Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Aram, Dr. Siegfried F.
| title | E.P. (Edgar Preston) and Constance Richardson papers, 1814-1996, bulk 1921-1996 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence, writings, diaries, research files, notes, photographs, and clippings. UNMICROFILMED: Correspondence with artists, collectors, colleagues, dealers, foreign scholars, and others relating to the Detroit Institute of Arts, Winterthur Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, publishing, purchasing works of art, writings, teaching art history, awards, resignations, and other topics; a diary, 1942-1980; files on Winterthur, PAFA, NCFA, NPG, Marshall Fredericks, Jacob Eichholtz, Washington Allston, Charles Wilson Peale, and the Peale family; lectures, articles and other writings; artist-subject files; notebooks on many subjects; and bibliographies. Among the more extensive correspondents are Wayne Andrews, Siegfried Aram, Julian P. Boyd, John (Giovanni) Castano, Charles Culver, Lawrence Fleischman, James Thomas Flexner, Alfred Frankenstein, George C. Groce, Walter Heil, Earl Krentzin, Wilmarth S. Lewis, Russell Lynes, John Francis McDermott, Ulrich Middeldorf, John D. Morse, Liselotte Moser, Andrew Oliver, J. Hall Pleasants, Anna Wells Rutledge, Charles Coleman Sellers, S. Dillon Ripley, Regina Soria, Victor D. Spark, William B. Stevens, Jr., William R. Valentiner, Robert C. Vose, Jr., Franklin C. Watkins, William E. Woolfenden, and Andrew Wyeth. REEL D46 (fr. 372-456): Research material on Jeremiah P. Hardy and other Maine artists, including an article on Hardy by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, Hardy's grand-niece; a book LEAFLETS of ARTISTS, 1893; a newspaper clipping on Hardy and other family members, 1940; and three photographs, one of Hardy (engraving found in the leaflet), a photograph of a painting of his sister Mary Ann, and one of a landscape. ADDITION: Material relating to Richardson's private art collection. Also included are printed material, photographs and negatives primarily of works of art relating to Richardson's career as a painter (2.0 linear ft.). |
| extent | 40.2 linear ft., Addition: 2.0 linear ft., J.P. Hardy material: 1 microfilm reel. |
| formats | Correspondence Diaries Writings Notes Photographs |
| access | Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm (J.P. Hardy material). Use of unmicrofilmed material requires an appointment. J.D. Rockefeller III files: SEALED; no access until 2010 Jan.1. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.richedga.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/ep-edgar-preston-and-constance-richardson-papers-10104 |
| finding aid | Unmicrofilmed: Finding aid available at AAA offices. |
| acquisition information | Microfilmed material originally donated 1961 by E. P. Richardson, and later transferred to NMAA/PG Library after microfilming; unfilmed material donated 1985 and 2003 by Constance Richardson, widow of Edgar P. Richardson. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:13 |
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| title | E.P. (Edgar Preston) and Constance Richardson papers, 1814-1996, bulk 1921-1996 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Letters to Constance Richardson, most from her husband E.P. Richardson (unmicrofilmed), 1942, and condolence letters she received upon his death in 1985. The remainder relate to Richardson's own painting career. UNMICROFILMED: 41 letters and 5 postcards from E.P. Richardson to Constance, whom he refers to as "Dearest treasure," My Darling," or other terms of endearment, 1937-1950, written while travelling in his capacity as curator and director at the Detroit Institute of Art, from Holland, Massachusetts, Ottawa, London, Michigan and other cities. Many are from 1942 while Richardson resided in the Hotel Bellevue in Beacon Hill, Mass., regarding painter Washington Allston. In addition to Allston, he mentions Amy Lowell, Coleridge, Carlos Lopez, Sadakichi Hartmann, the Bertoias, among others. He also reflects on the war with Japan and other current events of the 1940s, but most letters are of a personal nature concerning their relationship or his remarks on his colleagues. Richardson mentions many of the paintings he was trying to acquire for the Institute. The 1985-1986 correspondence consists of letters of condolence to Constance. Some letters enclose clippings; most envelopes are annotated by Constance regarding their contents. REEL 267: Letters mostly from Hazel J. Lewis of Macbeth Gallery concerning the sale and exhibition of Richardson's paintings. Also included are catalogs; financial records; and clippings. REEL 3470: Letters to Richardson from: the Hoosier Salon Patrons Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, requesting her painting "Hot Sun"; from Edith Wilkinson, daughter of Sanford Gifford, May 18 and 31, 1952; and from Lloyd Goodrich, October 19, 1955 and Robert O. Parks, November 4, 1955, commending her exhibition at Wildensteins. REEL D10: A letter from Sigfried F. Aram, written on a menu for Cafe Geiger, undated; and an extra dinner menu from Cafe Geiger, New York City. Bio / His Notes: Painter; Detroit, Mich. Married Edgar P. Richardson, who was a director of the Detroit Institute of Arts (1945-1962) and founder of the Archives of American Art. |
| extent | 0.4 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 3 reels) reels D10, 267, 3470 |
| formats | Correspondence Postcards Microfilm |
| access | Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed portion requires an appointment and is limited to AAA's Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.richedga.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/ep-edgar-preston-and-constance-richardson-papers-10104 |
| acquisition information | Edith Wilkinson first donated a letter to E. P. Richardson from herself in 1957. E.P. Richardson donated papers to the Archives of American Art in 1958 and 1960 and lent materials for microfilming in 1961. Addition material was donated by Constance Richardson in 1985, and by Martha Fleischman in 2003. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:13 |
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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://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa990056 |
| record source | https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/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 | 07/28/2023 16:33:45 |
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| title | Arensberg archives, 1905-1957. | repository | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| description | Art collectors Walter and Louise Arensberg amassed a seminal collection of Modern and pre-Columbian art between 1913 and 1950, when they presented it to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Arensberg Archives contain correspondence, ephemera, clippings, writings, personal and art collection records, and photographs documenting the couple's art collecting activities as well as their friendship with many important artists, writers and scholars, including Marcel Duchamp, Charles Sheeler, Walter Pach, Beatrice Wood, and Elmer Ernest Southard. The collection also includes some material related to Walter Arensberg's study of Francis Bacon and the founding of his research institute, the Francis Bacon Foundation. |
| extent | 33 cubic feet |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Photographs Clippings |
| access | The collection is open for research. The "Fragile restricted papers" may only be consulted with permission of the Archivist. Preservation photocopies for reference use have been substituted in the main files. |
| record link | http://www.philamuseum.org/resources/archives/findingaids/ead.asp?c=WLA |
| record source | http://www.philamuseum.org/archives/ |
| finding aid | Online Finding Aid |
| acquisition information | The collection was acquired in three major parts: Francis Bacon Foundation (1950) simultaneously with the Arensberg Art Collection (1953-1954), Francis Bacon Foundation (1972) and Francis Bacon Foundation (1995). |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:13 |
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