Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Kahnweiler, Daniel Henry, 1884-1979
| title | Galerie Louise Leiris Records | repository | Galerie Louise Leiris |
| description | Records maintained by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris. |
| formats | Business Papers |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:46 |
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| title | Letter to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler from Antonin Artaud, 1923. | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | In this unpublished letter to Parisian art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Artaud compares Kahnweiler’s gallery with those of Léonce Rosenberg, Marcel Bernheim, and Paul Guillaume, and praises paintings displayed by Kahnweiler, notably Juan Gris’s La fenêtre, André Masson’s Le forêt (1922) and the work of Élie Lascaux. In French. |
| extent | 1 item (2 p.) |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat351073 |
| bibliography | Einstein, Carl, 1885-1940. Correspondance 1921-1939. Marseille: André Dimanche Éditeur, 1993. |
| record source | http://library.getty.edu/vwebv/searchBasic |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:48 |
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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Toklas," "The Making of Americans" (complete with a quantity of notes, or "studies"), "Tender Buttons" and a group of unpublished fragments and carnets, notebooks kept by Stein with preliminary drafts of writings.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 | Curt Valentin papers, 1937-1955. | repository | The Museum of Modern Art |
| description | The papers include Valentin's correspondence with the artists Paul Klee, Ludwig Kirchner, Hans Arp, Jacques Lipchitz, Gerhard Marcks, Lyonel Feininger, Max Beckmann, Alexander Calder, Mary Callery, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Marino Marini, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, and Pablo Picasso. There is also documentation relating to most of the exhibitions held at the Buchholz and Curt Valentin galleries. There is extensive correspondece with private collectors (including David Thomson and Douglas Cooper), other art dealers (Heinz Berggruen, Rolf Burgi, and D.-H. Kahnweiler), as well as institutions worldwide (museums, universities, etc.) which bought and borrowed art work from the Valentin Gallery. Biographical/historical note Curt Valentin was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1902. After completing his education, he became a dealer in modern art in Berlin. In 1934 he returned to Hamburg and worked in the Buchholz Gallery, owned by Karl Buchholz. This gallery comprised two businesses: a bookstore in the front, and, in the rear, an art gallery devoted to the modern art classified as "degenerate" by the Nazis. In 1937 Valentin emigrated to the U.S. with a sufficient number of modern German paintings to open a gallery under the Buchholz name in New York City. In 1951 the gallery was renamed the Curt Valentin Gallery. Widely respected as one of the most astute dealers in modern art, Valentin organized influential exhibitions and attracted major artists to his gallery. His enthusiasm for sculpture is revealed by the artists and exhibitions he selected. He also published several distinguished, limited-edition books in which the writings of poets and novelists were illustrated by a contemporary artists. Valentin died of a heart attact in Aug. 1954, while visiting Marino Marini in Italy. One year later the gallery was liquidated and some of the work from it was sold at a Parke-Bernet auction in Nov. 1955. Several of Valentin's artists, as well as his assistant, Jane Wade, joined the Otto Gerson Gallery, which, after Gerson's death in 1962, became the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. Location MoMA Museum Archives Call Number Valentin papers |
| extent | 42 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Financial Records |
| access | Access to the papers is restricted to serious scholars. Requests to consult the papers must be submitted in writing. |
| record link | http://www.moma.org/research/archives/EAD/Valentinf.html |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991006755269707141 |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in the repository. |
| updated | 11/29/2022 15:49:50 |
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| title | Papers relating to "entartete Kunst," 1939-1948. | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | With three letters from Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1948, concerning the provenance of Picasso's painting "La famille Soler" (with a photograph of the work). Papers relating to the purchase of "degenerate art" by Jules Bosmant at the auction in Lucerne organized by the German government. Collection includes: an authorization; scholars' appraisals of the works; the auction catalogue (Gemalde und Plastiken moderner Meister aus deutschen Museen, Luzerne, Galerie Fischer, 1939); a list of works consigned to the auction with annotated prices paid; a celebratory program for the works acquired for the Museum by Leon Philippart, Reflexions a propos des tableaux (dits de Lucerne), [Liege?], [1939?]; and newspaper clippings. |
| extent | 23 items. |
| formats | Holographs Typescript |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat76834 |
| record source | http://library.getty.edu/vwebv/searchBasic |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:56 |
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| title | Eduardo Westerdahl correspondence and papers relating to Gaceta de Arte, ca. 1932-1936. | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | Collection consists of correspondence between Westerdahl and Wassily Kandinsky, Anatole Jakovski, Will Grohmann, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Naum Gabo, and others concerning the preparation of issues of the magazine and essays and articles by and about them. Series I. Papers relating to Kandinsky: Eleven letters from Kandinsky to Westerdahl about a forthcoming monograph in Gaceta de Arte. Kandinsky expresses disappointment with delays and answers questions posed to the artist; he also writes about a letter received from Hans Hildebrandt praising the magazine. Series also includes two letters from Will Grohmann, referring to the Klee monograph that is to follow Kandinsky’s; eight letters from Jakovski mentioning his views on other artists, including the English painter Ben Nicholson, enclosing an essay on Kandinsky’s work in Paris and discussing Kandinsky’s place in the history of art; and business letters from Westerdahl to Kandinsky and Jakovski. With an unsigned essay in Spanish on Kandinsky and a bibliography on the artist. Series II. Papers relating to Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Includes two essays in French on Taeuber-Arp by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia and Jan Brezekowski, ca. 1935. With five letters letters between Taeuber-Arp and Westerdahl concerning the article on her by Buffet-Picabia, discussing a monograph on her husband Jean Arp and proposing an article on the French Surrealists. Series III. Papers relating to Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart: Series of sixteen letters and postcards addressed to Westerdahl concerning articles about his painting which are to appear in the periodical, and discussing the organization of exhibitions (including a list of collectors of his work), with a curriculum vitae, and lists of photographs sent to Westerdahl (ca. 1934-1935). Includes thirty-six photographs of paintings by Vordemberge-Gildewart, most having his stamp on the verso, and extracts from exhibition catalogues. Series IV. Miscellaneous letters received: Group of letters addressed to Westerdahl relating to articles to be published in the journal and reproductions of pictures, from several artists and galleries including Daniel Henry Kahnweiler, Galerie Siman (Paris), Gallerie Alfred Flechtheim (Berlin), Will Grohmann, Amedee Ozenfant, H. Gurlitt, Franz Roh, Bodo Rasch, Jan Tschichold, Otto Nebel and Richard Docker. Includes ca. twenty photographs, including a photograph of an installation, and two exhibition catalogues (1932-1933). With one letter from Naum Gabo to Westerdahl in answer to questions on his biography and ideas on art and one detailed letter from Max Bill in response to an enquete concerning realism and abstractions (1951). |
| extent | ca. 150 items. |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat76358 |
| record source | http://library.getty.edu/vwebv/searchBasic |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:56 |
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| title | Records of the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Galerie Bonnier, 1918-1997. | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | Complete business records of the Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland (1961-1997) and the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Sweden (1918-1974). The combined galleries dealt in Impressionist, Postimpressionist, Cubist, German Expressionist, and early abstract art. Important artists who figure as correspondents as well as subjects in the records include Bonnard, Braque, Cézanne, Degas, Derain, Friesz, Gauguin, Gleizes, Gris, Kandinsky, Klee, Leger, Matisse, Miró, Modigliani, Monet, Picasso, Pissarro, Redon, Rodin, and Rouault. Records include reports and records from the shareholder’s meetings; notary deeds; account books with a book of buyer’s accounts; books of inventories (arranged alphabetically by artist’s name) from other galleries including Bernheim-Jeune and Durand-Ruel; inventories of works bought or accepted on consignment including those from Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler; invoices after 1930; index card files; correspondence; photographic documentation; press clippings; exhibition and auction catalogs. Includes a dossier of special files (organized by general topic) that contains letters in which paintings of contested authorship or provenance were authenticated by a range of experts that includes Pierre Courthion, Musée Rodin, Jean Ronfort, Pola Gauguin, Bernheim-Jeune, and Bernard Berenson. Correspondents consist of art critics such as Ragnar Hoppe, Gregor Paulson, and Axel Romdahl and art houses such as Bernheim-Jeune, Edmond Sagot, Walter Halvorsen, Valori Plastici, D.H. Kahnweiler, Durand-Ruel, Paul Rosenberg, Galerie Louis Carré, Berggruen & Cie, Pierre Courthion, and Michel Courturier. |
| extent | ca. 195 linear ft. (295 boxes) + ADDS (36 boxes) 1 videocassette (VHS) Original. |
| formats | Financial Records Correspondence Photographs Clippings Exhibition Catalogs |
| access | Unprocessed collection; contact repository for information regarding access. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat530131 |
| record source | http://library.getty.edu/vwebv/searchBasic |
| finding aid | Dealer’s inventory, and box-level inventory made by the repository, available in the research file. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:56 |
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| title | Jane Wade papers, 1903-1971. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Papers gathered during Wade's work at the Curt Valentin Gallery and Fine Arts Associates, Inc. Includes: Valentin's correspondence, with letters from Gerhard Marcks, Henry Kahnweiler, Lyonel Feininger, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, E.L. Kirchner, and others; letters to Wade from Alexander Calder, Marino Marini, David Smith, Will Grohmann, Henry Moore, Quappi Beckmann, and others; correspondence between David Smith and Otto Gerson of Fine Arts Associates; condolence letters about Valentin; notes by John B. Flannagan; writings on Valentin by Henry Moore, Andre Masson, and Will Grohmann; a print by Gerhard Marcks; sketches by David Smith; lists of Valentin's exhibitions and Picasso items sold; clippings about Valentin and photographs. Biographical Note Art dealer; New York, N.Y. Employed by Curt Valentin Gallery and Fine Arts Associates, Inc. |
| extent | .2 linear ft. (on partial microfilm reel) |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Photographs Writings |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated 1976 by Jane Wade. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:56 |
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| title | Michael Brenner papers, 1888-1976. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Letters, scrapbooks, drawings, photographs and other materials documenting sculptor Michael Brenner's career, the activities of members of the Brenner family and the colony of expatriate American artists flourishing in Paris in the early twentieth century. Letters (1888-1975) written to family members and associates, include exchanges between Brenner's sister Miriam (Fanny) and her brothers Michael, Morris, Samuel, and Victor (Dave) Brenner concerning their health, family business, their work and other art-related activities. Several of Michael Brenner's letters mention his dissatisfaction with Robert Coady's handling of consignments, dealings with Mr. Kahnweiler, and exhibitions of colleagues Michel Kikoine and Pinchus Kremegne. Brenner's correspondents include Alexandre Charpentier and (Louis) Oscar Roty. A scrapbook (1922-1953) contains a photocopy of a letter written to Michael Brenner from Gertrude Stein describing her travels with Alice B. Toklas and mentioning Brenner's bust of her, a 1953 exhibition catalog for Chaim Soutine at Perls Galleries and photographs of Miriam Brenner, other family members, and works of art. A second scrapbook (1971-1976) contains letters written to Mrs. Michael Brenner concerning the sale of her husband's art work and photographs of Michael Brenner, four men in uniform, and works of art. Photographs show Brenner family members, Victor Brenner and his studio, Michael Brenner with Chaim Soutine, I. C. Rubin with his friend Albert Einstein, Einstein in a classroom, with an assistant, with a little girl, and with two men, and 22 works of art by Michael Brenner. The collection also includs 27 figure drawings and a subject file on a life-long friend, physician I. C. Rubin (1922-1975), with letters from Rubin about his travels and photographs of Brenner and Rubin as young men, Brenner with his son, and Brenner with painter Isaac Pailes. Among the printed materials are three clippings about Abraham Lincoln, a photoengraving of Lincoln, reproductions of works of art, a bookplate for Marion Kean Lopez, an essay entitled "Instead of an Introduction" by Sadakichi Hartmann praising Leon Dabo, an 1899 announcement for a "Seance Publique Annuelle", a photocopy of an article about Brenner by Cathy Turrill, a list of objects borrowed and photographed by Turrill in 1974, a photocopy of a photograph of Robert Coady and the cover of the AVANT-GARDE catalog. Biographical and Historical Note Sculptor. Immigrated to New York in 1890 from Lithuania with his family. Studied under his brother, Victor, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Brenner moved to Paris around 1900, entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Julian. He established a studio in Paris and was included in Gertrude Stein's circle of friends. He was also associated with a small colony of Russian Jews in Paris which included Chaim Soutine, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, and Isaac Pailes. With an American friend, Robert Coady, he owned the Washington Square Gallery in New York, for which he acted as European agent. Rarely satisfied with his own work, few pieces left Brenner's studio. |
| extent | 0.4 linear ft. (on partial microfilm reel). reel 4078 |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Drawings Photographs Scrapbooks |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | The donor is Michael Brenner's widow. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:56 |
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| title | Françoise Gilot Collection, 1944-1965 | repository | University of Texas, Austin |
| description | While the collection is primarily made up of the working drafts for Gilot's work Life with Picasso, (written in collaboration with Carlton Lake), a substantial portion is comprised of the correspondence received by Pablo Picasso during the years 1948-1951. Notes Forms part of the Carlton Lake Collection of French Manuscripts. Gilot's works are in French and English, however, the correspondence is primarily in French and Spanish. Biographical Note French painter |
| extent | 9 boxes (3.78 linear feet) |
| formats | Manuscript Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/hrc-.html |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | An unpublished finding aid with folder-level control is available in the repository and on the internet. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:56 |
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| title | André Masson letter : to Pierre Descargues, 1954. | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | Recounting his first exhibition at Kahnweiler's gallery and referring to Max Jacob, Artaud, Juan Gris, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and André Breton. |
| extent | 1 item |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat76900 |
| record source | http://library.getty.edu/vwebv/searchBasic |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:56 |
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| title | Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1960. | repository | University of Pennsylvania |
| description | Contained in: Carl Zigrosser Papers, ca. 1891-1971. Folder 810. Location: Rare Book & Ms Library Manuscripts Call Number: Ms. Coll. 6 |
| extent | 2 items (2 leaves). |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | In general, the Carl Zigrosser Papers may be examined by qualified researchers in the reading room of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. Photocopying of Zigrosser materials is at the discretion of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The receipt of photocopies does not grant publication rights without the written permission of the University of Pennsylvania and the literary executors of the authors in question. |
| record source | http://www.franklin.library.upenn.edu/ |
| finding aid | Available in electronic form and in repository. |
| acquisition information | Gift June 1972 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:57 |
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| title | Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1966-1967. | repository | University of Pennsylvania |
| description | Regarding Fry’s research and writing on cubism. Contained in: Edward F. Fry Papers. Folder 316 Language(s): In French with one item in English. Location: Rare Book & Ms Library Manuscripts Call Number: Ms. Coll. 651 |
| extent | 2 items (6 leaves) |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.franklin.library.upenn.edu |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:03 |
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| title | Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1958. | repository | University of Pennsylvania |
| description | Contained in: Carl Zigrosser Papers, ca. 1891-1971. Folder 567. This correspondence relates to the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s participation in the 1958 travelling exhibition of Picasso’s work. The letters to and from Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler concern Picasso’s autographing catalogs for Museum staff Location: Rare Book & Ms Library Manuscripts Call Number: Ms. Coll. 6 |
| extent | 9 items (12 leaves). |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.franklin.library.upenn.edu |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:14 |
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