documents; a file on Bauer's antique Duesenberg Phaeton car; and a few letters to Bauer's widow, Louise Parry, including 2 from Otto Nebel, one enclosing a woodblock print, and one from Rebay's biographer, Joan Lukach, 1983. Included in the Guggenheim Foundation file are a letter from Solomon Guggenheim to the U.S. Attorney, 1942, requesting that Bauer be allowed to visit New York without the required permit due to the frequency of Guggenheim's requests for Bauer's advice, and a letter from Frank Crowninshield, editor of Vogue, 1938, to the Foundation, requesting information on Bauer's arrival in the U.S. Bio/History: Abstract painter, New York, N.Y. |
| extent | 1.1 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Writings Printed Materials |
| access | Use requires an appointment. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/rudolf-bauer-papers-7590 |
| acquisition information | Gift of the Estate of Louise Bauer Parry (widow of artist), 1985; arranged by Franklin Riehlman of Phillips auctioneers. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:22 |
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| title | Milton Horn papers, 1921-1989. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Biographical material, correspondence, photographs, writings and miscellaneous printed material. REEL 1294: Correspondence, photographs, clippings, minutes of meetings of Sculptor's Guild and National Competition Committee, exhibition invitations and a Frank Lloyd Wright blueprint. REEL 3174: A resume and biographical data; correspondence, 1946, with Carlton D. Wall regarding Horn's wall panel for Wall's Plymouth, Michigan residence designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; typescripts of writings and lectures; published articles, reviews, catalogs and letters by Horn, 1933-1970; exhibition catalogs, undated and 1933-1970; and 136 photographs of sculpture executed 1928-1971, taken by his wife Estelle. Bio / His Notes: Sculptor, writer; Chicago, Ill. Worked on WPA art projects and many other mostly public commissions. d. March 29, 1995. |
| extent | 885 items (on 3 microfilm reels) Addition 15.7 l.f. |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Drawings Photographs Writings |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/milton-horn-papers-7803 |
| acquisition information | Donated by Milton and Estelle Horn, 1972-1977 and by the Milton Horn Art Trust in 2003. |
| updated | 07/10/2023 11:37:58 |
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| title | Katharine Kuh papers, 1875-1994, bulk, 1930-1994. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | The papers of art historian, dealer, critic, and curator Katharine Kuh measure 12.1 linear feet and date from 1875-1994, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930-1994. Found within the papers are biographical material; correspondence with family, friends and colleagues; personal business records; artwork by various artists; a travel journal; writings by Kuh and others; scrapbooks; printed material; photographs of Kuh and others; and audio recordings of Kuh's lectures and of Daniel Catton Rich reading poetry. Biographical material consists of copies of Kuh's birth certificate, resumés, passports, award certificates, honorary diplomas, and address books listing information about several prominent artists and colleagues. Four linear feet of correspondence offers excellent documentation of Kuh's interest in art history, her travels, her career at the Art Institute of Chicago, her work as a corporate art advisor, and as an author. There are letters from her mother Olga Woolf, friends, and colleagues. There is extensive correspondence with various staff members of the Art Institute of Chicago, the First National Bank of Chicago, and The Saturday Review. Also of interest are letters from artists and collectors, several of whom became life-long friends including Walter and Louise Arensberg, Cosmo Campoli, Serge Chermayeff, Richard Cox, Worden Day, Claire Falkenstein, Fred Friendly, Leon Golub, Joseph Goto, David Hare, Denise Brown Hare, Jean Hélion, Ray Johnson, Gyorgy and Juliet Kepes, Len Lye, Wallace Putnam, Kurt Seligmann, Shelby Shackelford, Hedda Sterne, and Clyfford Still. Many letters are illustrated with original artwork in various media. There are also scattered letters from various artists and other prominent individuals including Josef Albers, George Biddle, Marcel Breuer, Joseph Cornell, Stuart Davis, Edwin Dickinson, Joseph Hirshhorn, Daniel Catton Rich, and Dorothea Tanning. Personal business records include a list of artwork, Olga Woolf's will, inventories of Kuh's personal art collection, miscellaneous contracts and deeds of gift, receipts for the sale of artwork, files concerning business-related travel, and miscellaneous receipts. Artwork in the collection represents a wide range of artist friends and media, such as drawings, watercolors, paintings, collages, and prints. Included are works by various artists including lithographs by David Hare and a watercolor set, Technics and Creativity, designed and autographed by Jasper Johns for the Museum of Modern Art, 1970. Notes and writings include annotated engagement calendars, travel journals for Germany, a guest book for the Kuh Memorial gathering, and many writings and notes by Kuh for lectures and articles concerning art history topics. Of interest are minutes/notes from meetings for art festivals, conferences, and the "Conversations with Artists Program (1961). Also found are writings by others about Kuh and other art history topics. Six scrapbooks contain clippings that document the height of Kuh's career as a gallery director and museum curator. Scrapbook 6 contains clippings about Fernand Léger, the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1953. Additional printed material includes clippings about Kuh and her interests, a comprehensive collection of clippings of Kuh's articles for The Saturday Review, exhibition announcements and catalogs, calendars of events, programs, brochures, books including Poems by Kuh as a child, and reproductions of artwork. Of particular interest are the early and exhibition catalogs from the Katharine Kuh Gallery, and rare catalogs for artists including Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Stanley William Hayter, Hans Hofmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Kline, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Pablo Picasso. Photographs provide important documentation of the life and career of Katharine Kuh and are of Kuh, family members, friends, colleagues, events, residences, and artwork. Several of the photographs of Kuh were taken by Will Barnet and Marcel Breuer and there is a notable pair of photo booth portraits of Kuh and a young Ansel Adams. There are also group photographs showing Angelica Archipenko with Kuh; designer Klaus Grabe; painters José Chavez Morado and Pablo O'Higgins in San Miguel, Mexico; Kuh at the Venice Biennale with friends and colleagues including Peggy Guggenheim, Frances Perkins, Daniel Catton Rich, and Harry Winston; and "The Pre-Depressionists" including Lorser Feitelson, Robert Inverarity, Helen Lundeberg, Arthur Millier, Myron Chester Nutting, and Muriel Tyler Nutting. Photographs of exhibition installations and openings include views of the Katharine Kuh Gallery; Fernand Léger, Man Ray, and László Moholy-Nagy at the Art Institute of Chicago; and Philip Guston, Jimmy Ernst, Seymour H. Knox, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. There are also photographs depicting three men posing as Léger's "Three Musicians" and the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the Art Institute of Chicago. There is a photograph by Peter Pollack of an elk skull used as a model by Georgia O'Keeffe. Additional photographs of friends and colleagues include Ivan Albright, Alfred Barr, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Willem De Kooning, Edwin Dickinson, Marcel Duchamp, Claire Falkenstein, Alberto Giacometti, poet Robert Graves with Len Lye, Philip Johnson, Gyorgy and Juliet Kepes, Carlos Mérida, José Orozco, Hasan Ozbekhan, Pablo Picasso, Carl Sandberg, Ben Shahn, Otto Spaeth, Hedda Sterne, Adlai Stevenson, Clyfford Still, Mark Tobey, and composer Victor Young. Photographs of artwork include totem poles in Alaska; work by various artists including Claire Falkenstein, Paul Klee, and Hedda Sterne; and work donated to the Guggenheim Museum. Four audio recordings on cassette are of Katharine Kuh's lectures, including one about assembling corporate collections, and of Daniel Catton Rich reading his own poetry. There is also a recording of the Second Annual Dialogue between Broadcasters and Museum Educators. Bio / His Notes: Katharine Kuh (1904-1994) was an art consultant, curator, and critic working in Chicago and New York City. Additional forms: Portions of this collection are available on 35mm microfilm reels 265, 267, 2225-2227, and 2288 at Archives of American Art offices, and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of the collection as described in this finding aid may not reflect the order of the collection on microfilm. Cite as: Katharine Kuh papers, 1875-1994, bulk 1930-1994. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. |
| extent | 12.1 linear ft |
| formats | Business Papers Personal Papers Correspondence Clippings Works of Art |
| access | Use of original papers requires an appointment. Entire collection (excluding art work from Art Institute of Chicago): Authorization to publish, quote, or reproduce requires permission; obtain additional information from AAA Reference staff. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.kuhkath.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/katharine-kuh-papers-9951 |
| finding aid | online and in repository |
| acquisition information | Donated 1971-1994 by Katharine Kuh and the Katharine Kuh estate. In addition, 147 works of art determined to have been made expressly for Kuh, or dedicated to her, were donated 1995 by the Art Institute of Chicago, which had received them from the Kuh estate along with other works of art in Kuh's collection. Loc. of Assoc. Material: Additional Katharine Kuh papers also located at: Yale University. |
| updated | 06/09/2023 15:39:51 |
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| title | Architectural Panel records, 1956-1972. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence, 1956-1969, mostly between Miv Schaaf and architects Richard Neutra, R. Buckminster-Fuller, Gio Ponti, Louis I. Kahn and others; business and financial records, 1956-1971; clippings and exhibition catalogs; subject files, 1958-1972, containing correspondence, business records, photographs and printed material on the Dodge House, Southern California Regional Planning (SCAG), Environmental Goals Committee (E.G.C.), Environment USA, and various panels and lectures; and a card file on members. Bio / His Notes: Active 1956 to 1969. Non-profit organization which held panels for public awareness on local architecture, the environment, and city planning. |
| extent | 3.3 linear feet. |
| formats | Correspondence Business Papers Financial Records Clippings Photographs |
| access | Use requires an appointment |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated 1987 by Miv Schaaf, chairman of the Architectural Panel, 1954-1972. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | Henry-Russell Hitchcock papers, 1919-1987. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | The bulk of the collection consists of Hitchcock's alphabetical files, containing mainly correspondence (22 feet). Writings, lectures, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous items make up the remainder. Bio/History: Architectural historian, critic, museum director, and influential teacher. Died 1987. |
| extent | 25.0 linear ft. |
| formats | Subject Files Correspondence Writings Photographs Printed Materials |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.hitchenp.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/henryrussell-hitchcock-papers-9728 |
| acquisition information | Donated by Ms. Mosette Broderick, a colleague of Professor Hitchcock, who also served as his assistant and is his literary executor. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:14 |
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| title | Frank Lloyd Wright textile design studies, [ca. 1955]. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Studies for textile designs from the Taliesin West workshop, designed by Wright and executed by Ling Po, fellow at Taliesin under Wright. The designs were subsequently licensed by Wright to Schumacher & Company, a fabric house, for mass production as part of the "Taliesin Line," although these specific designs were never fabricated. Bio / His Notes: Architect, designer; Illinois, Wisconsin and Arizona. |
| extent | 8 items. |
| formats | Business Papers |
| access | Unmicrofilmed; patrons requested to use slides or digitial images. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/frank-lloyd-wright-textile-design-studies-10453 |
| acquisition information | Donated 1961 by Schumacher and Company via Rene Carillo, director of merchandising. Slides of the designs are located in the slide file cabinet. Several slides do not exist for certain images.There is also a CD of images 1, 2 and 8. |
| updated | 07/10/2023 11:40:04 |
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| title | Frank Lloyd Wright correspondence with R. M. Schindler , 1914-1929 , bulk 1918-1922 | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | The association between the architects Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and R. M. Schindler (1887-1953) began in 1914 when Schindler first wrote to Wright asking for a position, and revolved around two major commissions while Schindler worked for Wright: the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, known as Teikoku Hoteru (1913-1923), and the Barnsdall project, which includes Hollyhock house, in Los Angeles (1915-1924). Correspondence between Frank Lloyd Wright and R. M. Schindler contains approximately 160 items, primarily letters and telegrams, dating from 1914 (the year Schindler came to the United States from Vienna) to 1929. Creator/Collector Schindler, R. M. (Rudolph M.), 1887-1953 Creator/Collector Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 |
| extent | 1 linear ft. (2 boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://archives2.getty.edu:8082/xtf/view?docId=ead/960076/960076.xml;query=;brand=default |
| record source | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat372343 |
| finding aid | http://archives.getty.edu:8082/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=utf8a&idno=US::CMalG::960076 |
| acquisition information | The collection was acquired from R. M. Schindler's son, Mark Schindler, in 1996. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | Frank Lloyd Wright architectural drawings and papers, circa 1880-1959 | repository | Columbia University Libraries |
| description | Approximately 1,000 architectural drawings, circa 1880-1959, with related correspondence, clippings, announcements, specifications, legal documents, and photographs. Major projects represented include Auldbrass Plantation, Yemasee, S.C; the Guggenheim Museum, New York City; Fallingwater (the Edgar J. Kaufmann residence), Bear Run, Pa.; and Wright's own home and studio in Oak Park, Ill. Also, Wright's correspondence relating to exhibits and publication of his work; other professional matters; and correspondence with his son, John Lloyd Wright, 1920s-1950s; manuscript, typescript, and printed versions of articles and addresses by Wright; photographs, programs, invitations, issues of SQUARE-PAPERS, and other materials, circa 1920s-1940s, relating to Taliesin; and miscellaneous invitations, programs, announcements, honors, appreciations, memorials, clippings, and other documents relating to various aspects of Wright's career. Location (guide): Avery Drawings & Archives - By appt. (Non-Circulating) Call Number: D&A Wright |
| extent | approx. 2 cubic ft. of papers; approx. 1,000 drawings |
| formats | Drawings Correspondence Clippings Ephemera Legal Papers |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://cliobeta.cul.columbia.edu:7018/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=3460608 |
| finding aid | Paper inventories available in the Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | Edmund Teske papers, 1930-1996. | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | Collection includes business and personal letters, poetry, prose writing, sketches, essays, news articles, transcriptions of interviews, brochures, speeches, newsletters, exhibit ephemera, financial data, teaching materials, health and employment records, business transactions, calendars, concert programs, audio and video tapes, and a small number of publications. In addition to extensive correspondence with artists, architects, actors, photographers, etc. such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Tafel, and Minor White, the archive includes Teske’s interactions with galleries such as MOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Eastman House and the Witkin Gallery. Among these documents are fourteen letters from Minor White, who provides an in-depth assessment of Teske’s aesthetic development. The archival collection is complemented by six volumes of photocopies that Teske compiled over several years as his visual diary and titled Emanations. |
| extent | ca. 18 linear ft. (32 boxes) |
| formats | Sound Recording Video recording Business Papers Personal Papers Correspondence |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2005M10 |
| record source | https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21133609730001551 |
| finding aid | Preliminary inventory available in the repository; box level control. Unprocessed collection; contact repository for information regarding access. Audio visual materials unavailable until reformatting is complete. |
| updated | 07/28/2023 16:33:44 |
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| title | George Howe papers, 1926-1974, (bulk 1926-1955). | repository | Columbia University Libraries |
| description | Manuscripts, with related correspondence, memoranda, and notes of Howe's lectures, speeches, reports, articles, poems, and other writings, 1920s-1930s; correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to Howe's tenure as Chair of the Yale University Department of Architecture; clippings, correspondence, and legal documents, 1932-1935, relating to the dissolution of his architectural firm, Howe & Lescaze; correspondence, memoranda, and accounts relating to Howe's work with LIFE Magazines's Life Houses program ("new houses for modern living"), 1939-1940; correspondence between Robert A.M. Stern and numerous architects, family, and friends of Howe, all related to Stern's research for his monograph on Howe, 1962-1974; and curriculum vitae, a diary of a trip to Mexico, 1932, photographs, clippings, printed material, and miscellaneous documents, relating to professional honors and activities, and personal life. Also, letters from leading artists and architects including William Kozlenko, Maxwell Levinson, Philip Johnson, Norman L. Rice, Louis I. Kahn, Robert J. Buffler, Howard Robertson, Roger W. Sherman, Dominque Berninger, and Irving Bowman, endorsing Howe for the 1933 Philadelphia Award (which he did not receive). Also, correspondence with Norman Bel Geddes, Monroe Biddle, John M. Blair, Harry T. Carman, Carolyn K. Christenson, Joseph S. Clarke, Jr., Thomas H. Creighton, Paul Cret, C.C. Cunningham, F.G. Fassett, Jr., Loring Dowst, John E. Harbeson, Oliver Hall, Jared C. Ingersoll, Gaylord P. Harnwell, William Fontaine Jones, Joseph Judge, William Lescaze, John D. Morse, William F. Paris, Charles E. Peterson, Ruth C. Roberts, Henry Shapiro, Oscar Stonorov, J.J. Sweeney, James M. Willcox, Owen J. Wister, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruno Zevi, and others. This relates to proposed development of air rights over New York City's Pennsylvania Railroad Station, 1955; architectural projects in Pennsylvania relating to mental health, 1955; proposed new Independence Mall Building in Philadelphia, 1955; the 1954 Boston Art Festival Architectural Exhibit; sculpture committee on the design of the Ella Butt McManus monument, Connecticut, 1954-1955; the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, building designed by Howe & Lescaze (with related memoranda, manuscripts of articles and talks, press releases, and architectural analyses), 1930-1939; and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis (with related printed material, clippings, and photograph). Biographical/ Historical Note: Architect, Chair of the Dept. of Architecture at Yale University. Partner in the architecture firm Howe & Lescaze. Location (guide): Avery Drawings & Archives - By appt. (Non-Circulating) Call Number: D&A Howe |
| extent | 2.8 cubic ft. |
| formats | Drawings Correspondence Clippings Ephemera Legal Papers |
| access | This collection is available for use by qualified readers by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please call (212) 854-4110 or email avery-drawings@libraries.cul.columbia.edu. |
| record source | http://cliobeta.cul.columbia.edu:7018/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=3460619 |
| finding aid | Inventory is available in the Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | Frank Lloyd Wright architectural drawings, 1885-1959 [graphic]. | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | Photographs of architectural drawings in the archives of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona. Includes photographs of plans, elevations, sections, details and perspective drawings for realized and unrealized projects. Also includes photographs of decorative art designs and historical images of buildings. Bio/History: American architect. |
| extent | ca. 23,500 items |
| formats | Drawings Photographs Ephemera |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat76548 |
| record source | http://library.getty.edu/vwebv/searchBasic |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | Frank Lloyd Wright collection of printed material, ca. 1883-1987. | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | Most are architectural or home design magazines. One publication is Harwell Hamilton Harris’s fine printed booklet, Architecture as an art, 1969. Included are publications and printed ephemera from the Taliesan Fellowship (ca. 1930s-1970s). The publications in Series II are arranged by Sweeney number. Two publications from the 1980s are not listed in Sweeney’s bibliography. Other printed ephemera (ca. 2 linear ft.), including postcards, relates to Wright-designed buildings such as Unity Church, the Larkin building, the Imperial Hotel (Teikoku Hoteru), or to conferences, exhibitions and other events and publications. Some of the images and ephemera illustrate Wright’s influence in graphic design and architecture (on Elmslie, Goff, Lloyd Wright and others), and his sources (particularly Louis Sullivan). Another file (ca. 70 items) contains plans, some correspondence, photographs and mss. material (most photocopies) from Louis Penfield about the Penfield houses #1 and #2 designed by Wright in 1952. The collection includes some correspondence. A notebook contains about 15 photocopied letters from Wright to various people; there are a few letters from associates of Wright and one letter from Louis Sullivan, (1909?) about the drawings for the Bradley house. Historical Notes: Collector of Frank Lloyd Wright bibliographic and archival material. Bill Schmidt is also known as Walter Schmidt. |
| extent | 15 linear feet, (45 boxes). |
| formats | Printed Materials |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://archives2.getty.edu:8082/xtf/view?docId=ead/850689/850689.xml;query=;brand=default |
| bibliography | Sweeney, R.L. Frank Lloyd Wright: an annotated bibliography |
| record source | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat132803 |
| finding aid | Detailed box list available in repository. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | Photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright projects. | repository | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| description | Photographs documenting built and unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright projects. Included are images of structures, floor plans, elevations, other drawings, and models. |
| extent | 111 photographs. |
| formats | Photographs Drawings Manuscript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://arcat.library.wisc.edu/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | Frank Lloyd Wright collection: archival material, 1940-1990. | repository | Canadian Centre for Architecture |
| description | This component consists primarily of vertical files (photocopied periodical clippings and printed ephemera) (ca. 6 linear ft.), publishers' and product catalogues (ca. 1 linear ft.), publishers' correspondence and invoices (ca. 1 linear ft.), auction house catalogues (ca. 1 linear ft.), photographs (ca. 1 linear ft.), unauthorized audio (9) and video (22) recordings, catalogue cards (ca. 3 linear ft.), bibliographies/lists and computer generated printouts (ca. 1 linear ft.), microfilms (6 reels). |
| extent | 13 boxes (ca. 16 linear feet) |
| formats | Clippings Ephemera Correspondence Photographs Photocopies |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.cca.qc.ca/biblio/Horizon/findingaids/cook.html |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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| title | Frank Lloyd Wright papers, 1903-1979 | repository | University at Buffalo |
| description | Architectural plans, drawings, and contractor’s letter book for the Darwin D. Martin House (Buffalo, N.Y.), 1903-05; tape recorded interviews with Dorothy Martin Foster and Darwin R. Martin concerning the Martin House; microfilmed plans, 1904, for the Larkin Company Administration Building; plans, 1929, for the Martin family country house. Blueprints for the W.W. Davies house in Louisville, Ky., designed by Wright but never constructed; correspondence between Wright and Michael Meredith Hare concerning apprenticeship at Taliesen and Wright’s views on architectural education; and photographs. Much of the material is also available on microfilm. Provenance Original plans of Larkin Building owned by the Larkin family, Buffalo. Gifts of Darwin R. Martin and Dorothy Martin Foster, 1967; Peter Hare, 1975; Edgar Tafel, 1970; and others. Notes a Permission to publish material from this collection must be requested in writing from the University Archivist at the University Libraries of the State University of New York at Buffalo. Location: Special Collections, University Archives Manuscript Collection: MS 22 |
| extent | 1.5 cubic ft., 2 reels microfilm. |
| formats | Correspondence Drawings |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://p8991-bison.buffalo.edu.gate.lib.buffalo.edu |
| finding aid | Finding aids Item list. |
| acquisition information | Original plans of Larkin Building owned by the Larkin family, Buffalo. Gifts of Darwin R. Martin and Dorothy Martin Foster, 1967; Peter Hare, 1975; Edgar Tafel, 1970; and others. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:09 |
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